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

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't understand. What happened?

The glare from the moonfaced twat's shiny forehead temporarily blinded voters across the country causing them to vote for tory scum by mistake.

 

[Cadmus]

Bye bye Human Rights Act!

 

[J Ed]

People in Sheffield look so miserable today. Sapped. I went for a walk in the city centre last night around 3:30am and hardly anyone was there, very strange for a Thursday night, other than a handful of people who seemed to be doing the same thing as me.

At least it's raining now, the sun shining earlier just seemed wrong.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Potentially daft question, but does anyone know why St Ives still hasn't declared a result? Has it gone to a recount, or are they just being slow off the mark down there in the far south-west?!

They're slow at counting.

It's to do with having to fly ballot boxes from the Scilly Isles apparently, although as Scotland manages this quicker I find it a bit strange.

 

[Pickman's model]

My worry: This'll lead to worse. EU exit (for me) is a dark shadow. Cameron never wanted it, but was appeasing. With a slim majority, he'll carry on playing party politics and potentially we're out.

Hope I'm wrong about that.

he's a fucking politician, of course he'll play fucking party politicks

 

[teqniq]

My worry: This'll lead to worse. EU exit (for me) is a dark shadow. Cameron never wanted it, but was appeasing. With a slim majority, he'll carry on playing party politics and potentially we're out.

Hope I'm wrong about that.

I can't really see that happening tbh, referendum wise it appears the public largely want to stay in and global capital certainly don't want us to leave and it is they, increasingly who have and are calling the shots.

 

[Sprocket.]

They're slow at counting.

It's to do with having to fly ballot boxes from the Scilly Isles apparently, although as Scotland manages this quicker I find it a bit strange.

It's downhill from Scotland, uphill from the Scillys!

 

[Quartz]

Bye bye Human Rights Act!

We should campaign for them to replace it with something better.

 

[krtek a houby]

The glare from the moonfaced twat's shiny forehead temporarily blinded voters across the country causing them to vote for tory scum by mistake.

What happens next?

 

[Pickman's model]

Jesse Rae only got 135 votes in Berwickshire Roxburgh.
Bastards wouldn't let him take his five foot claymore into the polling stations!

five feet coincidentally about 135 cm

 

[butchersapron]

I can't really see that happening tbh, referendum wise it appears the public largely want to stay in and global capital certainly don't want us to leave and it is they, increasingly who have and are calling the shots.

I think we've heard enough from the polls today thank you!

 

[teqniq]

hahaha

 

[Roadkill]

What happens next?

A&E departments are flooded with people seeking treatment for retinal damage. A bit like that scene from Threads, but without the amputations.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bye bye Human Rights Act!

bye bye magna farta

 

[Sirena]

What happens next?

Everybody goes into a what-the-fuck slump..

 

[butchersapron]

A&E departments are flooded with people seeking treatment for retinal damage. A bit like that scene from Threads, but without the amputations.

...and less funding.

 

[Pickman's model]

A&E departments are flooded with people seeking treatment for retinal damage. A bit like that scene from Threads, but without the amputations.

for triffids read tories

 

[Pickman's model]

Everybody goes into a what-the-fuck slump..

less than 25% of the registered population voted tory.

yet we're saddled with five wasted years. has anyone else received a letter ohms saying 'by the end of this parliament you will have no money left'?

 

[danny la rouge]

We should campaign for them to replace it with something better.

Yes, full communism.

 

[Lurdan]

Yes, full communism.

Indeed but is that old "full communism" or new "full communism" ?

 

[Sprocket.]

Indeed but is that old "full communism" or new "full communism" ?

I think provisional communism would be a decent starting point.

 

[treelover]

Lots of the people who voted Tory and UKIP are now going to feel the full force of the universal credit trap.

 

[Cadmus]

We should campaign for them to replace it with something better.

If you want to retain the principle of parliamentary sovereignty (=courts cannot repeal laws made by parliament, i.e. parliament is "supreme"), there is nothing better. The HRA is the best possible compromise and there is nothing wrong with it. What's wrong is the public's perception of it (fuelled by the ignorant media).

Have a look at the list in the image I attached. None of those policies were stopped by the UK judiciary and the Tories want exactly that judiciary to have the final say by repealing the HRA.

 

[mack]

less than 25% of the registered population voted tory.

yet we're saddled with five wasted years.

Can the remaining 75% not camp outside queenys house and get her to change the rules like so it's a bit fairer for the rest of us - maybe Brand could lead this?

 

[J Ed]

When Politics Is This Broken It’s Time To Get Out In The Fucking Streets – Starting Tomorrow, 3pm Conservative HQ

If yesterday’s election showed anything it is that most people do not want a Tory government. Just 20% of the public voted Tory – the same proportion of the population the Office for National Statistics estimates have a personal wealth of over £600,000. The rich are in charge despite what the rest of us want. As usual.

No matter what might have happened yesterday the rich would still be in charge. The UK’s electoral system has been designed over hundreds of years to ensure precisely that. In Scotland the whole country can vote on mass to reject both of the main political parties and it doesn’t make a blind bit of fucking difference. A million people can vote Green and nearly four million UKIP and nothing will change. Although the UKIP thing is pretty funny. Bye Nigel.

Already some in the Labour Party want to lurch even further to the right as if Ed Miliband really was the comedy communist some sections of the press protrayed him as. This is a party that just lost dozens of seats to the SNP who want to build council houses, scrap Trident and halt many of the most vicious welfare reforms. Despite what’s staring them in the face Labour still think that being more Tory is the only thing that will lead them to success. They don’t give a shit about the people who actually did vote for them, in Northern England, London and Wales. There is no voice for the poor, at all, and that is the way it’s intended to be.

When politics is this broken then all that is left is the streets. For the last five years the real opposition has not been the Labour Party, but disabled people, benefits clamaints, students, tenants and the low or no paid. As bleak as things may seem we today are in a better position than we were last week. The Tory majority is paper thin. Scotland is rising. The Libs Dems are dead. Welfare reforms are still in chaos and Iain Duncan Smith is still a fucking idiot. And Minister for Employment Esther McVey is now unemployed.

 

[Sprocket.]

John Mann just bigged up Dan Jarvis as next leader over Yvette Cooper who is tainted by being from the 'old school Blair/Brown Labour Party.'
On the BBC.

 

[DotCommunist]

Potentially daft question, but does anyone know why St Ives still hasn't declared a result? Has it gone to a recount, or are they just being slow off the mark down there in the far south-west?!

webbed hands slowing down the counting proccess

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Potentially daft question, but does anyone know why St Ives still hasn't declared a result? Has it gone to a recount, or are they just being slow off the mark down there in the far south-west?!

Ross Poldark is galloping along the clifftop with a satchel of ballot papers.

 

[J Ed]

John Mann just bigged up Dan Jarvis as next leader over Yvette Cooper who is tainted by being from the 'old school Blair/Brown Labour Party.'
On the BBC.

How is Dan Jarvis not a Blairite by conviction? He's chair of Progress.

 

[teqniq]

webbed hands slowing down the counting proccess

Bit harsh but I was going to suggest that they were too engrossed in painting seascapes