Uk 2010 elections

[somone uk]

as anyone from the uk would know by now (after being told 1000 times to register to vote) we are going to have an election
the outcome of this election may be less predictable than originally thought, according to the yougov polls the liberal democrats have the highest approval rating though the bookies are betting on a hung parliament.

so who are you voting for?
and a small quiz for those who are not decided
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[cuebald]

BNP

 

[Fender89]

BNP, on paper, have the best policies, but in person, they are a bunch of wankers. would love to kick the sh*t outa certain members.

I wish there was box that said "none of the above", so atleast i can say i voted.

 

[Hammy070]

BNP? Please tell me that was a sort of ...bad joke.

The BNP consist of former neo-Nazis, those who wish to be neo-Nazis but know the impossibility of being paid attention to under that name, sympathisers of neo-Nazis, idiots, morons, people easily duped, genuinely angry people who vote in 'protest'.

They need power.
They need votes.
They will say and write anything to pander to the general ignorance of Middle England wherever those people live.

You say - how is that different to every other party?

It's not. The problem is, I'd rather have any other party break its' promises than the BNP - promises such as not expelling non-whites, not being racially motivated, not legalising racial discrimination.

Those are promises I'd rather not see broken.

 

[s.a.f]

BNP, on paper, have the best policies, but in person, they are a bunch of wankers. would love to kick the sh*t outa certain members.

I wish there was box that said "none of the above", so atleast i can say i voted.

I agree entirely I thought that some of the BNP's policies were good ideas economicly, then I saw some of their party and they're nothing but a bunch of racist c****.

I wont be voting because I dont feel that strongly for any of them. If I was forced to I'd vote Conservative but what has pissed me off the most has been the way these tv debates turned into 'Britians got the politics factor' and it seems the dumb British public are going for the guy who 'looks' best rather than caring about what they actually have to offer.

 

[The Gardener]

Nick Clegg!

Televised debates FTW!

 

[somone uk]

Nick Clegg!

Televised debates FTW!

your profile says you're american lol

but, move to england, at least there is 1 good voter here ;-)

 

[somone uk]

do i smell a bit of thisss:

[youtube:3uw7m6ov]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLni3wbndls[/youtube:3uw7m6ov]

:innocent: :innocent:

 

[The Gardener]

I'd pull for the tories but Cameron seems like a lightweight flipflopper. Correct me if I am wrong, it might just be first impressions.

What the f*** did they do to the party logo?

A green tree? For reals??

: cue John McEnroe voice :
You cannot be serious!

I want the torch back.

 

[somone uk]

I agree entirely I thought that some of the BNP's policies were good ideas economicly

not really,
They are advocating massive cuts to the public sector and trying to "nurture" British manufacturing
but cuts in public sector = job cuts
and illegalising foreign imports will only eliminate choice
but most brits are trying to get into education and get an educated job as a matter of fact we are an intellectual economy rather than a manufacturing economy for example 97% of microprocessors are of a British design
we do have factories but they usually either make very specialist products or products for smaller businesses
the problem for commercial British manufacturing is regardless of how good or crap a product is we don't really mange to sell much overseas, i don't think americans have ever heard of dyson, dairy milk or seabrook crisps

 

[somone uk]

I'd pull for the tories but Cameron seems like a lightweight flipflopper. Correct me if I am wrong, it might just be first impressions.

What the f*ck did they do to the party logo?

A green tree? For reals??

: cue John McEnroe voice :
You cannot be serious!

I want the torch back.

the cuntservatives changed their logo to look "environmental" and they have been yelling "go green, vote blue" but they failed at that, especially since Britain has a real green party

 

[HughJass]

 

[HughJass]

http://www.andybarefoot.com/politics/poster.php?line1=From+this+angle+you+can%27t+see+my+diffuse+thinning&line2=Start+with+finasteride+or+straight+to+dutasteride%3F&logo1=HAIR&logo2=LOSS&logo3=TALK&tagline1=What+would+CCS+do%3F&size=3

 

[Slartibartfast]

One of two highly privileged, public-school educated 'Blair-lites' or an extension of the Brown experience. Now that's a choice.

Have the Lib Dems put together a cohesive energy policy yet? Last time I checked our looming energy shortage (before the decade-end as old nuclear & coal-fired plants are shut off) was to be met entirely by renewables. Still the case?

 

[cuebald]

Love it AussieAvodart :mrgreen:

I'd rather listen to those three twats talk about their hair for 90 minutes than their samey, wishey-washey policies. Not one of them have mentioned how to tackle the massive, huge deficit because they don't have a clue how (here's the only way how - call in the IMF)

 

[somone uk]

I'd rather listen to those three twats talk about their hair for 90 minutes than their samey, wishey-washey policies. Not one of them have mentioned how to tackle the massive, huge deficit because they don't have a clue how (here's the only way how - call in the IMF)

well if we are voting on hair, we'll have 5 more years of gordan brown
he has a thick NW2
nick clegg has a bit of a crown patch forming
and Cameron is diffused thinning and possibly has a hair transplant done

 

[s.a.f]

Cameron is diffused thinning and possibly has a hair transplant done

Oh yeah he goes to the same place as Beckham I suppose. :whistle:

 

[The Gardener]

One of two highly privileged, public-school educated 'Blair-lites' or an extension of the Brown experience. Now that's a choice.

Better than our choices in 2012.

We'll probably be faced with deciding between the charasmatic Mussolini-lite disguised as a wannabe FDR 2.0, or a puritanical McCarthyist warmonger disguised as Ronald Reagan 2.0.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Wow, you're sounding more pessimistic on the outlook for U.S. politics than I do on our brand. At least under the 'Gardener scenario' there's an entertaining ideological split between candidates; the old 'if you're going to go down, at least do it in style' approach.

Give it a generation and we'll be quietly slipping into oblivion under a mountain of debt and unmeetable obligations, all while the political class bellow at each other over whatever trifling areas of policy are still controlled from Westminster - probably weekly versus fortnightly bin collections and what colour lamp posts should be painted.

 

[The Gardener]

Wow, you're sounding more pessimistic on the outlook for U.S. politics than I do on our brand. At least under the 'Gardener scenario' there's an entertaining ideological split between candidates; the old 'if you're going to go down, at least do it in style' approach.

That is pretty much indeed my assessment of "the approach".

Give it a generation and we'll be quietly slipping into oblivion under a mountain of debt and unmeetable obligations, all while the political class bellow at each other over whatever trifling areas of policy are still controlled from Westminster - probably weekly versus fortnightly bin collections and what colour lamp posts should be painted.

As the baby boomer generation moves into retirement, and the net outflow of funds from the ponzi scheme increases, there will indeed be a "come to Jesus" moment.... this moment being hastened with the increasing realization that our Social Security/pensions scheme is not the only unfunded promise out there, but that large swaths of our non-governmental savings have also been financed with "bubble money". The event horizon is getting pretty close!

I suppose the government has the option of just printing money to meet these obligations, but I doubt that our governments would be able to convince the central banking cabal to give up the debt-based currency paradigm as it would inevitably signal an end game to their lucrative monopoly. Those cretins would rather crash the whole system than relinquish that power.

But, we're probably way past that decision point anyways.... even if debt-less printing were initiated, printing currency does not equate to printing capital. I would surmise that it would only stoke increasingly larger asset bubbles while the underlying economic deterioration would probably continue. Now that the curtain has been raised on the ugly details of how this economy has been functioning the past few decades, I'm thinking that we've probably been in deflation ever since the end of the internet bubble but its been camouflauged by these asset bubbles.