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| Join us for a live general election webchat – post your questions now | Join us for a live general election webchat – post your questions now |
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| The previous reader referenced the work John Harris has been doing up and down the country – here’s the latest film from him and John Domokos in Scotland. | |
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| 'The simple fact is that the media is too London-centric' | |
| Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | |
| Here’s another question from the comments: | |
| As an Irish citizen, I feel like Northern Ireland is being referenced in this election pretty much only as a rhetorical stick to beat Jeremy Corbyn with. I feel this is pretty irresponsible. | |
| Why is decent coverage of Northern Ireland so absent from mainstream UK discussions? | |
| Looking forward to John Harris's video though! | |
| I can see why you would be frustrated. I agree with you. | |
| The simple fact is that the media is too London-centric. Look at how, after the Brexit vote, journalists were suddenly woken up to the fact that the North actually exists and that there are people there who want to be part of the discussion. I’m Welsh and the coverage of Wales has me in despair. | |
| Re Northern Ireland, it is incredibly irresponsible, because the border is one of the most important aspects of the Brexit negotiations, and politicians are just burying their heads in the sand. I don’t think they have the remotest clue what to do about it. | |
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| Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | |
| Rhiannon is also posting in the comments here. A reader asks: | |
| After six & a half years at the Home Office, is there one thing that Theresa May can point to as something she has done to improve anything at all under her remit?She slashed police numbers, border force officer numbers, the passport fiasco, the immigrants go home vans etc, etc, etc.Why hasn't anyone actually attacked her competency? | |
| I agree – it’s frustrating, isn’t it? But I suppose it’s partly because the more authoritarian of her initiatives as home secretary were popular with voters (even Labour recognised this – remember the “Controls on immigration” mugs?) | |
| This election campaign is interesting because it has been so focused on Brexit that May’s track record has been all but forgotten (with the exception of police numbers, which is something that has been raised). I would love to see her challenged over the conditions at Yarl’s Wood, for instance. That said she seems to be doing a rather good job of exposing her incompetence all by herself, which is enjoyable to watch. | |
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| 'Is voting Green a wasted vote?' | |
| Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | |
| First up, columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett has been looking at some of the questions you are asking through our callout. Linda Seru asks: | |
| Is voting Green a wasted vote? Or is it better to abstain rather than vote for a local Labour candidate who may have some chance of beating the longstanding Tory candidate? | |
| Well, I can’t tell you how to vote. It sounds as though you aren’t going to vote Labour, despite them having a chance of beating the Tory candidate, which is what I would be doing, because I feel as though we have been given a clear choice between two very different societies and I feel passionately that Labour’s vision is the one of the two that’s better for the country. | |
| But if you’re opposed to tactical voting then I think all you can really do is vote for the candidate whose policies that you agree with, and if that is the Green party candidate then that should be your choice. Even if they have no hope of winning at least you’ve voted for someone whose views you respect. But like I said, personally I would vote Labour in this situation. | |
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| Thanks for joining us and providing some questions for our colleagues to get stuck into. As well as our columnists responses to your debate points and questions, we’ll also highlight some of the best discussion you’ve been having below the line. | |
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| Post your questions now | Post your questions now |
| Matthew Holmes | Matthew Holmes |
| After debates on the party manifestos in this space over the last few weeks (here’s our discussion on Labour and here’s the Conservative manifesto dissected by readers and writers) we’ve reached a critical point in campaigning – with less than a week before the nation heads to the polls on 8 June. | After debates on the party manifestos in this space over the last few weeks (here’s our discussion on Labour and here’s the Conservative manifesto dissected by readers and writers) we’ve reached a critical point in campaigning – with less than a week before the nation heads to the polls on 8 June. |
| How do you think it’s been going? What do you make of recent polling that has surprised many? Did you watch the TV debates? Are there any issues that you feel haven’t been discussed as much as you’d like? | How do you think it’s been going? What do you make of recent polling that has surprised many? Did you watch the TV debates? Are there any issues that you feel haven’t been discussed as much as you’d like? |
| We’re inviting readers to join a team of Guardian columnists in this space to debate these points and more. You can ask your questions either in the comments below or via our dedicated callout and we’ll do our best to answer as many of them as we can, posting some of the most interesting discussions here between 11am-1pm (BST) on Friday. | We’re inviting readers to join a team of Guardian columnists in this space to debate these points and more. You can ask your questions either in the comments below or via our dedicated callout and we’ll do our best to answer as many of them as we can, posting some of the most interesting discussions here between 11am-1pm (BST) on Friday. |
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