Re: The UK political thread (formerly independence thread)
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:06 pm
Going to hustings tomorrow night. Should be interesting.
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Tet wrote:WorMzy wrote:Strategic voting is stupid.
No, it's not. Strategic voting makes absolute sense. A system that rewards strategic voting is stupid. We had a once in a lifetime chance to change it with the AV referendum, but the yes campaign screwed up massively, and the no side just came up with a well funded campaign of outright lies that the public believed. So we're stuck with a broken system
houston4044 wrote:Seems this week is Manifesto launch week, anyone bothering to read them?
houston4044 wrote:Also finding the UKIP bashing annoying now, especially the BBC's bashing of them; at this point constantly bashing them is going to have the opposite effect, your going to a spotlight on them so people look further into them rather than err and walk away.
NeglectedField wrote:Not to mention people forgetting that bourgeois white 20-something shame tactics doesn't work on the core demographics that support UKIP, or for that matter anyone - nobody sees who you vote for.
NeglectedField wrote:They should be grilled in very much the same way Natalie Bennett (Greens) was on that radio show, not booed and hissed at like bogeymen in some kind of pantomime
CharlesDexterWard wrote:I see John Major's intervention in Scotland went down like a fart in an astronaut suit.
Lectures from a Conservative politician in Scotland is like pissing into a hurricane - a waste of time.
houston4044 wrote:CharlesDexterWard wrote:I see John Major's intervention in Scotland went down like a fart in an astronaut suit.
Lectures from a Conservative politician in Scotland is like pissing into a hurricane - a waste of time.
I don't understand why he was there, the SNP were doing the Tories a favor taking away a strong base of Labour support and lets face it, the Tories are unlikely to gain ground there; should of sent him elsewhere where chances of winning a seat was probable
A bridge has been proposed for a while: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23672538Matty_the_Emo_Slayer wrote:The alternative is a Tory alliance with either/or UKIP and DUP, the latter whom are getting more ridiculous by the day. Peter Robinson now has plans to get Westmister to invest in an underground tunnel between Ulster and Scotland