UK - Election 2015

[Information Analyst]

And what would it be like without the bombing?

I just said.

 

[angrysoba]

I just said.

Oh right. Except you are describing what is happening right now.

 

[The Don]

And what would it be like without the bombing?

I just said.

I think angrysoba was pointing out that there's still a civil war so that the bombing has had no net effect.

 

[anglolawyer]

Milliband is not blaming Cameron for the current situation because of the bombing, but because of the failure to follow it up constructively.

Of course! If only it had been followed up correctly! Why oh why didn't someone think of it?

 

[ceptimus]

Did anyone else see the Newsnight interview of Farage by Evan Davis?

Davis asked Farage if he'd seen the recent Paddington Bear movie, Farage said he hadn't and Davis then said that Farage would hate Paddington because of his foreignness.

I know the BBC tries its best to rubbish UKIP at every turn, but I thought that particular attack was incredible. I found the whole interview by Davis to be rather poorly done - and I thought he showed more bias than he usually does when interviewing other politicians.

 

[MikeG]

Did anyone else see the Newsnight interview of Farage by Evan Davis?

Davis asked Farage if he'd seen the recent Paddington Bear movie, Farage said he hadn't and Davis then said that Farage would hate Paddington because of his foreignness.

I know the BBC tries its best to rubbish UKIP at every turn, but I thought that particular attack was incredible. I found the whole interview by Davis to be rather poorly done - and I thought he showed more bias than he usually does when interviewing other politicians.

That doesn't sound like his normal style. I think he is simply brilliant. Far and away the best of the current crop of presenter/ interviewers on serious TV.

 

[jimbob]

Did anyone else see the Newsnight interview of Farage by Evan Davis?

Davis asked Farage if he'd seen the recent Paddington Bear movie, Farage said he hadn't and Davis then said that Farage would hate Paddington because of his foreignness.

I know the BBC tries its best to rubbish UKIP at every turn, but I thought that particular attack was incredible. I found the whole interview by Davis to be rather poorly done - and I thought he showed more bias than he usually does when interviewing other politicians.

Michael Bond has gone on record as saying that Mr Gruber in the stories was inspired by the Hungarian and Polish refugees who worked with him in the BBC monitoring service

Also here

“They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their treasured possessions. So Paddington, in a sense, was a refugee, and I do think that there’s no sadder sight than refugees.”

The books also feature Paddington’s best friend, Mr Gruber, a Notting Hill antique dealer and Hungarian refugee, who can empathise with Paddington as a fellow “outsider”. Bond based the character on his agent, Harvey Unna, who had escaped Germany just before the war – “He was about to have been made the youngest judge in Germany when somebody sent him a message telling him to get out of the country quickly, they’d seen his name on a list. So he arrived with about £10 in his pocket”

 

[Rum]

Farage deserves all the rubbishing he can get. Davis, though, is no Paxman.

 

[Craig B]

The Sun (English edition) has now denounced the devil Leader of the separatists who are intent on destroying the country it loves.

The Scotweiler. Early years of the woman who would break up Britain. By OLIVER HARVEY in Dreghorn, Scotland.
AS a child, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is said to have devilishly hacked the hair from her sister’s beloved doll. It was an early sign of the ruthlessness which has propelled her to the top of Scottish — and potentially British — politics.

I like the "is said to have". Sturgeon is evidently a fiend in human form.

 

[Aber]

The Sun (English edition) has now denounced the devil Leader of the separatists who are intent on destroying the country it loves. I like the "is said to have". Sturgeon is evidently a fiend in human form.

IIRC is said to have by her sister, so quite well sourced.

 

[Andy_Ross]

According to the Home Secretary the prospect of the SNP supporting a Labour Govt is the biggest constitutional crisis since the Abdication.

 

[MikeG]

According to the Home Secretary the prospect of the SNP supporting a Labour Govt is the biggest constitutional crisis since the Abdication.

Well, apart from the grammatical (it isn't the prospect which is the crisis), she has a point. I reckon there will be all sorts of constitutional crises emerging from a minority Labour government propped up by the Scots separatists. For a start, there would be the nonsense of the party winning the highest number of seats not being involved in the government, assuming the current polling and betting is correct.

One of the minor crises this could also throw up is the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which could mean an utterly powerless Labour minority government struggling on for 5 years without being able to enact its programme and yet being unable to call an early election. If anyone can remember if a minority government has ever lasted 5 years I'd be interested to know.......yet it could be imposed on us this time. The democratic deficit would be mind blowing.

 

[angrysoba]

One of the minor crises this could also throw up is the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which could mean an utterly powerless Labour minority government struggling on for 5 years without being able to enact its programme and yet being unable to call an early election. If anyone can remember if a minority government has ever lasted 5 years I'd be interested to know.......yet it could be imposed on us this time. The democratic deficit would be mind blowing.

Can Parliament not still be dissolved by a motion of no confidence?

 

[MikeG]

Yes:

Section 2 of the Act also provides for two ways in which a general election can be held before the end of this five-year period:

If the House of Commons resolves "That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government", an early general election is held, unless the House of Commons subsequently resolves "That this House has confidence in Her Majesty's Government". This second resolution must be made within fourteen days of the first.
If the House of Commons, with the support of two-thirds of its total membership (including vacant seats), resolves "That there shall be an early parliamentary general election".

From Wiki

However, I was making an assumption of a "confidence and supply" agreement because I was answering this post:

According to the Home Secretary the prospect of the SNP supporting a Labour Govt is the biggest constitutional crisis since the Abdication.

 

[Craig B]

One of the minor crises this could also throw up is the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which could mean an utterly powerless Labour minority government struggling on for 5 years without being able to enact its programme and yet being unable to call an early election.

Not everyone foresees a powerless government. More disquieting prospects have been described.

Britain would turn into a "communist dictatorship" if an Ed Miliband government was propped up by Nicola Sturgeon's SNP, according to the wife of Michael Gove.
Sarah Vine, the Daily Mail columnist, commented on a friend's Facebook status to warn of what life would be like if Labour was to form a minority government propped up by the SNP.

Quoted in the Independent. Doesn't sound utterly powerless to me.

 

[angrysoba]

Not everyone foresees a powerless government. More disquieting prospects have been described. Quoted in the Independent. Doesn't sound utterly powerless to me.

It would be the Commie Jock Alliance.

 

[Giz]

It would be the Commie Jock Alliance.

Do they have a tartan? (Presumably with a lot of red in it)

 

[DreadNiK]

just when I thought election journalism couldn't get any worse...a whole bunch of sources are 'reporting' the 'news' of convicted multiple murder Ian Brady's political views...

I hope every 'journalist' whose byline is on one of those articles gets hit by a bus

 

[Craig B]

just when I thought election journalism couldn't get any worse...a whole bunch of sources are 'reporting' the 'news' of convicted multiple murder Ian Brady's political views...

I hope every 'journalist' whose byline is on one of those articles gets hit by a bus

It is pretty disgusting, even though UKIP is a disgusting party.

Anyway. It's quite unjust. UKIP is a "string 'em up; it's the only language they understand" type party. If Brady supports them, it's perhaps because he's been trying to get assisted suicide for many years now. A UKIP government would no doubt fulfill his wish in this matter.

Here's evidence of that.

 

[angrysoba]

It is pretty disgusting, even though UKIP is a disgusting party.

Anyway. It's quite unjust. UKIP is a "string 'em up; it's the only language they understand" type party. If Brady supports them, it's perhaps because he's been trying to get assisted suicide for many years now. A UKIP government would no doubt fulfill his wish in this matter.

Here's evidence of that.

I don' think a return of the death penalty can be applied to those already convicted and sentenced.