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Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Jonathan (7th May 2017 - 15:37:04) Please do register to vote by 22nd May if you haven't already. You are eligible to vote if you will be 18 on or before 6th June, so get your registration in soon! If you have registered already you don't need to do so again and polling cards should arrive very soon if they haven't already. You do not need to take a polling card to vote as long as you are registered. You can register to vote here: gov.uk/register-to-vote Once registered you can then sign up for proxy votes or postal votes through the council: easthants.gov.uk/elections Please do exercise your right to democracy, whatever your beliefs or party politics.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Trevor Maroney (9th May 2017 - 11:15:20) I would particularly encourage the younger generation to both register and apply for a postal vote. It's easy to do and much more convenient.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Katie (9th May 2017 - 13:26:29) I would like to encourage all parents whose children attend local state schools to consider the budget cuts being forced by 2019. Below you can see the cuts per pupil and the equivalent loss of teachers. Bohunt -£497 per pupil -24 teachers Liphook Junior -£156 per pupil -2 teachers Liphook Infant -£86 per pupil -1 teacher Rake -£628 per pupil -2 teachers Hollycombe -£509 per pupil -1 teacher

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Penny (11th May 2017 - 09:35:59) Would be very interested to know from where you got the figures that you quoted re: educational cutbacks so I can look at the site myself.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Jonathan (11th May 2017 - 12:21:27) www.schoolcuts.org.uk

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - C (11th May 2017 - 15:44:41) Hmm, not sure how accurate this is. I am a governor at a nearby school which is apparently losing two teachers according to SchoolCuts. This is 100% not correct - no staff are being made redundant this year and there are no indications in our budget that any will need to be lost next year.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Amy (11th May 2017 - 22:53:47) I think you've misunderstood the point C. It's not stating that the schools WILL lose those staff members. It's saying that the budget cuts are equivalent to those salaries and schools are having to find ways to find that money. However, your school is in a very small minority if you are not losing staff. The school I teach at have had offer voluntary redundancies to all support staff and those who are staying are having to reapply for their jobs due to cuts in funding. I know this isn't an unusual case at the moment either.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (12th May 2017 - 15:53:23) No need to worry about education if Corbyn and his Communists get in. There won't be any jobs for our youth regardless of how well educated they are. But no worries there as the Welfare State will take care of them from cradle to grave. Makes me sick how the left take a self righteous stand on health and social issues ignoring the fact that almost every Labour government has been a disaster for this country. And by the way, not a great fan of Teresa May either but would rather have her and the Tory twits than the hard left and Unions

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (13th May 2017 - 09:40:38) the labour government from 1997 was transformative ian it was the best administration i have known in my life sure start centres, 24 hour doctor appointments, surgery within 12 weeks, good friday agreement, independance for the bank of england, minimum wage, neighbourhood renewal fund for council estates etc etc corbyn is a protestor not a prime minister. i vote labour and dislike him and his socialist worker party pals enormously. they are letting down working people by their inability to be credible.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (13th May 2017 - 10:47:35) Wolfie, I think Blair like Thatcher stayed on too long and the achievements of his early years were obscured by the failures of his foreign policy in later years. So depressing the choice we are confronted with!

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Jonathan (13th May 2017 - 12:57:57) Realistically the only useful non-Tory vote in our constituency (East Hampshire) is for the Lib Dems - regardless of whether you agree with their policies or prefer Labour. tactical2017.com/...

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Paul Robinson (13th May 2017 - 15:23:33) At least, living in a democracy, we do have a choice and when called upon we should all exercise that right. Think on. Paul Robinson

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (13th May 2017 - 17:27:10) thatcher definitely stayed too long she should have been on trial for what she did to working people no one brings up the fact she called nelson madela a terrorist in the glowing daily mail/right wing eulogies i think blair was an outstanding prime minister i also think we were right to go into iraq and take out saddam there's a mass grave in faluja with 80,000 dead bodies. all poisoned by saddam hussein. he would have gone on and on with mass killings. staggering how the left make excuses for middle eastern dictators...10

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - lucy (13th May 2017 - 20:00:56) wolfie are you justifying the Iraq War? tony b liar should have been held to account for the spin and lies he told. The country was left with a massive deficit. A little known fact about Tony Blair is that his first attempt In politics was to stand as a conservative candidate. He did not win, and reckoned his way to the top in politics lay by become a labour politician. So he switched.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (14th May 2017 - 09:54:36) Undoubtably Blair should face a trial for his lies, he absolutely is a war criminal. He was obsessed with securing his place in history and instead of the obvious achievements of hs first term he will be remembered by history for the blood on his hands

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Trevor Maroney (15th May 2017 - 12:35:37) Returning to the original posting. If you haven't already done so you now have only one week in which to register to vote. It's a democratic right that shouldn't be wasted.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (15th May 2017 - 12:54:30) what would you have done about saddam hussein lucy/ian? send him a summons? if a kid was bullying other kids but not your kid at school what would you do? ignore it. nothing to do with you? saddam persecuted and tortured 100,000s of people. innocent people. men, women and children. us/uk was right to go in and remove that man. i'm sick of the left apologising for right wing dictators

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (15th May 2017 - 16:40:27) Wolfie, If Blair's aim was to rid the world of evil murdering dictators why Saddam Hussain? Blair knew there were no WMD so what was he up to other than being Bush's poodle (who in turn was in the pocket Cheney and his oil baron chums) There were/are plenty of other monsters he could have toppled, Mugabe, The Saudi royal family, The Kims. etc. And do you really think the Iraqi's are better off now than under Saddam, likewise with the Libyans. Quite frankly Bush and Blairs legacy in the Middle East is disgusting, likewise, same for Cameron and Obama, They all have as much blood on their hands as Saddam Hussein and apologists for them should stop deluding themselves, Blair took us to war based on lies

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Penny (15th May 2017 - 17:17:04) Who is apologising for right wing dictators? No one is suggesting that Saddam Hussein was not an evil dictator who tortured and murdered in a most horrific many, many of his people. He was. However there are many other dictators doing exactly the same thing but there is no suggestion that we invade their countries. Zimbabwee springs to my mind and there are others. Tony Blair supported the invasion of Iraq on a false premise and I quote from the Chilcot enquiry. :” Tony Blair overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath, the UK's Iraq War inquiry has said.” As a result many lives were lost and Iraq has been left in a worse state than it was under Saddam Hussein with the rise of Isis who are as brutal if not more so than he was. Create a vacuum and evil hops in – sad, but true. The same has happened in Libya – another tyrant removed by the West – no exit strategy and there we have another broken country. The West is totally to blame for this. By invading Sovereign states when they do not threaten us achieves nothing unless and it is a big unless, we then spend an open-ended amount time and money on an exit strategy and help that country to create a stable government and economy before we leave. We would all like a perfect world where there is no hunger, sickness or deprivation and I am not saying we should not all strive for this, but sometimes idealists cause more trouble than realists as they cannot put their ideals into practice however much they want to and this in turn causes more problems. To get back to the Thread from which I have deviated, but I could not ignore some of Wolfie Smith’s more outrageous statements, we should all vote and if people don’t I hope they won’t moan in the future.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (15th May 2017 - 19:23:10) the west should have removed mugabe and who's to say north korea won't be next i hope it is the UN estimates a million people died of famine in north korea i'm a humanitarian i find apologists arguments for not removing saddam hussein/dictators basic cowardice

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (16th May 2017 - 09:24:57) No-one as brave as a keyboard warrior Wolfie setting the world to right via a computer keyboard. The populations of the middle east must be so grateful to Blair for his brave intervention, as must the parents and family of those genuinely brave young men from our armed forces who were killed and maimed on the back of Blair lies.

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (16th May 2017 - 11:30:21) if a teacher was abusing a child but not your child you would intervene if a leader is abusing his citizens though you wouldn't because it's nothing to do with you right ian? wmd is irrelevant saddam was a bad guy and we did the right thing and tony blair is not a war criminal. calling a british prime minister a war criminal is infantile/student

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Ian (16th May 2017 - 11:45:02) So you supported Cameron and the Tories over Libya then Wolfie. Also, not a very mature argument to call those with a different opinion to you as infantile therefore this will be my last contribution to this particular thread. Happy voting everybody, we truly are a lucky nation to have the entrenched democracy we have

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - wolfie smith (16th May 2017 - 13:42:51) yes i supported gadafi's removal yes i supported thatcher taking on fascist general galltieri when argentina took the falklands yes i supported taking out the taliban in afghanistan you would have left them there eh ian? nothing to do with you the slaughter and disappearance of innocent people

Re: Register to Vote for the General Election by 22nd May - Lucy (16th May 2017 - 22:11:49) Nothing much has been achieved in Afghanistan Wolfie the situation there is as bad as it ever was, billions spent which achieved nothing. We do not have the money to be the policemen for the whole world. In broken britain no one believed there was serious abuse going on in Sheffield and Bradford to our own children we should start addressing the evil in our own country. There is serious famine in Africa spend the time and money addressing that problem too before we start wars we cannot win.

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