Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted September 30, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2013 To all intents and purposes they've folded inside out and sprayed all the shit normally penned up inside right in the faces of the world - the moderate Republicans are either considered pariahs by the most vocal portion of the base, or they're getting dragged along in the riptide and making like loonies to stay upright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 "It'll be anarchy. That's what could happen tomorrow. I'm serious, I'm serious... We'd have to think: do we have curfews, do we put the Army on the streets, how do we get order back?" Â Except it wouldn't be anarchy, Gordon Brown, it would be chaos. Unless the staff of Tesco collectivised and ran the branch as a cooperative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 The Daily Mail really has finally hit the absolute bottom of the barrel with their recent attacks on Ed Miliband's late father in a attempt to score political points against Ed himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary v1 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 The first post in this thread for exactly one year coincidentally. Â Â Anyway today Nick has been kicked out of the BNP. Â They've pretty much disappeared over the last few years. Â Is it just most of the people voting for them have moved onto the more socially acceptable UK Independence party? Â Also Cameron has said Tories will increase the threshold at which people paying tax to 12,500. Â Which sounds good but turns out it won't be to 2020 so what with inflation isn't quite as good as it first sounds. Â This good news for the poor is offset by benefits that would be frozen for 2 years thus reduce in real terms. The money saved from this is conveniently what we expect to spend bombing ISIS. Â Â Who do people think will form the next government? Â I can't see anyone getting a majority as it stands. Â Personally I'm hoping for a Labour-SNP coalition. Â We'd be kept in Europe at least (unless Labour decide to back a referendum, but I don't think that's likely, is it?) Â From a scottish point of view I think the Labour vote will collapse if Brown's home rule promises aren't kept (which of course they won't be). Â Interesting times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted October 2, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted October 2, 2014 Interesting piece by YouGov today:Â http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/29/ukip-snp-and-risks-parliamentary-paralysis/ Â It raises the possibility (or at least the elevation from highly unlikely to unlikely) of a situation where four factors -- Labour & Conservatives being close, Lib Dems doing badly, UKIP getting a handful of seats, SNP doing very well -- could combine to mean that even a Labour/Lib Dem or Conservative/Lib Dem coalition wouldn't make a majority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary v1 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Certainly interesting. Â If that happens then surely the only advantage of First Past the Post doesn't really apply anymore. Â If we just end up with coalition governments anyway under FPTP we should really just switch to a PR system? Â Â Would Labour consider a minority government? It worked well for the SNP in Holyrood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Worth posting if anyone missed it this week: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 That is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted October 3, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted October 3, 2014 And in the "art imitating life" category, Cameron slips up and says how his party resents poor people, instead of represents. Â https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/itn-news/pm-resents-poor-155637175.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacedNSpangled Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 My opinion about politics Labour & Liberal - Lib-Lab [talking shit] and Conservitives [Conning us left, right & centre].  I stopped  helping them deprive US of everything WE once had.   And in the "art imitating life" category, Cameron slips up and says how his party resents poor people, instead of represents.https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/itn-news/pm-resents-poor-155637175.html Cameron represents him and his rich buddies and no-body else. School & GCSE's "brainwash" you, they want good little wage slaves who won't question authority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Thanks for that, Chomsky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted October 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 4, 2014 Nim Chimpsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted October 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 4, 2014 Nob Chomper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladiesman345 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Nonce Chopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary v1 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 So UKIP have got their first MP elected with possibly another to follow. Â Why are so many people voting for them? They don't seem to have much in the way of policies as far as I can tell? Â Can someone tell me for instance what the top rate of tax would be under a UKIP government or what their plans for the NHS are? Â Where do they stand on TTIP, strongly against surely? If so then why why aren't they making a big deal of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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