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I've found a candidate website to top Mr Shirtlifter's....

http://62.149.36.33/~gregknig/ge.php

barcode wrote:Well its been a really mixed day in this election:

Tory candidate has been suspended for describing gay people on his website as "not normal"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 647206.stm

If I got this right, the Lib dems are state there have the best plans to deal with the debt: from IMF
I doubt it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8646612.stm

I can't help feeling that these two might not be the major issues of the day. I think there was another one as well, from somewhere like Rochdale.

You have raised an interesting point, however. If some Labour candidate in some hopeless seat, in Cornwall for example, had described some voter as a bigot, they'd probably have been suspended as well.

Typical Labour. One rule for Comrade Prime Minister, another for Comrade Pleb.

Vote BNP! That way, you KNOW you'll get bigots.

I'm pretty confident I'd get bigots from the Conservative party too

I'd wager there are "bigots" in all parties, ie. grossly intolerant of opposing opinions.

Some of the least tolerant people around think they are very liberal.

Is Gordon Brown and the likes of Mandy and Milliband really any more likely to be in tune with "traditional working class" voters than Cameron?

GavBelfast wrote:I'd wager there are "bigots" in all parties, ie. grossly intolerant of opposing opinions.

Some of the least tolerant people around think they are very liberal.

Is Gordon Brown and the likes of Mandy and Milliband really any more likely to be in tune with "traditional working class" voters than Cameron?

I'd have thought that was something you should be asking about the local MPs rather than the leaders. We don't have a president just yet.

cdd wrote:I've found a candidate website to top Mr Shirtlifter's....

http://62.149.36.33/~gregknig/ge.php

I never thought I'd vote Conservative, but after hearing that....

Nick Harvey wrote: You have raised an interesting point, however. If some Labour candidate in some hopeless seat, in Cornwall for example, had described some voter as a bigot, they'd probably have been suspended as well.

Typical Labour. One rule for Comrade Prime Minister, another for Comrade Pleb.

But of course that would apply to the Conservatives as well had David Cameron been unfortunate enough to make a similar mistake, something which could easily have happened.

wells wrote:But of course that would apply to the Conservatives as well had David Cameron been unfortunate enough to make a similar mistake, something which could easily have happened.

Indeed.

And so it should.

well, what can you make of this:

BNP: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 646639.stm

Chie wrote:Of course, any logical thinking person would only have one child in the first place if they knew they could only afford one balloon, and that brings us full circle to the root of the whole problem: overpopulation.

To go back to this - surely you'd just halve the balloon?

Jovis wrote:

Chie wrote:Of course, any logical thinking person would only have one child in the first place if they knew they could only afford one balloon, and that brings us full circle to the root of the whole problem: overpopulation.

To go back to this - surely you'd just halve the balloon?

Well this is why I used the balloon in my analogy, because you can't halve a balloon. Same as you can't halve most things. You could share the balloon and I guess that would count as 'fair', but people aren't naturally taken with sharing things really.

Oh and the loaf of bread wasn't literally a loaf of bread, it was a metaphor for the planet, of which we have only one.

But whatever, that is all the enthusiasm for debating the minutiae of nothing in particular that I can muster tonight.