General Election 2015 - chat, predictions, results and post election discussion

[redsquirrel]

I'm guessing that the issue is many Kippers would defect back to the Tories if the Tories drift right on immigration and Europe. It wouldn't take much. I know some.

That's a far better point and something that I think is a real danger to them.

 

[editor]

I'm guessing that the issue is many Kippers would defect back to the Tories if the Tories drift right on immigration and Europe. It wouldn't take much. I know some.

Indeed. Without a credible and charismatic leader, UKIP's support could collapse just as quickly as it rose if the Tories shift to the right to accommodate their vile beliefs.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

These cunts are a serious political party now with genuine support. They'll find another "charismatic" leader. They are by no means 'nothing without Farage'. Don't be daft.

With 3.5million votes behind them and complete fawning in some of the media it should be pretty easy to find one body who can string a sentence together and stand around smiling drinking a pint in front of photographers.

 

[editor]

With 3.5million votes behind them and complete fawning in some of the media it should be pretty easy to find one body who can string a sentence together and stand around smiling drinking a pint in front of photographers.

Labour didn't seem to manage that too well.

 

[ibilly99]

What happens to the slab now ?

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Conference table at the Labour party HQ. Like a really shit version of the one on Sons of Anarchy.

 

[cesare]

#edstone

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Labour didn't seem to manage that too well.

Labour are more hamstrung by their history, membership structures etc. UKIP can pretty much do whatever the fuck they like, that's part of the attraction.

 

[Spymaster]

With 3.5million votes behind them and complete fawning in some of the media it should be pretty easy to find one body who can string a sentence together and stand around smiling drinking a pint in front of photographers.

Of course. There will be a few. RKS is possibly one and there'll likely be a handful we've never heard of. This notion that we haven't heard of them yet so Ukip are "nothing" is utterly ridiculous.

 

[Tony_LeaS]

Officially over. Traumatising. I'm still lost for words from 15 hours ago.

 

[butchersapron]

The centre cannot hold etc

 

[kenny g]

That stone did have touches of kinnock's victory speech in Sheffield the night before he lost.

 

[frogwoman]

Tbh smug non voters are nearly as annoyong as people going on about dying fot your right to vote.

 

[SE25]

Reading social media and whatnot I have this to ask: what is it about Tories that makes them so heartless, so arrogant and so sneering? The cunts couldn't be less gracious with their win.

 

[JHE]

That stone did have touches of kinnock's victory speech in Sheffield the night before he lost.

Really? Have people told you it influenced their vote?

When I see recordings of Kinnock's "We're allllriiiiiiiight!" bollocks, I can easily imagine people deciding they just couldn't vote to put him in Downing Street. But when I see pics of Miliband and his monolith, I can only imagine people shrugging their shoulders.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Tbh smug non voters are nearly as annoyong as people going on about dying fot your right to vote.

Smugness is generally a bit shit, innit. It's all over my Fb timeline like a dirty protest (vote). More amusing is the sheer anger from Labour voters at the SNP voters for having the (ahem) balls to vote against austerity. V. patronising

 

[DownwardDog]

What happens to the slab now ?

He can get it cut up to make a counter top for his embarrasingly shit kitchen.

 

[Belushi]

That stone did have touches of kinnock's victory speech in Sheffield the night before he lost.

Talking of Neil his son (married to the Danish PM) has been parachuted into the safe Labour seat of Aberavon.

 

[Sweet FA]

Hello from Southampton.

Fucking hell.

 

[editor]

UK Election 2015 – my considered response

 

[killer b]

Good piece here: http://dougald.nu/the-only-way-is-down-18-notes-on-the-uk-election/

 

[frogwoman]

My ex SP mate who actually left for very legitimate reasons kept texting me to laugh at tusc results. I almost told them to fuck off.

 

[Dogsauce]

Hello from Southampton.

Fucking hell.

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Do we need to start some kind of Berlin Airlift operation?

 

[Andrew Hertford]

The centre cannot hold etc

Interesting, but how many of that UKIP 12.6% would consider themselves to be left, not right?

 

[Belushi]

What happens to the slab now ?

It should follow him everywhere, like some punishment from the Greek Gods.

 

[Dogsauce]

Which will be the first tabloid cartoonist to feature it as a headstone for the labour party?

 

[DotCommunist]

jesus fuckj the vermin took Corby as well. #Where is my god now?

 

[Corax]

UKIP 3.5m votes: 1 seat
SNP 1.5m votes: 56 seats

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Exactly why we should have a proper PR system (and I don't mean fucking AV!)

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

What happens to the slab now ?

Simon "The Thick of It" Blackwell's description of it as a policy cenotaph is my highlight of the whole campaign.

 

[DotCommunist]

Simon "The Thick of It" Blackwell's description of it as a policy cenotaph is my highlight of the whole campaign.

the heaviest suicide note in history