[LeatherTrumpet]

Outgoing Labour MP Austin Mitchell is claimed to have said "Even a Labour candidate who's an alcoholic and paedophile could win in Grimsby"

what a charmer

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[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Ruth Cadbury, Labour parliamentary candidate for Brentford and Isleworth really showing the electorate just how clued up she is

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They ought to have called her 'FRY' not CADBURY' because her brain's obviously fried. Still this clip's not nearly as damning as a 3 year old clip of Farage talking sense about the NHS. Or is it?

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Outgoing Labour MP Austin Mitchell is claimed to have said "Even a Labour candidate who's an alcoholic and paedophile could win in Grimsby"

what a charmer

Youtube video

Beggars belief - But which numpty is now going to stand in Grimsby for Labour?

[Vicky.]

IDS solution to the 0 hour contract farce...

http://www.welfareweekly.com/solutio...-duncan-smith/

What a ****ing goon that man is. Honestly, I don't think I would have so much dislike for the tories if it wasnt for this ignorant up his own arse wanker.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

IDS solution to the 0 hour contract farce...

http://www.welfareweekly.com/solutio...-duncan-smith/

What a ****ing goon that man is. Honestly, I don't think I would have so much dislike for the tories if it wasnt for this ignorant up his own arse wanker.

I heard that wanker today he really makes my blood boil

him and that patronising old fart paddy fecking ashdown

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

IDS solution to the 0 hour contract farce...

http://www.welfareweekly.com/solutio...-duncan-smith/

What a ****ing goon that man is. Honestly, I don't think I would have so much dislike for the tories if it wasnt for this ignorant up his own arse wanker.

Shows where they intend to go as to zero hours contracts, only lip service paid as to them and if they are given 5 more years in power,then more and more of these 'flexible' so called contracts wil be almost the norm.

Clearly no plans at all to address the real issue of zero hours contracts.

I consider Ian Duncan Smith the most vile politician there is in any party at present.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy to lose seat, poll finds

[LeatherTrumpet]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gene...l-17-Live.html

Nigel reiterates what was blindingly obvious to anyone who watched last night..



disgraceful BBC

smh

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy to lose seat, poll finds

He won't lose it,I 'd put money on that not happening.
On the day,I still believe Labour will hold onto at least 15 of their seats in the end.

Still a really bad set of results for labour but I feel fairly sure a fair bit of the SNP support is 'soft' support, once voters go to the polling booth,that last minute pull to vote where they usually do,often gets too strong to resist.

Still a fantastic result for the SNP even taking all but 15 of Labour's seats however.
Also of course they will just about wipe out the Lib Dems,probably with the exception of Charles Kennedy and of course the last remaining Conservative MP in Edinburgh as well.

[smudgie]

Surely Zero hour contracts should simply revert to what it really is..casual labour.
Then bring in laws as to how long you can employ an individual as casual labour, perhaps after 4 weeks they should be given a contract for guaranteed hours, same amount of hours each week even if it is on a rota.
Stop these bloody big firms using casual labour other than at seasonal times for a start.

[LeatherTrumpet]

the labour zero hours policy will be circumnavigated by business in months

business works at least 2 years ahead of politics

their flagship policy is a bust

[empire]

its time cameron sacked duncan smith, his mind is stuck in the 19th century, the bbc audience where attacking farage, they don't want to face the truth, but to put there fingers in their ears, people who vote labour in grimsby should be ashamed of what they are doing, so if their are men and women in grimsby who are buggering your children, don't run to the ukip office, because you knew who you are voting for,

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by smudgie

Surely Zero hour contracts should simply revert to what it really is..casual labour.
Then bring in laws as to how long you can employ an individual as casual labour, perhaps after 4 weeks they should be given a contract for guaranteed hours, same amount of hours each week even if it is on a rota.
Stop these bloody big firms using casual labour other than at seasonal times for a start.

Absolutely.
Also those on such casual labour contracts should not be included in the employment figures as being among those in full employment.

I have said this before but a supermarket near me, has put all its staff, except for management and supervisors,on 16 hour contracts and to date only a small percentage are getting more hours than that.
However, they cannot even work elsewhere in addition, 'just in case' they are needed at very short notice.
Unbelievable.

[empire]

one thing that pisses me off, is the media keep up with this, attack ukip, and it is every day they have being doing this, none of those people who work in the media would live next door to a group of roma gypsies, the younger generation or blairs generation as I call them, come out of university with degrees, and still have no concept of reality, of how tough life is, the media and students never boo the establishment parties, students say people who vote ukip are uneducated, that shows the huge insult to the british public, and to hard working people in this country,

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by empire

one thing that pisses me off, is the media keep up with this, attack ukip, and it is every day they have being doing this, none of those people who work in the media would live next door to a group of roma gypsies, the younger generation or blairs generation as I call them, come out of university with degrees, and still have no concept of reality, of how tough life is, the media and students never boo the establishment parties, students say people who vote ukip are uneducated, that shows the huge insult to the british public, and to hard working people in this country,

Students would certainly boo the Tories and now the Lib Dems as well, admittedly not as much as Ukip but you'll find very few open Conservatives on university campuses

[MTVN]

Looking at this: http://may2015.com/featured/election...es-keep-power/

It seems like it's going to be basically impossible for the Conservatives to form a majority. Even a Con-Lib-Ukip-DUP coalition is looking like it would be short of a majority. And the polls have been so static for so long that its hard to see that changing. I'm probably about 90% sure now that it's going to be a Labour government after the election backed by the SNP.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Looking at this: http://may2015.com/featured/election...es-keep-power/

It seems like it's going to be basically impossible for the Conservatives to form a majority. Even a Con-Lib-Ukip-DUP coalition is looking like it would be short of a majority. And the polls have been so static for so long that its hard to see that changing. I'm probably about 90% sure now that it's going to be a Labour government after the election backed by the SNP.

Blody hell.. I was worried that if Cleggy stuck with Cameron everything would stay as it is..but even if Farage joined suit..still no chance. Unless a massive change by the election I guess :S

My problem is, Labour would have to join forces with SNP and Plaid...who don't give a **** about the UK, only wales and scotland.

Edit.

If it wasn’t for the Lib Dem collapse, Labour would be polling below 30 per cent and Ed Miliband would not have made it to last night’s debate.

Without the Lib Dems, Labour would be on 27 per cent. Or perhaps 28-29 per cent, as some Lib Dems would likely have drifted their way since 2010. But they would not be on 34 per cent, and headed for power in three weeks; defecting Lib Dems account for 7 per cent of Labour’s 34 per cent vote share.

Wow..Clegg really has ****ed the Lib Dems over badly by getting into bed with the Tories

[MTVN]

Yeah Clegg keeps dismissing the polls and saying they'll do better than everyone thinks but it doesn't look that way, they'll need to do massively better than expected to renew the Tory coalition and they probs won't have enough seats to make that much difference to Labour either so I can't see how Miliband won't have to turn to the SNP :/

[empire]

here's the thing is that, ukip will take third place in may, nick clegg knows this, half of his votes and seats will go to that party.

[joeysteele]

yes, really however it is in the main just a fair number of original Labour voters going back to Labour.

Labour lost a good number of voters to the Liberals and the then SDP alliance in the 80s,those voters in the main did not return to Labour until 1997.

Then between 2003 and 2010,again there was a shift of mainly Labour voters to the Lib Dems.
Which then saw the Lib Dems get to 24% and have near 60 MPs.

Now disenchanted past Labour voters returned to Labour over this parliament, furious and dismayed at the things Clegg and the Lib Dems have supported in this coalition.
It will not, I feel, be that easy now for the Lib Dems to win those back again,it will take a very long time for them to feel they could trust the Lib Dems again.

[empire]

labour's working class vote is not that high as it used to be, and from what i heard, that they are not going to vote labour in may, many have felt in the white and black working class that labour is a middle and upper class party now,

[joeysteele]

Both main parties have lost a number of voters,especially as more new parties appear and the Nationalists gained strength too.

The Conservatives for instance, still wallowing on 34% now,and even after 13 years in opposition,only going from around 31% to 36% over 4 general elections.
This was the party that regularly polled over 40%.

Labour too have lost the ability to really add on votes since 1997/2001.

Both parties now just about get two thirds of the votes cast between them,well down on the comfortably over 70% and even more they used to command.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by empire

here's the thing is that, ukip will take third place in may, nick clegg knows this, half of his votes and seats will go to that party.

Ukip will have about 3 MPs, at worst Lib Dems get about 20 more than that

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy to lose seat, poll finds

Labour MP's have said they Hated
him

Ed picked the Wrong Fecker


SNP Kill Labour MP's
Make my day.



Feel The Force

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Ukip will have about 3 MPs, at worst Lib Dems get about 20 more than that

No you can not guess it

Roll on the Election