The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Bruce Wayne]

Could you put that in English please?

The Internet was first invented in 1969

 

[hullefc]

Wealth Inequality in UK Now Equal to Nigeria, UN Report ...

 

[daylightrobber]

Ideologically it is fine, if the aim was to redistribute people more efficiently within sparse social housing, with those who wont move being fined and noone who can't move due to there being nowhere more appropriate to move them to being fined as a result, then I doubt many people could object to it.

In practice however it a complete and utter f up and nothing has been done to correct it unfortunately.

Ideologically it's severely flawed imo. So many reasons why people genuinely have need for a spare bedroom.

 

[Seanjd]

You cant directly translate the current polls to seats, though. It largely depends on where those votes fall.

The Lib Dems for example could lose loads of wavering votes from last time but retain many of their strong seats.

Granted, but analysists reckon LDs will lose about 20 seats or so. Many of the marginals they achieved in '10 will revert.

 

[BoysInBlue]

The Cheese on Toast Party is doing well in the GOT poll.

Who's their leader - Diane Abbot's Gold?

 

[peteblue]

The irony that may be Gordon Brown saving the Union but handing the Tories another 5 years in coalition or minority power.

If Jeffrey Archer had written the script it would have been called too far fetched.

Even Brown had to get something right........

 

[chewee]

Watched this the other night. A documentary on Mandelson in the run up to 2010 election.



If you fast forward to 13 minutes in he runs rings around Osborne.

 

[peteblue]

Shy Tories.....one of the papers was suggesting that when asked how they would vote etc some Tory voters prefer not to say........so if the polls show say 39% Tory it could in fact be much higher......a bit like on here really where only a few people actually come out in favour of the Tories but a massive disproportionate % apparently favour Labour..........I knew Clint was a secret Tory........

 

[Seanjd]

Shy Tories.....one of the papers was suggesting that when asked how they would vote etc some Tory voters prefer not to say........so if the polls show say 39% Tory it could in fact be much higher......a bit like on here really where only a few people actually come out in favour of the Tories but a massive disproportionate % apparently favour Labour..........I knew Clint was a secret Tory........

Why would one be ashamed to say they vote Tory?

 

[The Esk]

Even Brown had to get something right........

Brown got plenty right in his political career. He was after all the chief political strategist for Labour's 3 successive GE victories, he kept Britain out of the Euro with his famous "tests" that could never have been met, he singularly forced Cameron and Osborne to pledge to maintain NHS budgets, he oversaw the largest fall in pensioner poverty, he made the 0.7% GDP commitment to international development, gave the Bank of England its independence and as I have said previously his Keynesian intervention after the banking crisis was copied around the world.

He was a political heavyweight, the likes of which British politics may not see for some time.

 

[peteblue]

Why would one be ashamed to say they vote Tory?

Who said ashamed?.....it's a bit like in Scotland where when confronted by Scot Nats people just agreed with them to get rid........It's an interesting thought.........

 

[sd_1992]

Ideologically it's severely flawed imo. So many reasons why people genuinely have need for a spare bedroom.

If we had plenty of housing it wouldn't be an issue, but to be honest the people who have 3 kids in 1 room need the room more. The are of course exceptional cases, but they are very rare and I would be interested to see what you would consider to be a reason why someone would need that room more.

 

[peteblue]

Brown got plenty right in his political career. He was after all the chief political strategist for Labour's 3 successive GE victories, he kept Britain out of the Euro with his famous "tests" that could never have been met, he singularly forced Cameron and Osborne to pledge to maintain NHS budgets, he oversaw the largest fall in pensioner poverty, he made the 0.7% GDP commitment to international development, gave the Bank of England its independence and as I have said previously his Keynesian intervention after the banking crisis was copied around the world.

He was a political heavyweight, the likes of which British politics may not see for some time.

He also screwed up private pensions and destroyed the UK telecoms manufacturing industry. But I will agree that he kept us out of the Euro..........

 

[daylightrobber]

Shy Tories.....one of the papers was suggesting that when asked how they would vote etc some Tory voters prefer not to say........so if the polls show say 39% Tory it could in fact be much higher......a bit like on here really where only a few people actually come out in favour of the Tories but a massive disproportionate % apparently favour Labour..........I knew Clint was a secret Tory........

A bit like the SNP/Labour situation in Scotland me thinks. A lot of people polling for the SNP who will actually vote Labour.

 

[peteblue]

If we had plenty of housing it wouldn't be an issue, but to be honest the people who have 3 kids in 1 room need the room more. The are of course exceptional cases, but they are very rare and I would be interested to see what you would consider to be a reason why someone would need that room more.

I think this is the issue though, there are exceptional cases and they should be looked at in a favourable light............