Saturday 25 May 2013

The Sinking Flagships

And that is before the IMF has to step in.

This Government is incompetent. Completely and utterly incompetent. This Chancellor above all.

It simply has to go. He simply has to go.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 May 2013 at 00:07

    No matter how incompetent it is, the Worst Opposition in history couldn't even regain its 2009 seats at the last council elections.

    And can't get above a high of 34%.

    But then again, Labour (like Cameron in 2010) isn't really an Opposition.

    If it is, then please tell us what policy difference there is between Labour and Cameron on, say, criminal justice, or comprehensive schools, or our membership of the EU (apart from Labour ruling out a referendum and Cameron offering one)?

    Or, indeed, gay marriage.

    There is no difference. There hasn't been for 40 years.

    There's only one real Opposition party in British politics now.

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  2. David Lindsay26 May 2013 at 00:11

    Labour only needs 30 per cent to win. That is in the bag.

    Thanks for all the previously unimaginable seats over and above that, though.

    No UKIP seats in 2015 will mean no UKIP candidates in 2020.

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  3. Anonymous26 May 2013 at 16:04

    Missing the point because your probably too stupid to get the point.

    No matter how much everyone hates the Coalition, it never translates into support for your party.

    Because it's a dead duck.

    The number of people who don't vote at all exceeds the number of people who ever vote Labour.

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  4. David Lindsay26 May 2013 at 19:03

    In that case, it far exceeds the number that votes for anyone else in particular.

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  5. Anonymous26 May 2013 at 19:21

    Which is the whole point-both parties are finished in the long run. Dead brands kept alive by each other.

    Labour and the Tories only survive because voters rightly think nobody else has a chance of winning, and neither of them face a real Opposition.

    There's an enormous gap in the market for a patriotic anti-immigration, anti-EU, tough-on-crime, pro-grammar school party, which would bring back the abstainers...and steal many Labour voters.

    The Tories imminent departure (aided by us) will open the necessary gap for that, in our two-party system.

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  6. Anonymous26 May 2013 at 19:23

    What happened to the David Lindsay who wrote in 2009: "there is absolutely no difference between the parties"?

    Come on, David. You know that the Labour Party has no chance of winning the next election. What we need, desperately, is a serious political thinker who can make the case for the alternative. UKIP needs you. The country needs you.

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  7. David Lindsay26 May 2013 at 19:24

    Something this evening, I am going to do an entire on the strange fantasy that you are taking Labour votes. You are simply not, as a verifiable matter of fact.

    You are obviously too young to realise that Peter Hitchens, from whom you have obviously nicked your thesis, has been advancing it for nearly 20 years. Somehow, it never comes true. Anyone would think that it was balls.

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  8. David Lindsay26 May 2013 at 19:26

    It was true in 2009. It's not true now, though.

    Of course Labour is going to win in 2015. If you really believe otherwise, then you can't add up.

    But UKIP is going to win no seats. Ever.

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  9. Anonymous27 May 2013 at 12:40

    Labour can't win in 2015-it'll be a Lib Dem-Labour Coalition as Peter rightly says.

    The Lib Dems are already preparing the ground with their co-operation with Labour over Leveson and gay marriage, and their engineered "splits" with the Tories.

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  10. David Lindsay27 May 2013 at 21:45

    Labour would never touch them, and isn't going to need them. And UKIP will have imploded by then. That has already started.

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