General Election 2010

Haha genius

I am genuinely scared the conservatives will win.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/rule-britannia/election-conservatives

WTF was the point of that video?

But you are right I'm scared too, most 'real' Sun readers will be swayed by that frontpage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/p007q7pj

Comedy Gold!^^

WTF was the point of that video?

But you are right I'm scared too, most 'real' Sun readers will be swayed by that frontpage.

Surely that statement applies as much to readers of the daily mirror who have a front page which is anti-tory? E.g. Im scared most 'real' mirror readers will be swayed by that front page.

Should readers of tabloids vote be worth less than readers of broadsheets/internet forumengers?

It doesn't even look like David Cameron.

Glad to see the Daily Mail going for a calmer, more balanced approach.

Political answer to Ceiling Cat.

Tory Twat is watching you masturbate...

Political answer to Ceiling Cat.

Tory Twat is watching you masturbate...

i wish newsnight's paper review was more like this

Political answer to Ceiling Cat.

Tory Twat is watching you masturbate...

If I opened my front door and saw someone looking like that on the outside, I'd shut it pretty damn quick and hide in the cupboard under the stairs - he looks v. sinister!

Whose tags are they?! Jesus!

"Dave does barspinz"... ha ha ha ha ha

are you fucking serious?

yup

do you think that somehow having proportional representation is going to make your vote count for three votes,
Yes - exactly.

In fact, on average, it's more like 4 votes. See: http://www.voterpower.org.uk/ (great little web page that VB posted in the thread when the spoiled ballot issue came up earlier). Assuming you live in the same place, Teddy, your vote would be worth more than 10x as much under PR. And the Conservatives are likely to win your riding, and they're likely to do it with less than half the popular vote.

or somehow magic one of the non-major parties into forming the government?
Of course - that's how PR works. There will be coalition governments. Those coalitions will be made up of the big parties and the little ones. So if you vote for the Marxist-Leninist Party of GB, and Labour and the Lib Dems need another seat or two, you may have the party you voted for form a government.

the only way the non-major parties are going to ever become serious options is by them a) getting votes, and b) getting funding.
Not very likely in this system.

your vote counts for something. if you don't spoil it.
Spoiling your ballot is a legitimate action, one which is counted, and which makes a symbolic statement.

Anyway, people are voting now. Go vote!

Come on you blues!!!!

oops sorry, wrong thread

if there's a god above, shepard fairey has already contacted his lawyers.

He is already being sued by the American goverment for image rights (despite the fact that the Obama campain used Faireys poster) on the president. Bit rubbish I think.

Does this sort of shit really make voters change their minds?

yes

i voted already (postal voting ftw!)

look, if you want proportional representation, voting in this election is your best chance of getting it in. it's the first time that one of the main parties has promised to push through electoral reforms.

(my vote actually counts for a lot less than a vote in another constituency. i vote in the city of london, where corporations and ceos get to vote. infact, they get alloted more votes than residents of the city of london do).

Front page of *The Mirror *this morning:

Things are going to get messy for UKIP.

Their leader Nigel Farage has been buzzing about in a plane with a banner flapping from the tail, and he's only gone and crashed it. Apparently he's still trapped in the mangled wreckage...

The priority in British elections is, and always has been, to keep the Tories out.

I was having this conversation with my dad last night. He's in his seventies, has only ever voted Labour in any election his entire life. He lives in a Labour constituency with a 4.3% margin over the Tories today, yet feels so disillusioned with and disenfranchised by Labour that he will probably vote LibDem. I offered to swap votes with him, I'm in a safe Labour seat, but he refused.

BNP candidate involved in a nice punch-up yesterday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm

"UKIP's former leader Nigel Farage has received minor injured in a light aircraft crash in Northamptonshire, the party has confirmed."

Channel 4 News having problems with grammar, there.