tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post8235939795777449119..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: Lies, Damned Lies and SemanticsBenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-31931742223239150662010-05-09T19:15:46.750+01:002010-05-09T19:15:46.750+01:00I'm not thinking of anything more complicated ...I'm not thinking of anything more complicated than 'ouch, whinge, ouch' at the moment but Elena will be along to answer all your comments as soon as she can. BGBenefitScroungingScumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-33525710597557121772010-05-09T15:07:00.807+01:002010-05-09T15:07:00.807+01:00I couldnt agree more with transF
fattyacid.. Let S...I couldnt agree more with transF<br />fattyacid.. Let Scotland and Wales go and don't come back to the Westminster asking for hand outs! Labour get 20 seats for 1/40 of the vote and thats all thanks to Scotland who are part represented by a party that doesn't want to be part of GB and the other half by a Labour Governemnt willing to let hand over money but have no say!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-23356988829129551782010-05-08T18:35:36.934+01:002010-05-08T18:35:36.934+01:00Oh interesting times to 'get real' in!Oh interesting times to 'get real' in!Fire Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477692359400671374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-10507885391366835562010-05-08T14:12:04.380+01:002010-05-08T14:12:04.380+01:00What all of this chatter overlooks is whether the ...What all of this chatter overlooks is whether the party leaders can in fact keep their own party in line.<br /><br />Gordon might offer electoral reform but anyone with any sense in the labour party knows this is electoral suicide.<br /><br />The Lib Dems are split between those who feel comfortable with Labour and those who are more inclined to the Tories.<br /><br />And the Conservatives have largely remianed silent in the face of Cameron's 'modernisation'. Now that this process has patently been shown to have failed - in terms of making them electable - how many are going to make a name for themselves by opposing Cameron?<br /><br />And then there is the West Lothian question. England is effectively being held to ransom by Scots, Welsh and Irish MPs who will imposing policies that have no effect on their constituents. When the English wake up to this fact and see money being cut from their Health and Education budgets and flowing to the Celtic fringe, they are not going to be best pleased - especially if people like Alex Salmon are seen to take a prominent role.<br /><br />Personally I would like to see the Conservatives spurning the Lib Dems, and forcing them into bed with a Lame Duck Labour government - if for no other reason it will bring the West Lothian question to the front of the political agenda.eeorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657816556456124166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-64129632384162532042010-05-08T11:35:43.078+01:002010-05-08T11:35:43.078+01:00Oh come on. What is it with people and how "w...Oh come on. What is it with people and how "we" or "the people" voted. Nobody voted for a hung parliament. In regards to Dave's comment, I was going to say that nobody voted for "none of the above", but in fact 125 people did, in Basildon South & Thurrock East. OK, and if you want we can add the 327 who voted for No Candidate Deserves My Vote in Stevenage. But for the rest of the country it wasn't on the ballot. And how about the about 30% who actually did vote for nobody by not going or because they're not allowed to vote.<br /><br />What actually happened was that I, and most of us in the South, voted for a Conservative government. In Scotland and the northeast of England and in inner cities, THEY voted for a Labour government. So yes, when you combine the results "we" didn't choose anybody overall. But that isn't a valid way of summarising what happened. Besides, the Tories do have a majority in England, so if we do get an "English parliament" it would be blue.<br /><br />Presumably if we have an EU IN/OUT referendum, which the INs win by 51/49, you will say "the British people want to stay in the EU". That just wouldn't be true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-68926757768726494472010-05-07T17:59:46.749+01:002010-05-07T17:59:46.749+01:00Thanks for the guest post BG. I thought elections ...Thanks for the guest post BG. I thought elections were about democracy, you know, the people voting?<br />Silly me.<br />The people voted. They've made it clear that it's "none of the above"<br /><br />Now we get the dodgy deals behind closed doors. The very antithesis of democracy.<br />If there were any honour among these thieves they should call the election void and start again.<br />but don't hold your breath.<br /><br />And while this farce is being played out the economy is busted.<br />The debt is still rising and they're still partying like it's 1999.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00448711775318691029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-53560008396062765902010-05-07T16:12:06.513+01:002010-05-07T16:12:06.513+01:00Clegg is in a difficult position... if he is to ha...Clegg is in a difficult position... if he is to have any influence at all he has to tread very carefully, trying to get concessions from the party in power with the implied threat of pulling support, but without becoming so obstructionist that he becomes marginalized by both parties (and the electorate).Oikomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06369480591050751916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-33617001510538671362010-05-07T14:24:36.507+01:002010-05-07T14:24:36.507+01:00That's all well and good but I think you might...That's all well and good but I think you might have placed a little too much faith in the assumption that Clegg knows exactly what he said at any given point in time, whereas in fact he was too busy playing the middle man - to the point that he even implied denial of the lib-dems own policies at times (for example with a load of eye-rolling on European issues).<br /><br />He did well, and were he in a party that had ever stood a chance I think he'd have done better, but his only role here was to play the other two off against each other and pick up the stragglers ...MikeNnoreply@blogger.com