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

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Labour appear to be doing better the more councils declare, they've added 142 now.

Tories are down to third in Witney, Cameron's constitutency, behind UKIP and Labour. Woah.

Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link

What does UKIP stand for?

Send the buggers back isn't it?

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link

DEFENCE: According to a recent policy paper, UKIP would increase defence spending back to 2010 levels. It would build more warships and carry out an urgent review of the case for replacing Trident, including the option of a new British-built nuclear missile system capable of launch from air, sea or sub-surface vessels.

jesus christ

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link

just in case the germans try it again

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link

TAX: UKIP favours a flat tax - a single combined rate of income tax and national insurance paid by all workers. It claims this would end the complexity of the current system and allow people to keep more of the money they have earned. It would also lead to a major shrinking of the size of the state, which would revert to a "safety net" for the poorest."

welcome back to Victorian Britain!

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link

Warships! More fucking warships! Pride of the fucking seas!

have a nice Blog (imago), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

Tax is hard, let's go shopping!

stet, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

Sensible policies for a better Britain

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link

SOCIAL ISSUES: UKIP has been vocal in its opposition to what it sees as "political correctness" in public life. It also argues that multiculturalism has "split" British society. It would legislate to allow smoking in pubs, in designated rooms, and hold local referendums on repealing the hunting ban.

Tackling the burning issue of political correctness which they seem to think has "gawn maaaaaad"

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link

Bring Back Rationing!

Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link

Workhouses and golliwogs for all.

susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link

I got a brief sliver of joy from the Tories being in 3rd in Witney constituency but now it's all gone back to profoundly depressing.

susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link

my mum was a Labour councillor on West Oxfordshire District Council, and I was the youngest person on the electoral roll when I voted her into office #truestory

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link

East Sussex has suddenly got itself 7 UKIP councillors, all their seats form this line along the coast joining up all our crumbly old seaside towns. Presumably they're being drafted in to resurrect the Home Guard?

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link

interesting data on why people vote ukip:

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/05/03/immigration-and-europe-give-ukip-appeal/

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link

David Cameron - 'We need to show respect for people who have taken the choice to support this party.'

Would that be the party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists"?

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link

so sad to discover that my vote for ukip purely for their commendably violent pathological loathing of all things foreign is actually a vote for all sorts of reactionary and regressive policies in other areas that i wasn't aware of

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

If you want to ban immigrants, you have to be in favour of smoking in pubs. You can't have either/or.

Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

They come over here, smoking our fags

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link

i know why people vote UKIP, it's because they're fucking racists

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link

It also argues that multiculturalism has "split" British society. It would legislate to allow smoking in pubs, in designated rooms

multiculturalism: bad
lung cancer: good

media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link

i know why people vote UKIP, it's because they're fucking racists

that's not strictly true, some of them are homophobes as well

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

Another argument for non-urban bits of England being all tractor-driving fascists: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22403852

brb, just gonna fill a padded envelope up with dogshit and nails

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

that swastika has the ends missing

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link

trying to xls her but not finding out anything

doesn't 'lady' imply she is the wife of a peer or suchlike? in which case one would expect her to have some sort of obvious background

which makes me wonder, given the ludicrous middle name, if she hadn't changed her own name to 'lady' by deed poll

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link

you can buy "titles" for about fifty quid iirc

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link

anyway can we start a "let's do summary execution of bigots right now" thread?

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Unique-Gifts/Laird-or-Lady-Title-BR-1136557.aspx

huh

i think you are probably right in this case

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link

ooh, cheaper than i thought. do i wanna be a Laird? hmmmm

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link

a lot of the bnp/whatever crowd are deeply strange

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link

these are people who equate skin pigmentation with moral character, i guess they might have the odd batshit idea

Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link

nah they are more strange and in more polymorphous ways than merely being racist would suggest

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link

like buying a novelty title and using it for an election is sort of borderline delusional

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link

hoyl shit

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link

holy!

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link

WAKE UP BRITAIN

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link

to the perils of over-exposure to sunbeds

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link

That's actually someone wearing a rubber mask, right?

Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link

Guyyyys there's enough material in what she's saying

have a nice Blog (imago), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link

yes, we should definitely stop making fun of her bizarre appearance

Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link

well yeah! idk, freedom of expression, ward off the pc gone mad nannystater here, enjoy you overtanned bigot

have a nice Blog (imago), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link

*your. Unless you're Lady D herself, playing the long game

have a nice Blog (imago), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link

nah even if one were to disallow laughing at electoral candidates' appearance, this is scarcely some congenital trait....someone has decided to (paid for) whatever process cause an autochthon of northern england to resemble phenotypes of the levant, itself a curious aesthetic choice for someone not given to métissage in other aspects

treeship journey to aja (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 3 May 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link


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