UK General Election - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge > Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: Who are you voting for?
Conservatives 1 9.09%
Labour 1 9.09%
Liberal Democrats 1 9.09%
UKIP 0 0%
The Green Party 2 18.18%
Other 2 18.18%
anal beads 4 36.36%
Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 05-10-2015, 08:02 AM   #41 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: The Black Country
Posts: 8,827
Default

Protests in London already.
Cuthbert is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-18-2015, 05:50 AM   #42 (permalink)
Horribly Creative
 
Unknown Soldier's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: London, The Big Smoke
Posts: 8,265
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody View Post
At the end of the day most UK citizens voted logically.

Fringe parties like the Greens and UKIP always get a lot of press because their supporters are quite vocal about their causes, but the average UK citizen is to busy working to follow politics, they just want a good economy & good paying jobs.

So the UK public chose to dump the liberal party (Labour light) in favor of the tories, not UKIP or Green, except in Scotland where they dumped labour for nationalism, the real threat to the unity of the UK.

If Cameron is smart he'll reform immigration and permanently nullify the threat of UKIP, and if it all possible, try to make unionist inroads in Scottland.

As for labour, Millaband was a weak leader as the results in Scottland show. Like him or hate him it may have been a different outcome with someone like Tony Blair.
This is a pretty good summary by a non-Brit.

The simple fact of the matter is when it comes to voting, Brits by and large are conservative by nature in that they don't like drastic change, which is why Labour over the years have dropped their strong socialist ties.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by eraser.time206 View Post
If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.
Metal Wars

Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History
Unknown Soldier is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2015, 08:56 PM   #43 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
William_the_Bloody's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Sunnydale Cemetary
Posts: 2,093
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier View Post
This is a pretty good summary by a non-Brit.

The simple fact of the matter is when it comes to voting, Brits by and large are conservative by nature in that they don't like drastic change, which is why Labour over the years have dropped their strong socialist ties.
Why thank you, my grandparents were British so I'm not completely alien to UK affairs.

Yes it looks like Labour's shift to the left under Millaband didn't resonate with voters, except perhaps in Scottland where he chose not to take the fight to the nationals.

Can't help but think that a stronger leader could have prevented the near annihilation of Labour up North to some extent.
William_the_Bloody is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.