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

had ukip flyer through door, and visit from labour councillor. can't imagine tories have much hope for or interest in broadwater farm tottenham tbh. i'm voting labour.

The green candidate in my council ward is called Dick Venes, and that's enough to win me over from spoiling the ballot. Will probably vote green in the Euros as well. Looking forward to finally being rid of Nick Griffin but the fact that he'll be replaced by a UKIP candidate ruins the effect somewhat.

we've already got this guy

http://www.paulnuttallmep.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Paul-Nuttall-Cricket-300x225.jpg http://www.paulnuttallmep.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Laura-Lacole1-224x300.jpg

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!!

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

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

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

which is more what this board is about, right?

seinfeldbassriff.wav

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.

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.

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

no that's the Tory party

They have renewed respect for themselves

DL OTM

please can you zap a government

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

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

Would it be bigger than the one Mordy had?

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

Nobody posted that bar chart yet?

No?

OK, then..

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

Good graph

that's a hell of a bar chart

well, it convinced me...

Wow @ the skewering of Farage here

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

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.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/05/nazi-tattoo-ukip-candidate-in-mystery-powder-naked-photoshoot/

wtf at this (NSFW)

that is an amazing URL

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

^also completely NSFW

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

Forget it Jake, it's Ukiptown

The Sun has called Farage out on his interview yesterday.

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

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.

lol @ trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube

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

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.

Elvis Party - hate "The Beetles"

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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?