Ptommydski wrote:Cranius wrote:Cameron is perhaps the most acceptable face that the Tories can field.This cannot be true! Is this true? If he is the most acceptable, I shudder to think what the least acceptable would be like.Meet the Shadow Cabinet. You're going to need a bigger tyre iron.

Cranius wrote:Cameron is perhaps the most acceptable face that the Tories can field.This cannot be true! Is this true? If he is the most acceptable, I shudder to think what the least acceptable would be like. I just want to dash his brains out with a tire iron and that's before he even opens his mouth.Fair play to Clegg but he had the easiest gig of the three. No real pressure, no real expectation, no real pre-existing public conceptions.

Rotten Tanx wrote:So, since it has to be one of the three, do we want the Lib Dems to win?Yes, though I'm afraid they're going to turn around after they win and say "only joking, we're nazis!" which they will.. sort of. I still haven't forgiven them for trying to kill my Irish Grandfather in like the 20s or 30s though, apparently.EDIT: Or the 10s. Damn unspecific family folk history.

The LibDems manifesto is the most interesting of any of the main parties currently, and probably has more to do with the surge than Clegg's performance. They are the only party that has something new to add (they want to scrap Trident, for instance). However, they also want to cut public services far harder than the other two. That said, I guess it depends on the cuts you choose to make that counts. I find it hard to be enthused about putting half a million people out of work -- unless they are all management that is. All of this interest in the LibDems is good for politics and the smaller parties in general, perhaps signalling a loosening of the grip that the two traditional parties have previously exerted. The only problem is that the LibDems can't win, because of how the vote is unfairly and undemocratically structured -- it delivers a massively disproportionate results with minority parties virtually unrepresented in parliament.A surge for the LibDems is favouring Labour currently, since it is mostly Tory supporters switching to Clegg. This can only make a hung parliament more likely. Cameron seems to be fading...which can only be good, since we don't need anymore redistribution of wealth to the wealthy. I won't be voting for any of the main three, I'll vote socialist or green if I can.

Cameron consorts with black people!

Rotten Tanx wrote:So, since it has to be one of the three, do we want the Lib Dems to win?Hell yeah, got to be better than the alternatives.

daniel robert chapman wrote:Worst. Kraftwerk gig. Ever.Incredible.But I'm just here to post this:Political Wire wrote:Liberal Democrats Take Lead in BritainThe latest YouGov poll in Britain shows the Liberal Democrats surging and now leading among likely voters in next month's election with 33% of the vote, followed by the Conservatives at 32% and Labour at 25%. It is the first time that the party has ever been ahead in a poll during a general election. A new ICM poll puts the Conservatives ahead at 34%, Labour at 29% and the Liberal Democrats at 27%. However, the poll is still bad news for the Conservatives "because, assuming a uniform national swing, Labour would remain the largest party in a hung parliament."The Independent: "For the time being at least we are in uncharted waters. Never before have the polls put all three parties so close to each other during the course of an election campaign."How do ya like that?

So, since it has to be one of the three, do we want the Lib Dems to win?I do just because I want Labour and Tory to both lose. I don't want no flipping euro though.

Because I'm a grumpy old man and after everyone else has adjusted I'll still be at the checkout in Asda working out what it's costing me in English money.

MrFood wrote:Cameron; Dried bits of spunk which have been shaken off a vicuña sleeping bag full of scratched Smiths LP's and Morrissey posters.FYP