2) i haven't voted labour since 1997. i remember how happy i was that day, on what seemed like a glorious new dawn. talk about fucking betrayal.
3) anyone who didn't notice several years ago that blair is an arrogant, smug, power-grabbing enemy of "democracy" (see 4) really needs their head examined.
4) "first past the post" is not democracy. here in scotland we might have the feeblest regional assembly devolved parliament imaginable BUT AT LEAST THE RIGHT SYSTEM IS IN PLACE.
5) i guess the answer i'm driving at here is "would i fuck. never again."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link
COUGH COUGH "here" cough. in mitigation: i'm ill.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― johm clarkson, Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Van That's Loaded With YSI? (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― john clarkson, Friday, 7 April 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
The sucessor seats are Kenilworth and Southam, which was originally to be named "Mid Warwickshire", and a re-formed Rugby constituency.
Which is fab, but bizarrely, Dunchurch gets chucked into this new Kenilworth seat, whilst Bulkington gets included with Rugby! Makes Rugby a safe Labour seat now, I'd guess, but oddly I'm not as enthused about this as I would've been 9 years ago.
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1759796,00.html
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It was from the Labour party, too.
― the bellefox, Monday, 24 April 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
It clearly worked, because they've been jointly ruling for a few years now, despite Lib Dem claims that they don't make agreements like that. My problem is: what the hell do I do? I don't want to abstain because that makes me look like the can't-be-arsed majority - but I can't bring myself to vote for either candidate. If I can be bothered, I'll write to the candidates (and the local LD chairman) explaining why I can't bring myself to cast a vote. And spoil my paper too.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Monday, 24 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
"Contrary to Ralph Nader's credo that there was no real difference between the major parties, it is close to inconceivable that the country and the world would not be in far better shape had Gore been allowed to assume the office that a plurality of voters wished him to have."(http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick)
We all understand the desire to punish Labour, but don't cut your nose off to spite your face.
― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
renamed patricia "the Twit" hewitt
the NHS has had it's best year EVER
- meanwhile hundreds of nurses / other workers getting p45s- financial meltdown at NHS trust level that even the govt tried to put right by bringing financial consultants
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Riot Clone, Monday, 24 April 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Mr Clone, your comments on this thread have led me to conclude you're just street-teaming for the Conservative Party. Care to confirm or deny?
― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link
"Some commentators routinely use language like 'police state', 'fascist', hijacking our democracy', 'creeping authoritarianism', 'destruction of the rule of law', whilst words like 'holocaust', 'gulag' and 'apartheid' are regularly used descriptively of our society in ways which must be truly offensive to those who experienced those realities. As these descriptions and language are used, the truth just flies out of the window, as does any adherence to professional journalistic standards or any requirement to examine facts and check them with rigour."
who has been mentioning the holocaust?
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha ha, right
― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I did wonder how legal it was to have "made by the libdems" only in tiny writing right at the back of the "Islington Post".
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Your name is not showing at XXXXX and we do not have XXXXXlisted as a property.
I enclose a form for you to complete to register yourself at the newaddress.
However we do not have any elections on 4th May.
Regards
Wendy
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link