General Election 2010!

Matthew on 7/4/2010 at 18:36

Hah, did I see a report that John Prescott's website has gotten into some sort of trouble over a Twitter link, possibly some sort of click fraud? The Beeb seem to have pulled the article from their news pages.

scumble on 7/4/2010 at 20:25

I doubt any of them are likely to do much of any substance about the yawning budget deficit. Looking over the 2009 budget was a bit disturbing given that they were projecting to spend about 200 billion quid more than was actually likely to come in via HMRC receipts. The parties can claim what they like but there isn't any more money to spend. In fact, less than no money. If anyone can make sense of the budget I'll eat my crocs...

Budget 2010 says less than 170 bill deficit, but that's not great. If whichever government does a bit more "quantitative easing" we will be in the same state as Japan very soon.

Ostriig on 8/4/2010 at 14:51

Quote Posted by casalor

Or the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Bill) Digital Economy bill which is being debated in the House of Lords today. This baby is going to slip in under our very noses.

And now it has. Any (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/17/britishers-unite-for-internet-justice/) public attempts to force the bill into debate (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/04/08/democracy-inaction-uks-deb-passes/) have proven to be worth jack shit altogether. Not a surprising failure there, seeing as that's what internet initiatives usually amount to (unless it's rickrolling MTV), but still... god fucking damnit.

Matthew on 8/4/2010 at 14:52

Technically it still has to go to the Lords again, who could amend it further and pass it back to the Commons. Not very likely of course, but possible.

Ulukai on 8/4/2010 at 19:02

Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy

screw Ukip I want my Kilroy option :mad:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZ86GYoxE0) But will you share or will you shaft?

Scots Taffer on 9/4/2010 at 02:07

Quote Posted by jay pettitt

Yes I do.

I'd like to dig into this statement, but to be honest, given that I left the UK in the midst of the Labour government and have heard pretty much only bad things since I left (from people who also can't wait to get out if they can), I probably don't have a terribly unbiased view on the matter.

I think Labour are a mob of useless fuckwits personally and apply policy in a way that's at best misguided and at worst destructive.

Namdrol on 9/4/2010 at 07:15

Quote Posted by Scots Taffer

...and apply policy depending upon what the previous days editorials in The Sun and Daily Mail had to say

;)

N'Al on 9/4/2010 at 11:53

Quote Posted by Ostriig

(http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2010/04/08/digital-economy-bill-its-a-wash-up/) This sounds somewhat encouraging - particularly given that TalkTalk is my own service provider - but I do wonder how realistic this stance is going to be in the long run.

Scots Taffer on 9/4/2010 at 12:12

Quote Posted by Namdrol

;)

If I read either of those things or associated with people who did read either of those things, maybe you'd have a shred of a point. However, if you're one of those people for whom Labour can do no wrong, you're welcome to the UK in its current state.

quinch on 9/4/2010 at 12:39

New Labour are terrible but the rot started long before Blair came to power.

We'll all still be voting for Neoliberalism.

If Cameron were any more of a lightweight the wind would carry him off. There's only the Lib Dems left to vote for but I don't know if I can trust myself to do that in the voting booth. I would have to not think of Nick Clegg and his stupid face. Must ..think.. of ....a ...wall...