The Politics Thread

[Hoboh]

trying to educate myself what the different wings and parties are into, but all i read is words decribing them with 'ists' on the end then have you read up the paritucular 'ists' ending word, which i find is usually a combination of more 'ists' etc etc - doing my head in!

I'll clear my position up if it gains your vote!

The hobo party is loosely in the middle with the odd, very odd tendency to lean to the left mainly with policies from the right, we don't have wings but do throw good parties when we tend to geta little ist from time to time.

William you really should stop watching Mary Popins, at your age, it's unhealthy!

[a1]

I'll clear my position up if it gains your vote!

The hobo party is loosely in the middle with the odd, very odd tendency to lean to the left mainly with policies from the right, we don't have wings but do throw good parties when we tend to geta little ist from time to time.

William you really should stop watching Mary Popins, at your age, it's unhealthy!

yeah, libertarianism has been invented already.

[General Mannerheim]

Did you actually turn up for school?

i did ok at school actually considering i was a cheely little swine - im sure we never talked about any of this shit tho!

in what lesson would this have been discussed? Economics maybe? all we did in that was cook!

[superjohnmcginlay]

History? English? Politics?

[Puskas]

Sex education

[General Mannerheim]

History? English? Politics?

History we talked about Wars and the monarchy, English we read books and wrote stories, Politics probably would have been a good start - but wasnt on our curriculum!

The trouble im having with all the 'ists' is a lot of them appear to mean the same thing, yet one wing may be more one 'ist' than the other, seems very difficult to catergorise myself into a particuler 'ist' so i dont know if im left, right, far right, fanny by the gas light!?

[superjohnmcginlay]

Shit school.

Lets test you then to find out. Do you wet the bed?

[Prufrock]

Shit school.

Lets test you then to find out. Do you wet the bed?

If that's a no, next question is do you hate brown people? If that is also a no then you're probably in the middle somewhere. Good luck figuring out which one. Remember though, Cameron isn't technically human, so I wouldn't go voting for him.

[superjohnmcginlay]

There you go. Its taken us 91 pages to get to this simple explanation.

[thebish]

History? English? Politics?

The trouble im having with all the 'ists' is a lot of them appear to mean the same thing,

ok General:

Labour = Good-ist
Tory = Bad-ist
Lib-dem = well-meaning-ist
BNP = scum-ist
UKIP = just plain irritating-ist
Monster-raving = a bit sad-ist
Green = nice but not much of a clue-ist
DUP/Sinn Fein/PUP/SDLP/Alliance Party = Irish-ist
Plaid Cynru = Welsh-ist
SNP - Scottish-ist
Respect - a bit mad-ist
English Democrats = Gary Bushell-ist
UCUNF = Tory Irish-ists
Alliance for Green Socialism = mental-ist
The Christian Party = to be avoided-ist
Communist Party = a bit loony-ist
Christian People's Alliance - see The Christian Party.
Independent Kidderminster Hospital campaign - a bit single-issue-ist
The Jury Team = a bit crap-ist
Libertarian Party = just chill and let everyone get on with it and don't come to us when it goes tits-up-ist
Mebyon Kernow = Cornish-ist (not the pasties)
National Front = ignorant thug-ist
Pirate Party UK = free downloads-ist
Workers Revolutionary Party = not someone you want to sit next to for dinner-ist


that's a start anyway - hope that's helpful.

PS - vote Labour!

[hisroyalgingerness]

If we wanted to overthrow party politics on the basis that it's inefficient and the parties are all full of duckwits, what would we need to do?

[thebish]

If we wanted to overthrow party politics on the basis that it's inefficient and the parties are all full of duckwits, what would we need to do?

vote labour and everything will be OK.

[thebish]

or - you could also just take Eddie Izzard's word for it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDreHPzU94

[Prufrock]

or - you could also just take Eddie Izzard's word for it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDreHPzU94

And Davie T. Fecking Dr Who says vote Labour, and he's seen the future.

[hisroyalgingerness]

I'd be intruiged to see how we went on having given someone a good stint. I'd rather that government not be someone who throws cash at anyone who fancies coming living here and giving lags PS3s but if David Ten-inch says, well then it must be good for you

[Worthy4England]

History? English? Politics?

The trouble im having with all the 'ists' is a lot of them appear to mean the same thing,

ok General:

Very good Bish.

[Worthy4England]

whogetsmyvote.com

Should sort you out

You get to pick your 7 most important policy areas, they then give you the parties policies (without naming the parties) and you pick 'em, then put them in priority order, before it spits out your results...

Allegedly I should vote Lib Dem...

From the policies I picked they told me

Cars - BNP
Immigration - Lib Dem
Sentencing - UKIP
Electoral Reform - Labour
Europe - Lib Dem
Jobs - Lib Dem
Public Finances - Labour

Well at least that's me sorted...

[hisroyalgingerness]

I'm a bit depressed about who it told me to vote for

[Worthy4England]

I'm a bit depressed about who it told me to vote for

[TANGODANCER]

I'm a bit depressed about who it told me to vote for

Same here. I won't be voting for them.