UK General Discussion

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ridiculous: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27132035

[Lief 🗽]

Ridiculous: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27132035

Why?

[Potatoe]

Ridiculous: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27132035

Bloody corners, with their bloody............................. What do Cornish people have again? Ah well, their bloody time will come, *grumble* UKIP will destroy Cornwall *grumble*.

Note:The above is a joke.

[Citizen Hats]

Danny Alexander says that the LibDems won't support any minority government in 2015. They'll demand they keep their ministerial limos should there be another hung parliament.

If Canada, Australia and New Zealand have lived through it...

You make it seem like the LibDems are the only political party trying to do that?

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Danny Alexander says that the LibDems won't support any minority government in 2015. They'll demand they keep their ministerial limos should there be another hung parliament.

If Canada, Australia and New Zealand have lived through it...

You make it seem like the LibDems are the only political party trying to do that?

I don't think the Tories or Labour would see a fall from 24% to 9% of the vote as a mandate to govern.

[Joe Republic]

The Guardian wins.  (NSFW language)

[Citizen Hats]

Danny Alexander says that the LibDems won't support any minority government in 2015. They'll demand they keep their ministerial limos should there be another hung parliament.

If Canada, Australia and New Zealand have lived through it...

You make it seem like the LibDems are the only political party trying to do that?

I don't think the Tories or Labour would see a fall from 24% to 9% of the vote as a mandate to govern.

The mandate to govern is a majority in parliament.  If no one has that, they'll have to come to an arrangement with people who have as much a mandate from their constituents

[MaxQue]

Danny Alexander says that the LibDems won't support any minority government in 2015. They'll demand they keep their ministerial limos should there be another hung parliament.

If Canada, Australia and New Zealand have lived through it...

You make it seem like the LibDems are the only political party trying to do that?

I don't think the Tories or Labour would see a fall from 24% to 9% of the vote as a mandate to govern.

The mandate to govern is a majority in parliament.  If no one has that, they'll have to come to an arrangement with people who have as much a mandate from their constituents

Indeed, like the coalition agreements after 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections in Canada.
Oops. There has been none such agreement.

[Silent Hunter]

Max Clifford found guilty of eight indecent assault charges (not guilty on two others and no verdict on an 11th - the jury took over a week); sentencing Friday.

Al will probably have more to say, but the PR man was responsible for the David Mellor resignation. Personally I never liked him; he seemed to be a PR equivalent of an ambulance chaser.

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With Cameron saying he'll resign if 2015 means he'd have to lead a government which can't ensure an EU referendum, is he basically saying majority or bust?

[YL]

Reports suggest that Patrick Mercer, the MP for Newark who resigned the Tory whip last year in connection with allegations of dodgy relationships with lobbyists, is about to resign from the Commons following a recommendation that he should be suspended for six months.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/29/patrick-mercer-suspended-house-of-commons

EDIT: He has indeed announced that he is resigning his seat

[afleitch]

I turn on Good Morning Britain and there's no sofa, no bricks and no Mike Morris. I know he's dead but still...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/01/patrick-mercer-tory-mp-worst-ever-breaches-rules

Some of the details are quite... oh wow...

[politicus]

So he is married to "a woman of Jewish extraction" and makes anti-semitic comments. Lovely.

[Silent Hunter]

Latest Labour PPB

[afleitch]

Latest Labour PPB

The way Labour obsess over Clegg is the way someone fusses over someone they secretly want to get into bed with

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Latest Labour PPB

The way Labour obsess over Clegg is the way someone fusses over someone they secretly want to get into bed with

It's utterly useless. Why attack the Lib Dems? The Lib Dem's simple existence conspires against them, and anybody voting for them at this stage aren't going to be swayed by a "funny" ad. And the remaining Lib Dems voters are Orange Bookers splitting the vote on the right, so the ad might actually help the Tories.

It's like punching a bleeding sheep while ignoring the enroaching python of UKIP. Thanks Axelrod. You were sure worth that 6 figure sum.

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Although (joyously) it has shoved Dan Hodges out of the window for good. He's probably the first (and last) Labour>Liberal defector since the election.

The Lib Dems are welcome to him, I guess.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No one votes based on PPB's so why take them seriously?

[afleitch]

It's worth noting that we have almost exactly a year to go till the expected GE (and it's Thursday today)

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No one votes based on PPB's so why take them seriously?

Apparently Hodges does

Tbh I don't know why it pissed me of so much, it just seemed like an uncomfortably American style attack ad.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-27322837

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Labour'vve sent out a "Nick Clegg, in his own words" kind've thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prWxckyxjyY

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David Cameron in Nandos.

[Simfan34]

Looks like some serious strategising going on there. Also, Nando's is awesome.