UK General Election
 

Clueless voter checking in. The general election is in a few months, who are my fellow Brits voting for and why? Who should I vote for? Hopefully get some discussion going and I can be enlightened as I don't take much of an interest in politics but I want to vote.

I think I'm siding with the Greens despite that horrific interview that Natalie Bennett did. Worth posting a second time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhWvogL9dc

I'm voting for the SNP.

I assumed at first that was the one she did with Andrew Neil.
She did another one that was even worse?
:laughing:

I'm so glad Guernsey has it's own government, I wouldn't know which of these showers of shit I'd want to vote for.

I'll be voting Green due to the utter, utter lack of a better option.

Not much point in picking between Labour and the Tories these days tbh - You couldn't fit a Rizla paper into the political space between the two.

I can see the appeal of the Greens just because it's a protest vote that isn't UKIP.

I've grown to hate Labour with every inch of my being.

Yep.

Says the Greens are going to build 500,000 new homes but doesn't know how much it's gonna cost or where the money is gonna come from.

"How much are the 500,000 homes then?"

"We're looking at a total cost of 2.7... *the reality of the situation dawns on her* ...billion"

"500,000 homes, 2.7 billion... what are they made of? Plywood?"

:D

That's how it seems to me as well. By the way I didn't know you were British, had you down as an American :p:

Anyone know when the live TV debates start?

Oops, I didn't read that I was supposed to, you know, actually live and be voting in Britain to vote in the poll. I probably would be voting Labour though (although if I were in Scotland I'd vote SNP).

I want to vote for all of them.

If anyone votes UKIP I will be super disappointed.

Live debate on now.

Natalie Bennett is on :D

Should be good lads :cool:

Nicola Sturgeon kicked arse on the debate. Undeniable.

only know about usa and iraq politics...


yolo

What, no Pirate Party yet?

This debate :o:

I think most of the televised debates have just been farces due to having an obvious scapegoat on stage for other parties to gang up on and avoid directly answering questions.

That being said, SNP for me. Finally, we'll have what we always wanted. A say in Westminster. Labour are all talk, they'll be clamoring to get us onside if they pip a minority government.

Do you have a socialist party?

After doing various online questionnaires i'm being told lib dem according to my beliefs and priorities. Wasn't much in it though, it was 85% lib dem, 80% labour and 75% conservative from memory.

I don't care TBH, to paraphrase Corey Taylor it's like being asked if you want your sh!t baked or fried.

Labour. (Some on here will probably disagree with that though.)

I'm assuming you mean Nigel Farage there. Last night was annoying, when he attacked the audience though :D

Natalie Bennett and Leanne Wood were the worst. But I'm voting Green anyway.

UKIP losing to anal beads... nice.

are ukip the current british nazis? what happened to the bnp?

also, i don't see the islamic party represented in your poll. british muslims be slacking.. the caliphate isn't gonna build itself, people

You are thinking of the right party but no they aren't Nazis, our local UKIP leader is a black man. At worst you could describe them as xenophobic but I wouldn't agree with that. Main policies are leaving the EU and introducing a strict immigration policy where people are let in based on what they can contribute to the country. The latter is fair enough imo. There's more but that's basically it.

I've got to be honest, Farage is entertaining, makes me laugh on these debates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlD2xmT52TA

ffs :D

BNP, fuck knows, haven't heard anything from them in ages. Fuck em.

:D

Dave you twat :rolleyes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H_vgFcs1bk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHdxcASv8Y

Any of you lot changed your minds?

https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets...reenForWeb.jpg

:cool:

I wonder why people hate Cameron. he did get gay marriage legalized. I know he is idiot but why is he hated? Just wondering.

His face mainly.

This will explain it better:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU

The Party is kind of designed to capture the disillusioned Conservative vote and may well get sympathizers from the far right as well. To be honest their immigration policy is actually fair enough and would be actually in-line with the immigration policies of other countries around the world.

To be honest though, the UK for a foreigner (outside EU) is actually a hard country to come to regardless of the what the right-wing press try to tell the rest of the population.

This person is now an MP :o:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEclXRMWEAILgje.jpg

So... this didn't go well.

No mate it didn't :(

I have a feeling the UK is experiencing the feeling a lot of people in the US felt back in November 2004, or the people of Canada have been systematically feeling since 2005.

Would describe it as genuine fear of the damage they are going to do. More cuts and more austerity. We already know what the policies are, £12bn of cuts to welfare, that is going to really hurt people. I feel so bad for the vulnerable.

Dunno how people who voted Tory can sleep at night knowing they've just consigned millions of people to doom.

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.

voting for the SNP.
 

i think SNP is the most appropriate

I remember reading a lot about how "American" this campaign was (due mostly to the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, but also due to the influx of American strategists like Axelrod and Messina), and it strikes me as sort of interesting that in 1992, Kinnock ran what people saw as a very "American" campaign and he also lost by a solid margin in an election Labour could've won.

bro, why would you possibly know that at your age? :laughing: