The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 3 - Page 12

Derek · 25-04-2010, 23:02

Sadly using a mobile phone whilst driving isn't a hanging offence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8643321.stm

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Children's Secretary Ed Balls has been given a Â£60 fine for driving while using a mobile phone

Still fingers crossed he'll pay the fine out of his resettlement grant when he is kicked out his seat on election night.

punky · 26-04-2010, 00:56

Don't worry - the expense claim is already en-route.

Tezcatlipoca · 26-04-2010, 01:02

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Originally Posted by Derek S

Sadly using a mobile phone whilst driving isn't a hanging offence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8643321.stm

Still fingers crossed he'll pay the fine out of his resettlement grant when he is kicked out his seat on election night.

I did read recently in the Guardian that the Tory candidate in Morley and Outwood is hoping to "castrate" Labour...

Jimmy-J · 26-04-2010, 02:32

A typical brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazi BNP supporter, complete with boots, braces and skinhead, clashes with protesters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8640289.stm

Sirius · 26-04-2010, 06:27

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Originally Posted by Product 13

A typical brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazi BNP supporter, complete with boots, braces and skinhead, clashes with protesters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8640289.stm

Indeed.

**Hugh** · 26-04-2010, 08:40

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Originally Posted by Product 13

A typical brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazi BNP supporter, complete with boots, braces and skinhead, clashes with protesters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8640289.stm

Oh, I see - you're being ironic.........

Well done, you.

No one has ever stated that ALL of the BNP supporters are "brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazis" - if you wish to include yourself in that tranche of their devotees, entirely up to you.

Gary L · 26-04-2010, 09:27

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

No one has ever stated that ALL of the BNP supporters are "brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazis"

Very good.

I don't know who was the nuttiest. the one saying "would you like to read the truth" over and over, or the one having to put up with her in her face

Osem · 26-04-2010, 09:43

I caught the tail end of a BBC Radio 5 phone in with Simon Hughes last night and the Lib Dem policy for an amensty for illegal immigrants who've lived here for 10 years (IIRC) was being scrutinised.

Apparently there were questions raised, but few clear answers given, about how these people would be able to prove they'd been here that long and what'd happen to those who'd been employing them during that period. It also appears that any 'amnestees' won't be expected to pay back tax in the same way that a UK citizen who'd been found working illegally probably would. If their policy is as unfair and half baked as it appears, it'll be food and drink to their political opponents I'd have thought....

I haven't yet listened to the whole programme but am hoping I'll be able to do so on iplayer later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...an_25_04_2010/

**Hugh** · 26-04-2010, 09:52

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Originally Posted by Gary L

Very good.

I don't know who was the nuttiest. the one saying "would you like to read the truth" over and over, or the one having to put up with her in her face

Agreed - equally offensive, imho.

Peter_ · 26-04-2010, 10:34

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Originally Posted by Product 13

A typical brain dead, knuckle dragging Neanderthal Nazi BNP supporter, complete with boots, braces and skinhead, clashes with protesters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8640289.stm

It was through gullible people like this that the Nazi party got in power in pre war Germany and look what happened there.

26-04-2010, 13:12

As more and more scrutiny comes to the lib dems the more things look less then the complete honesty nick clegg talks about. That incident with the condidate pictured with a nurse that turned out to be a lib dem party activist being one that sticks in my throat and the explanantion that the leaflet was merely illustrative says a lot. Right now i am leaning more and more to my base instinct of voting for ther tories although i do think as well we are headed for a hung parliament where labour and lib dems will strike up a deal and we will be back in the brown stuff literally.

**Damien** · 26-04-2010, 13:25

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

As more and more scrutiny comes to the lib dems the more things look less then the complete honesty nick clegg talks about. That incident with the condidate pictured with a nurse that turned out to be a lib dem party activist being one that sticks in my throat and the explanantion that the leaflet was merely illustrative says a lot. Right now i am leaning more and more to my base instinct of voting for ther tories although i do think as well we are headed for a hung parliament where labour and lib dems will strike up a deal and we will be back in the brown stuff literally.

How does the picture differ from the Tories and the spin they put on the people Cameron has supposedly met who say different things to what he claimed they did? I not really sure what this 'scandal' is, a picture of some candidate talking to a nurse that wasn't a nurse. You know a lot of those 'happy families' on political leaflets are not necessary voters of the party? How does it differ from using a stock photo?

Also I am not sure Nick Clegg approves every leaflet, this was for some candidate in Wales. Can't hold him responsible for the actions of some candidates..

Pierre · 26-04-2010, 13:27

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Originally Posted by Masque

It was through gullible people like this that the Nazi party got in power in pre war Germany and look what happened there.

I wouldn't draw such comparisons, the circumstances as to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany are a world away from any issue in this election.

Ignitionnet · 26-04-2010, 13:29

Nice unbiased stuff from Nick Robinson as always here. The comments are amusing, a couple noting that even with Nick Robinson and the BBC's relentless cheerleading Brown's spend, spend, spend promises don't really go with even his weak promises to reduce the deficit let alone the reductions that economists consider essential to our longer term prosperity.

It would seem he has gotten to the stage where he'll say literally anything to try and cling on to power.

Peter_ · 26-04-2010, 13:35

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Originally Posted by Pierre

I wouldn't draw such comparisons, the circumstances as to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany are a world away from any issue in this election.

We do not need right wing extremists in this country such as these people and I abhore what these people stand for and the wild beliefs they hold.