General Election 2015

[Master]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

[SlimTrae]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

[Master]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

Which way? I see it back and forth.

[SlimTrae]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

Which way? I see it back and forth.

A modest Master?

[SlimTrae]

lol

[Master]

Cameron denies 'running scared' of TV election debates but really he is.

David Cameron has denied claims he is scared of TV election debates, saying he wanted to "get on" with his proposal for a seven-way contest.

Ed Miliband has accused the PM of "cowering" from the public after he rejected proposals for a head-to-head debate with the Labour leader.

But the prime minister claimed the broadcasters were to blame.

BBC News - Cameron denies 'running scared' of TV election debates

[Gandalf]

Cameron denies 'running scared' of TV election debates but really he is.

David Cameron has denied claims he is scared of TV election debates, saying he wanted to "get on" with his proposal for a seven-way contest.

Ed Miliband has accused the PM of "cowering" from the public after he rejected proposals for a head-to-head debate with the Labour leader.

But the prime minister claimed the broadcasters were to blame.

BBC News - Cameron denies 'running scared' of TV election debates

It is a lame situation. Cameron knows he will be roasted and doesn't want to bother, but by the same token a TV debate where each politician will lie and lie again will really answer no questions. The UK is run by the EU, the election itself is little more than a pantomime. The UK is EU occupied and banker run. It's a case of 'We are a little bit less evil than the Tories, but we still worship the banks and want you beyond your means and in debt'.

[Master]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

[pacfan]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.

[Master]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.

The right wing press owned by the super rich also control the media and perception of the left. Labour was destroyed and never got into government until they re-branded to New Labour and got into government after 18 years of inequality.

[pacfan]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.

The right wing press owned by the super rich also control the media and perception of the left. Labour was destroyed and never got into government until they re-branded to New Labour and got into government after 18 years of inequality.

That's exactly what the left here should do. But the left here has a short history, mostly led by the vietnam-war era activists who denounced the war. And the press here are not un-sympathetic to them at all. Most of the people who're in the press are these same activists of the 60s and the 70's. They're now holding the key positions in the mass media organizations here, with their proteges in tow. But somehow, they have failed to move the common folks here, probably most of these simple folks don't understand their grandiose ideology that they have been trying to preach to them. 'Down with the capitalists, down with the imperialists, no to privatization, ' etc. And what do these poor folks know or care about them, right?

[El Kabong]

Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism – Telegraph Blogs

[Master]

[Gandalf]

That is what the voters want? They have been sold property dreams. It is not sustainable. You will have to take away property and have a revolution. So, everyone has a home.

That is not rhetoric. Really. It just means giving a voice to poor people.

[Master]

That is what the voters want? They have been sold property dreams. It is not sustainable. You will have to take away property and have a revolution. So, everyone has a home.

That is not rhetoric. Really. It just means giving a voice to poor people.

Not enough poor, black and young people bother to vote. That is their fault and are wasting their chance to make a change.