General election 2015

^ yeah it's like when someone goes mad with numbered multi-level lists in MS Word docs

It kinda answers 'WHY and WHO voted for the tory scum?'

when Labour re-invents itself to be the leftist party it should be, they'll have my vote.
In all honesty I was hoping for a Con/Dem coalition

sorry i can't even.

I don't think it was necessarily the coalition aspects that did for the LibDems, more the lying about tuition fees. I actually have some (limited) sympathy for Clegg's contention that they moderated some of the worst bits of the Tory government - human rights and snoopers charters spring to mind. Although they did wave some other bits through...

That's sort of my point though. They didn't really expect to be in governement, so could promise what they want, with no fear of actually having to follow through with it.

Could UKIP or Green have really done what their manifesto promised, if they've got in to power this time? I highly doubt it.

I think the Lib Dem vote collapsed this time because people associated voting LibDem with a real possibility of helping the Tories get back in (with another Con/Lib coalition) and that despite the moderation they did manage to do, many people think they didn't dig their heels in enough. A single broken pledge on University fees wasn't alone worth losing 2/3 of your voters.

Likewise Labour's vote collapsed (in many places) as the Tories had fear-campaigned that a vote for Labour was a vote for a Lab/SNP coalition.

Since the election results have been out both Labour and LibDem have seen a surge in new memberships.

ukips's one mp falls out with the party
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32707357

arguments over filthy lucre

Ed's Ibiza live blog

http://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/live-blog-ed-milibands-first-day-in-ibiza

^Laboured

zing!

To be fair, any party expecting to get into power could do the same. Take a look at what the any party has promised in an election campaign and what they have actually delivered.

Now to be fair to UKIP and the Green Party, both put forward what they claimed to be a fully costed manifesto so it could easily be argued that they could do what they promised. Certainly as likely as any of the more major parties including the Conservatives.

To be even fairer to the Green Party, this is a fully democratic party. Candidates, leaders, policies, etc is all decided by the members of the party and not an executive function. Very little is devolved to sub-groups within the party and certainly not without a clear mandate. Therefore, if the Green Party had taken power, it would have been their absolute intention to deliver on that manifesto as a promise. Could they have done so? Well that would be hard to predict, but they would have tried. This isn't a party that makes up election promises and policies just to get votes or highlight issues or because it knows they don't have to mean anything. Even knowing they wouldn't get into power, they still created a manifesto that they would want to follow through on and therefore a lot more credible than those of the other parties.

How far are you from those shy Tories?

http://www.shy-tory.com/index.php

How to spot a Tory

Try making some simple statements, and seeing if they agree. For example:

"I really hope someone gets rid of the Human Rights Act. That right to life is just so awkward!"
"For too long, we've been leaving people alone just because they haven't broken the law. That must change!"
"You should need the support of 40% of all eligible voters to do anything significant, except form a government."

In the same way that all Labour voters throughout the Blair / Brown era wholly supported; criminalisation of the youth, increase in terror laws (and other erroneous extention of police powers), extraordinary rendition, etc.?

In fact you could use pretty much all those statements to reflect the domestic justice / civil liberty approach of the past Labour government.

Do people genuinely think this "call Conservative / Tory voters cunts", is actually an effective way to highlight issues?

If the issue is 'are tory voters cunts?' then yes. Yes it is.

I think that the issue may be that you're too sensitive about having voted for them... ;-)

I don't honestly think that the page author believes that spotting a shy Tory is that easy. I know that sarcasm is sometimes hard to get over on he web, but I personally thought that bit was fairly obvious...

me thinks greenhell doth protest too much

a drunken cross in the wrong place was it ?

lols

Ha, now we get to the truth.

and i woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

/jumps naked out of glass window

I think the mystery has been solved...

‘One voter decided to draw a detailed representation of a penis instead of a cross in my box on one ballot paper.
‘Amazingly, because it was neatly drawn within the confines of the box the returning officer deemed it a valid vote. I’m not sure the artist meant it to count, but I am grateful. If I knew who it was, I would like to thank him (or her) personally.’

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/09/voter-draws-massive-penis-on-ballot-paper-gets-counted-and-helps-elect-tory-mp-5188845/#ixzz3a6M6cCsg

The drawing fitted into the 1 inch box on the ballot paper, and the journalist refers to it as a 'massive' penis? Poor guy.

not sure what you're getting at.

The Spectator "Inside the Millibunker"