UK Election

[ArdeeBhoy]

Clearly you are buying all the Tory propaganda, hook line & sinker in the British media;well done!
It's a contradiction to assume they'll 'ringfence' the NHS when it doesn't match up with their supposed austerity measures or an aging population.
So fine, just don't get ill.

The no.of bigoted Tories (et al) is based on substantial personal experience, statements by random MPs and regularly by their numerous friends in the media, spouting bile about different racial groups, gays, young people and the like. In fact, everyone, not, like them. Needless to say the few said same members of those minorities within their ranks, seem blinkered to the fact that there's elements of the same party who despise them.....
The criticisms of Labour re.tax and bureaucracy is relatively fair;DNA databases are almost essential (& uniform) across the EU whilst the rest is more anti-Labour hot air from the Brit.Establishment media friends who in the main are barely interested in any concept of, er, 'Society'.

[boovidge]

I don't read any Conservative-supporting media. I'm not assuming they'll ringfence the NHS, it's a clear manifesto pledge and one they've stressed throughout the campaign. There is quite a considerably high number of ethnic minority and gay Tory members who are involved not only at a lower level but also at the higher end of the party, I think that they may be a better judge of the party's overall character than someone who is not involved in the party at all. They first ethnic minority and female PM's were also both Conservative. The party is a broad church of social conservatives, "Thatcherites", classic liberals, "one nation Conservatives" etc. Although I agree with you that there is still an element on the fringe of the Tory party that is..."backward" in their outlook let's say, the suggestion that 90% or however many are racists doesn't wash at all.

There is no need whatsoever for innocent people never convicted of a crime, including babies, to be on a DNA database. Only people convicted of serious crimes should have their DNA stored. Trying to make it legal to be able to detain people for 90 days without charge is a serious attack on liberty and human rights, not just something cooked up by the "Brit establishment media" I.D cards, also an unnecessary intrusion of the state and a further attack on liberty in Britain.

[culloty82]

The Tories have made an effort to change their image, but looking at it from a selfish Irish perspective, it's hard to see what we or the nationalists would gain if they formed a government. At max, they'll probably finish around 300, which brings up the nightmare scenario of them being propped up by the DUP, UUP and the indy unionists (can't see Lib Dems doing a deal when Cameron doesn't want PR).

[ArdeeBhoy]

Sounds like yer man would be more at home in UKIP anyway....

If that other shower get in they'll prove even more clueless than the current lot.

[culloty82]

The only opinion poll done in the North this month:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-14792015.html

Clicking on the graph gives you figures for each constituency.

[shakermaker1982]

I'm still not sure who's getting my x in the box even at this late stage. A month ago it was the Libs but I'm starting to swing back to Labour. ANYTHING is better than the Tories. I fear Cameron and his cronies. I didn't go to Eton, I'm not a right winger and I don't earn 100k a year so he doesn't cater for people like me.

[culloty82]

Prediction Time:

Feel free to give a rough estimate on what will happen tonight - Britain adds up to 632.

Great Britain:
Conservatives 282
Labour 248
Liberal Democrats 90
UK Others 12 (7 SNP, 4 Plaid Cymru, 1 Green)

Northern Ireland
DUP 8
SF 4
SDLP 3
UUP 1
Independent Unionists 2

[Mr A]

Just saw this on the BBC site:

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0940: Reports are coming in that the UK Independence Party Euro-MP Nigel Farage has been involved in a light plane crash at an airfield near Brackley in Northamptonshire. Mr Farage, who is standing in the general election, is understood to have suffered non life-threatening injuries in the incident.

Am I the only person who immediately wondered if the right wing failed?

[Wolfie]

Just saw this on the BBC site:



Am I the only person who immediately wondered if the right wing failed?

I also note how the BBC have airily referred to it as a "light plane crash" as opposed to a fully fledged plane crash.

It's obviously the travel disasters equivalent to a "light lunch" or "a light work out".

[osarusan]

i think they meant it was a light aircraft.

[Wolfie]

Yeah, I know - but am also painfully aware that I have no way of proving I knew.

I'm basically relying on you all knowing I was intelligent enough in the first place to have known that but jeopardised that certainty for the sake of a joke.

[dahamsta]

That's what they all say. Albeit slightly more convoluted...

[The Fly]

The BNP, and some voters in East London, have a frank exchange of views;


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/8663681.stm

[Wolfie]

That's what they all say. Albeit slightly more convoluted...

You're just going to have to trust me on this one.........................

[OneRedArmy]

The plane apparently was trailing a UKIP banner at the time.

Tell me there isn't a God..........!

[Mr A]

The plane apparently was trailing a UKIP banner at the time.

Tell me there isn't a God..........!

There is no God. He survived.

[bennocelt]

The BNP, and some voters in East London, have a frank exchange of views;


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/8663681.stm

Thats actually funny, Jesus I would vote for him just for that, he had a decent punch

[Dodge]

Chaos in several uk polling stations. Some electoral
lists weren't sent to stations, some ran out of ballot papers, some places closed doors at 10 with 100s locked outside, others allowed voting after 10.

All the broadcastors predicting hung parliament with Cons on 305-310. Given the state of Labour for the past year it looks like Cameron has missed an open goal

[Dodge]

Should say betfair still says over 325 for Cons

[Lionel Ritchie]

Wow Peter Robinson gone!