snowychap Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 I think Gordon may well be getting a visit of the men in grey suits early next week. I think that they themselves were visited by the man in a grey suit (i.e. Mandy). Without Mandy, Gordo was gone. With Mandy, I can't see him going anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Going back to the Politics/Charisma discussion, I do feel that MP's and politics in general is not meant to be for everyone, certainly not to be as clear cut as watching Britains Got Talent. However, I do think that politics needs to be much more engagin than it is at the moment, we know how ITV dumbs things down and tries to simplify things but perhaps that is what the media in general need to do for the majority of the public to understand the complexity of UK politics. It appears to me you have to go searching for policy, information etc rather than it being brought to the public, I don't think politics is shouted about enough in this country unless it's negative press or some MP getting caught cottaging on Hamsted Heath in some 'moment of madness' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ettington_Nrake Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 For anyone going to Burnley away next year, if you haven't been before it really is a place which is a throwback to the 70's. More so than anywhere else in this country I have visited before! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191130/BNP-wins-county-council-seat.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Wow, Brown does somthing right - getting rid of the godawful Flint. As for Burnley, it doesn't surprise me that they elected a BNP to the county council. Horrible downtrodden shithole, full of nasty little racists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ettington_Nrake Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Wow, Brown does somthing right - getting rid of the godawful Flint. As for Burnley, it doesn't surprise me that they elected a BNP to the county council. Horrible downtrodden shithole, full of nasty little racists. Careful, I agree its a dive, but you shouldn't tarnish EVERYONE from Burnley as being the same. I live in what might be considered as being a 'shithole' but I don't think im a scumbag. *Hope not anyway!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAndLoyal Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I voted conservative because Gordon Brown is quite possibly the most inept person in the world right now. As Daniel Hannan put it, he is pathalogically incapable of listening to criticism. He either smiles like some kind of coked up ponce or talks to the person next to him about how great he is, or how awesome Stalin was. Correct. Thank god the poll on this site doesn't in any way represent the actual electoral vote. 10 votes for Labour? clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 6, 2009 Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2009 How desperate do you have to be when you can't even find a Woman MP to come on and defend Brown against the criticism chucked at him by Flint yesterday? Labour were forced to stick the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for St Ives on BBC News before, I'm quite sure I heard shouts of WHHHHOOOOO????? coming from all over the country at the same time. Just to put it in perspective, thats a candidate for a seat where Labour are in a clear third place with only 13% of the vote, its not even a seat they have a chance of winning if they were high in the polls. She must be right down the list but she's the only female they could find to defend Brown, it really did speak volumes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Why would Brown need a woman to stand up for him. Clear third in St Ives reflects pretty much where they were in the Euro elections I would imagine so no great shock there really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 UKIP and BNP have the same ideals - a vote for either is a vote for the far right racist idealogy I wonder how these two parties would have handled the Gurkhas situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 6, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 6, 2009 Well in the case of the BNP, I'd imagine the fact that they want Britain white and British, they'd tell them to sling their hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 6, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 6, 2009 The only good thing about the existence of UKIP is that they'll split the BNP vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2009 Results coming in now. Seems the general expected results is that the centre left is going to take a bit of a battering, and the right (and so far, apparently in France the extreme left too) are picking up the pieces. Very few results come through from the UK thus far though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2009 BNP gain their first seat from Yorkshire and the Humber. Fair few morons up there, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Tories take largest share of vote in Wales ?..that's a big shock ..labour vote down 12 % Does the low turnout across Europe just confirm though that people don't actually want a European parliament .. give us our referendum , discuss what it is and what isn't and then let the people decide ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2009 I think it's more an athapy with the whole thing, than anything else. That and maybe a case of people just simply not understanding. Which isn't that big of a surprise since the EU itself doesn't have the greatest idea of what it wishes to do, ultimately. Tories in Wales is a novel thing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 BNP win a seat labour admit that its "abysmal" hopefully now brown will step down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackosotc Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 i cant believe BNP have got a bloody seat gutted morons! just watching that bastard griffin on the bbc try and talk his way out of his racist views prick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2009 BBC letting Nick **** Griffin spout hate. Dimbleby clearly not keen on the fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super-Villan Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 The far right always benefit in tough economic times. Hopefully Brown will go and someone remotely competent will come in. A best case scenario then (for me) would be a hung parliament, with some more power given to the Lib Dems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayshanne Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I think it's more an athapy with the whole thing, than anything else. Apathy? Absolutely agree. Nick Griffin managed to portray white British people as racially discriminated. Or did he? What planet is he coming form? And can we blow it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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