Interesting...
I wonder where all the 'I really don't want the Conservatives to win but I can't bring myself to vote Labour - I know I'll vote Liberal' votes will go in the next election?
What are our choices?
Cameron - A public-school educated posh boy, Lifelong politico, independantly wealthy and an heir to the Astors.
Clegg - A public-school educated posh boy, lifelong politico (with a short foray into journalism) with a couple of million in the bank.
Miliband - A state-school educated boy, lifelong politico (with a short foray into TV journalism).

That's not a choice, they're all pretty much interchangeable - except for the colour of their ties.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:39, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Hmmmm That's interesting.
I have a red tie on Today. With sums on it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:41, Reply)

I seriously doubt if any of those three will be a choice at the next election. Maybe Cameron.
in any case, you're really voting for your MP not the PM.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:42, Reply)

I've not met my MP yet as I moved house recently
I knew my previous two though. One was Dave Nellist, a thoroughly pricipled honest hard-working nice guy. The other one is Jim Cunningham - he & I both worked at RR where he was a full-time union rep. Didn't trust him then, don't trust him now.
However, the question still stands, where are all the Lib Dem votes going to go at the next election?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:50, Reply)

I imagine most of them would vote lib dem.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:14, Reply)

You are falling into the trap of believing the myth that "they are all the same"
This only engenders increased voter apathy and is no help to anyone.
Of course, as most mainstream politics aims to occupy the centre ground, you will end up with similarities. But the ideologies of our main two parties are still at polar opposites. Although every few years one or the other of them may lose their way a little.
Believing that they are all the same often leaves you in the situation we are in now - coalition governments with a mandate no one voted for.
As Noam Chomsky put it - if you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still get less evil.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Is this the sort of thing you were looking for, Monty?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 1 May 2012, 10:51, Reply)

Needs less boring.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:05, Reply)

THATS IT!! IM SICK OF YOUR RIGHT WING INTOLERANCE!!
IM LEAVING FOREVER!!!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Is that any better?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Considerably.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:14, Reply)

If they were different, I'm sure I'd spot it
In reality I fully believe you couldn't get a fag paper between their ideas. I'm probably cynical but I truly think that the faces at the front change but the machinery of government marches on inexorably with no thought for the population and what it wants/needs. Those at the front aren't even steering, they are figureheads. Wooden, unseeing, unfeeling, brightly-coloured and ultimately powerless.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Why would you want to get a fag paper between their ideas?
You're weird.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:15, Reply)

It's an old saying, 'cos I'm old

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:22, Reply)

So am I.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:33, Reply)

Fag papers are thin (roughly .002")
We'd use them as impromtu sacrificial feeler gauges when setting up grinding jigs, back in the days when I was a toolmaker.

Now guys & gals, there's LOADS of opportunities for strikethroughs there! There will be a small prize* for the most inventive.

*No there won't.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 May 2012, 11:39, Reply)