A Thread For UK Elections 2005

el Chi said:
Oh Kangy, if only gay marriage were legal I'd propose to you right now.
It's worth those c*nts coming to my door just so I can give 'em a piece of my mind.
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why not just come to canada (as many americans and foreigners are doing). You and Kangy can live together in wedded bliss happily ever after ...hey and maybe we can get together and start a LAN or something but be forewarned: I'm married :E
 
CptStern said:
why not just come to canada (as many americans and foreigners are doing). You and Kangy can live together in wedded bliss happily ever after ...hey and maybe we can get together and start a LAN or something but be forewarned: I'm married :E
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Well, Gay Marriages are legal in the UK, so that doesn't matter.
 
Hm, best do it before May 5th... just in case Howard gets in!
 
Kangy said:
Hm, best do it before May 5th... just in case Howard gets in!
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Yep. Then we'll be publicly hung, drawn and quartered.
"I'm not homophobic, but..."
 
Yes, dead meat is hung, men are hanged. If it wasn't for Terry Pratchett, I wouldn't have known that. Woo!

Nevermind Veritas, I want to beat politicians up as whole. They're just so bloody irritating. Actually, I find the uneducated masses worse. Don't comment if you don't know the facts, you gits. Hate Labour or the Conservatives all you wish, but have some damn reasons for it! Don't just stick stubbornly to your families' electoral traditions!

What did make me laugh is seeing the Tories' new anti-Blair advertisement- well well Mr. Howard, weren't you and your collosal hypocrite escort trying to persuade the likes of me that you wouldn't resort to personal smear campaigns? Get back in your coffin you scary scary man! You make my poor old mother cry!

There's been gaffes and bad moves aplenty... and I can't help thinking we'd be best sticking with a random number generator and a big table of hastily scribbled policies for it to select.

February 17th, 2007: No. generated- 457343. Corresponding entry- "Declare a national witch hunt. Select the group(s) most referred to in the tabloids."

"By 'eck lad, haven't you heard? We're tracking down Arsenal supporters and the French, and shipping them off to the Isle of Wight!"
 
Edcrab said:
Actually, I find the uneducated masses worse. Don't comment if you don't know the facts, you gits. Hate Labour or the Conservatives all you wish, but have some damn reasons for it! Don't just stick stubbornly to your families electoral traditions!
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Yes, I totally agree. I think baxter said something earlier about the average uneducated voter's mentality.

“Remember that guy…John Prescott punching that guy in the hooter for throwing an egg at him, he gets my vote anyday.”

Bleh, Democracy. Good in theory, bad in practice.
But as Winston Churchill said:
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
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I don't believe the Tories can reduce taxes and improve services as they claim. Seems like an outright lie, as El Chi said. They bypass the facts to try and make the government look bad "Crime has gone up!" - but that's due to new methods of reporting crime, and Labour have increased the police force far more than the tories would have. Crime would have been worse over the past 10 years with the Tories.
"Stop the paperwork, let headmasters expell pupils" - sounds good and well initially, but in practice it's not really possible.

Not that it's easy to trust any politician, but I suppose you need to focus your priorities, no party has all the answers. Which some claim to (low taxes AND better services. Sorry, no sale).

And it's hard work to find an economist who doesn't laud Gordon Brown.

Might vote Lib Dems, because my constituency is Labour (60% maybe) vs. Lib Dem really, and I don't want the Tories in second place.
 
Feath said:
Hanged.
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Blast.
Edcrab said:
Yes, dead meat is hung, men are hanged. If it wasn't for Terry Pratchett, I wouldn't have known that. Woo!

Nevermind Veritas, I want to beat politicians up as whole. They're just so bloody irritating. Actually, I find the uneducated masses worse. Don't comment if you don't know the facts, you gits. Hate Labour or the Conservatives all you wish, but have some damn reasons for it! Don't just stick stubbornly to your families' electoral traditions!

What did make me laugh is seeing the Tories' new anti-Blair advertisement- well well Mr. Howard, weren't you and your collosal hypocrite escort trying to persuade the likes of me that you wouldn't resort to personal smear campaigns? Get back in your coffin you scary scary man! You make my poor old mother cry!

There's been gaffes and bad moves aplenty... and I can't help thinking we'd be best sticking with a random number generator and a big table of hastily scribbled policies for it to select.

February 17th, 2007: No. generated- 457343. Corresponding entry- "Declare a national witch hunt. Select the group(s) most referred to in the tabloids."

"By 'eck lad, haven't you heard? We're tracking down Arsenal supporters and the French, and shipping them off to the Isle of Wight!"
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One of the best posts of this thread, I think. :)
They're so transparently pragmatic that they don't even have the integrity to be CONSISTENTLY evil.
 
Danke Chi. I feel special.

Oh, and mwahahah.

Hmm. Am I laughing at Veritas's attempt to harvest their share of the vote, or the idea of anyone here being chummy with Kilroy? Anyone's guess- they're both disturbing jokes.

The MegaGen RNG system says 321435: "Instead of coming up with viable alternatives, rant constantly about the actions of your competitiors, even if you have none and are in fact dismissed offhand by everyone remotely sane".
 
I'm quite interested in Respect, actually....I utterly hate George Galloway, something about him just rubs me up the wrong way, but I've heard that Respect are the only real challenge to Labour where I live, in Newham. Death to Labour.
 
Laivasse said:
I'm quite interested in Respect, actually....I utterly hate George Galloway, something about him just rubs me up the wrong way, but I've heard that Respect are the only real challenge to Labour where I live, in Newham. Death to Labour.
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Woah, that is a stong Labour seat. But I don't believe that Respect is the best use of a tactical vote.
 
Laugh at him me thinks.

have you read some of the comments from people that agree with him, maybe be afraid of them. :D
 
jondyfun said:
*jondy dances on Chi's redundant linkage* :D
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Sucks to be you, it works fine for me.
Basically it was an article concerning Kilroy's recent statement that not all cultures are equal, some simply are better than others.
 
Let me guess...

Immigrants good... British better?
 
Hmm. I've just got back to my flat and got some post. The Conservative Canditate has sent me:

1 Newspaper thing
Another Newspaper thing that's exactly the same as the first one
Another Newspaper thing that's different
A DVD

Now, that's a lot for one person. But he's sent them out to all 4 of my flatmates as well, so we have 15 Newspaper thingies and 5 DVDs. He's also sent two more letters addressed to "The Resident". Money well spent there.

The labour guy sent out about 3 letters addressed to The resisdent (so we only got one copy of each letter).
The Lib Dem Canditate sent out one postcard to the entire flat.
 
Bloody hell. A DVD? Is it a DVD-RW? You might have finally found a use for the Tories!
 
Nah, it's not.

It's just 5 minutes of a guy talking. But whilst he's talking you see clips of him talking to people, (you know, listening to the community). In one part, the person that he's talking to looks like they're just giving him directions somewhere.
 
Thinking of Tory correspondance, the buggers sent me a very offensive letter the other day.

It was asking me to fund their campaign :p I pay the government enough as it is, I'm not prepared to give a bunch of wannabes money thanks very much!

I should've returned the form and pledged two pence, and they'd have agonised over whether it was economically viable for them to process my application.

I've always thought of Cumbria as a long-held Labour fortress (despite mad farmers and the BNP's claim that Carlisle "was the last bastion of true Britishness" a while back), so the Conservatives must be getting desperate, asking the enemy for money at a time like this!
 
I never listen to all their promotional bull. I make my own decision and whether they send me a DVD, a friendly postcard or leave a bag of burning shit on my doorstep I'll still make my own decision.
 
Right, when I was 16 I sent back one of those things that the BNP posted through letterboxes with my name and addressed. I kinda agreed with what they had to say, until I found out more and thought "That's just stupid".

Since then I've been on their mailing list and I get a letter once a month asking me to go to a meeting. Sometimes they seen me newspapers.

This has been going on for 4/5 years. I think they think I'm a member.
 
Chris_D said:
I never listen to all their promotional bull. I make my own decision and whether they send me a DVD, a friendly postcard or leave a bag of burning shit on my doorstep I'll still make my own decision.
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And so you should. It would've been nice if the Lib Dems tried a bit more. The postcard we go basically said "Vote for us because the Tories and SNP don't have a chance and we're not Labour". That's alright for tactical votes but I'd have preferred more information.
 
Feath said:
Right, when I was 16 I sent back one of those things that the BNP posted through letterboxes with my name and addressed. I kinda agreed with what they had to say, until I found out more and thought "That's just stupid".

Since then I've been on their mailing list and I get a letter once a month asking me to go to a meeting. Sometimes they seen me newspapers.

This has been going on for 4/5 years. I think they think I'm a member.
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I kept threatening to sign up a slightly right of centre friend (but still a nice guy and increasingly less righty) up to the Socialist Worker party and newspaper, until I realised that a membership card to the BNP would arrive soon after by way of retaliation...
Kangy said:
Let me guess...
Immigrants good... British better?
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Haha :LOL: Oh Kangy, you are funny. How could immigrants be "good"? They're foreign...


I wanna start a poster campaign against the Tories... "Hypocrisy: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Example:
Michael Howard's parents are immigrants.
Hypocrisy: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

The Conservatives are on record as admitting they're lying so they can get into power.
Hypocrisy: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

...et cetera.
Well, I would do, but I'm too lazy. How's THAT for voter apathy?
 
I've not had anything through the post yet... although there's probably loads going through back in the constiuency im voting for... I dont trust the postal vote, so im getting the train home just to put my X on the paper and stick it in the box :p
 
Feath said:
New manifestos! Today's a nationalist day.
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Heh, down my neck of the woods, every day's a nationalist day :O
 
Yeah I saw that story, and it made blood pour through two weird holes in my neck that weren't there before I started reading that article.
 
el Chi said:
Yeah I saw that story, and it made blood pour through two weird holes in my neck that weren't there before I started reading that article.
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That reminds me of a Letter I saw in Private Eye today:

"Sir,
With Tony Blair's letter appearing on the front page of a tabloid this morning, one wonders if the Tory leader will be following suit.
A source at the Conservative Central Office denies this, saying "Mr Howard won't be appearing in the mirror".
Yours with apologies if I'm the 400th person to make this joke.

Alex Musson, via e-mail"
 
lol thats funny Feth. :p
Bit of a sill mis-wording or poor writting by whoever it was that made the leaflet. The figures are still correct. I read the (some of the)... ok, just the main pages of the Lib Dem manifesto today, it seems ok, but i cant help feeling they're alittle weak on crime. I want to get rid of these damn pikies tbh.
 
oldagerocker said:
lol thats funny Feth. :p
Bit of a sill mis-wording or poor writting by whoever it was that made the leaflet. The figures are still correct. I read the (some of the)... ok, just the main pages of the Lib Dem manifesto today, it seems ok, but i cant help feeling they're alittle weak on crime. I want to get rid of these damn pikies tbh.
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I don't agree with everything the Lib Dems say. They seem to have a few dodgey things like the afforementioned Withdrawl from Iraq. They also would change the way our elections work (From First Past the Post to Proportional Representation) which I don't agree with. We don't want to end up with the BNP getting seats. Even the Green Party could get seats and that would be awful.

I'm not sure I'm a fan of their GM Foods ban either.
 
They're exactly the issues im concerned about... it makes me want to vote elseware, but im doubtful the other parties would address some of the issues the lib dems are addressing, and they'd screw up everything else, breaking promises etc.
This countries political system sucks, i want my own party :p

As much I love the environment, the Greens are just as laughable as the BNP :LOL:
 
oldagerocker said:
They're exactly the issues im concerned about... it makes me want to vote elseware, but im doubtful the other parties would address some of the issues the lib dems are addressing, and they'd screw up everything else, breaking promises etc.
This countries political system sucks, i want my own party :p

As much I love the environment, the Greens are just as laughable as the BNP :LOL:
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I would never ever vote for the Green Party. I have one main reason for this. They are stupid. They wanted to ban Shampoo. Two things bought this about:

1) Some shampoos use pseudoscience on their bottles in order to make them sound really good. You know what I mean, when they talk about nonsense . I can't think of any specific examples but they say stuff like "Uses Hipomiponal which is proven to reduce flatness". Now, some shampoo companies started talking about nanoparticles in their shampoo to help the hair. Which basically just means "little chemicals" and doesn't mean anything substancal in terms of science.

2) The grey goo sceanario is a mainly science fiction idea. It's when nanobots go out of control and eat up everything producing a mass of nanobots. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

The Green Party linked these two things together and wanted to ban these shampoos. They acted as if this was a huge thing and a real danger to people's health. I'm pretty sure the shampoo didn't have little robots in it.

Actual link: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/index.php?nav=news&n=568

Now, I do not want any party that would make this type of mistake to be anywhere near the UK Parliament. They could've just read a slight bit into it, and they would've realised their idiocy. How could they promote scientific progress with these stupid ideas floating around in their head.
 
LOL :LOL: you'd think the tabloids would jump onto this one... but i guess the greens arent worthy of news paper. Damn i hate the mirror... so labour biased it makes me feel physically sick. Whatever happened to newspapers... just reporting the damn news?!

(my mum gets the mirror, so i see it everytime i go home... i cant stand it :()
 
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