Fun talk:2017 United Kingdom general election

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Can we have

A 'politicians foot-in-mouth' list? (Might also be useful for other elections.) 86.146.99.7 (talk) 12:58, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

The Corbyn section

I'm planning to edit the Corbyn section later on, though others are welcome to as well. One thing I definitely feel needs to be stressed is that it's quite clear that Corbyn cares considerably more than just about Northern Ireland, Falklands etc like the section dedicated claims he does, as even a 5 minute browsing of pretty much ANY of his election campaign speeches would highlight. Also worth mentioning the "IRA links" constitute a whole load of smearing considering that Corbyn was actually actively openly and honestly pursuing a peaceful end to the conflict and is widely cited as being responsible for helping overturn miscarriages of justice like the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four cases. Worth mentioning too that nationalisation for the industries Corbyn wants to nationalise is actually a pretty popular policy, as are his proposals to abolish tuition fees and his general anti-austerity stance. His manifesto got pretty well received, certainly in comparison to the Tories' car crash manifesto, which certainly in combination with how each candidate has run their campaigns, would certainly explain how the polls have now narrowed at the time of writing to 9 points, with a good couple of weeks left until the day of the election to go. Jon91919 (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Omitted from the ballot paper

As usual the 'None of the Above'/'Present but not Voting' option(s) omitted - as would have undoubtedly been the most popular. 86.146.100.97 (talk) 09:40, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Any chance someone could address the student double vote claims?

Nigel Farage, the right-wing media, etc. keep insisting that Labour only performed as well as it did because a bunch of students illegally voted twice. They don't provide a shred of evidence of this but it seems to have grown into a widespread conspiracy theory. TheSocktor (talk) 08:19, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Given you have to be on a state-approved register to be able to vote (which involves you confirming your address and NI number), the lack of prosecutions would suggest there was no massive fraud. Conspiracy drivel is not beyond Farage's post-election tactics. When South Thanet voted in a UKIP mp in 2015 but not a UKIP council, he jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon that there was a plot to destroy UKIP votes - turned out a lot of UKIP voters either only cared for General Elections so abstained from any Local or European Parliament elections, or they realised that UKIP has no reason to exist in local government and voted Tory instead. There was also the 2016 Referendum, where the more radical Leave voters were led to believe that council workers at the voting centres had orders to rub out pencil votes to give Remain a boost and that everyone should bring their own pen.-- Forerunner (talk) 22:50, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposal for rebuild

I don't like this page. In fact, I think it kinda blows and has aged badly. Unless anyone gives me a decent reason not to, I'm going to make a replacement version [same style as the ones I've done for the elections between 1992 and 2015] and move this one to FunSpace. KarmaPolice (talk) 21:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Dew it. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 21:43, 9 July 2023 (UTC)