UK General Discussion

[afleitch]

It's only just struck me, but why is the UKIP logo still just the £ sign?

I thought the € vs. £ debate was put to bed here like 10 years ago...

It's a good anti-EU symbol.

When people see the £ sign, they don't automatically think "I hate Angela Merkel".

If it makes them think Poundland then I'm all for it.

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[morgieb]

Is that real or fake?

[DC Al Fine]

"Insist that the Nazi salute you were performing..."

Me thinks this is fake.

[Supersonic]

Obviously fake!

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Is that real or fake?

Are you being serious...?

[countydurhamboy]

Is that real or fake?

Are you being serious...?

Ha ha, even UKIP aren't that crazy.  Although.... http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/physical-excercise-prevents-you-becoming-gay-claims-uk-councillor-candidate270413

[Smid]

"Insist that the Nazi salute you were performing..."

Me thinks this is fake.

The problem with some on the left is that they have no idea how Conservatives think. You're to the right of Obama? Well clearly you're a closet neo-nazi.

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"Insist that the Nazi salute you were performing..."

Me thinks this is fake.

The problem with some on the left is that they have no idea how Conservatives think. You're to the right of Obama? Well clearly you're a closet neo-nazi.

No, no. I don't think you quite understand what UKIP is. It's a populist party, not a conservative party.

And, well, in terms of Nazism, their candidates speak for themselves.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/01/nigel-farage-ukip-alex-wood-pot-plant_n_3191427.html?1367406909&utm_hp_ref=uk

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16 years ago today since this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BkRMZLrn8

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/01/clegg-ukip-tories-right

Now if there was only someone with the clout to drag him to the centre.

[Leftbehind]

One who'd professed to moderate them...

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Well it would be a fairly easy decision to raise taxes on the wealthy and comfortable and redistributing it to the working class - the opposite to what this government's doing.

[Supersonic]

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

Of course, we'll still be destroyed today, but hey-ho. Blair lost 17 councils and 550+ councillors at the 2000 locals then won big in the 2001 GE.

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Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

[Silent Hunter]

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Electoral Calculus with those figures gives a Labour majority of 74 and UK Polling Report a majority of 78; neither of these have an explicit option for UKIP, but the Tories will lose more to UKIP than Labour.

Remember Labour got a majority of 66 on a 3 point victory in 2005.

[Silent Hunter]

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

Of course, we'll still be destroyed today, but hey-ho. Blair lost 17 councils and 550+ councillors at the 2000 locals then won big in the 2001 GE.

2000 locals were different batch of seats.

[Supersonic]

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Electoral Calculus with those figures gives a Labour majority of 74 and UK Polling Report a majority of 78; neither of these have an explicit option for UKIP, but the Tories will lose more to UKIP than Labour.

Remember Labour got a majority of 66 on a 3 point victory in 2005.

Oh, of course. I'm one of them losers who puts poll numbers into Polling Report every other day. Still, for a government that is destroying the NHS, cutting the welfare state and killing the working class, Labour's 39% is rather paltry for mid-term!

[DC Al Fine]

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Electoral Calculus with those figures gives a Labour majority of 74 and UK Polling Report a majority of 78; neither of these have an explicit option for UKIP, but the Tories will lose more to UKIP than Labour.

Remember Labour got a majority of 66 on a 3 point victory in 2005.

Oh, of course. I'm one of them losers who puts poll numbers into Polling Report every other day. Still, for a government that is destroying the NHS, cutting the welfare state and killing the working class, Labour's 39% is rather paltry for mid-term!

Immigration and the EU. Nuff said.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Grow up babbies.

[Supersonic]

David Starkey on Question Time tonight!

I hope everyone is watching!

[Leftbehind]

Morbid fascination?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You know those powerful people that you've never heard of?

Big piece in the Shropshire Star (a rather disreputable rag in some respects, but let's ignore that) about the recently deceased Lord Northfield (Donald Chapman) the former Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield who ran Telford New Town Development Corporation at a critical point in the New Town's... er... development:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/05/03/lord-northfield-made-vision-for-telford-a-reality/

At the very least the pictures are interesting.

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And so it begins

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Showbusiness for ugly people, indeed.

[afleitch]

Showbusiness for ugly people, indeed.

The media creation marches on. Now The Daily Mail Party have to actually be councillors now and from what we know about their nuances as MEP's, they are likely to have some difficult and quite frankly hilarious times ahead.