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

[killer b]

the sun's desperate batting for the scum has been hair-raising. Were they this vicious in support of Labour when they crossed the floor?

 

[brogdale]

The colossal twunt of Uxbridge speaks of Sturgeon...

Speaking to the Guardian beside a replica Spitfire outside the RAF bunker where Winston Churchill oversaw the Battle of Britain in 1940, he compared Nicola Sturgeon to “a scorpion”, adding to the list of likenesses he has applied to the SNP leader which have so far included King Herod and Lady Macbeth.

Their strategy is so limited it is almost unbelievable.

 

[treelover]

the sun's desperate batting for the scum has been hair-raising. Were they this vicious in support of Labour when they crossed the floor?

Yes, and their hipster managing editor Stig Abell(how did he get that job?) is never off Sky presenting this very liberal persona while his rags pour out their effluent.

 

[treelover]

The colossal twunt of Uxbridge speaks of Sturgeon...


Their strategy is so limited it is almost unbelievable.

who do you mean?

 

[brogdale]

Looks like Plaid are hoping for some of that Sturgeon shine to rub off onto their campaign.

7m ago14:26

Leanne Wood, the Plaid Cymru leader, has welcomed Nicola Sturgeon declaration at her press conference earlier that she supports Plaid’s call for Wales to get higher funding from Westminster. (See 11.58am.) Wood said:

I am very pleased to hear Nicola Sturgeon supporting Plaid Cymru’s key commitment to securing parity with Scotland for Wales.

Just as the SNP is doing for Scotland, Plaid Cymru is fighting for the best deal possible for Wales in this election.

Parity of funding with Scotland would see Wales receiving an extra £1.2bn a year - £400 for each man, woman and child.

 

[DotCommunist]

I agree with Nicola

 

[brogdale]

who do you mean?

Negative, nasty, negative, vile, negative, "thatcherite give-away", negative, nasty, negative....

Jergetme?

 

[treelover]

I mean who is the 'twunt of uxbridge'?

 

[brogdale]

I mean who is the 'twunt of uxbridge'?

Do keep up tree.

 

[killer b]

Yes, and their hipster managing editor Stig Abell(how did he get that job?) is never off Sky presenting this very liberal persona while his rags pour out their effluent.

how is the managing editor of the sun a 'hipster'?

 

[brogdale]

how is the managing editor of the sun a 'hipster'?

pronounced 'cuntster'

 

[red & green]

It's been busy here - some young pub school type just came to the door with a clipboard and a blue tabard I was ready to let loose but they were fundraising for battersea dogs home.......

 

[chilango]

Plenty of Green posters appearing in terraced streets round here in Reading East. A few Labour ones too. Nothing else. Tory canvassers obviously keen to speak to "hard-working families" we're out knocking doors at 2.30 this afternoon .

 

[JTG]

Seen plenty of Green ones here too. Suspect they're the ones most likely to be smug enough to do the poster thing without shame. Fucking loads on my facebook too

 

[JimW]

Man dressed as a clown runs off with a Lib Dem poster in Bisley

To be fair, clown trousers don't count as dressing up round Stroud.

 

[youngian]

I mean who is the 'twunt of uxbridge'?

Letting the SNP into UK government with Labour would be like getting King Herod to run a baby farm, warns Boris Johnson.

This is the sort of remark that has apparently made Johnson one of the great political wits of our age. I have heard mercifully little from him in this campaign, lets hope it stays that way

 

[killer b]

I dunno if the poster thing is indicative of anything other than the party in question having a few pretty active old-school campaigners in the area. I live in a safe labour seat and there's fuck all, my girlfriend lives in a safe labour seat (kaufman's) and you can't move for labour placards.

 

[Wilf]

Interesting to see how Cameron's 'vote labour, you get the snp, you split the country' scare tactic will play out. I've only heard one clip of him doing it - he sounded hysterical.

Have a feeling it will have a slight impact in England, portraying the snp as wild eyed vandals, out to destroy the uk. Ironically though, it probably strengthens the snp in Scotland itself. Certainly gives Labour a strategic problem. There's an attack on the very party who are going to screw them in Scotland, but Labour need to defend the idea the snp will be reasonable and responsible in an informal coalition. However they can't really say anything other than 'we intend to get a full majority'. Also, they haven't really got sufficient friends in the media to really push the idea that a Lab-snp arrangement would be stable.

Anyway, it's amusing watching the yellow scum touting themselves to anybody who will listen. Pleeeeeease let me keep my ministerial car!

 

[Idris2002]

Maisie Williams will be taking a "direct action" approach to the election:

 

[youngian]

Spoiler: Cartoon in today's "Scum"

kinnel!

However shite these Tory hack cartoonists are they can console themselves they are not Paul Thomas, a man who's work was so woeful he got the elbow from the Express

 

[Wilf]

I dunno if the poster thing is indicative of anything other than the party in question having a few pretty active old-school campaigners in the area. I live in a safe labour seat and there's fuck all, my girlfriend lives in a safe labour seat (kaufman's) and you can't move for labour placards.

Fucking hell, is kaufman standing again, he's 85! Ageism aside... he's also a massive twat.

 

[killer b]

I expect they'll have to remove him in a box

 

[brogdale]

Another 6 mile (urban) ramble today, all within the 'safe' 'golden crescent' LD seat of C&W...and this was the only election poster/stakeboard that I saw.

Yes, you're right...that is the Matthew Joseph Constable Maxwell Scott, the heir presumptive to the Constable Maxwell-Scott Baronetcy, of Haggerston in the County of Northumberland.

 

[JTG]

However shite these Tory hack cartoonists are they can console themselves they are not Paul Thomas, a man who's work was so woeful he got the elbow from the Express

And yet Steve Bell still manages to earn a living

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I live in a safe Labour seat with a popular MP and Labour posters are the only ones you see, but there's not a huge amount. Go to Barnet though and some currently Tory held areas are awash with Labour posters and those estate agent sign things. I suspect that's partly to do with the unpopularity of the council.

 

[brogdale]

Genuine Telegraph headline...

 

[Wilf]

Ah, yes - 'Red Ed's Dead Dad, the man who hated Britain'.

 

[J Ed]

Sheffield Hallam - former Tory backs Labour days after Conservative endorsed Clegg

Vonny Watts, who stood for the Conservatives as a local council candidate in a 2013 by-election in Fulwood and came third, is now a member of the Labour party.

The former deputy chair of South Yorkshire Conservatives has publicly backed Oliver Coppard, the Labour candidate for Sheffield Hallam.

It comes days after it emerged that John Harthman, former Parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Hallam, was urging voters to support Nick Clegg on Liberal Democrat party leaflets delivered to homes.

Vonny Watts, who lives in the Sheffield Hallam constituency, said: “I can look Oliver Coppard in the eye and know he’ll do what he says he will for us, because he’s got Westminster in his sights but Sheffield in his heart.”

“I am a member of the Labour Party because I can now see they, and in particular Oliver, are the only ones who care about people here.”

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

haha

 

[elbows]

Not sure how much if any of this is going on in any other constituencies, but here in Swansea East, both the Green and Class War candidates have had to withdraw. The reasons we can't get our heads round yet, because the South Wales Evening Post report was so lamentably detail-devoid. It's a useless online search engine on that paper's site too.

Will do a bit of other searching online shortly.

But do any other Urbans know : Have the registration rules or nomination rules for candidates changed at all since 2010?

Might be a Swansea-only fuckup I suppose.

Did you find out what happened?

So much for the £750 the Swansea Green party raised via crowdfunding to ensure that all three Swansea constituencies had a green candidate!

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/swansea-bay-green-party/?