The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )
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bring the ghost on
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It's a shame how stupid some people can be.
Very good read the last few pages, sorry but can't see the SNP going any other way but backing Labour. A minority Labour government propped up by SNP votes would have to make concessions. I understand concerns about the union but secretly the left wing of the Labour Party are excited about a potential forced shift in party policy. Any perceived SNP / Tory deal would be political suicide for the SNP given how hated they are North of the border.
Everyone presumes the Lib Dems will support Cameron again if needs be but it's not as simple as that. In recent weeks in Hallam, Labour have gone from 8/1 in to 15/8 to win Cleggs seat, there is a growing belief he could be toppled. Danny Alexander is almost certain to lose his seat up in Scotland as well. Rumblings suggest if both of them go so does any Cameron deal
Fascinating few weeks ahead whichever way you look at it.
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It's easy enough to defeat much of UKIP's logic with sound reasoning and facts. There's no need to start acting the fool.
toffee matt
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Salmond lording it round claiming he's going to be writing Ed Balls budget as he has been today is going to play straight into the Tories hands
It's one big game of cat and mouse, but yes as you say it's a strong weapon the scaremongering right wing media can use.
The price of SNP support will be a lot lower than what he has suggested to the media tonight, It's high stakes poker and he's playing a very smart hand. Set SNP goals ridiculously high so if (and of course it's a big if) they enter negotiations with Labour about a potential coalition he has plenty to bargain with. If they can get even 1/4 of what is on their manifesto through they'll see it as a resounding success.
Whitehall is traditionally filled with old Etonian boys club types. This generation of civil servants have yet to experience a government left of centre (Blair/Brown included who were both right centre), if we saw the SNP hold any degree of power they'll be having kittens.
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Carlito
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You'd think they'd at least wait until he was doing something vaguely political before pulling something like that.
Now it looks as though they're protesting against his right to exist.
To paraphrase the UN this morning, they initially went into Africa and arrogantly told communities how to respond safely to Ebola (planning). They admit it would have been far more effective had they worked more closely with the communities themselves (searching).
Clint Planet
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Bruce, you always assume that I (and anyone on the left) has no time at all for "searching," as it is rather tortuously called, which is a bit odd seeing as being Left-Wing is a people-centric philosophy (especially if you tend to have anarcho-syndicalist instincts like myself). Do you not think, like we of the left, that there should be a mixture of "planning" and "searching"?
It is the Right, it seems to me, that is ideologically closed-minded in its devotion to "the free market" (I mean, really, when has that ever worked? Look at the state we're in now) as opposed to the Left who propose a mixed economy, competative and encouraging enterprise, but with the appropriate checks and balances in the interests of social justice.
Clint Planet
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Quite. Children have a right to be treated fairly. This is an inconvenient idea for those who support private schooling, of course. They have no real argument to counter it.
Not really that bothered by designations of left or right as they're usually too simplistic, and nearly always far too divisive and strangle any attempts to learn from one another.
I'll readily accept that I may have succumbed to the confirmation bias, but pretty much everything I read about successful change involves searching rather than planning (I'm trying hard not to dwell too much on the suggestion that support for this approach might somehow make me an apartheid or slavery sympathiser).
That this seems to give lots of power and freedom to us as people would, I've had thought, please us both?
You might find this interesting by the way
And in non-community news, interesting to hear today about the death of probably the most influential statesman that you've never heard of.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32014307
Kind of the epitomy of the benevolent dictator I guess. Strange how influential he's been throughout the political world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32014307
Kind of the epitomy of the benevolent dictator I guess. Strange how influential he's been throughout the political world.
The Esk
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Hmmm
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