General Election 2010

[Renton 21392]

He's right. The average bloke on Tyneside was a working man in the 70's and 80's, many of them including my father, had times on the dole due to the construction industry being on its' arse, and old industries shutting down (for the long term good of the country imo). These people don't care about anything else, they're ingrained in the fact the Conservatives ruined the north and created a north south divide where the tories give to the rich and take from the poor. It's been passed down through generations to a very large amount of people who aren't politically minded enough to think for themselves, and will always display a "we've always voted Labour attitude". You know that's the truth, forgetting about the merits of the latest policies. It's even more true in Liverpool who are an even more insular siege mentality people than we are, fucking Socialist Labour getting votes over there

 

True up to a point but there are just as many Tories in the south who even post-Blair are obsessed with "CND sympathising loonies" to quote LM and hark back to winter of discontent.

 

What was the NE vote like before Thatcher though? Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression it was always staunch Labour. Just like Hertfordshire is staunch tory.

 

Edit: more in response to the Thatcher accusations, I realise it backs what BR is saying.

Edited May 7, 2010 by Renton

[Park Life 71]

As Nick Robinson has just said...

 

There is only one potential stable majority available. That is a combination of the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

 

The question, therefore, is what terms will David Cameron offer and what will Nick Clegg accept. Oh, and one other thing, will their parties accept their proposals?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/20...otential_s.html

 

Good old Nick Robinson; former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, a member of the Bullingdon Club and chairman of the Young Conservatives. No doubt the Tories will still be bleating on about the left wing bias of the BBC.

 

There's only 33 results to come in and a Labour LIB Dem coalition is STILL 27 short of a majority between them.

 

If they won EVERY seat remaining between them (which they won't) they could only muster a 6 seat majority.

 

Other parties can be roped in...but that wouldn't be stable.

 

Robinson is spot on.

 

Don't matter, the idea will be to keep the Tories out till Sept.

[ChezGiven 0]

As Nick Robinson has just said...

 

There is only one potential stable majority available. That is a combination of the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

 

The question, therefore, is what terms will David Cameron offer and what will Nick Clegg accept. Oh, and one other thing, will their parties accept their proposals?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/20...otential_s.html

 

Good old Nick Robinson; former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, a member of the Bullingdon Club and chairman of the Young Conservatives. No doubt the Tories will still be bleating on about the left wing bias of the BBC.

 

There's only 33 results to come in and a Labour LIB Dem coalition is STILL 27 short of a majority between them.

 

If they won EVERY seat remaining between them (which they won't) they could only muster a 6 seat majority.

 

Other parties can be roped in...but that wouldn't be stable.

 

Robinson is spot on.

 

He is still a Tory cunt though.

[Happy Face 29]

I'm just repeating what Mervyn King says.

 

 

source?

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2...ervyn-King.html

 

 

 

Whichever party wins the election will have to impose spending cuts of such severity that they will find themselves exiled from power for a generation, the governor of the Bank of England has reportedly claimed.

 

 

 

maybe i havent read that correctly but im sure it doesnt mention Cameron by name.

 

Cameron will be prime minister.

[AgentAxeman 174]

Cameron will be prime minister.

 

 

does you crystal ball tell you so?

 

[Happy Face 29]

Cameron will be prime minister.

 

 

does you crystal ball tell you so?

 

 

When a team's 3-0 down in the 88th minute you don't need a crystal ball to say they'll get 3 points.

[Guest Barrack Road]

meh, anyone up here who says its not about thatcher is deluding themselves tbh.

Must be galling that you like her so much yet she's still stopping the Tories getting in

 

 

dont worry, the witch will be dead soon enough!

 

 

And Cameron will take her place.

 

As people were saying before the election, with the economic situation as it is, Cameron is going to fuck it up SO badly he'll make Maggie look like a happy memory.

 

 

i hadnt realised you had a crystal ball Happy. do you do palm reading an'all?

 

 

I'm just repeating what Mervyn King says.

Barney turned him over last neet.

[AgentAxeman 174]

Cameron will be prime minister.

 

 

does you crystal ball tell you so?

 

 

When a team's 3-0 down in the 88th minute you don't need a crystal ball to say they'll get 3 points.

 

 

depends if the oppo then gets another team on the pitch to help them.......

 

[Happy Face 29]

Cameron will be prime minister.

 

 

does you crystal ball tell you so?

 

 

When a team's 3-0 down in the 88th minute you don't need a crystal ball to say they'll get 3 points.

 

 

depends if the oppo then gets another team on the pitch to help them.......

 

 

Clegg's just said they won't

[ewerk 30368]

Green

SDLP

PC

SNP

 

Will chuck in with labour. That's another 15 or so.

 

It'd fail within 6 months.

 

Yeah but Brown will step down in Sept imo.

 

If he manages to last that long, best thing would be for him to step down a couple of months before a new election and allow the new leader to reap the benefits.

[Christmas Tree 4709]

Nick Clegg offers Tories first crack

[Renton 21392]

That sounded like Clegg was will ing to make a deal with Cameron re: forming a government.

 

Can't see it working like.

[Park Life 71]

Don't think Clegg understands the unwritten constitution/procedure the dimbo. Brown has first dibs.

[Park Life 71]

Nick Clegg offers Tories first crack

 

It's not upto him though.

[Park Life 71]

Green

SDLP

PC

SNP

 

Will chuck in with labour. That's another 15 or so.

 

It'd fail within 6 months.

 

Yeah but Brown will step down in Sept imo.

 

If he manages to last that long, best thing would be for him to step down a couple of months before a new election and allow the new leader to reap the benefits.

 

Agreed.

[Happy Face 29]

Nick Clegg offers Tories first crack

 

It's not upto him though.

 

He's saying if Labour approached him (as is their first option) he couldn't get into bed with the main party that doesn't hold anything close to a majority. Isn't he?

[Meenzer 15429]

Don't think Clegg understands the unwritten constitution/procedure the dimbo. Brown has first dibs.

 

...which he's just said he won't support. Simples.

[Park Life 71]

Nick Clegg offers Tories first crack

 

It's not upto him though.

 

He's saying if Labour approached him (as is their first option) he couldn't get into bed with the main party that doesn't hold anything close to a majority. Isn't he?

 

Don't buy it. That was for public consumptiion. When he hears the heavy breath of Mandy on the blower he'll shit his kegs.

[Renton 21392]

Don't think Clegg understands the unwritten constitution/procedure the dimbo. Brown has first dibs.

 

Brown is impotent though. Whereas Dave is semi-flaccid.

[Park Life 71]

Don't think Clegg understands the unwritten constitution/procedure the dimbo. Brown has first dibs.

 

...which he's just said he won't support. Simples.

 

We'll see.

[Park Life 71]

Don't think Clegg understands the unwritten constitution/procedure the dimbo. Brown has first dibs.

 

Brown is impotent though. Whereas Dave is semi-flaccid.

 

[ChezGiven 0]

"Dave has a semi-on"

 

Toontastic political analysis at its finest.

[sweetleftpeg 0]

Clegg could be asking for trouble if he teams up with the Toffs. He needs to remember that a lot of Lib Dem voters are ex or fed up Labour voters who couldn't stomach voting Tory. I didn't vote Lib Dem, but if I had and they got into bed with the Tories I'd be livid.

[NJS 4375]

That sounded like Clegg was will ing to make a deal with Cameron re: forming a government.

 

Can't see it working like.

 

Which I hope makes those who voted Liberal expecting "historic change" realise what they were actually voting for - the Tories.

 

This is why I mistrust PR as I said earlier despite it seeming fairer - I'd speculate that most people who vote Liberal share more values with those who vote Labour than Tory so they have to accept that making the Liberals the power brokers can mean a Tory government.

 

Of course that also seems fair in the light of them getting the most votes anyway but my irrational side still thinks its wrong.

 

 

In the past I could see a place for a centrist party given how far apart the other two were so "non-extremists" could be comfortable voting Liberal. However now there's been a shift to the centre from both sides I don't really see a place for the liberals other than as being there to confuse things.

 

I think having two parties, as long as they are broad churches, isn't a bad system.

[Park Life 71]

GG loses limehouse.