UK General Election 2015

Eighthours wrote:
If I was the Tories right now, I'd give Scotland full fiscal autonomy asap. The SNP don't actually want this yet and it's obvious why, but it would be tactical genius - both electorally speaking and in terms of an inevitable second referendum - to let Scotland find out exactly how an anti-austerity agenda in action would be a disaster. It would be horrible for the Scottish people, but it's what they voted for. Watch the political landscape change again then! (Maybe I'm completely wrong and the SNP will be a triumph when given the purse strings. Doubt it, though.)

Meep wrote:d their record shows them to be highly effective in running services efficiently (much more so than anywhere in England).

Cal wrote:

BBC must now pay the price for its blatant anti-Conservative bias

As the results filtered through, and the scale of the Tory victory became clear, the BBC seemed to go into official mourning over the phenomenal losses suffered by Labour and the Lib Dems. It was as if the Corporation, in its despair over the collapse of the Left, believed the whole nation shared its anguish. Nothing could have been further from the truth, and once more the BBC missed the real story — the remarkable, historic triumph of conservatism. This abrogation of its responsibility as a public broadcaster will, inevitably, have an effect on its future, as the BBC’s licence fee comes under increasing scrutiny. Undoubtedly, a new and energised Tory Government will look closely at the issue of whether this Left-leaning, management-heavy behemoth should be subsidised by a compulsory tax on TV viewers.

http://www.dailyfail.co.uk/news/article ... z3ZdGaisQ5

The BBC's current Charter is up for renewal in 2017. Tories have already signalled their hostility towards the Corporation, so the BBC can't expect to get the usual deferential 'nod-through' for its annual £3.5bn poll tax on the British public. Sadly for the BBC - and despite their very best efforts - Ed Miliband who, naturally, had explicitly guaranteed the BBC that a Labour Government would leave them alone (it was in the 2015 Labour Manifesto) didn't win the General Election.

Now it's time for the Tories to settle a few scores with the left-leaning BBC. Can't wait. Time for the BBC stare into the abyss and compete in a commercial market, just like everyone else.

On Last night's post-election Question Time, some dimwit in the audience started (quite literally) shouting about how the Tories cosied up to Rupert Murdoch, whom she claimed was the most powerful media magnate in the country.

Er..no. That would be the BBC, actually. The BBC's news services across all platforms are read, heard and seen by the highest percentage of the British public. That would be the same BBC that is publicly-funded (by demanding money with menaces). Lefties and their hatred of Murdoch ignore the biggest elephant in the room of all. I wonder why?

Sadly for the BBC - and despite their very best efforts - Ed Miliband who, naturally, had explicitly guaranteed the BBC that a Labour Government would leave them alone (it was in the 2015 Labour Manifesto) didn't win the General Election.

Captain Kinopio wrote:
I've never really engaged you in much of a discussion before Cal, so here we go

What do you mean by this...

Sadly for the BBC - and despite their very best efforts - Ed Miliband who, naturally, had explicitly guaranteed the BBC that a Labour Government would leave them alone (it was in the 2015 Labour Manifesto) didn't win the General Election.

Because it seems like you're suggesting the BBC were actively pushing for Miliband to be leader, which seems an utterly ludicrous suggestion without some form of evidence.

Meep wrote:Why would Cameron want that? If the SNP go down then the likelihood is, assuming Labour can elect a competent leader and win back more marginals in England, they would reclaim Scotland and be in with a great shot in 2020. I suppose you might argue he would he should put country before party but this deliberate incitement of English nationalism during this past campaign shows that this is not how the man thinks.

Also, SNP fiscal autonomy is perhaps not the disaster you seem to think it is; the SNP has a much more reserved than their trash talk towards Labour indicates and their record shows them to be highly effective in running services efficiently (much more so than anywhere in England). It would be a huge gamble to give them such powers and then have them make independence look even better than it does currently.

Lotus wrote:I'm all for Scotland being given full fiscal autonomy - hope it happens, like some of today's papers are suggesting.

An acquaintance on Facebook has made two comments this morning...one, that anybody who voted Tory should be "utterly ashamed of themselves" , and two, she "fears going back to the UK now" (she's on holiday at the moment).

Captain Kinopio wrote:

Lotus wrote:I'm all for Scotland being given full fiscal autonomy - hope it happens, like some of today's papers are suggesting.

An acquaintance on Facebook has made two comments this morning...one, that anybody who voted Tory should be "utterly ashamed of themselves" , and two, she "fears going back to the UK now" (she's on holiday at the moment).

Don't know about you but my new Conservative MP came round and shat in my breakfast this morning.

Apparently it was in the manifesto

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:I didn't vote this time round. But luckily for me the Tories won in my area anyway, as I was going to vote for the Conservatives. But overall my town is still lib Dems. Which it has been for years anyway.

Lucien wrote:The whole thing reads like it was drawn up by people who never think they'll need help.

Parksey wrote:Just catching up on QT now, and have reached the point with the woman bleating on about Murdoch.

Parksey wrote:It is less about her being on the Left or Right and more about her being an idiot in general.

She will have clearly read, somewhere, that opinion on Murdoch and just taken it as gospel, with critically disgesting it and considering other viewpoints.

Such a description applies to people on both sides of the spectrum and the lady being, presumably, left wing has no bearing on her intolerance or idiocy. She would still be an idiot if she were on the right.