General Election May 2015

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 28 Jan 2015, 17:05

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 28 Jan 2015, 17:17

emordnilap wrote:
cubes wrote:Monster raving looney it is then!
Here she is. Un-fecking-believable. Hilarious. "We can afford no re-treads". Wouldn't you love to put her in the House of Commons?

Jesus f***ing wept.

Does the average American take this infantile drivel seriously?

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 28 Jan 2015, 18:16

She's right about the US middle class being conned. It is being conned by the GOP and their paymasters in the corporations who are shafting them at every opportunity. Have they not noticed that their income is static while the good people running the corporations are raking pay in increase after increase?

The same thing is happening here as well.

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 29 Jan 2015, 08:59

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tures.html

Looks like Uncle Gerry is joining in the fun.

Reckon there's still room for Abu Hamza (or even Caroline Lucas)?

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 29 Jan 2015, 15:28

stevecook172001 wrote: Does the average American take this infantile drivel seriously?

No I think Cleese's estimate of five percent favorable to her is about right even today. Only the dumb wing of the TEA party give her any credence.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 29 Jan 2015, 15:32

vtsnowedin wrote:Only the dumb wing of the TEA party give her any credence.

There's another?

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 01 Feb 2015, 14:05

Nice to hear...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... h-SNP.html

Meanwhile in other news..nice to see that ponce Andy Murray beaten by Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 01 Feb 2015, 18:20

emordnilap wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:Only the dumb wing of the TEA party give her any credence.
There's another?

Happily yes there is. The original "Taxed Enough Already" who are concerned about government waste and inefficiency and could care less what goes on in your bedroom or doctors office. The right to lifers and creationist need to find their own party name and go off in a corner and hold a never ending prayer meeting so the rest of us can get back to work.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 02 Feb 2015, 21:37

This is a seriously good little book. Buy it. Now. (Mine arrived this morning and I'm half-way through.)
https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/book ... green-2015

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 06 Feb 2015, 22:52

So far...

UKIP and the Greens have put stuff through the letterbox.

I have not seen anything from Labour, Tories, Limp Dumbs, or anyone else.

Might vote the Greens..

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 06 Feb 2015, 23:10

I forgot,

The SNP have been very quiet

ie I cannot vote for then.

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 07 Feb 2015, 14:09

AutomaticEarth wrote:I forgot,

The SNP have been very quiet ie I cannot vote for then.

You think they've been quiet? Well, here you go:

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/2015/ ... sults.html

(Royal Mail broke the draught excluder on the letterbox -- but apart from that, nothing.)

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 08 Feb 2015, 14:21

Agree, but I still cannot vote for them.

In addition, Labour backing up the SNP might well fail.

Also, an SNP / Labour coalition will likely fail. Amazingly, the Tories are not making much noise about this. If Cameron had any sense, he could say:

'Vote Labour, get a Scottish vote over English affairs,'

Btw I am not anti-Scottish at all.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 08 Feb 2015, 16:38

AutomaticEarth wrote:get a Scottish vote over English affairs,'

What's not to like? The Scots seem to understand things better than the English.

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 08 Feb 2015, 18:56

AutomaticEarth wrote:Agree, but I still cannot vote for them.

In addition, Labour backing up the SNP might well fail.

Also, an SNP / Labour coalition will likely fail. Amazingly, the Tories are not making much noise about this. If Cameron had any sense, he could say:

'Vote Labour, get a Scottish vote over English affairs,'

Btw I am not anti-Scottish at all.

Actually, I wonder if we might need to look at this in another way.
There might be an invisible Coalition of the Willing (for a second election):
Con, SNP, Green, Plaid, UKIP?
and a
Coalition of the "Frit": LibDems, Labour
(LibDems are presumed to have taken an almighty beating. Labour are presumed to have acquainted Ed with a red-hot poker and are needing a year to find and 'market' a new leader.)
Could be a few interesting pirouettes and feints. Somehow I think that the attitude and long experience of the Tories might be the key in deciding whether we get Election 2.0.