The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2 - Page 7

Osem · 15-04-2010, 10:28

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...

TheDaddy · 15-04-2010, 10:39

Hmm who thinks Gordon Brown is awsome

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

Osem · 15-04-2010, 10:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Hmm who thinks Gordon Brown is awsome

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

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.....

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

**Damien** · 15-04-2010, 10:46

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Hmm who thinks Gordon Brown is awsome

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

The amount of bias in that article is unbelievable

, I don't know why people buy these papers expecting 'news'.

TheDaddy · 15-04-2010, 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osem

Of course he is - Brown singe-handedly "saved the world" and "broke the cycle of boom and bust" before even having his Weetabix.....

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

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

**Chris** · 15-04-2010, 10:48

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Hmm who thinks Gordon Brown is awsome

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

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.

Osem · 15-04-2010, 10:53

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

Quote:

A weak currency is a sign of a weak economy and a weak government.

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

TheDaddy · 15-04-2010, 10:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damien

The amount of bias in that article is unbelievable

, I don't know why people buy these papers expecting 'news'.

Meh you actually read the article.

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

Osem · 15-04-2010, 10:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Meh you actually read the article.

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

Don't forget to:

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

Xaccers · 15-04-2010, 12:01

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.

**Chris** · 15-04-2010, 12:09

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

Osem · 15-04-2010, 12:13

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?..

punky · 15-04-2010, 13:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osem

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?..

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

Xaccers · 15-04-2010, 13:19

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Originally Posted by Chris

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

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

Spectato · 15-04-2010, 14:51

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

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!!