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

George Galloway not returning to Labour - Ed Miliband. Not interested in the story but this quote jumped out at me:

"The Respect MP, who has twice defeated Labour to win a seat in Parliament, recently told the Evening Standard that he found Mr Miliband "quite impressive, physically and intellectually"."

been sneaking a look in the gents

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, yer walloper."

It's over, :(

"I realise now that I showed poor judgement in finally agreeing to meet Miliband. An unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba."

Just goes to show that relationships built on physical attraction don't always last.

backbones more important than frontbones for GG

That UKIP poster's still fucking up there and not a scratch on it. Of course he's the kind of asshole to have cameras all over his house and the station car park has cameras too. Orwellian, much?

Cover it with England flags

Bulgarian flags surely?

Phone the local council and have a chat with them about the guy's potential fire hazard/health'n'safety violations.

Then again, the Romanian flag is kind of pretty.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/physical-excercise-prevents-you-becoming-gay-claims-uk-councillor-candidate270413

UKIP, where just the occasional nutter slips thru the net

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22382098

"Labour is under pressure to win back hundreds of seats lost in 2009 and make progress in the south of England."

Seems a bit of an odd take considering what's happening to the ruling parties.

parties? oh yes, i forgot about them.

there is a real danger that the psycho middle-class racist party might steal a bunch of seats but on the other hand Labour are pretty unpopuar right now

:D

South Shields by-election result:
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour) 12,493 votes 50.5%
Richard Elvin (UK Independence Party) 5,988 votes 24.2%
Karen Allen (Conservatives) 2,857 votes 11.5%
Ahmed Khan (Independent) 1,331 votes 5.4%
Phil Brown (Independent Socialist Party) 750 votes 3.0%
Lady Dorothy Macbeth Brookes (BNP) 711 votes 2.9%
Hugh Annand (Liberal Democrats) 352 votes 1.4%
Howling Laud Hope (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 197 votes 0.8%
Thomas Faithful Darwood (Independent) 57 votes 0.2%

Impressive showing from the Lib Dems there - comfortably holding of the Raving Loonies and with a mere doubling of their vote next time around they'll be within shouting distance of the BNP and Independent Socialists. If they can increase their votes fourfold they'll even keep their deposit.

:-(

I know I shouldn't laugh but the the BNP fielding a candidate called Lady Macbeth is 0_0

Out, damn spic!

Do by-elections gauge the state of the nation to any useful extent, or just the state of a particular region? Suspect the latter, with concessions to former

South Shields is about as safe a Labour seat as you can get so I wouldn't read too much into it, but UKIP managing to pick up nearly a quarter of the vote there should be worrying for almost everyone.

Why isn't there a prominent internationalist/left-leaning protest party? Too much like hard work to rationalise a modicum of broad-mindedness or compassion?

Or is it because the Greens are beyond-useless twats with not one clue about gaining support and influence

thank god ukip are here to sort out the wright way chumps in our local councils

they're just there to fuck the hand-driers

i like to know where they stand on things like europe i.e. standing behind its arse and pulling a sex face

Why isn't there a prominent internationalist/left-leaning protest party?

According to Nick Clegg, that's the Labour Party

groovy

According to me, Nick Clegg should die in a fire.

we're up all night to get clegg annihilated

i was listening to some hand-wringing debate on Radio 4 the other day about "how can we persuade the yoot to vote?" and Ann Widdecombe - Ann Widdecombe, mind - said "it's not about the young and the old, the real issue is that a lot of people don't see any difference between the main parties. There used to be this broad ideological struggle between Socialism and Capitalism but now most voters don't see any real difference between Labour and the Conservatives". cheered meself hoarse.

Hugh Annand (Liberal Democrats) 352 votes 1.4%

Keep up the good work, Nick

Why isn't there a prominent internationalist/left-leaning protest party?

WHY INDEED! The closest thing we have are the Green Party who are suffering from a long-term image problem and Respect who are doing their utmost to dig themselves into a long-term image problem.

Face it, we're a bunch of right wing cunts

the solutions probably lie outside party politics as we currently know them tbf

in that parliamentary democracy is a tool of the capitalist oppressors, yes

The oncoming death of the newspaper industry will probably be the most significant factor. One of the main reasons UKIP gain ground is that the sentiments they're (officially) articulating are near identical to most tabloid editorial stances. That said the tabloids will be with us for a while yet.

That said if this lot get their way we'll have the British equivalent of Fox News by then and that way lies catastrophe.

It's nice that in the USA, Fox News can be all "Obama is the evil man" and the US population go out and VOTE HIM IN, DAMMIT!

have actually fantasised at length about f1r3bomb1ng The Sun (with every human and animal* evacuated on some jumped-up pretext, of course)

*possibly except for Kelvin Mackenzie even though he doesn't edit it any more

That's only happening because it's Obama, most Democrat presidential hopefuls would be a lot easier to take down. And Labour won't be electing an Obama any time soon.

not unless they can persuade EMil to black up

Also as I've mentioned countless times, politicians are still clinging to the "centre ground", proudly stating this while going "see, we're on your side, we're on everybody's side", as if it's a badge of honour. But increasing numbers of people can see that the "centre ground" has failed, massively, and the vacuum of political leadership or even real debate leads to votes flooding to nutters and racists.

fuck yes. truth.

"when you believe in nothing you'll believe in anything" etc

In fairness, the only places electing local councils yesterday were exactly the places you'd expect ukip to do well. Drive-thru country.

uh, what?

the uneducated morons of south shields will have been unamused by bananaman begins' comments

old school friend on Facebook the other day was torn between voting Green and voting UKIP. this is why the Greens can get tae fuck tbh.

Lady Dorothy Macbeth Brookes (BNP) 711 votes 2.9%

Is this person for real? I saw her on TV last night, and honestly thought she must be the Monster Raving Loony candidate or something.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/028fbNG3wgd6W/x350.jpg

I mean, it looked like she was in blackface.