They lead in the other two sites I made polls in, and by some way! Maybe it's Rotherham, maybe it's the HS2 carving up the countryside, oppressive speed cameras, NHS parking fees or houses being built on greenbelt land, who knows? 

Could also be Labour ruining the economy and inviting Islamists in en masse or just the Cons failing to deliver on their biggest promises.

Maybe protest votes 

 

as a general rule of thumb, if you want to support a party with a social conscience in the forthcoming UK elections, choose one with a female leader...

Not that you would notice. I suspect that they really want to put as much political distance between themselves and the UKIPpers as possible. Farage isn't saying things that we all suspect that Cameron secretly wants to say, they are ideologically poles apart.

I'm not sure what the Tories are doing to be honest, and I get the feeling that neither do they. All the parties seem to have acknowledged that the election will be close and probably result in yet-another coalition government. Labour are still fighting to win while the Tories appear to be resigned to losing. As the left-leaning smaller parties are queuing up to side with Labour it's leaving the Tories and UKIP looking like the tubby lad in National Health glasses who is last to be picked for playground football and the asthmatic kid with an unfortunate case of tourettes. If they are counting on the support of the Lib/Dems then I think they are in for a bit of a shock, Corporal Clegg will side with the winning team no matter who they are.

I expect that the Lib/Dems will lose a lot of votes but not that many seats and the other smaller parties will gain votes but no more seats - such is the nature of first-past-the-post balloting. 

 

I know exactly how you feel and can sympathise. I grew up in an area where Nicholas Ridley was the MP, with the adjoining constituencies incumbents being Norman Fowler and Douglas Hurd, all of whom had majorities of around 20,000. Whilst working for the YHA in generally affluent parts of the country, my predicament was the same... because I've never been a disciple of free market economics, my vote has regrettably never counted for anything.

I concur - while I have no love for the sponging, benefit-scrounging, inbred immigrants of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Winsor myself, I would rather one of them as an ineffectual and mildly entertaining Head of State than a politically-elected glory-hunting self-serving corrupt official - having to suffer such bozos as Prime Minister is bad enough, but as President of a Republic - nein danke.

I find it sickening how Lefties/The great unwashed/white apologists/Liberals support this just for Self Ego Gratification, self-enlightenment or to score brownie points over Nationalists etc. 

I know only those who swing to the left see the peril but If Europe doesn't break the current trend we can all kiss democracy & equality goodbye, and we'll see if groups like UAF or Hope Not Hate protest against true fascism. 

I know controlled immigration has seen many Muslims adapt to or embrace the West and earn the tag "Moderates" but mass immigration is certainly seeing a growth in Islamist and radicalisation to historical Islamic ideals. 

Things previously unheard of before Labour opened the floodgates are certainly mentioned amongst Islamic culture these days:

Tatbir

Halal Slaughter

Female Genital Mutilation

Child Grooming gangs

Taxi rape epidemic

Honour killings

Forced marriage

Sharia Patrols

Illegal Sharia Courts

Hate groups

Hate preachers

Bigamy

Poppy Burning

Islamism

Jihadism

Extremism

Terrorism

Carousel Fraud

Suicide bombers

Two-tier Policing and media (Rotherham and Kriss Donald)

Crikey if you get raped in some Muslim countries you face prison or even stoning for having sex outside marriage! ..this includes kids!!! We can't add this culture to Europe's Multi-cultured societies! 

Don't get me started on underage brides, when to use sodomy or punishments for denouncing Islam or changing faiths. Homosexuals will especially be targeted for hatred. We owe it to the human race to fight Islamification. 

A start would be Westernised/Moderate Muslims and Anti-Fascist movements protesting ISIS etc and other barbaric aspects of outdated Islam whilst backing calls for tighter borders.

I think Quillliam became a non-starter when they got Tommy Robinson on board. Weren't Quilliam founded by an extremist? Maybe a trojan horse?

Islamification scares me tbh. Outside of Moderate Islam which is something that took time to evolve that Islam is compatible with Western values. As the Islamic population increases there will be more Sharia Patrol type groups putting pressure on girls to cover up or men to stop drinking in public, the future of Europe will be interesting at best. There have already been running battles in Sweden and Paris due to extreme Islam. 

Stats are coming through every day that are very alarming - 1 in 4 women will be raped in Sweden! 27% of the prison population in London is Muslim whilst the UK Muslim population is just circa 4.8%! 

The Police/Labour/Council/Muslim community leaders cover up regarding Rotherham and the media silence over Kriss Donald makes it crucial we retain equality with a UKIP vote. 

Best case scenario: they get together and fu*k off.

 

Matthew, I admire your perseverance, but I'm not sure you'll find many UK based forum members who don't think that UKIP are a bit like the BNP with a couple of 'O' levels behind them...

 

I can't see this happening. Although UKIP might get a worryingly high percentage of the vote overall, I don't think they'll win enough seats to be able to prop up the Tories on their own, even with DUP support. If Cameron doesn't get an outright majority, but wins the most seats, he'll realistically have no option other than to go cap in hand back to the Lib Dems if he wants to avoid 5 years of opposition.

 

I can't see this happening. Although UKIP might get a worryingly high percentage of the vote overall, I don't think they'll win enough seats to be able to prop up the Tories on their own, even with DUP support. If Cameron doesn't get an outright majority, but wins the most seats, he'll realistically have no option other than to go cap in hand back to the Lib Dems if he wants to avoid 5 years of opposition.

 

Yes, I'd thought of that one too... it'll be fudged then postponed until after 2020..

If Farage wins then the kind people of Oslo can decide whether to send a christmas tree to London to put in Trafalgar Square this year or not. Since that tree is a symbol of gratitude for ridding Norway of fascist invaders it would seem inappropriate to continue the tradition. 

 

Hasn't she been saved long enough? Hey, you have to empty out the fridge every once in a while.

 

 

 

....to be continued.... 

absolutely spot on, except for the very last bit. Cameron & Clegg made us wait fir five years as a result of the Fixed Term Parliament Act.

We could also, of course, make reference to the fact that there are about five different Commie Parties extant in the UK, plus various ragtag Trot groups.  The comrades never could just get on with each other....

Given the repressive nature of every communist regime in history, I wonder why such a state is even considered any more. Eventually, one gets totalitarianism and violent suppression of freedoms, and, as with all political structures, a ruling elite that eats bon-bons while the proletariat lives in concrete bunkers. 

What does this have to do with UK General Election 2015? 

Communism isn't evil - it just doesn't work in practice. Power is evil. Greed is evil. Genocide is evil. Racism is evil. Hate is evil. War is evil. All these evils corrupt no matter what politics, philosophy or ideology is involved.

http://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz" rel="nofollow - This one claimed I sided 99% with Labour, 92% with The Greens and 87% with the Lib/Dems, needless to say all right and right of centre parties scored low (it also scored me high with the regional parties of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland because they are essentially democratic socialist parties and low with English nationalists because they ain't) ... and that did little more than confirm what I already knew: I am a socialist, or to be more precise, a liberal socialist.

One line in the summary stated this: "You agree with most United Kingdom voters on almost all issues, especially Environmental and Social issues. This is rare, you should consider running for office!" ... and that got me thinking. 

The history of the British parliamentary system as been an erratic process of devolving power away from ruling elites in fits and starts as universal suffrage gave the vote to larger and larger portions of the population. Traditionally this was split along Whig (Liberal, Roundhead) and Tory (Conservative, Cavalier) lines of the land-owning elite until the reforms of 1918 and 1928 permitted the working classes to not only vote in elections but also form, and thus vote for, socialist political parties.  Because the electoral system does not give prizes for coming second this polarised voting to the extremes of left and right, have and have-nots, rural and urban, middle and working class, employer and employee, head and heart, social and economic, private/privatised and public/nationalised, north and south, east and west, regional and national, catholic and protestant, monarchist and republican, etc., that fractures the political party system from a two-party system (Tory and Whig or conservative and socialist) into the plethora of opposing parties that we have today.

What we are being asked to do is chose a single party whose policies, promises, philosophy and ideology will govern our country for the next five years in every aspect of what a government does - (economics, environment, social care/welfare, education, healthcare, defence, foreign and domestic policy, business, employment, transportation, taxation, regulation, etc., etc.,). 

At present there seems to be two solutions to this (both of which have sorta been rejected on public referendum) - change the electoral system or devolve government into regional government. Even though I was a supporter of changing the electoral system I actually do not see that as a viable solution (especially in any of the proportional representation systems that have either been proposed or are in use in other countries) as this results in government of compromise, ransom/shady deals and big-boy bullying - it just seems to me to be more honest and fair than the current system that's all. Regional devolution merely shifts a single macro-problem down to lots of self-serving micro-problems without actually solving any of them (my forum location of "Albion" is not entirely a jokey response even though it has poetic/romantic Arthurian connotations) - there are some issues that are best served on a regional basis and there are many more issues that are not. I have often remarked that living in the affluent South of England my socialist vote is a wasted vote, in a devolved South of England (the logical conclusion of devolution) or "Wessex" as it would probably be called, the concept of socialism would become even more ineffectual to the point of being non-existent. Voting now would not be by ballot but by feet (or more accurately: removal van) - to get public healthcare or education (which I fully support) I would have to move to a region that favoured and implemented those policies. This may seem fanciful but essentially we are already doing this for employment - I am not a Wessex national, I moved here for the work, not because I wanted to live in a Conservative stronghold or because I supported the political persuasions of http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=michael_mates" rel="nofollow - Michael Mates or http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=damian_hinds" rel="nofollow - Damian Hinds . Similarly my father moved from Essex to Bedfordshire for work, just as his father moved from Yorkshire to Suffolk to Essex for work.

If we must have party politics (which I have little doubt that we do if we want to remain a democracy), then rather than spilt-up the country on constituency lines to vote for our "local" representative for one of these government roles why not split-up the government into job-function and vote for the best-fit party for each of those roles? If Labour has the better social policies to your way of thinking then vote for them in social roles, if the Green's have better environmental policies in your opinion then vote for them to manage the environment, if you think that the Conservatives have better Foreign policies then vote for them to manage that and so on. Of course this idea cannot work in the state I have just described it, it has taken 800 years of ideas and reforms to get what we currently have so a radical re-think of government of the people by the people is going to take more than the 20 minutes I spent thinking about this while sitting in the café of a garden centre yesterday afternoon.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/05/labour-stays-silent-over-gender-segregation-at-party-rally/" rel="nofollow - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/05/labour-stays-silent-over-gender-segregation-at-party-rally/

 

Like mostly everyone who blindly follows a political system (or religion, for that matter), your continued deflection and pointing of fingers to imagined external foes is pathetic.

 

I made a statement that communism is a failure worldwide in nearly every application, but I was also speaking in context to the British elections (ie., why would anyone vote for such an historically failed system?). You, however, again decide to go off on tangents that have literally nothing to do with the discussion, let alone to Britain in particular.

 

Here's an idea, stick to what you do best, spam the New Bands and Artists forum with an interminable amount of marginal Moldavian zither-playing bands that have about as much to do with prog as Dolly Parton.

The readership of the Spectator is about 10,000.

it will not make a blind bit of difference.

Labour and Plaid, have been sending duplicates of leaflets lately through the mail box lol and my mother ripped up the Tories leaflet, most people around where I live feel that way about them too.

 

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Plaid is the posh word for tartan, which as we all know is a French tarte made with caramelised apples; cymru is the Gaelic word for custard, or as the French say it crème anglaise.

So there you have it: Plaid Cymru is Tarte Tatin avec Crème Anglaise or as we say in Albion: Apple Pie and Custard.

nom nom nom 

It's still 10 seats shy of a majority so it's either a Con-Dem'd coalition again or a Lab-SNP-Dem-Plaid-Green (ie the anti-Tory) coalition [which isn't as fanciful as it sounds since they're all basically socialist].

I suspect that is because you are an outsider 

Apparently not.

As far as party leaders go, it looks like it's 2 down, 1 to go.  Looking forward to watching Paddy eating his hat.

For what it is worth I believe that Paddy is a man of his word. Sometime in the near future I fully expect a face-saving publicity stunt (no doubt all in aid of charity) where he and Alistair Campbell will sit down to a meal of hat and kilt.