General Election

Any reason Harrow? My feelings are if you don't vote you can't complain, however it is your choice not to vote.

 

A similar solution to deal with the neighbours (grannar) is no doubt proposed in Denmark, Norway and Finland.

 

Be a farking good effort to cut 1200 miles of land and then float it around Norway and into Ireland.

Be an even better effort to cut off the in-existent Danish land border with Sweden.

I have a better solution, cut away Norway (sorry Stevohorn) and send it to Greenland and then just invade Finland. Krisvad can consider himself lucky his name will not become Jens.

 

His age??

 

Must say, I'm personally surprised at Labours support.

 

I hope the Sami rise up and slaughter all of you.

 

Tories have been a terrible opposition party. In footballing terms, Labour have given them about 5 soft penalties and 10 open goals, but still Labour are clinging on in there. It's appalling politicking by Cameron and his non-personality shadow cabinet.

 

Hyypia?

 

What type of shyte political party picks on the shadow chancellor to gain a benefit? Labour = lame, wimps and deluded. Thought they would be better than that. I'm not a Tory, but to me they've noticed they can't knock Cameron, so they move onto Osbourne to pick on. Weak in my opinion, very weak.

 

Labour should be in for a whitewash in May, but they've been allowed to get away with murder by a shabby opposition party. The economy, the sleaze of the taxi for hire shenanigans, the rise of militant unions again, the general acceptance that "this country's a bit sh1t at the moment innit?" People should be clamouring for change and bursting to get into the booth to vote Labour out and Conservative in. However, the prospect of a hung parliament looms.

The Conservatives are just completely inert. Nobody wants Labour back, but they don't want the Tories either.

It speaks volumes that Brown is the man "trusted to lead us out of the mire" despite presiding over getting us firmly and thickly into it in the first place.

 

Well said young man. We need a right wing uprising.

 

The falange has been quiet of late. Perhaps they are the "3rd way" we're all looking for?

 

A hung parliament would be a great improvement over the last 13 years in my humble opinion.

Did anyone see Cameron the other day giving a 'rousing' speech in his painfully casual outfit? Made me cringe. Slimy git.

 

Yeah, just like Eva Perons husband, wot was his name?

 

Errr, Signor Peron?

 

As the state of the economy will be at the forefront of most people's minds when they are contemplating how to vote, it is not unreasonable to focus on the man who would be chancellor to see if he's actually got any policies. The answer is 'no', if last night's debate was anything to go by.

A hung parliament, with the price for co-operation being a commitment to legislate for proportional representation in the new parliament, would be the best of all possible worlds, but it won't happen.

 

People seem to be quick in forgetting the boom years under labour. This is a global recession, and no matter who was in charge of this country problems were going to occur.

You can trace the very routes of this countries financial issues back to the Thatcher years, the Tories can not be trusted.

 

the romans - what did they ever do for us?

Afanof - you think there won't be a hung parliament? What do you think the outcome will be then?

 

The tories can't be trusted, but at least you know what you're going to get. There's been more corruption in the Labour government than any other recent administration I can remember. Massive public sector spending and inefficiencies.

It's time for a change.

 

And todays random advert at the bottom of the page " vote lib dem " !!!

 

That sounds very much like "it's not our fault guv" from Labour. Err, yes it is. Labour founded the recent boom years on massively increased debt. Consumer spending, bouyant housing market etc. all funded by banks and institutions lending cash willy nilly, regardless of who could and who couldn't afford to pay it back. Of course, the American Credit Crunch triggered the crisis, but it was our own bad housekeeping which has made us suffer so much worse than many other economies. Look at the value of the £. It's barely worth the paper it's written on at the moment. Our manufacturing industries are no more, yet Labour's reaction to the crisis is what? To penalise and cripple the financial sector and reduce support for the creative industries, which are this country's sole export.

Labour don't have a "plan" other than to keep on borrowing to paper over the cracks. Sure, it was a global crisis, but the UK's position in that was worse than many.

Labour simply have to go. Their recent leadership of this country has been appalling. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of alternative offerings, which is why people will be raising a clenched fist in salute of the Falange come the May 6th uprising. Who's with me?

 

Fair point Moog. Spain do not had a toothless financial services ombudsman so have suffered far less than us.

 

You talk sense moog, I like.

Also interesting to see that today 23 of the countries top business leaders have said they agree with the Tories scrapping Labours idea to increase National Insurance. Typical Labour, pump the middle classes for all they're worth, especially in tough times. Tough times which are at least 95% the governments fault and maybe (if I'm generous) 5% other reasons.

 

Shock horror: companies want to pay less tax! It's not an endorsement of the actual policy as Dave and his chums are yet to detail where the £6bn in 'government efficiency savings' is going to be found to cover the gap.

 

Hardly , they have been deafening in their silence of concrete policies...

 

I think people are more interested in the economy, health service and welfare state than where the next government is going to source it's aggregate and cement based building materials.

 

or hopefully their design services

 

Next thing we know, you'll be saying that Mandelson is the King of the world. What I fail to understand is that everybody is so keen to bash bash bash the Tories (in part down to 13 years of brainwashing and propaganda from a spin slick and well organised government media machine) that the governments awful record is brushed under the carpet.

1997 Brown PROMISED no more boom and bust. D'oh! People seem to have forgotten this and our former 'prudent' chancellor. This is what I don't understand. Sure some of the Tories polices may not stack up, but we could say that for any party in the UK. I just fail to understand people not looking at Labour's record in detail or wanting to push the issue that generally the Labour 13 years in power have been wasted considering the strong economic position they inherited. No doubt I'll get shot down for this as it seems defending the Tories is ever so 'unfashionable' these days....sigh.

It's the same as 1979, Labour messed the country up then as well, it's in history. the socialist spend spend spend, then the Tories have to come in and try to clean up the mess and quite often the methods they use are very unpopular.

 

Stuboy - the problem is most people have had enough of the lot of them. Tory or Labour.

In respect of the economy we are where we are now and nothing is going to change the past. There's no point saying "Osbourne would have done that differently" or "Dave wouldn't have allowed that to happen" as it won't change it. Instead we have to look to recovery proposals. And the fact is if the Tories drop the NI rise they will have to find that money from somewhere else. VAT rise? Fuel duty rise? However they do it we'll all end up paying. Lets face it it's never going to be the Ashcroft's of this world putting their hands in their pockets...

 

Fair point, the money needs to be raised somewhere (public sector efficiencies, scrapping billions of pounds of spending on identity card schemes and NHS databases that no-one wants maybe?), but when you have a job and employment crisis as well as a need for business to get back on their feet, you don't hike taxes on employing people.

 

Its all about Vince Cable, the man knows what he is talking about.

George Osbourne, what a joke of a man.

 

Unfortunately it's not all about Vince Cable, capable chap as he is. Nick Clegg is lightweight and without credibility. Lib Dems are socialist-lite. If you want a huge state controlling your farts, feeding spongers and lazy civil servants (sweeping statement i know - nurses are wonderful etc) then vote for your faceless Lib Dem candidate.

 

spain? really? that's the examply you're using as a bastion of good governance and dynamism in the economy?

massive unemployment, greek-like debt problems and an economy entirely reliant on building houses? their financial services came out not as **** because save for 2 banks it was domestic oriented and small to begin with.

 

i wanted to vote for the russos but they aren't even on the poll. Is that becasue the useless scum canuts can't even run a football club, let alone the country. scummers!

 

I would prefer the state controlling my farts than my farts being privatised and then being charged £35 for each subsequent fart, with any money I save going into a bank which loans money to anybody at all, who then have to be bailed out by the state anyway while the CEO buys a new jet, gets a £50m bonus and a golden handshake. Labour took a steady, slightly declining country and destroyed it from the inside out. Labour shouldn't be allowed to even be a choice at the next election. Half of them should be in prison for incompetence.

A hung parliament looms, which means for the first time in 13 years we might have a democratic country again.