General Election 2015

[brocktonblockbust]

snp to stop the tories!!!

[ryanman]

snp to stop the tories!!!

Afraid not. Tories have been dead in Scotland for years. SNP won't take votes from them because there aren't any to take. They will take votes from Labour.

[ryanman]

UKIP are going to do nothing. Its all about the SNP now and I am curious to see how aquit themselves to being a voice for the people.

If SNP had candidates in England I would give them serious consideration.

[Gandalf]

UKIP are going to do nothing. Its all about the SNP now and I am curious to see how aquit themselves to being a voice for the people.

If SNP had candidates in England I would give them serious consideration.

Yeah, they should have pushed for that. They are simply doing more of what Labour used to do, but stopped doing. Only party that has clout and stands for something.

[brocktonblockbust]

UKIP are going to do nothing. Its all about the SNP now and I am curious to see how aquit themselves to being a voice for the people.

If SNP had candidates in England I would give them serious consideration.

Yeah, they should have pushed for that. They are simply doing more of what Labour used to do, but stopped doing. Only party that has clout and stands for something.

atleast Scotland knows it.

[brocktonblockbust]

snp to stop the tories!!!

Afraid not. Tories have been dead in Scotland for years. SNP won't take votes from them because there aren't any to take. They will take votes from Labour.

@ryanman please explain, isnt Scotland to have power by electing a strong team of SNP MPs to a hung parliament at Westminster?

[Gandalf]

All I will say is this ..... https://soundcloud.com/stream

After all, I can do want I want.

[Beanz]

All I will say is this ..... https://soundcloud.com/stream

After all, I can do want I want.

[Gandalf]

No, I think we can have some peace and if I can do it by looking silly, then you owe us something too. Get over yourself, I do. Just chill out a bit.

[Gandalf]

Basically, I think all these obstacles between posters are manufactured. Personally, I don't connect, but get the strongest abuse. Why is that? Well, a variety of reasons really.

They know I am tender, but know I am rock hard too.

[Master]

Many young and Black and minority ethnic people do not vote and have become disenfranchised with the political parties. The truth is the parties do not care about them voting anyway and will not go out of their way to win their votes.

I believe you should vote even if you do not entirely agree with the party you support.

My values and opinions closely align with the Greens but have to vote Labour because I want the Tories out of my constituency.

[Master]

@El Kabong

Q. : Ed, you put the Boston Red Sox website on your desert island discs. Where does your interest in baseball come from?

A. I lived in Boston when I was seven for a year, then more when I was twelve, I went there for a term of junior high school when my dad was teaching there. And that made me a fanatic. And the Boston Red Sox have this amazing story because in some ways they bear some resemblance to the Labour Party because they won the world series in I think 1918, and they sold their most famous player Babe Ruth, and they didn’t win it again until 2004, they sold him to their arch-rivals the New York Yankees, who won something like nineteen world championships in between. It was known as the curse of the Babe because they’d sold their most famous player. And what’s even more extraordinary about them is that they came very close to winning on a whole number of occasions in that 86 year period. So it’s an amazing story of disaster and then redemption. In a way it’s slightly less exciting being a Boston Red Sox fan since 2004, since they won, because the curse has been lifted. But nevertheless, I’m still a fanatic.

Q. So who’s your Babe Ruth then, in the Labour Party?

A. What, the star player that I think we sold? There’s been quite a lot of best Prime Ministers we never had, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, lots of people who spent a lot of time out of power. That’d be the sort of parallel.

[El Kabong]

@El Kabong

Q. : Ed, you put the Boston Red Sox website on your desert island discs. Where does your interest in baseball come from?

A. I lived in Boston when I was seven for a year, then more when I was twelve, I went there for a term of junior high school when my dad was teaching there. And that made me a fanatic. And the Boston Red Sox have this amazing story because in some ways they bear some resemblance to the Labour Party because they won the world series in I think 1918, and they sold their most famous player Babe Ruth, and they didn’t win it again until 2004, they sold him to their arch-rivals the New York Yankees, who won something like nineteen world championships in between. It was known as the curse of the Babe because they’d sold their most famous player. And what’s even more extraordinary about them is that they came very close to winning on a whole number of occasions in that 86 year period. So it’s an amazing story of disaster and then redemption. In a way it’s slightly less exciting being a Boston Red Sox fan since 2004, since they won, because the curse has been lifted. But nevertheless, I’m still a fanatic.

Q. So who’s your Babe Ruth then, in the Labour Party?

A. What, the star player that I think we sold? There’s been quite a lot of best Prime Ministers we never had, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, lots of people who spent a lot of time out of power. That’d be the sort of parallel.

#1 It's Curse of The Bambino, which was dreamed up by ASSHAT Dan Shaughnessy

#2 It's certainly NOT less exciting being a Red Sox fan and watching them win the World Series on multiple occasions.

#3 Who is this "Ed" fellow?

[superheavyrhun]

#3 Who is this "Ed" fellow?

This question is one that far too many voters in the UK have to ask, which is why he's not likely to get an outright majority. He's the leader of the Labour Party.

[ryanman]

snp to stop the tories!!!

Afraid not. Tories have been dead in Scotland for years. SNP won't take votes from them because there aren't any to take. They will take votes from Labour.

@ryanman please explain, isnt Scotland to have power by electing a strong team of SNP MPs to a hung parliament at Westminster?

Well any party, other than the big two, winning seats is more likely to lead to a hung Parliament yes. And it does look like the SNPs will do well, but they can only take seats from Labour, not the Tories.

Currently in Scotland Labour has 41 MPs, SNP has 6 and Tories have 1. So a strong result for the SNP will do nothing to hurt the Tories but is a real threat to Labour. The Tories have nothing (well, just 1 MP) that the SNP can take.

Of course it won't make a Tory majority more likely but it does mean that they are more likely to be the largest single party and thus get first dibs on a deal to form a coalition, or even to rule as a minority government.