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

[Quartz]

One could presume that his xenophobia is not purely confined to terrestrial individuals then.

Excellent! It's a pity I can't double-like that!

 

[Santino]

"Dr Who" is the name of the programme; the character is called "the Doctor".

 

[gosub]

Farage has truly put his foot in it this time: he wants the BBC to stop making Doctor Who.

how long before the Dad's Army tapes got worn through?

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[DotCommunist]

I see the daily mail is in full headbanger mode, warning us all of secret Unite 'militants' pulling 'drop dead-ed's' (see: milifangirls) strings

 

[rutabowa]

I really want labour and SNP to run the country.

 

[Orang Utan]

I really want labour and SNP to run the country.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/queen-palace-coup-miliband-snp-cameron-huitson-345

 

[chilango]

Green posters popping up like mushrooms. Labour's stalled after the first handful. All other parties are unrepresented in the windows of Reading East.

 

[Wilf]

I really want labour and SNP to run the country.

I'd quite like Sinn Fein to come into the commons and join a Lab-snp-green coalition. Daily Mail would, literally, explode.

 

[The Boy]

I'd quite like Sinn Fein to come into the commons and join a Lab-snp-green coalition. Daily Mail would, literally, explode.

Think they've left that all behind now, haven't they?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Green posters popping up like mushrooms.

Same in Brighton. Re-elect Lucas everywhere.

 

[krink]

Not sure how common this is but I've overheard a few people at work saying they wished SNP was in England as they'd vote for them if they could. Some of my mates have said the same to me.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

^^ same here krink

 

[elbows]

Being in a target seat we are getting a huge volume of election material from Labour through the door, almost daily it seems. Very little from other parties by comparison.

 

[SE25]

Not sure how common this is but I've overheard a few people at work saying they wished SNP was in England as they'd vote for them if they could. Some of my mates have said the same to me.

This is quite common after the 'debates'. Food for thought for the SNP, maybe.

 

[bemused]

The Tories Croydon South advertising cheque musty have cleared I've had three leaflets from them today.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe significant?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Maybe that 'high' could be granted from being pushed off the 5th floor of somewhere?

 

[Celyn]

Oh, if it's "high" he wants, I'm sure Osborne could help him out.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe that 'high' could be granted from being pushed off the 5th floor of somewhere?

Has to be...

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Gives me the creeps that vid.

 

[Dogsauce]

This is quite common after the 'debates'. Food for thought for the SNP, maybe.

Voting labour in England/Wales increases the likelihood of a government involving some SNP input, so that might be the best option for people south of the border. Given how popular Sturgeon appears to have been in the debates it's weird how the Tories think it's harmful to play up the possibility of the SNP forming a pact with their opponents.

 

[brogdale]

Gives me the creeps that vid.

It really reminds me off this.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Jesus fuck

 

[J Ed]

Gives me the creeps that vid.

Worst bad trip ever

 

[free spirit]

But a big green vote will keep greg mulholland in place and help return a tory government. Sorry FS - im trying to persuade everyone i know in leeds NW who is thinking of voting green to vote labour.

we're going for the win, and will take more votes off lib dems than we will of labour anyway.

Frankly, fuck labour, and fuck the lib dems, they've both signed up to continuing with austerity after the election, will both sign the TTIP treaty, continue privatising the NHS, failing to raise the minimum wage to a living wage etc

What difference will one more labour MP make compared to doubling the Green contingent in parliament? The Greens have explicitly stated that they'd not support a Tory government in any way, and would offer confidence and supply arrangements to Labour, but wouldn't support an austerity budget, so they aren't going to do a Lib Dems and end up supporting a tory government.

Greens are now winning the student vote in Leeds 35% to Greens, 32% to Labour, 6% to Lib Dem, and students are 25% of the constituency so that's a pretty good base of support to start from, and shows how the Greens have hovered up the Lib Dem student vote from last time - that's the highest proportion of the student vote in the country, which demonstrates the effects of the campaign work that's been going on in the area for the last couple of years. We're also massively winning the poster battle in most of headingley and Otley, though struggling a bit to counter the lib dems on the main roads.

We now have around 60 local campaigners active in the campaign in Leeds NW, I'm betting that neither lib dem or Labour can match that, though their party machines will probably be better set up I'm rapidly evening that situation up and we're in the process of ensuring all 32,000 houses get at least 3 of the Green Party leaflets, more in Headingley and Otley where we're going for council seats as well.

See how it works out, but Alex Sobel keeps shooting his campaign in the foot with false attacks on Mullholland, then having to issue appologies, including distributing 15,000 printed apologies.... it's a bit of a shambles of a campaign really, just with central party resources being thrown at it. Ours is at least a grassroots led shambles, and getting rapidly less shambolic.

We'll see how it pans out, but IMO it's probably as possible here as it is anywhere, and done with a properly anti-austerity based grassroots campaign.

 

[Kaka Tim]

we're going for the win, and will take more votes off lib dems than we will of labour anyway.

Frankly, fuck labour, and fuck the lib dems, they've both signed up to continuing with austerity after the election, will both sign the TTIP treaty, continue privatising the NHS, failing to raise the minimum wage to a living wage etc

What difference will one more labour MP make compared to doubling the Green contingent in parliament? The Greens have explicitly stated that they'd not support a Tory government in any way, and would offer confidence and supply arrangements to Labour, but wouldn't support an austerity budget, so they aren't going to do a Lib Dems and end up supporting a tory government.

Greens are now winning the student vote in Leeds 35% to Greens, 32% to Labour, 6% to Lib Dem, and students are 25% of the constituency so that's a pretty good base of support to start from, and shows how the Greens have hovered up the Lib Dem student vote from last time - that's the highest proportion of the student vote in the country, which demonstrates the effects of the campaign work that's been going on in the area for the last couple of years. We're also massively winning the poster battle in most of headingley and Otley, though struggling a bit to counter the lib dems on the main roads.

We now have around 60 local campaigners active in the campaign in Leeds NW, I'm betting that neither lib dem or Labour can match that, though their party machines will probably be better set up I'm rapidly evening that situation up and we're in the process of ensuring all 32,000 houses get at least 3 of the Green Party leaflets, more in Headingley and Otley where we're going for council seats as well.

See how it works out, but Alex Sobel keeps shooting his campaign in the foot with false attacks on Mullholland, then having to issue appologies, including distributing 15,000 printed apologies.... it's a bit of a shambles of a campaign really, just with central party resources being thrown at it. Ours is at least a grassroots led shambles, and getting rapidly less shambolic.

We'll see how it pans out, but IMO it's probably as possible here as it is anywhere, and done with a properly anti-austerity based grassroots campaign.

you really think the greens are going to win Leeds NW? The greens dont have single councillor in the constituency - its not going to happen.
All the greens will do is help smug wanker mullholland keep his seat - and help keep the tories in power. And that will be considerably worse than labour/SNP - which is the only alternative. Im happy to trade a green vote in leeds west for a labour one in north west.

 

[Orang Utan]

still floating in leeds nw between labour (<spits>) and alliance for green socialism

 

[free spirit]

you really think the greens are going to win Leeds NW? The greens dont have single councillor in the constituency - its not going to happen.
All the greens will do is help smug wanker mullholland keep his seat - and help keep the tories in power. And that will be considerably worse than labour/SNP - which is the only alternative. Im happy to trade a green vote in leeds west for a labour one in north west.

we're definitely not going to win in Leeds West so that'd be a waste of a vote.

We don't have a councillor, but we were close to one in Headingley last year before the Green Surge in support.

If we win or not depends on how much the lib dem vote collapses, how much the labour campaign fails to inspire people to vote for them, and how much we inspire people to vote for us.

But it's among the most likely seats in the country to turn Green, and the candidate's a good candidate with decent politics, so worth going for it IMO.

We're attempting to make this election about austerity, we're the only serious anti-austerity party standing against 3 parties who've committed themselves to further spending cuts and austerity that polls indicate the majority of both labour and lib dem voters don't support.

It might not work, but at least we're putting the arguments out there in a pretty high profile way.

 

[JTG]

The Greens think they'll win Bristol West too. They won't, but they may well help return Stephen Williams to Parliament