May 2015 UK General Election Campaign.

[Admiral Yi]

[Monoriu]

It may not be such a bad idea if the promises are specific enough.  But the list above is...a bit general.

[Josquius]

Number 4-
As if there aren't already controls

[Razgovory]

I noticed that the campaign promises, at least the ones mentioned in the article, are suitably vague.

Well of course. Right now an 8 ft block of stone is having this carved:


Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

The people's flag is palest pink,It's not as red as most think.We must not let the people knowWhat socialists thought long ago.Don't let the scarlet banner float;We want the middle classes vote.Let our old fashioned comrades sneer,We'll stay in power for many a year.

[Syt]

 

[Richard Hakluyt]

 

I wonder what we should call him now? I'm torn between Edimandias and Edmilirrabi 

What a complete knob the man is. If we get the politicians that we deserve then we must be really awful people 

[celedhring]

Sometimes I envy the ridiculous theatrics of Yank and British electioneering. Spanish campaigns are so bland and tacky.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is a minor point but I don't like the design of the .....er..........monument.

You can see it here with Miliband talking alongside a small claque of carefully vetted Labour supporters :

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-05-03/miliband-commissions-election-pledges-stone-for-no-10/

[Sheilbh]

A legal perspective on the Miliband monument:
http://barristerblogger.com/2015/05/03/if-milliband-erects-his-pillar-in-the-rose-garden-he-may-be-sent-to-prison/

It seems extremely unlikely that the Council would ever authorise Mr Miliband's erection

[Admiral Yi]

A legal perspective on the Miliband monument:
http://barristerblogger.com/2015/05/03/if-milliband-erects-his-pillar-in-the-rose-garden-he-may-be-sent-to-prison/

It seems extremely unlikely that the Council would ever authorise Mr Miliband's erection

The counterargument is that the slab would never have to be removed since the promises could work for any conceivable occupant of 10 Downing.

[Admiral Yi]

It is a minor point but I don't like the design of the .....er..........monument.

You can see it here with Miliband talking alongside a small claque of carefully vetted Labour supporters :

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-05-03/miliband-commissions-election-pledges-stone-for-no-10/

I'd never heard his voice before.  Certainly you guys can't elect this dork as your next PM?

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is a minor point but I don't like the design of the .....er..........monument.

You can see it here with Miliband talking alongside a small claque of carefully vetted Labour supporters :

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-05-03/miliband-commissions-election-pledges-stone-for-no-10/

I'd never heard his voice before.  Certainly you guys can't elect this dork as your next PM?

I think the situation is quite grim. The commanding heights of British politics have been seized by a bunch of nerds who all went to the same Oxford college and had a fling with Stephanie Flanders 

I'm deriving what entertainment I can from the situation but it is really quite upsetting. I think we are in for a couple of decades of political and constitutional discomfort. I take, for example, the secession of Scotland within the next 20 years as a given.

[Syt]

Zeit.de uses the election as an excuse to show everyday pictures from the UK from the last 60 years. I have to say the pictures are more interesting than the campaign.

I like to imagine some of those pictures show RH or Brazen in their early years.


Croydon 1970s


Brighton, early 80s


Manchester '86


Bird Watchers in Surrey 1972


Hyde Park 1975


1964


South Wales Valley 1961


Wales, three generations of miners; 1950s


Londonderry 1979


Kent, 1986

[Maladict]

It seems extremely unlikely that the Council would ever authorise Mr Miliband's erection

I know you guys have a nanny state but that's taking it a bit far.

[The Larch]

South Wales Valley 1961

Cue "Every sperm is sacred".