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

[David Clapson]

I'm saying it's well written, not that I agree.

 

[brogdale]

I'm saying it's well written, not that I agree.

...in quite a well argued piece...

 

[David Clapson]

You having trouble with your English?

 

[brogdale]

You having trouble with your English?

No; quality of argument is not a function of grammar or syntax.

 

[rioted]

You think an article advocating more austerity is "well argued".

TBF if you are one of the FTs target audience, it is well argued. Some people are doing very well thankyou from austerity.

 

[gosub]

TBF if you are one of the FTs target audience, it is well argued. Some people are doing very well thankyou from austerity.

On mobile, not read the article yet, but would imagine Ft target audience have done well out of the last 7 years economic policy either by having assets that appreciated as 'we' devalued money and/ or by using and future generations to debt commitments

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

No; quality of argument is not a function of grammar or syntax.

I suppose you can make a well argued point from any set of premises.

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm capable of half-way respecting coherently-argued Tory/free market-obsessed points intellectually.

Those who present them are still 'arguing' complete shite.

IMO like

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I suppose you can make a well argued point from any set of premises.

Even a firebombed shop front

 

[Santino]

I'm saying it's well written, not that I agree.

Did this chap write it?

 

[brogdale]

Lol

 

[Artaxerxes]

Sean Connery should have ex-pat next to him

 

[Nine Bob Note]

before i'd had a chance to get near the fucking front door they'd shuffled off and just put a couple of leaflets through the door along the lines of 'sorry we called while you were out' bollocks nonsense.

Must have been Alan Johnson, old habits die hard.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The truth will set ye free

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-05-01/cameron-its-about-my-career-er-country/

 

[ViolentPanda]

Even a firebombed shop front

Or a pub.

 

[treelover]

The Guardian view: Britain needs a new direction, Britain needs Labour Editorial
Election 2015 poses some profound questions for this country. Ed Miliband has better answers than his rivals, and so deserves a chance to govern
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...view-britain-needs-new-direction-needs-labour

Guardian comes out for Labour, so no Clegg mania this time..

 

[treelover]

In each area, Labour could go further and be bolder. But the contrast between them and the Conservatives is sharp. While Labour would repeal the bedroom tax, the Tories are set on those £12bn of cuts to social security, cuts that will have a concrete and painful impact on real lives. Even if they don’t affect you, they will affect your disabled neighbour, reliant on a vital service that suddenly gets slashed, or the woman down the street, already working an exhausting double shift and still not able to feed her children without the help of benefits that are about to be squeezed yet further. For those people, and for many others, a Labour government can make a very big difference.

Good section

 

[brogdale]

Hey ladeeez....there's still time!

 

[DotCommunist]

is he turning into gryff rhys jones in his dotage?

 

[two sheds]

Who, brogdale?

 

[DotCommunist]

nah, huge grant.

 

[two sheds]

in that case I dunno.

 

[two sheds]

Good piece in this issue of Private Eye by M.D. about the NHS Action Party manifesto by the way. Not on the website and I'd type a bit of it in but I'm off out into the garden

 

[brogdale]

Down to MarRamsgate, you can keep the Costa Brava, I'm telling ya mate I'd rather have a day down MarRamsgate with all me the royal family

man of the people

 

[DotCommunist]

amount of photo ops he does with a pint its a wonder he manages to stay sober. Must be pouring them in the plant pots on the sly

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

amount of photo ops he does with a pint its a wonder he manages to stay sober. Must be pouring them in the plant pots on the sly

Nah, I reckon it's managed so that he can get his first drink in quite early.

 

[brogdale]

Needs no title.

BrisUrbs take a bow.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[chilango]

Her offices got vandalised with red paint not too long back too.

 

[brogdale]

Her offices got vandalised with red paint not too long back too.

Oh dear...