Is she actually okay? Like, is she ill or something?
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Is she actually okay? Like, is she ill or something?
Not as ill as Cleggers's haircut.
She's just stonewalling. People don't look at Owen Jones seething on twitter, they will look if she fucks up somewhere.
Smart move. Or something.
She also didn't go on Women's Hour on Radio 4.
Clever tactics.
I hope we start nationalising the rail anyway. If the French and Germans can run our railways,I don't see why we can't.
And fully nationalise the energy sector before the grid collapses and the Chinese install randomware.
I reckon this election might finish Owen Jones off.
I doubt it. Another tory government will give him plenty to write about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
This Barry Gardiner is named after his sexual habits.
She doesn't think we're worthy / thinks she'll get away with it so doesn't give a fuck. It symbolises the Conservatives' whole approach to government in the last 7 years: "let's screw people until they kick up too much of a fuss and we have to rethink."
He's alright.
Angus Robertson no less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
The SNP have a proper knack of attracting the most sanctimonious arseholes in the country. His seat isn't safe either. That would be most welcome on the 9th.
Seven pence for cornflakes is probably a decent bowl if you bought them wholesale.
It's probably a full bowl tbh given the massive packs only cost about a quid.
Jesus Christ, just watching Farron and Brillo now, what a fucking colossal twat.
How about if you buy them in that cereal bar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
People go on about the Tory campaign being bad, and it has been, but the Lib Dem campaign has probably destroyed the party for good at a time when they really should have been bouncing back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
I wouldn't be surprised if Clegg ends up coming back to give them a bit of national profile. Farron has been absolutely dreadful.
Hard when you've got 9 MPs and one of them is Alistair Carmichael.
It is, but at least people know who he is. Then again, his own credibility is ruined too.
Maybe Vince if gets back in.
When you step back from it, they're just a ruined 'brand' aren't they.
Are they disliked solely because of university fees? Ridiculous that the Lib Dems get stick for that and not the Tories.
It's not really, because the Lib Dems campaigned specifically the opposite of what they ended up doing (or at least, enabling to happen).
I voted Lib Dem in 2010 for some reason but I didn't vote for that shite. At least if you vote the Tories you kinda expect that kind of thing.
The Tories said they would increase tuition fees and did it. Lib Dems said they would abolish them and were then part of a government that increased them.
That said, you don't go from 25% to 8% on the basis of not abolishing tuition fees. Most people used them as a protest vessel before and obviously you're not that anymore when you go into government. I think you'd be surprised how many Lib Dem 2010 / UKIP 2015 people there will have been.
@Hammer I suppose. They must have managed to get some policies through in exchange, though? You can't enter a coalition as a much smaller voice and make too many demands.
They got the fixed term parliaments act (lol), the AV referendum (snigger) and something about raising the personal allowance which was quite good.
True. It's a shame Charles Kennedy couldn't have done more. Thoroughly likeable bloke imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Oh yeah, didn't they fuck up by opting for AV over PR?
They weren't getting PR out of the Tories (it was 300 seats to 57 or something). They came into it off the back of Cleggmania thinking they would get 100+ seats in which case PR referendum (which would have been lost) might have been a possibility.
Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay charged over election expenses
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y_to_clipboard
The Twitter belief levels are really soaring today. Can't wait for them to win Hackney & Shoreditch with 138% of the vote.
The headline promise on the Conservative leaflet I've had through the door today is that they'll take another look at a parking plan about six miles away. That sort of piddling, small scale nonsense usually comes in from some single issue twonk running independently.
Somewhat strangely, the Tory manifesto this time round includes repealing the Fixed-term Act - presumably just to have a dig at Clegg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
It'd be a bit weird calling an election that breaks the act only to reinstate it when you won.
As I understand it, this election did not break the act, as the the act allows for early elections in some occasions (such as a 2/3 agree to have an election, as happened in this instance).Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
It didn't break the Act - it complied with it.
It's pointless and should be repealed immediately anyway.
I've just been reading the splits from the last YouGov poll which had 42/39 (it's a slow day at work) and my confidence in a large Tory win has been renewed.
It'll only be dampened if I reach the polling station on Thursday and find 100 teenagers queued up outside.
What are the chances that the EU referendum result (and the perception that pensioners dragged young people out of the EU and "stole their futures") leads to a big turnout from the under 35s?
Possible, but also could be wishful thinking.
Wouldn't the only people who thought that have voted in 2015 anyway?
A sudden surge in youth turnout would have to be well above anything that's been seen before.
That's not saying it can't happen, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that it's going to.
She is doing alright here, but then it seems to mostly be about Brexit, and a fucking monkey could have Jezza on that.
I find the fact that she clearly hates having to do this quite reassuring.
That was probably her strongest performance of the campaign. Jeremy is holding his own again here but he got a bit wound up by that Jewish question.
I hope 'some idiot in Iran' makes it into the next defence review.
Corb's has had some serious training on this stuff over the last 12 months, his delivery is very good.
He's fundamentally unintelligent.
He's shat the communal bed here.
The last 20 minutes he's had an absolute mare.
Especially 'Businesses have done very well because of tax cuts' ... yeah mate, so you want them to do badly?
Corbyn? WtfQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Yes. He's thick. Forty years in politics, and what - intellectually speaking - is there to show for it?