The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[bluemangroup]

How any sane person would want Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Uk is beyond the realms of rational thought..........ffs I wouldn't let them run a school tuck shop with any confidence.......

Probably best to keep Tories away from tuck shops as well unless you want another sex scandal. WELL DO YOU?

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

How any sane person would want Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Uk is beyond the realms of rational thought..........ffs I wouldn't let them run a school tuck shop with any confidence.......

"Best of a bad bunch" springs to mind.

 

[toffee matt]

Whoever decided to Start a general election campaign 5 months before the election should be shot.

 

[peteblue]

"Best of a bad bunch" springs to mind.

I'd rather my pet dog ran the country, he only fouls up twice a day........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Probably best to keep Tories away from tuck shops as well unless you want another sex scandal. WELL DO YOU?

I think Eric Pickles has already beaten you to it to be honest.

 

[peteblue]

Probably best to keep Tories away from tuck shops as well unless you want another sex scandal. WELL DO YOU?

The great thing about Tory sex scandals is that they at least provide some form of public entertainment..........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whoever decided to Start a general election campaign 5 months before the election should be shot.

Can we keep this to the UK elections, not the Russian one?

 

[bluemangroup]

The great thing about Tory sex scandals is that they at least provide some form of public entertainment..........

But think of the damage it does in privates.

 

[Mrk]

Unemployment is falling, I missed the UN - all your other explanations are typical Tory Dogma - That was not a rant by me, just the propaganda this Government have put out recently as the election looms - as for the BOE using the QE do you not think Gideon Osborne has any say?

The Tories have not fixed the economy if employment is reduced why have tax revenues dropped??? I will tell you - its because they are all low paid jobs or workfare! also the richest in society are paying less tax and avoiding tax payment! promises of curbing this could fetch in 80 billion never achieved or likely to be under their friends!

30 billion of more cuts by the Tories if they get back in - we may have to have one recognised police force! as for crime falling yes since the pvc doors locking systems burglaries have dropped - when do you see a Bobby on the beat???

This Government have topped down the NHS which DC stated he would not do they promised us on Europe negotiations regarding immigration target missed by 250,000. It is not been managed -no one is counted in or out Border police CUT they have broken every promise!

They go from one crisis to another - any thing which has been done like raising the tax allowance is a LIB Dem policy not theirs!

David Cameron is in a split party - alternatives any one bar them!

If you're going to call my explanations "typical Tory Dogma", please try and disprove them with some facts. I didn't just respond to your post with "all your complaints are typical Labour Dogma", did I?

Of course Osbourne has an influence on Quantitative easing, but it started in 2009 under Labour, so do you honestly think they would have objected?

Tax revenues have dropped for many reasons, one of the main reasons being tax cuts for most of the population, as well as pay increases not keeping up with inflation (and as the government has little influence over pay or inflation, you’ll struggle to blame them for that).

As for the 80bn of tax avoidance - if this was such an easy and (presumably popular) policy, why didn’t Labour do anything about it in 13 years? In fact, why has no government ever done anything about it…?

As for the bit about crime - I don’t really see the relevance - I couldn’t care less whether police spend their time in an office or ‘on the beat’ as long as crime stays low.

They’ve missed their targets on immigration by a country mile - that’s something they can definitely be criticised for.

 

[Joey66]

If you're going to call my explanations "typical Tory Dogma", please try and disprove them with some facts. I didn't just respond to your post with "all your complaints are typical Labour Dogma", did I?

Of course Osbourne has an influence on Quantitative easing, but it started in 2009 under Labour, so do you honestly think they would have objected?

Tax revenues have dropped for many reasons, one of the main reasons being tax cuts for most of the population, as well as pay increases not keeping up with inflation (and as the government has little influence over pay or inflation, you’ll struggle to blame them for that).

As for the 80bn of tax avoidance - if this was such an easy and (presumably popular) policy, why didn’t Labour do anything about it in 13 years? In fact, why has no government ever done anything about it…?

As for the bit about crime - I don’t really see the relevance - I couldn’t care less whether police spend their time in an office or ‘on the beat’ as long as crime stays low.

They’ve missed their targets on immigration by a country mile - that’s something they can definitely be criticised for.

 

[sd_1992]

Whoever decided to Start a general election campaign 5 months before the election should be shot.

It is fairly amazing that not one of the political party decided to get a head start... if this was america they would have been campaigning for 2 years by now...

 

[Joey66]

If you're going to call my explanations "typical Tory Dogma", please try and disprove them with some facts. I didn't just respond to your post with "all your complaints are typical Labour Dogma", did I?

Of course Osbourne has an influence on Quantitative easing, but it started in 2009 under Labour, so do you honestly think they would have objected?

Tax revenues have dropped for many reasons, one of the main reasons being tax cuts for most of the population, as well as pay increases not keeping up with inflation (and as the government has little influence over pay or inflation, you’ll struggle to blame them for that).

As for the 80bn of tax avoidance - if this was such an easy and (presumably popular) policy, why didn’t Labour do anything about it in 13 years? In fact, why has no government ever done anything about it…?

As for the bit about crime - I don’t really see the relevance - I couldn’t care less whether police spend their time in an office or ‘on the beat’ as long as crime stays low.

They’ve missed their targets on immigration by a country mile - that’s something they can definitely be criticised for.

Please explain your reasons of tax revenue dropping if we are doing so wonderful as the Tories claim?????
Cost of living is lower - house building is as low as the 1930's Growth is minimal, my son has not had a pay rise for 5 years!
I do not advocate Labour so where do you read that from? I just advocaTted any combination other than the Tories as it will be a coalition of sorts anyway !

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's a funny old world when people having more of their own money to spend on things they want is seen as a bad thing. Unless of course people want extra taxes to come from people other than them, but then for it to be spent on them.

As Oscar Wilde said, selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

 

[The Cowboy]

Please explain your reasons of tax revenue dropping if we are doing so wonderful as the Tories claim?????
Cost of living is lower - house building is as low as the 1930's Growth is minimal, my son has not had a pay rise for 5 years!
I do not advocate Labour so where do you read that from? I just advocaTted any combination other than the Tories as it will be a coalition of sorts anyway !

Ok so what is the combination you would prefer if it does not include the Tories? Erm, that'll be a Labour coalition. So you pretty much are advocating Labour. It's hard not to in an (effectively) 2 horse race.

Comes to something though, eh, when you choose your side in an election by picking the side you hate the least!

 

[Clint Planet]

They’ve missed their targets on immigration by a country mile - that’s something they can definitely be criticised for.

There was never any chance of them meeting their immigration targets since they are honour-bound to admit any EU national. Any promise to meet immigration targets was a deliberate lie to garner votes. In fact, since they couldn't get rid of EU nationals, they went after non-EU residents instead, often overseas students who contribute to the economy and usually have no desire to stay. Utterly idiotic.