The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[moyeslovechild]

Mate...cut from the same cloth. Failed. Policies.

Do I need to start linking to your websites in the UK that are hard left?

C'mon. You SHOULD know better.

them scandanavian countries with their failed social democracy producing the best living standards in the world eh

LOL @ hard left

let me guess, obama is a commie?

 

[peteblue]

Labour are getting an absolute battering in Scotland.......

 

[Azza]

How are the SNP going to enact changes etc and what they want if they're not wiling to bed in with the Conservatives?!

 

[Walken]

them scandanavian countries with their failed social democracy producing the best living standards in the world eh

LOL @ hard left

let me guess, obama is a commie?

bill o' reilly said so mate

 

[glorydaze]

No. No offence, but I don't think you really understand British politics.

Neither do I anymore.

 

[peteblue]

How are the SNP going to enact changes etc and what they want if they're not wiling to bed in with the Conservatives?!

They will do what they have done to date, whine, moan and demand........

 

[davek]

Dave,

I'm going to be completely honest here.

Years ago when you injected yourself on this forum about how you felt Obama was the greatest thing ever and was "great" for our country, I told you he was the most socialist/marxist lefty ever elected to our highest office. Apparently that's what you thought was "good" for us. Well it hasn't worked and it looks like your country (as of now) isn't ready for that type of government either.

Sorry you feel that's "cruel" and "spiteful" but the reality is that the majority of your voters don't want that type of government.

You'll get through it.

Believe me, lefty Marxism wasn't being held out by Labour here. That hasn't been rejected. What's been embraced by enough to give the Tories victory is a narrow based English nationalism that detests all things Scottish...in fact all things non-English.

This is a disaster from a constitutional sense too, as I explained regarding the boundary changes. There's no parallel in US politics with this. It is a frightening future of right wing Tory rule we face for many many years.

 

[dannyboy]

The Blairites will advocate tacking to the right. It won't work now though. The boundary changes will defeat all strategies.

We are entering a bleak period of a one party state for a decade or more.

Something drastic needs to happen, but right now I'm convinced we're going to be subjected to Tory government after Tory government.

The Scots are going to leave the sinking ship. That has and will kill Labour for years to come.

 

[Azzurri]

No.

That socialism/marxism, while sounding good in theory/academia, doesn't work when applied to real world principles. Now, to be fair, that could be applied to most lefty policies in the USA.

And there is no right wing press.

Anywhere.

Lol wut?

 

[Azza]

This is ridiculous, Scotland running at ~76% turn out!

 

[TX Bill]

that doesn't really prove anything at all does it, your argument is all over the shop here Bill

Not making an argument Walken. Just pointing out the facts. How is my comment "all over the shop."

He said that the media in the UK is "right wing?" If that's the equivalent of the "right wing" in our country, then he couldn't be more wrong.

 

[tsubaki]

Believe me, lefty Marxism wasn't being held out by Labour here. That hasn't been rejected. What's been embraced by enough to give the Tories victory is a narrow based English nationalism that detests all things Scottish...in fact all things non-English.

This is a disaster from a constitutional sense too, as I explained regarding the boundary changes. There's no parallel in US politics with this. It is a frightening future of right wing Tory rule we face for many many years.

Perhaps, though a kicking of this magnitude is exactly what Labour needed - the conclusions and the remedy required will be unavoidable.

 

[TX Bill]

No. No offence, but I don't think you really understand British politics.

No worries mate. I encounter the same type of misunderstanding on here when it comes to politics in my country so I certainly understand where you're coming from.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Not making an argument Walken. Just pointing out the facts. How is my comment "all over the shop."

He said that the media in the UK is "right wing?" If that's the equivalent of the "right wing" in our country, then he couldn't be more wrong.

Yeah but your country would be considered particularly far to the right by our standards.

 

[Kurt.]

SNP have held the key to this election and the Scottish people have been stupid enough to defect from Labour to SNP as a protest to the conservatives.... the harsh reality is if you don't want conservative you have to vote labour and vice versa.... a vote for a lesser party, in reality, is a wasted vote.