The UK election thread

[RuleBritannia]

Ok, sorry, not looked in for a couple of days.... Brown is joining the dole queue.....

You do realise he's still an MP.

[Coito ergo sum]

Updated for dramatic effect...

Anyone fancy having a go at naming then all without Googling?

Cunts?

Who was the last PM to wear those fancy-shmancy wigs? Did they just fall out of fashion one year? Or, was it a gradual process?

Was it like hats in the US? In the 1950s, everybody wore hats. JFK is credited with almost single-handedly eliminating hats from the standard male fashion. He often didn't wear hats, and the hat went away....

I wonder...was there like, a leading figure back in the day who said, "fuck it - I'm not wearing these powdery wigs - I'm done." And, then everyone just said - "yup - wigs are out!"

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Well, four years from now the Tories will win a landslide. Without Scotland in the Union, Labour will be nowhere.

Labour will always be here, just as the Tories will. As will Lib Dems be there as a back up plan when it all goes tits up.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

You do realise he's still an MP.

Not for long. He'll soon be an MEP.
And one day the pope will cannonise him as patron saint of the working family man..... Oh, the irony.

[RuleBritannia]

Updated for dramatic effect...

Anyone fancy having a go at naming then all without Googling?

Cunts?

Who was the last PM to wear those fancy-shmancy wigs? Did they just fall out of fashion one year? Or, was it a gradual process?

Was it like hats in the US? In the 1950s, everybody wore hats. JFK is credited with almost single-handedly eliminating hats from the standard male fashion. He often didn't wear hats, and the hat went away....

I wonder...was there like, a leading figure back in the day who said, "fuck it - I'm not wearing these powdery wigs - I'm done." And, then everyone just said - "yup - wigs are out!"

The wigs were originally worn by all government and civic officials as a form of disguise so they couldn't be identified (or assassinated) while out of office. I don't know it for a fact, but I'd guess that they were phased out over time as security became better.

Another interesting fact: The boxes that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition stand at in the House of Commons are situated one foot more than a swords length apart, that way they can't kill each other when debates get heated.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Another interesting fact: The boxes that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition stand at in the House of Commons are situated one foot more than a swords length apart, that way they can't kill each other when debates get heated.

Yeah, I've heard that one. Maybe if the strip searched them before they enter, they could sit closer together?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

Here's to another election later this year, when the true horror of the Torypocalypse becomes clear and the coalition collapses....

Well, I mean, Labour got you here. How much worse can the Tories do?

Labour got us here by following a largely Tory approach to economic regulation (or lack thereof).

Tories following a Tory approach can only be worse.

There is a lack of economic regulation in the UK? Really?

Yes.

[RuleBritannia]

http://www.voterpower.org.uk/

[Brian Peacock]

Oh, and arse as well.

He followed Churchill's example, for a while at least...

I kept passing him on Aberdeen station.

It's weird seeing someone you know off the telly surreptitiously smoking a fag while waiting for the local northbound stopper.

And was he singing softly to himself, and drinking from a hip-flask? That's what Churchill would have done, just before pissing himself. That's why Churchill spent a lot of the time naked, so his clothes didn't smell of piss. It's true. I read a book.

[Elessarina]

I think a coalition is very exciting and the best result. I firmly believe we need a fresh approach to sort out the economic crisis.

The Tories are a fresh approach to the economic crisis only in the same sense that a nuclear bomb is a fresh approach to urban planning.

ok ok whatever YOU sort the mess out fucking labour made by using all the pension funds .. people's pension funds, to fund their governmentamoung many other things they did. So many people are so fucking blinded by political bias it is as bad as those who support the damn Pope.. I expect you'd kiss Brown's arse if he were shafting a choir boy

If you expect the tories to do so badly then fuck off to another country it's simple really. But seeing as we have a new government in place I plan to support it as I did Labour when they came into power in '97 because whining and moaning about it while sitting on your arse doing fucking nothing is worse than what any government has done EVER

[Elessarina]

Another interesting fact: The boxes that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition stand at in the House of Commons are situated one foot more than a swords length apart, that way they can't kill each other when debates get heated.

I've stood at the Prime Minster's Box

I've also been into 10 Downing Street.. in fact I tripped up and fell out of 10 Downing Street

[RuleBritannia]

Lib Dems have voted on the coalition and now it's official. It's not what I voted for when I ticked the Whig's box, but you know what they say; keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

[Clinton Huxley]

I think a coalition is very exciting and the best result. I firmly believe we need a fresh approach to sort out the economic crisis.

The Tories are a fresh approach to the economic crisis only in the same sense that a nuclear bomb is a fresh approach to urban planning.

ok ok whatever YOU sort the mess out fucking labour made by using all the pension funds .. people's pension funds, to fund their governmentamoung many other things they did. So many people are so fucking blinded by political bias it is as bad as those who support the damn Pope.. I expect you'd kiss Brown's arse if he were shafting a choir boy

If you expect the tories to do so badly then fuck off to another country it's simple really. But seeing as we have a new government in place I plan to support it as I did Labour when they came into power in '97 because whining and moaning about it while sitting on your arse doing fucking nothing is worse than what any government has done EVER

I think this is uncalled for. You don't really like people disagreeing with you, do you Ele?

Some of us remember the 80s and are aware that a leopard doesn't change its spots. The worst excesses of Torysism may be tempered by being in a coalition but lets remember some facts:-

1) In Europre the Conservatives have teamed up with fascist parties
2) They want to bring fox-hunting back
3) They are funded and influenced by Right Wing Christian "think tanks"
4) Homophobia runs deep.

Not exactly a progressive party......

[JimC]

Clinton Huxley wrote:

Some of us remember the 80s and are aware that a leopard doesn't change its spots.

From a distance, I have gained the distinct impression that the Tories have indeed moved somewhat away from their bloody-minded Thatcherite past, although I suppose the proof will be in the pudding of actual government... Then there will be the effect of marriage to a lefty partner, and whether pillow-talk can overcome the inevitable squabbles...

[Rum]

The fact of the matter is that the government of the day is going to have to do some very tough things to get the national debt down. They won't be popular and they will probably make everyone feel poorer, create at least some unemployment and erode public services. Whoever got in would face the same problem, even if they were intent on tackling it differently. Look at the public reaction in Greece.

Cameron has been handed a poisoned chalice, poor sod.