The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4

Welcome to the official Cable Forum General Election Thread, week 4. This is the place to discuss any and all political stories during this week of the campaign. There is an opinion poll - please use it to indicate your voting intentions. There will be many more parties standing for election than we have room for, so please make use of the 'other' or 'none of the above' options if you need to.

This thread will remain open for one week. After that it will be replaced with a new thread with a new poll. This will allow us to see how voting intentions change and crystallize as polling day approaches. The final thread in this series will open on the day of the election with an exit poll so we can see which party wins the seat for Cable Forum Central.

Please do not start any other political threads during the election campaign. They will be closed.

This is a continuation of the thread for week 3, which is now closed, but which you can still see here.

[punky]

Some truth from Gordo at last...



If only!

Originally Posted by Hiroki

Haha I thought that GB thing was funny

Even more likely to vote for him now

It was far from funny - granted he made the comments in private (or so he thought) those comments got back to the woman in question and she was left very upset by it and she was an hard Labour supporter. If that's what Gordon 'numpty' Brown really thinks of his own party supporters/voters, who bring up legit questions and concerns during an election campaign visit - he deserves no votes at all.

Originally Posted by Neil22

Cameron has clearly revealed the Tory reason for keeping and replacing Britain's nuclear weapons system. During the first leaders' election debate the other week, David Cameron stated that 'we can't be certain of the future in China', when explaining why he thought Britain should retain nukes.

China has a relatively small nuclear arsenal, and its policies over the last decades indicate that it does not wish to get embroiled in a nuclear arms race and divert its economy from rapid development into a dead end project, the like of which bankrupted the Soviet Union. Doubtless that is why China voted in the UN General Assembly a few years ago to back immediate negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention to ban all nuclear weapons.

China are the only thing propping up our economy at the moment, their investment in government bonds are the only thing preventing us going the way of Greece. Which makes Camerons jibe about nuking them all the more puzzling. I'm sure Beijing loved that.

Has it taken you nearly two weeks to work all that out?

Originally Posted by Mick

It was far from funny - granted he made the comments in private (or so he thought) those comments got back to the woman in question and she was left very upset by it and she was an hard Labour supporter. If that's what Gordon 'numpty' Brown really thinks of his own party supporters/voters, who bring up legit questions and concerns during an election campaign visit - he deserves no votes at all.

It does all depend on what she said ,for all we know GB may be perfectly correct in calling her a bigot
still he should have been more guarded when voicing his personal opinons of a person

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Hiroki

Haha I thought that GB thing was funny

Even more likely to vote for him now

There's always one

Gordon Brown 'mortified' by his 'bigoted woman' slur

Of course he is. Now the whole world knows what many of us have long suspected ... that Gordon is utterly contemptuous of all the little people who just happen to disagree with his Five Year Tractor Plan for Great Britain.

He's a muppet and a disgrace to his office. Thank goodness he'll be vacating it in a little over a week from now.

[Hiroki]

Originally Posted by Mick

It was far from funny - granted he made the comments in private (or so he thought) those comments got back to the woman in question and she was left very upset by it and she was an hard Labour supporter. If that's what Gordon 'numpty' Brown really thinks of his own party supporters/voters, who bring up legit questions and concerns during an election campaign visit - he deserves no votes at all.

Couldn't give a toss, I thought it was funny and that's all that matters to me.

We don't know what the woman said and GB could be right in calling her what he called her.

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Originally Posted by Sirius

There's always one

Hey I like the bloke and he is the best chance this country has

The other two parties in the running are jokes.

Meanwhile, if this knocked the smug grin off Alex Salmond's face for even a second, the world will have become a happier place.

[mikegreen]

One bunch of liars go in, another bunch come out.

Nothing improves, I vote in the vain hope that for once something will change but it never does in any meaningful way.

And those godawful televised debates just make it worse. Nick Clegg?!

The only winners are the politicians, the losers are always the electorate in one way or another.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[Niles Crane]

Is there something wrong with calling a bigot a bigot? When did bigot become a slur? Quite ironic that. In fact, i dare say it's "PC gone mad!"

The only issue here is that he didn't say it to her face.

But she wasn't bigoted in anything she said.... doh...

I still haven't made my mind up yet, i know it certainly won't be conservative but i need to do some in depth thought then lay the polling card in my budgie cage and see which one gets picked 1st .

[Niles Crane]

Originally Posted by Mick

But she wasn't bigoted in anything she said.... doh...

You think she wasn't, clearly GB thinks her opinions show otherwise.

Originally Posted by Mick

But she wasn't bigoted in anything she said.... doh...

so what did she say then ?