General Election 2015

[Kirkland Laing]

I'd prefer that the Jocks remain part of Britain but with $50 oil there's no way they can afford to pay for all that welfare and Buckfast if they go independent. Not to mention they can't possibly credibly backstop their big financial institutions.

With $50 oil the SNP are like a bunch of demented six form socialists, just insisting that things have to be a certain way when they very obviously can't. I can only see this secession situation getting worse and causing major problems, the biggest being how to let the fuckers back in the union when the English electorate will be absolutely fucking dead against it.

[superheavyrhun]

I'd prefer that the Jocks remain part of Britain but with $50 oil there's no way they can afford to pay for all that welfare and Buckfast if they go independent. Not to mention they can't possibly credibly backstop their big financial institutions.

With $50 oil the SNP are like a bunch of demented six form socialists, just insisting that things have to be a certain way when they very obviously can't. I can only see this secession situation getting worse and causing major problems, the biggest being how to let the fuckers back in the union when the English electorate will be absolutely fucking dead against it.

The problem is, the rivalry between north and south is going to drive Scotland further away from the union, rather than bringing it back into the fold. The rabid hunting of Miliband to get him to confirm he won't talk to the SNP by the other major party pretty much tells the Scots that they aren't wanted, and if they do vote for the SNP then nobody wants to listen or treat with the people they elect. That's a shabby state of affairs, and if I was Scottish, that would make me much more likely to want independence.

[Master]

SNP may win loads of seats and cost Labour the victory.

[Kirkland Laing]

It doesn't matter who wins or who forms the next government. If it's Cameron we get massive budget cuts for the first two years followed by three years where they don't cut and the economy recovers from the first two years of cuts, basically a replay of what just happened over the last five years. The idiots who spent the last five years screaming about the deficit (caused by a recession caused by policies that they fully backed 1997-2008 ) will also give a tax cut mainly to wealthy people which obviously increases the deficit.

Labour will do the same cuts over the first two years/let the economy recover for the next three (this will be the pattern for whoever wins for a long time now, the British establishment wants to slash the welfare state and that's that) but also raise taxes minimally on mainly the top 1%.

So take your pick. Basically the same whoever wins with some small gestures towards their political base voters to differentiate themselves from each other while the big decisions -- destroying the economic safety net, immigration, trade, Europe etc. -- are all taken in secret behind closed doors with zero input allowed by the people who live here and vote for these fuckers.

You can go to bed now and miss all the pointless theatre.

[ryanman]

SNP may win loads of seats and cost Labour the victory.

This is breaking news.

[Master]

SNP may win loads of seats and cost Labour the victory.

This is breaking news.

I have just voted. Another breaking news.

[ryanman]

I'd prefer that the Jocks remain part of Britain but with $50 oil there's no way they can afford to pay for all that welfare and Buckfast if they go independent. Not to mention they can't possibly credibly backstop their big financial institutions.

With $50 oil the SNP are like a bunch of demented six form socialists, just insisting that things have to be a certain way when they very obviously can't. I can only see this secession situation getting worse and causing major problems, the biggest being how to let the fuckers back in the union when the English electorate will be absolutely fucking dead against it.

The problem is, the rivalry between north and south is going to drive Scotland further away from the union, rather than bringing it back into the fold. The rabid hunting of Miliband to get him to confirm he won't talk to the SNP by the other major party pretty much tells the Scots that they aren't wanted, and if they do vote for the SNP then nobody wants to listen or treat with the people they elect. That's a shabby state of affairs, and if I was Scottish, that would make me much more likely to want independence.

Agreed.
It's a fucking joke how the Tories are talking about the Scots.

Clearly the importance of the union to Cameron doesn't extend as far as wanting the Scots to have a say in the policies of the union.
You'd think if you didn't know better that the Scots were a dangerous band of insurgents looking to invade the UK system, rather than actually being part of the UK.

[ryanman]

SNP may win loads of seats and cost Labour the victory.

This is breaking news.

I have just voted. Another breaking news.

Just saw it on the news mate.

[superheavyrhun]

If any of you are following the coverage, I've just claimed "Labour's Balls Out" as my headline, and if any of the tabloids use it, I'm going to sue them for copyright infringement, as that is my intellectual property.

[Gandalf]

Jesus Christ.....the Tories are expected to win this? I'm telling you, it is almost as if Labour has been trying to lose with these plastic policies and lack of repentance. Instead of winning working people back they have gone to UKIP and the SNP and meanwhile the selfish cunt brigade is voting Tory. What a travesty. No deal with the SNP eh Ed? You complete and utter idiot. Scotland is clearly the soul of the UK and needs to be worked with to change anything, instead they are being fucking demonised. The game is looking up. Banker hanging needs to become as popular as football (which is another reason for the ignorance of the general populace).

[ryanman]

If any of you are following the coverage, I've just claimed "Labour's Balls Out" as my headline, and if any of the tabloids use it, I'm going to sue them for copyright infringement, as that is my intellectual property.

Get it out there now mate cos it ain't going to happen.

[ryanman]

It's the end of days.

It's not about the largest party though it's about who can command the confidence of the house.
Cameron, if the polls are right, can have first dibs on the queen's speech, but if it's voted down then he is fucked. We need the poll to be wrong by just a few seats then make sure Cameron isn't allowed a constitutional coup.

[Gandalf]

I can't understand who these people voting Tory are. Is it The Sun Newspaper and the other Tory rags, do people really believe this shit? Is it the idiots that believe a pile of aging bricks is a reliable store of money, is it that humanity is simply lost? Who the hell votes Tory? 316 potential seats? What is that? What is that? And an unelected monarch?

[Gandalf]

Then you factor in Labour likely losing votes to the Greens and TUSC as well and close seats have suddenly been torn from them, but again, how could a moral man ever endorse a party of war criminals, bankers, lobbyists and businessmen? It almost seems staged in that regard. Labour could have presented a real alternative but instead offered cosmetic differences and people say 'why vote for them?'. Then look what happens. More than ever I think this is a pantomime.

'Energy shares will rise, the pound is rising, business and media is happy' seems to be what the BBC is telling me. Meanwhile, turn it and see what it means for the people. This is really ominous.

[superheavyrhun]

If Danny Alexander and many of the Scottish Lib Dems go, I don't see why Ed Balls can't be chucked out. The man's a tool.