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Who will you vote for in the May 2015 UK General Election?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 36 32.4%
  • Green

    Votes: 6 5.4%
  • Labour

    Votes: 17 15.3%
  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 18 16.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • I will not vote

    Votes: 11 9.9%
  • I cannot vote - too young/in prison/in House of Lords/mad

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • I am not a citizen of the UK

    Votes: 13 11.7%

  • Total voters
    111
  • Poll closed .
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I keep telling you - get the Hell over here - a whole new World of blagging and your sons will love you forever.

In seriousness now - from what I've seen and understood this election seems quite a bit more vital than the previous 8 or is that just me buying into the hype?
Got any mates in Novo Nordisk who need an aging, cynical, expensive and quite lazy market access bloke? Put a word in for me.........

Not sure how important this election is, except for the EU referendum if the Tories get in.
 
Got any mates in Novo Nordisk who need an aging, cynical, expensive and quite lazy market access bloke? Put a word in for me.........

Not sure how important this election is, except for the EU referendum if the Tories get in.

I think the issue on the referendum is Dave wants it after a renegotiated deal with the EU. The EU wont negotiate. I can see this being spun into a bullshit excuse for not having the referendum?

The Torys are slippery on this and always will be because if half the party get wind that were leaving, they'll just join labour and take us back in. They will have to shift soon but Dave isn't the man to do it.

I think this is where Ukip are getting votes, not all anti-immigration as many would think but the original idea. Independence from Europe.
 
1. Would you place people addicted to benefits in the same bracket as people who avoid paying their taxes?
2. Did Labour cause the collapse of the world financial markets?

1 No there worse, Tax evasion is your money, benefit fraud is other peoples.
2 Yes they assisted and weakened our position.
 
1 No there worse, Tax evasion is your money, benefit fraud is other peoples.
2 Yes they assisted and weakened our position.

1. Tax evasion isn't withholding YOUR money. The correct amount of tax is supposed to be paid to the state to pay for hospitals etc. Tax evasion is theft from your fellow countrymen.
2. Did Labour cause the collapse of the world financial markets? (Try answering the question this time)
 
1. yes it is. I fix your ****, you pay cash, I don't declare. Not theft. My 'labour'
2. no twice is enough but please enlighten us as to who 'exactly' was responsible for the banking collapse, I warn you, if you say Tony Fernandes then you've made a friend for life.
 
Q1: Do you really think "New Labour" is left?
Q2: What role do you think the Labour Party played in the collapse of the world financial markets?
1. At heart, yes. They whored themselves out to the centre of the spectrum to get into power, much to the discust of true left socialists, but at heart they are all about big government being in control of everything wand having the nation utterly dependent on them for everything.
2. What they did was screw up what could have been a far easier ride for the country, by effectively bankrupting the exchequer in an attempt to buy themselves another five years. Had they tightened their belts properly at the time, we wouldn't have needed all the deficit reduction measures. And don't forget, there was only one person in charge of the finances of a developed nation throughout the financial crisis, and that was Gordon Brown. He was there throughout and royally cocked it all up. So they certainly created the environment for the crisis to hit the country far harder than it needed to, tried (and failed) to buy themselves out of trouble, and then joked about having spent all the money when they left office.
 
You're comparing the year 2015 to medieval times Rhino. I think that's part of the problem regarding the hangover from colonialism. That old imperial mindset is still prevalent among some people. Besides, 300 miles compared to almost 8,000 is quite a difference. A cursory glance at a map would make it clear as to the oddity of the current arrangement.

Still, such historical anomalies do crop up having not that long ago emerged from an age of conquest & annexation (by all powerful nations) and the British have as much a claim to the islands as the Argies. The truth is though, it has nothing to do with Argentine territorial integrity nor for the British is it anything to do with the rights of a few inbred Goat herders.

The real reason for wanting ownership is much more unidealistic (is it ever not thus?)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-and-gas-discovered-off-Falkland-Islands.html
 
You're comparing the year 2015 to medieval times Rhino.

It was deliberately farcical to highlight and compare the Argentine claim based on a second hand landing from the age of the Spanish Inquisition.

Besides, 300 miles compared to almost 8,000 is quite a difference. A cursory glance at a map would make it clear as to the oddity of the current arrangement.

London is closer to Calais than Paris is, by your rationale it should be ours then, I like peace, but am prepared for war with France if you insist.

The real reason for wanting ownership is much more unidealistic (is it ever not thus?)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-and-gas-discovered-off-Falkland-Islands.html

Come the **** on Swords, We used to hunt whales down there, then commercial fish, next gas & oil. Of course there are advantages of having territory, that was rather the point of building an empire. why throw away what you've got left when living on an over crowded rock in the middle of the sea? Just wait until Antarctica thaws out.

Rule Britannia...........
 
Defending sovereign territory is actually a normal response for most governments in most countries, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Ukraine, to name just a few engaged at the moment. Bastards.

Having & working around children you generally find out who's started a fight fairly quickly as kids want to tell their side of the story, well here's how 'many' brits see it then & now:

Here's my childish response: They started it.

Now more measured:They are still a second world country with conscripts, we were and still are a first world country with a nuclear deterrent & a full NATO membership with a full time professional army. We also built their weapons systems & sold them to them and those we did not we pretended to supply and never delivered so as to limit their supply during the conflict. They never had a realistic chance.

The Argentine conscripts and their families I feel sorry for, not a mad dictator Thatcher didn't kill them Galtieri did.

Of course Galtieri started it. But Thatcher had plenty of alternatives other than the military action she took imediately. Even her colleagues in the US tried to persuade her out of it. She needed to get her wavering support behind her. Their actions, the Junta and the Tory's, cost over 900 lives and nearly 2000 casualties for those rocks off Argentina.
 
the falklands war was over 30 years ago
get the **** over it
cant imagine its going to make any difference to this years election
unless a massive amount of Argentinians have recently moved to england
 
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Argentina invaded British sovereign territory.
Britain took it back.

End of!

Doubtful. Argentina still claims the Falklands, and now we know there is oil. It is also relevant for you voting in the UK, if you want to vote for a political party so ready to use military action, with little time given for finding possible other non- violent solutions, as the Tory party has shown itself to be .
 
Doubtful. Argentina still claims the Falklands, and now we know there is oil. It is also relevant for you voting in the UK, if you want to vote for a political party so ready to use military action, with little time given for finding possible other non- violent solutions, as the Tory party has shown itself to be .
did the tories send troops to Iraq to find the wmd
 
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