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

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Conservatives
    They've missed out another two I love:

    "Fog in Channel - continent cut off"

    and the famous,

    "Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead"
    ...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'.
  • m00m00
    m00m00 Posts: 1,755 Forumite
    dolcevita wrote: »
    Are you certain on this?

    any references?

    it was printed in the liverpool echo

    and googling seems to back it up
    It's a health benefit ...
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Conservatives
    They've missed out another two I love:

    "Fog in Channel - continent cut off"

    and the famous,

    "Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead"

    I think the latter was in the Times and is usually touted as the headline least likely to make you read the story.

    There was the Private Eye spoof Sun headline:

    Kill an Argie and Win a Metro
  • MrBear1980
    MrBear1980 Posts: 25 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    They missed Super Cally Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious when Calledonian Thistle beat Celtic in a cup match.

    Number 76?
  • BobProperty
    BobProperty Posts: 3,245 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Other
    The one I like, which may have been a theoretical example was:
    "Vicar's wife runs off with Chinese bacon man from CoOp"

    This is the perfect local newspaper headline as it combines religion, sex, race, food and a local institution.
    A house isn't a home without a cat.
    Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
    I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
    You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
    It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
  • Fred1_2
    Fred1_2 Posts: 214 Forumite
    Other
    It would be good to have a vote for each country i.e. England Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

    I doubt that people outside Scotland would vote for the SNP

    And there's no Plaid Cymru option :mad:
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Conservatives
    Fred1 wrote: »
    And there's no Plaid Cymru option :mad:

    There's not much point. Plaid Cymru came 9th in terms of share of the vote in the UK with 174k votes of 27.1 million at the last general election or less than 2/3% of the votes. As a result you wouldn't expect to see more than 1 or possibly 2 votes in the survey for PC.
  • RabbitMad
    RabbitMad Posts: 2,069 Forumite
    Conservatives
    I liked the sport headline

    "Shoot You Sir" when that fashion guy was shot.
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Lib Dems
    "Expert : Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash"

    insightful! brilliant webpage though!

    as far as an election goes - i'm not sure what scares me most - GB let loose in charge for much longer, or DC - i have no idea what he actually stands for, apart from pointing out obvious mistakes by labour and failing to provide an alternative solution.... so i opted out and voted yellow instead - i can't see either of the main parties offering anything that i want. here's hoping coalitions are needed for power, so that no party ends up with such a massive majority that they can steamroller through bad ideas. a huge tory majority would probably be worse than labour.....
    :happyhear
  • Guy_Montag
    Guy_Montag Posts: 2,291 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Lib Dems
    Generali wrote: »
    It's ok Guy_Montag. When democracy is shown as the failed experiment and I'm running things I'll bring you in as Minister for Beer or something equally important.

    You need a pretty long memory to go back to the last libertarian Liberal politician of note!

    Perhaps you should get in touch with David Laws to see if there is any future in a libertarian Liberal Democratic party. Go on Gen, drop him a line.


    I'm not sure that I am a fiscal libertarian, socially yes, but fiscally... hmmm. What I am sure is that more of the same, which is all the blues & reds seem to offer, is not going to turn the UK into a great country. I'd like to see some imagination in politics rather than "well, we basically agree, but we'd do a bit of fiddling at the edges".
    "Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
    Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
    "I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.
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