The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Eggs]

.....they know a lot of these last minute promises (from all sides) will not be implemented because it will be a coalition government.

 

[Jib in lad]

*cough*

http://iaindale.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/labours-27-broken-manifesto-promises.html

Miliband wasn't labour leader then lets wait and see if he gets in what he does.

 

[Brennan]

The list of pledges Cameron made before the 2010 election on that evidence we can't believe a word he says as for Miliband we will have to wait and see.

Not how it works.

If i asked you to make a long series of varied promises about different aspects of your life and what would happen over the next five years, you'd get some of them wrong.

You can't look five years into the future and say with absolute certainty that you will do X, Y, and Z. As i just posted, Labour have broken just as many promises.

 

[Clint Planet]

Thatcherism was a failed and largely discredited experiment bankrolled by North Sea oil, the flogging of public utilities and the reckless deregulation of the City.

Yeah, sure, let's flog some council houses!

 

[Blue 1]

They might as well print their manifestos on toilet paper, because the contents are a load of [Poor language removed], it all gets flushed down the toilet once they get in anyway, and a tissue of lies might as well be printed on tissue paper.

 

[Toffeelover]

I fully expect there to be another coalition government. It will be Conservative and Labour!

 

[Clint Planet]

They might as well print their manifestos on toilet paper, because the contents are a load of [Poor language removed], it all gets flushed down the toilet once they get in anyway, and a tissue of lies might as well be printed on tissue paper.

I must say, it's been more like a bidding war than an election.

 

[peteblue]

The only thing he has nailed is the lid to his own political coffin - totally devoid of new ideas, totally unfunded commitments and a lacklustre campaign all round.

Do you think he will survive when the Conservatives fail to form a Government? lol

If that were to happen then Boris will take over.......

 

[peteblue]

Bt that was the problem wasn't it, to not rebuild and replenish the stock of housing for future generations was madness, and it's very clear why it was done, to spend the money elsewhere to make the Tory's look like they were doing a good job, just like when the sold off the Gas, Electric, BT, Water etc.

Disgraceful the way they screwed us all back then, like I say, paying for it forever more, those utilities should still be state owned, turning profits that would be invested into the countries infrastructure, imagine all we could do now with those profits, absolutely destroyed this country in the 80's did the Tory's, we will never recover.

Hahahaha........sorry mate but as you say you weren't around........different times......The UK was a deadbeat country until Maggie turned it around........not for nothing were we known as the sick man of Europe..........

 

[peteblue]

I must say, it's been more like a bidding war than an election.

It's what I said a couple of days ago, they are all competing to spend our money..........

 

[peteblue]

.....they know a lot of these last minute promises (from all sides) will not be implemented because it will be a coalition government.

This is a great point. They can all promise the earth then blame their coalition partner for not delivering.......

 

[The Esk]

If that were to happen then Boris will take over.......

 

[peteblue]

Fear the man who plays whiff whaff...........

 

[Clint Planet]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...ion-right-to-buy-policy-attacked-big-business

Hilarious.

 

[beautifulthing]

Genuine question - not point scoring ...

Was told that a lot of housing associations are heavily in debt and that the debt is serviced from rents.

What happens to the associations if their income is squeezed? Do we just allow them to go bust?