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If there was a GE tomorrow, who would you vote for??

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  • ianmr65
    ianmr65 Posts: 596 Forumite
    Labour
    jamescredmond wrote: »
    btw, can anyone tell me exactly how bit-part actor and wannabe archaeologist ('welcome to Time Team as we explore the possibilities of f***ing up yet another site of historical importance) tony robinson got himself elected to lab's NEC? I'm just aching to know...

    Well he was very funny as baldrick.. which was a lead role... but i agree with the rest of your sentiments.
  • ianmr65
    ianmr65 Posts: 596 Forumite
    Labour
    jamescredmond wrote: »
    and I'm sure little tony brought a wealth of political experience and powerful insight to lab's governing body.

    He was actually quite tall.... i know as i have a picture of him and me, and he's def a lot taller.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Lib Dems
    You'd be better trying to promote the financially libertarian element of the Lib Dems

    You'd need to bash them on the head with a sledghammer to get most of the populace to realise we actually have a third party !!!!!!!!!

    I'm sure if many took the time to read and understand the Lib Dem policies, then they would get far more 'real' votes, rather than just the many thousand 'blocking' votes they often achieve
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Conservatives
    dolcevita wrote: »
    Paddy Ashdown?

    He's not what I'd call a libertarian. He wanted to raise taxes for a start.

    Seemed like quite a decent sort though.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Conservatives
    dolcevita wrote: »
    I just thought of him off the top of my head.

    You're right about the taxes, but that applied to all lib-dems at the time.

    You not convincing me that my Libertarian Wing of the Lib Dems is dead argument is wrong here dolcevita.

    My view is that a libertarian is liberal on both social and economic issues. It's not enough to want to legalise pot or something, you have to shut the NHS and state education (in their current forms at least).
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Conservatives
    Generali wrote: »
    He's not what I'd call a libertarian. He wanted to raise taxes for a start.

    Seemed like quite a decent sort though.

    Unless you were his wife, of course.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Conservatives
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Unless you were his wife, of course.

    Yes. I forgot about that bit.

    It's Paddy Pantsdown. One of the great headlines of our age.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Conservatives
    dolcevita wrote: »
    99 top newspaper headlines

    They missed Super Cally Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious when Calledonian Thistle beat Celtic in a cup match.
  • m00m00
    m00m00 Posts: 1,755 Forumite
    trust the Mail though, to have the most utterly obnoxious headline of all time

    "Abortion hope as gay genes found"
    It's a health benefit ...
  • m00m00
    m00m00 Posts: 1,755 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    They missed Super Cally Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious when Calledonian Thistle beat Celtic in a cup match.

    even that one was derived from an earlier one


    'Super Cally goes Ballistic, QPR atrocious'

    was the original one about a Liverpool vs QPR match in the 70s (iirc)
    It's a health benefit ...
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