General Election called

who says all the labourites are looking forward to this election ... I actually am not .. do I really need all hell let loose for the next 7 and a bit weeks and for whatever comes afterwards ...

and really if you think about what will happen is Scotland will go over the snp .. to the ginger krankie .. and then it will be all about independence for Scotland .... gawd help us for northern Ireland .. if that all kicks off again ...
 
Barrie Yates said:
So how many of the 95% will understand that even though GJ thinks that they know nothing will still vote for him.
I am proud to be one of the 95% because he rates only 5% have the same ideas/knowledge/intelligence that he does
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What is this 95% thing which keeps cropping up , often when Graham Jones is being referred to ?
 
I am never filled with joy at the thought of a general election.
In most recent times it has left me scribbling things onto the ballot paper as I have deemed all the candidates as 'not fit to run a jumble sale'.
My last foray saw me putting my precious X in GJ's box.
I think Theresa May has done exactly the right thing. So many people have sniped at her saying 'this was not on the manifesto'(since when did ANY politician care what was on the political manifesto).
She will be able to determine a new manifesto and the people will get to decide if they like what she is proposing.

I haven't got a clue who I will be voting for. I only know that I will definitely , most certainly, over my dead body, NOT vote for GJ.
 
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JCB said:
What is this 95% thing which keeps cropping up , often when Graham Jones is being referred to ?
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He made a comment that alluded to the intelligence of 95% of the Hyndburn electorate when it came to voting on a referendum over the EU.
He plainly thought we were not in possession of enough brain power to sort the wheat from the chaff(or at least that is how I remember it) on this issue...it was insulting and patronising...he clearly thought we should let the elite(those elected by us...with no power of critical thought) decide such a momentous issue.
 
And when we have put the Tories back in power with an increased majority and with most of them being pro Europe do we then get a second referendum
 
Tory this time .Get rid of Corbyn. I only hope that Mr.Britcliffe doesn't put up as M.P. Then I will not vote.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
He made a comment that alluded to the intelligence of 95% of the Hyndburn electorate when it came to voting on a referendum over the EU.
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I have only come across this 95% thing on this forum .

Did Graham Jones make the comment on this forum or elsewhere ?

When and where ?

Source please .
 
He certainly made it, as for where memorys not that good, perhaps twitter cos hes come out with allsorts of rubbish on yon.
 
I do not know where it came from....whether here or somewhere else.
And I think if you wish to find out then you can search the archives. If I had a source I would have posted it
It will no doubt be in the archives. I don't have the appetite to search for it. It was distasteful the first time around and I do not wish to revisit it.
There may be other members on here who will give you a source, or may have a clearer memory than mine.
I know that at the time it caused something of an uproar...and GJ was a regular contributor on here in the past.
He has not been much of a contributor recently...maybe he is too busy, maybe we are not really that important to him anymore.
Maybe we will become more important now he might be wanting our votes.
 
Plus it was months ago last year sometime the comment was made, we know damn well what we read, if yer that interested JCB go have a root and dig it up.:rolleyes:
 
Cashy, I think it was longer ago than that. It was long before the referendum was granted(that is my memory anyway...anyone else who knows any better can set me straight).
At the time I felt it was an ill-considered comment.
I would not have seen it on Twitter as I do not subscribe to Twitter/Facebook.
 
JCB said:
I have only come across this 95% thing on this forum .

Did Graham Jones make the comment on this forum or elsewhere ?

When and where ?

Source please .
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It was pre-referendum - if I remember correctly it started when he said he believed in, and would vote for a referendum. When the time came and he didn't he was subjected to considerable criticism. He came out with the 95% statement soon afterwards. Not sure where that was made, or reported, I suggest that the first area for you to search would be on here prior to the actual vote for the referendum.
 
Sorry for cross posting a quote from another thread but I think this is the post people are talking about. If you click the little blue arrow thing it will take you to the thread it came from

g jones said:
What a load of rubbish.

95% of people according to those surveyed by Populus don't put Europe as an important issue. That there was a case therefore for a referendum on a the issues the public rated more important. Sensible points.

I said I didn't bother about it. That I was easy on a referendum. You'll find Labour MPs for and Labour MPs against in their public comments. At the moment a vote came were in a euro zone crises and everyone agreed against a referendum. Common sense again given the circumstances.

I also said that we would vote to stay in. Latest opinion polls are confirming that with the dont knows moving to 'in'. Sky's recent poll was to stay in.

My own view - and your going to hate this - but every business bar one in Hyndburn I have spoken to is saying we must stay in.

As for calling Labour voters numpty's - bottom of the barrel stuff and undermines any argument put forward.
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Neil said:
Sorry for cross posting a quote from another thread but I think this is the post people are talking about. If you click the little blue arrow thing it will take you to the thread it came from
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It came from "The Labour Gravy Train" thread, read it through JCB post 66 is very interesting also,its worth yeh reading before yeh vote Liberal.:D
 
cashman said:
It came from "The Labour Gravy Train" thread, read it through JCB post 66 is very interesting also,its worth yeh reading before yeh vote Liberal.:D
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You can access the thread by clicking the blue arrow on the post I quoted above
 
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