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

more like the Party moved towards him

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He calls Ben Elton his childhood hero

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Says it is 'great to be here in Warrington'

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Standing ovation from the audience as Ed Miliband makes his way on stage.

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There is a huge emphasis here on getting party members to help the cause

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Ed Miliband now showing on screen before his stage appearance.

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/12871987.AS_IT_HAPPENED__Thousand_gather_in_Warrington_for_election_rally/

Mistah Left

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He calls Ben Elton his childhood hero

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Amazing that there are some Labourites still trying to milk something out of this story. They really are shameless/clueless.

Ed Milli feat. Skepta

https://vine.co/v/OlKMEmqqwqa

Worst election campaign ever? If I hear one more Tory twat use the word 'chaos'...

Watched ten minutes or so of Sky News over the weekend at my parents'. They were reading the newspapers, and reflecting on the cast of TOWIE's turn as political commentators in the Sun, and one of these turds was ranting in the paper about 'benefit scroungers', and the polished simulacra of real human beings who hosted the round table was all "we can laugh but they reflect what a lot of real people are thinking" and I thought, this is hilarious, a Murdoch TV show kudos-ing a Murdoch newspaper for tapping into the id of the nation by asking someone who's career involves appearing in a show so bad no-one can tell if it is reality or fiction who has spouted exactly what the Murdoch mindset believes. And when I say "hilarious" I mean I'm still depressed about it now.

The last bit of Sky News I caught had Matthew Syed of The Times, who is a massive cunt, going on about how appalling Farage is except he is so 'refreshing' and you'd have a drink w/him in the pub.

list of retired english sportspeople who are not cunts:

garth crooks
alan shearer
andy townsend
lawrence dallaglio
nick faldo

i forgot ricky hatton

steve davis was very personable when I met him actually

snooker exemption tbh

proper progger that steve davis

david beckham seems decent enough tbf

yeah to both of those

you gotta be a good east end boy is the lesson here

(davis was met at a prog festival)

I have always assumed Steve Davis is a thoroughbred Thatcherite but that may be just due to his indelible association with the 80s in my mind.

he is a tory voter iirc but always comes off as lovely

MIND YOU he did say that thing about female players never achieving the same level as male due to physical deficits

+ cardiacs
+ nice to ilx poster 'imago'

- sexist
- tory

:(

I'm sure I've seen video footage of him at the 1983 Conservative Party conference but I can't seem to find it atm

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/may/08/steve-davis-interview-snooker-scandal

Davis is sitting at a table drinking tea and eating toast, watching the election results coming in. He used to be a Tory but says he "can't stand the lot of them now".

That means he votes UKIP.

in 2010?! nah he's a good bloke honest guv

xp otm, plus his agent has quietly pointed out that being too politically partisan might damage earnings potential and value of image rights

googling steve davis ukip produces an actual ukip candidate of that name

Yeah, seems like a good bloke, he's also a major soul/ funk fan too, that's actually how he got into prog believe it or not! Soul -> jazz funk -> jazz rock -> prog, was how it went I believe.

he bloody loves magma

Whoever said he was boring!

I'm sure he was at a Tory conference in the 80s talking about "potting reds", how we laughed.

Enoch Powell was a massive fan of King Crimson as well, true gent.

rivers of blood, sweat and tears

ILX memes we have known and loved, General Election edition

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ilx is not talking about the UK election much - don't know why.

resigned to our tedium

serious answer: what happens after the election is more interesting and there are many better things to think about now. everything is playing out for now as a two year-old might predict

Nothing much to say about the garbage that's on offer tbh.

Miliband saying, "Debate me", when he means, "Debate with me", well, it's the end of the world, innit?

Come on now. You'll all be glued to it soon enough. This is just a phase you're going through.

Ooh, shall I vote Green or TUSC in my safe Labour seat! What choice, and what a difference I shall make!

Actually, our UKIP candidate is an ex-soldier called Ryan Acty - so Real England it's almost persuasive

Green probably.

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Natalie Bennett wasn't great again last night and I say that as someone who has voted Green since forever

Shall I vote Green and have my vote put instantly in the bin in my marginal-ish Tory/LD seat, shall I hold my nose very hard and vote LD as the only hope of dislodging the Tories locally, or shall I assume that no other bastard is voting LD ever again (though there are a few yellow posters up locally) and therefore there is no chance of anyone other than the Tories winning the seat

whee

If I was considering tactical voting I think I would need to vote Tory to mitigate the risk of UKIPerry (which I don't think is a real threat, but is the only one).

Greens easily winning the battle of the posters in my part of Brighton. Definitely seems to be the slightly posher properties that have Labour ones up. Have only spotted one Tory yet, sincerely hoping Clarence Mitchell (yeah that guy) gets handed a savage beating by the electorate

man needs a harsh takedown from that daily mail sub-ed

https://twitter.com/mitch_1uk/status/587760044852273152

oh my local hustings is tonight

perhaps I ought to go but spending a lovely warm spring Friday evening in a church hall listening to politicians... not quite as attractive as the pub garden I had otherwise planned

our local Green candidate is a former lecturer of Russian studies at Manchester University who now sets cryptic crosswords for the Guardian and FT, which seems pretty cool, I'll probably still vote Labour though

she also has a Ronald Searle drawing as her twitter picture which is kind of making me want to reconsider but seems like too shallow a reason to vote for someone

Mine is a safe Labour seat and our local MP is largely reasonable if not exactly distinctive. Have serious issues with Labour over welfare policy right now and I don't particularly want to be complicit in any form of continuing austerity, but I haven't looked into Green policies enough for it to be anything but a soft-headed protest vote. There's a couple of standard issue Trot guys as well but looking under that particular rock usually reveals something horrific so fuck that.

^^ similar situation. Am probably going for the soft-headed protest vote option though.