DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

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had the UKIP booklet through, and a skinny leaflet from lib dems.
if there is a green candidate (suspect there will be as this area seems to be pretty involved with the green party - their deputy lives in the nearest town), they will be getting my vote.

mark e, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link

as there are only 12 regions for the whole of the UK I assume the greens are standing everywhere

ogmor, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link

correction : not deputy, i must have mis-read soemthing last week.
our green party candidate she is heavily involved with the local council.

mark e, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link

Tories leafleted my little corner of Camden yesterday and my leaflets went straight to the recycling bag.

baked beings on toast (suzy), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10815151/Ukip-puts-ethnic-minority-candidates-centre-stage-in-bid-to-kill-racism-row.html

"This is my Clause Four moment" presumably meaning that UKIP was founded with white supremacism as its guiding principle but has now abandoned it as impractical and unpopular.

Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 May 2014 07:19 (ten years ago) link

cutpopulationorwealldie • 3 minutes ago

I say again:

Take Great Care. I believe the MSM have abandoned attacking UKIP and now use the opposite tack to trick UKIP into getting all cocky.
DON'T BE FOOLED. It's a kind of HONEY TRAP.
Be cool. Keep a lid on your expectations and above all
HOLD YOUR COURSE!!

it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Thursday, 8 May 2014 07:29 (ten years ago) link

i love overpopulation nuts, always interested in their plans for bringing the numbers down

Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 May 2014 07:37 (ten years ago) link

had to google MSM. "mainstream" is one word you nobs

Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 May 2014 07:38 (ten years ago) link

Yeah but in fairness saying MM it would sound like they were airing laughably paranoid fictional greivances at a defunct music paper.

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 8 May 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link

which is more what this board is about, right?

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 8 May 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link

seinfeldbassriff.wav

Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:02 (ten years ago) link

B-b-b-b-but how could Ukip be a racist party when they had a black Jewish woman at their conference? Seems to me you are all afraid of having your mainstream worldviews destroyed by Ukip's establishment-shaking policies. Don't you want to be free? I saw Farage drink a pint once. A pint of beer, like a real person. That's the difference between Ukip and the other parties because they're real people who drink real drinks and talk about real issues, like how noisy windfarms are and how foreigners are ruining everything for everybody. So don't call them a racist party, because at the end of the day isn't everyone a little bit racist deep down, just a little bit? You can't blame Ukip for that. The very fact you keep bringing up race reveals something about your own racism.

1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link

Tory leaflet we had through the door was all A Stronger Economy and then something about Renewed Respect Abroad and I sat there for about five minutes genuinely wondering where this renewed respect was meant to be coming from.

Matt DC, Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:26 (ten years ago) link

Oh probably the usual bunch of tax avoiders, money launderers, speculators, oligarchy, gangsters, super-wealthy scumbags in general.

A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link

no that's the Tory party

Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link

They have renewed respect for themselves

A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link

DL OTM

Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Thursday, 8 May 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link

please can you zap a government

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link

If you're trying to enlist me to assassinate the PM then I have to refuse (see, government spies!).

Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link

would you reconsider if we got stet to agree to give you a mordy style star on completion?

ogmor, Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link

Would it be bigger than the one Mordy had?

Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link

mb all your posts could be turned into revolving 3d gifs ala the pornhub comments thread

ogmor, Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link

Nobody posted that bar chart yet?

Mark G, Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link

No?

OK, then..

http://labourlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BnXSlafIcAEK5bM-500x375.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link

Good graph

^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 12 May 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link

that's a hell of a bar chart

NI, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link

well, it convinced me...

popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link

Wow @ the skewering of Farage here

http://www.lbc.co.uk/watch-nigel-farage-v-james-obrien-live-from-1130-9053

Alba, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link

You'd think after being dogged for years by accusations that his party is full of bigots he'd have developed better stock responses. Still, his supporters aren't going to give a fuck that their poster boy just got well and truly shellacked; it'll simply strengthen the perception that the media is out to get them.

bizarro gazzara, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link

that is an amazing URL

popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link

holy shit at the video http://www.thedualism.com/

ogmor, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link

^also completely NSFW

ogmor, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link

What the hell is that? And is the beardy guy peeling a turnip at 0:25?

Alba, Friday, 16 May 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link

Forget it Jake, it's Ukiptown

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 16 May 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link

The Sun has called Farage out on his interview yesterday.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesManning4/status/467546400960823297/photo/1

Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 17 May 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link

I'd been wondering when they were going to do something like that, The Sun wants UKIP in the race so that they drag the Tories (and therefore Labour) rightwards on Europe but it doesn't actually want them winning seats in the UK.

Then again UKIP has been so lightly scrutinised by the RW press for so long that it might make minimal difference at this point.

Matt DC, Saturday, 17 May 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link

lol @ trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 17 May 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link

I read in private eye that we're seeing all these ukip stories in the press because conservative party research department is leaking them to papers on condition the papers don't reveal the source

cardamon, Sunday, 18 May 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link

so i've tried to research the bewilderingly different anti-EU choices on my MEP ballot. this is how i break it down:

An Independence from Europe - basically UKIP but don't think Farage is right wing enough, chose weird party name to get top of the ballot

British National Party - Nazi vermin

Conservative Party - broad right coalition of racists, toffs and thick bastards

English Democrats - hate "Celts" as well as Europeans, probably roll up at Wimbledon in Union Flag hats

NO2EU - old school leftists riding the xenophobia ticket, presumably they have a thought-out rationale behind their decision to focus the fight against capital on the EU, buggered if i'm reading that far

UKIP - real ale, racism

Yorkshire First - hate "Southerners" as well as Celts, Europeans etc.

the only loving boy in UKIP (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 08:38 (ten years ago) link

Elvis Party - hate "The Beetles"

Mark G, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 08:44 (ten years ago) link

This is one of those ~fun~ "who should you vote for?" quizzes that's getting passed round on social media:

http://uk.votematch.eu/

My god there are an awful lot of questions about Europe (most of which I seriously don't care, but I kinda feel like, if racists are against it, I should probably be for it?)

Everyone who took it on social media all got the same result - I'm wondering if that's because the source of the test is a specific party, who have therefore weighted it to display that party to everyone, or if my particular cluster of friends just all have similar beliefs?

Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:06 (ten years ago) link

Yeah I started doing that one and started getting confused by the binaries and the fact I didn't feel strongly yes or no about 70% of the questions.

now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link

I for one am getting tired of the Ukip coverage, good and bad. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't Tory propaganda designed to make them look like the right-wing party of reason and decency or something.

now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:18 (ten years ago) link

will be interested to see if yorkshire first have any support at all

ogmor, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link

The Tories are shit scared of UKIP, a split vote on the right is the worst possible scenario for them. I don't think that's going to happen though.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:22 (ten years ago) link

I figured out the "neither" button or whatever meant "I don't care." But really, too many questions about Europe, too badly phrased.

Yorkshire First are just jealous that Cornwall got protected minority status and they didn't, so I guess they're going to make a bid for independence next?

Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:41 (ten years ago) link

do you ever see a newcastle independence party, just out of interest?

now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link

There are plenty of good reasons for people on the left to be against the EU but, from a British perspective, they generally assume that we will one day have a government that isn't more right-wing than the current EU consensus.

Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link


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