Lose
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Hm.
My local mp is Andrea Leadsom. Bugger.
At least youāve got someone to really vote against!
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I will find out who came second last time and vote for them. She did have a fairly large majority though.
How many Tory remainers are going to vote differently this time?
weāve got to put up with Grant Shapps here - no chance of anyone else winning
āCoalition of Chaosā - get tae fuck
My local tosser is Huw Merriman (Con). His closest rival was an uber tosser called Geoffrey Bastin (UKIP). Our area has been blue for as long as I remember and I canāt ever see it changing 
This is the tragic stereotype self entitled Tory wet that we ended up with and no doubt will be returned in June -
He collared me outside the polling station at the last election and asked if I could count on his vote in front of his flunkies.
Regrettably for him I had had a few ales beforehand and said āI donāt vote for cuntsā,
to which he replied quickly, 'what makes you think Iām a cunt?'
I said 'simple - you look like a cuntā
His flunkies smirked like the centurions behind Biggus Dickus back in Monty Python.
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Not sure thereās a huge number of us.
ā¦at least 2 
Ours is John Howell (Con) in the Royal Borough of Henley. The area is genuinely blue, however, 55% voted to Remain. So Iām hoping against all hope that, as a bare minimum, he (and The Conservatives) gets a bloody nose.
Apparently youāre rich if you earn over Ā£70K !
Look forward to the rest of Labourās campaign gleeā¦ 
Corbynās going for the anti-establishment play that Trump and other buffoons exploit -
He will add that those rules āhave created a cosy cartel which rigs the system in favour of a few powerful and wealthy individuals and corporationsā.
Mr Corbyn will say: āItās a rigged system set up by the wealth extractors for the wealth extractors.ā
Failed politician weighs up opportunity to fail yet again -
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Seems reasonable. What figure would you say defines it for the UK? (bearing in mind not everyone lives in Bucks)
Iāve always thought that assets define being ārichā. Salary is transient and does not necessarily indicate wealth of assets.
Here you go, this seems reasonable, and noting that itās from 2011, you donāt see anything near Ā£70k being put forward as even close to richā¦
As usual Corbyn has confused middle classes (himself included with his ārichā salary), with the rich, and has thus alienated a huge section of the population from voting for himā¦
It is actually a really decent estimate by Corbyn (I hasten to add I find the man shudderingly awful). See here for instance: UK Perspectives 2016: Personal and household finances in the UK - Office for National Statistics
Iāll comment on the graphic titled: Median equivalised household disposable income, UK, 1977 to financial year ending 2015
Average UK salaries were a shade over Ā£27K for the 2015 financial year in real terms. The more reliable figure is the median equivalised household disposable income which is about Ā£60K for the top 20% and just a shade over Ā£25K for the typical household. The median is less sensitive to outliers. It is a sobering message that the median income for the poorest 20% of households has been resolutely below Ā£10K per annum in real terms.
What is stark from the figures is how the gap between the poorest 20% and the average household is relatively constant, but that the gap between the richest and poorest (or average) household as measured by average household disposable income is expanding. The rich are growing (relatively) richer and at a faster rate that at almost any time in history, again in real terms.
Iām all for a bit of managed redistribution*, but it seems to be going in the wrong direction over the last 40 years. This kind of inequality is unsustainable in my view.
*By this I mean I would rather pay a little more tax to educate, house and provide opportunities for the poorest and weakest members of society. The alternative is to pay directly which can be very costly indeed.
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Is this Ā£70K household income or individual income?
Hinting at policy without detail is next to useless. I know plenty of people with household income well-over Ā£70K who arenāt by any measure living ārichā lives.