UK General Election- May 6th

[duke o' york]

That was the way I was swinging (oo-er, although the political pun was too hard to resist), and will probably go that way unless I get a leaflet from her through the door saying that she'll deport all immigrants and give tax breaks to the richest.

[Ben Kenobi]

Wow, I wonder how much Duke of York makes if he can afford to pay more taxes.

[Dauphin]

He said he wants tax breaks for the rich. i.e him.

[ricketyclik]

... But wow, looks like Labour are in for a kicking mind you!

I heard a commentator on the radio yesterday morning remark that this is probably a good election to lose, as the tax increases and spending cuts are going to have to be so big over the next turn (edit: term - note to self: this is real life) that the electorate is likely to vote whoever's incumbent at that time out for the next 20 years!

I suspect that their sentiment is correct, as electorates seem as a group to have little ability to put current events in historical context, particularly economic ones.

[Dauphin]

Now that the Guardian has endorsed the Lib Dems, I'm reassessing whether I still want to vote Lib Dem.

[MOBIUS]

You stick with your labour candidate and hope that the Libdems get into a coalition government where they will fight through a PR system that will make such difficult choices unnecessary in the future.

I am a Lib Dem and sanction this course of action. The only party that could conceivably win the election outright are the Tories - and that would be a disaster for this country!

[Ecthy]

Of course, even in a PR system you can still get into a similar situation, especially if there's a threshold. You're preferred party, let's assume you're a radical (you name it - commie, nazi, libertarian...), has no chance of climbing over that threshold nationwide, yet you'd want to support it. Now on the national scale there may still be a relatively unfavourable election outcome, as in one unfavourable moderate party over the other. You must vote for the lesser evil among the moderate parties. In this situation you're more screwed than in the one Duke o'York is in, since he's in the easy position to say he can tactically vote labour but still see strong libdems nationwide. Of course my example is a scenario that can be enhanced in any way to make it less extreme.

[Provost Harrison]

Now that the Guardian has endorsed the Lib Dems, I'm reassessing whether I still want to vote Lib Dem.

They are going to be rechristened the Lid Bems now

But yeah, I am glad to see this election has turned into a three-horse race rather than the two same old parties who I do not feel at ease with.

[Cort Haus]

Lid Bems

From what Clegg was saying the other night about converting single-occupant flats to family homes, the Slim Bed party would be appropriate.

Joking apart, the Lib Dem proposal to raise the tax threshold to 10k, while closing loopholes for the very rich, is a very progressive and sensible policy - helping the low paid and offering incentives to get people to work over taking benefits.

The Tories are nowhere in my constituency (Islington North), and Labour has a 6k+ majority over the LDs, and have held the seat since the 1930s. Their man Jeremy Corbyn is a good local MP too, so I'm tempted to vote for him, even though I'd like to support the LDs nationally. The LD candidate is incredibly young and inexperienced, which might not help him. The thought of the LDs helping the Tories form a government isn't comfortable either. I'd rather they combined with Labour to form a majority.

[Cort Haus]

Erm, having just said that, I read this in the Guardian about Clegg:

"if he feels the electorate has given him a choice, his instinct will be to form an alliance of some form with Labour. He holds out no hope of securing electoral reform from Cameron."

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This simpering Tory inbreed is standing in the constituency I grew up in-



Jacob Rees-Mogg. His sister Annunziata (Annunziata!) is standing in the neighbouring constituency.

In 2006 he described state school pupils and non-Oxbridge students as "potted plants". While campaigning in central Fife in 1997 he took his nanny around with him in his Bentley.

Sample quote-

"“I do wish you wouldn’t keep going on about my nanny. If I had a valet you’d think it was perfectly normal."

He is championing local Somerset industries of which printing is a notable example- and his championing is done on his publicity material printed in Guildford.

Due to boundary changes, the old constituency of Wans**** (a rather poor area with a history of mining) now incorporates a big chunk of solidly-Tory south Bath. I'm really rather angry about my spiritual home being represented by someone who might as well be a different species to me.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If my scanner was working, I'd post his election publicity shot. He's wearing a sort of green tweedy number, and couldn't look posher if he tried. What an astonishing **** he is.

[MOBIUS]

Yet more reminders that the Tories are virtually all total c*nts. Cameron is trying to pull the biggest confidence trick ever in trying to convince this country that his party has changed...:vomit:

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, from the recent debates I see the same old Tory colours shining through. For example the abolishion of the FSA. Too inconvenient for their rich friends to have to be scrupulous and honest?

[Kuciwalker]

If my scanner was working, I'd post his election publicity shot. He's wearing a sort of green tweedy number, and couldn't look posher if he tried. What an astonishing **** he is.

failing to use the subjunctive