General Election : 6th May 2010

[walesrob]

Normally, election date is announced by the leader himself, but no, it seems, everyone but the leader are announcing the date: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100124/...n-dba1618.html Labour are so keen to lose the election they've even leaked the date it will happen

No doubt Iain will be along to say how (predictably) evil David Cameron is and how Mrs T messed up the country Its obvious the UK is stuck in a vacuum politically, no one is willing to come forward with something different, and so we continually vote Red - Blue - Red - Blue, and the country doesn't move forward.

Bob Ainsworth says on the above web page:

"I think the British public will wake up and rue the day if they wind up with a Conservative government in charge of this country after May 6."

Thanks, but the PEOPLE will decide that on May 6th, NOT YOU. So crawl back into your little hole, and come back with something better, and stop treating people like little stupid children. We've had enough.

[KeithD]

Thanks, but the PEOPLE will decide that on May 6th, NOT YOU. So crawl back into your little hole, and come back with something better, and stop treating people like little stupid children. We've had enough.

Calm down, Calm down ..... get back to your Lego

[Arthur Little]

Well, as I mentioned on another thread, the consensus of opinion seems to be that *Thursday May 6 WILL, in all probability, be the Election Date.

My reasoning is based on the fact that, I have received an official communication ... accompanied by an Election Staff Proforma ... from the Chief Executive/Returning Officer of Perth & Kinross Council, checking as to my availability on *that date. However, the covering letter goes on to point out that the Prime Minister can call an election at any time before then.

[walesrob]

Calm down, Calm down ..... get back to your Lego

...and you to your car radios and video recorders

[IainBusby]

Normally, election date is announced by the leader himself, but no, it seems, everyone but the leader are announcing the date: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100124/...n-dba1618.html Labour are so keen to lose the election they've even leaked the date it will happen

No doubt Iain will be along to say how (predictably) evil David Cameron is and how Mrs T messed up the country Its obvious the UK is stuck in a vacuum politically, no one is willing to come forward with something different, and so we continually vote Red - Blue - Red - Blue, and the country doesn't move forward.

Bob Ainsworth says on the above web page:

"I think the British public will wake up and rue the day if they wind up with a Conservative government in charge of this country after May 6."

Thanks, but the PEOPLE will decide that on May 6th, NOT YOU. So crawl back into your little hole, and come back with something better, and stop treating people like little stupid children. We've had enough.

I don't have to say it, anyone who lived through the last tory government already knows it, of course if they were getting their news from the Sun, Express or from Sky News they would probably have thought everyone else in the country was A'OK and it was only just a few unlucky ones like themselves who had lost their jobs and were stuggling to make ends meet.

[Scouse]

I don't have to say it, anyone who lived through the last tory government already knows it, of course if they were getting their news from the Sun, Express or from Sky News they would probably have thought everyone else in the country was A'OK and it was only just a few unlucky ones like themselves who had lost their jobs and were stuggling to make ends meet.

Couldn't agree more. Try watching 'Boys from the Blackstuff' again and you will see what life was really like under Thatcher and her cronies.

Cameron is no different, he goes on about how unfair inheritance tax is and will raise the threshold, this will help less than 10% of the population you guessed it, the richest.

[KeithD]

Couldn't agree more. Try watching 'Boys from the Blackstuff' again and you will see what life was really like under Thatcher and her cronies..

It's still like that now where some of my mates live, so you can't blame a government for the way people choose to live!

[Dedworth]

Bob Ainsworth says on the above web page:

"I think the British public will wake up and rue the day if they wind up with a Conservative government in charge of this country after May 6."

Thanks, but the PEOPLE will decide that on May 6th, NOT YOU. So crawl back into your little hole, and come back with something better, and stop treating people like little stupid children. We've had enough.

Ah yes good old Bungling Bob former full time union official who's never done an honest days work in his life. No doubt the voters of Coventry rue the day they elected this shyster and expenses abuser.

In 2007-8 he was the joint highest claimant for second home allowances, claiming the maximum amount of £23,083.

Full details here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ayer-5925.html

Hopefully come May 6 Coventry will vote this leech out of his cushy job

[walesrob]

Couldn't agree more. Try watching 'Boys from the Blackstuff' again and you will see what life was really like under Thatcher and her cronies.

Cameron is no different, he goes on about how unfair inheritance tax is and will raise the threshold, this will help less than 10% of the population you guessed it, the richest.

So if the Tories were THAT bad why did they win 4 elections in a row. Strange that.

You see, its the loop thing, back in the 80's and early 90's people had memories of how bad things were under Labour during the Callaghan years, and now look where we are.

I'm voting for Gloria

[Arthur Little]

Ah yes good old Bungling Bob former full time union official who's never done an honest days work in his life. No doubt the voters of Coventry rue the day they elected this shyster and expenses abuser.

In 2007-8 he was the joint highest claimant for second home allowances, claiming the maximum amount of £23,083.

Full details here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ayer-5925.html

Just imagine ... £2,225 for a Roma Corner Sofa ... because the size and layout of a particular room in his [?mansion-type] SECOND home wouldn't accommodate a normal 3-piece suite? He must have been deluded enough into supposing the tax-paying British electorate was a "soft touch"!

A short, sharp shock ... plus, a spell of square-bashing ... under the eagle-eye of a good, old-fashioned sergeant-major, would not have gone amiss for this errant Armed Forces Minister!

Hopefully come May 6 Coventry will vote this leech out of his cushy job

... if the poor "suckers" have any sense, they will do!

[KeithD]

I'm voting for Gloria

Gloria Hunniford

[IainBusby]

So if the Tories were THAT bad why did they win 4 elections in a row. Strange that.

You see, its the loop thing, back in the 80's and early 90's people had memories of how bad things were under Labour during the Callaghan years, and now look where we are.

I'm voting for Gloria

Well it could have something to do with headlines like "IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS"

[joebloggs]

Well it could have something to do with headlines like "IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS"

and don't forget the selling of the family sliver and the greed it created..

Cable & Wireless: Oct 81

Amersham International: Feb 82

Britoil: Nov 82

Associated British Ports: Feb 83

Enterprise Oil: Feb 84

Jaguar: July 84

British Telecom: Nov 84

British Gas: Dec 86

British Airways: Feb 87

Rolls-Royce: May 87

BAA: July 87

British Steel: Dec 88

Regional water companies: Dec 89

Electricity distribution companies: Dec 90

[IainBusby]

and don't forget the selling of the family sliver and the greed it created..

Cable & Wireless: Oct 81

Amersham International: Feb 82

Britoil: Nov 82

Associated British Ports: Feb 83

Enterprise Oil: Feb 84

Jaguar: July 84

British Telecom: Nov 84

British Gas: Dec 86

British Airways: Feb 87

Rolls-Royce: May 87

BAA: July 87

British Steel: Dec 88

Regional water companies: Dec 89

Electricity distribution companies: Dec 90

Not to mention the new Building Society Act which was passed in 1986 allowing Building societies to demutualise...... just another way for those with disposable income to make another fast buck while those without the means to join in lose out.

I well rememberNigel Lawson's 1988 Budget when he cut the basic rate of income tax from 27 to 25 per cent and was was widely applauded by the tory press the Sun, the Express etc, for doing so, while at the same time he also abolished all higher rates of tax apart from the 40 per cent rate which was a far greater giveaway to the rich than the 2% cut he gave to Mr and Mrs average.... but as Maggie always said, "we must look after our people", by which she meant, true blue tory voters and those at the top.

At the time the Sun newspaper was full copy showing how much better off Mr or Mrs Average would be, but they didn't mention how very much better of Mr Rich who used to pay 60%+ and who's income tax had been slashed by a third was going to be. But of course, that was reaganomics and all that extra wealth given to the already rich was in theory supposed to trickle down to the rest of us in some way....... some hope.

[Dedworth]

Well it could have something to do with headlines like "IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS"

He did OK out of losing. Him and his sponging family are still milking it on board the Brussels Gravy Train. Once the games up Mandleson and his rent boy will no doubt slither back to Belgium. These crafty ex Labour politicians take two-facedness to a higher level.

[KeithD]

He did OK out of losing. Him and his sponging family are still milking it on board the Brussels Gravy Train.

Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same

[IainBusby]

He did OK out of losing. Him and his sponging family are still milking it on board the Brussels Gravy Train. Once the games up Mandleson and his rent boy will no doubt slither back to Belgium. These crafty ex Labour politicians take two-facedness to a higher level.

I don't think any fair minded person would think they're any better or any worse than the ex-tory politicians, many of whom were lining up very lucrative directorships by doing the odd favour for their future colleagues in the boardrooms of Britain now and then whilst still in power.

A nose in one kind of trough is just the same as a nose in another kind of trough unless your so rabidly anti-labour that you can manage to find excuses for the tory politicians who do it but not for the labour politicians who do it. And Keith is of right when he says, "Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same".

[Dedworth]

I don't think any fair minded person would think they're any better or any worse than the ex-tory politicians, many of whom were lining up very lucrative directorships by doing the odd favour for their future colleagues in the boardrooms of Britain now and then whilst still in power.

A nose in one kind of trough is just the same as a nose in another kind of trough unless your so rabidly anti-labour that you can manage to find excuses for the tory politicians who do it but not for the labour politicians who do it. And Keith is of right when he says, "Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same".

Not so............ Directorships involve salaries paid for by private money so unless you are a shareholder you have no basis for complaint. However the bodies used by Socialists to cushion their failed comrades and cronies from the real world involve the payment of obscene salaries from the public purse - Quangos, NHS Trusts, Brussels etc

Most of us probably would do the same but it is only the chums and colleagues that are given the chance.

Many Labourite trough feeders eg Bungling Bob and the woman who is the new EU foreign supremo have never had a proper job in their lives. Look at Two Shags Prescott still on the MP payroll till May 2010, he's not spoken in the Commons since July 07 but he's now British representative to the Council of Europe with a big fat expense account

[Arthur Little]

Look at Two Shags Prescott still on the MP payroll till May 2010, he's not spoken in the Commons since July 07 but he's now British representative to the Council of Europe with a big fat expense account

... a big, fat expense account ... for a BIG, FAT man, eh?