The General Election
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
I think Cameron needs to buy Mrs Krankie a large Irn Bru - she has done him a huge favour by siding so strongly against him with Millichip
-
Ranchi
- Senior Second Officer

- Posts: 919
- Joined: September 2014
Re: The General Election
Tut, tut, tut, qbman...but probably quite correct!
-
Dark Knight
- Deputy Captain

- Posts: 5119
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: East Hull
Re: The General Election
nothing like a bit of fear to get the middle England pension pot plunderers, out of Waitrose and John Lewis, and into the polling booth
Nihil Obstat
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
"Fear of the Krankies" - now that must be a recognised phobia. Anyone know what it is called ?
Sturgaphobia ?
Sturgaphobia ?
-
Ranchi
- Senior Second Officer

- Posts: 919
- Joined: September 2014
Re: The General Election
Tunnockphobia
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
Good old BBC showing their true colours - Jeremy Vine has just played "Eve of Destruction" !!
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
That's it - Millichip is off up the road as well
-
Dark Knight
- Deputy Captain

- Posts: 5119
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: East Hull
-
david63
- Site Admin

- Posts: 10936
- Joined: January 2012
- Location: Lancashire
Re: The General Election
Not if Chuka Umunna takes overDark Knight wrote:now that's what you call a result
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
I've just found out what "Millifandom" is - I previously thought it was a new form of contraception !!
On reflection, looking at Millipede - maybe it is !
On reflection, looking at Millipede - maybe it is !
-
Dark Knight
- Deputy Captain

- Posts: 5119
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: East Hull
Re: The General Election
Labour are done for the next 5 years, so they could have 1 Direction as party leader and it wouldn't make a jot of differencedavid63 wrote:Not if Chuka Umunna takes overDark Knight wrote:now that's what you call a result
Nihil Obstat
-
Not so ancient mariner
- First Officer

- Posts: 1806
- Joined: February 2013
- Location: Cumbria
Re: The General Election
Dark Knight wrote:nothing like a bit of fear to get the middle England pension pot plunderers, out of Waitrose and John Lewis, and into the polling booth
But those middle Englanders couldn't hold a candle to Gordon Brown for Pension Pot/fund plundering!!!
-
qbman1
- Captain

- Posts: 12153
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Oxfordshire
Re: The General Election
Might get a few more votes, though !Dark Knight wrote:Labour are done for the next 5 years, so they could have 1 Direction as party leader and it wouldn't make a jot of differencedavid63 wrote:Not if Chuka Umunna takes overDark Knight wrote:now that's what you call a result
-
Delboy
- Senior Second Officer

- Posts: 723
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Essex
Re: The General Election
Bet not many of this forums members woke up to a UKIP MP as we did this morning, not that he got my vote.
Mind you his majority was reduced from just over 12,000 when he defected from the tory party and won a bye election last year, to just over 3,000.
Nationally I am over the moon and it's not often you see 3 party leaders resign in one day, or an incumberant government increase the number of seats it holds at an election.
Mind you his majority was reduced from just over 12,000 when he defected from the tory party and won a bye election last year, to just over 3,000.
Nationally I am over the moon and it's not often you see 3 party leaders resign in one day, or an incumberant government increase the number of seats it holds at an election.
-
Ray Scully
- Senior First Officer

- Posts: 2069
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Lancashire
Re: The General Election
Frank Manning wrote:I think the garrulous SNP declarations of running the economy with Labour, of ruling England etc did the Tories a big favour. English people as a whole are not given to those kinds of statements about themselves or others and I am sure myself that tactical voting to stop both Ed Milliband and the SNP was a factor. We can now sit back and watch the knives of the Tory far rght being sharpened to go for David Cameron and the one nation Tories, as they did in John Major's Tory government. They are living in cloud cuckoo land because there is a solid centreist quiet majority, and the right wing Labour people and the Left wing Tories represent that centreist viewpoint.
Spot on Frank. I couldn't lose on this election: voted Socialist as my conscience dictated, but with the Tories winning I will be protected as one of the endangered species ( pensioner) by Tory policies. As for our Scottish friends, if the Tories decided to stuff them, i.e reviewing the Barnet formula and bringing their constituencies in line with the UK, they will then know what fools gold looks like.
Ray
-
Stephen
Topic author - Commodore

- Posts: 17765
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Down South - The civilised end of the country :)
Re: The General Election
I wonder if I can get away with the same trick as the Cameron convoy of two vehicles did when returning from Buck House lunch time. Drive the wrong way up one way streets, the wrong side of the road, jump red lights, stop everyone else.......
Typical, one rule for them and one for us

Typical, one rule for them and one for us
-
david63
- Site Admin

- Posts: 10936
- Joined: January 2012
- Location: Lancashire
Re: The General Election
When you are Prime Minister, Stephen - then yesStephen wrote:I wonder if I can get away with the same trick as the Cameron convoy of two vehicles did when returning from Buck House lunch time. Drive the wrong way up one way streets, the wrong side of the road, jump red lights, stop everyone else.......
-
oldbluefox
- Ex Team Member
- Posts: 12533
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Cumbria
Re: The General Election
You mean you don't already?Stephen wrote:I wonder if I can get away with the same trick as the Cameron convoy of two vehicles did when returning from Buck House lunch time. Drive the wrong way up one way streets, the wrong side of the road, jump red lights, stop everyone else.......
Does anybody have use for a pink minibus or a lump of rock with graffiti on it?
It seems to me that Milliband took his party too far to the left which brought him then into competition with the far left socialist parties. This enabled the Tories to take a right wing stand, coupled with occupying the centre ground. It also meant that in the event of a hung parliament he would have had to rely on the Scottish vote to have any chance of governing. I wonder what his brother will be thinking today? With David at the helm I think the situation would have been very different.
I was taught to be cautious
-
Mervyn and Trish
- Commodore

- Posts: 17028
- Joined: February 2013
Re: The General Election
I just shocked that Shiney didn't get elected. The poll on here was going well for him.
-
Not so ancient mariner
- First Officer

- Posts: 1806
- Joined: February 2013
- Location: Cumbria
Re: The General Election
Oh well, perhaps next timeMervyn and Trish wrote:I just shocked that Shiney didn't get elected. The poll on here was going well for him.
-
oldbluefox
- Ex Team Member
- Posts: 12533
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Cumbria
-
Onelife
- Captain

- Posts: 14176
- Joined: January 2013
Re: The General Election
Hi Foxy,oldbluefox wrote:You mean you don't already?Stephen wrote:I wonder if I can get away with the same trick as the Cameron convoy of two vehicles did when returning from Buck House lunch time. Drive the wrong way up one way streets, the wrong side of the road, jump red lights, stop everyone else.......
Does anybody have use for a pink minibus or a lump of rock with graffiti on it?
It seems to me that Milliband took his party too far to the left which brought him then into competition with the far left socialist parties. This enabled the Tories to take a right wing stand, coupled with occupying the centre ground. It also meant that in the event of a hung parliament he would have had to rely on the Scottish vote to have any chance of governing. I wonder what his brother will be thinking today? With David at the helm I think the situation would have been very different.
I'm in no doubt David Miliband will be chuffed to bits that his backstabbing brother got his just deserts. As you say it would have been a whole different story had David been elected leader.
I see he is 25/1 to be the new leader of the labour party....well perhaps not this time around but 5 years is a long time in politics ....
Regards
Keith
-
towny44
- Deputy Captain

- Posts: 9669
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Huddersfield
Re: The General Election
I just hope they choose another left wing, union backed, marxist socialist, class conscious bigot as their leader, in that way they have no hope of ever winning the next election.
John
Trainee Pensioner since 2000
Trainee Pensioner since 2000
-
Silver_Shiney
- Deputy Captain

- Posts: 6400
- Joined: January 2013
- Location: Bradley Stoke
Re: The General Election
towny44 wrote:I just hope they choose another left wing, union backed, marxist socialist, class conscious bigot as their leader, in that way they have no hope of ever winning the next election.
Alan
Q-CC-KOS
Q-CC-TBM
Q-CC-KOS
Q-CC-TBM
-
david63
- Site Admin

- Posts: 10936
- Joined: January 2012
- Location: Lancashire
Re: The General Election
All the "front runners" at the moment would fall into the majority of those categories.towny44 wrote:I just hope they choose another left wing, union backed, marxist socialist, class conscious bigot as their leader, in that way they have no hope of ever winning the next election.