The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[chewee]

Great interview this with Miliband, a long way from the vile media image the right wing have built up.

 

[Milk]

HOT or NOT?

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

I just checked my voting power here http://www.voterpower.org.uk/

My vote is worth 5x less than the uk average. Really is time we had proportional representation

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

From the above article:

Here is a different version of events from one of the LSE interviewees: “My best friend committed suicide in March – she went through … relentless reassessments, and found the forms very confusing. She was disabled but they were questioning her over and over again. DWP hounded her for information. It’s a horrible feeling, knowing that your friend was pushed over the edge like that. I’m pretty certain that if these welfare reform changes weren’t going on, I’d still have her with me.”

I have had a tonne of experience of this tory government and what they are doing to the most vulnerable and sick in our society. Let me give you an analogy...

The tories have decided to take away the armbands of the most sick, unfortunate disabled people in society in order to get the debt down. This has obviously had horrendous effects, thousands of deaths and suicides which you can read about in plenty of places if you search about Atos / DWP. I mean [Poor language removed] the UN has launched a human rights investigation into the tories disability benefit reforms - I hope we never see Cameron and his disgusting friends again

 

[TheAlmightyFloater]

I just checked my voting power here http://www.voterpower.org.uk/

My vote is worth 5x less than the uk average. Really is time we had proportional representation

Lucky you, mine is worth 20x less than the UK average!

What an interesting site, thank you for bringing it to my knowledge.

 

[jaycee]

Tories putting the N in cuts

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As I'm sure the NHS will come up again tonight, here (once again) is the 5 year plan produced by the NHS England chief executive last autumn that all of the parties are signed up to.

http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf

 

[roydo]

And as I am sure this will come up, here is also a reminder of the importance of tonights bun fight/debate/popularity contest. *delete where applicable*

 

[orly]

As I'm sure the NHS will come up again tonight, here (once again) is the 5 year plan produced by the NHS England chief executive last autumn that all of the parties are signed up to.

http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf

I was at a conference he spoke at the other day - brutally disappointing

 

[roydo]

I was at a conference he spoke at the other day - brutally disappointing

Who was, @Bruce Wayne ? I have heard he is very engaging in the real world.

 

[orly]

Who was, @Bruce Wayne ? I have heard he is very engaging in the real world.

lol

Comrade Stevens

 

[roydo]

lol

Comrade Stevens

That the NHS boss fella?

 

[toffee matt]

Expect Farage to say something ridiculous about immigration to try and grab the headlines.

 

[Clint Planet]

I have had a tonne of experience of this tory government and what they are doing to the most vulnerable and sick in our society. Let me give you an analogy...

The tories have decided to take away the armbands of the most sick, unfortunate disabled people in society in order to get the debt down. This has obviously had horrendous effects, thousands of deaths and suicides which you can read about in plenty of places if you search about Atos / DWP. I mean [Poor language removed] the UN has launched a human rights investigation into the tories disability benefit reforms - I hope we never see Cameron and his disgusting friends again

Indeed. It's scandalous. And all of this in the midst of an expenses scandal. Talk about moral bankruptcy.

More from that Guardian article about the LSE study that Bruce Wayne strangely failed to highlight:


"In my years writing on this subject, I have read scores of reports and books on welfare reform – but I’ve never seen anything like this. Here are hundreds of people, all living at the sharp end of austerity. Every interviewee is a social-housing tenant of working age, which makes them the number one target of this government. Last September Iain Duncan Smith, in an interview with the Express headlined “We are breaking up Shameless housing estates”, boasted: “We’re making real progress into that stubborn part of the out-of-work group who are in housing estates …” The work and pensions secretary was talking about exactly the LSE interviewees – and this report allows them the right of reply: the LSE authors let their subjects do the talking.

The first thing to come screaming out of the report is how many of the interviewees didn’t plan to be out of work. They’ve got a disability, or they were caring for children or a sick parent, or they were just laid off. You meet Mrs Spencer, who spent seven years out of the jobs market to nurse her daughter through cancer. The daughter died two months ago and the last of their savings went on her funeral. Now her husband has been made redundant after 27 years of work. He’s 59 and has only one eye.

Well over half the respondents claim to be coping. This sounds like good news – until you discover what they mean by that. Getting by means falling behind on rent or into debt; managing means eating less or going without heat. “I’ve got a dog and I’ve got to make sure he’s OK,” one says cheerfully. “If need be I’ll eat his biscuits.”"

 

[roydo]

Farage could get very exposed tonight, (I hope).