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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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FabCam

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Clegg's immigration policy is totally ridiculous. For one, his amnesty is disgraceful. It gives out a message of acceptance rather than intolerance which is really disheartening. His "local immigration" policy is completely unenforceable. Migrants will move around as they see fit. Any attempt to police that will cost more damn money and be a complete waste of time.
 

Chinner

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Waiting for more polls, but I think it's going to be more equal. How much does the YouGov poll matter if it was released 10 minutes after the debate?
 

Varion

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Will people stop interviewing the SNP and Plaid Cymru already?

Even Question Time won't be free of them this week. At least the SNP guy this time is actually answering the issues instead of crying travesty of democracy.
 

jorma

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FabCam said:
Clegg's immigration policy is totally ridiculous. For one, his amnesty is disgraceful. It gives out a message of acceptance rather than intolerance which is really disheartening. His "local immigration" policy is completely unenforceable. Migrants will move around as they see fit. Any attempt to police that will cost more damn money and be a complete waste of time.

Yeah, that's disgraceful indeed. Intolerance is so awesome!
 

scotcheggz

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Dark Machine said:
Restricting where immigrants can work is what he said eijit. The freedom to work/live where you want is a right of the citizens of the country, immigrants are immigrants and therefore subject to restrictions with visas and work permits. You just put an area of work on the work permit which makes it a crime to work outside that area.

Exactly. It is pretty much an extension of the limits that visas already have, such as hours per week you can work, hours per week you have to go to english language school etc. depending on the type of visa you have. If you have a working visa, you would be sponsered most likely from a company based in a certain area, if you have an education visa, you would be going to a school ina certain town/city, so it shouldn't really cause problems. It won't restrict your movement around the country whilst you are not at school/work.

The only people this would effect to any degree would be asylum seekers I would have thought and putting them in places where there is room will only work to give them a better life in the long run.
 

Kowak

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Anna T looks so hot in HD, her political sketch is the best thing about the The Times and I look forward to it tomorrow
 

FabCam

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jorma said:
Yeah, that's disgraceful indeed. Intolerance is so awesome!

Oh yeah, tolerating more illegal migrants is so awesome!

EDIT: maybe I should use "passively-encouraging" rather than "tolerate"
 
FabCam said:
Clegg's immigration policy is totally ridiculous. For one, his amnesty is disgraceful. It gives out a message of acceptance rather than intolerance which is really disheartening. His "local immigration" policy is completely unenforceable. Migrants will move around as they see fit. Any attempt to police that will cost more damn money and be a complete waste of time.

Why would skilled workers move to somewhere when they can't be employed or receive any benefits. The location thing is for people that have secured a legitimate job so that Doctor's get located to the places where they're needed.
 

Garjon

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Help me GAF, I think I'm being hypnotised by this guy's eyebrows.

Sky's handling of this has been terrible; camerawork reminiscent of late 90's ITV sports coverage.
Overall, I actually think it's pretty even between all 3. This debate wasn't as good as the previous one though; repeating questions, really? But still, each leader came across as, well, a politician. No more, no less.
 

Parl

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Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
The BNP? Wait aren't they essential the Nazi party of England?
Mostly focusing on foreigners, but he wants to remove immigrants from Wales, Scotland and NI too.
 

Kowak

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travisbickle said:
I didn't understand the Polish PM comment from Cameron?

Was it "there's one of your allies gone from the EU, hey lads!!"?

no, it was "one of my allies is gone and you are two have said about how great he was"
 

Wes

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Wtf!?

The BBC actually have the BNP on now.

They'll do all the minor parties now until 10, as they have a responsibility to do at some point, and then focus on the three main parties during their 10 o'clock news I imagine.
 

NekoFever

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The BNP guy on the BBC said that the UK would be an Islamic Republic in 30-40 years and that the same thing was going to happen soon to Holland :lol
 

Varion

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NekoFever said:
The BNP guy on the BBC said that the UK would be an Islamic Republic in 30-40 years and that the same thing was going to happen soon to Holland :lol
:lol :lol :lol

Oh Griffin, never change.
 

Chinner

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Other polls, although they're not really representational.

The Guardian:
Clegg: 63.8%
Brown: 28.4%
Cameron: 7.7%

Facebook Democracy UK
Gordon Brown 29%
David Cameron 22%
Nick Clegg 49%
 

Mr. Sam

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Acheteedo said:
Comres: clegg wins on 33%, cameron and brown tied on 30%

I feel this is a much more accurate reflection of the debate. I think Brown was strong but lost a hundred supporters every time he said the words "ID cards" - even if they aren't specifically the ones that were found to be so unpopular. The British public is fickle and Brown should know this best of all.
 

Acheteedo

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Dark Machine said:
Source? it wasn't supposed to be out till 10 dead.

Someone called MirandaSky on the sky news live analysis, although I've just noticed that it's been removed, hmm!

EDIT, no wait it's still there.
 

Fjolle

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Chinner said:
Other polls, although they're not really representational.

The Guardian:
Clegg: 63.8%
Brown: 28.4%
Cameron: 7.7%

Facebook Democracy UK
Gordon Brown 29%
David Cameron 22%
Nick Clegg 49%
Internet polls ftw!
Channel4news twitter:
Our instant poll results are: Nick Clegg: 52% Gordon Brown: 31% David Cameron: 17%
 

DECK'ARD

The Amiga Brotherhood
Kay Burley is intensely annoying.

Sky seem more concerned with the money they've spent on their projections now.
 
NekoFever said:
The BNP guy on the BBC said that the UK would be an Islamic Republic in 30-40 years and that the same thing was going to happen soon to Holland :lol

Isn't that the same crap the people in the Islamic Extremist community say too? :lol

Well its good to see two very different groups come to mutual understandings. :lol
 

Mr. Sam

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jamieson87 said:
The Tories better not win this election.

I think an outright majority for any party is highly unlikely. I also relish the idea of a hung Parliament, particularly now the Lib Dems are demanding the Alternative Vote Plus system from whoever wishes to partner with them.
 

Omikaru

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I think what this debate has shown is that LibDem support has hit a bit of a glass ceiling for the current week. Whether that'll pick up in a week or so, I don't know, but I think their current level of being in and around 30% is solid.
 
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