The Politics Thread

[thebish]

please be reassured - I slept like a baby

(NB - what a daft expression that is - babies are notoriously crap at sleeping through the night! )

[Worthy4England]

He didn't anywhere say anything about exclusivity to British workers

So saying "British jobs for British workers" isn't exactly that then? Fair enough! You'd say the same had Cameron made the same claim, of course?!

I see from the first couple of sentences, you're starting to grasp this politics malarky! Soon you'll twig that all parties do it. When Cameron said "we have absolutely no plans to raise VAT." In the April prior to the last election, what he actually forgot to add was "until the emergency budget two months away". What a silly billy.

I'm fairly sure, if you took the blinkers off, you'd be able to see this.

[General Mannerheim]

found this quite interesting, as a know nowt noob... https://www.politicalcompass.org/test" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

im quite down the middle, with a libertarian affliction. Mandela.

[Bijou Bob]

Chukka Umunna has thrown his hat into the ring for leader of the opposition. A public school educated barrister, grandson of a high court judge and member of an exclusive millionaires club, clearly he'll have his finger firmly on the pulse of 'The Working Man'.

[Prufrock]

Chukka Umunna has thrown his hat into the ring for leader of the opposition. A public school educated barrister, grandson of a high court judge and member of an exclusive millionaires club, clearly he'll have his finger firmly on the pulse of 'The Working Man'.

He wishes !

[thebish]

Chukka Umunna has thrown his hat into the ring for leader of the opposition. A public school educated barrister, grandson of a high court judge and member of an exclusive millionaires club, clearly he'll have his finger firmly on the pulse of 'The Working Man'.

if it's a millionaires club - presumably that's for millionaires - how is it "exclusive"? Is it exclusive in the sense that it doesn't allow people in who are not millionaires? if that's the case - then the "exclusive" is a bit redundant, as the membership is already defined by the name of the club - surely? (also - he wasn't/isn't a barrister!!) A bit of a hysterical description there!!

personally I think it's time to skip a generation of labour hacks and start afresh with a fresh face - one of them two women will do...

Umunna is not the man - he makes enemies all too easily and will never unite the party...

[Prufrock]

It's invite only. Even if you're a millionaire (not sure if you actually have to be a millionaire).

Chuka is f*cking useless. Only talked about because very desperate people looked at Obama and thought "right, we're having the next young-ish black guy who isn't David Lammy". Literally the only criterion.

Even if he wasn't shit, no-one is electable with that voice.

[Worthy4England]

^^ Just no. His hat should be Chukka'd straight out again.

[KeyserSoze]

His campaign announcement is pretty funny to watch.

[Hoboh]

It's invite only. Even if you're a millionaire (not sure if you actually have to be a millionaire).

Chuka is f*cking useless. Only talked about because very desperate people looked at Obama and thought "right, we're having the next young-ish black guy who isn't David Lammy". Literally the only criterion.

Even if he wasn't shit, no-one is electable with that voice.

Glad you said that sport, me, I'd have been hung out to dry

[Beefheart]

Chuka Chuka he's your man, if he Chukant do it, nobody Chukan.

[thebish]

meanwhile in the big bad world of huge splash headline stories followed by tiny obscure hidden-away apologies...

[Prufrock]

Ignoring for a moment the Future-Perfect Society's weird campaign to make speeches news before they happen, this is what David Cameron is to will have said tomorrow, or something:

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone"

He literally said/ will have said that. Those words actually came/ will have come out of his mouth!

[Hoboh]

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper joins Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham on list of those in the running to replace Ed Miliband following party’s general election defeat.

Lord almighty ten years of the Tories.

Why the hell can Labour not find a decent bloke like Frank Fields instead of the Galloway type frighteners or worse still Blair MK2!

[a1]

its been nearly a week and i'm still finding the result funny .

[thebish]

so Farage is back - an even shorter holiday and time with his family than Big Sam's when he left us!

It looks very much to me as if UKIP is now a party that wants to be ruled from Brussels... They have a Member of the UK Parliament - TWICE elected as a UKIP MP - but choose to be ruled instead by what they like to call a "Brussels bureaucrat" - an MEP...

why would they do this?

(some scurrilous sources are now claiming that Farage "advised" the UKIP executive to reject his resignation...)

[Bruce Rioja]

I see that UKIP's campaign bod has had a right old pop at Farridge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32732129" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[thebish]

we've all seen how the polls can be wrong, but, if this is anywhere near the case, UKIP's goose could be cooked and ready to serve by the time the next election comes around... (and that's BEFORE Osborne has wowed the rest of the EU and negotiated a much better deal for the UK)




(for one thing - the "won't vote" figures will be wildly off!!! there will not be a 95%+ turnout! If there is - I'll eat my hat!)

[Prufrock]

I'm pretty sure UKIP have a ginormous demographic problem too, in that half their voters will be dead before the next election!

[Hoboh]

Oh just keep gloating about UKIP, the biggest laugh will be which poor creature the Socialists prop up after the mass bloodletting between the war criminals wing and the raving leftie union side.
Labour will be unelectable in five years time, they have no credible leader, no credible policies and better still no credible support (unless you count the dreamers and non grown up student types).
Smirk all you like about UKIP, at least there will be a referendum on Europe, what have the socialists got out of this election campaign, oh right a bloody nose
Bish and his opinion polls fat lot of good the last ones did, London and Scotland based on there seems, on the face of it, to be the only areas overly pro-European. Of course that is before the EU totally screws up on the boat people problem or Juncker opens his mouth, keep banging on about us having to accept loads of Africans it's an early Christmas present.