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DarrenJ
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 Posted - 2010/05/07 : 13:54:49
didnt look good on news here with the polling booths, some closed early before ppl could vote and others turned ppl away at offical closing time despite them being lined up ouch.
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SPOOX
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 15:07:35
I watched it on & off throughout the night & a little bit this morning. I didn't vote though.
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Watson.
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 16:31:38
Everyone's a loser after that.
The Tories - failed to get a mandate for change, despite an unpopular incumbent PM and government. Big opportunity missed for them and I'd imagine Cameron will be disappointed. From a regional perspective, another complete failure in Scotland - 1 seat from 59. I was expecting them to nab a couple more up here.
The Lib Dems - worst failure of the night. Despite the plaudits Clegg was receiving, they got an uninspiring share of the vote and have actually have LESS seats than last time.
Labour - Lost their mandate to govern, but it could have been worse for them. Very annoying to see Brown re-elected with a 5000 increase in his majority too. I'm genuinely embarrassed the voters here in my constituency have rewarded his various failings as a PM with an increase in his majority.
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acidfluxxbass
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 16:42:34
quote:
Originally posted by Watson.:
Everyone's a loser after that.
The Tories - failed to get a mandate for change, despite an unpopular incumbent PM and government. Big opportunity missed for them and I'd imagine Cameron will be disappointed. From a regional perspective, another complete failure in Scotland - 1 seat from 59. I was expecting them to nab a couple more up here.
The Lib Dems - worst failure of the night. Despite the plaudits Clegg was receiving, they got an uninspiring share of the vote and have actually have LESS seats than last time.
Labour - Lost their mandate to govern, but it could have been worse for them. Very annoying to see Brown re-elected with a 5000 increase in his majority too. I'm genuinely embarrassed the voters here in my constituency have rewarded his various failings as a PM with an increase in his majority.
what were his failing and what didnt he do right, exactly?
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 17:07:55
I hope the Tories & Lib Dems join forces. I will be gutted if Labour get back in even if they don't have as much seats as the Tories.
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Watson.
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 17:08:31
quote:
Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
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Originally posted by Watson.:
Everyone's a loser after that.
The Tories - failed to get a mandate for change, despite an unpopular incumbent PM and government. Big opportunity missed for them and I'd imagine Cameron will be disappointed. From a regional perspective, another complete failure in Scotland - 1 seat from 59. I was expecting them to nab a couple more up here.
The Lib Dems - worst failure of the night. Despite the plaudits Clegg was receiving, they got an uninspiring share of the vote and have actually have LESS seats than last time.
Labour - Lost their mandate to govern, but it could have been worse for them. Very annoying to see Brown re-elected with a 5000 increase in his majority too. I'm genuinely embarrassed the voters here in my constituency have rewarded his various failings as a PM with an increase in his majority.
what were his failing and what didnt he do right, exactly?
Nationally:
1) Scrapping the 10p tax rate, hitting the lowest earners in the country.
2) Backing out of the promised Lisbon Treaty referendum
3) Failing to call an election when he replaced Blair. I suspect he regrets this massively now.
Here's a few gems from his time as chancellor:
1) Selling Britain's gold reserves when the price was low
2) Raiding the pension funds to fund public spending
3) Borrowing when the economy was in surplus
4) His claim that he'd abolished 'boom and bust'
5) Leaving the country's finances in an awful state to deal with a global financial decline
Despite getting the bail out of the banks entirely correct, Gordon Brown has been a poor PM for the UK. He has left our finances in an absolutely terrible state, and there's going to be hard times ahead of us as we pay for Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's mistakes. I know much of the borrowing has come laterally under Alistair Darling, but we had no other option given the mess Brown had left from his days in No. 11.
He's frittered a large amount of spending away to little benefit, inflated the public sector to an unacceptable level, and the bottom line is that he deserves to be out.
His local failings are really that he just hasn't done much work for the constituency since being elected in 2005. He certainly hasn't done too well in attracting employment here, that's for sure. Not that that's any different from the last one we had, mind.
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 18:02:03
If Brown stays in power then im going to go to London, climb up Big Ben & hang myself!
All this tension is starting to tire me out!
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 21:35:47
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
If Brown stays in power then im going to go to London, climb up Big Ben & hang myself!
All this tension is starting to tire me out!
why waste time travelling when you can simply do that from the roof of the place where u live??? 
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wong
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 22:10:06
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
If Brown stays in power then im going to go to London, climb up Big Ben & hang myself!
you promise ?
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2010/05/07 : 23:55:18
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
If Brown stays in power then im going to go to London, climb up Big Ben & hang myself!
All this tension is starting to tire me out!
why waste time travelling when you can simply do that from the roof of the place where u live???
It would be more dynamic to do it from Big Ben as it is next to The Houses of Parliment!
The UK has gone mad! We have no parliment and the prime minister was never elected in the first place yet still lives as number 10 Downing Street!
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scottyd2k9
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Posted - 2010/05/08 : 00:01:22
ahahaha an i watched 8 hours of this shit, including GMTV at 6.00 wich was so fkn boring...
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Dj_triquatra
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Posted - 2010/05/08 : 00:16:09
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
If Brown stays in power then im going to go to London, climb up Big Ben & hang myself!
All this tension is starting to tire me out!
why waste time travelling when you can simply do that from the roof of the place where u live???
It would be more dynamic to do it from Big Ben as it is next to The Houses of Parliment!
The UK has gone mad! We have no parliment and the prime minister was never elected in the first place yet still lives as number 10 Downing Street!
his party was elected again, thats what matters. unless you're all about the whole x-factor personality thing
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jenks
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Posted - 2010/05/08 : 04:48:01
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I hope the Tories & Lib Dems join forces. I will be gutted if Labour get back in even if they don't have as much seats as the Tories.
Why would you want two parties that agree on very little to make a coalition? Surely that's a recipe for a completely ineffective government?
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