[RS8MB0R8]

Well, that's us screwed for another 5yrs.

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi

Funny to see folk gloating on fb about the doing labour are taking up here by the nats. Bravo you're slowly but surely moving us towards 5 more years of the tories and it's not going to be on my conscience.

Just like in this country - most voters fail to see the larger picture

[Jim Bon Jovi]

Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi

Funny to see folk gloating on fb about the doing labour are taking up here by the nats. Bravo you're slowly but surely moving us towards 5 more years of the tories and it's not going to be on my conscience.

Jesus even I didn't see it being quite as clear cut when I posted that ^

Again, not on my conscience

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi

Jesus even I didn't see it being quite as clear cut when I posted that ^

Again, not on my conscience

Maybe not on your conscience but you will have to live with it I deal with that issue every day in this country.

[Becky]

Is it basically a two-party system where no one else has a shot like in the USA? I think that's what's destroyed the USA. At least locally, most people are pretty middle of the road. The only problem locally is that in the primaries you have to either vote as a Democrat or as a Republican so it's hard to vote for all the candidates you want to because half might be running on one ticket and half on the other. I wish we would have open primaries.

But nationally, the two main parties are on extremes. Unfortunately, no one who runs as an Independent or a Libertarian or anything other than a Democrat or a Republican is going to have a shot in hell of winning a national election. I swear if one side said water was wet, the other would say it was dry just to disagree.

[Jim Bon Jovi]

Originally Posted by Kathleen

Maybe not on your conscience but you will have to live with it I deal with that issue every day in this country.

Meh just another reason not to have kids.

I've still not managed to land a permanent teaching jobIsomething the SNP are responsible for but I've got a nice house, car, couple of holidays a year and have a rubbish hot tub ready to go in - I bet most folk chiming against the Tories and austerity probably aren't doing so bad either.

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi

Meh just another reason not to have kids.

I've still not managed to land a permanent teaching jobIsomething the SNP are responsible for but I've got a nice house, car, couple of holidays a year and have a rubbish hot tub ready to go in - I bet most folk chiming against the Tories and austerity probably aren't doing so bad either.

I hear you about the kids. Mine are all doing well but they are all around your age (25 - 35). They seem to be adamant about NOT having kids also - sometimes for the same reasons. It's too bad but I get it I'm just sorry that they will miss the relationship with their kids that I have with mine. I wouldn't have missed that part for the world.

[DevilsSon]

Is anyone in their right mind saying "Oh, I won't have kids because Cameron won a clear majority"? Anyone in their right mind thinking Miliband would have been Jesus Christ the Saviour (yes, he's Jewish) - come on folks. Stop dreaming. A solid majority that has a 5 year term focussed on growing the economy and forging the country together (Cameron said it in his speech and it's also the only normal thing that a party in this position would do) is surely a positive outcome.

But nooooo - the attitude in the press and the blogs makes me think the UKIP won. Yes - the SNP has a lot of votes. It's bad that the LibDem are gone. But hell - given all circumstances, I can't see a better outcome for the UK. Surely Miliband and the current Labour had some nearly socialist views that simply CAN NOT work in the context of economic stagnation and current account deficits that Britain has. Now bring on the whole Brexit poll ASAP to get it out of the way, and focus fully on what matters.

And to draw the line, the Conservatives have better people. I mean - Ed Balls as chancellor - are you freakin' kiddin me? Miliband as PM? How can anyone in their right mind even think that could have gone down well....

[RS8MB0R8]

http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/0...david-cameron/

Says it all really.

[DevilsSon]

Originally Posted by RS8MB0R8

http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/0...david-cameron/

Says it all really.

Nah! This says it all:

Politics is about big ideas. The financial crisis must result in a tectonic shift to the left. Britain is a secretly left-wing nation. These Labour Party shibboleths were demolished by last week’s general election, which comprehensively demonstrated that voters prize economic competence above waffly ideology. It also reduced Labour to its lowest number of MPs since 1987 and led swiftly to the resignation of Ed Miliband, its gutsy but misguided leader. The post-mortem, and the race to succeed him, began immediately. Tony Blair, whose popularity among Labourites is inversely proportionate to the three-term success he delivered, wisely advised them to stand “for ambition and aspiration as well as compassion and care”. Ignore him, and Labour risks enduring a decade as a parliamentary protest group rather than a credible alternative government. David Cameron, the re-elected Conservative prime minister, will be hoping Labour plumps for another deluded left-winger

Funny, no? how a short paragraph explains more than a million wrongly used charts. That's all it boils down to.