2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

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love the "Do Not Stick In Prohibited Places" warning there, which surely completely contradicts everything written below

allah leaves the minor admin tasks for his subjects

he's more into the big stuff

has farage done any posing with children at all? can't remember seeing any such photos, assume most parents would be up in arms if he turned up at their school

I'd imagine his odour (fags, stale beer, wank) would make most children weep

They let Boris near their kids and I shudder to think what he smells like.

The last few polls are showing Labour a point or so in the lead, which in practice probably means the Tories will have more seats but with a much narrower lead.

And yet it was taken as read that FPTP, with the current boundaries, favoured Labour and disadvantaged the Tories. However that was before Labour contrived to lose all their seats to the SNP.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEZoYLmW0AIgr9J.jpg

Can someone Photoshop a gunfinger onto that one?

Darlington constituency have apparently omitted one or more of the parliamentary candidates.

.. from the ballot paper

tory weather in much of the midlands :-(

i live abroad & despite applying months ago and receiving a confirmation letter, i never received my postal ballot. fuck you tower hamlets

If they eventually decide to end FPTP then I'll have to think about actually voting, have managed to avoid having to bother up until now due to the constituency I live in.

Very nearly gave the 'Cannabis is Less Harmful Than Alcohol' candidate my vote, but had to go SNP in end.

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler),

Wait a min, is someone really standing on that ticket (you must live in the west end then?) or was it just something he said personally?

i live in an easy tory seat (polls = well over 50%), so umm'ing and ahh'ing re tactical voting options.

We had a 'Cannabis is Less Harmful Than Alcohol' candidate, too (Islington South and Finsbury).

I also got to vote in Hampstead and Kilburn, proxy voting on behalf of a friend living in Berlin and not trusting the postal vote system (probably with good reason, based on tpp's post and other things I've heard).

I'm in the East End of Glasgow (and I should've called them the 'Cannabis is Safer Than Alcohol' party)

We've got one of them in Paisley & Renfrewshire North as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_Is_Safer_Than_Alcohol#Scotland

i live abroad & despite applying months ago and receiving a confirmation letter, i never received my postal ballot. fuck you tower hamlets

saw many people complaining about this on twitter - it's par for the course. tower hamlets council doesn't respond to contact of any form - i mean literally, you can't phone them, they don't answer emails, they just send letters and absorb your responses into the void.

London-based folk: any suggestions on good (non-partisan) communal places to watch the results come in? I don't have a TV at home and the radio doesn't quite cut it. Availability of alcohol (or indeed cannabis) not essential.

Non-partisan? Christ, can you imagine being in a pub with Tories if they're winning?

quite impressed by how many candidates the cannabis is safer than alcohol party have managed to put forward, maybe by the next election they'll be the ukip of the left

They certainly wouldn't get my vote, I detest that puritanical anti-drinking "My high is better than your high" line of argument. Fucking hippies.

Folk acquainted with Paisley will not be surprised to hear that our Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol candidate is a resident of Ferguslie Park.

Our LibDem never put his address on the ballot paper. Our Tory has been imported from the Borders.

One single canvasser outside the polling station, a really smiley Nat. Labour left a sandwich board. Nothing from any the rest of them.

https://twitter.com/RuthDavidsonMSP/status/596286509629763584

She hasn't provided any proof has she?

saw this on twitter

http://i.imgur.com/038gKiO.jpg

I'm voting for the 'Losing a little toe is safer than losing a little finger party'

hmmm
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/07/protest-oust-david-cameron-tories-occupy-downing-street-election

what 'certain party' is she referring to? xps

good luck uk

political folk song of the year

Sack Esther McVey - Alun Parry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9XM-GtPhI

hopefully "The wicked witch of the Wirral's had her day"

She would be my #1 choice if i could choose which tory lost a seat (assuming someone else picked IDS)

done the deed.
feel a bit dirty now.
also, found out on that our 'local' labour candidate lives 100 miles from here.
probably has never even visited out little town.
guess that just indicates that labour have no interest in fighting for this bluer than blue area.

Actual IRL LOL: our local Cannabis Party candidate is named Artificial Beast.

I almost voted for him, solely because of that. (But no, he wasn't even local.)

Artifical Beast is his DJ name apparently. Any fucking money he's a psytrance DJ.

https://yournextmp.com/numbers/parties

some of the fringe parties on here are brilliant, if i wasn't already too giggly and excitable i'd be polling this shit.

three words: Vapers in Power

Beer, Baccy and Scratchings ftw

Beer, Baccy and Scratchings Are Not Safer Than Cannabis

Come on you reds

We will also push to end the dangerous situation whereby 5V chargers and 4.2V chargers can be used interchangeably

http://www.mydochub.com/images/pippa-middleton-bum.jpg

so this looks like the usual MRA whining but the pledges under "As well as..." did me make me laugh out loud at work this afty

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/36eaa6_ada7ebc5e3fc45a389cfaa3efa482816.jpg_srz_p_375_489_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

Capitalizaton of It is a neat touch.

Most crazy candidate standing in the election, meet..

Susan-Anne White's Biblically Correct Independent Manifesto
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/27/criminalise-homosexuality-ban-abortion-and-punish-adultery-susan-anne-whites-biblically-correct-independent-manifesto_n_7152856.html?1430150232

Crazy Ultra Conservative Christian manifesto by Susan-Anne White standing in Northern Ireland

read the details of a stir crazy mix manifesto of... back to the trad social conservative 1950s + B-N-P + UKIP get out of Europe + US Christian Fundamentalists inc. No Abortion, No Adultery + Putin's Anti-Gay Russia + Britain First Anti-Islam + climate change deniers + Woman stays in the Kitchen / Home, Man is the Breadwinner

I'm interested in the idea of building a 1960s housing estate in the 21st century, has a sort of town planner Pierre Menard vibe.

Then put new road signs up. XD