I bet you the 8K UKIP voters in my constituency were primarily swayed by Farage's "FECKING IMMIGRANTS" rants.
UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority
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I bet you the 8K UKIP voters in my constituency were primarily swayed by Farage's "FECKING IMMIGRANTS" rants.
This is exactly how I feel. feck them. They got everything that they deserved.
Britain has absolutely Mitched this election
Still in shock and dismayed at the English. Very scared, as someone who relies on disability benefits.
Really disappointed. Really disappointed. Devastated.
Why's that?
Just up, seen Balls and Cable.
Clegg and Farage?
Clegg and Farage?
My old man is in a similar position. I understand cuts need to be made, but to those in genuine need of health benefits? Jesus... We'll just have to hold on to our nuts.
That's the UKIP crowd for you, they bought into the acting but luckily not enough of them exist to get majority votes in pretty much the whole of the country (bar the one or two seats they'll get).
Give Farage some credit I suppose, he sold it all better than Red Ed and his cronies. We'll be looking back at everything over the next few days and hopefully people will realise that Labour have sold themselves short for the last year. It was a poor campaign.
Kennedy, Davey, Douglas Alexander, Danny Alexander, McVey, Curran all gone.
Clegg in, Farage not declared.
at what time was this announced? Anyone got a link for the reaction on this thread.
The same old condescension that you often hear Labour circles (and the broader mainstream). Would they have been similarly uninformed had they returned a Labour majority? Were Labour voters aware of the true extent of Labour's proposed cuts?
Was what announced?
Really hope Farage gets beaten. Apparently an unprecedented turnout in his seat, so hopefully that is normal people showing up to give him a bloody nose.
We'll band together on the caf and make a DotA fund
Ta gents.
Move to Scotland mate.
Because he's the guy who lost to his nerdy brother.
Tories got the majority.
The most i would expect them to contemplate is some form of means testing.
I'm angry at the UKIP lies mainly because I know that my own old man sits very close to the tipping point between Tory and UKIP as he buys into their line / lie about the immigrants on the take, yet at the same time he sounds off about the kids of UK benefit claimants who get outward bound courses and the likes on his tax money when he paid for things like that for us. It's hard to get through to the old sod that if those kids aren't shown what they can do and what they can aspire to with a little bit of effort on their part then we could very well lose them as another generation who believe they have a right to sit their with their hands out.
A lot needs to be done in terms of education, opportunities and subsidised apprenticeship schemes for the young in the hardest hit areas to break the cycle of dependency, a cycle based on depression and not the unbridled joy people watching Benefits Street believe. Personally I have no faith in the Tories or UKIP doing anything to help those people as their plight plays into the right's political hands. Labour should be the party that helps them historically, but barring a few hard bitten lefties, Tony's cronies are so close to the Tories that they are unlikely to help while the LibDems and the TUSC who would help stand zero chance of ever getting power.
Yes?
Saying that the electorate, by and large, is horrifically uninformed is a statement of fact regardless of who they vote in.
I can count the number of intelligent conversations that I have had with UKIP supporters about politics on one finger and I know a lot of UKIP voters.
Worth a watch.
Ha, this.
Jim Murphy and Mark Reckless also gone by the way. Carswell and Lucas easily in.
Yeah they would have as the majority don't actually go to any length to understand the parties or their policies.
They've just gone with the safe option having bought into the scaremongering over the progressive option. That's the level elections are won, hence the rights tactics .
They haven't got it yet, but it's been gradually getting more apparent as we've gone on. The exit poll had them on 316 with the reaction here:
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/uk-general-election-2015-poll-reset.400059/page-86
At the risk of being a bit dramatic, I lost the plot somewhat during the 9 months between submitting my form to Atos and attending the humiliating review. I just want that over. It's one of those hugely counter-intuative things, in my case (someone with anxiety and depression related conditions) - I am getting better but the whole review process set me back over a year.
Again I agree. My point is that people need to be heard properly and we can read out what's right and what's wrong. However, you yourself did it here to me, jumped straight at.me for making a point - one I promise to clarify later on. Ukip cannot be allowed to continue to jump on fears, but I just think not all those fears are completely groundless and that's what makes it so easy for them.
Anyway I'm getting called a typically lazy english wanker always on my phone right now, so I will have to pick this up in a few
You appreciated it was a parody post right?
So you can't conceive a lausible scenario in which millions of people would choose to vote Tory, whether it be based on local policy or lack of confidence in the alternative? Large swatches of the population are simply uninformed and don't know what they are doing huh.
Nothing to stop him running again is there?
Holy shitsnacks, Vince Cable lost his seat?!
That was probably most shocking for me, the guy's been a cult hero in Twickenham for almost two decades.
That was probably most shocking for me, the guy's been a cult hero in Twickenham for almost two decades.
I predicted a 4 point swing from what the polls were saying from Labour -> Tory 3 weeks ago on here (and naturally was widely ridiculed), which seems to have been the case (33-33 to 31-36). I'm just surprised at how many Lib Dem seats have been won by the Conservatives.
I did. My response was more a continuation of the ongoing discussion with Redlambs.
UKIP don't really have any fears though they're comfortable middle Englanders looking for someone to blame because they could be more comfortable. They perpetuate the same lies that the Mail and their ilk do and prey on the ill founded fears those lies cause. There has to be a semblance of credibility in the lies but you've only got to clock the fact that everyone working their arse off at the carwash down the road is Polish, that all the fruit pickers this year were Romanian and not the locals and year out students they once were and those lies start to take on a semblance of truth.
I can't say that i approve of the new system, for all that there might have been some limited scope for reform. Any direct cuts to disability benefit would be highly controversial, not to mention damaging, therefore it is something they will look to avoid (i may even have heard statements to this effect during campaigning).
Latest Sky News projections is putting the Tories on 328.
You should blame all the idiots who try to screw the system
I wish every Irish person on benefits would be means tested on a regular basis