Re: The UK General Election Thread

[JKLever]

The only party with the balls to offer a referendum on the EU issue ...

Yeah, only if it isn't ratified by the time of the general election! Brave that..... not

[Merlin]

Eh? Ratified by whom ?
Labour will not (period) and the Tories can not (until they are in office) offer a referendum! So what's your point?

Simple question :
Regardless of when it takes place, would you want a referendum to decide the fate of the UK within a Federal European Union with Blair as its President ... or not?

[Eric Air Emu]

You've got have a truly dismal, cynical and generally hopeless view of the human race to willingly vote tory. It's just the equivalent of being ruled over by Merlin. His voice is rich and valuable in it's own way but unless we were being invaded by genocidal extra-terrestrials not one I'd like in power.

Better than the strangley militaristic Allan D though.

So if you had to vote for a forummer who would it be? I would say Dello but I think he's developing a god complex much like Tony Blaire.

[JKLever]

Eh? Ratified by whom ?
Labour will not (period) and the Tories can not (until they are in office) offer a referendum! So what's your point?

Get real, Cameron will only offer a referendum if the treaty has not been ratified by the EU, all it needs is for the Czechs to say Yes and its a done deal if the Tories are not in power by then.

Your tory blue boys are deeply divided over this.

[Merlin]

You've got have a truly dismal, cynical and generally hopeless view of the human race to willingly vote tory. It's just the equivalent of being ruled over by Merlin. His voice is rich and valuable in it's own way but unless we were being invaded by genocidal extra-terrestrials not one I'd like in power.

Better than the strangley militaristic Allan D though.

So if you had to vote for a forummer who would it be? I would say Dello but I think he's developing a god complex much like Tony Blaire.

Thank you for the vote of confidence!

But would you not agree that the bold-typed first sentence of your post has applied to Labour these past 12 wasted years?
Ask any pensioner!
Or perhaps your canvassing took you through muggers, thieves, burglars, dole merchants and con artists who all seemed to have thrived this past decade with absolute immunity!

[JKLever]

I think im going to vote for a dictatorship. At least there'll be less spin.

[Merlin]

I think im going to vote for a dictatorship. At least there'll be less spin.

Putting a [X] against a Labour candidate on a ballot paper 12 years ago ensured we all got one!
He's now the bookies favourite for the EU Presidency !!

[Eric Air Emu]

Well Labour just ended up apeing the Tories because it's the only way to get in a with an electorate made up of 60% b*stard. Now they're just a a sorry mish-mash torn between the big money & war friendly Blaire tendency and good old fashioned quasi-socialist values. At least there's a heart in the Labour part somewhere beneath all the guff- the Tories are just cold blooded lizards who burn working class children on bonfires.

[Allan D]

You're right Allan! Where the f*ck is Himmler when one needs him. TBH, shoulda just nuked Afghanistan and Iraq - weak little f*ckers ain't we?

Still, I think you'll find that Europe has a higher oranges and bananas rate than at any time since Churchill.

Except we have to pay a 15% tariff on them apart from those we import from Guadeloupe and Martinique, of course!

Vive les bananes!

[Brass Monkey]

Except we have to pay a 15% tariff on them apart from those we import from Guadeloupe and Martinique, of course!

Vive les bananes!

I know. Isn't that horrendous. Anybody would think that free trade f*cks over the workers to such an extent it's almost slave Labour.

Still, as long as we get our bananas for 60p instead of 75...

[Allan D]

Except we have to pay a 15% tariff on them apart from those we import from Guadeloupe and Martinique, of course!

Vive les bananes!

I know. Isn't that horrendous. Anybody would think that free trade f*cks over the workers to such an extent it's almost slave Labour.

Still, as long as we get our bananas for 60p instead of 75...

Shurely shome mishtake, as Bill Deedes used to say (viz.Private Eye). A tariff means the consumer pays more not less, n'est-ce-pas? :?:

[Guest]

Or perhaps your canvassing took you through muggers, thieves, burglars, dole merchants and con artists who all seemed to have thrived this past decade with absolute immunity!

Nope, a lot of them get put in prison. Trouble is, we have so few jail cells that the judges cannot give out long sentences - there is simply nowhere to put them for very long.

I'd build a load more jails, except that they cost zillions to run and we'll have to put taxes up again.

[beamer]

Or perhaps your canvassing took you through muggers, thieves, burglars, dole merchants and con artists who all seemed to have thrived this past decade with absolute immunity!

Nope, a lot of them get put in prison. Trouble is, we have so few jail cells that the judges cannot give out long sentences - there is simply nowhere to put them for very long.

I'd build a load more jails, except that they cost zillions to run and we'll have to put taxes up again.

Well, they could start by getting rid of the luxuries and actually treating them like the criminals they are, that would cut costs a fair bit...

Failing that, send some of them off to Australia, there's still plenty of room there!

[ever hopeful]

You've got have a truly dismal, cynical and generally hopeless view of the human race to willingly vote tory. It's just the equivalent of being ruled over by Merlin. His voice is rich and valuable in it's own way but unless we were being invaded by genocidal extra-terrestrials not one I'd like in power.

I don't know; I think I'll take the genocidal extra-terrestrials over the tories. The ETs probably just need a hug.

[Basil]

Looks like we're going to head-to-head debates on TV between the three main party leaders during the election campaign. Personally, I'll believe it when I see it.