'Ukip: The First Hundred Days'

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

Not many people have forgotten what labour did

Sadly, I think that you are wrong on that score.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

Not many people have forgotten what labour did and are not likely too for a long time but just because they got it so wrong doesn't mean anything is better and I'm more worried about the type of society my kids and grandkids will be living in. This conservative party is hardly full of in touch with reality people and the change in society in just their first five years is worrying and they've had to rein themselves in because of the lib dems another five years of a majority Tory party and society will be tearing itself apart. I dont trust any of the main parties enough to give them my vote this time round and I don't see it getting better anytime soon I think the days of a true public servant are gone though I hope they return.

I think a lot of people have both short and selective memories but your're right that Labour's mistakes don't mean 'anything' is preferable (even though you'd have to go a long way to find anything worse.. ).

Fortunately we're in a position to judge the alternatives yet a lot of people will always vote the same way no matter what. I believe it's that fact which has created the complacency and contempt for the electorate which is evident amongst a good many of our politicians at any time other than just before an election. UKIP is focusing minds amongst the cosy political elite and it's about time someone did.

Originally Posted by Chris

Because newspapers are free to print whatever they want, in favour of whoever they like. Bias is part of the game.

Unlike TV broadcasters, and especially unlike public service TV broadcasters, which operate under licence and are subject to a regulator.

We don't have an equivalent of Fox News in this country for that reason. Regardless of how close we are to a general election, I'm amazed Channel 4 has done this.

It is a drama however and I am not sure they're subject to the same rules as news programs. There have been plenty of political dramas with real world parties and politicians being covered and I don't think there has been an issue over perceived bias. The subjects don't like them obviously but they're still aired.

[Taf]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

it just shows how much the established political rabble are bum twitching ahead of the election

Full-on pebble-dashing their toilets soon enough.

[Osem]

Apparently Farage has just announced he'll close down C4 if he gets elected...

[Escapee]

I would have loved one showing the first hundred days of the Green's and what their policies would do to the country.

I guess the difference is that the Greens are not any threat to the establishment yet, perhaps they will get their turn the next time around.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Osem

Apparently Farage has just announced he'll close down C4 if he gets elected...

Would anybody notice?

Originally Posted by Escapee

I would have loved one showing the first hundred days of the Green's and what their policies would do to the country.

No cars, compulsary muesli for breakfast and hessian shirts all round.

I guess the difference is that the Greens are not any threat to the establishment yet, perhaps they will get their turn the next time around.

May saints and angels protect us.

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Would anybody notice?



No cars, compulsary muesli for breakfast and hessian shirts all round.



May saints and angels protect us.

I would be out of a job, no hang on I'm safe they say they that after slashing the defence budget, defence industry workers would be employed making wind turbines.

[rhyds]

Originally Posted by Escapee

I would be out of a job, no hang on I'm safe they say they that after slashing the defence budget, defence industry workers would be employed making wind turbines.

Only you could only build them when the wind was blowing, the rain was falling and the sun out, otherwise there's not enough electricity to run the machines.

Originally Posted by Escapee

I would have loved one showing the first hundred days of the Green's and what their policies would do to the country.

That was the original subject but UKIP's rise caused them to switch.

I guess the difference is that the Greens are not any threat to the establishment yet, perhaps they will get their turn the next time around.

Nor are UKIP really. The real threat comes from the SNP but few seem to be talking about it.

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by rhyds

Only you could only build them when the wind was blowing, the rain was falling and the sun out, otherwise there's not enough electricity to run the machines.

From my desk in work I can see 3 within a 5 minute walking distance, I do observe that they appear to be stopped more than they are running because either there is not enough or too much wind. I often comment that if the Greens get in power it would be another day without electricity

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Originally Posted by Damien

That was the original subject but UKIP's rise caused them to switch.




Nor are UKIP really. The real threat comes from the SNP but few seem to be talking about it.

Yes I read that they considered making the programme about the Greens, but I do wonder if UKIP were the focus all along and that is just a smokescreen.

I agree about the SNP, Labour are a big concern but a government after April with SNP, Greens or Plaid Cymru involved is something I do not wish to consider.

Strange, I can't find similar outrage on the forum when the similar docu-drama "When Boris met Dave" was shown on More4/C4, or the C4 comedy "The Hunt for Tony Blair" was shown, or the C4 drama "The Deal" (about Blair and Brown), or "The New Statesman", or "The Thick of It, or "Absolute Power".

It's almost as if UKIP supporters don't remember the same thing happening to other parties......

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Strange, I can't find similar outrage on the forum when the similar docu-drama "When Boris met Dave" was shown on More4/C4, or the C4 comedy "The Hunt for Tony Blair" was shown, or the C4 drama "The Deal" (about Blair and Brown), or "The New Statesman", or "The Thick of It, or "Absolute Power".

It's almost as if UKIP supporters don't remember the same thing happening to other parties......

I haven't seen any of them Hugh, I admit I haven't seen the UKIP one either. So I have no idea about the content, were the others in the lead-up to the last election?

Originally Posted by Escapee

I haven't seen any of them Hugh, I admit I haven't seen the UKIP one either. So I have no idea about the content, were the others in the lead-up to the last election?

Boris and Dave & The Thick Of It aired in the October before I think. Not sure about the rest.

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Damien

Boris and Dave & The Thick Of It aired in the October before I think. Not sure about the rest.

I had a quick search.

"When Boris met Dave" is described as a Docu-rama 2000 based on real interviews.

"Hunt for Blair" was 2011 so long after he had gone.

"The Deal" 2003 was about a well known deal between Blair and Brown where Brown would not stand in Blair's way for the PM job.

"In the thick of it" 2005, this was satire about government in general appears to be satire.

"Absolute Power" 2000 fictional, Wiki doesn't indicate it to be about any particular party.

None of the above appear to be docu-ramas leading up to an election with the intention of scaremongering.