General Election 2010

I think they're keeping the trading tax Labour brought in.

Their policies aren't that radical, but they are left of Labour.

Are you referring to the FX tax that would be illegal to implement within the EU, and that would cost us money not the bank?

Doesn't Belgium have a situation in which no party has the ability to force any political agenda, and all they can do is govern (small "g").

And yet they're doing pretty well out of it . . .

It sounds like a way forward of sorts.
I remember the old adage about the house of lords doing nothing in particular and doing it very well.

Of course if we had a PR system and it did turn out that it didn't do much, how long before we started asking why it was so expensive and required so many MPs?

Can't wait for the flabby headed tosspot to get out of Number 10, although I am scared that the Tories will hurt us badly.
In any case, I am bored with paying for middle class people to have children.

The debate is so boring i ditched watching it,
just before however, snooker was still on, they now have cameras IN the pockets,
I nearly swallowed me pickled egg whole....

I'm watching the debate now. I have to tell you Gordon Brown's eyeshadow is freaking me the fuck out.

As I recall (cause I'm smart and old and that) under the Tories gays were regularly strung up from lamposts, imigrant workers were hunted for their pelts and the only 'music' allowed on the radio was Phil Collins and the fucking Eurythmics. Then Labour got in, invented the bike and Phil thankfully made good on his threat and emigrated to Switzerland and married a child. So never forget this people... Vote Cameron, get Collins.

But new labour turned the 2000s into the 1980s!

same clothes, hair and shit music.

Not that I would ever vote tory. It would be horrible knowing that you actually voted for the government that is screwing you to death. In a not-nice way.

Haters gonna hate

Mmmm, proud and strong chest. Like a cockerel on heat. Do you think he got off with that bigot bird?

wow, original tags.

Alistar Campbell just busted saying "now weve had it" in media room post debate- trys to spin out of it by saying he was talking about Burnley FC!

oh god has the election come to this... I can't tell if it's a spoof or not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7OGUAQSYQ4&feature=player_embedded

Thankyou for posting that speedball.

Has anyone else noticed that David Camewrong sounds more and more like Patrick Bateman the more he opens his slimey mouth

I keep expecting him to blink horizontally, or lick his eyeball

I keep expecting him to blink horizontally, or lick his eyeball

Just another quick note that the Space Hijackers - Spoil You Ballot - Battle Bus is leaving tomorrow at 1pm.

SPOIL YOUR BALLOT BATTLE BUS!
Mayday 2010

Join us this Mayday on the Space Hijackers anti-election battle bus. We've all seen George Galloway and the other cronies charging around in open top buses trying to persuade people to vote for them, but we all know the whole thing is a scam. Join us in our own open top bus, flying around London giving out an alternate message - SPOIL YOUR BALLOT, REJECT THE LOT OF EM!

To pay for the bus we're asking for a £10 donation from each passenger.

Our plans are as follows,
Meet up 12:00 Sharp at Space Hijackers HQ
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road
London
E14 7HA

the bus will leave at 1pm (we will not wait for you, so be sure you're there on time).

From there we plan to take a tour of the mayday actions and possibly even chase down a battle bus or two. Included in our tour will be a visit to clerkenwell to cheer on the corpse of Nick Griffin being dragged through the streets, and a lap of parliament Square! Time allowing we'll try to visit the post capitalist event in Hackney and maybe even head along to Rave against the Machine. Our press insider is currently trying to find the routes for some of the official election buses, so fingers crossed we'll be able to hunt one down and give them hell too!

if anyone spots an official bus on the day, please tweet us @spacehijackers

We intend to finish up back at Hijacker HQ for about 4:30pm where we'll probably head on to a night of debauchery.

To reserve your space then use our paypal donate button (on our site) or cross your fingers that there are enough seats and pay on the day.

print out your paypal receipt as proof.

The Space Hijackers, Spoiling it for everyone!

WHY SPOIL YOUR BALLOT?
In our 'democratic' system we're given the choice to vote once every four years, to place our bets on a team for the next 48 months. To chose between red and blue (perhaps even a little yellow). But let's not be fooled by the colour of their ties, we know they're all the same. Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. Where’s our ‘none of the above’ option?

If voting actually changed anything they would ban it. Did you get to vote on the Iraq war? Did you get to vote about regulations on banking? Did you get to vote on MP's expenses? Is this a democracy or a bad joke?

Why play by the rules in this farce of an election?

Every spoilt ballot gets counted and shown to the candidates in that constituency, so why not reject the lot of them and tell them what you think with your ballot paper?

GET INFORMED:
Does your vote really count? With our first past the post system, unless you vote for the winning horse in your area, your vote is simply discarded with the rubbish. In 'safe' seats your vote is practically worthless. In Hackney South, for example, your vote is worth 0.039 of a real one and that's certainly not the worst example in London.

click and see how much your vote is worth

Find out who's standing in your community. Do any of the candidates actually care about the issues you do? If not, why vote for any of them? Don't go for the best of a bad bunch.

TAKE CONTROL:
Don't just sit there whining! This is about active rejection, not passive reflection.
Get yourself to the voting booth and get spoiling. In a bogus system, it's the only authentic choice.
Spoiling your ballot is not illegal, spoiling you ballot is your only chance to have your real say in this election.

REJECT THIS FARCE OF CHOICE
Party Politics is a self protecting machine. Even by spoiling your ballot and rejecting them all, they will not just go away. Take your politics to your community, get organised, get talking, get active. Why should we only be given a voice once every four years? Get vocal and give 'em hell. The government get scared stiff when the population get self-organised.

pay a tenner to get on a bus full of hippies?

two words: free love.

pay a tenner to get on a bus full of hippies?

You clearly haven't met Bristly. He's more of an urban dandy/communist Doberman/fixie-bicycler/boombox trickster/anarchist cannon-fodder kind of guy. I'm not trying to spoil you/your ballot for you, but you have to realise who you're dealing with. :)

You clearly haven't met Bristly. He's more of an urban dandy/communist Doberman/fixie-bicycler/boombox trickster/anarchist cannon-fodder kind of guy. I'm not trying to spoil you/your ballot for you, but you have to realise who you're dealing with. :)

Wow, I now know what I'm having engraved on my gravestone!

I have decided now upon a beer induced whim that my favourite government so far has been John Major's minority govt because apart from a small recession, abolishing the Poll Tax and making TV guides publish rival channel listings, I can't think of a single thing his government actually did

A small recession? Didn't seem that small to me at the time. I was at a comprehensive secondary school at the time. No one had any money. It's hard for people born, say, in the late 1980s onwards to appreciate what a recession managed under Friedmanite principles is like. Massive NHS waiting lists, derelict buildings, public services starved of money with demoralised staff. It's still an era that seems synonymous in my mind with depression.

At least house prices dropped properly though. That was a load of bollocks this time round, a flat in Balham is still 300 grand

A small recession? Didn't seem that small to me at the time. I was at a comprehensive secondary school at the time. No one had any money. It's hard for people born, say, in the late 1980s onwards to appreciate what a recession managed under Friedmanite principles is like. Massive NHS waiting lists, derelict buildings, public services starved of money with demoralised staff. It's still an era that seems synonymous in my mind with depression.

That recession, the big one (which now seems minor compared with the one we've got now) was during the previously Thatcher govt, when he won the leadership battle and took over. Yeah, that was rubbish.
I meant the one afterwards, when he was elected on a slim majority which turned into a minority.

born in the early 70s by the way. I experienced the 3 day week. The 80s were nothing in comparison.