The U.K. Election thread

[taipan]

Shaping up to be a major battle.

Views?

[lardbucket]

Repressed workers v Brownshirts; what else is there to know?

[taipan]

No pinkos?

[lardbucket]

Come on; you know it can't be made too complicated.

[taipan]

Oddly enough I have been reading up on 1970s UK politics and it's strange how the politics have changed between the two main parties.

[beamer]

Nobody likes any of the parties, so anyone's guess how it will turn out... odds and polls favour a small Labour majority but it certainly won't be a ringing endorsement of Miliband as a potential PM.

UKIP will be a distraction but surely won't get more than a handful of actual seats. Polls would suggest a wipeout for the Lib Dems but they have enough strong local support to retain a fair few. They could still hold the balance of power, as could the SNP who look like sweeping the board in Scotland despite the No vote on independence...

[Basil]

Anyone who reckons they can confidently predict the outcome of this election is either a fool or a genius.

[Henry]

Labour are a shambles and UKIP are awful. The Tories are the best of a bad bunch. It's the same for Australia and America- We hate ALL political parties these days, as they try to outdo each other with promises they won't keep, in order to get votes.

Yay for democracy.

[Merlin]

Meh ... The Tories and UKIP will combine - along with the 3 Lib Dems
that manage to hold on to their seats - to create the next Government.

Millipede can go piss in a pot and suck up to jocks in the SNP.
As if.

[LeFromage]

Everyone will lose.

[lardbucket]

Sage, Dello.

[taipan]

So I am busy watching an election debate on Sky. I have recently read a series of books on British politics in the 60's.

They are busy arguing nuclear deterrents, immigration policies, social housing, common (EU) market, taxation policies, unemployment.

The striking point is nothing has changed in 50 years

[Lindsay no.2]

Politics echoes our cricket and vice-versa.

[Lindsay no.2]

Just flicked over to the debate to be confronted with Millibore staring down the camera putting on his man of the people routine.

What a qunt (applies to all of them) but he is cringey in the extreme.

[taipan]

Farage is Powell with the brains and debating skills.

[Brass Monkey]

Farage is the pits

[taipan]

Farage is the pits

He's taken a few bitch slaps tonight.

[Brass Monkey]

Won't change the views of the small minded, all of whom will vote for him regardless

[taipan]

Won't change the views of the small minded, all of whom will vote for him regardless

Aye, seriously hung parliament coming up.

[beamer]

Won't change the views of the small minded, all of whom will vote for him regardless

Aye, seriously hung parliament coming up.

Not because of UKIP though, under this system they will get a handful of seats at most. It's the likely SNP clean sweep in Scotland that will make it next to impossible for either of the main parties to get a majority or workable coalition.

[beamer]

Sturgeon wants a deal with Labour, but calls on the Welsh to vote Plaid and the English to vote Green... 

[Henry]

UK Politics will reach it's nadir if Ed Miliband becomes PM.

He still has the appearance of a young Labour work experience guy fresh out of university, who constantly gets pushed out of his depth because none of the senior people want to do the job.

[LeFromage]

Not at all. He's a charisma cot death, but not even close to being the worst of the options - or even worse than Gordon f*cking Brown.

[beamer]

Well, being worse than Brown would take some doing... I suspect a strong Labour leader would have given them a fairly comfortable majority in the current climate. Unlike all the shit Tory leaders in the Blair era though, the competition is weak enough for him to still stumble through the door of number 10, probably in a minority government that the SNP and others have the power to pull the plug on at any time they wish to.

[JGK]

So what's the latest? Who's going to be PM?

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