Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

Are we really going to get a debate though? Or are we going to get little more than a series of short pre-prepared speeches from each party leader in succession? From what little I've heard about the format I don't see much chance of lively off-the-cuff debate.

I still haven't decided who I'm voting for but it won't be for more of the same old lies, spin, hypocrisy, sleaze, nepotism, ineptitude, etc., etc...

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

Hmm who thinks Gordon Brown is awsome

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...5875-22186713/

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:rofl:

Of course he is, after all, Brown single-handedly "saved the world" and "broke the cycle of boom and bust" before even having his Weetabix..... :rolleyes:

They're really struggling if that's what they're forced to rely on...

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The amount of bias in that article is unbelievable :erm:, I don't know why people buy these papers expecting 'news'.

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I beleive the line was 'and we not only saved the world' hinting at other un-worldy things also saved by His Awesomness

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The answer to this, of course, is simple. A lot of people, me included, at one time had great respect for Brown's apparent prowess as chancellor. But a couple of things have since come to light.

1. He wasn't an iron chancellor. His ineptitude was merely being masked by the very banking sector bubble that he ought to have been regulating to prevent, and which was eventually the downfall of us all.
2. He's not the chancellor any more. He's the Prime Minister. And in that job he has not at any time managed to build up a positive reputation.

I doubt very much whether anyone is planning to bring up Cameron's former praise for Brown in tonight's debate.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

While we're on the subject of embarrassing clangers, who said this do you reckon?

Answers (including the above quote) on a postcard to No 10 Downing Street,.... :D

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

Meh you actually read the article.

I think I am going to refer to Gordon as His Awesomness from now on though.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

Don't forget to:

:nworthy: :nworthy: :nworthy:

when you hear or speak his name..... :D

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

The difference in reactions to the LibDem manifesto interested me, we had Labour doing their usual soundbites and slurs, and Cameron saying "If libdem voters want *list of things in the LD manifesto* then they should vote conservative as we're bringing them in too" and no slurring of the LD's, and actually, the interviews I've heard with Cameron, he's not slurred the other parties.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

I've spent a long time doing the most comprehensive version of the survey at voteforpolicies.org.uk this morning ... and apparently my personal politics looks like this:

http://vfp.me/4BC6F2B28FEC5

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

I see Prescott's been accused of playing 'dirty' too:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/61924,...dword-campaign

Well what have we come to expect from these people?..

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

No doubt he'll claim that his account was 'hacked' and he's actually innocent. They always do.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
 

I got 50% Tory, 25% UKIP and 25% LibDem

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Leanings?
Add in the UKIP portion and you're 70% fascist! :shocked: :D


Looks like the Greens are appealing most to people's sentimentalities (visitors to that site at least), but probably not to their votes, when it comes to the crunch.

I played the game of guessing which policies belonged to which party, dodging the obvious electioneering and ludicrous promises.
Now I'm totally confused, especially since I advocated voting Lib-Dem!!

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/04/49.jpg