2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

Your reward is waiting around the bend, you non-aspirational loser.

more on Chuka Umunna

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32748106

But he said in a statement that he was not comfortable with the level of pressure that came with being a leadership candidate.

what a choke

As far as I can see, Chuka Umunna is the only one to have had a job outside politics, and that was at a law firm so doesn't count.

the other lol exception is Hunt.

now there are rumours it's because he's putting himself forward as london mayor.

Either that or he's decided 2020 is beyond Labour and he'd rather follow the next loser than be the next loser. At 36, he can afford to wait.

Other rumours are that he's quit ahead of a Sunday newspaper exposé

this map shows the constituencies (in pink) where the number of people registered to vote who didn't was larger than the wining party.

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/didnotvote-800x480.jpg

look at all the red that's left

i guess Labour was too left wing for all those constituencies

How many seats would that give DNV?

i'm not sure it says but here's the article.

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/after-the-election-picking-up-the-pieces/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10007828/David-Cameron-gives-backing-to-15million-Thatcher-museum.html

As fundraising got seriously under way, the project, first revealed by The Sunday Telegraph last week, also received support from leading conservative figures from overseas - including John Howard, the former Australian prime minister, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives in the US, Fred Ryan, President Reagan’s chief of staff and Karl Rove, who performed the same role for President George W Bush.

Mr Rove said: “Baroness Thatcher championed freedom around the world and was a strong friend of America in the dangerous days of the Cold War. The Margaret Thatcher Centre will be a timeless tribute to her fighting spirit, unwavering courage, and principled conservative leadership.”

"In or close to Westminster" I did wonder.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/4fb072672657a43264388a9b7c536451/tumblr_noeppdORHf1sy67obo1_540.jpg

the Thatcher museum thing is just grisly

has there been some development wrt it or are tons of people linking a story from April 2013 without checking the date

oh yes, I'm probs a victim of that now I think of it - saw someone post a story about Cameron green-lighting £15m for the museum on FB.

Fucking Osborne. Again. Pointless legislation designed purely to fuck over Labour leadership election, but which will poison the debate for years. He is such a prize cunt it's deeply frustrating even to have to look at this face.

Oh wait, this is the wrong thread. What's our rolling pol thread now?

Now would be a pretty good time to start one.

Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era