I am not providing a link but hope mods understand one is not really needed.
If you don't know what this is then simply search on the net for it, but here is a brief overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2017I am posting here because it is VERY current and VERY important news for the UK and would like very much to engage in a discussion about the two parties and two possible outcomes.
I am not hiding my agenda here. I want to engage with people in the UK able to vote in the election and hopefully bring people to vote for Corbyn. In my lifetime there had not been an opportunity for the public to vote between two distinct political positions and so I am voicing my opinion now about this and hoping to get people in the UK to focus on what is happening.
I completely understand that in past elections people refused to vote because they thought "it made no difference", and I agree with this decision. I myself, if I voted always picked the third party in the hope of having a better variety of choices in the future (I tended toward lib. dem. for this reason).
Right now Corbyn is offering a real choice and a real change to society so I am asking you to look at the good and the bad and hope people in the UK can read past the media coverage and the blatant bias that has been presented.
Also, I do not believe that we should vote for personalities. We should vote for the policies and the aim of the policies, that we should vote for people who are willing to engage with other politicians and the public. And yes, that is a dig at Teresa May who has REFUSED to engaged with Corbyn in a public debate. I look for honesty in politics and what I have seen is May stating VERY CLEARLY that a snap election would not take place ... and then she holds a snap election to try and destroy the labour party (she lied). This is after saying that the UK needed stability so she would not hold a snap election!! NOW she is using this position to say that people HAVE TO vote for her because to throw Corbyn into the Brexit negotiations would would bad for the UK. She lied and used the lie to try and manipulate public favour. Her aim is to destroy the opposition so she can effectively destroy democracy and leave the country, or rather the government, almost unopposable! A landslide win would mean a ONE party government able to do whatever it pleases because she aims to remove ANY opposition.
Why is this wrong? It is wrong because it is a purposeful ploy to destroy political debate. A strong government is only as strong as the opposition. Without an opposition to counter-balance the governing party we are left to their whims.
Do I expect Corbyn to win? I hope so. More than that I just hope and hope that at the very least the conservatives don't win by a huge margin and destroy the opposition!
As an aside (I have mentioned elsewhere) there is also the blatnant bias of the media. It is for this reason I do not expect Labour to actually win. The people with money are obviously opposed to someone coming into power saying they will raise taxes for the wealthy.
As this site seems to me to be mostly populated by US citizens I would alos be VERY interested to hear your views from afar. I expect a certain skewed bias from the US too because I have seen media reports int he US calling Corbyn a "Communist". He is a socialist for sure, and I think that is a damn good thing in this day and age.