If this guy becomes Prime Minister...

[Bill]

Instead of just spouting right wing nut jobs can rascal or Chabel list 5 good reasons why I should vote labour and not the Tories?

For the many.

For the few.

For the old.

For the young.

For tomorrow.

fuck em.

 

[CatMan]

I remember when I joined the Army at the height of the Miners Strike. Another lad who joined with me was from a pit village and his father was a striking miner. The Platoon Sergeant was on his case straight away and announced to all within the platoon that soldiers vote conservative!

I remember thinking you are a self righteous pompous prick, and sure enough I was right.

The O.P. managed to jog both my memory and get me thinking those same thoughts!

 

[blueish swede]

Instead of just spouting right wing nut jobs can rascal or Chabel list 5 good reasons why I should vote labour and not the Tories?

For the many.

For the few.

For the old.

For the young.

For tomorrow.

fuck em.

Precisely. Five reasons to vote Tory

Me

Me

Me

Me

Me

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Personally I think that Milliband is simply just not up to the job of running the country, but some of the stuff that has been written about him in the right-wing press, especially in relation to his father, most noticeably by that insufferable fat **** Simon Heffer, has been completely disgusting.

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

Instead of just spouting right wing nut jobs can rascal or Chabel list 5 good reasons why I should vote labour and not the Tories?

For the many.

For the few.

For the old.

For the young.

For tomorrow.

fuck em.

Sounds like the lyrics to a nazi marching song

 

[Davs 19]

Instead of just spouting right wing nut jobs can rascal or Chabel list 5 good reasons why I should vote labour and not the Tories?

For the many.

For the few.

For the old.

For the young.

For tomorrow.

Proper reasons not bollox

They'll look after the top 20% of earners.

They'll continue to let the NHS slide towards the abyss.

Your wheelie bin will end up being collected once a year.

They'll throw their morals in the dustbin and form a coalition with anyone to gain power.

Their leader wants us to call him 'Dave..'.................


Ah fuck...., sorry mate, I was talking about the wrong lot there .

As you were ;.)

 

[Bill]

For the many.

For the few.

For the old.

For the young.

For tomorrow.

fuck em.

Precisely. Five reasons to vote Tory

Me

Me

Me

Me

Me

???

obviously. what do you think the cadgers and economic refugees do?
give nobody a fucking bean that aint been earned me.

 

[bluestevei]

can I just say, when the tories was a mess, labour won the most seats ever when the labour was a mess the tories had to go cap in hand to that other lot to form a government, fuck the tories

 

[Len Rum]

Instead of just spouting right wing nut jobs can rascal or Chabel list 5 good reasons why I should vote labour and not the Tories?

1. They will manage the economy better. They will have to cut Public Spending because Osborne has been borrowing recklessly but crucially they will increase capital infrastructure spending to boost the economy.
2. Their immigration policy is more sensible than the Tories as it is not as restrictive and will not harm business as much.
3. They will not endanger the whole of the British economy by risking EU exit.
4. They will protect and spend more on the NHS.
5. They will do a better job of holding the banks,power companies, big business, vested interests to account.
Converted?

 

[without a dream]

Most political commentators consider Ed Miliband a useless leader. In a narrow sense they are right. He is not very good at getting a positive press or eliciting the support of important outside voices in the media and the business community. Even small stories of no consequence have the potential to turn into minor nightmares for Mr Miliband. The latest of these is his education spokesman Tristram Hunt’s innocuous remark about nuns, transformed by a voracious press into a minor scandal.

Mr Miliband’s bacon sandwich is a far more damaging example of the same phenomenon. But let us take a step backwards and avert our eyes from day to day headlines and political manoeuvres.

Suddenly, Mr Miliband becomes a far more interesting, significant and distinctive figure. Most politicians allow themselves to be shaped by the landscape in which they operate. Only in appearance are they independent figures. In practice they abide by the pieties of the age in which they live. There are certain exceptions to this rule. Enoch Powell — but he never got anywhere. Margaret Thatcher — indisputably.

Like them, Ed Miliband has been his own person, forged his own course and actually been consistent. It is easy to identify four defining phases of his leadership in which he has challenged the underlying structures which govern Westminster conduct.

The first of these came nine months into his leadership, when he confronted the power of the Rupert Murdoch and challenged his bid for the remaining shares in BSkyB. Up to that point every single political leader from Margaret Thatcher on had wooed Murdoch and considered that his support was an essential route to political power.

There is no question that he was effective in changing the terms of trade. We do not need to resort to conjecture to demonstrate this, as we know that the Prime Minister sent a message to Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, in which he apologised for not being as loyal to her as she had been to him because ‘Ed Miliband had me on the run’.

Shortly afterwards, Mr Miliband made a well-judged speech on the abuse of corporate power. Once again he was defying the conventional wisdom, once again prevalent since the days of Margaret Thatcher, that the path to Downing Street involved flattering the business community.

Then came the vital parliamentary vote on Syria in 2013. According to the political textbook, oppositions always support government proposals on foreign policy, as Iain Duncan Smith did over Iraq. Mr Miliband’s action stopped Britain from making an armed intervention against the Assad regime, thus ending a very long period when British party leaders saw it as their duty to support American foreign policy objectives.

We now come to last year’s Commons vote on the recognition of the Palestinian state. It would have been easy and conventional for Ed Miliband to have allowed his MPs a free vote on such a controversial subject. Instead, he bravely led them into the ‘aye’ lobby. As over Syria, he won the decision in Parliament. He has not been given nearly enough credit for this. It is extremely unusual for opposition leaders to win votes in the House of Commons and Ed Miliband has made a habit of doing so.

Four brave interventions, each one taking on powerful establishment interests: the Murdoch newspaper empire, the corporate elite, the foreign policy establishment and pro-Israel lobby.

Most people will not agree with all these positions. But there is no doubting Mr Miliband’s integrity or his courage. And he needs these qualities because when you attack powerful interests they use all their influence to fight back.

The Murdoch press is now persecuting Mr Miliband. It is hyping up the attacks on him by big business, while mocking him in a personal way. Recently in a Westminster restaurant I saw a top News International henchman having lunch with David Cameron’s culture minister (and unofficial ambassador to the Murdoch press) Ed Vaizey. The alliance between the Murdoch press and the Tory party, knocked temporarily off course during the phone-hacking scandal, is back in business. Mr Murdoch has powerful allies in other newspaper groups who are desperate to avoid another brave commitment from Ed Miliband — his call for full implementation of Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations on press regulation.

Meanwhile, corporate Britain is exacting its revenge on Mr Miliband because of his refusal to share the world view of big business. Donations to the Labour party have dried up, so much so that he will have difficulty financing his election campaign.

However, Tory coffers are full to bursting and much of this money is being used to vilify the Labour leader through questionable techniques of vile advertising imported from the United States.

Ed Miliband is paying his biggest price of all, however, for his bold stands on Syria and Palestine. Neoconservative opinion (still dominant in the Conservative party and the Blairite wing of Labour) dictates that Miliband should axiomatically have taken the side of Israel over Palestine and of armed intervention in the Syrian conflict.

The backlash hit him particularly hard because it split the Labour party. The allies of Tony Blair have struck back, with Blair himself having accidentally blurted out his doubts about Miliband to numerous journalists. It is notable that all the leading Blairite commentators in the media appear to support David Cameron over Ed Miliband.

During his four-year stint as Labour leader, Ed Miliband has shown courage and principle. His reward is to be trashed and ridiculed and he may yet be destroyed.

Opposition is an essential part of British public life. Oppositions have a duty to challenge government and to give the electorate a clear choice. Ed Miliband has done precisely this and yet he has been written off. Does this mean that no opposition dare offend the big vested interests that govern Britain? Is this really the politics we want?

But consider this: if Ed Miliband does become prime minister, he will have done so without owing anything to anybody.

I don't agree with all of that but if you read it, it should make you think.

I've no idea who I'm going to vote for but I certainly won't be ruling anyone out because they eat a bacon sandwich in a weird way or because they speak funny. Judge people by their actions, not appearance.