UK GE: 2015 my thoughts.
In short we're looking down the barrel of a gun, I can't but helped but think that way when the political system at the moment is just so fucked.
Let's do this party by party.
Conservatives: Oh yuck! What can I say about this lot? Well let's face it after the end of 5 years they've shown their true colours. Total fucks with total fuck Thatcherite politics, and I swear that woman timed her demise so that she could get the near state funeral that she really didn't deserve. The poor have been bashed, the rich made richer, and the hosing market is once again slowly being overcooked for another fantastic fall. The constant clamping down on benefits, rampant and fucked up privatisations, wasting cash on trident and HS2 (just so Leeds and Manchester can become suburbs of London least we not forget), fucking over the north again and just as slowly, and let's not forget the stupid promise to bring back "right to buy" because it worked so well the first time. Oh and then we have the rotten stench of an old boys network that runs through the party, that puts me right off.
Honestly they are just Thatcher, again, just that they don't have any miners unions or Argentinian dictators to crush. They can in so many ways fuck off.
Labour: Have been tory 'lite' since 1997 and don't seem to want to drop that aspect. Do you trust them after the Blair years? I don't, and Millibland is a total ponce.
Lib Dem's: Where or still are facing extinction at these polls. However the last 5 years only confirmed what I thought about them back in 2010, and even before that. A lot of little left wing types wanting power, and willing to screw anyone and everything over to get it. To be fair a lot of this current government's better decisions have steamed from the LD's policies (the tories would never let Equal marriage happen in a majority gov), but at the same time it just shows how badly they get kicked about and just seemingly take it. So far the tories have taken credit for everything while dumping all the countries problems on the LD's doorstep. If the LD's have proved anything it's that they are a total doormat, that's just happy being in westminster at all.
Corpse Clegg claims that he can provide a heart to the tories, and a brain to Labour. However given his track record I would say otherwise.
UKIP: Where do I even start with these nuggets of fuck? Maybe it's the racism, maybe it's the homophobia , maybe its the constant grinding instance that Brussels or immigration is at the root cause of all the UK's problems. However my main hate is the simple fact that UKIP, or at least the core of UKIP are a bunch of lying slackers who are only in politics for power and personal gain (be it wealth or contacts) while doing little actual work.
Their rep in Brussels should of gotten them booted out of politics given that their attendance is poor, likewise their running of councils hasn't been great. Ramsey has long since, and much like I predicted, been seemingly forgotten about as UKIP big wigs move up the political food chain.
Bastards like Farage want to be in Westminster, have it's trappings and power and prestige that comes with it, maybe even to sit on the fabled front bench. However like a certain Uncle Ben said to a certain Peter Parker "With great power comes great responsibility", and trust me when I say that king Kipper and CO want none of that R word (but only too happy to claim expenses all the same).
Then we have all the lies. What is UKIP's manifesto? Well beyond "go home Johnny foreigner", and "immediate EU referendum" we have no real idea. Farage though is no secrate Thatcherite and would willing go along with a Tory government on crap like right to buy, or further Privatisation of the NHS (he even said that he admires the utterly failed US healthcare system). Just expect head nodding with Cam and CO if UKIP become the Junior Party.
Oh and fuck you to UKIP's core voter base as well. One part ultra white, ultra wrinkly and ultra old Daily Mail/Express scum, the other is all the people that have come over from voting for the BNP (EDL idiots), or found the BNP too upfront to be respectable.
Fuck UKIP, Fuck them with a rusty pipe right up the arse.
Greens: Would be a party who I would vote for. I honestly found myself agreeing with most of their policies and there attitude. However there is still a sticking point, and that is when they say something stupid it's really stupid. Case in point here in Cambridge where they made a big deal about improving busses in the fens, and imposing flat rate fares (sort of like the bus fare system I've used while in Leeds). That's cool, what's not cool was the talk of imposing the congestion charge again. This got shot down YEARS ago because of how unworkable it was, not to mention unpopular.
Also what isn't helping that their guy in Cambridge is a bit of a Transphobe and comes over as a cunt. So NO just NO.
SNP: If I had to vote for anyone in this election then it might be the SNP in the same way that I might vote for the Greens, but since I live south of the border that's not going to happen. Honestly though it's notable to point out that I agree with what they are saying, but their plans I can't. Maybe it was the indie ref that rubbed me up the wrong way about them. Their socialist utopia seems appealing, but when it comes to the hard questions they come up short or unconvincing almost constantly. Nicola Sturgeon is just just Alex Salmond's puppet as well considering that the back fire that was the indie ref ended the man's political career.
Anyway given how it's highly likely that they will sweep the polls (mostly given how the indie ref went it's Scottish voters who are pissed off with the westminster mob, rather than those truly seeking independence from the rest of the UK), they are likely to act as king maker in the very likely event of a hung parliament (and the only party that will side with is Labour).
Honestly my biggest fear is that it will be a vote by vote coalition, and given the slightly greedy "Scotland first" attitude of the SNP. The worry being that this will result in Pork Barrel politics and a big growing divide between Scotland and the rUK, if time and time again the SNP get concessions or funding for votes.
Plaid Cymru: No real opinion, since I can't vote for them and they are not likely to have the same effect that the SNP will.
Let's do this party by party.
Conservatives: Oh yuck! What can I say about this lot? Well let's face it after the end of 5 years they've shown their true colours. Total fucks with total fuck Thatcherite politics, and I swear that woman timed her demise so that she could get the near state funeral that she really didn't deserve. The poor have been bashed, the rich made richer, and the hosing market is once again slowly being overcooked for another fantastic fall. The constant clamping down on benefits, rampant and fucked up privatisations, wasting cash on trident and HS2 (just so Leeds and Manchester can become suburbs of London least we not forget), fucking over the north again and just as slowly, and let's not forget the stupid promise to bring back "right to buy" because it worked so well the first time. Oh and then we have the rotten stench of an old boys network that runs through the party, that puts me right off.
Honestly they are just Thatcher, again, just that they don't have any miners unions or Argentinian dictators to crush. They can in so many ways fuck off.
Labour: Have been tory 'lite' since 1997 and don't seem to want to drop that aspect. Do you trust them after the Blair years? I don't, and Millibland is a total ponce.
Lib Dem's: Where or still are facing extinction at these polls. However the last 5 years only confirmed what I thought about them back in 2010, and even before that. A lot of little left wing types wanting power, and willing to screw anyone and everything over to get it. To be fair a lot of this current government's better decisions have steamed from the LD's policies (the tories would never let Equal marriage happen in a majority gov), but at the same time it just shows how badly they get kicked about and just seemingly take it. So far the tories have taken credit for everything while dumping all the countries problems on the LD's doorstep. If the LD's have proved anything it's that they are a total doormat, that's just happy being in westminster at all.
Corpse Clegg claims that he can provide a heart to the tories, and a brain to Labour. However given his track record I would say otherwise.
UKIP: Where do I even start with these nuggets of fuck? Maybe it's the racism, maybe it's the homophobia , maybe its the constant grinding instance that Brussels or immigration is at the root cause of all the UK's problems. However my main hate is the simple fact that UKIP, or at least the core of UKIP are a bunch of lying slackers who are only in politics for power and personal gain (be it wealth or contacts) while doing little actual work.
Their rep in Brussels should of gotten them booted out of politics given that their attendance is poor, likewise their running of councils hasn't been great. Ramsey has long since, and much like I predicted, been seemingly forgotten about as UKIP big wigs move up the political food chain.
Bastards like Farage want to be in Westminster, have it's trappings and power and prestige that comes with it, maybe even to sit on the fabled front bench. However like a certain Uncle Ben said to a certain Peter Parker "With great power comes great responsibility", and trust me when I say that king Kipper and CO want none of that R word (but only too happy to claim expenses all the same).
Then we have all the lies. What is UKIP's manifesto? Well beyond "go home Johnny foreigner", and "immediate EU referendum" we have no real idea. Farage though is no secrate Thatcherite and would willing go along with a Tory government on crap like right to buy, or further Privatisation of the NHS (he even said that he admires the utterly failed US healthcare system). Just expect head nodding with Cam and CO if UKIP become the Junior Party.
Oh and fuck you to UKIP's core voter base as well. One part ultra white, ultra wrinkly and ultra old Daily Mail/Express scum, the other is all the people that have come over from voting for the BNP (EDL idiots), or found the BNP too upfront to be respectable.
Fuck UKIP, Fuck them with a rusty pipe right up the arse.
Greens: Would be a party who I would vote for. I honestly found myself agreeing with most of their policies and there attitude. However there is still a sticking point, and that is when they say something stupid it's really stupid. Case in point here in Cambridge where they made a big deal about improving busses in the fens, and imposing flat rate fares (sort of like the bus fare system I've used while in Leeds). That's cool, what's not cool was the talk of imposing the congestion charge again. This got shot down YEARS ago because of how unworkable it was, not to mention unpopular.
Also what isn't helping that their guy in Cambridge is a bit of a Transphobe and comes over as a cunt. So NO just NO.
SNP: If I had to vote for anyone in this election then it might be the SNP in the same way that I might vote for the Greens, but since I live south of the border that's not going to happen. Honestly though it's notable to point out that I agree with what they are saying, but their plans I can't. Maybe it was the indie ref that rubbed me up the wrong way about them. Their socialist utopia seems appealing, but when it comes to the hard questions they come up short or unconvincing almost constantly. Nicola Sturgeon is just just Alex Salmond's puppet as well considering that the back fire that was the indie ref ended the man's political career.
Anyway given how it's highly likely that they will sweep the polls (mostly given how the indie ref went it's Scottish voters who are pissed off with the westminster mob, rather than those truly seeking independence from the rest of the UK), they are likely to act as king maker in the very likely event of a hung parliament (and the only party that will side with is Labour).
Honestly my biggest fear is that it will be a vote by vote coalition, and given the slightly greedy "Scotland first" attitude of the SNP. The worry being that this will result in Pork Barrel politics and a big growing divide between Scotland and the rUK, if time and time again the SNP get concessions or funding for votes.
Plaid Cymru: No real opinion, since I can't vote for them and they are not likely to have the same effect that the SNP will.