bemused
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Yep, she'd be a decent leader
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Yep, she'd be a decent leader
Cid
Proper break this time
Well that too, I mean in terms of the Tory gains in this election.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Good. Fucking serves them right.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
certainly clever enough, and certainly personable - is she tainted by the whole Miliband/Brown/Balls debacle?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
It's gotta be..."were you up for Balls?"
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
bemused
Well-Known Member
Just from my perception I think one of the real issues both the Tories and Labour had was the they run such a managed sterile campaign you essentially ended up with Dave and Ed plastic action figures running our set piece slogans. Neither of them were authentic, Davy some just slightly more personable.
They need someone who comes across as an human being and a lot less managed.
I'd argue that Ed came across more human, but it's a 'whatever' now. :-/
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
About the only cheer I'm taking from the night...
Agreed. So depressed right now. This vote is my valium.
bemused
Well-Known Member
He came across very well during the election campaign, I quite like him. I think it was too high a hill to climb.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Ed came across as fairly human but was utterly and totally crucified by the press for it, how dare he eat a bacon sandwich! and that kitchen, SHAME ON HIM!
Fucks sake, someone needs to shoot Murdoch
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Difference is Scots voted for their country, liberals voted for their lying bastard selves. Never trust a liberal.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
The only people making life awkward for Cameron will be his backbenchers.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
bemused
Well-Known Member
Very last hope now, a combine of Lab + SNP (etc... the anti con bloc) can make things awkward for the Cons in government.
I know, I'm clutching at shitty straws.
I can see them giving Scotland more power and passing the English MP votes for English laws bill.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Too true, I'm not going to shed any tears over the pricks. They're already lurching even more to the right - see scum like Picarda on the other thread, Hodges etc.
Fuck them, this isn't the fault of people for not voting for them (how dare those Scots desert us!), it's their fault for taking w/c voters for granted for x number of years, for arguing that they'll be tougher on benefits than the tories, for having their only line be "well at least you're not the tories" while still arguing for austerity.
It's worth noting that the Tories barely increased their share of the vote from 2010. Those of us with pro-w/c politics shouldn't fall in with the "british people = Turkeys voting for Xmas" bullshit that already starts to be coming from some areas. We should take promise from the fact that even on a weak social-democratic message the SNP and Greens have done well.
The challenge for us is to not to let this throw us from the workplace and community work that we do but to try and use these new opportunities that will come up to take the fight in different directions.
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mack
Fact Me Till I Fart
I thought when I went to bed at 1 last night that I might wake up to something less nightmarish, instead it really is 5 more years of this con shite.
Oh well props to Sarah Jones in Croydon central - she put up a fierce fight but lost out by a hundred and something votes
Oh well props to Sarah Jones in Croydon central - she put up a fierce fight but lost out by a hundred and something votes
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The irony being that GG is a hyena who thinks he's a lion.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
I can't bring myself to read the last fifty pages and reinforce my misery so I'll just have to try and keep up from here. Fuck this is bad, I took a brew up to La Liberette and managed to stave off telling her the truth by entertaining her with tales of the SNP's successes. I saved Danny Alexander 'til last for the lulz and then I had to tell her the rest.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I said that Ashcroft's poll predicting this was 'rogue'. I was wrong and he was right. Turns out that the former LDs of CroCent were the only ones that he polled who told the truth about their breaking Con/Lab...the stupid fuckers.I thought when I went to bed at 1 last night that I might wake up to something less nightmarish, instead it really is 5 more years of this con shite.
Oh well props to Sarah Jones in Croydon central - she put up a fierce fight but lost out by a hundred and something votes
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
^ This bullshit posted on another thread is the type of crap I'm talking about. I mean regardless of anything else it's just factually wrong. The Tories will take less than 40% of the vote on a turnout that won't be much higher than 2010.
I said Labour got the result it deserved well then so did much of the Left. You treat the electorate as fools to be lectured and they'll tell you to fuck off - see what happened to Labour in Scotland.
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