UK General Election 2015

Irene Demova wrote:

ianf wrote:Probably because it's incredibly tiresome reading you bitch about random, insignificant pricks on the left all the time.

You don't understand what it's like being Eighthours and having random videogame journalists hold different views to you
OH THE SUFFERING
You may think the poor and those with any shred of concern for human or privacy rights were hurt the most by this election results but you would be wrong. That is nothing compared to the plight of a man who IS FORCED to stare at twitter AGAINST HIS WILL and read several comments by people who hold a different view to him

What could be worse? Nothing

Yawn. The issue isn't about me reading different views, it's the insults against anyone who doesn't agree with their own views. Entire groups of people being slagged off in the most vulgar ways, based on nothing but tribal ignorance.

KKLEIN wrote:I've read 3 different opinions on the BBC coverage today alone. The Daily Moan and Telegraph said the BBC had a horrible election night and were biased against the Tories; The Statesmen have accused/stated the BBC of being biased towards the Tories, someone else mentioned the news editor is a bastard from The Times; and the Evening Standard said the coverage was great.

That to me says the BBC had a great 24 hours.

You know they've called it down the middle when everybody is accusing them of bias.

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The Tories have already been in power a day and the riots have already begun

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NickSCFC wrote:The Tories have already been in power a day and the riots have already begun

http://www.dailyfail.co.uk/news/article ... er-10.html

Unsurprisingly the right wing BBC aren't covering it, or any of Murdoch's outlets

What's funny? The minority didn't get their way so now they're acting like idiots and deciding to riot?

Democracy works by going with the majority, and the majority voted in the government.

Edit - Seriously, vandalising a war memorial? strawberry float off you twatting banana splits.

Also love the protestor holding up a bit of cardboard demanding 'Real democracy'. That's what you already have idiot. We had a democratic vote.



Blame the people who didn't bother to vote then, not the winners of the people who did.
That and, as a graphic pointed out on a previous page, even under AV the Conservatives still would've won.

New level of ignorance. They're not 'protesters' no more than many of the London Rioters were. They're just looking for any excuse to smash up some furniture.

Lagamorph wrote:What's funny? The minority didn't get their way so now they're acting like idiots and deciding to riot?

Democracy works by going with the majority, and the majority voted in the government.

Edit - Seriously, vandalising a war memorial? strawberry float off you twatting banana splits.

Also love the protestor holding up a bit of cardboard demanding 'Real democracy'. That's what you already have idiot. We had a democratic vote.



Blame the people who didn't bother to vote then, not the winners of the people who did.
That and, as a graphic pointed out on a previous page, even under AV the Conservatives still would've won.

37% voted Conservative? That's not a majority. That's what this protest it about

And a Conservative voter could have easily vandalised the memorial as much as an anti Conservative

strawberry float whoever vandalised that monument. But you can't blame them for wanting real democracy, because we don't have that in the UK. We have what is effectively an elected dictatorship.

What're you talking about? Why would a conservative voter have written "strawberry float Tory scum"? It's pretty clearly been done by an anti-conservative voter.

The fact that you're defending these scum in any way is absolutely abhorrent.

Fatal Exception wrote:But you can't blame them for wanting real democracy, because we don't have that in the UK. We have what is effectively an elected dictatorship.

You're an idiot.

Because the Tories didn't use similar tactics in the Miners strikes?

Lagamorph wrote:What're you talking about? Why would a conservative voter have written "strawberry float Tory scum"? It's pretty clearly been done by an anti-conservative voter.

The fact that you're defending these scum in any way is absolutely abhorrent.

Fatal Exception wrote:But you can't blame them for wanting real democracy, because we don't have that in the UK. We have what is effectively an elected dictatorship.

You're an idiot.

Hey Laga, go strawberry float yourself. Learn how our political system works when you're done.

Lagamorph wrote:What're you talking about? Why would a conservative voter have written "strawberry float Tory scum"? It's pretty clearly been done by an anti-conservative voter.

The fact that you're defending these scum in any way is absolutely abhorrent.

Fatal Exception wrote:But you can't blame them for wanting real democracy, because we don't have that in the UK. We have what is effectively an elected dictatorship.

You're an idiot.

I'm not defending anybody I'm just not jumping to conclusions

Why might have a Conservative follower vandalised it?.. So when people read it in the media they can easily label the protesters as "scum".

Take a look at the figures. However you do, the Conservatives won. They got more votes than anyone else.

Conservatives received 11,334,920 votes.
The next nearest, Labour, received 9,347,326 votes, Nearly 2 million less.

In what way is that not a democratic victory for the Conservatives?

BID0 wrote:Why might have a Conservative follower vandalised it?.. So when people read it in the media they can easily label the protesters as "scum".

And people call Cal a paranoid nutcase. You're as big an idiot as FE.

Lagamorph wrote:Take a look at the figures. However you do, the Conservatives won. They got more votes than anyone else.

Conservatives received 11,334,920
The next nearest, Labour, received 9,347,326

In what way is that not a democratic victory for the Conservatives?

Do you know how numbers work? They may have got more votes but it's not a majority. Of the 66% or whatever that voted, 37% voted Conservative. That means 63% didn't want a Conservative goverment.

Lagamorph wrote:

BID0 wrote:Why might have a Conservative follower vandalised it?.. So when people read it in the media they can easily label the protesters as "scum".

And people call Cal a paranoid nutcase...

Take a deep breath, you'll burst a blood vessel.

Yeah any way you cut it the tories won, as gooseberry fool as that is that is the way it is.

Sure they got 37% of the vote, but that was the biggest percentage of them so they get it. Acting like banana splits doesn't solve anything all it does is paint the left as a bunch of mentals and hurts their chances in the future.

strawberry float nuts.

I'm a Labour supporter, i'm pissed the cons got in but gooseberry fool happens people voted, I think they were wrong but they had their say and thats that.


I also support FPTP post as I like the "local" representation it brings in and would rather have MP's that represent the chosen voice of the constituency rather than broader national representation. Sure PR will bring a government better made up of the views of the nation as a whole but for me I would rather an MP that stood up for local issues the towns they represent actually see not just the national agenda stuff which is what would happen.

Towns and villages and local people would be forgotten and that would be a terrible thing.

Lagamorph wrote:Take a look at the figures. However you do, the Conservatives won. They got more votes than anyone else.

Conservatives received 11,334,920
The next nearest, Labour, received 9,347,326

In what way is that not a democratic victory for the Conservatives?

BID0 wrote:Why might have a Conservative follower vandalised it?.. So when people read it in the media they can easily label the protesters as "scum".

And people call Cal a paranoid nutcase...

A party with 36% of the vote will be able to push through 100% of the law almost unopposed for the next 5 years. That's ignoring voter turnout (66%) which I think is fair to do. FPTP is designed to create an elected dictatorship under the guise of efficiency. To be fair, it IS pretty efficient at pushing laws through without opposition.

This is how democracy works though, people want electoral reform and protesting is about the only way to raise awareness of the issue and build up more support.

Whomever vandalised that monument obviously is a massive dick head, but they don't represent the majority of people from either side of the argument. Unfortunately it will be the one thing most people will remember and be used to discredit any kind of point that will be made by the protests.

They'll be found and arrested. If they want a criminal record that's up to them.

I find the day they chose to do this more disrespectful than anything. Shows their ignorance. But then I don't see a few thousand loonies representative of anything. It's like labelling all football fans as hooligans or racists because some Chelsea fans sing a racist song on a train.

BTW, if you didn't vote you don't have a right to complain because your lazy strawberry floating arse couldn't drag yourself to a polling booth 10 minutes away or find a post box.

Except people don't want electoral reform, not the majority of them. If they did, they would've voted for it in 2011. Instead, 68% of the vote went in favour of keeping the current system, 13,013,123 votes as opposed to only 6,152,607 votes to change it, less than half that number.