Roll up, roll up place your predictions

Yes, the Conservatives will win. I've just come back from a hustings. The Conservative candidate avoided all the issues and came out with anodyne soundbites. Only the Ukip candidate was worse. Unfortunately, this is a super-safe Conservative seat, so somebody who doesn't know the area and has already said that she will live in London during the week (although we're only 35 miles away from Westminster and many commuters do the journey every day) has a job for life.

I despair!

I disagree with you dizzygran. I was teaching full-time in 1997 and I certainly noticed the difference when Labour came to power.

I'm getting a bit fed up with repeating myself, but not only is the Labour manifesto costed (unlike the Conservative one), but please look at the links I've already posted about Keynes and Modern Monetary Theory and the letter from 149 economists, which was published in the Guardian. The money is there, but the will isn't. The Conservatives are ideologically committed to a small state, which is the only reason we have austerity (unless one happens to be very wealthy).

The Conservatives will win

The BBC Labour- biased? I don't think so.

Can you remember Tony Blair's campaign - education, education, education. It didn't happen. Where will the money come from to keep all of Corbyn's pledges.

I think you need to read a bit more selectively, dizzygran.
On a different thread, daphne has put a photo showing that every vote on terrorism made by Corbyn was either the same for May, or she did not vote.

What's wrong with Labour's plan to keep you safer?

dizzy in answer to your question

Yes

Have read all your comments with interest and am so pleased that all of you grans show such an interest and intelligence. Whatever party you choose to vote for it's good that you have such a good understanding of the issues.

I can think of a few people I would prefer to have as leaders in both parties but looking at the pros and cons May has the track record that I prefer. Better educated (mostly through the state system) and a good degree and she has not shown any sympathy to the IRA or other terrorists. Corbyn has been privately educated but ended up with two A levels at E or F grade. Corbyn has shown sympathy to the IRA and to terrorists. He has continually voted against shooting terrorists. Is he the right person to lead the country at this time.

One of the biggest problems in any country [and even those in power agree] is lack of a strong opposition. And, yes; as a Labour voter I did blame Corbyn for that. But I now feel that Labour had lost it's political identity and the fact that many [especially the young] feel that there are other ways to govern a country that don't include austerity cuts etc gives me some hope for the future. I still blame Corbyn for failing to convince with regards his views on brexit, but I no longer blame his as much as I blame Cameron [now you see me now you don't] for instigating it in the first place.

That hasnt worked with Brexit though elegran

But not so much of a majority that they get too big for their boots and forget about the sections of the population who didn't vote for them but are nevertheless still part of their responsibility.

I don't much care for either of the main parties, nor their leaders.

But what I really hope for it that whichever party gets in, it is with a big enough majority that they can just get on with implementing their manifesto pledges.

The worst outcome of all would be another awful coalition. I think after the last debacle, it has been proved that coalitions just don't work.

You cannot rule by committee

I also agree with Anya. I didn't think much of JC to begin but have grown to respect him, especially after listening to on Friday night's Question Time. I don't usually read the DM (horrid paper) and certainly never buy it, but I did read it at my local coffee shop on Saturday and was absolutely flabbergasted by their reporting of JC's performance on Question Time.
I am also starting to lose respect for TM.

I don't usually talk about politics, but as I was filling my postal vote in today I noticed that one of the candidates for my area (Gateshead, Tyne and Wear), has Westminster as her address. Strikes me that she will not be easy to reach by the locals up here if they need to see her. And I have never heard of her, so know nothing at all about her. Nothing through the door from any party except Labour.

He'll get it from the Magic Money Tree, which (contrary to what TM says) does exist. Please see my previous links.

Mr. Cornyn has some great plans but where is he going to get the money from

How ignorant to think that anyone who reads the DM is also ignorant.

I agree with everything Anya has written.

Here's to a better future, hopefully under a labour government.

149 economists, who between them know quite a bit about economics, think that Labour has the better manifesto:

www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/03/the-big-issue-labour-manifesto-what-economy-needs

I fear that, despite her abysmal campaign, May will be returned with a substantial majority. Then she will preside over the death of the NHS and lead us out of the EU in a really aggressive way, to the detriment of our economy. Not to mention the dwindling value of the state pension when they break the triple lock. I think many people have realised that Corbyn isn't the bogeyman, when they have heard him speak, but a lot get their news second-hand. I'm also concerned that some potential Labour voters, particularly the young, won't turn out to vote.

That's not true Rosina. The Conservatives have consistently borrowed more than the Labour Party. The national debt is now almost double what it was in 2010. Austerity is a failure,but the British public has been sold the myth for so long that it believes it.

In any case, borrowing is not necessary to fund all spending, because most of the spending returns to the Treasury in the form of taxation.

This video explains how it works...

realmedia.press/watch-ann-pettifor-show-money-tree-ge2017/

Mr. Corbyn has commendable ambitions, and clearly wants to provide everything for everyone. This will result in massive borrowing and our children/grandchildren will be the ones to suffer from his policies. He is trying to create Utopia, and that translates as'nowhere' which is where I fear we will all be in a couple of years if he wins. How he can think that a 'modest' increase in tax for the top 5% will pay for practically everything? This scheme is constantly quoted whenever he is asked about funding. History shows us that Labour cannot manage money, and anyone who lived through the seventies in this country will be remembering the winter of discontent and 25% inflation. I would love to see what he proposes coming to fruition for all, but that isn't going to happen without long term financial problems for all. I was told when I was young that if you don't vote Labour at twenty you have no heart, and if you are still voting Labour at thirty you have no brain.

ninny She sounds like the people who sneer at the unemployed, feckless teenagers or people who give their children Greggs' sausage rolls. Or most Conservative MPS, who look down on the rest of us, but haven't been caught out. What was it Amber Rudd said about her own constituents? "You get people on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside." Nothing to do with the fact that councils move people to temporary accommodation in run down B & Bs, of course.

Or Boris Johnson, who just thinks he's a superior being, because he can quote in Latin.

I don't particularly care whether I like somebody doing a responsible job. I want to know they can do the job and I'm convinced Thornberry would do a better job than the bumbling Brexiteers.

jaycee

ninny Emily Thornberry's brother is a builder and white van man. She is not a snob. She made a misjudged joke about a man who had covered his house in Union Jacks (which entirely covered his windows).
She removed it very quickly when she realised the way people had taken it - but several of his neighbours then said that they agreed with her.

I predict a hung Parliament.
Two new leaders.

and Diane Abbott shuffled off to the House of Lords which she will then fight to abolish.