Comments on: Hung Parliament: Do what you want, we don’t care.

By: McShambles

McShambles — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:01:16 +0000

Great, I forgot to turn off the code for italicizing text… *sigh*

By: McShambles

McShambles — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:00:35 +0000

I honestly don’t there needs to be a mandate from the majority of voters, and in some cases, it’s undesirable. Many governments work better in coalitions under PR systems – look at Germany for example (although I do concede a number of seats there are awarded in a FPTP method). This country doesn’t need big government, it needs a government where new ideas aren’t ignored and neither are the liberties of its citizens. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day in the future there’s an alliance of the ‘left’ (Green/Labour/Lib Dem) vying with the ‘right’ (Conservative/UKIP) to form a coalition government. I put those political positions in quotation marks for good reason, which I would go into but it would turn into a five-page musing on the subject.

By: Pejorative Puppy

Pejorative Puppy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:50:41 +0000

“Yup, a horrid brown that looks like it just exited from a dog.”

I’m gonna make a dog drink spastic flag paint to see if ya are right dude.

By: Ann Arbor Community College 1974

Ann Arbor Community College 1974 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:43:35 +0000

I want the Tories to legalize methamphetamine

Send food to Somalia, they put a teddy bear in jail for being a Christian, they get on a plane and ask for the Heimi and American passports.

I was on TV as a place-disability yank. We don’t do geography. I was asked for a talk show, in the street, if given the way the Libyan leader was a complete ragtop asshole, should we bomb Toronto, and I said ‘yes’. I fuckin meant it.

I once did do geography – see Carnaby Street, listen to the Clash. When Brixton was burnin’ a dude handed me a wrap, and said ‘lets kill all the white people’ and I thought, feckin swinging, I was on a roof doing a remix with an Greengate DS-3.

The Tories are becoming a pain in the arse as they try to put the sellotape on a parcel that is not really wrapped (yet).They’re not using a bow, because they too are naff. Margaret you could dance to. Do drugs, because Jerusalem can wait.

By: Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:55:29 +0000

Not caring would not matter that much if the parties were all minarchist, for you could get on with your life much as you wished as long as you were not messing with anybody else’s without consent.

Alas, we have 3 Statist parties all of which want to interfere with our lives, all who have swallowed the Green Pill of AGW, and think the EU can be reasoned with*.

If we had a “none of the above”, that would be one way to differentiate between the “can’t be bothered” and “there is no point”.

If we get a hung parliament we will get something that looks like what you get if you mix red, blue and yellow together. Yup, a horrid brown that looks like it just exited from a dog.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:36:41 +0000

No right to complain? How so when your vote can literatelly make no difference? Spider Jerusalem has it right.

“You want to know about voting? I’m here to tell you about voting.

Imagine you’re locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you ain’t allowed out until you all vote on what you’re going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch “Republican Party Reservation.” They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So you vote for television and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades.

That’s voting. You’re welcome.”

http://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/spider-jerusalem-on-democracy/

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:06:47 +0000

The idea that the public are the kingmakers is a noble one, but there’s a problem – the single biggest vote will be for the ‘couldn’t care less who wins’ party, that will make up anything between 40-60% of the eligible voters, making them the nearest thing to a ‘majority opinion.’

So? They have no right to complain they didn’t vote.

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:45 +0000

Since when did a Labour MP get in a sulk because there’s a chance they might not go into coalition with the Lib Dems?

lol

By: lee griffin

lee griffin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:44:46 +0000

he was ambiguous but he also did mention votes rather than seats. Hence why now labour mps like kerry mccarthy are making ridiculous comments about clegg being against the will of the public with his comments