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Depressed lefties sign in here...

878 replies

WilfSell · 02/05/2010 20:20

...on the grounds that if we assume there will be a Tory govt, then the crowing triumphalism of all the Chinless Wonders and Thrusting Monetarists and Nasty Racists who'll poke in here to crow and gloat, will somehow force a cosmic rift in the time-space continuum. And it will be like 1992 all over again but the other way round.

I fear the best we can hope for is a hung parliament.

I've suggested hemlock for the Election Night supper thread...

OP posts:
vesela · 02/05/2010 23:57

btw atlantis, have you been playing with wikis????

atlantis · 03/05/2010 00:02

"btw atlantis, have you been playing with wikis???? "

???? Ya what now????

vesela · 03/05/2010 00:04

I hope you find something better to do.

atlantis · 03/05/2010 00:06

"I hope you find something better to do. "

What???? I'm totally confused by your first post and then your second one.

Enlighten please.

vesela · 03/05/2010 00:13

I was just wondering whether you'd been playing with the wiki that sophable posted! It was probably someone else, though.

atlantis · 03/05/2010 00:16

"I was just wondering whether you'd been playing with the wiki that sophable posted!"

Oh, ok, sorry, am with you now.

But no, how do you 'play' with a wiki ?

Ewe · 03/05/2010 00:18

Depressed lefty? Check.

I used to be almost a Tory until I started my politics degree and really started to understand what they stand for and what they value.

I will be thoroughly depressed should they win on Thursday and I will be voting Lib Dem in a vague effort to actually give them some opposition in this constituency - he fourth safest tory seat in the country. Awesome.

scaryteacher · 03/05/2010 08:41

'I remember when Tony Blair got in...The whole country cried for JOY.'

Not me, I cried with rage and despair, and I wasn't wrong.

gingercat12 · 03/05/2010 08:55

Is it too late to join?

SanctiMoanyArse · 03/05/2010 09:04

If teh suggested rift in time and space brings Dr Who to teh rescue then the kids will be impre4ssed

But otherwise I hang my head and say gah

Am not a pure leftie: am a pure leftie for the vulnerable with a signifcant dose of stern glares for the capable who choose to opt out of responsibility

I celebrated when Labour got in, and I was right absed upon my situation and significantly where I lived: minimum wage changed my life tbh, for a start. But politics has to change aorund or you get stagnation and ideas end so am not voting labour- and not Tory either, going back to my roots with my vte

And thanking goodness that living in Wales mitigates the Tory approach at least to an extent

SanctiMoanyArse · 03/05/2010 09:05

Atlantis- if you register with Wiki you can emaned the entries to say what you like (apart from the MN one, over the years we have tried )

allegrageller · 03/05/2010 09:13

Sancti: lucky for you in Wales, I think living in London only magnifies the Tory effect, although I am in a mostly Lab enclave. Sob.

sungirltan · 03/05/2010 09:16

signs and and worries. worries a bit more. please can we have a lefty no gloaters thread on thursday. i just pushed dh into chasing a job. he got it and now i will be home alone watching the election :-( sigh. well at least we might have some money to survive the tory carnage

SanctiMoanyArse · 03/05/2010 09:17

Ah we moved here from a hugely established torya rea. It's not all wine and roses- the recession hit us aprticularly hard where we are- but right now I am grateful for the Assembly and mya dorable AM who makes up for the prat of an MP we get (clue: AM is neither tory, Labour, nor Separatist.... or Welsh Christian either LOL)

justaboutkeepingawake · 03/05/2010 09:17

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PfftTheMagicDragon · 03/05/2010 09:21

I'll sign in here.

I think all the talk of a hung parliament will come to nothing. They talked about it last time, I think that they use it as news generator, as a talking point because there is nothing new to talk about, so would not be surprised to see that they whip up talk of parliament being hung for their own sake.

The Liberal Democrat policy on joining with someone else confuses me. I've heard NC say things on the radio that indicate he should not ally with either the Tories or Labour. I suspect that shoudl the situation actually arise, he would take whatever tiny amount of power he could get and run with it.

Can someone tell me if the Lib Dems would become the offical opposition should they come in second past the post? I'm not sure how this comes about, excuse my ignorance.

I cannot believe people have been fooled by DC. He has done a Tony Blair and everyone has fallen for it!

Nymphadora · 03/05/2010 09:23

Signing in. My first vote was 1997 and I felt so powerful!

I actually don't mind GB a lot of the reforms brought in when he was chancellor were good. I don't think he should have been PM but at least he knew what was going on from a financial POV. Most people don't seem to acknowledge that the financial probs came from the US.

Dc & NC bothremind me far too much of Blair and he was the wrong man to trust.

Anyone planning to exit England? We could all move North & West & escape ?

SanctiMoanyArse · 03/05/2010 09:23

No guarantess yet Justabout; could still be hung parliament, or even another party tories know if we all feel it's inevitable then tehy get a self fulfilling prophecy.

Remember the prediicetd Kinnock Government and how that never happened? Hold fast to that

And if it's hung hope for PR

(seems to work well here despite what people seem to want to tell me about it being impossible- can't see that myself, what with direct experience and all LOL)

JustAbout- did you get my email / document this morning?

allegrageller · 03/05/2010 09:25

Nymphadora: yeah, mass exodus of depressed lefties, public sector workers and bleeding heart types to Scandinavia seems the only option.

SanctiMoanyArse · 03/05/2010 09:25

(actually we have less devolution that Scotland I think so whilst better up might be wiser LOL>>

allegrageller · 03/05/2010 09:26

I'm coming Sancti....

or maybe you're right, I should just do the balloon trick and disappear into lefty never never land for 4-8 years...

Nymphadora · 03/05/2010 09:32

I'm in the public sector too even more depressed now.

Janos · 03/05/2010 09:50

Vesela - point taken. Guardian are following their own agenda too, of course.

Sophable - I know, I live in Scotland myself...as you say, barren fodder up here.

That said, I live in a fairly marginal seat (Edinburgh SW, my MP is Alastair Darling) and they are pulling out all the stops up here for the Conservative candidate. An 8% swing is needed though and Conservatives and Lib Dems are joint 2nd in front of the SNP.

mumutd · 03/05/2010 09:56

I'm still clinging to the hope that people see sense on Thursday and stick with the current government who are doing such a great job in getting us through these troubled waters.

I am in fear of it being messed right up if the Tories get in :0(

animula · 03/05/2010 10:19

I'd like a no-gloating thread.