To be repulsed by the sight of David Cameron and those feckin' Tory posters EVERYWHERE?

[Lovecat]

Have just come back from an afternoon out at the 02 Christmas fair, saw 6 of these enormous buggers on the short drive there and back!

Okay, GB is no pin-up either but he doesn't make my gorge rise the way DC does - and all the accompanying bollocks about 'we won't harm the NHS' (can't remember the exact wording but it made me shout abuse at it) - gaaah!

AIBU to think they should at least save the propaganda til the election is actually called? I can't take this from now until May!

[hbfac]

Posters, posters ... but where are the policies?

Maybe it's a post-modern campaign.

The absence IS the object: Tories 2010 - vote for us because we're not Labour. And the policy-hole is a witty play on the statement/non-statement of that.

P. S. did anyone else catch the PolicyExchange policy-kite that was flown over Christmas? People who are drunk and end up in A and E should pay for treatment.

I, personally, thought that they had been watching too much "In the Thick of It". Had "hoofiness" all over it ... .

[BrahmsThirdRacket]

Because they know there has to be an election before 25th June they're getting in early. Come and join my 'The election should be decided by a physical fight' thread.

I hate David Cameron but would give Gordon Brown one, and on that basis alone I want Labour to stay in (and to see the look on Cameron's face).

[UnquietDad]

I am bemused. You think a political party in a democracy should not have posters up encouraging you to vote for them? I fail to see the problem. If you don't like them, vote for someone else.

Yes, the election campaign has begun.

[hbfac]

Where's your thread, Brahms?

[mistletoekisses]

Lummey. Christmas decorations are in shops by August. We (finally, thank god) have another election coming up. Of course campaigning is underway now Christmas is over. Especially when you read the shocking stat that more people voted in the XFactor final than the last general election. I understand that it is probably a different demographic voting for xfactor, but still - they have to get awareness up and people to the polls to vote!

If this is driving you mad, I cannot wait to see your reaction when programmes are 5/10 mins late to make way for party political broadcasts!

YABU btw.

[BrahmsThirdRacket]

here

[mistletoekisses]

Oh, and I would rather look at poster of DC than the complete moron who is our current PM!

[deaddei]

me too Misletoe!

[gerontius]

Not me. He has such a smug face.
And GB really isn't a moron.

[Prinnie]

What I can't understand are the people who say the Tories have no policies - regardless of what you think of them here are some I can think of:

-New school structure to allow anyone to set up a school
-Abolishing QCDA and putting top academics in charge of setting the National Curriculum

• Freezing council tax for 2 years
• 3% cut in coorporation tax
• Allowing struggling businesses to defer their VAT bill for 6 months
• NI breaks for companies creating new jobs
• Improving food labling to make it easier to buy British food
• Cutting police paperwork so they can spend more time on the beat
• 45,000 more single rooms in NHS Hospitals
• A new high speed rail link from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds

Whether you like them or not I fail to see how people can say they have no policies.

[MrsSawdust]

I would sooo much rather look at GB. I'm not into survival of the prettiest in politics. Not that DC is pretty.

OP yanbu. I hate those type of election campaign posters (all election campaign posters) that just slag off the other parties. No doubt Labour will be littering the country with similarly disparaging messages about the conservatives soon too.

Makes me not want to vote.

[SixtyFootDoll]

DC makes my skin crawl

[HumphreyCobbler]

I agree with UnquietDad. What do you think a political party is going to do before an election?

If you are a Labour supporter then I imagine you won't be voting Tory. So look away from the poster.

[gerontius]

In what way is he "catastrophically incompetent"? I enjoyed him on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. He made AM look a little stupid.

[Prinnie]

Actually Riven, there are some very sucessful councils who have actually cut or frozen council tax without cutting those kinds of services - I suggest you look at Wandsworth, and Hammersmith and Fulham.

[mrmellors]

I'm not a fan of DC and his curiously small hands, but I think I have a reasonable idea of what his policies are. Not that I actually agree with any of them, mind.

DH and I are currently loving the cross-party war council proposal. Can't help thinking it's the kind of thing a GCSE politics student would've come up with ("no, honestly look, if we all just sit round a table and talk I'm sure we can avoid getting into a fight .....").

[gerontius]

It hasn't escaped my attention. Far from it. But you can't blame GB for the global financial problems.

[Paolosgirl]

No, but you can blame him for being Chancellor for the previous X number of years, and doing nothing to stop the UK getting into the mess it is in.

[mistletoekisses]

Hmmmm, complete moron....let me think of a few examples...

...Selling our gold reserves when gold prices were at an historical low..
....Bringing in changes to tax law causing huge deficits in pension funds
...Doing nothing but spend, spend, spend in our boom years, putting no reserves aside for a rainy day whilst declaring that he had bought and end to 'boom/ bust eras'
...Exponentially increasing public sector jobs/ spending and totally independant think tanks repeatedly showing little improvement in correlation to such an exponential increase in spending...

If you want more examples, I am sure I could come up with them. But I hope you dont, because it makes my blood boil just thinking about it all!