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Roj
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Posted: May 08 2015 at 03:22 |
Well Labour set themselves up for this when they appointed the "wrong" Milliband. A knee jerk reaction by the Unions after the moderate Blair-Brown years. I can pretty much guarantee that with his brother in charge of the party they would be in power this morning. I've been a Labour voter all my life but simply do not trust Milliband (Ed) to run the country. To be fair, I do not think the Tories have done too bad in this term. The economy is looking better for a start, though I concede it couldn't have got worse. Whilst I certainly do not agree with most of the Tory policies they have some things right, and I remember when doing my Economics A level (in the deep and distant past ) that I always thought their fiscal policy seemed the right way to go about things. My teacher, a grizzled hard-core Labour veteran, verging on Communist, confided in me that he too thought their monetary policy made more sense ( ). Will it be an overall majority? It's going to be close. Note the Lib-Dems have been virtually wiped off the face of the earth. That's as a result of jumping into bed with the Tories, their credibility has been destroyed. They were always pretty close to Labour back in the day, remember the Lib-Lab pact anybody?
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Kati
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 23:15 |
Everyone hates the Torries, but I as an outsider happen to really like that party :)
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Kati
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 23:13 |
Padraic wrote:
Can Miliband survive this result?
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Nope, it is clear even with these early results he won't.
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Kati
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 23:12 |
very strange that labour party are losing votes to other smaller parties.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 21:30 |
Can Miliband survive this result?
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Dean
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 18:26 |
aapatsos wrote:
wow - this looks like a big gap
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It's still 10 seats shy of a majority so it's either a Con-Dem'd coalition again or a Lab-SNP-Dem-Plaid-Green (ie the anti-Tory) coalition [which isn't as fanciful as it sounds since they're all basically socialist].
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Dean
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 18:21 |
Icarium wrote:
what is Plaid Cymru? |
Plaid is the posh word for tartan, which as we all know is a French tarte made with caramelised apples; cymru is the Gaelic word for custard, or as the French say it crème anglaise.
So there you have it: Plaid Cymru is Tarte Tatin avec Crème Anglaise or as we say in Albion: Apple Pie and Custard.
nom nom nom
Edited by Dean - May 07 2015 at 18:22
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Icarium
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 18:06 |
what is Plaid Cymru?
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Syzygy
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:43 |
Labour got my vote, although in my neck of the woods it's basically farting into a hurricane. The Green manifesto was the one I liked best, so they got my vote for the local council ( and in Europe last year, for all the good it did).
Katie Hopkins vowed to leave the country if Ed Milliband becomes PM, which is reason enough to support Labour in itself.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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chopper
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:39 |
That'll be a big surprise if it's right.
"Lib Dem election chief Lord Ashdown told the BBC: "If this exit poll is right I will publicly eat my hat.""
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aapatsos
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:33 |
wow - this looks like a big gap
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Padraic
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:10 |
Someone said this is Labour's worst showing in almost 30 years.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:05 |
Per Guardian: Conservatives: 316
Labour: 239
SNP: 58
Lib Dems: 10
Plaid Cymru: 4
Greens: 2
Ukip: 2
Edited by Padraic - May 07 2015 at 16:08
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chopper
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 13:29 |
Just read the Green Party manifesto, it sounds great -
500,000 new homes 10% cut in public transport fares Scrap University tuition fees
and no word on how they're going to pay for it except for a tax on the rich.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 11:38 |
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NutterAlert
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 09:15 |
wonder if anyone will get their swingometer out?
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Blacksword
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 08:56 |
Dean wrote:
the former every time.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Dean
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 08:35 |
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Padraic
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 08:32 |
So, in the spirit of Dean, we shall see if it's Cameroon or Milibland.
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Dean
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Posted: May 07 2015 at 08:23 |
the former every time.
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