General Election Day

[Mark P]

Just following on from Stu Monty's thread a week or so again...how do you fellas vote?

 

For a party? For a leader? For the local MP who'll do the most for you? To keep someone else out?

[Stu Monty]

Today I get lucky because I can combine a protest vote about the war with voting to keep the BNP-light in blue out by voting Lib Dem. If it were in any doubt that the governmental power would change hands then i'd vote Labour, Brown's investment in the NHS, work on reducing poverty and views on fair trade are aligned with my beliefs.

 

Should have put this on the FF though dude, subvert it and get the audience you deserve, that's the style i like.

[Street Preacher]

I voted Labour.I suppose i voted for them to mostly keep the Tories out.I don't think i'd ever vote conservative although i did think about voting Lib Dem

[BatChainPuller]

Today I get lucky because I can combine a protest vote about the war with voting to keep the BNP-light in blue out by voting Lib Dem. If it were in any doubt that the governmental power would change hands then i'd vote Labour, Brown's investment in the NHS, work on reducing poverty and views on fair trade are aligned with my beliefs.

 

That was exactly my thinking too dude. It's a damn shame that twat Blaaair undermined a lot of good things that have been done by the Labour Party. The other thing I hate Bliar for tho is how he has enthusiastically promoted IMF/ neo-con globalization - apparently even the yanks were taken aback how much he had bought into it (see Greg Palast).

 

Never voted Lib before but some of those cunts should lose thier jobs for not having the morals to oppose the war.

[aws]

It's a sad day when an electorate can re-elect a shameless,unscrupulous pathological liar whose concept of democracy is one man ruling on the basis that everything he does and says must be right because he is a Special One.

[Dirk]

That was exactly my thinking too dude. It's a damn shame that twat Blaaair undermined a lot of good things that have been done by the Labour Party. The other thing I hate Bliar for tho is how he has enthusiastically promoted IMF/ neo-con globalization - apparently even the yanks were taken aback how much he had bought into it (see Greg Palast).

 

Never voted Lib before but some of those cunts should lose thier jobs for not having the morals to oppose the war.

 

The cunts who got voted out were probably back bench Labour MP's, who held socialist beliefs. The real cunts, Blair and his cronies, are given untouchable seats in Labour strongholds.

[cochcaer]

Voted Labour because I felt a protest vote was small time and usually the weapon of choice in meaningless by-elections, plus the Lib Dems seemed a one-trick pony (Iraq) and just too self-rightous.

[BatChainPuller]

The cunts who got voted out were probably back bench Labour MP's, who held socialist beliefs. The real cunts, Blair and his cronies, are given untouchable seats in Labour strongholds.

 

Untrue - we manage to bin our local MP Barbara Roche - pro-war/PFI/student top-up fees etc/tougher immigration policy. 15% swing against her to Lib dems - adios beach !!

 

And poor little Oona King - loyal blairite losing out to George Galloway.

 

Blair got his butt kicked to the max without having to suffer another dose of the tories. Parliamentary politics might start to get interesting now.

[Bellflower]

i was on teller duty last night, 2 recounts and the guy who came 2nd had to be talked out of having a 3rd. Got home at 4.15, had to be up at 7.30 !

[Stu Monty]

Untrue - we manage to bin our local MP Barbara Roche - pro-war/PFI/student top-up fees etc/tougher immigration policy. 15% swing against her to Lib dems - adios beach !!

 

And poor little Oona King - loyal blairite losing out to George Galloway.

 

Blair got his butt kicked to the max without having to suffer another dose of the tories. Parliamentary politics might start to get interesting now.

 

I live in the only tory constituency in the whole of manchester and liverpool. To be honest it's a pretty strong seat and it wouldn't have mattered which way i voted (well i suppose unless there was a winning margin of 1 for someone that was always going to be the case?).

 

It eat away at my soul watching the tories win most of thier battles in marginals against both Lib's and Labour. I was actually hoping that the Liberals could make more progress last night, pity. 3 party politics would make debate healthier possibly and a more powerful liberal party shifts the political landscape as a whole to the left.

 

You see Galloway's interview with Paxman? I missed it but it is in football365's mediawatch from today...very funny.

[BatChainPuller]

I live in the only tory constituency in the whole of manchester and liverpool. To be honest it's a pretty strong seat and it wouldn't have mattered which way i voted (well i suppose unless there was a winning margin of 1 for someone that was always going to be the case?).

 

It eat away at my soul watching the tories win most of thier battles in marginals against both Lib's and Labour. I was actually hoping that the Liberals could make more progress last night, pity. 3 party politics would make debate healthier possibly and a more powerful liberal party shifts the political landscape as a whole to the left.

 

You see Galloway's interview with Paxman? I missed it but it is in football365's mediawatch from today...very funny.

 

What a cracker - he sums up the parliamentary labour party perfectly:

" most of them just blend one into the other, Jeremy, they're largely a spineless, a supine bunch." :lol:

 

The Tories are fairly fucked tho - and they know it. They have their core support who'll never desert them but outside that group their about as popular as smallpox - too many people still remember Thatcherism. Unfortunately that will fade - but not for a good few years I reckon.

 

I thought it all went reasonably well tho - and the political landscape is moving leftwards - slowly granted.

[cochcaer]

You see Galloway's interview with Paxman? I missed it but it is in football365's mediawatch from today...very funny.

 

Was class that. Paxman kept asking Galloway how he felt about ousting Oona King but George went off on one and started having a pop at Paxman's interviwing style - before storming off. (still not as funny as the old Howard interview)

 

Politics aside I find Galloway a nasty piece of work. He was similarly abrupt when Newsnight sent the Baghdad Blogger (Salem Pax) to Bethnal Green.

[Bob]

the thing that sums galloway up is that he knew he wouldnt stand a chance anywhere other than Bethnel Green, so he moved down there to exploit the muslim vote and the general anti Oona King feeling amongst Mulsim men in the area.

 

Did you see what Tony Banks had to say about him, he was scathing in his attack of him. He's a gobshite whos in politics for fame and wealth and not a lot else as far as i can see.

[Dirk]

Was class that. Paxman kept asking Galloway how he felt about ousting Oona King but George went off on one and started having a pop at Paxman's interviwing style - before storming off. (still not as funny as the old Howard interview)

 

Politics aside I find Galloway a nasty piece of work. He was similarly abrupt when Newsnight sent the Baghdad Blogger (Salem Pax) to Bethnal Green.

 

Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger not to be confused with the Baghdad Blagger, Comical Ali. I have Salam Pax book, it's just his blog but in publish. It's quite enlightening.

[Section_31]

Anyone else get the feeling the Tories have fucked up as the general election approaches? Most people thought they were nailed on this time last year, but apparently their lead is slipping, plus the economy is expected to have officially come out of recession in the next few weeks or so.

 

When people are in that booth, I wonder how many former Labour voters who are happy to shout and scream about the current administration will have the balls to tick that Tory box? Not many IMO.

 

The most likely outcome is a hung parliament IMO, maybe with the Lib Dems playing a bigger role in things.

[sh#t waffle]

Yeah, it's certainly going to be closer than I thought it had a chance of being six months ago. I think the televised debates will end up being important among those without strong leanings. If Brown can show Cameron up to be a policy-free chancer, Labour actually have a chance. Whether he has a hope of doing that though is another matter.

[Strontium]

Touch and go really. The Tories will certainly come out of this the bigger party. Because of gerrymandered boundaries though, they need to get a substantially higher percentage of the vote to get an overall majority of seats. The 35% of the vote that Labour got last time wouldn't be enough for the Tories.

 

The most likely outcome is a hung parliament IMO, maybe with the Lib Dems playing a bigger role in things.

 

We can only hope.

 

Of course, if we had a fair voting system, we would get a hung parliament every time.

[Section_31]

Clegg has been vocal in his attacks on Cameron of late SD, do you think he smells the chance of doing business with Labour in the next parliament?

 

The cynic in me wonders why Britain has been the last big western economy to come out of recession, if it's possible to engineer a slower recovery - which I'm sure it is - it would be better to come out with the "Britain back in business" headlines the month before an election, rather than, say, last November when it all would have been forgotten about.

 

Unemployment fell for the first time in 18months+ this month too.