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Dear Great Britain, you just signed up for more austerity and more crippling blows to your health care system. Youâre getting the government you asked for. You have both my congratulations and my pity.
Whatever were you thinking?
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Who is that a picture of on the front page? There is no caption identifying the person. It would be really great if the person was idâd in these pics.
Top Three Reasons:
- No opposition party can cede a quarter of its seats and hope to win.
- Milibrand isnât credible as a prime minister.
- Labour joining a Con government on austerity as a fiscal strategy is Incompetence x 3.
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Pretty sure thatâs Nick Clegg, Lib-Dem party leader and phoneme hoarder.
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An invasion of Iran just became a bit more probableâŚ
Article explains what really happened in England. http://www.vox.com/2015/5/8/8572961/austerity-uk-election, Cameronâs austerity occured prior to 2010 when he had to form a coalition government with the leftists. That is when the economy picked up so now we will see if he returns to full austerity. Wake up England.
The Lib Dems arenât leftists, theyâre liberal in a non-American way; that is, conservative financially and moderately liberal socially. Arguably, theyâre to the right of the US Democratic Party.
Think of them as âradical centristsâ.
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Daveyâs going to have his hands full trying to keep the UK from disintegrating. Or, perhaps, heâll need a distraction from the UK disintegrating.
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Does it not strike anyone else as curious that in the two most recent globally significant elections - Israel and the UK - conservative parties defied the polls to come from behind and win?
The point may become moot if a liberal-ish party effects the same feat, but if not, is it really just getting harder to predict election outcomes as Nate Silver claims, or is something else afoot?
Looks like a strong erection day showing at the polls was good for the Conservative candidates after all. Closing your eyes and thinking of England is still popular practice.
[quote=âjondlow, post:10, topic:20114, full:trueâ]Does it not strike anyone else as curious that in the two most recent globally significant elections - Israel and the UK - conservative parties defied the polls to come from behind and win?
[âŚ] or is something else afoot?[/quote]
I really donât hold much with conspiracies. But.
Given the blatant shenanigans weâve seen in the U.S. in 2000, 2004, 2010 and 2014, itâs becoming harder and harder to ignore just how much of our voting systems are owned and controlled by corporations that are owned by extremely wealthy and powerful conservative interests.
I have begun to greatly fear the 2016 election in the U.S. The amount of right wing propaganda, disinformation and outright lies polluting our political discussion has a very serious effect on on the ignorant and weak-minded in our population. Combined with easily altered election results and numerous efforts at voter intimidation and other disenfranchising activities, our system is leaning toward a sort of âfilibuster-proofâ false majority when it comes to left- and progressive-leaning candidates and policies.
Itâs like we need to get 60% of the vote to offset the built-in skew.
Well, the left just scored an unexpected blowout victory in Alberta (Canadaâs Texas), after decades of overwhelming conservative control of the province. And Netanyahuâs victory was the result of his successful last-minute effort to get supporters of the even more extreme right-wing parties to vote for Likud instead: those parties together lost just about exactly as many seats as Likud gained relative to the pre-election polling, which means Israel isnât really even an apt example of particularly inaccurate polls. So Iâd still lean toward fewer land-lines and more call screening rather than a global right-wing conspiracy as the likely explanation. Of course, the GOPâs obvious voter-suppression tactics and the Koch typesâ increasingly effective targeting of their increasing campaign spending are quite enough for us to deal with.
Thanks for the clarification.
London is still remains the world epicenter for financial crime. Nearly all of the major financial crimes, including the currency fixing, gold price fixing, Libor fixing, the flash crash, drug money laundering etc, that brought down the world economy were schemed and conducted out of London. Even the criminal masterminds behind the AIG and JP Morgan crimes were based out of London. Rupert Murdochâs minions operated a sophisticated network involved in phone tapping, influence peddling and police bribery in London as well.
I congratulate David Cameron and Nicola Sturgeon for their huge electoral victories but I hope they will find common cause and work together to eliminate the scourge of financial criminal activity there.