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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Well, it's finally been called - Election 2010!!!

I'm voting Conservative this time.

Are you Red, Blue or Yellow?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yellow, and hoping for a hung parliament

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By *ouvakMan
over a year ago

clacton on sea

i usually start out RED but after a while i turn BLUE but eventually i turn YELLOW but somtimes i'm a redishblueishyellowishblack yes you've guessed it i'm the guy who knocks on doors asking for your votes lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't Vote so won't complain about who gets in

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you Red, Blue or Yellow

none of the above.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am a rainbow....soaring high above the trees and houses.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Red and always will be .

Please please please dont let us have the bloody tories back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well, it's finally been called - Election 2010!!!

I'm voting Conservative this time.

Are you Red, Blue or Yellow? "

None! they're all arseholes full of promises till they get your vote! then its a case of fuck you jack! I'm alright!

Billy

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham

Red, red, red, never, ever, will I forgive the Tories for what they did during the 80's / 90's

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"Yellow, and hoping for a hung parliament "

likewise

yellow

I canvas for them and have done for years

people are so daft, red or blue red or blue

they demand more options in every other aspect of their lives but close their minds to another option politically

what I shall never ever ever ever do is vote for the self serving blues, inherited weatlh mostly who are never intrested in the masses

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Red, red, red, never, ever, will I forgive the Tories for what they did during the 80's / 90's "

They were a different party then and different times. We had Scargill trying to bring the country to a halt (whilst sitting in his nice country pile btw - and then he got elected to the European Parliament and hired his entire family to 'work' for him).

It's been proven that the mines weren't sustainable and that keeping them open was simply throwing money away in subsidies.

That's all by the by though. We're now faced with a Labour party that believes that it can keep borrowing to pay for it's promises and worry about paying it back 'later' - much much later it appears.

Will the Tories do a better job?

I don't know, but its got to be better than five more years of Bully Brown & Co.

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham


"Will the Tories do a better job?"

They take from the most vulnerable and give to the wealthiest, for example, they were against the minimum wage, they've stated they'll cut the winter fuel allowance.

Trust them with the NHS, never, it was immensely underfunded when they held the purse strings

Cameron has proved he can't be trusted, remember his stance on a referendum?

I must have missed what action they took / suggested in chasing the richest in our society who get away with paying nothing or very little tax.

Yeh, I can see a mountain of reasons for not voting for Camera On

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"Will the Tories do a better job?

They take from the most vulnerable and give to the wealthiest, for example, they were against the minimum wage, they've stated they'll cut the winter fuel allowance.

Trust them with the NHS, never, it was immensely underfunded when they held the purse strings

Cameron has proved he can't be trusted, remember his stance on a referendum?

I must have missed what action they took / suggested in chasing the richest in our society who get away with paying nothing or very little tax.

Yeh, I can see a mountain of reasons for not voting for Camera On "

oh yes and just look how they sold off our social low cost housing

Most is in the hands of rich tory voters charging the earth

What a mess they made of that.

Do yourselves a favour, vote raving loony instead, they at least think of the working man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do we still have a monster raving loony party?

More seriously though, edging toward the blue these days, I personally dont think they could do much worse a job than the reds.

Oh, and Mr Brown blatantly lied at the Iraq enquiry about funding, how can you trust a man who lies?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

they are all lying scumbags and what sort of choice is that for the electorate.fucked if you vote and fucked if you dont

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ive always gone red over the years of my short life! lol

but i think its going to be a hung parliment thats why gordan called the elections.

im tempted to go blue but you know the saying better the devil you know than not!!! x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

lol posted this on wrong forum oops well i am going to votefor the tories, cameron will do better than maggie did around the 70' 80's i have always voted labour never again another five years of some jockey who has less life in him and no brain power Cameron to win

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I think we should keep this thread going until election day and then, after its been decided, whoever posted in favour of the eventual winners will become Masters and those who came out in favour of the eventual losers will become sexually subserviant to the Masters. hehehe ... so now you have a clear cut choice of which way to vote... do you want to be a Master or a sex slave???

The dilemma is that you won't know which you are until May 7!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Will have to be red as Cameroooon is far far too sleazy to vote for.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

whoever wins the election joe public will be the losers.as soon as the next lot get in they will be looking at new ways to bank money for themselves and stick 2 fingers up to joe public yet again.weather it right or wrong i can see thousands of ppl not voting this time becauce there is nobody worth voting for.sad but true

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i would rather rip my teeth out sew my eyes shut and place a no entry sign in my underwear than vote cameron and thats true honesty i wouldnt trust a tory as far as i could throw them for a whole wide variety of reasons!

but brown and co not doin it for me either but they have made some great changes.

yellow i need to look at a bit more before i will decide xx

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

we are red.none of them can be trusted.they are all full of shit.but the blues cant be trusted with the health service.it may have a lot of flaws, and is far from perfect.but sometimes you dont know what youve got,untill youve not got it anylonger.britain has gone through a bad patch lately.so has every developed country in the world.please remember this.

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By *exeteraWoman
over a year ago

Bridgend

Red all the way for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

blue.

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Will be voting yellow because a vote for red just as well be flushed down the lavvy for all the good it`s going to do in my constituency.

My current blue MP actually isn`t a bad guy, as was his predesessor. Just a shame they`re with the wrong lot as far as I`m concerned, but also having a blue county council leaves us with the shitty end of the stick when it comes to funding from central government.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Red, red, red, never, ever, will I forgive the Tories for what they did during the 80's / 90's

They were a different party then and different times. We had Scargill trying to bring the country to a halt (whilst sitting in his nice country pile btw - and then he got elected to the European Parliament and hired his entire family to 'work' for him).

It's been proven that the mines weren't sustainable and that keeping them open was simply throwing money away in subsidies.

That's all by the by though. We're now faced with a Labour party that believes that it can keep borrowing to pay for it's promises and worry about paying it back 'later' - much much later it appears.

Will the Tories do a better job?

I don't know, but its got to be better than five more years of Bully Brown & Co."

Over 10% interest rates.

Poll tax

Sold every thing off they could.

History will repeat itself!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am voting yellow, this time.

I would vote blue but they haven't even got a chance of getting their deposit back around here ....

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By *istress SassyCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Only ever red.

I know that people are disillusioned with politics and politicians but really, people need to remember exactly how bad the tories were.

Labour have not been as good as we would have wanted and they haven't got everything right, but I sincerely believe that for ordinary working people, this country is better than it was pre-1997. Minimum wage, equality rights, paid holidays, working hours legislation, maternity and paternity rights, statutory redundancy payments, etc to name but a few things that we never would have had under the tories. They like to pretend they are new tories, all caring and sharing and fluffy, but they are still the same underneath and god (not that I believe in him, but thats a different debate.. ) help us if they get their hands on our education, NHS etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

GREEN!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"GREEN!"

Are they still around?? Been strangely quiet of late.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow...."

Yup, they're red all the way here Fab m8. Siren's a long term Libby and I swing between all three. Blue for me this time round.

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton


"being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow....

Yup, they're red all the way here Fab m8. Siren's a long term Libby and I swing between all three. Blue for me this time round."

im not sure where you are but if for example its tynside north the reds have a 15000 majority

so you can vote for pink elephants for all it matters , cos it will be red after the election

like so many people in the country who live in a "safe" seat including myself

it would not matter one iota who you vote for , its all a big joke

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Staunch Labour.

However as i have said Labour and Tory have governed for the best part of 60 years and if you want change and a fresh start vote Liberal.

If they said they were going to pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghan i would vote for them. Costing billions on a war thats not needed and could be used to boost the economy and repay the debt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Staunch Labour.

However as i have said Labour and Tory have governed for the best part of 60 years and if you want change and a fresh start vote Liberal.

If they said they were going to pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghan i would vote for them. Costing billions on a war thats not needed and could be used to boost the economy and repay the debt."

Same here i was read but cannot vote for the Tory's so it might be yellow for me too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Same here i was read but cannot vote for the Tory's so it might be yellow for me too."

It would have to take something good from an opposition party for me to vote for them but I know come polling day which box my X will be marked on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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It's been proven that the mines weren't sustainable and that keeping them open was simply throwing money away in subsidies."

So three billion a year in subsidies or three million a year in dole for everyone out of work?

Red Red RED

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Besides, and sorry about this, but every yellow vote is actualy a blue vote in disguise.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Country being held to ransom in the eighties by the unions and nationalised industry.

1979 we were in a recession....tory government refused to spend their way out of it and did not create any new money.

They did not give in to the ransom demands of nationalised industry...sold it off and let it fend for itself in the real world where they actually have to make money or go under.

Got this country out of recession and back on a sound economic footing by time the red hands of labour got their mittens on the steering wheel....look where 13 years of that has gotten us.

Go blues......rah rah rah

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"Besides, and sorry about this, but every yellow vote is actualy a blue vote in disguise."

Not down this way it isn't, many Labour supporters vote tactical down here and it works.....My Two local MP's are both Lib Dem and many of their votes were from traditional Labour supporters that knew they never had a chance of getting a Labour MP in this area as it is too affluent.

We have managed to keep the Tories away from office around here by voting tactically, so a vote for the Lib Dems for us is a vote against having a Tory MP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

not sure it matters once in power and after the new broom affect has worn off they all end up being the same

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Besides, and sorry about this, but every yellow vote is actualy a blue vote in disguise.

Not down this way it isn't, many Labour supporters vote tactical down here and it works.....My Two local MP's are both Lib Dem and many of their votes were from traditional Labour supporters that knew they never had a chance of getting a Labour MP in this area as it is too affluent.

We have managed to keep the Tories away from office around here by voting tactically, so a vote for the Lib Dems for us is a vote against having a Tory MP."

If boundarys haven't changed you can look at the last time people voted and tactically vote your self. A yellow vote isn't a blue one like the OP said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Besides, and sorry about this, but every yellow vote is actualy a blue vote in disguise."

Is it.......can you explain why?

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By *andcCouple
over a year ago

London and Cheshire


"Red, red, red, never, ever, will I forgive the Tories for what they did during the 80's / 90's "

Yes stop all the strikes from the 70's!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went away and double checked I'm registered to vote still....couldn't remember returning the last form....

good news....they have me on their list....so am away to tell Dave that he has my vote

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By *istress SassyCouple
over a year ago

manchester


"you can vote for pink elephants for all it matters , cos it will be red after the election

like so many people in the country who live in a "safe" seat including myself

it would not matter one iota who you vote for , its all a big joke "

That's democracy / politics. 'Safe' seats are considered safe because the majority of voters in that particular constituency vote for a particular party. Their votes are no more or less important than yours or anyone elses and thats the beauty of democracy.

It clearly does matter who you vote for, if less voted for red (in this case) then another party may win and if more 'I can't be bothered there's no point' people voted, then again another party other than red may also win.

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By *istress SassyCouple
over a year ago

manchester


"Country being held to ransom in the eighties by the unions and nationalised industry.

1979 we were in a recession....tory government refused to spend their way out of it and did not create any new money.

They did not give in to the ransom demands of nationalised industry...sold it off and let it fend for itself in the real world where they actually have to make money or go under.

Got this country out of recession and back on a sound economic footing by time the red hands of labour got their mittens on the steering wheel....look where 13 years of that has gotten us.

Go blues......rah rah rah "

This is not correct.

The country was actually in recession until around 1975, the cause of which was the oil crisis. The next recession was not until the early 80's, (1980-82)well and truly into the Tory Thatcher years and then again in the early 90's (90-92)also in the Tory years. It is quiet simply a myth to claim that Labour governments created economic crisis.

Anyone else remember the unemployment/dole queues/ house repossessions of the 80's and 90's? Who was in power, oh yeah, the Tories.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

100,000 a month added to the dole queues in the early 80's but under Thatcher the sheer unremitting awfulness of the 1970s: the pessimism, the rancour, double-digit inflation, price controls, incomes policies, power cuts, the three-day-week, the winter of discontent were all turned around.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the UK been outperformed by every European economy. “Britain is a tragedy – it has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in,” said Henry Kissinger. The Wall Street Journal was blunter: “Goodbye, Great Britain: it was nice knowing you”.

Then came the swing to conservatism in 1979. Under Thatcher Inflation fell, strikes stopped, the latent enterprise of a free people was awakened. Having lagged behind for a generation, we outgrew every European country in the 1980s except Spain (which was bouncing back from an even lower place). As revenues flowed in, taxes were cut and debt was repaid, while public spending – contrary belief – rose. In the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher showed the world that a great country doesn’t retreat forever. And, by ending the wretched policy of one-sided détente that had allowed the Soviets to march into Europe, Korea and Afghanistan, she set in train the events that would free hundreds of millions of people from what, in crude mathematical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ideology humanity has known.

The Anti-Thatcherites tell me she should be reviled for her time in office. That it’s because she closed down the old industries. (She didn’t, she simply stopped obliging the tax payer to support them.) Now, in the deepest recession we have known for some time it must surely be obvious by now that nothing would have kept the dockyards and coalmines and steel mills etc etc etc open. No Government could have continued to fund these under performing industries at the level they were demanding.

She rescued a country that Labour had dishonoured and impoverished. That she inherited a Britain that was sclerotic, indebted and declining and left it proud, wealthy and free is something that people cannot stomach. They just remember the hard road we all had to take to regain economic stability and growth.

Gordon Brown has plunged this country into an unfathomable level of debt trying to spend his way out of a crisis rather than face up to it. Now, every successive government, regardless of who forms it, will have deal with this debt whilst trying to retain public spending at realistic levels.

We are now going to face far more hardship thanks to labour than we ever had to face under Thatcher.

I will be the first one at the polling station to register my vote. It will NOT be for another Labour Government in this country

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

True blue always have been always will be and for those who think I have followed my family lead they are not blue and never have been

xx

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

that was funnier than your fugy son of fugy stories stu.keep up the good work.im still laughing.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

Because of where I live, if I don't vote (obviously not just me, but general apathy), then its highly likely the BNP will gain a seat. And I refuse to help that happen.

I don't normally vote, mainly because politians are so full of crap, but for the greater good (oh the irony!!), I'll probs vote red (Dad's a union rep, if I ever vote anything else, he'd kill me!!!).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cut me in half and I'll be blue through and through, just like a stick of rock

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


"100,000 a month added to the dole queues in the early 80's but under Thatcher the sheer unremitting awfulness of the 1970s: the pessimism, the rancour, double-digit inflation, price controls, incomes policies, power cuts, the three-day-week, the winter of discontent were all turned around.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the UK been outperformed by every European economy. “Britain is a tragedy – it has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in,” said Henry Kissinger. The Wall Street Journal was blunter: “Goodbye, Great Britain: it was nice knowing you”.

Then came the swing to conservatism in 1979. Under Thatcher Inflation fell, strikes stopped, the latent enterprise of a free people was awakened. Having lagged behind for a generation, we outgrew every European country in the 1980s except Spain (which was bouncing back from an even lower place). As revenues flowed in, taxes were cut and debt was repaid, while public spending – contrary belief – rose. In the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher showed the world that a great country doesn’t retreat forever. And, by ending the wretched policy of one-sided détente that had allowed the Soviets to march into Europe, Korea and Afghanistan, she set in train the events that would free hundreds of millions of people from what, in crude mathematical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ideology humanity has known.

The Anti-Thatcherites tell me she should be reviled for her time in office. That it’s because she closed down the old industries. (She didn’t, she simply stopped obliging the tax payer to support them.) Now, in the deepest recession we have known for some time it must surely be obvious by now that nothing would have kept the dockyards and coalmines and steel mills etc etc etc open. No Government could have continued to fund these under performing industries at the level they were demanding.

She rescued a country that Labour had dishonoured and impoverished. That she inherited a Britain that was sclerotic, indebted and declining and left it proud, wealthy and free is something that people cannot stomach. They just remember the hard road we all had to take to regain economic stability and growth.

Gordon Brown has plunged this country into an unfathomable level of debt trying to spend his way out of a crisis rather than face up to it. Now, every successive government, regardless of who forms it, will have deal with this debt whilst trying to retain public spending at realistic levels.

We are now going to face far more hardship thanks to labour than we ever had to face under Thatcher.

I will be the first one at the polling station to register my vote. It will NOT be for another Labour Government in this country

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Stu, I think you need to go away and learn your 20th century economic history.

You will find that the USA has systematically stolen stripped and destroyed our economic base. That the reason that the German economy out produced us in the 60/70/80s was because after WW2 the USA pumped billions of dollars into rebuilding Germany and modernising its industries, while at the same time demanding that we repay billions in interest and capital for war loans before modernising our Victorian industries.

You may also like to read up about how different governments acted and reacted to the USA, you will find that your beloved One Britton Tories have not been quite so pro Britton as you seem to think and that it was the old Labour (socialists) governments that were the real pro Britton governments.

As for your comments about the Falklands, and détente you show you have no idea of what really happened or exactly how WEAK we were. I served in the Falklands and was part of our (NATO) Northern flank protection forces. The fact is it was our forces bloody-mindedness and training that beat the Argies, not our equipment! And as for the Soviets and Walsall Pact, if they had decided to attack they would have rolled us up without breaking sweat. Détente allowed the western world to bankrupt the east without starting another world war, and just as a matter of interest do you think we live in a safer world 20/30 years on from that particular victory? In my humble opinion the Soviet Union was never a real threat but the fragmented religious nationalism that has replaced it is.

Maybe you would like to comment?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well my area they would vote for a monkey with a red rose on why??

because when maggie dear was in power she ripped the heart right out of this area.

miners strikes families starvin people out of picket lines who helped? the trade unions and the labour councillors.

i remember the strikes i remember gettin taken to the picket lines and i remember families coming round to get fed because they had nothing.

this was an industry area and a proud area until she ripped the heart out it and its never been forgotten by the older ones and some my age.

we had factories we had mines now we have heroin addicts and alkies because the pride in goin to a job when you left school meant a lot . when you no hope you turn to bad things.

i cant predict the future but i do know this there will be not vote for tory from me goin to have a wee look at the yellow manifesto later to see what they sayin xx

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

and all the while thatcher was in power, the city bankers got richer, landlords owned more property, amd the tories got richer and richer and richer and richer

mmm

a blue vote is not for the working man

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Thatcher bribed many of the working class into believing they were middle class by selling them their council houses.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ah yes the you can be middle class if you buy your council house and the result.....................

all good houses bought sold at massive profit leaving the sink estates that no one wants that shoves all of societies undesirables in the same place and gets the label of no go areas!!!

" there is no such thing as society"

" there is no alternative"

xx

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"Thatcher bribed many of the working class into believing they were middle class by selling them their council houses....."

and now no one can get on the property ladder nor afford to rent thanks to her

wasnt dame shirley porter forced to pay 12m for homes for votes scandal

yet a blue vote is NOT for the working man

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

The "industry" support of David Cameron`s dislike of the "tax on jobs" makes me laugh. I want to know just how many of these companies actually make their ENTIRE product in this country!

One such company having come out in support of DC is Hornby, the model train "manafacturer". I say manafacturer in inverted commas because the ENTIRE RANGE of Hornby model railway products are made in ... CHINA! So how many British jobs are in danger here?

Didn`t know the Chinkies paid us NI dues!

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"The "industry" support of David Cameron`s dislike of the "tax on jobs" makes me laugh. I want to know just how many of these companies actually make their ENTIRE product in this country!

One such company having come out in support of DC is Hornby, the model train "manafacturer". I say manafacturer in inverted commas because the ENTIRE RANGE of Hornby model railway products are made in ... CHINA! So how many British jobs are in danger here?

Didn`t know the Chinkies paid us NI dues! "

excellent point

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over a year ago


"that was funnier than your fugy son of fugy stories stu.keep up the good work.im still laughing. "

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over a year ago


"100,000 a month added to the dole queues in the early 80's but under Thatcher the sheer unremitting awfulness of the 1970s: the pessimism, the rancour, double-digit inflation, price controls, incomes policies, power cuts, the three-day-week, the winter of discontent were all turned around.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the UK been outperformed by every European economy. “Britain is a tragedy – it has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in,” said Henry Kissinger. The Wall Street Journal was blunter: “Goodbye, Great Britain: it was nice knowing you”.

Then came the swing to conservatism in 1979. Under Thatcher Inflation fell, strikes stopped, the latent enterprise of a free people was awakened. Having lagged behind for a generation, we outgrew every European country in the 1980s except Spain (which was bouncing back from an even lower place). As revenues flowed in, taxes were cut and debt was repaid, while public spending – contrary belief – rose. In the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher showed the world that a great country doesn’t retreat forever. And, by ending the wretched policy of one-sided détente that had allowed the Soviets to march into Europe, Korea and Afghanistan, she set in train the events that would free hundreds of millions of people from what, in crude mathematical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ideology humanity has known.

The Anti-Thatcherites tell me she should be reviled for her time in office. That it’s because she closed down the old industries. (She didn’t, she simply stopped obliging the tax payer to support them.) Now, in the deepest recession we have known for some time it must surely be obvious by now that nothing would have kept the dockyards and coalmines and steel mills etc etc etc open. No Government could have continued to fund these under performing industries at the level they were demanding.

She rescued a country that Labour had dishonoured and impoverished. That she inherited a Britain that was sclerotic, indebted and declining and left it proud, wealthy and free is something that people cannot stomach. They just remember the hard road we all had to take to regain economic stability and growth.

Gordon Brown has plunged this country into an unfathomable level of debt trying to spend his way out of a crisis rather than face up to it. Now, every successive government, regardless of who forms it, will have deal with this debt whilst trying to retain public spending at realistic levels.

We are now going to face far more hardship thanks to labour than we ever had to face under Thatcher.

I will be the first one at the polling station to register my vote. It will NOT be for another Labour Government in this country

Stu, I think you need to go away and learn your 20th century economic history.

You will find that the USA has systematically stolen stripped and destroyed our economic base. That the reason that the German economy out produced us in the 60/70/80s was because after WW2 the USA pumped billions of dollars into rebuilding Germany and modernising its industries, while at the same time demanding that we repay billions in interest and capital for war loans before modernising our Victorian industries.

You may also like to read up about how different governments acted and reacted to the USA, you will find that your beloved One Britton Tories have not been quite so pro Britton as you seem to think and that it was the old Labour (socialists) governments that were the real pro Britton governments.

As for your comments about the Falklands, and détente you show you have no idea of what really happened or exactly how WEAK we were. I served in the Falklands and was part of our (NATO) Northern flank protection forces. The fact is it was our forces bloody-mindedness and training that beat the Argies, not our equipment! And as for the Soviets and Walsall Pact, if they had decided to attack they would have rolled us up without breaking sweat. Détente allowed the western world to bankrupt the east without starting another world war, and just as a matter of interest do you think we live in a safer world 20/30 years on from that particular victory? In my humble opinion the Soviet Union was never a real threat but the fragmented religious nationalism that has replaced it is.

Maybe you would like to comment?

"

Have said it before.....and will say it again.......the opinions expressed by me in here are not necessarily the opinions I hold.

As for the Falklands, the problems there are deep seated and have been rumbling since the 15th/16th Century and still rumblr on today.

I believe that the Argentines have now got the UN to agree to listen to their arguments in order to decide whether or not the UK should enter negotiations again.

Electioneering on the part of the failing Argentine Government and can be discussed into oblivion.

I had family fighting in the Falklands, and the conflict is as real for me still as it was back then.

As for the UK economy. Was trying to make the point that Thatcher is remembered merely for the poll tax, the miners strike, selling off nationalised industry and the falkland crisis.

The UK was practically on it's knees back in the 70's (is irrelevant whether it was the fault of Labour, USA, Russia Australia.....etc etc.. By the end of the tory Government this country had found itself on a sounder economic footing. It was a hard slog to get there, but we did.

Then, as now, Whichever party forms the Government will have to deal with this mess that we are left in. The choices the government has to make will be much tougher than the ones made by Thatcher and her Government.

I still strongly believe that pumping billions into the economy that we don't have, and spending billions on public sector services, that we don't have, is wrong. It has plunged this country into a debt the likes of which has never been seen.

The next Government, whether it be blue, yellow, red or sky blue pink will, in all likliehood, only be remembered for the choices that have to hurt the public in order to get the economy back on track.

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"Country being held to ransom in the eighties by the unions and nationalised industry.

1979 we were in a recession....tory government refused to spend their way out of it and did not create any new money.

They did not give in to the ransom demands of nationalised industry...sold it off and let it fend for itself in the real world where they actually have to make money or go under.

Got this country out of recession and back on a sound economic footing by time the red hands of labour got their mittens on the steering wheel....look where 13 years of that has gotten us.

Go blues......rah rah rah

This is not correct.

The country was actually in recession until around 1975, the cause of which was the oil crisis. The next recession was not until the early 80's, (1980-82)well and truly into the Tory Thatcher years and then again in the early 90's (90-92)also in the Tory years. It is quiet simply a myth to claim that Labour governments created economic crisis.

Anyone else remember the unemployment/dole queues/ house repossessions of the 80's and 90's? Who was in power, oh yeah, the Tories. "

Harold Wilson, Labour,

4 March 1974 - 5 April 1976

Key aspects of term in office:

Hung Parliament. Ended dispute with miners; Social Contract with trade unions over the economy; Health and Safety at Work Act; Renegotiated terms for EC membership, then 1975 referendum validated entry; North Sea oil; Cod War.

~

James Callahan, Labour,

5 April 1976 - 4 May 1979

Key aspects of term in office:

International Monetary Fund loan to support the pound; the Lib-Lab pact; enacted devolution to Scotland and Wales but referendums stopped them; breakdown of relations with trade unions and Winter of Discontent.

~

Margaret Thatcher, Conservative,

4 May 1979 - 28 November 1990

Key aspects of term in office:

First female Prime Minister of the UK. Falklands War; sold council housing to tenants (right to buy); miners' strike 1984–85; privatisation of many previously government-owned industries; decreased the power of trade unions; negotiation of the UK rebate towards the European Community budget; Brighton hotel bombing; Sino-British joint declaration; Anglo-Irish Agreement; Westland Affair; abolition of GLC; Section 28; the "Poll tax"; Lockerbie bombing; the end of the Cold War.

~

The above says it all really. We have prospered under a Tory Govt and suffered under a Labour one. Almost inevitably, the first thing that happens when a Labour govt is elected is that it is forced into a war with the Unions that subsidise it.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"Country being held to ransom in the eighties by the unions and nationalised industry.

1979 we were in a recession....tory government refused to spend their way out of it and did not create any new money.

They did not give in to the ransom demands of nationalised industry...sold it off and let it fend for itself in the real world where they actually have to make money or go under.

Got this country out of recession and back on a sound economic footing by time the red hands of labour got their mittens on the steering wheel....look where 13 years of that has gotten us.

Go blues......rah rah rah

This is not correct.

The country was actually in recession until around 1975, the cause of which was the oil crisis. The next recession was not until the early 80's, (1980-82)well and truly into the Tory Thatcher years and then again in the early 90's (90-92)also in the Tory years. It is quiet simply a myth to claim that Labour governments created economic crisis.

Anyone else remember the unemployment/dole queues/ house repossessions of the 80's and 90's? Who was in power, oh yeah, the Tories.

Harold Wilson, Labour,

4 March 1974 - 5 April 1976

Key aspects of term in office:

Hung Parliament. Ended dispute with miners; Social Contract with trade unions over the economy; Health and Safety at Work Act; Renegotiated terms for EC membership, then 1975 referendum validated entry; North Sea oil; Cod War.

~

James Callahan, Labour,

5 April 1976 - 4 May 1979

Key aspects of term in office:

International Monetary Fund loan to support the pound; the Lib-Lab pact; enacted devolution to Scotland and Wales but referendums stopped them; breakdown of relations with trade unions and Winter of Discontent.

~

Margaret Thatcher, Conservative,

4 May 1979 - 28 November 1990

Key aspects of term in office:

First female Prime Minister of the UK. Falklands War; sold council housing to tenants (right to buy); miners' strike 1984–85; privatisation of many previously government-owned industries; decreased the power of trade unions; negotiation of the UK rebate towards the European Community budget; Brighton hotel bombing; Sino-British joint declaration; Anglo-Irish Agreement; Westland Affair; abolition of GLC; Section 28; the "Poll tax"; Lockerbie bombing; the end of the Cold War.

~

The above says it all really. We have prospered under a Tory Govt and suffered under a Labour one. Almost inevitably, the first thing that happens when a Labour govt is elected is that it is forced into a war with the Unions that subsidise it."

seeing what you want to see,and disregarding the rest.isnt really political argument.unless you assume, you are speaking to the totally ignorant.

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over a year ago

im very much undecided on it , think brown has messed things up , but no too keen on the blue , the yellow i wouldnt trust to make a decision about bog roll , as far as scottish stuff goes its no really any better so who knows whoever tells me the least lies or god forbid the actuall truth ill prob vote for

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone


"100,000 a month added to the dole queues in the early 80's but under Thatcher the sheer unremitting awfulness of the 1970s: the pessimism, the rancour, double-digit inflation, price controls, incomes policies, power cuts, the three-day-week, the winter of discontent were all turned around.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the UK been outperformed by every European economy. “Britain is a tragedy – it has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in,” said Henry Kissinger. The Wall Street Journal was blunter: “Goodbye, Great Britain: it was nice knowing you”.

Then came the swing to conservatism in 1979. Under Thatcher Inflation fell, strikes stopped, the latent enterprise of a free people was awakened. Having lagged behind for a generation, we outgrew every European country in the 1980s except Spain (which was bouncing back from an even lower place). As revenues flowed in, taxes were cut and debt was repaid, while public spending – contrary belief – rose. In the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher showed the world that a great country doesn’t retreat forever. And, by ending the wretched policy of one-sided détente that had allowed the Soviets to march into Europe, Korea and Afghanistan, she set in train the events that would free hundreds of millions of people from what, in crude mathematical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ideology humanity has known.

The Anti-Thatcherites tell me she should be reviled for her time in office. That it’s because she closed down the old industries. (She didn’t, she simply stopped obliging the tax payer to support them.) Now, in the deepest recession we have known for some time it must surely be obvious by now that nothing would have kept the dockyards and coalmines and steel mills etc etc etc open. No Government could have continued to fund these under performing industries at the level they were demanding.

She rescued a country that Labour had dishonoured and impoverished. That she inherited a Britain that was sclerotic, indebted and declining and left it proud, wealthy and free is something that people cannot stomach. They just remember the hard road we all had to take to regain economic stability and growth.

Gordon Brown has plunged this country into an unfathomable level of debt trying to spend his way out of a crisis rather than face up to it. Now, every successive government, regardless of who forms it, will have deal with this debt whilst trying to retain public spending at realistic levels.

We are now going to face far more hardship thanks to labour than we ever had to face under Thatcher.

I will be the first one at the polling station to register my vote. It will NOT be for another Labour Government in this country

Stu, I think you need to go away and learn your 20th century economic history.

You will find that the USA has systematically stolen stripped and destroyed our economic base. That the reason that the German economy out produced us in the 60/70/80s was because after WW2 the USA pumped billions of dollars into rebuilding Germany and modernising its industries, while at the same time demanding that we repay billions in interest and capital for war loans before modernising our Victorian industries.

You may also like to read up about how different governments acted and reacted to the USA, you will find that your beloved One Britton Tories have not been quite so pro Britton as you seem to think and that it was the old Labour (socialists) governments that were the real pro Britton governments.

As for your comments about the Falklands, and détente you show you have no idea of what really happened or exactly how WEAK we were. I served in the Falklands and was part of our (NATO) Northern flank protection forces. The fact is it was our forces bloody-mindedness and training that beat the Argies, not our equipment! And as for the Soviets and Walsall Pact, if they had decided to attack they would have rolled us up without breaking sweat. Détente allowed the western world to bankrupt the east without starting another world war, and just as a matter of interest do you think we live in a safer world 20/30 years on from that particular victory? In my humble opinion the Soviet Union was never a real threat but the fragmented religious nationalism that has replaced it is.

Maybe you would like to comment?

Have said it before.....and will say it again.......the opinions expressed by me in here are not necessarily the opinions I hold.

As for the Falklands, the problems there are deep seated and have been rumbling since the 15th/16th Century and still rumblr on today.

I believe that the Argentines have now got the UN to agree to listen to their arguments in order to decide whether or not the UK should enter negotiations again.

Electioneering on the part of the failing Argentine Government and can be discussed into oblivion.

I had family fighting in the Falklands, and the conflict is as real for me still as it was back then.

As for the UK economy. Was trying to make the point that Thatcher is remembered merely for the poll tax, the miners strike, selling off nationalised industry and the falkland crisis.

The UK was practically on it's knees back in the 70's (is irrelevant whether it was the fault of Labour, USA, Russia Australia.....etc etc.. By the end of the tory Government this country had found itself on a sounder economic footing. It was a hard slog to get there, but we did.

Then, as now, Whichever party forms the Government will have to deal with this mess that we are left in. The choices the government has to make will be much tougher than the ones made by Thatcher and her Government.

I still strongly believe that pumping billions into the economy that we don't have, and spending billions on public sector services, that we don't have, is wrong. It has plunged this country into a debt the likes of which has never been seen.

The next Government, whether it be blue, yellow, red or sky blue pink will, in all likliehood, only be remembered for the choices that have to hurt the public in order to get the economy back on track.

"

Also remembered for spunking many Billions of North sea oil revenue on bringing down income tax for her rich buddies; getting rid of free eye tests; stopping the link between average earnings and state pension; selling off the nationalised(monopolies) industries below market value to prove a point;

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over a year ago


"seeing what you want to see,and disregarding the rest.isnt really political argument.unless you assume, you are speaking to the totally ignorant. "

I was merely quoting records that are a matter of fact. Not opinion, fact, written by another, more learned person than I.

You should get off your condescending high horse before you get a nose bleed.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"seeing what you want to see,and disregarding the rest.isnt really political argument.unless you assume, you are speaking to the totally ignorant.

I was merely quoting records that are a matter of fact. Not opinion, fact, written by another, more learned person than I.

You should get off your condescending high horse before you get a nose bleed. "

i hope i get the nose bleed, before the tories get in again.much do you think that will cost to fix.you are picking facts that suit, and ignoring those that dont.try lifting those blue tinted glasses for a moment.the good thing about being on a condescending high horse is,you can see everything from up here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Email those standing for election in your area and ask where they stand on the issues that concern you. we have.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


"Email those standing for election in your area and ask where they stand on the issues that concern you. we have."

if only it were that simple, but at least you will have something to prove how many lies will be told to get your vote

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone


"Country being held to ransom in the eighties by the unions and nationalised industry.

1979 we were in a recession....tory government refused to spend their way out of it and did not create any new money.

They did not give in to the ransom demands of nationalised industry...sold it off and let it fend for itself in the real world where they actually have to make money or go under.

Got this country out of recession and back on a sound economic footing by time the red hands of labour got their mittens on the steering wheel....look where 13 years of that has gotten us.

Go blues......rah rah rah "

But are you being slightly disingenuous by not telling everyone about the hundreds of billions that selling off all the monopolies and North sea oil revenues brought in for the governement?. Where is the lasting legacy from that?.

Maybe you also forgot that Thatcher took us into the ERM at a far too high exchange rate, a factor in why we went into recession in the 90's and why the country lost many billions of pounds trying to prop up the pound on black wednesday

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over a year ago

It makes me chuckle when people remember the so-called bad days of Thatcherism and attack the modern day Tory party like they are an extension of her policies. Can you imagine the trouble Britain would have got itself into if Kinnock had won those elections instead of Thatcher. A man who moved into the European political arena and then systematically exploited Brussels to get his entire family on board milking the EuroGravy Express. His socialist principles were nowhere to be seen. I will be eternally grateful that we had Thatcher at the helm for all those years and not Kinnock. I made the mistake of voting Labour once, they'll never catch me out again.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"It makes me chuckle when people remember the so-called bad days of Thatcherism and attack the modern day Tory party like they are an extension of her policies. Can you imagine the trouble Britain would have got itself into if Kinnock had won those elections instead of Thatcher. A man who moved into the European political arena and then systematically exploited Brussels to get his entire family on board milking the EuroGravy Express. His socialist principles were nowhere to be seen. I will be eternally grateful that we had Thatcher at the helm for all those years and not Kinnock. I made the mistake of voting Labour once, they'll never catch me out again."

He was the for runner of the "modern milk the expenses system"

Mind if kinnock had got in then we would still have mines and miners and not so reliant on gas from fook knows where!

Up the revolution! Power to the people

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

"A Conservative MP, Sir Nicholas Winterton, a member of Parliament for the last 39 years, shared his thoughts on why MPs should be allowed to travel on expense in first class on trains to avoid exposure to the common man' (NYTimes article says)

And here is what Sir Winterton says about first and standard (2nd) classes on UK trains:

"They are a totally different type of people," Sir Winterton declared in a radio interview, speaking about the relative ghastliness of people in standard class train cars - there's lots of children, there's noise, there's activity. I like to have peace and quiet when i'm travelling."

And though i do like to mix with the common bloke i prefer to do this in pubs not on trains - Sir Winterton has pointed out the huge difference between first and standard class on trains - IME standard class is invariable jammed full - seats are tinier than any in Europe and there are drinks cans, rumpled newspapers, snack wrappers, etc all about - first class is the opposite - the difference being greated between classes than on any other European rail system i have been on.

In Britain IMO it pays to pay more for first class and all the leisurely and quiet travel it brings.

Unfortunately Sir Winterton is tone deaf as his words just before a national election has just reinforced the notion that Tories are stuffed shirts disdaining any interaction with the common bloke.

Torys are real men of the people as we can see

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over a year ago

But the standard carriages ARE cramped, full of cans and bottles and kids listening to fookin iPods too loud. If you manage to secure a seat with a table in front you can bet your bottom dollar that some fookin eejit will plonk her fecking oversized laptop case on it, get out all her paperwork, spread it over any unclaimed surface area and glower at you if you don't remove your solitary finished paper coffee cup to allow her even more room.

I'd pay for 1st Class everytime if I could afford it, and if I'm not paying for my fare then it's 1st Class everytime.

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By *ixplayMan
over a year ago

tamworth & Edinburgh

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By *ixplayMan
over a year ago

tamworth & Edinburgh

i agree with peaches12 100% the tories sold us down the river for 17 years & they would do the same again, we cant let it happen & has anyone on this site heard what the tories are saying about gay rights, more or less everybody on here are gay friendly & the tories are definatly not so they dont deserve to be in power even just for that reason, let alone for a miriad of other reasons, im a socialist & im red all the way, we cant go back to the bad blue old days.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"i agree with peaches12 100% the tories sold us down the river for 17 years & they would do the same again, we cant let it happen & has anyone on this site heard what the tories are saying about gay rights, more or less everybody on here are gay friendly & the tories are definatly not so they dont deserve to be in power even just for that reason, let alone for a miriad of other reasons, im a socialist & im red all the way, we cant go back to the bad blue old days."

The tories wouldn't do that would they? They are promising free milk and honey and "Call me Dave" wouldn't lie surely???

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By *tripeschickCouple
over a year ago

dumfries and galloway

sorry to say but am snp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

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By *ixplayMan
over a year ago

tamworth & Edinburgh

i agree with most of what you say but if we get a hung parliament it means facsist partys like the disgracful bnp will have more power & i would rather have the tories & thats saying something as im a socialist

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"i agree with most of what you say but if we get a hung parliament it means facsist partys like the disgracful bnp will have more power & i would rather have the tories & thats saying something as im a socialist"

Its the Welsh nationalists that made my jaw drop. They want £300 mill for wales for there cooperation! Who is going to pay for that???

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Well as im not on the electrol role i wont be voting but i would want labour t get back in

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over a year ago


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only."

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft."

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories

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over a year ago


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories"

Which proves that the Tories are not the party for only the rich, doesn't it?

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories

Which proves that the Tories are not the party for only the rich, doesn't it? "

When Jay moved into his house the tories used to use his garden for there garden parties and such, he soon put a stop to that lol

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over a year ago


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories

Which proves that the Tories are not the party for only the rich, doesn't it?

When Jay moved into his house the tories used to use his garden for there garden parties and such, he soon put a stop to that lol"

Huh? Without his permission? Must be some fookin garden he's got!!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories

Which proves that the Tories are not the party for only the rich, doesn't it?

When Jay moved into his house the tories used to use his garden for there garden parties and such, he soon put a stop to that lol

Huh? Without his permission? Must be some fookin garden he's got!! "

The previous owners let them but Jay wouldnt let them. His actual garden is two acres then he has the orchard and paddock

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over a year ago


"The conservatives will leave the whole country with the blues. They are out to look after the rich only.

Just how many people believe this stupid ignorant myth?

The rich make up less than 5% of the country so if it is only the rich that the Tories look after then they would have a very short stay in No.10, wouldn't they?

Maybe each voter should have an IQ test before being allowed to vote coz this type of belief system is just plain bloody daft.

Well i can tell you for fact not all rich people vote tories

Which proves that the Tories are not the party for only the rich, doesn't it?

When Jay moved into his house the tories used to use his garden for there garden parties and such, he soon put a stop to that lol

Huh? Without his permission? Must be some fookin garden he's got!!

The previous owners let them but Jay wouldnt let them. His actual garden is two acres then he has the orchard and paddock"

The guy next door has a huge garden so I asked him if I could have a couple of acres.

He kicked me in the nuts and said, "sure, their ya go!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

interesting thread, just goes to show there is some truth in that old addage about not discussing religion or politics!

i do vote, however i'm not going to say who, that's personal. what i would like to do tho, is encourage those that have a vote to use it. i for one, am fed up of living in a society that i feel is democratically deficient and get really irked when people moan about this, that and the other and then add something along the lines of what's the point in voting! you've got a vote, please use it xxx

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By *ixplayMan
over a year ago

tamworth & Edinburgh

you are so right, theres too much apathy towards politics, for good reason sometimes i suppose but everyone should use their vote so, youve got to be in it to win it sort of thing, if people dont vote theyve got no right to moan about it, theyve got theyre chance to have theyre say so use it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Our boys are out dying in Afghanistan in order for the Afghanis to have a democratic society. Kinda puts it into perspective don't you think.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

had my first canvasser tonite....... was fun but dont think they be comin back in a hurry jeez cant even have a political arguement with a canvesser without then takin the huff and that was after i gave them a cup of tea and a cake!

credit to them if question dodgin had been a sport they were olympic material!! xx

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over a year ago

Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!!

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!! "

sorry wishy.but i have to ask.did you ever buy a car,from del boy ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i watched the launch too...... what a load of bollocks!!!

wanting people to act as policemen in their communities??? cost cuttin or givin little hitlers the chance to get a power kick i would rather have strathclydes finest thanks than adolph 2 doors down tellin me if im breaking the law!!

as for schools there a load o crap straight away if you have the money buy your own school great education divide startin all over again!

usual from them rich helpin the rich and sod the poor working people xx

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!! "

funny enough I watched the manifesto launches.. and the one that i was most impressed with was actually in the end the lib dems... which leaves me in a position that because my seat is stauch red, my vote is not going to mean as much.... and maybe it is time they finally brought in some sort of PR..... I would be so in favour of the single transferable vote system (STV)... maybe the best result for me is going to be a hung parliment because then the libs dems are going to get some of there policies in.....

cable for chancellor....

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over a year ago

forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx"

well they better freeze the poll tax if in 2011 I am not going to get a pay rise since i work in the public sector... in the mean time everything else is still going up though...

may as well give me the extra 700 quid a year in my pocket i would get from the lib dem policy of increasing the income tax threshold to 10k....

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!!

funny enough I watched the manifesto launches.. and the one that i was most impressed with was actually in the end the lib dems... which leaves me in a position that because my seat is stauch red, my vote is not going to mean as much.... and maybe it is time they finally brought in some sort of PR..... I would be so in favour of the single transferable vote system (STV)... maybe the best result for me is going to be a hung parliment because then the libs dems are going to get some of there policies in.....

cable for chancellor...."

well thought out that man

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx"

Two year Council Tax freeze....

It will mean countless job losses in local council workforces, the Tories also slipped in a sentence about public sector workers assuming ownership of the services they provide.

So that's all remaining council contracts going out to the public sector.

At the end of the Two years tax freeze people can expect massive rises.

As for the public getting to choose their police commissioners, what difference is that going to make to the average man in the street?

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over a year ago


"Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!! sorry wishy.but i have to ask.did you ever buy a car,from del boy ? "

Any govt that leaves me the fluck alone gets my vote. I hate state interference and it should be minimised as much as possible. They are there to serve us, not the other way around.

As regards to the poor, can't they get of their state-supported arses and make their own way in the world. Nobody ever gave me anything so why should I support the lazy, the inept and the weak.

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over a year ago


"forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx

Two year Council Tax freeze....

It will mean countless job losses in local council workforces, the Tories also slipped in a sentence about public sector workers assuming ownership of the services they provide.

So that's all remaining council contracts going out to the public sector.

At the end of the Two years tax freeze people can expect massive rises.

As for the public getting to choose their police commissioners, what difference is that going to make to the average man in the street?

"

Would these be the same councils that have raised the council tax year after year yet provided an ever increasing piss poor service for more money? Those councils you mean!

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

the only way out of a recession is to spend

look at cannada

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx

Two year Council Tax freeze....

It will mean countless job losses in local council workforces, the Tories also slipped in a sentence about public sector workers assuming ownership of the services they provide.

So that's all remaining council contracts going out to the public sector.

At the end of the Two years tax freeze people can expect massive rises.

As for the public getting to choose their police commissioners, what difference is that going to make to the average man in the street?

Would these be the same councils that have raised the council tax year after year yet provided an ever increasing piss poor service for more money? Those councils you mean! "

nowt wrong with our council

low in crime

low in unemployment

in fact they do a bloody good job

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over a year ago


"Having watched the Tory manifesto launch and the excellent David Cameron I am now convinced that he's the right man to lead this country.

I hate all forms of govt interference and he seems to be the only one to be saying that we can have a say in local services.

Elected police commissioners

The ability to boot out corrupt MPs and select a new one

Even open our own schools with state money.

This I like!! They have got my vote, no problemo!! sorry wishy.but i have to ask.did you ever buy a car,from del boy ?

Any govt that leaves me the fluck alone gets my vote. I hate state interference and it should be minimised as much as possible. They are there to serve us, not the other way around.

As regards to the poor, can't they get of their state-supported arses and make their own way in the world. Nobody ever gave me anything so why should I support the lazy, the inept and the weak. "

and that ladies and gentleman is your average tory im alright jack sod everyone else!!!

you have children wishy?? so when nursary places get cut because of public sector cuts it wont bother you?

or the building it is in needs work desperately? or the school your child at is underperforming?

or god forbid you have an accident or illness have you got enough stashed away to see you alright and your family?

im not a fan of state interference but it has it needs in some parts xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"forgot the 2 years freeze on council tax ....... i can imagine what will happen at the end of that be a whoppin great bloody increase and be worse than the lovely poll tax ..... xx

Two year Council Tax freeze....

It will mean countless job losses in local council workforces, the Tories also slipped in a sentence about public sector workers assuming ownership of the services they provide.

So that's all remaining council contracts going out to the public sector.

At the end of the Two years tax freeze people can expect massive rises.

As for the public getting to choose their police commissioners, what difference is that going to make to the average man in the street?

Would these be the same councils that have raised the council tax year after year yet provided an ever increasing piss poor service for more money? Those councils you mean! "

no increase here hasnt been for 3 years xx

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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Council Tax has risen in the main because of reduced Central Government funding which has over the last two decades fallen by about 60% in real terms.

Because of reduced Central Government funding local councils have little option but to trim services and hike council tax bills.

Bith the Tories and Labour have slashed central funding since 1991

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

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over a year ago


"Council Tax has risen in the main because of reduced Central Government funding which has over the last two decades fallen by about 60% in real terms.

Because of reduced Central Government funding local councils have little option but to trim services and hike council tax bills.

Bith the Tories and Labour have slashed central funding since 1991"

They are keeping income tax down whilst raising stealth taxes everywhere else, that's all to do with winning votes.

Whether it's a national tax or a local tax, it's still tax to me and what I pay in income tax should cover the govt for what it needs. If it doesn't then they are wasting the money we already pay them.

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over a year ago


"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

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Says what? That I ain't a mug, and that I could quite easily give up my job and shaft the taxpayer for everything I can. But I don't, I have more pride than that. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm not ashamed of not wanting to dish out my hard earned to people who haven't earned it and have no intention of doing so. Thy're parasites and it isn't my job to support them - I have a family already and they are my only concern.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

So when the Tories introduced VAT was that not a stealth tax?

What about when they introduced the fuel tax excalator....another Tory stealth tax?

How about the Poll Tax?

The words Stealth Tax were just a soundbite dreamed up by Conservative Central Office to describe taxes, quite what makes them 'Stealth' remains a mystery known only to the Tories

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over a year ago


"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

Says what? That I ain't a mug, and that I could quite easily give up my job and shaft the taxpayer for everything I can. But I don't, I have more pride than that. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm not ashamed of not wanting to dish out my hard earned to people who haven't earned it and have no intention of doing so. Thy're parasites and it isn't my job to support them - I have a family already and they are my only concern."

so disabled, elderly and people who have been in accidents etc should just be shoved in a corner to die ??? xx

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

Says what? That I ain't a mug, and that I could quite easily give up my job and shaft the taxpayer for everything I can. But I don't, I have more pride than that. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm not ashamed of not wanting to dish out my hard earned to people who haven't earned it and have no intention of doing so. Thy're parasites and it isn't my job to support them - I have a family already and they are my only concern."

So shall we start with the disabled?

They are weak and an easy target...

Very 1935 Berlin

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

Says what? That I ain't a mug, and that I could quite easily give up my job and shaft the taxpayer for everything I can. But I don't, I have more pride than that. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm not ashamed of not wanting to dish out my hard earned to people who haven't earned it and have no intention of doing so. Thy're parasites and it isn't my job to support them - I have a family already and they are my only concern.

So shall we start with the disabled?

They are weak and an easy target...

Very 1935 Berlin"

Their families should provide for them. That's what families do, isn't it? Or do you advocate passing the buck to someone else so YOU don't have to pick up the bill?

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

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I agree

very public spirited

but clearly has a child in school and expects the state to educate her like all the rest

1 law for 1

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"Council Tax has risen in the main because of reduced Central Government funding which has over the last two decades fallen by about 60% in real terms.

Because of reduced Central Government funding local councils have little option but to trim services and hike council tax bills.

Bith the Tories and Labour have slashed central funding since 1991

They are keeping income tax down whilst raising stealth taxes everywhere else, that's all to do with winning votes.

Whether it's a national tax or a local tax, it's still tax to me and what I pay in income tax should cover the govt for what it needs. If it doesn't then they are wasting the money we already pay them."

The Tories did the same under John Major, reduced Income Tax and increased VAT.....All UK governments have done it since Thatcher onwards

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over a year ago


"So when the Tories introduced VAT was that not a stealth tax?

What about when they introduced the fuel tax excalator....another Tory stealth tax?

How about the Poll Tax?

The words Stealth Tax were just a soundbite dreamed up by Conservative Central Office to describe taxes, quite what makes them 'Stealth' remains a mystery known only to the Tories"

hi ... usually Helen write in forums as me too lazy..laughs...sorry... Stealth Tax were not dreamed up by the Tories but in fact by the German "Prime Minister" G. Schroder in the 1990's. In fact Stealth is not a correct translation but an Anglo-Saxon version from the original wording... Every country has its' hidden taxes...in German there is a tax on coffee beans, in Swtzerland there is a tax on theater and cinema tickets to the VAT, in Italy there is a tax on train tickets plus the VAT... so this is not a British invention... however the simple solution is you do not spend more then you earn... if all would go by that no problems... laughs... just hope nobody has an idea an raises a tax on swinging

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over a year ago


"I think the statement about not wanting to support the weak says it all really...

Says what? That I ain't a mug, and that I could quite easily give up my job and shaft the taxpayer for everything I can. But I don't, I have more pride than that. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm not ashamed of not wanting to dish out my hard earned to people who haven't earned it and have no intention of doing so. Thy're parasites and it isn't my job to support them - I have a family already and they are my only concern.

So shall we start with the disabled?

They are weak and an easy target...

Very 1935 Berlin

Their families should provide for them. That's what families do, isn't it? Or do you advocate passing the buck to someone else so YOU don't have to pick up the bill? "

wishy i sincerely hope to god you are never in the situation where a family member needs care mate!!!

as u know i had my neice for a while i also was carer to my gran and papa but had to get social services in for adaptions etc to house and a carer for a few hrs a wk to give me and everyone else a break

once you in that situation you see how long it would take you to be screaming for state assistance i hope it never happens but we dont know what the fututre holds x

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks


"Do we still have a monster raving loony party?"

yes ... gordon brown is their leader

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"

The Tories did the same under John Major, reduced Income Tax and increased VAT.....All UK governments have done it since Thatcher onwards"

funny you should mention this... they have interviewed more that one of the business leaders who signed the letter calling on the rise on NI contributions to be stopped.. something the conservatives proposed..

so when they asked where they should get that money from to replace the rise, they said "increase VAT"...

The conservatives have said they will not raise income tax, but would not commit to raising VAT.... hmmmmm... see something coming here?

heck... pass the price increase to those at the bottom rather than the businesses themselves....

one of the things i do like about the lib dem manifesto is that at least they have costed all of there major proposal so we can see how it is being paid ofr.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

good point _abio!!

i dont actually mind an increase in my NI contributions if it means improvements to NHS and other services that i may use such as sickness benefit or pensions or whatever! i dont know what waits round the corner that i might need to use and the money got to come from somewhere!

maybe an opt out scheme those that dont want to pay extra NI could invest in private scheme or that goes against the origins of the NHS being universal but the pot of money needs topped up somehow xx

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over a year ago


"but clearly has a child in school and expects the state to educate her like all the rest

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For which myself and my wife PAY income tax. Plus it would be a crime NOT to send my child to school.

I would be more than happy to pay my bit for social care if the money I paind into it was spent on the frontline care that it was intended for. Not wasted on people like Sharon Shoesmith who couldn't give a flying fart about the children under her jurisdiction. Time and again we hear of children dying when they could have been rescued and soundbites that say 'this must never happen again' - but it always does, and those responsible for identifying children at risk shrug their shoulders, wash their hands of it and try to offload the blame onto someone else.

Give us a social care system that works and I'll support it but don't ask me to be happy to cough up for malignant care workers who's only concern is collecting their wages at the end of each month.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

thats not care workers, thats social workers and many do a sterling job with caseloads that no one could do!

there has been far too many failures in child protection that once again boils down to money given to councils to provide the necessary and qualified workers.

most care workers in frontline care are on the bare minimum wage because everythin was privatised out to private companies whos main concern is money and not quality of staffing xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

which incidently, social work etc public sector which will be cut to the bare bones under a conservative government so let them in and see how many more cases of vunerable people losing thier life comes up because not everyone has got a family to look after them, or a family who cares about them x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I'm referring to the whole system - care or social - call it what you will - but the whole thing is stagnant from top to bottom. I'm sure there are many frontline workers who feel that their hands are tied and would like to do more but how can they when their bosses are more concerned with next year's budget, their own career advancement and a nice fat pension fund at the end of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

fundin has always been an issue in social care believe me i have dealt with local authorities when the time has came for funding reviews and its pass it to the cheapest provider with no regards for the service user and its heartbreaking and very angersome too to see a head of social work on 75k a year and the frontline staff working for 5.80 an hr with people who can be very demanding to say the least xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"which incidently, social work etc public sector which will be cut to the bare bones under a conservative government so let them in and see how many more cases of vunerable people losing thier life comes up because not everyone has got a family to look after them, or a family who cares about them x"

As opposed to Labour's SPEND SPEND SPEND now, and PAY PAY PAY much more later policy!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well whats your suggestion then??? cut services lose lives?? open bedlam up again?? xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

does it really matter that much ??? aint nothing going to change , same idiots different coulors me thinks , and yes believe it or not i follow politcs very closely .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am undecided at the moment. not sure if any of the partys will really benefit us.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"well whats your suggestion then??? cut services lose lives?? open bedlam up again?? xx"

Not at all. Much can be done by way of cleaning up the care system in this country starting with cutting down the levels of bureaucracy that exist and trimming the amount of consultants and advisors that place a huge strain on the finances available to frontline care workers. A fair rate of pay in line with nurses is another measure that I think is absolutely neccessary but it should go hand in hand with higher levels of qualifications in order to help those in need better. We have students leaving university with 1st Class degrees that go straight onto the dole queue. These young professionals should be targetted with greater information whilst in Uni as to what a career in the care industry could bring them, both in terms of personal development and in a sense of being a part of and contributing to the community in which they live.

There is much that can be done but up until now it seems that the approach has been 'do little, and keep your head below the parapet'.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Have though long and hard and come to the conclusion i am voting for the google party .......ops green party.

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over a year ago


"Have though long and hard and come to the conclusion i am voting for the google party .......ops green party. "

but the icecaps are reforming... they got nowt else to campaign about now... apart from ether emissions from cows polluting the atmos.. Shoot the Cows!

(my ex/w lives at ... ) hehehe

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over a year ago

yeah the beaucracy is terrible waste of resources there is no doubt there need to be some structural changes which would make it more cost effective last place i worked it was unreal the management structure too many chiefs not enough indians came to mind!!

you had local services manager then team manager then senior support then support workers who basically sat on their arse and told support assistants what to do and thats at business level before you go to the social services department!!

my friend got an first class honours degree in accounting and cant get a job she has applied for over 300 over the last few months and some of them on minimum wage and gets told same thing need 2 years experience for trainee account job!! xx

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Have though long and hard and come to the conclusion i am voting for the google party .......ops green party.

but the icecaps are reforming... they got nowt else to campaign about now... apart from ether emissions from cows polluting the atmos.. Shoot the Cows!

(my ex/w lives at ... ) hehehe "

The greens are cool. Theo fight them Japanese wailer's with just paint in rubber din-gies.

And besides they will find some other crisis for us to panic over

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over a year ago


"Have though long and hard and come to the conclusion i am voting for the google party .......ops green party.

but the icecaps are reforming... they got nowt else to campaign about now... apart from ether emissions from cows polluting the atmos.. Shoot the Cows!

(my ex/w lives at ... ) hehehe

The greens are cool. Theo fight them Japanese wailer's with just paint in rubber din-gies.

And besides they will find some other crisis for us to panic over "

I can see the Yips shaking in their wellies...

"Ah so, you wun frow paint at ship. Me speak to captin, move ship. Me no fuk wiv yoo!"

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Have though long and hard and come to the conclusion i am voting for the google party .......ops green party.

but the icecaps are reforming... they got nowt else to campaign about now... apart from ether emissions from cows polluting the atmos.. Shoot the Cows!

(my ex/w lives at ... ) hehehe

The greens are cool. Theo fight them Japanese wailer's with just paint in rubber din-gies.

And besides they will find some other crisis for us to panic over

I can see the Yips shaking in their wellies...

"Ah so, you wun frow paint at ship. Me speak to captin, move ship. Me no fuk wiv yoo!" "

Ahh that reminds me of the Southpark dolphin episode. I worked a few years in Kyoto and them there boys sure like there food fresh

As for the greens! Well they will hold the balance of powder in a hung parliament so we will be all on bikes like mally with cars being banned

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them "

They also voted to a man (and woman) against the Minimum wage, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Pensioners Minimum Income Guarantee......it's clear they don't give a damn about ordinary people.

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham


"the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them

They also voted to a man (and woman) against the Minimum wage, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Pensioners Minimum Income Guarantee......it's clear they don't give a damn about ordinary people."

Hopefully, the TV debates will expose what the Tories really stand for, it's certainly not for the ordinary man / woman

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them

They also voted to a man (and woman) against the Minimum wage, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Pensioners Minimum Income Guarantee......it's clear they don't give a damn about ordinary people."

A banking disaster that Cheshire Cat admitted only today that he could have done more to prevent? When the banks asked for more derugulation he should have given them more rules to follow but he caved in to their demands.

The over-riding thing I don't like about Brown is his instinct to run for cover when it starts getting awkward. He dodges issues and peeks out from behind the curtains to see if the nasty men have gone away. I cannot place my trust in a man like him, one that plotted and cajoled from the moment Blair won his first election to oust him and take over. He's a scary piece of work.

Is Cameron any better? I don't know but I have more trust in him than Brown, not a lot more, but more never-the-less.

If the LibDems were a lot stronger I would still be a party member as I was 20 years ago but they simply cannot make the inroads into the main two parties and hold the ground they gain. They cannot combat tactical voting in a way that says to the electorate, "Trust us and vote with your heart."

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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brown did something

Camerson so far would have done nothing

its a no brainer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them

They also voted to a man (and woman) against the Minimum wage, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Pensioners Minimum Income Guarantee......it's clear they don't give a damn about ordinary people.

Hopefully, the TV debates will expose what the Tories really stand for, it's certainly not for the ordinary man / woman "

Labour is no better than the Torys. They are at least looking to stop some of the gross over spending by the current government.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"the torys did not wanna invest money in the banking crisis that this government chose to do

If it were up to them, we would now be bankrupt like ICELAND

WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE from the governemnt that saved us from a FAR WORSE finacial disaster

we need to back them

They also voted to a man (and woman) against the Minimum wage, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Pensioners Minimum Income Guarantee......it's clear they don't give a damn about ordinary people.

A banking disaster that Cheshire Cat admitted only today that he could have done more to prevent? When the banks asked for more derugulation he should have given them more rules to follow but he caved in to their demands.

The over-riding thing I don't like about Brown is his instinct to run for cover when it starts getting awkward. He dodges issues and peeks out from behind the curtains to see if the nasty men have gone away. I cannot place my trust in a man like him, one that plotted and cajoled from the moment Blair won his first election to oust him and take over. He's a scary piece of work.

Is Cameron any better? I don't know but I have more trust in him than Brown, not a lot more, but more never-the-less.

If the LibDems were a lot stronger I would still be a party member as I was 20 years ago but they simply cannot make the inroads into the main two parties and hold the ground they gain. They cannot combat tactical voting in a way that says to the electorate, "Trust us and vote with your heart.""

Thats it i am convinced i am voting the wishy party! Get standing boyo

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham


"He's a scary piece of work

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Nothing is more scary than the Tories being elected, especially the vulnerable, old, and those on low salaries

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"He's a scary piece of work

Nothing is more scary than the Tories being elected, especially the vulnerable, old, and those on low salaries "

THE TORYS created all those rich greedy bankers that robbed us

How many of them are homeless?

What do some people need for them to see whats gone on?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

We have never changed who we vote for, we make a very good living and have done ok for ourselves. But we still have a social conscience and believe that the people of this country that need help and assistance should continue to get that help.

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over a year ago


"Thats it i am convinced i am voting the wishy party! Get standing boyo "

Fankoo bruvver.

Rightie then. All you lot wot didn't do stuff you should been have doing... you're sacked. All you lot wot been doing stuff you shouldn't been doing.. you're sacked too... that takes care of the bankers and the wankers.

All the rest.... BBQ at mine at the weekend and you can dig my cabbage patch over.

(anyone found hiding nukie missiles will be shot, nasty things, could go off in your pocket ffs)

Houses:

Anyone wot got one, you gotta share it with anyone wot aint got one. That's the homeless sorted.

NHS:

Stop fucking about and get back to work. Sheesh!

Tax:

I'll be introducing a new Fuck Off Tax Bracket - basically when you're asked ot cough up some dosh you say 'Fuck Off' and my taxmen, Bob and his mate Robbie (also known as two-bobs worths), will nick ya car and race it in Asda's car park on Friday nights)

Dog Owners:

If it bites anyone they can come round and bite you. Fair enough?

Horse Owners:

Get a car ffs. How can Two-Bobs race a fookin horse!

Immigration:

Look it's simple. We probably owned your bleedin country once and you kicked us out so if you want us back just say so and we'll pop over. No need to come here ffs, just send an email!

Environment:

TOLD YA SO! TOLD YA SO! TOLD YA SO! Dickheads. Believe anything won't ya.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"He's a scary piece of work

Nothing is more scary than the Tories being elected, especially the vulnerable, old, and those on low salaries

THE TORYS created all those rich greedy bankers that robbed us

How many of them are homeless?

What do some people need for them to see whats gone on?"

Your wrong to blame the Torys as there are greedy bankers world wide and there are no Torys in places like China or America but you still get the wanker banker.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Thats it i am convinced i am voting the wishy party! Get standing boyo

Fankoo bruvver.

Rightie then. All you lot wot didn't do stuff you should been have doing... you're sacked. All you lot wot been doing stuff you shouldn't been doing.. you're sacked too... that takes care of the bankers and the wankers.

All the rest.... BBQ at mine at the weekend and you can dig my cabbage patch over.

(anyone found hiding nukie missiles will be shot, nasty things, could go off in your pocket ffs)

Houses:

Anyone wot got one, you gotta share it with anyone wot aint got one. That's the homeless sorted.

NHS:

Stop fucking about and get back to work. Sheesh!

Tax:

I'll be introducing a new Fuck Off Tax Bracket - basically when you're asked ot cough up some dosh you say 'Fuck Off' and my taxmen, Bob and his mate Robbie (also known as two-bobs worths), will nick ya car and race it in Asda's car park on Friday nights)

Dog Owners:

If it bites anyone they can come round and bite you. Fair enough?

Horse Owners:

Get a car ffs. How can Two-Bobs race a fookin horse!

Immigration:

Look it's simple. We probably owned your bleedin country once and you kicked us out so if you want us back just say so and we'll pop over. No need to come here ffs, just send an email!

Environment:

TOLD YA SO! TOLD YA SO! TOLD YA SO! Dickheads. Believe anything won't ya.

"

bloody hell i like the sound of that manifesto. Whats the party going to be called? "Swing to the right"?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"bloody hell i like the sound of that manifesto. Whats the party going to be called? "Swing to the right"? "

Um... just checked... nope, it's to the left as usual.

Ah, almost forgot...

Sex:

Mandatory, you gotta be male or female. None of this dressing up malarky unless its a Tarts n Vicars Party Night down at the Wheeltappers.

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By *luffybbbWoman
over a year ago

Manchester

Red !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Def Red - blue never, will cut localservices and we will all end up paying private healthcare - can you afford that!!! Yellow - waste of a vote as far as i'm concerned!!!!!

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"bloody hell i like the sound of that manifesto. Whats the party going to be called? "Swing to the right"?

Um... just checked... nope, it's to the left as usual.

Ah, almost forgot...

Sex:

Mandatory, you gotta be male or female. None of this dressing up malarky unless its a Tarts n Vicars Party Night down at the Wheeltappers."

If you get in i want to be minister for entertainment. I would allow swinging clubs to put in for national lottery money and sports aid grants. Rock on Tommy

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The Honourable Big Bad, Member

... for SSS (Sex, Sports & Swinging)

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Def Red - blue never, will cut localservices and we will all end up paying private healthcare - can you afford that!!! Yellow - waste of a vote as far as i'm concerned!!!!! "

I would much rather a system whereby those that can afford it can opt out of paying N.I. so long as they take out private medical cover. Those that can't afford it will still get NHS treatment.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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"Def Red - blue never, will cut localservices and we will all end up paying private healthcare - can you afford that!!! Yellow - waste of a vote as far as i'm concerned!!!!!

I would much rather a system whereby those that can afford it can opt out of paying N.I. so long as they take out private medical cover. Those that can't afford it will still get NHS treatment."

Does that qualify for these folkes childrens free NHS and dental treatment?

Or free NHS care when they're having babies? Or free after care with health visitor after said baby arrives?

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"Def Red - blue never, will cut localservices and we will all end up paying private healthcare - can you afford that!!! Yellow - waste of a vote as far as i'm concerned!!!!!

I would much rather a system whereby those that can afford it can opt out of paying N.I. so long as they take out private medical cover. Those that can't afford it will still get NHS treatment."

anybody who thinks the nhs is safe under the tories.is living in cloud cuckoo land.had the tories won another election the last time. we would no longer have the nhs.only rich selfish or extremely stupid people,would think this acceptable.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well im watchin debate and yellow actually makin some sense??

and cameron still puttin me off my tea!!

it will snow on the hills of hell before i vote tory call it social concience call it socialism but life under a tory government would not be good for so many people!! xx

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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yellow always did make more sense

been telling folk for yrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yellow is making a much better argument on this debate at the moment than any of the colours

i also think yellow is far more shaggable

never seen nick clegg that way before!

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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"yellow is making a much better argument on this debate at the moment than any of the colours

i also think yellow is far more shaggable

never seen nick clegg that way before! "

Nick clegg is very shaggable

I met him at a fundraiser

Hes very cute

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well im gonna have a wee look at the yellow manifesto becuase to be honest i can see a hung parliament comin!! xx

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

you can have a look at it on the lib dem website... beaten you to it...!!! lol

have to say i am very impressed by clegg's proformance tonight.....

cable wiped the floor with them in the chancellors debate, for me clegg is winning this one hands down, and brown and cameron are so focused on trying to score points against each other.. that clegg is scoring points against them both...

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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"you can have a look at it on the lib dem website... beaten you to it...!!! lol

have to say i am very impressed by clegg's proformance tonight.....

cable wiped the floor with them in the chancellors debate, for me clegg is winning this one hands down, and brown and cameron are so focused on trying to score points against each other.. that clegg is scoring points against them both..."

Its always been the case but they were never given a chance for a equal public debate with the others

Now do you see its silly to just think its a 2 horse race?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

on the uk election website nick clegg has got 54.5% of the vote for who people were most impressed with tonite go and have a look its very interestin honest!!! at the moment the tories are in a small lead over labour but there are a lot of floating voters but hung parliament is looking possible!!

i think i need to go out more lol xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nick Clegg for PM

Forget groundhog day, if you really want change, then vote YELLOW

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the itv news figures very good for nick clegg i think the lib dems finally making an impact but waitin till next wk to see the scotland leaders debate xx

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By *ottongue49Man
over a year ago

BARNSLEY

lol hung parliamentthats appropriate on here

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

I stated as a floating red/yellow voter... now i am looking more and more yellow....

the question will be in the constituancys in where the lib dems are the main opposition how many will switch... or how many people like the gorgeous ms nawty will now give the lib dems a really good look at...

clegg wins the sun/yougov poll... and sky news instant poll....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i actually dont think a hung parliament is good for this country

have to say though there are two more debates to go and i could easily be persuaded to go yellow on the basis of tonight

lets watch the other two debates and see if anything happens

the thing Cameron should definately avoid doing is pulling faces in reponse to answers given - i wanted to slap him

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By *ausage and sizzleCouple
over a year ago

Barnstaple

I agree with Brown, when he said "I agree with Nick".

Yellow's got my vote so far. Always thought Liberal Dem was a wasted vote before, but what a refreshing change and a relaxed, cofident, performance from Nick Clegg.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

When you look at it the Libs do have some good points. I have to say as a man Nick C gets my vote but i will have to look at past votes round here to see if its viable to vote for them.

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

Monster Raving Loony Party still about? Z

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I stated in the OP that I'm voting Conservative this time and my opinion on that hasn't changed after watching the debate. I agree with the polls that Clegg put in a sterling performance and won it hands down. Brown, as the encumbent PM was always on a hiding and Cameron simply didn't live up to his billing.

So why am I still voting Tory?

One issue. And the Libs lost my vote on it.

We are a nuclear superpower and although Trident was developed to combat the threat of the former USSR it cannot be denied, or even debated, that the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of some mad mullah is a real and present danger to our country. Until such time that nuclear weapons become obsolete I believe we should maintain our own nuclear arsenal and I'd have voted for Clegg if he didn't support the abandonment of Trident.

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By *ausage and sizzleCouple
over a year ago

Barnstaple


"I stated in the OP that I'm voting Conservative this time and my opinion on that hasn't changed after watching the debate. I agree with the polls that Clegg put in a sterling performance and won it hands down. Brown, as the encumbent PM was always on a hiding and Cameron simply didn't live up to his billing.

So why am I still voting Tory?

One issue. And the Libs lost my vote on it.

We are a nuclear superpower and although Trident was developed to combat the threat of the former USSR it cannot be denied, or even debated, that the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of some mad mullah is a real and present danger to our country. Until such time that nuclear weapons become obsolete I believe we should maintain our own nuclear arsenal and I'd have voted for Clegg if he didn't support the abandonment of Trident."

Why? It's not stopping Iran or North Korea from trying to get their own. Would we really use it, aren't there better ways? And I don't think we are a superpower anymore.

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over a year ago


"We are a nuclear superpower and although Trident was developed to combat the threat of the former USSR it cannot be denied, or even debated, that the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of some mad mullah is a real and present danger to our country. Until such time that nuclear weapons become obsolete I believe we should maintain our own nuclear arsenal and I'd have voted for Clegg if he didn't support the abandonment of Trident.

Why? It's not stopping Iran or North Korea from trying to get their own. Would we really use it, aren't there better ways? And I don't think we are a superpower anymore."

That's precisely why we should keep our own arsenal. If the mad dictators of Korea and/or Iran had nukes and knew we didn't do you think they would think twice about threatening us with them? I'm not saying they'd use them but the threat would be there and we'd have to go cap in hand to the US to protect us. No thanks.

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By *ausage and sizzleCouple
over a year ago

Barnstaple


"We are a nuclear superpower and although Trident was developed to combat the threat of the former USSR it cannot be denied, or even debated, that the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of some mad mullah is a real and present danger to our country. Until such time that nuclear weapons become obsolete I believe we should maintain our own nuclear arsenal and I'd have voted for Clegg if he didn't support the abandonment of Trident.

Why? It's not stopping Iran or North Korea from trying to get their own. Would we really use it, aren't there better ways? And I don't think we are a superpower anymore.

That's precisely why we should keep our own arsenal. If the mad dictators of Korea and/or Iran had nukes and knew we didn't do you think they would think twice about threatening us with them? I'm not saying they'd use them but the threat would be there and we'd have to go cap in hand to the US to protect us. No thanks."

You may be right, but suspect they not that bothered by us and it didn't stop them capturing and holding our Marines.

It only works if they think we might use it. Dunno, I wouldn't want to wipe out a whole city of women and children, when we have Smart bombs/missiles and Special Forces that can take out their sites and their processing plants. Think Isreal will do it for us, long before that anyway in the case of Iran.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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follow the yellow brick road

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I don't get how the increased share of the votes, as per the various polls indicate, doesn't equqte to an equal amount of seats. How is it that if the following figures are reflected in the election the LibDens get so few seats:

Conservative: 33%

Labour: 29%

LibDems: 30%

Which equates to something like:

Conservatives: 230 seats

Labour: 270 seats

LibDems: 100 seats

The maths don't work, does it?

I've read how it's calculated on the % of swing from one party to another based upon the last election, but it seems to be a flawed model to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

they are all flawed models depending on who ran the poll, the amount of people asked and various other factors! a lot of guesswork goes into them and then you need to take into account seats that are won by other parties such as the dreaded bnp and the odd (possibly one) greens etc xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

So the public have cottoned on to Cleggy and his ever changing policies and dubious past and support is waining fast. They've realised he's just a normal politician the same as all the others lol

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over a year ago


"So the public have cottoned on to Cleggy and his ever changing policies and dubious past and support is waining fast. They've realised he's just a normal politician the same as all the others lol "

I am not so sure his popularity is dropping that fast yet. He has put on a far better show on TV. I think Both Cameron and Brown are desperate to blacken him in any way possible and that may back fire as the general public don't like to see someone picked on.

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By *ausage and sizzleCouple
over a year ago

Barnstaple


"So the public have cottoned on to Cleggy and his ever changing policies and dubious past and support is waining fast. They've realised he's just a normal politician the same as all the others lol

I am not so sure his popularity is dropping that fast yet. He has put on a far better show on TV. I think Both Cameron and Brown are desperate to blacken him in any way possible and that may back fire as the general public don't like to see someone picked on."

I agree, they both totally underestimated Nick Clegg. He didn't even have to do a lot, just talked common sense, stood back and let the other two show themselves up as patronising, bickering schoolboys. The problem for them is that if they attack him now, it shows that they believe he is a threat - hanged if they do, hanged if the don't!

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

Nick Clegg's popularity and credibility is increasing

Don't believe all you read in the Sun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We all know the sun picks a party and likes to say "told you so" when they win. They use all they can to promote their "horse" (ok politician). I like The times printed this the other day.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7100966.ece

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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"We all know the sun picks a party and likes to say "told you so" when they win. They use all they can to promote their "horse" (ok politician). I like The times printed this the other day.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7100966.ece

"

now thats real journalism

the facts for once

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We all know the sun picks a party and likes to say "told you so" when they win. They use all they can to promote their "horse" (ok politician). I like The times printed this the other day.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7100966.ece

now thats real journalism

the facts for once"

well as far as possible the facts. The times has been known to manipulate but saying that its have reputation to uphold and it in my view is an honest view of the man.

I presume Brown and Cameron are digesting plenty of ruffage in their diet currently.

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures


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They were a different party then and different times. We had Scargill trying to bring the country to a halt (whilst sitting in his nice country pile btw - and then he got elected to the European Parliament and hired his entire family to 'work' for him).

It's been proven that the mines weren't sustainable and that keeping them open was simply throwing money away in subsidies."

Actually that wasnt the reason for the confrontation between the government and the miners at all.

Maggie deliberately engineered it beacuse she wanted a showdown between the forces of capitalism and socialism in the guise of one of the country's most powerful trade unions - it was a good old fashioned class war for no other good reason than Maggies personal ideology that socialism was evil.

She was quite open about that fact in her later years.

The fact that she cared not one iota that families, communities and livlihoods would be destroyed in the process, was one of the most shameful episodes of the last century.

I have no problem with conservatives........ but I fucking hate Tories

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"

They were a different party then and different times. We had Scargill trying to bring the country to a halt (whilst sitting in his nice country pile btw - and then he got elected to the European Parliament and hired his entire family to 'work' for him).

It's been proven that the mines weren't sustainable and that keeping them open was simply throwing money away in subsidies.

Actually that wasnt the reason for the confrontation between the government and the miners at all.

Maggie deliberately engineered it beacuse she wanted a showdown between the forces of capitalism and socialism in the guise of one of the country's most powerful trade unions - it was a good old fashioned class war for no other good reason than Maggies personal ideology that socialism was evil.

She was quite open about that fact in her later years.

The fact that she cared not one iota that families, communities and livlihoods would be destroyed in the process, was one of the most shameful episodes of the last century.

I have no problem with conservatives........ but I fucking hate Tories

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I hate Tories too

Thatcher was a bitch

No care for the common working man

She would gas em like Hitler did if she could

She is pure evil

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

I do like objective debate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The last time the Blue's held the reins they made a right fuck up of things. Now we pay through the nose for Gas, Water and Electricity. Plus the fact they successfully guided us into a UK recession and delivered sky-high interest rates, crippling the poor but helping the rich.

Yes, last year was bad, but it wasn't caused by Labour. It was a global problem stemming from the banks, particularly in the USA. It was also caused by commercial and public greed. I know people on less than the average wage with 3 houses to let for fucks-sake. I know people with Visa debts that are crippling them but their houses are rammed with LCD TV's, Nintendo Wii's, Iphones, you name it but none of it has been paid for yet. More, More, More, how do you like it now eh!

The greedy bastards then turn round and say "it's the banks fault I owe £15k on a credit card." My arse, if you can't afford it, don't buy it, Simples.

Yes, Immigration is a problem, but it's because we are members of the EU. We all have the right to piss off to somewhere else in Europe and set up shop. The difference is we can't speak the lingo and don't have the balls.

The truth is we like this "shitty" little island and its crap weather. We like our NHS and our public services. We like the new schools and hospitals that are being built to benefit us and our children. Pensioners have never had it so good with their winter fuel allowances, attendance and carers allowances. Do we really want to risk all this with the Tories?

Yes, Gordon Brown lacks charisma and a personality but he is a brainy bastard and the best equipt to steady the ship. If he didn't bail out the banks we would have been screwed. Thanks to Mr Brown's bold decisions (which the Tories were against) things are looking up and we still have an economy.

13 years of Labour and 2 bad years, it's not a bad return is it really? Especially considering what a mess we were in before. I for one feel I have had it pretty good under them and am all for sticking with the devil I know, rather than the posh twat I don't.

It's the husband here again, venting his spleen after yet another day of hearing way too many forgetfull, working class people say they will be voting for the Tories in May. God help us all.

The Tories offer nothing for the working class employee or pensioner. They are truly for the middle and upper class and the only way they can gain power is by "tricking" the working class into thinking they are for them, just like in the 80's and 90's. Take a look in your local Conservative Club, note the cars in the car park and where they live.

Time for another cuppa, brewed using the finest, most expensive privatised water and electricity with many thanks to Mrs Thatcher and her crew.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Tories offer nothing for the working class employee or pensioner."

That is the most blinkered view I've seen on this thread yet. Have you read their manifesto?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Minimum Wage.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Working Family Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Child Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Sure Start.....Tories voted against in Parliament

New Deal.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Childcare Voucher Scheme.....Tories voted against in Parliament

See the pattern?

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham


"The Tories offer nothing for the working class employee or pensioner.

That is the most blinkered view I've seen on this thread yet. Have you read their manifesto?"

Yes, and I'm more convinced than ever, it's a party for the chosen few

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Minimum Wage.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Working Family Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Child Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Sure Start.....Tories voted against in Parliament

New Deal.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Childcare Voucher Scheme.....Tories voted against in Parliament

See the pattern?

"

Yup, it's called OPPOSITION. Not much point in being in the opposition parties if you agree with everything the govt wants to do is there?

I'm sure Labour would have opposed anything the Tories wanted to do had the situation been reversed, but I guess we'll soon find that out when the situation IS reversed on May 7th.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well i read the conservative manifesto...was like a very good stephen king book when you read between the lines!!

2 year freeze on council tax...... then what????? oohhh a big huge hike!!xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Minimum Wage.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Working Family Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Child Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Sure Start.....Tories voted against in Parliament

New Deal.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Childcare Voucher Scheme.....Tories voted against in Parliament

See the pattern?

Yup, it's called OPPOSITION. Not much point in being in the opposition parties if you agree with everything the govt wants to do is there?

I'm sure Labour would have opposed anything the Tories wanted to do had the situation been reversed, but I guess we'll soon find that out when the situation IS reversed on May 7th."

yeah when we got either a hung parliament or lib dems..... its lookin very good for them only a 4 point difference in the polls x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"well i read the conservative manifesto...was like a very good stephen king book when you read between the lines!!

2 year freeze on council tax...... then what????? oohhh a big huge hike!!xx"

Labour will hike it up yealry anyway so with a 2-year freeze you could save the increase in a savings account, earn some interest on it and then the hike won't hit so hard when it does come. None of them is going to promise that they'll never increase the Council Tax so I don't see how it's a valid argument in favour of any of them.

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham


"Minimum Wage.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Working Family Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Child Tax Credits.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Sure Start.....Tories voted against in Parliament

New Deal.....Tories voted against in Parliament

Childcare Voucher Scheme.....Tories voted against in Parliament

See the pattern?

Yup, it's called OPPOSITION. Not much point in being in the opposition parties if you agree with everything the govt wants to do is there?

I'm sure Labour would have opposed anything the Tories wanted to do had the situation been reversed, but I guess we'll soon find that out when the situation IS reversed on May 7th."

I'm not sure what the outcome will be on 07th May, however, I'm almost sure we'll not see a conservative Government, Camera On just hasn't got that click with the people like other party leaders have had

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

been frozen here for the last 3 years?

see the problem with council tax is that a lot of people cant afford to pay it, then fall into arrears and bearing in mind a lot of people not had pay rises in line with inflation or even 1% especially for low wage jobs it makes a big problem for people to pay never mind to be able to put somethin in a savings account to cover what may be coming in a few years time oh and the job losses that will come under a conservative government its goin to be even worse! and no doubt also the cuts to public services which wont justify hitting some of the poorest to cover the richers asses! xx

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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I think it is worth betting your house on that even in opposition (I never felt the need to use capitals) Labour would never vote against any bill that improved the lot of working class people.

The Tories, supposedly the party of small business, even voted against Research and Development Tax Credits in 2002......

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"yeah when we got either a hung parliament or lib dems..... its lookin very good for them only a 4 point difference in the polls x"

I'm actually coming round to the idea of a hung parliament and in the constituency where we live it is a fight between Labour and the LibDems, so although I want to vote Tory, if I voted tactfully it would have to be for the Libs.

As I've said earlier, it's their opposition to Trident that has me most worried but they seem to have softened their attitude towards nukes in the past few days and now favour a 'cheaper' deterent.

There is one policy that I am totally in favour of that the LibDems are keen on and that's a Euro Superstate. I've stated before that I believe we will one day have to have a world council and that it must start with the creation of a European Superstate, and all the teething problems that will inevitably ensue. To follow that dream to an eventuality I'd have to look at the long term view and the Libs are the only party that appear to coincide with my own principles, but I'm sure that as the idea of a Superstate takes root the other parties will adopt that policy also rather than be frozen out completely.

It worries me endlessly that in the short term Labour will bankrupt this country if they win outright on May 6, so maybe a hung parliament would be the first step towards an eventual Liberal govt and then onto a European Superstate, maybe.

I'm really stuck between what my heart wants and what my head is telling me. Long term or short term, either way, it doesn't feature a Labour govt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

that bit , i dont want to lose the pound? thats a stickin point for me ! xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"that bit , i dont want to lose the pound? thats a stickin point for me ! xx"

That's a fair comment. I'm not sure I want to either but I know if we go in to Europe totally committed to the idea of a Euro State we'll have to give up Sterling. Maybe by doing so we can control the fluctuation of prices across the Euro Zone. What an item costs in one State should be the same in all States. Petrol being the biggest sticking point I can think of.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blinkered?

Their legacy is written in the history books for all to see. It's about their core beliefs and what they stand for, not what they write in their 2010 catalogue.

A manifesto is a sales pitch designed to get votes, nothing more, nothing less. What exactly do you think Mr Cameron's main aim this next few weeks is? To get you to vote for him by any chance?

If you are one of the very few people in the UK to have had a hard time over the last 13 years then I can't blame you for being disgruntled, but brace yourself for even harder times to come under Mr Cameron.

Unlike 1997 when things could only get better, in 2010 they could get worse.

Talk is cheap!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"that bit , i dont want to lose the pound? thats a stickin point for me ! xx

That's a fair comment. I'm not sure I want to either but I know if we go in to Europe totally committed to the idea of a Euro State we'll have to give up Sterling. Maybe by doing so we can control the fluctuation of prices across the Euro Zone. What an item costs in one State should be the same in all States. Petrol being the biggest sticking point I can think of."

oh yeah agree with that totally!! fuel tax is crippling the motorist and it needs to end!!

as for joinin the euro superstate im no really sure iv never looked into it really xx

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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Having read the Lib Dem Manifesto you will have to enlighten me about them supporting a European Superstate.

And as this is totally against Tory principals it begs the question why you are a Conservative supporter?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

im watchin the scottish leaders debate ... 40 seats to labour , 7 to snp 20 lib dems and torys emmm less than snp??

i love being scottish lol!!

the tory guy refusin to acknowledge the lib dem says it either tory or labour i know scottish politics different to english but we do have a big say!! xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Having read the Lib Dem Manifesto you will have to enlighten me about them supporting a European Superstate.

And as this is totally against Tory principals it begs the question why you are a Conservative supporter?

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On crime, the Liberals favour the European Arrest Warrant and tighter integration into Europol, the European Police Office.

On defence, the Liberals favour a sharing of 'military assets' and bulk buying power across the Eurozone.

Two key issues that when you read between the lines to see what they actually mean it becomes clear that this can only happen within a tight European Superstate structure.

The LibDems have long held the position of pro-Europe, as I recall from campaigning with and for them 20 years ago. They were strongly in favour of a Federal Europe back then and that policy has never changed, even if it doesn't say it anywhere on their website. They know it is a dividing issue and are shying away from saying it outright.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

We have had the EAW implemented since 2004, so they are in favour of staying within that framework are they not?

There is no provision for the withdrawal of the European Arrest Warrant.

What the Lib Dems want is to allow the EAW to be subject to Human Rights EU legislation in certain cases. That tells me it worries them a little.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

It is also worth noting that the Lib Dems wanted an in/out referendum at the time of the Lisbon Treaty, the only main party to call for such a referendum.

They have called for any future treaties to include a referendum amongst the British public not only regarding the treaty but an In/Out vote as well.

They want a true indication of support amongst British people about future membership of the EU.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The way the Irish were treated in their so called 'referendum' on Europe shows clearly what will happen here in similar circumstances. The Irish parliament kept calling for a referendum until it got the result it wanted, and then in they went. How is that fair? If a referendum is called in the UK over EU membership then it should be full and final, but I suspect that it won't be. I'd vote in favour of it anyway but I don't trust referendums unless it's made clear that the result will be final and binding, whatever the outcome.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My local candidates in werrington peterborough are steven lane and john fox and they are liberal and the only ones I see on the streets they have there walk arounds and get involved with the community have litter picking once a month around cuckoos hollow and have helped plant flowers among other things never labour or the Cons only if there is something in it for them I vote yellow

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My local candidates in werrington peterborough are steven lane and john fox and they are liberal and the only ones I see on the streets they have there walk arounds and get involved with the community have litter picking once a month around cuckoos hollow and have helped plant flowers among other things never labour or the Cons only if there is something in it for them I vote yellow"

We've had a Tory leaflet through the door and that's about it really... on reflection it may have something to do with that fact I took the batteries out of the doorbell to recharge them and haven't put them back yet lol

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


"As I've said earlier, it's their opposition to Trident that has me most worried but they seem to have softened their attitude towards nukes in the past few days and now favour a 'cheaper' deterent."

why are you opposed to the canceling of Trident wishy?

I am ex military and Trident has been the bigest waste of money ever, and was noting more than another one of thatchers cons! and the ne trident replacement will be the same.

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over a year ago


"As I've said earlier, it's their opposition to Trident that has me most worried but they seem to have softened their attitude towards nukes in the past few days and now favour a 'cheaper' deterent.

why are you opposed to the canceling of Trident wishy?

I am ex military and Trident has been the bigest waste of money ever, and was noting more than another one of thatchers cons! and the ne trident replacement will be the same."

Just because your were in the forces it doesn't make you an expert on nuclear weapons (unless you were high up in army section of nukes, which I doubt), so it's reasonable to assume that those in power who were responsible for developing and deploying the Trident system made an educated choice from all the options available at the time (I have no information about any of the other options, maybe you could enlighten me seeing as you were in the forces and probbly heard a few things eh?).

I trust my govt to defend myself and my country in the most expedient of ways and if Trident was deployed it was because it was felt we needed it, and if we needed it then we must need it now as the world is a far more dangerous place than ever before.

Whether it's Trident or a cheaper land-based system that we have it is far better than to have none at all.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

was thatcher an expert on nuclear weaponry then?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"was thatcher an expert on nuclear weaponry then? "

Probably.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


"Just because your were in the forces it doesn't make you an expert on nuclear weapons (unless you were high up in army section of nukes, which I doubt), so it's reasonable to assume that those in power who were responsible for developing and deploying the Trident system made an educated choice from all the options available at the time (I have no information about any of the other options, maybe you could enlighten me seeing as you were in the forces and probbly heard a few things eh?).

I trust my govt to defend myself and my country in the most expedient of ways and if Trident was deployed it was because it was felt we needed it, and if we needed it then we must need it now as the world is a far more dangerous place than ever before.

Whether it's Trident or a cheaper land-based system that we have it is far better than to have none at all."

No but being ex forces shows that my objections to trident and its replacement are not due to any sort of contentious objections.

As for your comments about my knowledge about "our" nuclear deterrent and your trust in our government, they show your total lack of knowledge about another subject you are spouting about.

For the record your precious Tories under Margret Thatcher had a Defence review in 1981, part of that review included changing the contract with the USA for the supply of Trident. It meant changing the launch control system from a "single key" to a "dual Key" system, as a result WE DO NOT have an independent nuclear deterrent, what we have is an expensive extension of the US nuclear deterrent!

The change was to save money! And was just like her decision to scrap HMS Endurance even though she was told that to do so would cause the Argies to invade the Falklands, and her decision to sell our arms industry and Helicopter industry to the yanks!

If you do not believe me check in Hansard all the details of your precious Tory's reviews were published at the time including trumpeting the saving of the British US dual key system!

Sorry for the deletion of my last post, forgot to run it through my spell checker and would not want to be dismissed for a spelling error!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow...."

I am not of dual nationality but have residency (originally from Canada) and I am able to vote...not that I do as I really don't follow politics so really never considered voting as it wouldn't really be an informed choice...now if the candidates were the alphablocks, bob the builder and dora the explorer...I think at this point in time I could tell you more about them...lol...(ok, I have 3 small kiddiewinks...lol)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trident missles were not owned by the uk,but leased from the us where all maintenance was and is carried out warheads are designed and owned by the uk can be fired independantly by the uk but not aimed at any target and not immediatly ready to fire ! At what cost ? very cheap compared to all out war which they helped prevent (cold war)The cost of a UK city being destroyed by a rogue state !

Moronic to blame Good Old Maggie for all our woes . try later history

scum like Blair and Brown ! BODY BAGS STILL COMING HOME !!!!!!!!!

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over a year ago


"being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow....

I am not of dual nationality but have residency (originally from Canada) and I am able to vote...not that I do as I really don't follow politics so really never considered voting as it wouldn't really be an informed choice...now if the candidates were the alphablocks, bob the builder and dora the explorer...I think at this point in time I could tell you more about them...lol...(ok, I have 3 small kiddiewinks...lol) "

bet you iggle piggle would do a good job lol! xx

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


"Trident missiles were not owned by the uk,but leased from the us where all maintenance was and is carried out warheads are designed and owned by the uk can be fired independantly by the uk but not aimed at any target and not immediatly ready to fire ! At what cost ? very cheap compared to all out war which they helped prevent (cold war)The cost of a UK city being destroyed by a rogue state !

Moronic to blame Good Old Maggie for all our woes . try later history

scum like Blair and Brown ! BODY BAGS STILL COMING HOME !!!!!!!!!"

So as I said NOT INDEPENDANT, as for an independent deterrent Magi did away with the Lance missile regt.s they were fully independent nuclear missiles, and she also did away with the V bombers, you know the ones that were taken out of mothballs to deny the argi's use of Stanley airfield (also able to carry nukes) and the only planes to fly in the transonic envelope!

Now I don't blame thatcher for everything but I do lay the blame at her door when she deserves it! As for trident we could have bought them and had complete control over the system, if my memory is correct the saving was 25 billion over 40 years and did not include the cost of servicing the missiles and I don't see how carting round missiles that the US aim and authorize the firing of helps protect us, please explain

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over a year ago


"I don't see how carting round missiles that the US aim and authorize the firing of helps protect us, please explain "

UK nuclear policy

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The principle of operation is based on maintaining deterrent effect by always having at least one submarine at sea, and was designed for the Cold War period. One submarine is normally undergoing maintenance and the remaining two are in port or on training exercises. The missiles were "detargetted" in 1994 in time for the maiden voyage of the first Vanguard-class SSBN. This means that the warheads are no longer aimed at specific targets but await coordinates that can be received from HQ, programmed into their onboard computers and fired within a 15-minute timeframe. The final decision on firing the missiles is the responsibility of the British Prime Minister, and each holder of this office is required to write a personal letter to the commanders of the four Trident missile-carrying submarines. The letters are locked in the onboard safe on each vessel and, in the event of the submarines irrevocably losing contact with the base due to nuclear war, the decision to fire is handed over to the commander of the submarine. Each submarine carries up to 16 Trident II D-5 missiles, each of which can contain up to twelve warheads (i.e. a potential of 192 warheads); however, the British government announced in 1998 that each submarine would carry no more than 48 warheads total (without indicating how the warheads would be divided among the missiles). While this number is half the limit specified by the previous government, it represents a 50% increase in capacity over the Trident's predecessor, the Polaris A3TK Chevaline.

The United Kingdom has purchased the rights to 58 Trident missiles under the Polaris Sales Agreement (modified for Trident) from a jointly maintained "pool." These missiles are fitted with UK-built warheads and are exchanged when requiring maintenance. Under the terms of the agreement THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE ANY VETO ON THE USE OF BRITISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

While the British government states the warheads used in the UK Trident system were "designed and manufactured in the UK at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston," declassified U.S. Department of Energy documents indicate the warhead system was involved in non-nuclear design activities alongside the U.S. W76 nuclear warhead fitted in some US Navy Trident missiles. The National Audit Office noted that most of the warhead development and production expenditure was incurred in the US. The U.S. President authorised the transfer of nuclear warhead components to the UK between the years 1991 to 1996. This has led the Federation of American Scientists to speculate that the UK warhead may share design information from the W76; a practice which is encouraged by the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

anyways

Lets keep thinking Yellow and Nick Clegg is a valid option

we have had 65 yrs of back bitting and errors galore with the other 2

Give Cleggy a chance, he cannot possibly do worse

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Four former senior British military commanders have today in a letter to the Times called for the need for Trident to be reviewed again....

The former commanders said it was "of deep concern" that the Trident decision would not be looked at again in the defence review that all three parties would hold after the election.

"It may well be that money spent on new nuclear weapons will be money that is not available to support our frontline troops, or for crucial counter-terrorism work; money not available for buying helicopters, armoured vehicles, frigates or even for paying for more manpower," they wrote.

The support for Trident is waining...

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over a year ago


"Four former senior British military commanders

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Hmmmmm...

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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Edwin Bramall (General), a former chief of the British Armed Forces and David Ramsbotham, Hugh Beach and Patrick Cordingley, all former senior Commanders.

All advocating the Trident money would be better spent on a better equipped conventional Army/Navy/Airforce.

Nice to see men who know better than Joe Public giving a more professional view.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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"UK nuclear policy

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The principle of operation is based on maintaining deterrent effect by always having at least one submarine at sea, and was designed for the Cold War period. One submarine is normally undergoing maintenance and the remaining two are in port or on training exercises. The missiles were "detargetted" in 1994 in time for the maiden voyage of the first Vanguard-class SSBN. This means that the warheads are no longer aimed at specific targets but await coordinates that can be received from HQ, programmed into their onboard computers and fired within a 15-minute timeframe. The final decision on firing the missiles is the responsibility of the British Prime Minister, and each holder of this office is required to write a personal letter to the commanders of the four Trident missile-carrying submarines. The letters are locked in the onboard safe on each vessel and, in the event of the submarines irrevocably losing contact with the base due to nuclear war, the decision to fire is handed over to the commander of the submarine. Each submarine carries up to 16 Trident II D-5 missiles, each of which can contain up to twelve warheads (i.e. a potential of 192 warheads); however, the British government announced in 1998 that each submarine would carry no more than 48 warheads total (without indicating how the warheads would be divided among the missiles). While this number is half the limit specified by the previous government, it represents a 50% increase in capacity over the Trident's predecessor, the Polaris A3TK Chevaline.

The United Kingdom has purchased the rights to 58 Trident missiles under the Polaris Sales Agreement (modified for Trident) from a jointly maintained "pool." These missiles are fitted with UK-built warheads and are exchanged when requiring maintenance. Under the terms of the agreement THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE ANY VETO ON THE USE OF BRITISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

While the British government states the warheads used in the UK Trident system were "designed and manufactured in the UK at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston," declassified U.S. Department of Energy documents indicate the warhead system was involved in non-nuclear design activities alongside the U.S. W76 nuclear warhead fitted in some US Navy Trident missiles. The National Audit Office noted that most of the warhead development and production expenditure was incurred in the US. The U.S. President authorised the transfer of nuclear warhead components to the UK between the years 1991 to 1996. This has led the Federation of American Scientists to speculate that the UK warhead may share design information from the W76; a practice which is encouraged by the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement."

Which piece of propaganda did you cut and past that from?

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Bramall retired from the armed services in 1985

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Ramsbotham retired from the armed services in 1990

(incidentally, his career was almost derailed when as the army's director of public relations he leaked documents to a journalist which showed that prior to the Falklands War the army had developed a comprehensive plan for dealing with the media, but it had been overlooked; and the army was subsequently criticised for not having done such planning.)

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Beach retired from the army in 1981

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Cordingly retired from the army in 2000. He led the 7th Armoured in Iraq in 1991 but was opposed to the second Gulf War and has frequently spoken out against it citing his concern that many thousands of civilians would die unnecessarily.

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Four former commanders sure, but I'd question the integrity of at least one of them, the age of three of them in terms of understanding modern warfare, and the religious piety of another to form an abstract view on nuclear weapons. But, they are former commanders aren't they.

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"UK nuclear policy

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The principle of operation is based on maintaining deterrent effect by always having at least one submarine at sea, and was designed for the Cold War period. One submarine is normally undergoing maintenance and the remaining two are in port or on training exercises. The missiles were "detargetted" in 1994 in time for the maiden voyage of the first Vanguard-class SSBN. This means that the warheads are no longer aimed at specific targets but await coordinates that can be received from HQ, programmed into their onboard computers and fired within a 15-minute timeframe. The final decision on firing the missiles is the responsibility of the British Prime Minister, and each holder of this office is required to write a personal letter to the commanders of the four Trident missile-carrying submarines. The letters are locked in the onboard safe on each vessel and, in the event of the submarines irrevocably losing contact with the base due to nuclear war, the decision to fire is handed over to the commander of the submarine. Each submarine carries up to 16 Trident II D-5 missiles, each of which can contain up to twelve warheads (i.e. a potential of 192 warheads); however, the British government announced in 1998 that each submarine would carry no more than 48 warheads total (without indicating how the warheads would be divided among the missiles). While this number is half the limit specified by the previous government, it represents a 50% increase in capacity over the Trident's predecessor, the Polaris A3TK Chevaline.

The United Kingdom has purchased the rights to 58 Trident missiles under the Polaris Sales Agreement (modified for Trident) from a jointly maintained "pool." These missiles are fitted with UK-built warheads and are exchanged when requiring maintenance. Under the terms of the agreement THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE ANY VETO ON THE USE OF BRITISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

While the British government states the warheads used in the UK Trident system were "designed and manufactured in the UK at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston," declassified U.S. Department of Energy documents indicate the warhead system was involved in non-nuclear design activities alongside the U.S. W76 nuclear warhead fitted in some US Navy Trident missiles. The National Audit Office noted that most of the warhead development and production expenditure was incurred in the US. The U.S. President authorised the transfer of nuclear warhead components to the UK between the years 1991 to 1996. This has led the Federation of American Scientists to speculate that the UK warhead may share design information from the W76; a practice which is encouraged by the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement.

Which piece of propaganda did you cut and past that from?"

Do some research.

1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement

Polaris Sales Agreement

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Why do you have a problem with copying & pasting? It is freely available information to anyone who wants to look for it and I see no point rewriting something that has been written succinctly enough for me to use as a reference source.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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Anyone that reached such a rank in our armed forces is absolutely more qualified to know about the need for Trident than any barrack room lawyer.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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"Bramall retired from the armed services in 1985

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Ramsbotham retired from the armed services in 1990

(incidentally, his career was almost derailed when as the army's director of public relations he leaked documents to a journalist which showed that prior to the Falklands War the army had developed a comprehensive plan for dealing with the media, but it had been overlooked; and the army was subsequently criticised for not having done such planning.)

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Beach retired from the army in 1981

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Cordingly retired from the army in 2000. He led the 7th Armoured in Iraq in 1991 but was opposed to the second Gulf War and has frequently spoken out against it citing his concern that many thousands of civilians would die unnecessarily.

~

Four former commanders sure, but I'd question the integrity of at least one of them, the age of three of them in terms of understanding modern warfare, and the religious piety of another to form an abstract view on nuclear weapons. But, they are former commanders aren't they."

and therefore just the people to admit that they nor their political masters had control over a £120 billion weapon system that was supposed to be our ultimate defense!

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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for the record it was thatcher who told Parliament that by having a duel key system with the USA that we would save billions! At the time she said that there would never come a time when we would want to act independently of the USA. Less than a year later we were going to the Falklands and the yanks were refusing to help in any way!

That is a matter of record!

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and therefore just the people to admit that they nor their political masters had control over a £120 billion weapon system that was supposed to be our ultimate defense! "

Do you take the opposing view just to oppose? I've already provided reliable information that the US does not have a veto on the use of British Nuclear Weapons but you are choosing to simply ignore that fact. The Prime Minister has overall control of the launch of British Nuclear Weapons and that cannot be desputed - even by barrack room lawyers.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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"

and therefore just the people to admit that they nor their political masters had control over a £120 billion weapon system that was supposed to be our ultimate defense!

Do you take the opposing view just to oppose? I've already provided reliable information that the US does not have a veto on the use of British Nuclear Weapons but you are choosing to simply ignore that fact. The Prime Minister has overall control of the launch of British Nuclear Weapons and that cannot be desputed - even by barrack room lawyers. "

only if the yanks give prior permission, unless thatcher lied to the commons when explaining why she was renting the missiles rather than buying them! Either way it proves that Tories cant even be trusted with defending this country. LoL

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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Field Marshall Edwin Bramall (Cut and Paste)

After attending Eton College he was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1943. He served with his regiment in Northwest Europe during the later stages of World War II, receiving the Military Cross for valour in 1945. For two years after the war's end, he served in the occupation of Japan, then served as a peacetime instructor at the School of Infantry. From 1953 to 1958, he was stationed in the Middle East.

Continuing his military career, he served two years as an instructor at the Army Staff College, then in 1963 was appointed to serve on Lord Mountbatten's staff.

In 1965 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 2nd Royal Green Jackets which was deployed to Malaysia during the confrontation with Indonesia and in 1967 he was given command of 5th (Airportable) Infantry Brigade.

He was quickly promoted throughout the 1970s, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general in 1973 as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong and full general in 1976. He served as Commander-in-Chief, UK Land Forces from 1976 to 1978, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from 1978 to 1979, and as Chief of the General Staff from 1979 to 1982. He was promoted to Field Marshal and appointed Chief of the Defence Staff in 1982, serving in that position for three years. Retirement from this post marked the end of his active military career.

Sounds like a man of extensive experience to me, and someone who's view on the need of Trident in the modern day military is well worth taking into consideration.

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"for the record it was thatcher who told Parliament that by having a duel key system with the USA that we would save billions! At the time she said that there would never come a time when we would want to act independently of the USA. Less than a year later we were going to the Falklands and the yanks were refusing to help in any way!

That is a matter of record!"

You are confusing the dual-key system as something that requires someone in the US and someone in the UK to press a button simultaneously.

So please allow me to clear that up for you.

Since the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement, the United States and the United Kingdom have cooperated extensively on nuclear security matters. The special relationship between the two states has involved the exchange of classified scientific information and nuclear materials such as plutonium. The UK has not run an independent nuclear weapons delivery system development and production programme since the cancellation of the Blue Streak missile in the 1960s, instead it has pursued joint development (for its own use) of US delivery systems, designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin, and fitting them with warheads designed and manufactured by the UK's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and its successor the Atomic Weapons Establishment. In 1974 a US proliferation assessment noted that "In many cases [Britain's sensitive technology in nuclear and missile fields] is based on technology received from the US and could not legitimately be passed on without US permission."

In contrast with the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the United Kingdom currently operates only a SINGLE NUCLEAR WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEM since decommissioning its tactical WE.177 free-falling nuclear bombs in 1998.

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By *exeteraWoman
over a year ago

Bridgend

Achievement

1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s

2. Low mortgage rates

3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.35

4. Record police numbers in England, Scotland and Wales

5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent

6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools

7. Best-ever primary school results

8. Funding for every pupil in England to double by 2008

9. Employment is at its highest level ever

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries

11. 85,000 more nurses

12. 32,000 more doctors

13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards

14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament

15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly

16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time

17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice

18. Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year

19. Restored city-wide government to London

20. Record number of students in higher education

21. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997

22. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households

23. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission

24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s

25. On course to exceed the Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010

26. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland

27. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools

28. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday

29. A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty

30. 800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty

31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents

32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships

33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard

34. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales

35. Banned fox hunting

36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution

37. Free TV licences for over-75s

38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals

39. Waiting times for operations halved

40. Free local bus travel for over-60s

41. New Deal - helped over a million people into work

42. Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started

43. Free eye test for over 60s

44. Five, six and seven year olds in class sizes of 30 or less

45. Free entry to national museums and galleries

46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled

47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives

48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent

49. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales

50. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school

Red all the way for me

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and therefore just the people to admit that they nor their political masters had control over a £120 billion weapon system that was supposed to be our ultimate defense!

Do you take the opposing view just to oppose? I've already provided reliable information that the US does not have a veto on the use of British Nuclear Weapons but you are choosing to simply ignore that fact. The Prime Minister has overall control of the launch of British Nuclear Weapons and that cannot be desputed - even by barrack room lawyers.

only if the yanks give prior permission, unless thatcher lied to the commons when explaining why she was renting the missiles rather than buying them! Either way it proves that Tories cant even be trusted with defending this country. LoL"

TSK.. You just won't accept irrefutable evidence that renders your argument invalid will you. What part of "US, no veto, british, nuclear, weapons" do you not understand?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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And Lucy, almost all of that was achieved even though the Tories voted against it in Parliament.....they want nothing that will better the common man.

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"47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives"

Ian Botham is about to begin his next walk for Leukemia, the 25th Anniversary of his 1st walk in aid of Leukemia. 25 years ago the survival rate of leukemai was a mere 10%, today it is 90%. Botham has raised over £12m for research into leukemia. But is the credit down to him? Or to the army of research physicians who have worked tirelessly for decades to find a cure for such diseases. Can Labour therefore claim credit for reducing cancer survival rates, or is it simply that the research conducted under both Labour and the Conservatives before them have made such reductions possible.

Look under the spin for the real heroes. The unsung ones who dedicate their lives to curing things like cancer.

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By *exeteraWoman
over a year ago

Bridgend


"47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives

Ian Botham is about to begin his next walk for Leukemia, the 25th Anniversary of his 1st walk in aid of Leukemia. 25 years ago the survival rate of leukemai was a mere 10%, today it is 90%. Botham has raised over £12m for research into leukemia. But is the credit down to him? Or to the army of research physicians who have worked tirelessly for decades to find a cure for such diseases. Can Labour therefore claim credit for reducing cancer survival rates, or is it simply that the research conducted under both Labour and the Conservatives before them have made such reductions possible.

Look under the spin for the real heroes. The unsung ones who dedicate their lives to curing things like cancer."

Research in to various illnesses has come on in leaps and bounds over the last 10 years or so. As for dedicating their lives, research scientists I believe get paid for the role they undertake.

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By *exeteraWoman
over a year ago

Bridgend


"And Lucy, almost all of that was achieved even though the Tories voted against it in Parliament.....they want nothing that will better the common man."

I concur Jane, if they had their own way we'd still have the bleeding workhouses.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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anyways

lets get back to the original question

Vote yellow

Nick Clegg needs to show us what he is made of

The other 2 parties have and messed up so people need to know there is a third option and now they do.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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The Lib Dems do seem to have grabbed the attention of the country, tomorrow nights debate with the Three leaders is on Foreign Policy....should be very interesting

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By *exeteraWoman
over a year ago

Bridgend


"The Lib Dems do seem to have grabbed the attention of the country, tomorrow nights debate with the Three leaders is on Foreign Policy....should be very interesting"

I've just set my reminder

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"Research in to various illnesses has come on in leaps and bounds over the last 10 years or so. As for dedicating their lives, research scientists I believe get paid for the role they undertake."

Of course they do, as do we all get paid for the work we do. That doesn't detract from the marvellous breakthroughs these men & women make in the field of medicine. All I'm saying is that the govt can claim reduction rates under it's governorship but is it really directly responsible for those reductions. And I know the Tories would have put exactly the same spin on it too. As would the LibDems. I'll happily concede that Labour has had some very good successes during it's time in government but I simply feel that we need a change of direction in this country. LibDems? Possibly. Tories? Maybe. I'm not sure which of them I want to win now.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"The Lib Dems do seem to have grabbed the attention of the country, tomorrow nights debate with the Three leaders is on Foreign Policy....should be very interesting

I've just set my reminder "

On paper I see Foreign Policy as the strong point of the Lib Dems....but on paper won't always come across well on TV.

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By (user no longer on site)
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"being duel nationality... i am going to see if i am allowed to vote here since i vote normally in the us elections....

if i do, i may well vote for the first time.... kinda excited about it, except my constituancy is about as red as they come.... shame as i am leaning yellow....

I am not of dual nationality but have residency (originally from Canada) and I am able to vote...not that I do as I really don't follow politics so really never considered voting as it wouldn't really be an informed choice...now if the candidates were the alphablocks, bob the builder and dora the explorer...I think at this point in time I could tell you more about them...lol...(ok, I have 3 small kiddiewinks...lol)

bet you iggle piggle would do a good job lol! xx "

he he he

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"The Lib Dems do seem to have grabbed the attention of the country, tomorrow nights debate with the Three leaders is on Foreign Policy....should be very interesting

I've just set my reminder

On paper I see Foreign Policy as the strong point of the Lib Dems....but on paper won't always come across well on TV."

We'll see late tonight whether Mr Clegg's initial debate was a flash in the pan or if the man really is an inspired genius. I notice the papers are really digging the dirt on him now, but that's not surprising since they are affiliated to either Labour or the Conservatives anyway.

I must admit to being swept up in the Cleggymania that hit the country, and I was once a LibDem candidate for a council seat, so their policies are something that I once agreed with and they haven't changed that radically tbh.

The debates tonight and next week will probably help me make my mind up which way I'm going to vote: Liberal or Tory.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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Nick Clegg is still doing well in the polls today so the papers state

C'mon guys

there is a third way

ditsh the true blues born with a silver spoon in their mouth

ditch the reds who want equality for all even when you earned your hard earn cash and some want it for sitting at home breeding loads o kids on tax credits

Go yellow for a party with sensible policies

What have you got to loose by tryingthem at least?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just done an online questionaire and found out i'm conservative!!! Did not see that one coming!

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over a year ago


"I've just done an online questionaire and found out i'm conservative!!! Did not see that one coming!"

you have my sympathy!!

can it be treated?? lol x

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over a year ago


"I've just done an online questionaire and found out i'm conservative!!! Did not see that one coming!"

I'd be interested in seeing that, can you mail me the link please. Tks.

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

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"I've just done an online questionaire and found out i'm conservative!!! Did not see that one coming!"

Dont say that out loud in Ponte town square

They will hang you in front of everyone

While you can smell all those haribo's being made tooo

Where were you when I lived in Ponte?

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over a year ago

I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks!

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks! "

Unless previously contacted they cant ring after 8pm. Anyway i think they are scared of ringing ya

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"I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks!

Unless previously contacted they cant ring after 8pm. Anyway i think they are scared of ringing ya "

Wankers!

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks!

Unless previously contacted they cant ring after 8pm. Anyway i think they are scared of ringing ya

Wankers! "

They didn't ring me either

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks!

Unless previously contacted they cant ring after 8pm. Anyway i think they are scared of ringing ya

Wankers!

They didn't ring me either "

This requires positive action pal. I'll meet you on the M62 and we'll go round there and duff em, ok?

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"I wanna know why none of these companies doing phone polls have ever rung me up! Ever!! ... I'm starting to feel a bit left out, or else it's all made up bollocks!

Unless previously contacted they cant ring after 8pm. Anyway i think they are scared of ringing ya

Wankers!

They didn't ring me either

This requires positive action pal. I'll meet you on the M62 and we'll go round there and duff em, ok?"

Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

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over a year ago


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team "

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey "

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

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"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good "

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em!

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em! "

Well they thin your a true leftie now! The Daveites will be studying the google images of your drum so they can leaflet you big time

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"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em!

Well they thin your a true leftie now! The Daveites will be studying the google images of your drum so they can leaflet you big time "

That'll come in handy then, forgot to get some bog roll at Sainsbury's earlier.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em!

Well they thin your a true leftie now! The Daveites will be studying the google images of your drum so they can leaflet you big time

That'll come in handy then, forgot to get some bog roll at Sainsbury's earlier. "

Chuff you have gone green then!

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over a year ago


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em!

Well they thin your a true leftie now! The Daveites will be studying the google images of your drum so they can leaflet you big time

That'll come in handy then, forgot to get some bog roll at Sainsbury's earlier.

Chuff you have gone green then! "

S'my fave colour. Blue suits me too though, not so good in red, and yellow just clashes with my eyes (which are blue too).

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Hang on i will make arrangements once i have spoken to this ere guy on the phone from the pole survey team

If you'd rather talk to potential lap dancing club reps about a freebie night at Helga's House of Pain you just gotta say so matey

I told him you was impressed by Gordie and would now be voting for him like me. Did i do good

Ya daft prat. I said I was impressed with GEORDIES!! So much so I married one of em!

Well they thin your a true leftie now! The Daveites will be studying the google images of your drum so they can leaflet you big time

That'll come in handy then, forgot to get some bog roll at Sainsbury's earlier.

Chuff you have gone green then!

S'my fave colour. Blue suits me too though, not so good in red, and yellow just clashes with my eyes (which are blue too). "

Well i was gutted when i couldn't vote Scottish nationalist. I may vote for the next bugger to knock mi door. He he he the sod will have a long walk from the road though lol.

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over a year ago

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

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"Admin: Hope this is allowed seeing as this is a political thread and the link is related to what we're debating here. Please remove if it's against site rules. Thanks.

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

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Sorry but it your political pontificating over how Evil the labour party has been is getting a little pathetic.

The Torys are nothing more than rich little brats wishing to line the rich's pockets to the detriment of masses.

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"Admin: Hope this is allowed seeing as this is a political thread and the link is related to what we're debating here. Please remove if it's against site rules. Thanks.

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

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Sorry but it your political pontificating over how Evil the labour party has been is getting a little pathetic.

The Torys are nothing more than rich little brats wishing to line the rich's pockets to the detriment of masses."

I made it clear what the link was about - you CHOSE to go look at it so don't bitch to me if you saw something you didn't like. If you didn't look at it, what are you so scared of??

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"Admin: Hope this is allowed seeing as this is a political thread and the link is related to what we're debating here. Please remove if it's against site rules. Thanks.

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

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Sorry but it your political pontificating over how Evil the labour party has been is getting a little pathetic.

The Torys are nothing more than rich little brats wishing to line the rich's pockets to the detriment of masses.

I made it clear what the link was about - you CHOSE to go look at it so don't bitch to me if you saw something you didn't like. If you didn't look at it, what are you so scared of??"

Sick and tired of your political ranting. You have had one thread closed due to misquoting an Australian MP.

Stop ramming your views down others throats as its tiresome.

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over a year ago


"Admin: Hope this is allowed seeing as this is a political thread and the link is related to what we're debating here. Please remove if it's against site rules. Thanks.

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

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Sorry but it your political pontificating over how Evil the labour party has been is getting a little pathetic.

The Torys are nothing more than rich little brats wishing to line the rich's pockets to the detriment of masses.

I made it clear what the link was about - you CHOSE to go look at it so don't bitch to me if you saw something you didn't like. If you didn't look at it, what are you so scared of??

Sick and tired of your political ranting. You have had one thread closed due to misquoting an Australian MP.

Stop ramming your views down others throats as its tiresome."

It's a political thread ffs!!! sheesh! what do you think is going to be discussed on a political thread - mint fookin jelly???

Plenty of Labour supporters have posted on this thread, as have plenty of LibDems but it seems it's just Tory supporters you have a problem with. Or maybe politics altogether, in which case I suggest you go make some paper doilies or something equally less taxing.

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"Admin: Hope this is allowed seeing as this is a political thread and the link is related to what we're debating here. Please remove if it's against site rules. Thanks.

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I saw this video on youtube from the Conservatives about what happens in the UK under ONE MINUTE of Labour government. It's scarey even if the figures are 50% accurate, if it's 100% accurate then this government has GOT to go.

~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qba6Yj6BJY

~

Sorry but it your political pontificating over how Evil the labour party has been is getting a little pathetic.

The Torys are nothing more than rich little brats wishing to line the rich's pockets to the detriment of masses.

I made it clear what the link was about - you CHOSE to go look at it so don't bitch to me if you saw something you didn't like. If you didn't look at it, what are you so scared of??

Sick and tired of your political ranting. You have had one thread closed due to misquoting an Australian MP.

Stop ramming your views down others throats as its tiresome.

It's a political thread ffs!!! sheesh! what do you think is going to be discussed on a political thread - mint fookin jelly???

Plenty of Labour supporters have posted on this thread, as have plenty of LibDems but it seems it's just Tory supporters you have a problem with. Or maybe politics altogether, in which case I suggest you go make some paper doilies or something equally less taxing. "

Do you not get it? There is a big difference between a debate and you force feeding sycophantic manipulated bullshit down peoples throats. You have posted untruths recently with severely manipulated misquotes in other threads. If your going to push your point be a man and accept the response you will get.

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

The article about the Aussie PM has been circulated the whole world over and probably quoted in thousands of forums - just like this one. If they felt that strongly about him being misquoted then I'm more than happy to supply my name and address and they can come and sue me. I don't have a problem with that. I explained on the thread that I didn't know it was a scam and that a former Aussie PM was as outspoken on that same issue as the article suggested, I assumed they were all like that over there - no nonsense types you know, say it like it is.

As for force feeding sycophantic bullshit down the throats of my fellow member swingers - I think you do them a great disservice by suggesting that they are not capable of making their own minds up about where their political beliefs lie. Many very eloquent posters, from all sides of the political divide have posted on this thread and, in the main, it's been interpeted as healthy debate. Yours is the first post to be openly abusive.

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"The article about the Aussie PM has been circulated the whole world over and probably quoted in thousands of forums - just like this one. If they felt that strongly about him being misquoted then I'm more than happy to supply my name and address and they can come and sue me. I don't have a problem with that. I explained on the thread that I didn't know it was a scam and that a former Aussie PM was as outspoken on that same issue as the article suggested, I assumed they were all like that over there - no nonsense types you know, say it like it is.

As for force feeding sycophantic bullshit down the throats of my fellow member swingers - I think you do them a great disservice by suggesting that they are not capable of making their own minds up about where their political beliefs lie. Many very eloquent posters, from all sides of the political divide have posted on this thread and, in the main, it's been interpeted as healthy debate. Yours is the first post to be openly abusive. "

You really get defensive don't you! Well if you don't like negative reaction then don't push your views on others. As for posting lies and miss information well you posted it without doing any research. Even admin pointed that out. If you cant stand the fire stay out of the kitchen.

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over a year ago


"The article about the Aussie PM has been circulated the whole world over and probably quoted in thousands of forums - just like this one. If they felt that strongly about him being misquoted then I'm more than happy to supply my name and address and they can come and sue me. I don't have a problem with that. I explained on the thread that I didn't know it was a scam and that a former Aussie PM was as outspoken on that same issue as the article suggested, I assumed they were all like that over there - no nonsense types you know, say it like it is.

As for force feeding sycophantic bullshit down the throats of my fellow member swingers - I think you do them a great disservice by suggesting that they are not capable of making their own minds up about where their political beliefs lie. Many very eloquent posters, from all sides of the political divide have posted on this thread and, in the main, it's been interpeted as healthy debate. Yours is the first post to be openly abusive.

You really get defensive don't you! Well if you don't like negative reaction then don't push your views on others. As for posting lies and miss information well you posted it without doing any research. Even admin pointed that out. If you cant stand the fire stay out of the kitchen."

It's not defensive, it's debate. You have your opinion, I have mine, they don't coincide so obviously you'll disagree with me and I'll disagree with you. Your problem is that you resort to abuse where nobody else on thsi thread has.

I don't want this thread closed as there is still over a week to go to the election so I'll argue no more with you.

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over a year ago

no looked at link yet but got the feelin it will be a slick bit of pr on behalf of the tory party!!

i love a good political debate to be honest, and usually enjoy givin a good counter arguement xx

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over a year ago


"The article about the Aussie PM has been circulated the whole world over and probably quoted in thousands of forums - just like this one. If they felt that strongly about him being misquoted then I'm more than happy to supply my name and address and they can come and sue me. I don't have a problem with that. I explained on the thread that I didn't know it was a scam and that a former Aussie PM was as outspoken on that same issue as the article suggested, I assumed they were all like that over there - no nonsense types you know, say it like it is.

As for force feeding sycophantic bullshit down the throats of my fellow member swingers - I think you do them a great disservice by suggesting that they are not capable of making their own minds up about where their political beliefs lie. Many very eloquent posters, from all sides of the political divide have posted on this thread and, in the main, it's been interpeted as healthy debate. Yours is the first post to be openly abusive.

You really get defensive don't you! Well if you don't like negative reaction then don't push your views on others. As for posting lies and miss information well you posted it without doing any research. Even admin pointed that out. If you cant stand the fire stay out of the kitchen.

It's not defensive, it's debate. You have your opinion, I have mine, they don't coincide so obviously you'll disagree with me and I'll disagree with you. Your problem is that you resort to abuse where nobody else on thsi thread has.

I don't want this thread closed as there is still over a week to go to the election so I'll argue no more with you."

Here we go trying to make out its a personal thing. Its your constant attempts of pushing your views on here that get tiresome VERY tiresome! I suggest building your self a soap box and going ad preaching in your local town centre. You will get backlash there too and by the looks of it you handle criticism badly.

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"no looked at link yet but got the feelin it will be a slick bit of pr on behalf of the tory party!!

i love a good political debate to be honest, and usually enjoy givin a good counter arguement xx"

It's just number crunching about where all our money goes. These figures are publicly available but I'm sure they can be intepreted differently dependant on which party you support. I'm sure if Labour were in opposition they'd produce equally damaging videos highlighting government waste. It's the nature of being opposed I guess, not much being in opposition if you agree with the very people you are opposing.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

just watched the link and I have 2 observations.

1/ Satchi's at their questionable best?

2/ Not seen that on terrestrial TV, could that be because if shown there the Tories and makers would find themselves arrested for breaking the law?

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over a year ago

aye every party will have their own version but its the version that is right and true that we probably never see!!

the internet is goin to be very important for this election as it now the most common form of media being used and cant be policed the same way as the papers and tv can be!

you got your opinions i got mine everyone got them!

i can honestly say you havent convinced me to vote tory if anythin made me less likely to vote for them if that was even possible lol x

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over a year ago


"just watched the link and I have 2 observations.

1/ Satchi's at their questionable best?

2/ Not seen that on terrestrial TV, could that be because if shown there the Tories and makers would find themselves arrested for breaking the law? "

I have no idea but I saw it on the front page of the Conservative's website so I'm pretty sure the labour big knobs have seen it too. I guess they'll respond in some way if they can take their lustful eyes off the Libdems for a few seconds. (I think Gordy fancies Cleggy but if he's not careful there'll be some Brown Cleggy's hanging off somewhere)

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over a year ago


"aye every party will have their own version but its the version that is right and true that we probably never see!!

the internet is goin to be very important for this election as it now the most common form of media being used and cant be policed the same way as the papers and tv can be!

you got your opinions i got mine everyone got them!

i can honestly say you havent convinced me to vote tory if anythin made me less likely to vote for them if that was even possible lol x "

The funny this is... all this bru-haha about me being a tory.... I'm voting LibDem because up here it's a two-way scrap between Labour and the LibDems so if I vote with my heart and go blue, the labour chap will win, and thats something I absolutely don't want.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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"I have no idea but I saw it on the front page of the Conservative's website"

Glad to see you have admited it at last!

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By *ollyWoman
over a year ago

aylesbury

As it’s considered ‘poor form’ to put a candidate against ‘The Speaker seeking re-election’, our voting paper gives a choice of John Bercow or UKIP, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, The Christian Party, BNP, Cut The Deficit Party and 5 independent candidates.

So Buckingham won't be red or blue or yellow or even green!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

tactical votin i think is also goin to be very important for this election but to be honest, i cant see the lib dems doin well in scotland especially my area as they would honestly vote for a monkey with a red ribbon on!!

( the sound of whirrin is my papa burling in his grave trade union man and labour through and through)

the tories never get in here, too much damage too many long memories and big mistrust! i think it either be labour or snp here! xx

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"As it’s considered ‘poor form’ to put a candidate against ‘The Speaker seeking re-election’, our voting paper gives a choice of John Bercow or UKIP, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, The Christian Party, BNP, Cut The Deficit Party and 5 independent candidates.

So Buckingham won't be red or blue or yellow or even green! "

oooh i would choose the loony party!! xx

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"As it’s considered ‘poor form’ to put a candidate against ‘The Speaker seeking re-election’, our voting paper gives a choice of John Bercow or UKIP, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, The Christian Party, BNP, Cut The Deficit Party and 5 independent candidates.

So Buckingham won't be red or blue or yellow or even green!

oooh i would choose the loony party!! xx "

Thought you wouldn't vote Tory?

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over a year ago


"just watched the link and I have 2 observations.

1/ Satchi's at their questionable best?

2/ Not seen that on terrestrial TV, could that be because if shown there the Tories and makers would find themselves arrested for breaking the law? "

Hmmm..You got me interested in the legal apsect of political parties making incorrect statements and/or lies and what happens when this occurs.

I looked for online law and found the following at Website-Law.co.uk

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Corporations and government ~

It is sometimes thought that you cannot libel a corporation. That is incorrect. A corporation has a reputation just like a natural person, and that reputation may be injured by a defamatory statement..

On the other hand, it is not possible to defame the government, or an arm of the government. You should still be careful about making allegations against government, as in many circumstances the allegations could be interpreted as allegations against a particular individual (who will be in a position to sue).

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Liability of hosts ~

Website hosts may be liable for defamatory material created by someone else but which they host. However, there are special defences available to hosts under the Defamation Act 1996 and the E-commerce Regulations. .

Under the Defamation Act 1996, a website host will have a defence to a claim for libel if he can show that (i) he was not the author, editor or publisher of the statement complained of, (ii) he took reasonable care in relation to its publication, and (iii) he did not know and had no reason to believe that what he did caused or contributed to the publication of the defamatory statement. The defence under the E-commerce Regulations is expressed in similar terms..

In order to have the best chance of taking advantage of these defences, a host should not as a matter of course monitor/edit the content of websites that it hosts; however as soon as the host becomes aware of potentially defamatory content, that content should be quickly removed.

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I think it may be reasonable to assume that any literature, videos, intervies etc etc conducted by any of the political parties in this election would have been run through the due diligence of their legal bods before publication.

For the record, I think Cameron got a proper bee in his bonnet over the Labour leafletting mistakes, errors, lies etc.. he should have expected it and I think he lost ground having a pop at Brown over it. Brown lost as much ground by admitting he didn't know any thing about it. He should have laughed it off as electioneering, to which the Tories are as equally culpable.

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over a year ago


"I have no idea but I saw it on the front page of the Conservative's website

Glad to see you have admited it at last!

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admitted what? Where I saw something? How is that relevant to anything

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over a year ago


"As it’s considered ‘poor form’ to put a candidate against ‘The Speaker seeking re-election’, our voting paper gives a choice of John Bercow or UKIP, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, The Christian Party, BNP, Cut The Deficit Party and 5 independent candidates.

So Buckingham won't be red or blue or yellow or even green!

oooh i would choose the loony party!! xx

Thought you wouldn't vote Tory?"

the real loony party lol not the blue toffs!!

at least the looneys party top hats arent for real lol!! xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Ok, for anyone who thinks I only post biased sycophantic b***s**t about the Tories, I have just watched David Cameron on Tv trying to convince a young girl about his Schools Policy, giving parents the right to set up their own schools (which I think is a good move, after all, the Muslims have been doing it for years, so why shouldn't we)... aaaanyway, after spending 5 minutes chatting to this girl, trying to convince her, her parting words were: "Ok, thanks, but I don't believe you."

Clearly, the Tories have got a lot of work to do and it's by no means a clear cut election regarding who will win, or whether we'll have an outright winner at all.

Yet one thing about that interview that I found reassuring was the fact that a potential leader of our country can speak to someone in the street and she can tell him what she really thinks of him.... and not get arrested for it. I'd defend that kind of democracy with my life if I had to.

Regardless of who wins, I love this country, I love being British and I love living here.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

There were a record number of new schools opened in the first Five years of Blairs government, all Cameron is advocating is taking the control for new schools away from Local Education Authorities and handing it to charities.

So no more new schools than are already planned for the next decade, just changing who runs them.

Expect to see most of these 'Educational Charities' to be selective schools.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There were a record number of new schools opened in the first Five years of Blairs government, all Cameron is advocating is taking the control for new schools away from Local Education Authorities and handing it to charities.

So no more new schools than are already planned for the next decade, just changing who runs them.

Expect to see most of these 'Educational Charities' to be selective schools.

"

very selective i would imagine!!

it would be the pick of the bunch pupils and i would hazard a bet that the ones from the not so good schools get left behind!

its straight back to the class divide with that idea!!

keep the workin classes where they are and down the line the what school did you attend question will ruin many a persons chance at a job xx

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over a year ago


"Expect to see most of these 'Educational Charities' to be selective schools.

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That's my gut feeling too. A bunch of parents getting together, opening a school with public money and then controlling who can or who can't attend it, so it's going to be down the EA to make sure they are run in the same manner as state funded schools.

If it has an impact on the post code lottery for state schools then I'm all for it. A new school in the area you are already living in, as opposed to having to move house in order to get your child into a school you'd prefer him or her to attend. That can only be a good thing, can't it?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"There were a record number of new schools opened in the first Five years of Blairs government, all Cameron is advocating is taking the control for new schools away from Local Education Authorities and handing it to charities.

So no more new schools than are already planned for the next decade, just changing who runs them.

Expect to see most of these 'Educational Charities' to be selective schools.

very selective i would imagine!!

it would be the pick of the bunch pupils and i would hazard a bet that the ones from the not so good schools get left behind!

its straight back to the class divide with that idea!!

keep the workin classes where they are and down the line the what school did you attend question will ruin many a persons chance at a job xx"

The truth is that deep into the recession a couple of Private schools in my area found themselves in deep financial woe, these schools were very selective with the parents carpark full of Porsche Cayennes and Lexus Jeeps.

The families of these children are almost all farmers, when the recesiion hit these schools lobbied the government for financial aid.....helped by the local Tory MP Anthony Steen (the guy with the expense scandal over his moat and duck house)

They want to be selective when it suits them to keep working class kids out of the school, but want to become charities when the Tories offer them the promise of future funding.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

there a big kick up up here regarding that with the selection of schools. you need to live in the catchment area of the school and its only in exceptional circumstances you can get your child into another school. x

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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There were more schools opened in the first term of any government since the second world war under Blair, this post code lottery thing about schools is nothing new.

When my oldest son was approaching secondary education we were still living in the London area under a Tory government, way back then parents were moving house just to get into the best local school.

The Tories have 13 years worth of payback owing to their hardcore supporters and financial backers, does anyone believe they won't be putting their core voters first?

Much of this funding for schools won't be for new schools at all, it will go to private schools changing into charity status centres of education.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


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The truth is that deep into the recession a couple of Private schools in my area found themselves in deep financial woe, these schools were very selective with the parents carpark full of Porsche Cayennes and Lexus Jeeps.

The families of these children are almost all farmers, when the recesiion hit these schools lobbied the government for financial aid.....helped by the local Tory MP Anthony Steen (the guy with the expense scandal over his moat and duck house)

They want to be selective when it suits them to keep working class kids out of the school, but want to become charities when the Tories offer them the promise of future funding."

Then that isn't a fair system and it needs to be addressed by whoever wins the election. I'm all for private schools but they have to be able to manage their finances efficiently and not ask for public funds if they have a closed door policy to certain people. If what Cameron is suggesting is that families in areas where the schools are poor have the facilities to open their own school, with state funds, but still fall under EA jurisdiction, then I'm all for it. If it means anything other than that, I'm against it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

one of the problems i see with that is that we would have more faith based schools somethin i oppose completely as it creates prejudice.

how many people would be up in arms if a muslim faith school opened up using tax payers money?

on top of that its the usual tory guise if you got the money to do it you can!xx

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

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What colour is the UK Independence Party (UKIP)..... not that I'll be voting for them, as the guy they had interviewed the other day was a twat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was swaying towards yellow but today put my cross in the red box, just think that changing a government in the middle of a recession that’s starting to improve, if only slightly, is the voters equivalent to suicide. Voted with my head rather than my feet.

Good luck whomever you choose!

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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I believe that LEA's know best where new schools are needed, parent power will just result in confusion.

Although there is a problem in some areas where local kids can't get into their local schools there is a bigger problem....that is pushy parents insisting their kids go to schools miles away from their homes.

These 'Upwardly Mobile' parents will end up having far too much say where our education budget is spent.

Imagine post election England with a Conservative government, there is enough money for a new school to be spent in a certain area....will that money honestly be spent on a school in the middle of a council estate?, or the middle class area who feel they are more worthy?

Cameron dare not alienate his core voters should he form a government, or he is guaranteeing a single term.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"one of the problems i see with that is that we would have more faith based schools somethin i oppose completely as it creates prejudice.

how many people would be up in arms if a muslim faith school opened up using tax payers money?

on top of that its the usual tory guise if you got the money to do it you can!xx"

I am far more worried that as Cameron has been courting the church running up to the election we will see a lot more Catholic schools and Church of England schools. He has almost certainly sold his soul to the church for their support in the election, they will expect payback.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"one of the problems i see with that is that we would have more faith based schools somethin i oppose completely as it creates prejudice.

how many people would be up in arms if a muslim faith school opened up using tax payers money?

on top of that its the usual tory guise if you got the money to do it you can!xx

I am far more worried that as Cameron has been courting the church running up to the election we will see a lot more Catholic schools and Church of England schools. He has almost certainly sold his soul to the church for their support in the election, they will expect payback."

no doubt! he has been courtin the churches and they will expect their pound of flesh but hopefully we wont have to worry about it!x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I believe that LEA's know best where new schools are needed, parent power will just result in confusion.

Although there is a problem in some areas where local kids can't get into their local schools there is a bigger problem....that is pushy parents insisting their kids go to schools miles away from their homes.

These 'Upwardly Mobile' parents will end up having far too much say where our education budget is spent.

Imagine post election England with a Conservative government, there is enough money for a new school to be spent in a certain area....will that money honestly be spent on a school in the middle of a council estate?, or the middle class area who feel they are more worthy?

Cameron dare not alienate his core voters should he form a government, or he is guaranteeing a single term."

If he betrays those Labour voters who have turned to his promises he will also find himself in a single term government. He knows what is at stake and he has to appease everybody or he's out. It's a myth that the Tories only care about the rich as it is also a myth that Labout represent the working class. Both parties have moved considerably from those principles yet Labour hold the industrial heartlands of the UK whilst the Tories/Libdems hold the more rural areas. You only have to look at the political map of the UK to see that Labour traditionally win the inner cities (except Westminster) where the population is more concentrated and there are far more seats available.

The polls seem to contradict what constitutes a trad. Labour supporter and a trad. Tory supporter as the swings that the Tories are enjoying are at Labour's expense, whereas I would say that the true split is between the Tories/Libdems.

I've never enjoyed a Gen Election as much as this one and I'm itching for May 6 to see who comes out on top.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"What colour is the UK Independence Party (UKIP)..... not that I'll be voting for them, as the guy they had interviewed the other day was a twat."

Purple. bleeeurgh!

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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If you look at the Conservative Manifesto re education, there is a very interesting bit...

'We will move to a national per pupil funding system, so that new schools get paid if they attract pupils'

So very much like the Tory private health plans, they will allow parents that want to send their kids to private schools to take their share of education funding with them.

In other words public funds subsidising private schools by way of a 'Pupil Personal Allowance'

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The key word there is 'attract'... attract what? more pupils than it has already? Each school has a maximum capacity and there are maximum class size rules to adhere to also. So every school will 'attract' pupils, in much the same way it does already, but the Tories will pay them for it. Like the govt is already lol .. Isn't this just a new way of organising Education funding???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm still undecided, not had anyone knock or even a flyer from any party through the door, no doubt I'll hear them polling day going round in the car with a megophone that can hardly be understood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

remember when the cars used to go round and they gave you stickers for that party??

i remember the conservative party car goin round out area with a police escort lol!!

and my mum threatenin to shove the labour guys mega phone up his arse as she was on the nightshift and payin tax for him to shout lol xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"and all the while thatcher was in power, the city bankers got richer, landlords owned more property, amd the tories got richer and richer and richer and richer

mmm

a blue vote is not for the working man "

neither is red anymore

ill vote for whoever will close the boarders thats not preduice in any way we have friends both swinging and vanilla of most races but were an island and enuf is enuf theres only so much space to go around

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well, it's finally been called - Election 2010!!!

I'm voting Conservative this time.

Are you Red, Blue or Yellow? "

Conservative will win hands down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't think I'd ever fully trust any politician, but I've always voted yellow as for one they actually have to think about their policies at election time whereas the other two seem to have "Vote for us, cos the other lot are shit", as their manifesto. Other than that they do seem to identify the major problems before they become the total buzzword, climate change being a case in point in the 90's (obviously the green party were head and shoulders above on this, but they tend to fall down on any other issue)

I think the lib-dems offer far from a perfect government, but in my opinion offer the best of a bad lot...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm red, blue, AND yellow. I must be more careful on those stairs

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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You are beginning to see the way that many Tory policies are 'much of the same', just packaged differently.

It's like rebranding Coca Cola as Cola Coca....same stuff in the can.

To me this is going to go the same way as the NHS, with every British citizen being given a certain amount of 'Credits' or funding per year and then they are free to spend those 'Credits' any way they like, be it NHS or Private Health Care.

Now to some people that may seem a very good idea but in reality it will eventually lead to a fragmented NHS, where the wealthy get the best treatment and the less wealthy see their life expectancy drop.

So in the ideal Tory education system of the future we will probably see parents using their education 'Credits' to send their kids to an increasing amount of Private schools, simply topping up the allowance.

This is in theory ok, until of course public money in the future under Tory leadership is then ploughed into Private schools.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"and all the while thatcher was in power, the city bankers got richer, landlords owned more property, amd the tories got richer and richer and richer and richer

mmm

a blue vote is not for the working man

neither is red anymore

ill vote for whoever will close the boarders thats not preduice in any way we have friends both swinging and vanilla of most races but were an island and enuf is enuf theres only so much space to go around "

Close the borders to who?, you can't close them to EU citizens so it must mean non EU.....until of course we need Doctors, Nurses etc.

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

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"I'm still undecided, not had anyone knock or even a flyer from any party through the door, no doubt I'll hear them polling day going round in the car with a megophone that can hardly be understood "

I've just had a whole variety of leaflets put throught the door in one go.... I'm just comparing now.

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

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Owwww the BNP one is quite clever... they've used quotes from the pubic (so they can write a pile of unsubstantiated crap and not be held accountable for ermmmmm lying.) And I love this line (not a Joe Public quote, this is one of their own) "... there is a clear moral choice: The BNP and peace or the war-mongering politicians."... are they not politicians then? whoops forgot of course they’re not lol. It gets better, they have a photo of Winston Churchill… wasn’t he a wartime PM famous for saying “We’ll fight them on the beaches”

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"Owwww the BNP one is quite clever... they've used quotes from the pubic (so they can write a pile of unsubstantiated crap and not be held accountable for ermmmmm lying.) And I love this line (not a Joe Public quote, this is one of their own) "... there is a clear moral choice: The BNP and peace or the war-mongering politicians."... are they not politicians then? whoops forgot of course they’re not lol. It gets better, they have a photo of Winston Churchill… wasn’t he a wartime PM famous for saying “We’ll fight them on the beaches”

"

As apposed to the BNP quote "we'll fight them on the streets of Burnley"

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

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Unity for Peace & Socialism aren't saying much in theirs... but then again I'd never heard of them.

TexMex Kebab and Pizza looks promising though!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

iv read the bnp manifesto..........what a load of shite lol!!!

the uni funding bit really made me chuckle practically outlawing social sciences who the hell is gonna make up their policies alf garnett?? and psychology comes under that too so when the crackpots take over there can be no proof that they are wrong!!

and dont even start me on their bit on the northern ireland peace process!!

if the bnp are standin for all that is british then we as a nation should hang our heads in shame anyone with one iota of intelligence should be able to see right through them!! xx

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

did you see the english democrats party political broadcast

Theyre not wrong when they say if the welsh and scots and irish have their own parliament, why is england subsidising the others free prescriptions and other suchlike

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool


"Are you Red, Blue or Yellow

none of the above. "

same here

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

I think voting should be compulsory

You all have an opinion

Use it when it counts

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You are faced with two choices:

1) Continue supporting Wales & Scotland from Westminster

2) The break up of Great Britain.

~

If parliament votes to discontinue support for Wales & Scotland and they become self funding then those countries will see no benefit in being as part of the Union - and I wouldn't blame them.

I am a Unionist and I believe that both Wales and Scotland give the Union far more than they take from it. Many Scots and Welsh have died defending the Union so I think they've earned the right to be looked after from Westminster the same as their English counterparts.

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over a year ago


"You are faced with two choices:

1) Continue supporting Wales & Scotland from Westminster

2) The break up of Great Britain.

~

If parliament votes to discontinue support for Wales & Scotland and they become self funding then those countries will see no benefit in being as part of the Union - and I wouldn't blame them.

I am a Unionist and I believe that both Wales and Scotland give the Union far more than they take from it. Many Scots and Welsh have died defending the Union so I think they've earned the right to be looked after from Westminster the same as their English counterparts."

possibly one of the most sensible things you have ever said!!

im all for devolved assemblies but remaining part of the union xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You are faced with two choices:

1) Continue supporting Wales & Scotland from Westminster

2) The break up of Great Britain.

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If parliament votes to discontinue support for Wales & Scotland and they become self funding then those countries will see no benefit in being as part of the Union - and I wouldn't blame them.

I am a Unionist and I believe that both Wales and Scotland give the Union far more than they take from it. Many Scots and Welsh have died defending the Union so I think they've earned the right to be looked after from Westminster the same as their English counterparts.

possibly one of the most sensible things you have ever said!!

im all for devolved assemblies but remaining part of the union xx"

erm.... one a few sensible things or one of many?.. I'm not sure whether I should feel insulted or not hehehe xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sayin nothin!! xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"sayin nothin!! xx"

You'll get splinters up yer arse from that fence you know!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The BNP Political Broadcast is on TV at the moment and my 13 month old son is having his dinner and blowing raspberries at Mr Griffin. I take it he won't be voting for them in 2028 then!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

thats one clever kid!!! xx didnt know there was one on or i would have watched it! what channel i might catch it later if anythin it will put me off dinner lol x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It was on BBC 1 but not sure where or when it will be repeated. It looked very amateurish and if Griffin had his way he'd take us back to the days of the Raj. He's an arse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Staunch Working Class man here, Im voting Conservative

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

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"Staunch Working Class man here, Im voting Conservative"

Care to share your reasoning with us?

Would make for better discussion.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Can you debate without being abusive please. This thread has been heated at times but still kept civil. Please don't ruin it with nasty and unneccessary comments.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Please get your point across without the abuse, as you may find you can't post at all.

Sorry to jane who's post I had to take down, but you quoted the abusive post x

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

This is very long to load now wishy.....maybe start part 2?

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone

For a number of the people on here, how we vote will make no difference whatsoever. If i wanted to vote Labour where i live (which i dont but arguements sake i did), the Conservatives have such a safe seat, it would make no difference. It would be the same for someone who wanted to vote Conservative in a safe Labour seat - a waste of time. Unless they change the voting system, thousands of people's votes will be be wasted.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I agree, thought you'd have mentioned it sooner tbh... ok, off to start Part II .. btw... our postal papers arrived today so off to fill them out too ....

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