2010 General Election Thursday 6Th May

[threegee]

This disorganised shower can't even keep a confidence amongst themselves.

It's already on the Bedlington Calendar.

[Andy Millne]

Is that before or after the Bedlington referendum?

[Pete]

This disorganised shower can't even keep a confidence amongst themselves.

It's already on the Bedlington Calendar.

According to the latest news they have denied it, say;s he was just genralising

Edited January 24, 2010 by Pete

[threegee]

"Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

He's boxed himself in anyway. All advice will be to hold off as long as possible for some signs of recovery he can point to. But as it's going to take a decade or more to sort out his £800,000,000,000 debt there's little chance of that. Won't stop all the kidology of course, and the Tories aren't going to tell the whole truth either, for fear of frightening the horses.

[Monsta®]

the election is a load of rubbish! that pudding heed simon reed will get in again!

will it be the usual candates for the local councils again? bunch of idoits the lot of them!

[threegee]

Did you notice the word "General" there Mons? This one is about who runs the Country. You know - that flag thingy you keep waving?

With a bit of luck we might even get a Prime Minister that someone - even his own party - actually voted for. I think it's called democracy; but I could be wrong, as it's such a distant memory.

One time we were told you needed "a mandate" to govern. In other words a party couldn't just stuff in any half-wit they felt like without having one of these General Election thangs sharpish like. But somehow, somewhere - like not invading other people's countries on private whim - that got forgotten about.

In Bedlington we even had a cooncil with real money to spend. One which didn't have to go cap in hand to some political appointee for a favour, giving us some of our own money back. Have a look at the old photos; do you see BUDC on some of the vehicles? Yes, they were often Bloody Useless .... but they were OUR bloody useless. We could have leant, we would have learnt. But now we have woken up we've been shafted and can't do anything!

First shafting was from Old Labour who played the class card to ensure we were left back in the 19th century; then from Britain's worst ever (until Gordon Brown) Prime Minister Ted Heath (Tory) who was behind the Wansbeck nonsense. He also managed to bring the entire country to a halt - but that's another story. But, grand champion by a mile, Gordon Brown has also managed to get us into the worst economic mess of all time. This one is a world beater - far worse on a per-head basis than the USA is in. We haven't felt the impact of it yet, but we are about to.

So what are you going to do about it? March around with a few dozen dim neo-Nazi weirdos and be laughed at, or get out there and exercise your (rapidly disappearing) democratic right to get this moron out of power? It really doesn't matter who you vote for just as long as you don't waste your vote on extremist crap. Either of the other parties have semi-competent people who will at least make a start on getting us out of this mess.

[Monsta®]

Either of the other parties have semi-competent people who will at least make a start on getting us out of this mess.

who would that be?

Alan "Howlin Laud" Hope !

:lol:

[Malcolm Robinson]

So what are you going to do about it? March around with a few dozen dim neo-Nazi weirdos and be laughed at, or get out there and exercise your (rapidly disappearing) democratic right to get this moron out of power? It really doesn't matter who you vote for just as long as you don't waste your vote on extremist crap. Either of the other parties have semi-competent people who will at least make a start on getting us out of this mess.

Yeah but GGG always in times of national hysteria, or self preservation, there is a rise in popularity of these sorts of political parties who manage to turn all the blame for whatever onto a minority, in an effort to exploit our natural auto kinetic defences rather than rational ones, and further their own ends. Course the culpability for what we are talking about here is clear............

[threegee]

Yeah but GGG always in times of national hysteria, or self preservation, there is a rise in popularity of these sorts of political parties who manage to turn all the blame for whatever onto a minority, in an effort to exploit our natural auto kinetic defences rather than rational ones, and further their own ends. Course the culpability for what we are talking about here is clear............

It was Gordon von Hindenburg-Braun wot done it. Throw away your wallet or purse and dust off the barra; because you'll need it to buy a loaf of bread before too long.

Back on subject: Another confirm today that it is 6th May. So, barring a plot to invade Iran and a resulting national emergency being engineered - on previous form a not entirely impossible scenario (WoMD - Warnings of Major Defeat?) - we should see if we can get a bookie to take our money.

[Malcolm Robinson]

GGG,

I am starting to get worried about the real state this country is in. The most important, in economic/financial terms, election almost in living memory and what do we have to choose from? I don't think any of them have a clue! The country's bankrupt and the footsie and domestic house prices rise????? They have certainly not bottomed out far enough to take the pain needed and get back to reality. In fact I would argue they would have to go way down past sustainability before they bounce back to reality! The estate agents and bankers I talk to all talk about when we get back to the top of the market prices........knock knock is anyone in.......does no one realise they are talking about rolling more debt up onto an already unstable 1 trillion pounds worth?

The accountants took over the world decades ago and we have let them play with their numbers. We should have put them in play pens and kept watch over them!

What is needed are politicians with some backbone and belief. Backbone to stick to what they tell us they will do if elected and belief in whatever political system they say they belong to. Without that we are drifting and the 'correction' will be that much harder when it comes.

[Stephen]

Back on subject: Another confirm today that it is 6th May. So, barring a plot to invade Iran and a resulting national emergency being engineered - on previous form a not entirely impossible scenario (WoMD - Warnings of Major Defeat?) - we should see if we can get a bookie to take our money.

I don't think they're taking bets on the election date now, which is a pity because with yet another accidental slip of a 6th May date I'd fancy a flutter on a March election. Especially as the next quarterly growth figures are due out at the end of April and there's a good chance they'll be negative again.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I don't think they're taking bets on the election date now, which is a pity because with yet another accidental slip of a 6th May date I'd fancy a flutter on a March election. Especially as the next quarterly growth figures are due out at the end of April and there's a good chance they'll be negative again.

How come it takes 2 quarters of negative figures to go into recession but only one to come out of it??????????????????

After all that intervention and we see 0.1%.....good use of money?

[Monsta®]

so who's people voting for? hopefully not lib lab con!

[Malcolm Robinson]

so who's people voting for? hopefully not lib lab con!

I don't think you are too far away there Monsta! I think sitting and prospective main party candidates might just get a spanking this time!

[Monsta®]

I don't think you are too far away there Monsta! I think sitting and prospective main party candidates might just get a spanking this time!

never mind a spanking, they want locked up!

[Malcolm Robinson]

never mind a spanking, they want locked up!

Perhaps an unfortunate use of words considering the predilections of some of our elected representatives!

[Stephen]

Perhaps an unfortunate use of words considering the predilections of some of our elected representatives!

They'll probably claim for it on expenses too!

[threegee]

never mind a spanking, they want locked up!

Monsta you need to study a little of the modern political history of our area. Fact is they have been locked up! And the odd political agent too, though some might say that he took the wrap!

When you look back at who we've had representing us over the last 50 years you wonder what the people of this area have been thinking about! There's the infamous ones like Andrew Cunningham and T. Dan Smith of course, but did you know that our smooth-talking barrister Labour MP got two and a half years in clink in 1992 for pretending to be a director of a swiss bank and defrauding two women out of their life savings?

The first of our Labour MP's I can remember was Alfred Robens. Now nobody is saying he was a crook, but it's a strange kind of socialist that ends up owning a castle in the South East and sitting on the boards of numerous companies. Alf has the distinction of closing far more pits and sacking far more miners than anyone in history. This is one of the many things that local Labour would rather not talk about. In fact they'd rather not talk about anything at all because they no longer have any ideology or coherent set of ideas. People like Ronnie Campbell and Denis Murphy have not the slightest thing in common with the educated big wigs of the Labour party who are as elitist and self-serving as they come! Ron & Den were put there as a sponge to soak up dumb vote-as-your-parents-did votes for the articulate solicitors and barristers of Nu Labour. I suspect that Denis has probably woken up to this by now; that he's been thrown the very last crust, and that's just about as far as he's going to be allowed to go. Ronnie... well, it might take a while longer to soak in.

The reality gap between what is and what people can be made to believe - especially the young and those with short memories - is responsible for the mess this area (and now the entire country) is in today. But rejecting the whole thing like you are doing is putting yourself in the same place as those who have been (and continue to be) duped. You need to turn your brain on and choose the least of the evils & bullsh*t on offer, and get out there and vote.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Ah ha the great T Dan....... the man who almost single handily cleared the worst of the ghettos out of Newcastle. Ok he might have had his hands in the till but if he was of a different political party and based in London he almost certainly would have been knighted not imprisoned! Funny how sanctimonious the working class can be in treatment of their own!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Perhaps holidaying on a Russian oligarch's motor launch or having the use of someone's villa might be considered along the same lines?

[threegee]

Ah ha the great T Dan....... the man who almost single handily cleared the worst of the ghettos out of Newcastle. Ok he might have had his hands in the till but if he was of a different political party and based in London he almost certainly would have been knighted not imprisoned! Funny how sanctimonious the working class can be in treatment of their own!

This is so true. One day there'll be a musical: T. Dan and his Amazing Disappearing Friends.

The problem with the working class representing the working class is that they all too easily get carried away with the trappings of power, and accept many complex things at face value. Isn't history repeating itself right at this moment!

When the reckoning comes the old boy network closes up and leaves them holding the baby. Well illustrated in the 1970's Lindsay Anderson masterpiece O Lucky Man! I'm sure they had the Poulson affair in mind when they wrote that.