Harry - LCFC Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Did you watch the Labour party's? It's been referred to as the worst political party broadcast of all time even by some of it's own members. It was an attack on Nick Clegg and didn't even mention anything about why you should vote for them. Most political broadcasts are shit mind, designed to appeal to the masses rather than people who actually take an interest. I thought that would've been quite good if they'd used it on their social media pages. It just wasn't appropriate to use for a broadcast. This is the first time I've really watched these things and as you say, they're pretty bad on the whole
ADK Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 General Elections are pretty boring. Don't know where I'll be living in a years time mind, would be nice to end up in a marginal but I don't want to live in a shithole so probably another Tory safe seat.
inckley fox Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Green 87% Lib Dem 86% Labour 85% Scottish Nationals 79% Plaid 71% BNP 37% UKIP 24% Conservatives 15% I won't be voting Green, Lib Dem or Labour though. I suppose I'm broadly 'Old Labour' in some respects but consider the modern day incarnation of the party to be largely incompetent. I come into the 'none of the above' category these days.
Dr The Singh Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Green 87% Lib Dem 86% Labour 85% Scottish Nationals 79% Plaid 71% BNP 37% UKIP 24% Conservatives 15% I won't be voting Green, Lib Dem or Labour though. I suppose I'm broadly 'Old Labour' in some respects but consider the modern day incarnation of the party to be largely incompetent. I come into the 'none of the above' category these days. Voting BNP? I am.
Alf Bentley Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Despite his protestations I think Cameron is playing a shrewd game here, all he needs to do now is send Osborne and Gove up to campaign a week before the referendum and we might be in business and then we start on removing the Welsh. Now, I hesitate to stick my clodhopping hoofs in subtle traps laid for persons who may or may not have whiskers growing on their chinegans, but.... Surely removing the Welsh cannot be the end of the matter for you? Britain will not be reclaimed by the truly English until you've also got rid of all the chavs and paupers who infest our major cities. This cannot be achieved by simply establishing new national borders - and a series of Israeli/Northern Irish-style "Peace Walls" might cause offence. Do you feel that there is a future for a pre-1990 South African-style Bantustan system? Of course, times have moved on so a little more liberalism would be required. So the system could include an equivalent to the air corridor to West Berlin during the Cold War. The new citizens of Chavonia would be permitted to move between their hovels and sweat shops in the different urban chav bantus via Megabus, provided that the bus service was prohibited from making pit stops in the true England of the shires (so no Newport Pagnell services for them). The true English could then be left in peace in the shires to pursue their traditional national pastimes: shooting badgers, avoiding tax, grumbling about immigrants, clipping hedges, voting Tory, reading the Daily Mail etc. What do you reckon?
Guest MattP Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Surely removing the Welsh cannot be the end of the matter for you? Britain will not be reclaimed by the truly English until you've also got rid of all the chavs and paupers who infest our major cities. This cannot be achieved by simply establishing new national borders - and a series of Israeli/Northern Irish-style "Peace Walls" might cause offence. Do you feel that there is a future for a pre-1990 South African-style Bantustan system? Of course, times have moved on so a little more liberalism would be required. So the system could include an equivalent to the air corridor to West Berlin during the Cold War. The new citizens of Chavonia would be permitted to move between their hovels and sweat shops in the different urban chav bantus via Megabus, provided that the bus service was prohibited from making pit stops in the true England of the shires (so no Newport Pagnell services for them). The true English could then be left in peace in the shires to pursue their traditional national pastimes: shooting badgers, avoiding tax, grumbling about immigrants, clipping hedges, voting Tory, reading the Daily Mail etc. What do you reckon? Where do I put my X?! Let's be honest what you have described has pretty much happened anyway if you take a look through most town centres these days. On a serious note, I'd keep the Welsh, I like them, they can only beat us at Rugby which in reality we don't really care about and the Gower is a lovely place to go, they even starting to vote Conservative at alarming levels now anyway if the polls are to be believed.
inckley fox Posted 14 May 2014 Posted 14 May 2014 Voting BNP? I am. Did I miss them off? I am wondering where that 37% came from, actually.
FoxyPV Posted 18 May 2014 Posted 18 May 2014 91% Greens 88% Labour 79% SNP 77% Lib dems 64% Plaid Cymru 55% BNP 18% Tories 3% UKIP
LJ Ashurst Posted 22 May 2014 Posted 22 May 2014 Very late but done it voted at 9.20pm... I felt like it was a wasted vote but I've done it now.
bovril Posted 22 May 2014 Posted 22 May 2014 I got 88% Labour but I have a feeling the results were skewed slightly by my putting 'less important' for pretty much everything, since i give not a fvck on most issues.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 22 May 2014 Posted 22 May 2014 Yeovil? I suppose that would be a less environmentally damaging journey...
Dan Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Overall maj for Cameron was an impossible job last time looking back, the private sector had been ravaged and Brown had put so many people on his payroll or made them totally dependent on a Labour government he was buying off about 30% of the country to vote for him, you had familes on 50k a year voting Labour so they wouldn't lose tax credits, it was bonkers. All we know about Ed is he is going to freeze energy prices and then build millions of affordable new homes, expand the private sector whilst also expanding the public, give away free Iphones to all and then end third World poverty - all paid for a bankers bonus tax of course. Here's the Labour ad for anyone who hasn't seen it. To attack Clegg is weird as well, maybe they have completely given up on the working class vote now and decided to go for the Lib Dem one? The digs at David Cameron not knowing what NHS stands for are absolutely shameless as well given what he went through with his child and the fact he used the NHS for all his treatment. You know what, you know full-well my stance on politics but even as someone who knows very little on it, that is absolutely beyond embarrassing from them. Seriously unprofessional.
Harry - LCFC Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 I must be one of the only people to like that Labour video. They've managed to attack Clegg in an amusing way while building on the Tory stereotype of uncaring toffs looking after their mates in the city. I don't think the message is 100% accurate (as is the case with nearly every party video I've seen) but it's well presented IMO. The problem I have with it is that it was used as a political broadcast when it's clearly a social media sort of thing. Cartoons, drawings and comedies can be effective in getting a message across.
bovril Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 I await the Guardian's report on Labour's gains and Conservative's losses. Or maybe it'll just be another 'commentary' piece on UKIP complete with obligatory photo of Farage gurning.
Guest MattP Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Glad the political/media elite campaign against UKIP hasn't worked. We'll see if Labour and the Tories realise that consistently shouting 'racist' doesn't make people vote for you. Disastrous night for Red Ed. Knives must be out for him. Couldn't even take Swindon council
lavrentis Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 I await the Guardian's report on Labour's gains and Conservative's losses. Or maybe it'll just be another 'commentary' piece on UKIP complete with obligatory photo of Farage gurning. Not sure why you'll want a Guardian link but here you go: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/may/23/local-election-results-live
lavrentis Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Glad the political/media elite campaign against UKIP hasn't worked. We'll see if Labour and the Tories realise that consistently shouting 'racist' doesn't make people vote for you. Disastrous night for Red Ed. Knives must be out for him. Couldn't even take Swindon council
Guest Kopfkino Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Alex Salmond will be sitting there and laughing at this. The Yes campaign has just been boosted massively without doing anything
lavrentis Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Alex Salmond will be sitting there and laughing at this. The Yes campaign has just been boosted massively without doing anything Why?
Guest Kopfkino Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Why? The scots aren't at all fond of UKIP, it's seen as a little England party. They don't want to see UKIP do well
lavrentis Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 The scots aren't at all fond of UKIP, it's seen as a little England party. They don't want to see UKIP do well Well as far as I'm concerned the local elections were only in England?
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