The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 1

[Derek]

Twitter claims its first victim of the campaign

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/8610934.stm

A Labour election candidate who cursed leading politicians, including David Cameron and Nick Clegg, on his Twitter page has been removed from standing.

Of course maybe he was just taking hints from two jags.

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

Prescott accused of Twitter election ‘fraud’

[Xaccers]

OMG Prescott to be a Lord??? What has the world come to!
Still, the Queen could dub him Lord Two Jags couldn't she?
Better yet, give him an OBE then make him an Earl.
That way he'll be an earlobe

Originally Posted by Flyboy

And as if she was actually reading this thread, Teresa May fulfills my predictions. Asked seven times if there will be any redundancies, she refuses to answer the question.

Flyboy ... Fanboy, more like. Is there any danger of intelligent debate breaking out around here? Such as acknowledging another point made during the same programme, that nobody sitting in opposition can ever make guarantees about anything? Or are you determined to simply parrot whatever the Labour press office tells you to?

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Chris

Flyboy ... Fanboy, more like. Is there any danger of intelligent debate breaking out around here? Such as acknowledging another point made during the same programme, that nobody sitting in opposition can ever make guarantees about anything? Or are you determined to simply parrot whatever the Labour press office tells you to?

If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?

The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.

Try watching the BBC News. Osborne is giving Darling a kicking, live on air right now, on this very issue.

[Will21st]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?

The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.

Jesus H.
I despair of mankind.If you had the slightest inkling of how incredibly dumb your post is,you'd go

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?

The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.

Which they have.
For instance, they've stated 20-40,000 back office public sector jobs won't be re-filled after people have left saving approx £2billion a year.
Turnover in the public sector is approx 400,000 a year.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

The Tories are coming out with hype again, l bet you anything that that saving will be NHS, as that is where all the pen pushers are, a friend of mine works for our local hospital, and she had three secretaries, and there were more admin staff than there were nurses and doctors, that is where the savings will come from - NHS.

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

The Tories are coming out with hype again, l bet you anything that that saving will be NHS, as that is where all the pen pushers are, a friend of mine works for our local hospital, and she had three secretaries, and there were more admin staff than there were nurses and doctors, that is where the savings will come from - NHS.

Which is surely a good thing?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

The Tories are coming out with hype again, l bet you anything that that saving will be NHS, as that is where all the pen pushers are, a friend of mine works for our local hospital, and she had three secretaries, and there were more admin staff than there were nurses and doctors, that is where the savings will come from - NHS.

This sounds like a great plan to me, getting rid of pencil pushers hired during Labour's years.

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?

The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8610560.stm

In other news what a complete and utter twunt Gordon Brown is. This story is astounding. Has it come to things like that to justify his authoritarianism? He is attacking the Tories for wanting to put a halt to the Government's illegal retention of DNA of those cleared of crimes.

At present, there are about six million profiles on the national DNA database, making it the biggest in the world.

EDIT: This is a great quote from the BBC story:

Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said in 2008-09, some 79 rape, murder and manslaughter cases in England and Wales were matched to DNA profiles taken from people who had been arrested but not convicted of any crime.

OK and how many of those 79 cases were solved by this match? I mean presumably the police must have had some way to catch these people prior to the DNA database being created, so how many of those 79 cases relied on the DNA. Probably wouldn't be such a pleasing statistic, and certainly not justification for such wholesale intrusion of our privacy. More CCTV cameras per head than anywhere else in the world including China, and more DNA profiles on record than China despite having less than 1/20th the population.

All perfectly acceptable to some apparently.

[Flyboy]

Yes and those lazy nurses should be doing even more of their share of the paperwork.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Yes and those lazy nurses should be doing even more of their share of the paperwork.

Or we get rid of the unnecessary paperwork.

That you have nothing better to say to this than a glib comment speaks volumes.

[Xaccers]

25-30 years ago, if you'd said that the Tories would be campaining for people's privacy and freedoms while Labour would be acting like Big Brother, people would have said you were mad.
Then again, IngSoc and Labour...

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Will21st

Jesus H.
I despair of mankind.If you had the slightest inkling of how incredibly dumb your post is,you'd go

And instead of attacking and insulting me, why don't you tell us all where these savings will come from?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

That you have nothing better to say to this than a glib comment speaks volumes.

That's the labour way, why give your own ideas or use logic to discredit someone else's when you can just say they were made up on the back of an envelope?