The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

orchard · October 12, 2014

Anyone getting into the Green/European Free Union groove like?

chicoazul · October 12, 2014

Anyone who votes anything over than Labour is advocating a tory government and is therefore a beaut.

Actually on typing that I realise I don't believe it as even Labour is a crap option.

Just revolt. That's what we need.

Walken · October 12, 2014

Just reading through this thread, its interesting to see that tories are generally speaking, just nastier people

orchard · October 12, 2014

Walken said:
Just reading through this thread, its interesting to see that tories are generally speaking, just nastier people

Spivs mate.

Librarian · October 12, 2014

"We the 'Spoil your vote' party advocate and actively encourage voters to spoil their vote. From the artistic to the vulgar, we support your democratic right to spoil. Choose from our bank of sample spoils, from depictions and tracings of genitalia to the popular 'smell your ma' slogan's we have an array of spoils for you to choose from or simply use your own initiative. We would like to thank the thousands of spoiled and 'couldn't be arsed' voters out their whose combined malaise make us the biggest party by some distance.

However, we would like to distance ourselves from the 'soil your vote' crowd whose crass 'acts' only serve to undermine and overpower our message".

michaelh1990 · October 12, 2014

chicoazul said:
Anyone who votes anything over than Labour is advocating a tory government and is therefore a beaut.

Actually on typing that I realise I don't believe it as even Labour is a crap option.

Just revolt. That's what we need.

labour seem quite tory to me these days clueless and scared to have any decent policies that could be described as left wing ashamed to stand up for their own founding principles

Pienaar's gloves · October 12, 2014

Any chance that any constituency in Liverpool won't vote red?

edge · October 12, 2014

Pienaar's gloves said:
Any chance that any constituency in Liverpool won't vote red?

no dont think so

davek · October 12, 2014

Walken said:
Just reading through this thread, its interesting to see that tories are generally speaking, just nastier people

Aneurin Bevin called it a long time ago and it hasn't been bettered as a description since. The full quote:

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

...he'd have extended that to the New Labour lot too.

Tree13 · October 13, 2014

Clint Planet said:
No he isn't. You're not making sense at all, here. I mean, I can see what you're trying to say - but it is based on a massive misconception revolving around your own (rather idiosyncratic) opinion of what the phrase "a part of the right" means. Davek is saying that the LP of Blair was no longer "left wing" in any traditional interpretation of the phrase. Hence, a party of the right.

I'm fully aware that Davek's saying that. I agree with him in his assessment of Blair's Labour Party as being divorced of any traditional left wing thinking. I'm equally aware that the statement "Anything that is not left wing is de facto right wing" is simplistic and fallacious - it completely ignores the centre ground of politics.

But please, do continue.

Milk · October 13, 2014

The "New Labour" experiment almost killed the values of the founders of the Labour Party.
Hearing about and seeing "Cool Britannia" and "Champagne Socialism" in action has only been confirmed by watching Mr & Mrs Blair (& now their children) trouser millions every year.
Whether they would be more electable with hard line socialist policies is highly debatable.

Blue 1 · October 13, 2014

Milk said:
The "New Labour" experiment almost killed the values of the founders of the Labour Party.
Hearing about and seeing "Cool Britannia" and "Champagne Socialism" in action has only been confirmed by watching Mr & Mrs Blair (& now their children) trouser millions every year.
Whether they would be more electable with hard line socialist policies is highly debatable.

They just need to get back to social democracy tbh, never mind "hardline" socialism.

Coach · October 13, 2014

Bruce Wayne · October 13, 2014

It's funny, I was reading an extensive report last week highlighting how R&D spending had very little impact on the innovative output of an organisation.

Coach, do you have charts showing the actual performance of the NHS? I mean for the things they exist for (assuming they don't exist to spend money)?