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General Election 2015

Which party would you cast your vote for?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • Labour

    Votes: 8 16.7%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Greens

    Votes: 14 29.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • BNP

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • SNP

    Votes: 6 12.5%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • None of the above (feel free to post in thread)

    Votes: 11 22.9%
  • Total voters
    48
  • Poll closed .
Shambles said:
"... [Jeremy Corben] reminds me of those old drinkers you see haunting a new bar because they used to go to the pub that was there before." - bwaaahahahahahahahahahhaahaa!!!

Sad but true. He's the only one of the bunch who comes close to bringing at least vague feelings of hope.
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I knew nothing about him until yesterday's speech. Why the fuck was he not Labour leader BEFORE the fucking election?

(rhetorical question, I know why)
 
It's Jeremy Corbyn. He's sound as fuck. But you probably don't get to be Labour leader by speaking with Hamas and Sinn Fein (because we don't like elected foreigners obviously).

One more fun Corbyn fact. His brother is Piers Corbyn, prominent climate change denier.
 
That's one embed you're forgiven Ceres. I saw that yesterday. Love her cheeky smile at the end.

Basically I fancy her to pieces.

So sue me you.
 
felix said:
Having read up on him, he certainly seems impressive.

What do you think of his chances on winning the leadership? I suspect the media will crucify him.
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I'll tell you this much. Toby Young, he of the Spectator, Telegraph and co-founder of the Modern Review with the Burchill (how could she? Well, she's scum too) is a cunt of the highest order. He's founded "Tories for Corbyn" on the oh so funny jokey basis that as anyone can pay £3 to vote for the Labour leader (that'll teach you to have focus group politics you idiots) he thinks all Tory supporters should vote for Jezza to guarantee a Tory majority at the next election.

I actually don't think he'll try hard enough to win. I don't think he wants it and has only put himself forward as a service to the left of the party rather than as a serious contender.
 
it seems to me labour are competing to find the most anodyne, plastic mannekin of a leader and there is not enough focus on concrete policies that are a bit more ambitious than 'vaguely less tory than the tories'.
 
I just can't understand how anyone even vaguely associated with any of labour's proper history could vote for anyone but corbyn. He has the advantage of being genuine and sticking to his principles, which is instantly obvious and attractive whatever your politics (something sturgeon and even farridge benefit from (or at least the superficial appearance of)). Unfortunately many in labour seem to subscribe to some weird 'pragmatism' which says the only thing that matters is getting into power, so they need to ditch their principles and ideologies and pick some that'll sell in the distorted marketplace of the neoliberal media (missing the seemingly obvious pointlessness of the whole exercise if you do this) - or they all live in some notting hill bubble and underneath the nice sounding slogans and professed social justice in reality are just as scared and contemptuous of actual poor people and their inscrutable ways as tories.

Daily mail had an early attempt at a smear on Jeremy: The best they could get is that he divorced his wife (partly) because she wanted to send their son to a posh grammar school rather than the failing local comprehensive - Socialist MP in Sticking-to-Principles Shocker!
 
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pinkpapaver said:
Does Charlotte live a life of austerity?
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She's from a south Wales left wing family. If she was sitting on a balcony pissing on the plebs below you'd be saying "How Diana Ross! Forgetting where she's come from!"

I heard Brian Wilson was a celeb too.
 
Not really fair to compare charlotte to bonio (at least give her the chance to sell out her principles first; bonio didn't even have any to start with and he still managed to sell them) - not really fair to compare brand to bonio either - ever hear of bonio giving his profts away? Or speaking any coherent political sense? (yes brand may sometimes be incoherent, but next to bonio he's noam fucking chomsky)
 
charlotte manages to seem more genuine and less egocentric / manic than brand, but both of them are bringing people into political activism which is good. They appeal to different kinds of people and diversity is exactly whats needed for a strong movement.
 
Q: What are your plans for mental health services?

Cameron says addiction is one of the things that keeps people poor. We need parity of esteem for mental health services, not just on paper, he says. The last government’s decision to set waiting time targets for mental health with help.

With addiction, it is also important to addresses the causes. The last government inherited a system that just focused on addressing the problem, he says.
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oh well that's ok then. All I can see from him today is a load of empty promises and sneaky rhetoric. He already seems to have ruled out addressing some causes of addiction, with the ban on psychoactive substances and hte move away from evidence based policy.
 
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