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On the other hand the entire room would have agreed with Farage's comment about breast feeding.MarqueeMark said:
This political event was a Jewish wedding? A Barmitzva? Who knew.Roger said:MikeK
"This can't be shown enough!
Where are the PB Labour supporters, when this and worse is happening? "
Hi Mike. have you never been to an orthodox Jewish wedding or Barmitzva or even a synagogue or even a some Jewish schools? The Ultra orthodox even put a curtain between the sexes so they can't even see each other
I'm amazed at the age of 80 that I'm teaching you something you didn't know
I'll say it now before Ed's Islamophobia (Prevention) Act 2015 becomes law. It's a fucking disgrace to a modern society.
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Funny old world as well as funny old election.0 -
Mr. IOS, yes. We all know. We can read all the posts and respond/ignore as we like. We don't need a commentary.
What's more tedious than posting tweets? Someone banging on about it.0 -
Morris
I am going to start matching Scott tweet for tweet with Labour party press releases soon.0 -
Mr. kle4, I still think the Conservatives will be ahead by a decent stretch, partly because I think the SNP will have a great night. If they 'only' win 40 odd seats, that makes things a lot easier for Labour.0
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Your forecast is almost identical to my own. Perhaps a similar methodology e.g. not including a last minute hidden swing to the Tories.ukelect said:My latest UK-Elect forecast is here:
May 3 UK-Elect forecast
As usual it takes into account the latest constituency, regional and national polls and shows detailed top 3 forecasts for every UK constituency.0 -
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I would love the media to go with this, but I can't see it happening outside the Daily Mail.Flightpath1 said:
You could not care less about segregation of women?Roger said:MM
"This political event was a Jewish wedding? A Barmitzva? Who knew."
Any political event at an orthodox place of worship or anywhere else for that matter would divide the sexes exactly as you see in those photos. I'm just surprised no one ever shows those. I wouldn't though I've been to several because I couldn't care less if this is how they want to organize themselves.
Why hold a political rally in a place of worship anyway - or anywhere - where you allow the segregation of the sexes? It was politics being discussed not religion.
Maybe Ed will make it Islamophobic to criticise segregation next month?0 -
Where is Labour's Wimmin's Stone? Let's hope it's something sparkly...
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MikeK said:
Another Slab, another face:
“@SuperOldHolborn: @ranty_man @flashboy @Holbornlolz Ed does it to himself really.. pic.twitter.com/wlAtZ8xksf”<< FANTASTIC
— Ranty Man (@ranty_man) May 3, 2015
Never mind the spoof pledges, cruel but apposite though they are...
Being a fan of Stanley Kubrick films I never cease to be amazed at how prophetic and long lasting his cinematic imagery is.
Here we see Miliband in front of the monolith which he hopes to brainwash his moneys with.0 -
I'm not discounting it but I'm not topping up on it - just FEELS like a loser. It may well still be value though.kle4 said:
Ooh, Con 271, Lab 272. An equal score would be the funnier result, although if it were Con 272, Lab 271, I wonder if Cameron would go ahead with his purported plan to declare victory.ukelect said:My latest UK-Elect forecast is here:
May 3 UK-Elect forecast
As usual it takes into account the latest constituency, regional and national polls and shows detailed top 3 forecasts for every UK constituency.
To my mind too many people are discounting the possibility of Lab most seats, even if it is not by much,0 -
@faisalislam: A poetic William Hague: "Sturgeon and the SNP will take their chisels to Miliband’s vanity stone and write their own demands" #masonry0
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It's ok, the Grauniad like it...
@GdnPolitics: Ed Miliband's carved pledges could sink like a stone http://t.co/5QBuahTQgd0 -
Never mind the spoof pledges, cruel but apposite though they are...Flightpath1 said:MikeK said:Another Slab, another face:
“@SuperOldHolborn: @ranty_man @flashboy @Holbornlolz Ed does it to himself really.. pic.twitter.com/wlAtZ8xksf”<< FANTASTIC
— Ranty Man (@ranty_man) May 3, 2015
Being a fan of Stanley Kubrick films I never cease to be amazed at how prophetic and long lasting his cinematic imagery is.
Here we see Miliband in front of the monolith which he hopes to brainwash his moneys with.
We may disagree on a lot of things Flightpath but that is a great line. :-)
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@MrHarryCole: Guardian: "Ed Miliband has just raised the stupidity bar still higher." http://t.co/rLuPKKPXjr0
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God we really have got a bunch of tw@ts as leaders of the main political parties haven't we.
Last week we had Cameorn telling us he will make a law to stop himself raising taxes and now Miliband with his giant carved commandments.
Hislop on HIGNFY made a pertinent garb, like Brown used to us, I will make a law, problem solved. Child poverty, its now illegal because I say so, job done, next...0 -
A quick hatrick from Scott
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Anecdote alert: Sample of one.
A good friend of mine, an arch-Tory, works in the NHS as a radiologist.
She has just messaged me "Surprise surprise. I have decided to vote LibDem after all after what Nick Clegg said today about public service workers pay."
I don't think she is joking. She will definitely be deciding based on what is in her own personal best interest. None of this visionary stuff about freedom and fairness. The message has connected with her. I am really surprised. I wonder what impact it will have on public service workers generally?0 -
Oh I dunno....I think they're sitting on the fence:Scott_P said:@MrHarryCole: Guardian: "Ed Miliband has just raised the stupidity bar still higher." http://t.co/rLuPKKPXjr
There isn’t a single sentient being with connecting synapses anywhere in any planet in any universe who could think that was a good idea.0 -
Labour's Plan
1 Unemployment shall be higher.
2 There shall be no money left.
3 We shall sow social division.
4 We shall wage and lose illegal war.
5 Vote Labour.
6 NHS
Ed Miliband MP.0 -
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If it is a permanent monument on wheels, he won't need planning permission...CarlottaVance said:EdStone - A commentator on Twitter:
No 10 is Grade 1 listed. He'll need Tory Westminster planning permission for it. Good luck with that.
And another:
In Arial? Might as well do it in Comic Sans.
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In opposition, Conservative strategy was to "lovebomb" the public sector. In government, they gave way to the headbangers who really do believe their own propaganda about the public sector being stuffed to the gills with unreformed socialists who would never have voted Tory in the first place.Barnesian said:Anecdote alert: Sample of one.
A good friend of mine, an arch-Tory, works in the NHS as a radiologist.
She has just messaged me "Surprise surprise. I have decided to vote LibDem after all after what Nick Clegg said today about public service workers pay."
I don't think she is joking. She will definitely be deciding based on what is in her own personal best interest. None of this visionary stuff about freedom and fairness. The message has connected with her. I am really surprised. I wonder what impact it will have on public service workers generally?0 -
The reasoning behind this stone demi-god will dominate Labour until election day.0
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Yes, but others are complaining that it isn't in Helvetica.....I mean, Arial? Really?MattW said:
If it is a permanent monument on wheels, he won't need planning permission...CarlottaVance said:EdStone - A commentator on Twitter:
No 10 is Grade 1 listed. He'll need Tory Westminster planning permission for it. Good luck with that.
And another:
In Arial? Might as well do it in Comic Sans.0 -
It would be hilariousPulpstar said:
I'm not discounting it but I'm not topping up on it - just FEELS like a loser. It may well still be value though.kle4 said:
Ooh, Con 271, Lab 272. An equal score would be the funnier result, although if it were Con 272, Lab 271, I wonder if Cameron would go ahead with his purported plan to declare victory.ukelect said:My latest UK-Elect forecast is here:
May 3 UK-Elect forecast
As usual it takes into account the latest constituency, regional and national polls and shows detailed top 3 forecasts for every UK constituency.
To my mind too many people are discounting the possibility of Lab most seats, even if it is not by much,0 -
No doubt if the LibDems decide to copy Ed's example, the Cleggstone would be a slab of granite inlaid with a whiteboard !!0
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I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.0
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It only confirms Ed is not the font of all knowledge...CarlottaVance said:
Yes, but others are complaining that it isn't in Helvetica.....I mean, Arial? Really?MattW said:
If it is a permanent monument on wheels, he won't need planning permission...CarlottaVance said:EdStone - A commentator on Twitter:
No 10 is Grade 1 listed. He'll need Tory Westminster planning permission for it. Good luck with that.
And another:
In Arial? Might as well do it in Comic Sans.
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My regular twitter feed - 139 new tweets
#EdStone - 263.....0 -
Indeed Ms Vance. My father to his dying day never forgave Labour for cutting The Ration after the end of WW2. Labour's unique selling point so often comes down to how well they have managed to sell the myth that they protect the ordinary folk.CarlottaVance said:
How many on here are old enough to remember the CotE (Dennis Healey) turning round from Heathrow because the IMF were in town?HurstLlama said:On the subject of going back to the seventies Mr. JimmyCzz upthread longs for an "Old Labour" government seemingly oblivious of the fact that the last government to do real austerity was in fact the last "Old Labour" government.
There may be a reason older people are more Conservative, and not just age....0 -
@john_self: When I see it, I think “Respect”. RT @SophyRidgeSky: Just asked Ed Miliband if the #edstone was a bit naff. “No”, he said.0
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The methodology does include some allowance for swing back, but (unlike some other models) doesn't assume any significant swing back will take place on polling day itself.Barnesian said:
Your forecast is almost identical to my own. Perhaps a similar methodology e.g. not including a last minute hidden swing to the Tories.ukelect said:My latest UK-Elect forecast is here:
May 3 UK-Elect forecast
As usual it takes into account the latest constituency, regional and national polls and shows detailed top 3 forecasts for every UK constituency.0 -
Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to be named today...0
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@MpnikerDiCaneo
1.More borrowing
2.More unemployment
3.Never enough of your money
4.Immigration you ain't seen nothing yet
5.Nicola Sturgeon gets a poodle
6.Balls
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Plato, when even the New Statesman are mocking it I feel that the stone has become a parody of itself already. #EdStone is number 1 trend on UK Twitter right now and as many pictures are of parodies as of the actual pledges.Plato said:0 -
I think if they really wanted to go the whole hog, they should strap the stone to the side of a white van, complete with Union Jacks flags, and drive it around council estates up and down the land....Scott_P said:@john_self: When I see it, I think “Respect”. RT @SophyRidgeSky: Just asked Ed Miliband if the #edstone was a bit naff. “No”, he said.
This decision makes the Pink Bus look sensible...and hiring the Elvis impersonator absolutely genius.0 -
Is there a feminine form of Moses?Daniel said:Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to named today...
Thank you so much for this Labour, I've not had enough chance to laugh at something in this campaign without needing to worry about the politics of it all (a lot of the humour will be partisan of course, but it's silly no matter the side).0 -
Sophie Ridge tweets: Just asked Ed Miliband if the #edstone was a bit naff. "No", he said.0
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#edstone just gets better and better0
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What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
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Sunil Prasannan @Sunil_P2 · 3m3 minutes ago
ELBOW monthly #Labour leads split into Phone polls and Online polls. 2015 sees #Tory leads in the phone polls
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Granted, but as someone pointed out below, they presumably focus tested the woolly sentiments expressed and think they'll work on someone. I still don't know what the NHS one is about though.HurstLlama said:
What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
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Sunil
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The Daily Telegraph finally have the silver bullet which is going to stop the SNP surge in its tracks. The Sun have uncovered that Nicola Sturgeon is a Berocca user:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/ge2015/6439078/First-vitaminister.html
The DT headline tomorrow will be "Nicola Sturgeon's Berocca shame". They will go on to explain how this legal high recreational vitamin drink is used in secret by thousands of addicts across the UK. They will then quote unnamed sources from Berocca Anonymous explaining how this terrible addiction turns people into honest politicians !!0 -
Rumours of Cameron heading to a ironmongers for a cast iron guarantee are unfounded0
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Admittedly that question is very difficult to answer in a way that would be positive for Labour, but that doesn't change the fact that the man is a gigantic berk.CarlottaVance said:Sophie Ridge tweets: Just asked Ed Miliband if the #edstone was a bit naff. "No", he said.
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PBers,
Thanks for the laughs. I thought Cameron's legislating against himself was bad enough but the 'Eddystone' is priceless.
'Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make very silly,' as Prometheus nearly said.
By comparison, Gordon Brown stands as a colossus of rational thought.0 -
We may disagree on a lot of things Flightpath but that is a great line. :-)Richard_Tyndall said:
Never mind the spoof pledges, cruel but apposite though they are...Flightpath1 said:MikeK said:Another Slab, another face:
“@SuperOldHolborn: @ranty_man @flashboy @Holbornlolz Ed does it to himself really.. pic.twitter.com/wlAtZ8xksf”<< FANTASTIC
— Ranty Man (@ranty_man) May 3, 2015
Being a fan of Stanley Kubrick films I never cease to be amazed at how prophetic and long lasting his cinematic imagery is.
Here we see Miliband in front of the monolith which he hopes to brainwash his moneys with.
I'm grateful for your objectivity.
On the same subject what I cannot believe is that some people think Miliband has had a good campaign. Can anyone really say that monolithic Ed has had a good campaign?0 -
I've just checked the Labour Press team feed - there's a single retweet of the monolith from Lucy Manning. Not another mention - at all. Funny that for such a PR hit0
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Brilliant. If a story emerges that he really had ordered something like that, it just hasn't been shown yet, this whole thing would be perfect.Slackbladder said:Rumours of Cameron heading to a ironmongers for a cast iron guarantee are unfounded
I'm grateful for your objectivity.Flightpath1 said:
We may disagree on a lot of things Flightpath but that is a great line. :-)Richard_Tyndall said:
Never mind the spoof pledges, cruel but apposite though they are...Flightpath1 said:MikeK said:Another Slab, another face:
“@SuperOldHolborn: @ranty_man @flashboy @Holbornlolz Ed does it to himself really.. pic.twitter.com/wlAtZ8xksf”<< FANTASTIC
— Ranty Man (@ranty_man) May 3, 2015
Being a fan of Stanley Kubrick films I never cease to be amazed at how prophetic and long lasting his cinematic imagery is.
Here we see Miliband in front of the monolith which he hopes to brainwash his moneys with.
On the same subject what I cannot believe is that some people think Miliband has had a good campaign. Can anyone really say that monolithic Ed has had a good campaign?
Many people, thought not I, thought Ed was so bad he would crumble under the pressure and Labour would suffer in the polls due to his very crapness. That has not happened, and the lack of movement means Labour are still more likely to form a government. It's not the greatest of campaign summations, but 'haven't cocked it up' is decent enough when lots of people expected you to.
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SeanT managed to buy one of the racist mugs (before they were changed)
Can we all buy miniature replica EdStone's too?0 -
I am not a fan of politicians depositing engraved stones.
Nonetheless, Salmond’s stone shows evidence of thought. There is connection between the text on the stone, the image on the stone and the political message conveyed. The script and the image have some beauty, and the stone is beautiful (although not to my taste).
Ed’s stone is just ugly. The text is ugly. The typescript is ugly. The stone is ugly. The language is clunky pol-speak. It is like some monstrous piece of Soviet-style art.
I would dearly like to know the name of the person who came up with this idea, and how much the Labour Party pays him or her.
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Well, #Edstone at least takes my mind off the ghastly bank holiday weather. I'll own to be quaking in my boots at the thought of Ed and his unlovely minions attempting to run the country. But I guess it's what people want.0
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Yes, Ed, this was a brilliant idea...
@CCHQPress: Don't let @Ed_Miliband & SNP carve the tombstone to Britain's economic recovery. #VoteConservative on 7 May #EdStone http://t.co/hAf6kCZmIM0 -
Getting much use out of the limited edition racist mug?SeanT said:
Likewise. It's the first time in quite a depressing campaign, where I have genuinely laughed out loud - and laughed a lot. Not just sneered and grinned, or chortled contemptuously, or done a partisan chuckle - but laughed.kle4 said:
Is there a feminine form of Moses?Daniel said:Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to named today...
Thank you so much for this Labour, I've not had enough chance to laugh at something in this campaign without needing to worry about the politics of it all (a lot of the humour will be partisan of course, but it's silly no matter the side).
The trouble is, I really am laughing AT Ed and the Labour buffoons who devised this. I suspect many others will, too, not just nasty rightwingers.
Labour have spent weeks deconstructing the perceived image of Ed as a gigantic, flailing dork, and with some success. Now this. Will it impact? Probably not, but it ain't good to go into the final week of a tight election with EVERYONE sniggering at you. Even the Guardian.
Maybe Labour will start to produce mens and womens only mugs for those that attend events like the Hodge Hill rally.0 -
Chris Deerin @chrisdeerin 49 mins49 minutes ago
'the heaviest suicide note in history' #EdStone0 -
Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?0
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I'm not sure you are being very rational. You are being as silly as the BBC's Peston.CD13 said:PBers,
Thanks for the laughs. I thought Cameron's legislating against himself was bad enough but the 'Eddystone' is priceless.
'Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make very silly,' as Prometheus nearly said.
By comparison, Gordon Brown stands as a colossus of rational thought.
The next move for taxes should be down not up. If we hit another economic crisis then we will not need tax rises we will need tax cuts if anything and extra cyclical spending. Thats what happens in a cyclical downturn - you run a deficit.
What the 'tory-led' govt are doing is cutting non cyclical, structural, spending that we can never afford. It has been letting the 'regulators' of the economy do their normal cyclical job.
People like Peston also forget we have interest rates at virtually zero. Any overheating in the economy will be met with rises in interest rates. But as it happens inflation is zero as well. But then Peston only works for the BBC and he is more interested in his hairstyle than any rational economics.
There are limits to the amount of revenue you can raise by taxation anyway. You reach a point where it becomes counter productive.
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OT, and so juvenile, but looking at movies in the cinema at the moment I just cannot see the comedy 'Get Hard' without thinking of it going the Die Hard route.
Get Hard 2: Get Harder
Get Hard with a Vengeance
Live free and Get Hard
A good day to Get Hard.
I kind of hate myself right now.0 -
They are implicitly saying that the "NHS not caring" (e.g. Stafford) is all the Tories fault because the staff are run off their feetkle4 said:
Granted, but as someone pointed out below, they presumably focus tested the woolly sentiments expressed and think they'll work on someone. I still don't know what the NHS one is about though.HurstLlama said:
What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
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Is it a pron movie?
kle4 said:OT, and so juvenile, but looking at movies in the cinema at the moment I just cannot see the comedy 'Get Hard' without thinking of it going the Die Hard route.
Get Hard 2: Get Harder
Get Hard with a Vengeance
Live free and Get Hard
A good day to Get Hard.
I kind of hate myself right now.0 -
Nope, no chance.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
This is way too funny, your post just shows how much it has hit a nerve.0 -
Sounds good to me!Barnesian said:Anecdote alert: Sample of one.
A good friend of mine, an arch-Tory, works in the NHS as a radiologist.
She has just messaged me "Surprise surprise. I have decided to vote LibDem after all after what Nick Clegg said today about public service workers pay."
I don't think she is joking. She will definitely be deciding based on what is in her own personal best interest. None of this visionary stuff about freedom and fairness. The message has connected with her. I am really surprised. I wonder what impact it will have on public service workers generally?
I just hope that when Ed parts the seas that we do not break his pledge on immigration.0 -
Not whilst Twitter gloriously photoshops the labour tombstone. This really was an own goal.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
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A good friend of mine's father was CEO of the company that made Berocca. His father told him not to use it more than 3 times a week, because it's pretty hard on the liver...calum said:The Daily Telegraph finally have the silver bullet which is going to stop the SNP surge in its tracks. The Sun have uncovered that Nicola Sturgeon is a Berocca user:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/ge2015/6439078/First-vitaminister.html
The DT headline tomorrow will be "Nicola Sturgeon's Berocca shame". They will go on to explain how this legal high recreational vitamin drink is used in secret by thousands of addicts across the UK. They will then quote unnamed sources from Berocca Anonymous explaining how this terrible addiction turns people into honest politicians !!
edit: anyway, why's she drinking a German owned vitamin?! Scandal! What's wrong with good old fashioned Irn Bru?0 -
THe conditions in the NHS is the fault of the Tories; everybody knows that !Charles said:
They are implicitly saying that the "NHS not caring" (e.g. Stafford) is all the Tories fault because the staff are run off their feetkle4 said:
Granted, but as someone pointed out below, they presumably focus tested the woolly sentiments expressed and think they'll work on someone. I still don't know what the NHS one is about though.HurstLlama said:
What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
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You cannot blame your opponents for making fun of silly things Labour have said, any more than the Tories could blame Labour when they do something silly. Lamenting the lack of talk on policy would only be fair if both sides never seize on inconsequential stories and silly offhand comments and the like. Neither side does that, ergo neither can criticise the other about it.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
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There is a tree called Economic Growth. One branch, which is quite full of fruits, is called NHS.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
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Labour could be asking Cameron about the cuts. Instead we're all talking about a large block of limestone.nigel4england said:
Nope, no chance.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
This is way too funny, your post just shows how much it has hit a nerve.0 -
Memories of "Fire up the quattro" from 2010.Scott_P said:Yes, Ed, this was a brilliant idea...
@CCHQPress: Don't let @Ed_Miliband & SNP carve the tombstone to Britain's economic recovery. #VoteConservative on 7 May #EdStone http://t.co/hAf6kCZmIM0 -
120 hours and someone else will be laughing at you !SeanT said:
Likewise. It's the first time in quite a depressing campaign, where I have genuinely laughed out loud - and laughed a lot. Not just sneered and grinned, or chortled contemptuously, or done a partisan chuckle - but laughed.kle4 said:
Is there a feminine form of Moses?Daniel said:Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to named today...
Thank you so much for this Labour, I've not had enough chance to laugh at something in this campaign without needing to worry about the politics of it all (a lot of the humour will be partisan of course, but it's silly no matter the side).
The trouble is, I really am laughing AT Ed and the Labour buffoons who devised this. I suspect many others will, too, not just nasty rightwingers.
Labour have spent weeks deconstructing the perceived image of Ed as a gigantic, flailing dork, and with some success. Now this. Will it impact? Probably not, but it ain't good to go into the final week of a tight election with EVERYONE sniggering at you. Even the Guardian.0 -
Indeed. Fortunately it's a Sunday. Good day to trial out these silly gimmicks perhaps, as even the silliest probably won't last beyond Monday.Grandiose said:
Labour could be asking Cameron about the cuts. Instead we're all talking about a large block of limestone.nigel4england said:
Nope, no chance.SandyRentool said:Any chance of the Tories detailing their 12 billion of welfare cuts, rather than making crap stone jokes?
This is way too funny, your post just shows how much it has hit a nerve.
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Arhhh yes, another Miliband Brain Trust promotion....Sandpit said:
Memories of "Fire up the quattro" from 2010.Scott_P said:Yes, Ed, this was a brilliant idea...
@CCHQPress: Don't let @Ed_Miliband & SNP carve the tombstone to Britain's economic recovery. #VoteConservative on 7 May #EdStone http://t.co/hAf6kCZmIM
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01746/quattro_1746584c.jpg0 -
It's still funny even when Labour do win.surbiton said:
120 hours and someone else will be laughing at you !SeanT said:
Likewise. It's the first time in quite a depressing campaign, where I have genuinely laughed out loud - and laughed a lot. Not just sneered and grinned, or chortled contemptuously, or done a partisan chuckle - but laughed.kle4 said:
Is there a feminine form of Moses?Daniel said:Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to named today...
Thank you so much for this Labour, I've not had enough chance to laugh at something in this campaign without needing to worry about the politics of it all (a lot of the humour will be partisan of course, but it's silly no matter the side).
The trouble is, I really am laughing AT Ed and the Labour buffoons who devised this. I suspect many others will, too, not just nasty rightwingers.
Labour have spent weeks deconstructing the perceived image of Ed as a gigantic, flailing dork, and with some success. Now this. Will it impact? Probably not, but it ain't good to go into the final week of a tight election with EVERYONE sniggering at you. Even the Guardian.0 -
Nick Sutton @suttonnick 3m3 minutes ago
.@edballsmp on @LiamByrneMP's letter saying "I'm afraid there is no money" - "a silly note...a very silly note to write" #tw2
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kle4 is really confusing me know. He is talking about labour's slab pledges. Is this slab being pledged SLAB? Is it wise for labour to put its pledges on a SLAB? Has he asked Nicola's permission?HurstLlama said:
What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
It occurs to me that the only pledges I have seen are the photoshopped ones, not the real ones. So I guess its pretty dim of Labour to create an images that can be so easily misrepresented. Clever of Ed to go with it.
It also just occurs to me that perhaps that is why we seem to see so few old style 'double whammy' posters in elections these days. The images are then immediately traduced.
Perhaps they are saved up for the last day media splurge when it will be too late to bowdlerise them.
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It's not fallen apart in the last 5 years, and the major problems come from the stupid PFI deals done under the last Labour government.surbiton said:
THe conditions in the NHS is the fault of the Tories; everybody knows that !Charles said:
They are implicitly saying that the "NHS not caring" (e.g. Stafford) is all the Tories fault because the staff are run off their feetkle4 said:
Granted, but as someone pointed out below, they presumably focus tested the woolly sentiments expressed and think they'll work on someone. I still don't know what the NHS one is about though.HurstLlama said:
What pledges? Ungrammatical statements of unmeasurable intent do not amount to pledges. In this case they don't even amount to aspirations..kle4 said:I predict we'll see the slab on a right wing front page, above a comment about Ed's arrogance, but with note or the main write up plastered over the pledges just in case someone might be 'taken in' by them.
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A great shame that they left off the #Edstone a pledge for an owl for everyone.0
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Who has been (or is set to be by the end of the day) where today on labourdoorstep.....as it's the last Sunday, there'll be a Part II this evening
Balls: Pudsey
Reeves: Pudsey
Harriet: Stevenage
Khan along with BAME Labour: Harrow East, Ealing Central, Hampstead
Twigg: Cannock Chase
Perkins (Chesterfield): Stroud, Kingswood
Abbott: Harrow East
Lammy: Enfield Southgate
Sheerman: Dewsbury
Malthotra (Feltham): Ealing Central
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): Gloucester
John Cryer: Ilford North
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green): Hampstead
Justine Miliband: Thurrock, Ilford North
John McConnell: Cumbernauld & Co, Stirling, Fife (a few days ago they dragged out even Helen Liddell)
John Middleton from Emmerdale: Pudsey
General Secretary: Brentford
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That's not so much a profile as Hagiography....calum said:The Sun have uncovered that Nicola Sturgeon is a Berocca user:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/ge2015/6439078/First-vitaminister.html
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A possible scenario:
DC gets the numbers to get a C&S but not a majority. The first part of the Queen's Speech reads; "My government in this era when the UK regions are partially devolved, in the spirit of equality and fairness as mentioned in many of the parties' manifestos, will legislate for English Votes for English Laws to complete this devolution picture."
How many English Labour MPs would vote down this QS and so report back to their constituents that they had voted down EVEL?
BTW see in YG today, that Approval at -9 is the lowest since Dec 2010.0 -
OK - three points before I disappear for a while.
One - it looks like the LibDems will agree to a 2017 euro ref as part of a coalition deal with the Tories.
Two - Tories won't rule out a rise in tuition fees, basically saying they plan to put them up.
Three - Scottish leaders debate tonight is last chance for Nicola to mess things up, otherwise 50 plus seats in the bag.0 -
Speaking of Liam Byrne's note, why didn't CCHQ keep hold of that and use it now? Almost perfect campaign material.
Not much doubt the Tory campaign team is a bit asleep at the wheel.0 -
It's a silly thing to do - no doubt. It's just some vague words on a stone - not very clever. And of course it keeps bots like Scott_P very busy.kle4 said:
It's still funny even when Labour do win.surbiton said:
120 hours and someone else will be laughing at you !SeanT said:
Likewise. It's the first time in quite a depressing campaign, where I have genuinely laughed out loud - and laughed a lot. Not just sneered and grinned, or chortled contemptuously, or done a partisan chuckle - but laughed.kle4 said:
Is there a feminine form of Moses?Daniel said:Labour HQ praying for the new Princess to named today...
Thank you so much for this Labour, I've not had enough chance to laugh at something in this campaign without needing to worry about the politics of it all (a lot of the humour will be partisan of course, but it's silly no matter the side).
The trouble is, I really am laughing AT Ed and the Labour buffoons who devised this. I suspect many others will, too, not just nasty rightwingers.
Labour have spent weeks deconstructing the perceived image of Ed as a gigantic, flailing dork, and with some success. Now this. Will it impact? Probably not, but it ain't good to go into the final week of a tight election with EVERYONE sniggering at you. Even the Guardian.
However, in the grand scheme of things it's unlikely to move any votes. The battle lines have long since been drawn and I have a feeling that the majority on here will be crying into their morning coffee come May 8th.
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Cameron has been using it from time to time, but like most of Tory campaign it has been totally unfocused (except the Labour / SNP bashing) and generally piss poor.Andrew said:Speaking of Liam Byrne's note, why didn't CCHQ keep hold of that and use it now? Almost perfect campaign material.
Not much doubt the Tory campaign team is a bit asleep at the wheel.0 -
Imagine the guys called Ed Stone this weekend...0
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Is this sarcasm. Cameron's using it all the time - and quite rightly too.Andrew said:Speaking of Liam Byrne's note, why didn't CCHQ keep hold of that and use it now? Almost perfect campaign material.
Not much doubt the Tory campaign team is a bit asleep at the wheel.
One thing I wonder is how come the LD's didn't keep hold of the note. It was addressed to the Chief Secretary, which is Danny Alexander of the LD's. Danny Alexander made fun of Labour at first about it, but now it seems to be Cameron's note during the election.0 -
At the very least one has to laugh out loud, perhaps even hysterically, at the idea that the replacement of 40 (out of kindness we can ignoring the battling ex-Major Joyce) Labour MPs in Scotland by 40 SNP MPs would result in MPs inferior to the massed current ranks of Labour chumps.0
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@politicshome: Ukip candidate Mark Reckless tells World This Weekend he thinks there will be a Conservative-Labour 'grand coalition' after the election0
