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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 13:30 
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I have nothing but contempt for the party and their baseless, hateful lies.

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Joking aside, it is still a Lib Dem policy. It just wasn't ever one of the higher priority ones, so it got lost in the coalition agreement.

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The most depressing thing in all of this is that UKIP will totally split the Tory vote, and as a result we will have a fucking Labour government - and Millipede. Seriously, I don't think I'll be able to bear it, I really don't. :'(

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I don't understand why people vote for UKIP for MEPs. All they do is go and refuse to vote on issues, even issues that they agree with. But they still draw pay and take up space. So rather than fighting the EU to try and make it better for the UK they simply abstain. It's stupid. Can MEPs even make the UK leave the EU? It's that entirely up the MPs?

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All the parties are mostly up their own arse and out of touch with everyone aside from the rich donors they need to run elections.

For the last few years the rich have gained more and paid less, the welfare state grows larger with often perceived injustices around EU immigration.

All the time the middle band who work hard to own their own homes and better themselves get screwed for tax and are refinancing a still corrupt and out of control banking system who borrow at 0.5% and lend to every else at 4-25%

It’s these people that are attracted to UKIP not because then see them as a credible government but because they want a protest vote and the other more credible parties to take notice.


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All the parties are mostly up their own arse and out of touch with everyone aside from the rich donors they need to run elections.

For the last few years the rich have gained more and paid less, the welfare state grows larger with often perceived injustices around EU immigration.

All the time the middle band who work hard to own their own homes and better themselves get screwed for tax and are refinancing a still corrupt and out of control banking system who borrow at 0.5% and lend to every else at 4-25%

It’s these people that are attracted to UKIP not because then see them as a credible government but because they want a protest vote and the other more credible parties to take notice.


But the stupid thing is that UKIP are massively, massively pro-establishment and pro-corruption and pro-rich people getting highly paid.

So people are voting for a party for the wrong reasons.

If you want to protest then vote Green.

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Nobody votes for UKIP because logic and reason are their strong suits. They're basically taking the "thick as pigshit" vote from all the other parties.


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I have nothing but contempt for the party and their baseless, hateful lies.

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Joking aside, it is still a Lib Dem policy. It just wasn't ever one of the higher priority ones, so it got lost in the coalition agreement.

Compromise is, sadly, a dirty word in politics.


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Nobody votes for UKIP because logic and reason are their strong suits. They're basically taking the "thick as pigshit" vote from all the other parties.


Let's be honest, most of the electorate are thick as pigshit though? Sorry, I know that sounds obnoxious, but how the hell else could you explain someone slavishly voting Labour despite their utterly lamentable record - much of which they've had to come out and actually publicly apologise for? It's like turkeys voting for Christmas.

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Never mind voting, you should become an MEP!

80K a year basic, huge allowances for assitansts, staying in Brussels and even 40K a year for having an office at home

Most of which just needs to be claimed with no recipts

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I don't understand why people vote for UKIP for MEPs. All they do is go and refuse to vote on issues, even issues that they agree with. But they still draw pay and take up space. So rather than fighting the EU to try and make it better for the UK they simply abstain. It's stupid. Can MEPs even make the UK leave the EU? It's that entirely up the MPs?

MEPs don't have that power, no.

UKIP sits inside the smallest group in the European parliament, which is a far-right group called Europe for Freedom and Democracy (EFD). So UKIP are very marginalised in the European parliament, and have many extremist and racist parties in their EP group. The EFD's deputy leader even praised mass-murderer Anders Breivik! The UK media completely ignore the extreme nature of UKIP and its allies, however.


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Never mind voting, you should become an MEP!

80K a year basic, huge allowances for assitansts, staying in Brussels and even 40K a year for having an office at home

Most of which just needs to be claimed with no recipts

Money for old rope for 5 years!


And you wonder why your average Brit is pissed off with EU, and mainstream politicians? Farage has struck political gold and he knows it. He's making hay big time.

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Never mind voting, you should become an MEP!

80K a year basic, huge allowances for assitansts, staying in Brussels and even 40K a year for having an office at home

Most of which just needs to be claimed with no recipts

Money for old rope for 5 years!


And you wonder why your average Brit is pissed off with EU, and mainstream politicians? Farage has struck political gold and he knows it. He's making hay big time.



Yes but at the same time he will be filling his boots as well!


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Yes but at the same time he will be filling his boots as well!


Yes, that's indeed ironic (albeit he would, I am sure, speak plenty about "having to break the system from within" type BS, whilst snuffling up fine truffles with the rest of the Eurocrat machine)

Talk about having your cake and eating it. Gah.

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Farage has struck political gold and he knows it. He's making hay big time.

He's Oswald Mosley 2.0. None of Farage's type of right-wing xenophobic demagoguery is unfamiliar to anyone who knows and understands the history of the 20th century - the targets and presentation may have changed, but the underlying concept hasn't.


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Nobody votes for UKIP because logic and reason are their strong suits. They're basically taking the "thick as pigshit" vote from all the other parties.


Let's be honest, most of the electorate are thick as pigshit though? Sorry, I know that sounds obnoxious, but how the hell else could you explain someone slavishly voting Labour despite their utterly lamentable record - much of which they've had to come out and actually publicly apologise for?

Because as disappointed as they may be by Labour they hate Tories even more and don't want to see another fucking Tory government.


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Compromise is, sadly, a dirty word in politics.


:this:

I absolutely do not get why Nick Clegg takes so much stick for this? Yes, he made this pledge, but it was obviously only ever deliverable if he could form a majority LD government, which he obviously could not (in fact, could only form a small part of a Tory led Coalition)

I don't agree with Nick Clegg on many things particularly, but I think him and his party have served their country with dignity, great courage and some distinction. His party have been successful in softening the Tory hammer blow for many people, without utterly wrecking the economy.

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Nobody votes for UKIP because logic and reason are their strong suits. They're basically taking the "thick as pigshit" vote from all the other parties.


Let's be honest, most of the electorate are thick as pigshit though? Sorry, I know that sounds obnoxious, but how the hell else could you explain someone slavishly voting Labour despite their utterly lamentable record - much of which they've had to come out and actually publicly apologise for?

Because as disappointed as they may be by Labour they hate Tories even more and don't want to see another fucking Tory government.


...And that crass tribalistic BS is, effectively, thick-as-pigshit, gurning stupidity.

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Get real. I'm sure loads of people vote for the Tory party because they see it as the least worst option too.


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Get real. I'm sure loads of people vote for the Tory party because they see it as the least worst option too.


Indeed. They're stupid as well.

(Which is why I said "most of the electorate", not just Labour voters - albeit they are frankly the most demonstrable example of this)

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That smiley is just awesome. :D

@Mark - no ding dongs with me mate, just saying that UKIP or Tory voters don't have a monopoly on stupid.

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He's Oswald Mosley 2.0.


I agree.

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People who waste their vote annoy me.
I'm talking about the people who vote for someone that they don't believe in, be it a protest vote or to stop someone else getting into power etc...

The calls from people on Twitter etc... to vote for anyone other than UKIP to stop them getting in, are just as dangerous as the UKIP voters in my opinion.


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I've long thought it would be good to have (anonymous until they're all over) presentations on what the people you might vote for do actually stand for before being allowed to vote.

Sadly not really a feasable suggestion, but some way of guaranteeing that a voting person has actually bothered to find out what they're voting for would be good. (and perhaps get a bit more sympathy when they turn round.later and claim that what they got wasn't what they voted for)

Of course what I'd actually like is a diverse group of people working together to find decent solutions rather than the seesaw tribal bullshit and jeering that we currently have.


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Of course what I'd actually like is a diverse group of people working together to find decent solutions rather than the seesaw tribal bullshit and jeering that we currently have.


So very much this. It appears to me that you rarely see someone in politics talking about what we should do to solve a problem when, instead, they could just spend loads of time slagging off their opponents idea instead; as if being negative about other shit was somehow a positive contribution. Or you get the media making a shitstorm out of stuff like whether David Cameron eats fucking sausage rolls or not. Put it all together and trying to give a shit is an uphill struggle.


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Of course what I'd actually like is a diverse group of people working together to find decent solutions rather than the seesaw tribal bullshit and jeering that we currently have.


So very much this. It appears to me that you rarely see someone in politics talking about what we should do to solve a problem when, instead, they could just spend loads of time slagging off their opponents idea instead; as if being negative about other shit was somehow a positive contribution. Or you get the media making a shitstorm out of stuff like whether David Cameron eats fucking sausage rolls or not. Put it all together and trying to give a shit is an uphill struggle.


Yeah, but diverse committees don't tend to work so well, unfortunately. All you end up with, for much of the time, is a hamstrung, directionless, impotent talking shop, when actually, shit needs to get done. How many companies are (successfully) run like this?

Nice idea, but I prefer the much riskier option of actual leadership, conviction and coherent political vision/objectives - but you've just got to hope you're being led by a skilled, educated politician with a plan, like Thatcher, as opposed to some media crowd-pleaser guy like Blair. (Or Brown, who wasn't even a crowd-pleaser).

(As for would-be voters having to give a presentation before casting their vote...? Meh! I don't think so; I bet half of the electorate wouldn't even be able to deliver a presentation on anything, let alone contemporary politics!)

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If they left the name of the party off the slips so you actually had to know who you were voting for it'd be a start.

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(As for would-be voters having to give a presentation before casting their vote...? Meh! I don't think so; I bet half of the electorate wouldn't even be able to deliver a presentation on anything, let alone contemporary politics!)

I think you missed the entire point, there.


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(As for would-be voters having to give a presentation before casting their vote...? Meh! I don't think so; I bet half of the electorate wouldn't even be able to deliver a presentation on anything, let alone contemporary politics!)

I think you missed the entire point, there.


Not so much 'missed the point' as 'misread the point'.


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No, I think I understood it perfectly well.

If you're going to introduce such impediments to people voting, you might as well scrap voting altogether and have done with it. The average person is clueless, lazy, badly educated and full of apathy, yet this isn't entirely their fault. They've probably gone through a lousy education system that's ill equipped them for anything much, if they're younger than 30.

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No, I think I understood it perfectly well.


Well you've mistyped something somewhere then. Dave was talking about voters sitting through a presentation made by the candidates before they were allowed to cast a vote. You then said:

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Ah right, yes, sorry I did misread it. My apologies.

Trouble with that is you'd have candidates squabbling over who goes first, last, could they be arsed, could voters be arsed sitting through up to six presentations etc etc = not practical.

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Trouble with that is you'd have candidates squabbling over who goes first, last, could they be arsed, could voters be arsed sitting through up to six presentations etc etc = not practical.


It's definitely not practical for a few reasons as Dave himself admitted but I quite like the idea as a concept. Anything to try and make voters more informed before they make an actual decision, and I include myself fully in that judgement.


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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.

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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.


I did this survey thing today. It seems pretty neutral.

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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.


I did this survey thing today. It seems pretty neutral.


I'm 33% green apparently...


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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.

Yeah, it reckoned I should vote for the liberal democrats.

And that I shared two opinions with UKIP (One of which is because I misread the question as the opposite thing, so yeah...)
And I thought it was giving me a surprising amount of agreement with the conservatives, until I reliased I was looking at the results for the green party.


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Heh.

Croydon is unsafe and a dump

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Pod wrote:
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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.


I did this survey thing today. It seems pretty neutral.

Doesn't seem too bad, actually. Got these results…

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First result's quite funny, as I'm a member of Labour and have never voted LibDem.

Across Europe I'm most closely matched with the Belgian Parti Socialiste, according to the poll.


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This right here is the kind of thing I was whining about earlier. I don't want to know why I shouldn't vote for X, I want to know why I should vote for Y. Don't just sneer from the fucking sidelines about someone else's idea, tell me what you idea is and why it's excellent. Negative fucking pricks dragging the whole thing into the gutter.


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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.


I did this survey thing today. It seems pretty neutral.


Fascinating; got it absolutely right for me. Virtually nothing to choose between Conservative and LibDem, almost identical scores and both a "weak match". Labour a long way behind in 3rd place, then UKIP and the Greens last.

Explains why I'm a big fan of the Coalition, I guess, with no one single party wholly reflecting my very Liberal, old school Patrician Tory-wet views. :)

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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.

They'd just argue about what the answers mean forever, though.

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Just get some scientists to make a decent online poll about your opinion on certain issues, including their importance, and let it choose who you should vote for.

They'd just argue about what the answers mean forever, though.


And it might be that whilst the candidate's party represents your views, he himself is not suitable for legislative or executive office and that would outweigh everything else. One of the reasons I'm against closed party lists.


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Unpossible!

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Unsurprisingly, I am a close match to the Greens and Labour.

Surprisingly, I was a positive match to all the major parties, even the The Kippers (2% :) )


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Isn't that lovely?

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43.3 [Liberal Democrats]
40.4 [Greens]
39.6 [Labour]
-4.2 [Conservatives]
-25.5 [UKIP]


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Isn't that lovely?

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I would never have thought my labour was so high, and conservative so low.

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