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The Official General Election Thread
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CharlieFairhead
Loweringthetonesince1974
Indeed, the Tories are just not an option.
CharlieFairhead
Loweringthetonesince1974
Charlie Brooker spot on as usual.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/charlie-brooker-cameron-brown-clegg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/charlie-brooker-cameron-brown-clegg
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Welcome To Cameron Land
"This is a dispatch from David Cameron's Britain, the country that could be waiting for us at the other end of the polling booths and the soundbites and the spin. I didn't have to take a time machine to get there; I just had to take the District Line. In 2006, a group of rebranded "compassionate Conservatives" beat Labour for control of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, a long stretch of west London. George Osborne says the work they have done since then will be a "model" for a new Conservative government, while Cameron has singled them out as a council he is especially "proud" of. So squeezed between the brownish dapple of the Thames and the smoggy chug of the Westway, you can find the Ghost of Cameron Future. What is it whispering to us?
Hammersmith and Fulham is a sprawling concrete sandwich of London's rich and London's poor. It starts at the million-pound apartments on the marina at Chelsea Harbour – white and glistening and perfect – and runs past giant brownish housing estates and Victorian mansions, until it staggers to a stop on Shepherd's Bush Green, where homeless people sit on the yellow-green grass drinking and watching the SUVs hurtle past. Here, high incomes squat next to high-rises in one big urban screech of noise. In such a mixed area, the Conservatives had to run for power as a reconstructed party "at home with modern Britain". They promised to move beyond Thatcherism and make the poor better off. They were the first to hum the tune that David Cameron has been singing a capella in this election.
People who took this at face value were startled by the first act of the Conservatives on assuming power – a crackdown on the homeless. They immediately sold off 12 homeless shelters, handing them to large property developers. The horrified charity Crisis was offered premises by the BBC to house the abandoned in a shelter over the Christmas period at least. The council refused permission. They said the homeless were a "law and order issue", and a shelter would attract undesirables to the area. With this in mind, they changed the rules so that the homeless had to "prove" to a sceptical bureaucracy that they had nowhere else to go – and if they failed, they were turned away.
We know where this ended. A young woman – let's called her Jane Phillips, because she wants to remain anonymous – turned up at the council's emergency housing office one night, sobbing and shaking. She was eight months pregnant. She explained she was being beaten up by her boyfriend and had finally fled because she was frightened for her unborn child. The council said they would "investigate" her situation to find "proof of homelessness" – but she told them she had nowhere to go while they carried it out. By law, they were required to provide her with emergency shelter. They refused. They suggested she try to find a flat on the private market.
For four nights, she slept in the local park, on the floor. She is still traumatised by the memories of lying, pregnant and abandoned, in one of the wealthiest parts of Europe. The Local Government Ombudsman investigated but the council recording of the case was so poor she said it "hindered" her report. After a long study, she found the council's conduct amounted to "maladministration". Since they came to power, the Conservatives are housing half as many homeless people as Labour – even though the recession has caused a surge in homelessness. That's a huge number of Janes lying in parks, or on rotting mattresses by Hammersmith Bridge."
Read the rest of the article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ann-hari-welcome-to-cameron-land-1962318.html
"This is a dispatch from David Cameron's Britain, the country that could be waiting for us at the other end of the polling booths and the soundbites and the spin. I didn't have to take a time machine to get there; I just had to take the District Line. In 2006, a group of rebranded "compassionate Conservatives" beat Labour for control of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, a long stretch of west London. George Osborne says the work they have done since then will be a "model" for a new Conservative government, while Cameron has singled them out as a council he is especially "proud" of. So squeezed between the brownish dapple of the Thames and the smoggy chug of the Westway, you can find the Ghost of Cameron Future. What is it whispering to us?
Hammersmith and Fulham is a sprawling concrete sandwich of London's rich and London's poor. It starts at the million-pound apartments on the marina at Chelsea Harbour – white and glistening and perfect – and runs past giant brownish housing estates and Victorian mansions, until it staggers to a stop on Shepherd's Bush Green, where homeless people sit on the yellow-green grass drinking and watching the SUVs hurtle past. Here, high incomes squat next to high-rises in one big urban screech of noise. In such a mixed area, the Conservatives had to run for power as a reconstructed party "at home with modern Britain". They promised to move beyond Thatcherism and make the poor better off. They were the first to hum the tune that David Cameron has been singing a capella in this election.
People who took this at face value were startled by the first act of the Conservatives on assuming power – a crackdown on the homeless. They immediately sold off 12 homeless shelters, handing them to large property developers. The horrified charity Crisis was offered premises by the BBC to house the abandoned in a shelter over the Christmas period at least. The council refused permission. They said the homeless were a "law and order issue", and a shelter would attract undesirables to the area. With this in mind, they changed the rules so that the homeless had to "prove" to a sceptical bureaucracy that they had nowhere else to go – and if they failed, they were turned away.
We know where this ended. A young woman – let's called her Jane Phillips, because she wants to remain anonymous – turned up at the council's emergency housing office one night, sobbing and shaking. She was eight months pregnant. She explained she was being beaten up by her boyfriend and had finally fled because she was frightened for her unborn child. The council said they would "investigate" her situation to find "proof of homelessness" – but she told them she had nowhere to go while they carried it out. By law, they were required to provide her with emergency shelter. They refused. They suggested she try to find a flat on the private market.
For four nights, she slept in the local park, on the floor. She is still traumatised by the memories of lying, pregnant and abandoned, in one of the wealthiest parts of Europe. The Local Government Ombudsman investigated but the council recording of the case was so poor she said it "hindered" her report. After a long study, she found the council's conduct amounted to "maladministration". Since they came to power, the Conservatives are housing half as many homeless people as Labour – even though the recession has caused a surge in homelessness. That's a huge number of Janes lying in parks, or on rotting mattresses by Hammersmith Bridge."
Read the rest of the article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ann-hari-welcome-to-cameron-land-1962318.html
Bluebirds
Well-Known Member
For those of you truly desperate to keep out the Tories heres a guide to whether you should participate in tactical voting to do so, just put your postcode in and "the science" does the rest:
Torymergency. Stop Dave
http://www.theobverse.com/stopdave/
Torymergency. Stop Dave
http://www.theobverse.com/stopdave/
Bluebirds
Well-Known Member
Also the next government of this country, whoever it is, will be the most unpopular government of all time due to the cuts and frugal living that are about to come so if you could handle 5 years of the Tories it is unlikely that they will get back in at the next election.
I'm not willing to take that chance as Cameron will probably invite his creepy mates from Titan to brainwash us all and all drink mugs of tea emblazoned with his and SamCam's face (who is a fan of the Xx "allegedly")
We will all prematurely age and hence become Conservative voters.
I'm not willing to take that chance as Cameron will probably invite his creepy mates from Titan to brainwash us all and all drink mugs of tea emblazoned with his and SamCam's face (who is a fan of the Xx "allegedly")
We will all prematurely age and hence become Conservative voters.
Bluebirds
Well-Known Member
And heres the charming BNP canvassing in Barking yesterday (contains scenes of a violent nature)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm
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Reelaround
Guest
And there were the charming Asians who started it
CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
And heres the charming BNP canvassing in Barking yesterday (contains scenes of a violent nature)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm
Hey was the kid who spit in his face wearing a version of Morrissey's favorite polo?
CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
No. It looked like the charming Bob Bailey started it by calling them out.
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Reelaround
Guest
It looked to me like they were out of their houses before a reaction took place
I am not condoning violence whatsoever, or voting BNP for that matter, but I am sick and tired of troublemakers making it look like they had nothing to do with it. Look again
I am not condoning violence whatsoever, or voting BNP for that matter, but I am sick and tired of troublemakers making it look like they had nothing to do with it. Look again
CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
I have to confess, I can not understand what Mr. Bailey is shouting at them at the beginning of the clip. Was he calling them robbers? It seemed like he was instigating. I don't condone violence and troublemakers either, but I couldn't help but "have a laugh" at the suit bossing around the thug only to be spit on which made him crack, revealing his own thug side. He kicked them when they were down, classy fighting tactic.
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Reelaround
Guest
Judging from the film clip, I think they'd already across shouted at him
I have to agree he overreacted, although he didn't throw the first punch. An 18 year old man has already been arrested
I have to agree he overreacted, although he didn't throw the first punch. An 18 year old man has already been arrested
Bluebirds
Well-Known Member
I thought he shouted out "what about rubbers?" but then it could have been "theres more of us."
Still pretty shameful behaviour from a prospective member of Parliament. At least Prescott fought by the Queensbury rules! And the BNP candidate is hardly in the area to canvass support from British Asians is he?
Still pretty shameful behaviour from a prospective member of Parliament. At least Prescott fought by the Queensbury rules! And the BNP candidate is hardly in the area to canvass support from British Asians is he?
anon x
New Member
Cam-boy:
" I share the values of Sun readers"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/article2961159.ece
Please NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" I share the values of Sun readers"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/article2961159.ece
Please NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nats1977
New Member
He said "How many of you are robbers?" Charming.
someofusisturningnasty
Expired
Cam-boy:
" I share the values of Sun readers"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/article2961159.ece
Please NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vom inducing. i'd expect nothing less from The Scum, though.
