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

[Tony_LeaS]

Have Zoo magazine done a readers poll on which political partner you'd most like to bone yet?

Think a good note here is how #sexywelshaccent trended in the UK for Leanne Wood during the ITV debate.

 

[treelover]

Ken Clarke: Tory party is too rightwing and personal attacks won't work

Former chancellor says failure to create rebalanced economy is ‘single biggest issue affecting the country’ and warns against unfunded promises

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-too-rightwing-and-personal-attacks-wont-work

Clarke sticks the boot into the Tories even at this late stage

 

[Sue]

Mirror readers poll on who is the best 'leaders wife':

Oh FFS, what is this shite.

 

[William of Walworth]

Think a good note here is how #sexywelshaccent trended in the UK for Leanne Wood during the ITV debate.

Charm of this in general can be limited -- in Wine Street, Swansea,well into Friday night anyway.

And that's just the fellers

 

[brogdale]

Smithson reports Prof John Curtice addressing electoral bias at Political Studies association meeting counters the vermin's ludicrous meme that they need just 27,000 voters to switch for them to gain a majority.

Curtice pointed out that even with a mass of Scottish losses LAB can win an overall majority with a 5% lead on GB vote share. For the Tories the required vote lead is in the 7-11% region depending on how successful the blue team is in its battles for current Lib Dem held seats.

Remember that in 2005 the Tories led LAB on votes in England yet the latter won 92 more seats.

At 2010 the Tories had a vote lead in England of 11.4%. Yesterday’s Ipsos-MORI poll had LAB 2% ahead there.

 

[skyscraper101]

English teacher marks mistake-ridden Ukip flyer that came through her letterbox

Mirror (via reddit)

 

[billy_bob]

This is a real election leaflet in, of all places, newcastle.

(ta to spanky)

I would so love to see him door-knocking in Walker looking like that.

 

[treelover]

English teacher marks mistake-ridden Ukip flyer that came through her letterbox

Mirror (via reddit)

People aren't voting UKIP on their grammar skills, etc, patronising rubbish.

 

[two sheds]

Well yes but they're the ones banging on about how people should learn English before they come over here.

 

[skyscraper101]

innit

 

[belboid]

People aren't voting UKIP on their grammar skills, etc, patronising rubbish.

so they dont even have to appear vaguely competent? Well, if you dont mind being treated like a fool....

 

[ViolentPanda]

People aren't voting UKIP on their grammar skills, etc, patronising rubbish.

It's instructive, though, that a party that claims to make a big deal about appealing to "the common man" does so only semi-literately. It doesn't speak well of either the party or the person who wrote the poster's prose, which is probably why some parties make sure that local publicity material for elections is proof-read.

 

[Lo Siento.]

MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

 

[JTG]

People aren't voting UKIP on their grammar skills, etc, patronising rubbish.

No, what's patronising is assuming that voters UKIP are trying to appeal to are only semi-literate

 

[DotCommunist]

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MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

doesn't she wheel out this sort of thing every election?

 

[brogdale]

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MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

 

[DotCommunist]

My old dear is meeting our Labour Party candidate on sunday. I think labour woman is going to be facing the 'why can't you be more like that SNP?' question cos after last debate she wants to vote nicola. I will report back on wether Labour woman is in the old school or of the blairite tendency

 

[skyscraper101]

Miliband: what's a 'Vice News'?

http://news.channel4.com/election2015/04/17/update-2966/

hipster points: nil

 

[two sheds]

doesn't she wheel out this sort of thing every election?

Didn't she do about 15 columns over the space of six months with 'I'm giving Brown just one more chance', 'just one more chance for Brown' ....?

 

[brogdale]

The politics that dare not speak its name...

 

[Lo Siento.]

A quick google reveals Mr Jepps to be ex-SWP. Presumably some sort of entryist campaign to get him top of that poll?

I've met Jim, he's definitely the best of that list.

 

[butchersapron]

I've met Jim, he's definitely the best of that list.

The two are not. Connected

 

[butchersapron]

Didn't she do about 15 columns over the space of six months with 'I'm giving Brown just one more chance', 'just one more chance for Brown' ....?

Have a google for her and nose - decades of filth.

Then remember 1983.

 

[treelover]

Didn't she do about 15 columns over the space of six months with 'I'm giving Brown just one more chance', 'just one more chance for Brown' ....?

She has done it again in the G post mortem on the debate, gushing about Ed.

 

[dennisr]

 

[redsquirrel]

doesn't she wheel out this sort of thing every election?

Yep, followed by "Labour may not be great but you must vote for them"

 

[William of Walworth]

Yep, followed by "Labour may not be great but you must vote for them"

She's already done that ....

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Had the pleasure of sitting in a sun-drenched beer garden this afternoon with a copy of the Scottish Daily Mail. Holy shit. They are panicking.

 

[Quartz]

Had the pleasure of sitting in a sun-drenched beer garden this afternoon with a copy of the Scottish Daily Mail. Holy shit. They are panicking.

And well they should. Any sensible Tory in Scotland is going to tactically vote Labour or Lib Dem.

 

[Celyn]

The Tories *might* hold on to the one Scottish M.P. they've got.