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

[Quartz]

Balls may well be able to be a very effective 'house husband' to the new leader of HM loyal opposition

If he keeps his seat. And I presume you're referring to Sturgeon?

 

[Plumdaff]

Do we really think most UKIP voters, especially in the North, vote for their neo liberal economic policies?

 

[xenon]

South Antram to the Ulster Unionists.

 

[mk12]

Loads of my friends vote Tory. They see Labour as the party for benefits claimants, whereas the Tories are the party of people who want to work hard and 'get on'. In their view, of course, benefits claimants are people who choose not to work.

 

[paolo]

Tories + Libs need to win the Queens Speech vote.
vs
Anti Tory bloc.

Still a chance.

 

[shifting gears]

I'm 95% certain one of my closest friends has voted Tory in the past two elections. She's not rich, she doesn't hate poor people; I think it's a "people need to help themselves and we shouldn't be giving handouts" attitude.

I've been a ranting lefty (by the standards of anyone we associate with) since we've known each other and it's a conversation we've never really had, but thinking we probably need to now...

It's your civic duty to butcher her in the night.

In the bloodiest way imaginable.

 

[butchersapron]

If he keeps his seat. And I presume you're referring to Sturgeon?

No. And no. What an odd thing to presume.

 

[brogdale]

If he keeps his seat. And I presume you're referring to Sturgeon?

No and no

 

[Quartz]

I wonder, could the SNP do a Sinn Fein?

 

[David Clapson]

Can somebody lend me a rifle? I can't take more IDS lies and benefit cuts. If I kill him it will save lives.

 

[butchersapron]

I wonder, could the SNP do a Sinn Fein?

Stop wondering please. Please.

 

[brogdale]

I wonder, could the SNP do a Sinn Fein?

what?

 

[Favelado]

Loads of my friends vote Tory. They see Labour as the party for benefits claimants, whereas the Tories are the party of people who want to work hard and 'get on'. In their view, of course, benefits claimants means people who choose not to work.

Amazing how these laziness epidemics happen in places where all the jobs were destroyed by Tory governments.

 

[butchersapron]

Ta to TB.

 

[Lord Camomile]

It's your civic duty to butcher her in the night.

In the bloodiest way imaginable.

There is no question at all that she could take me. She sleeps with weapons by her bed

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Really am surprised by this. The biggest load of incompetent, nasty shit cunts to ever run a government in my life time are, on track at least, to end up with more seats than in 2010!? A government that's stamped on the poor repeatedly, who have promised to grind them into the dirt if they get in again, are going to end up with more seats? What a bunch of easily bought gullible fuckwits many of my fellow citizens are.

 

[xenon]

2010 lib-dems.

Delinquant bastards.

 

[redsquirrel]

Sturgeon bang on the money about Labour though. They have messed up and look like making themselves even more irrelevant.

 

[Tony_LeaS]

First gain of the night out in Northern Ireland, UUP gain from DUP.

 

[Quartz]

what?

Not attend Westminster.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Loads of my friends vote Tory. They see Labour as the party for benefits claimants, whereas the Tories are the party of people who want to work hard and 'get on'. In their view, of course, benefits claimants are people who choose not to work.

friends?

 

[oryx]

5 more years of Iain Duncan-Smith killing 73 people per week.

Obviously I can't 'like' your post but yes, this and more people using food banks, more people getting evicted due to the bedroom tax and benefit cuts, more zero hours contracts, and all the rest of it.

I feel really angry at the spiteful and self-interested media that look like having won the tory vermin this election.

 

[butchersapron]

Not attend Westminster.

That was Clegg, Cameron went to Eton.

 

[Thunderfist]

"The SNP are not the Viet Cong" apparently - Andrew Marr

 

[mk12]

Indeed. People (w/c and m/c) who have never had to claim benefits, and who have been lucky enough to find steady and stable jobs.

 

[shifting gears]

The only thing I can try and extract from this is hopefully we can expect rioting.... And lots of it. Maybe not immediately, but the anger will build

 

[agricola]

Tories + Libs need to win the Queens Speech vote.
vs
Anti Tory bloc.

Still a chance.

The SNP arent going to vote to give several seats back to Labour.

 

[DotCommunist]

I wonder, could the SNP do a Sinn Fein?

why the fuck would they- shinner abstentionism isn't based on tactical votng its cos they hate the crown and don't think its valid. Inclined to agree

 

[frogwoman]

Wtf.

Hopefully its gonna improve by the time i wake up.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sturgeon bang on the money about Labour though. They have messed up and look like making themselves even more irrelevant.

If they carry on the way they are on the Scottish results programmes - blaming voters, and still *still* making to sound entitled, they're fucked for a long time.