2015 post UK election discussion

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So future options for Farage? A stint in the Aussie jungle, celeb BB house perhaps, maybe the next presenter of Top Gear? Some chairing slots on HIGNFY for defo.
 
Steve0 said:
There's a huge swathe of people earning between 25-40k or so who think, because they earn more than bus drivers or whatever, that they're middle class and therefore tories are the party for them.

Fact is, right wing tax cuts for the super wealthy, privatised industries slashing services whilst increasing prices and cuts to public spending mean people in this bracket have hardly seen an improvement in living standards for 40 years, never mind the last 5.

Sum peaple r just fick.
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Ah yeah, but the lower earners are 'working hard & doing the right thing'. All's it took for them to vote tory (As some did, looking at where the tories have won/held seats) was this thinly veiled divisive tactic pat on the head.
 
Jxg said:
Exactly how everyone should vote. Charity begins at home, not in the polling booth.

Obviously the needy and charity are two different things, but the concept is still the same. People should vote in their interests, not in the interests of others.
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True.

The trick is in making it in a person's best interest to vote for the common good.

And the common good includes providing for a system with safety nets to catch those who fall off the tightrope we call "life".

No one is immune from illness.

No one knows what he or she might be struck down with a week on Tuesday which renders us incapable of continuing to provide for ourself and our family.

The common good provides a system where all our children have access to a decent education.

A roof over their heads.

The common good works toward creating a system where young people have the prospect of gainful employment to build a future for themselves.

Disaffected youth with time on its hands us not in anyone's interest.

We saw this in Toxteth and Brixton in the early 80s as Thatcherism began to bite.

I am no socialist or communist.

But it is clearly not in the interests of anyone to have a fractured country of haves and have nots.

These people in power are totally devoid of ideas beyond their tired old mantra of cuts, cuts and more sodding cuts.

They haven't a clue how to actually make a society prosper through positive economic activity.
 

Whistlin' Dixie said:
Ah yeah, but the lower earners are 'working hard & doing the right thing'. All's it took for them to vote tory (As some did, looking at where the tories have won/held seats) was this thinly veiled divisive tactic pat on the head.
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modern day forelock touchers.
 
It's all Labour's fault. As soon as they elected Miliband I knew he'd do a Kinnock. People get in the polling booths and think "can I really vote for a bloke who can't even eat a bacon sandwich, or who fakes a cockney accent to be PM". Him and Ed Balls ffs, nobody could like those 2. They should have voted for Andy Burnham last time. As for the future, well whoever wins the leadership the NHS and Education will be privatised, Scotland will be Independent and the rest of Britain will be out of the EU by the time of the next election so it really doesn't matter.
 

So basically, the impression I get from this thread is, people who voted tory are greedy bells?
 
hallamblue said:
It's all Labour's fault. As soon as they elected Miliband I knew he'd do a Kinnock. People get in the polling booths and think "can I really vote for a bloke who can't even eat a bacon sandwich, or who fakes a cockney accent to be PM". Him and Ed Balls ffs, nobody could like those 2. They should have voted for Andy Burnham last time. As for the future, well whoever wins the leadership the NHS and Education will be privatised, Scotland will be Independent and the rest of Britain will be out of the EU by the time of the next election so it really doesn't matter.
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Anyone taking this into account should do the country a favour and shove the pencil up their @rse and leave the polling booth.
 

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