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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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Goron2000

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SmokyDave said:
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I am loving this.
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Hey! I work damn hard to avoid going to work.

Sent out 50 CV's this month and not a single response, i'm gonna have to lower my standards. Off to retail i go :(
 
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travisbickle

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Also Linkified, you actually do care about the gaming industry? and you're backing the Conservatives? Seriously you are backing the wrong horse.

The creative industry in general needs to keep getting support, and 'tax breaks' are not going to help it. I'm working/studying in design, have been for the last 10 years, and the industry is going to be irrelevant on the global scene within the next 10 years if there isn't massive investment put into it. We are being superseded by China, India, and East Asia when it comes to technical skill for every design discipline, the only asset that keeps the British creative sector going is that the World still views us as a country that produces eclectic designers and trend setters. The conservatives don't give a shit about business outside of the big retail sector and banks, you honestly believe Cameron and the top 50 execs from retail that Labour's going to strangle the life out off small business?

I honestly am shocked that someone who wants creative small industries to grow and strive is backing the tories, I've never met anyone in the creative field who does, you'll be in for a shocker in a few years time if they get in.
 
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SmokyDave

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jorma said:
Sweet. I like the liberal democrats now.

Would they legalize it? :)
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Yes! they have an extremely progressive drugs policy (or did last time I checked).

Goron2000 said:
Hey! I work damn hard to avoid going to work.

Sent out 50 CV's this month and not a single response, i'm gonna have to lower my standards. Off to retail i go :(
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If you are unemployed then no work is below your standards. It might suck to take a pay-cut or work a menial job but that's just what you have to do. If you can work, work.
 
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Mr. Sam

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Anyone else get their polling card through the post today? Not as exciting as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy blu-rays I was expecting, but nice nonetheless.
 
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JonathanEx

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Ooh, I'll check the post soon.

I'm all excited, in Lincoln we're getting our Lib/Lab/Con candidates in for live video webchats. The Lib Dem one, Reg Shore, has already confirmed for Monday. Ignoring the building a live web TV studio when most of the equipment won't be available aspect, I'm looking forward to meeting him.
 
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jorma

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SmokyDave said:
Yes! they have an extremely progressive drugs policy (or did last time I checked).
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Awesome. Shaping up to be the best UK election ever, even though i'm only indirectly affected by it. :p
 
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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
Ashes1396 said:
why?
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Moved recently, and they don't have time to process and print the cards (a huge number of people have registered to vote recently). I still get to vote, just don't get a card as such.
 
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SmokyDave

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jorma said:
Awesome. Shaping up to be the best UK election ever, even though i'm only indirectly affected by it. :p
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It certainly is!

I fear we'll be left with a hell of a hangover afterwards if Labour are still in power though. It's not far enough outside the realms of probability for my liking.

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iapetus said:
(a huge number of people have registered to vote recently).
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Oooh, I wonder why?!

A certain 'Clegg' perhaps?
 
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Mr. Sam

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iapetus said:
Moved recently, and they don't have time to process and print the cards (a huge number of people have registered to vote recently). I still get to vote, just don't get a card as such.
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And it's printed on white card and everything. None of that cheap yellow shit they use for local elections - egg-shell white. The perfect thickness, the indentations caused by the lettering. Mm-mmm.
 
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Empty

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I love it when the two main parties start tearing themselves apart from the inside.

High-level cabinet disagreements are starting to emerge over the conduct of Labour's campaign, including how open the party should be to the idea of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the election, the Guardian has learned.
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In a sign of future tensions within the cabinet, the children's secretary, Ed Balls, has openly disagreed with the home secretary, Alan Johnson, about the prospect of Labour forming a coalition government with the Lib Dems after the election.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/20/labour-election-campaign
A series of anxious shadow ministers have warned the Tory leadership in private that David Cameron's central general election message – devolving power to create a "big society" – is crashing on the doorstep as candidates struggle to explain the idea to voters.
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A third Tory source was even blunter. "The 'big society' is bollocks. It is boiled vegetables that have been cooked for three minutes too long. It tastes of nothing. What is it?"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/20/david-cameron-big-society-tories
 
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sohois

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iapetus said:
Moved recently, and they don't have time to process and print the cards (a huge number of people have registered to vote recently). I still get to vote, just don't get a card as such.
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You can have one of mine, since for some reason i'm registered in two constituencies. And the best part is, they're both marginal seats.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
A quick phonecall to my local government and they've not received my proxy vote application. I think I've got a week left now before the deadline. Korean postal service I am disappoint.

SmokyDave said:
I fear we'll be left with a hell of a hangover afterwards if Labour are still in power though. It's not far enough outside the realms of probability for my liking
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THINGS... CAN ONLY GET BETTTTTER!
 
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sohois

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Souldriver said:
So are there any news papers that aren't in cahoots with one of the candidates/parties?
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Well, the Independant is supposed to be independant of party loyalties, though i don't know how that holds up since it's been a while since i've read it.
 
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Souldriver

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sohois said:
Well, the Independant is supposed to be independant of party loyalties, though i don't know how that holds up since it's been a while since i've read it.
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So wait, seriously? I know there's lots of shit like the sun that shouldn't even pass as news, but every UK newspaper, even the respectable ones, align themselves with a party when elections get near? That's ridiculous.
 
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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
Souldriver said:
So wait, seriously? I know there's lots of shit like the sun that shouldn't even pass as news, but every UK newspaper, even the respectable ones, align themselves with a party when elections get near? That's ridiculous.
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Some of them are more subtle than others, but pretty much. Some are entirely predictable, some actually change which party they support from time to time.
 
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GhaleonQ

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Empty said:
They really are a parody of themselves at this point.
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And yet I will always find 1 of every 2 Quentin Letts columns funny. My $0.05 in advertising revenue means I'm part of the problem.
 
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Souldriver

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iapetus said:
Some of them are more subtle than others, but pretty much. Some are entirely predictable, some actually change which party they support from time to time.
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Has the BBC (and ITV and other channels) ever been accused of having a bias?
 
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Souldriver

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Kowak said:
BBC is accused of bias by every party for every other party.
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I guess that's the best possible accusation you can get. :)

The obvious one would be that the BBC gets accused of having a bias for the party in power, because they decide over the funding of the BBC. Unless off course the funding is organized in such a way that one government can't touch it.
 
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Kowak

Banned
Souldriver said:
I guess that's the best possible accusation you can get. :)

The obvious one would be that the BBC gets accused of having a bias for the party in power, because they decide over the funding of the BBC. Unless off course the funding is organized in such a way that one government can't touch it.
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I always love watching Have I Got News For You, which always makes fun of the fact the BBC cant be shown as bias.


Acheteedo said:
The trident episode is particularly relevant right now, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaAqY_KFdw
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perfect case for getting rid of trident.
 
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Cindres

Vied for a tag related to cocks, so here it is.
I feel The Independent is... moderately Independent. It's my paper of choice though i haven't been regularly buying the paper in a while, i need to pick up again.
 
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Dabookerman

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Kowak said:
I always love watching Have I Got News For You, which always makes fun of the fact the BBC cant be shown as bias.
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I wonder how they will talk about Clegg in their up coming episode :lol

Watching all of them, and they love to joke about the fact that the Lib Dems don't exist. Or are completely irrelevant.
 
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Parl

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Dabookerman said:
I wonder how they will talk about Clegg in their up coming episode :lol

Watching all of them, and they love to joke about the fact that the Lib Dems don't exist. Or are completely irrelevant.
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They'll probably parody themselves and continue to joke.
 
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Kowak

Banned
Chinner said:
easy question, it'll be hislop.
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defo, he will no doubt say something about him being the savior of British politics and the English Obama and then go back to taking the piss out of them.
 
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