Lefties 7: Simples

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Hope this is ok, I was getting withdrawal symptoms!

how are optimism levels here?

high? i do hope so...all to play for innit.

Against that, Policywonk ...

There is a lot of "interaction" going on, that is, actually quite horrid, and fragmented. and there is a lot of it, and this thread seems to be a bit of a minority place, actually, to escape some actual bile.

I don't know, sometimes one just doesn't feel like someone being utterly, utterly forthright at you. And one knows one mustn't engage with forthrightness, or it will go pear-shaped. so this is a little place of happiness, and mutual comfort.

Political but clearly demarcated as not a bun-fight space. which it otherwise would be, atm.

Or it would be single-issue spread, and not free-ranging, engaging with ongoing events.

Or it would be a-political in content ie "Chat" not "Politics".

gawd what's wrong with a lefty thread? Its not like we vote on who is allowed to join

frigging hope that he has balls of steel.

i love how democratic the libdems are...he will have a rough time getting party onside unless he gets substantial movement on electoral reform.

Well what's the alternative Pol - we all stand in the middle and shout at each other until we go hoarse?

Isn't there some space for threads dissecting the issues in a partisan way?

I'm sorry if the lefty threads are moving faster than the righty ones - but actually many of the threads on politics are tremendously right wing so I don't think you can say that the forum as a whole is unbalanced.

I'd rather not talk about the obituary of GB. Always thought he was picking up a poison chalice from TB. I think he has the character and determination to re-invent himself into a statesman much like Jimmy Carter did.

Apple you are really funny.

Quite agree that none of us planned this. Am not seriously proposing that we stop. Just maybe be a bit careful about not slagging off Tories en masse maybe?

Anyway, who died and put me in charge, eh?

youngvisiter - that is exactly it!!

Do you know, our little community messageboard, which usually communicates about lost cats, and fridges for sale, has suddenly erupted with little outbursts of barely repressed political sniping.

Weird.

If I were advising DC I would tell him to flirt with a ConLab coalition...get NC jealous

Anyway I'm afraid my take is that Lib/Lab is still untenable.
I do admire NC though
It might help push the Tories to some proper concessions on PR though.
But, it is imperative that a good coalition govnt is formed (of whatever colour). If not, there will be an early general election, the tories will do very well (as voters will want some kind of decisive answer) and that will be the end of hopes for political reform, pretty much forever

soph, tbh I don't even know whether I'm happy any more. Am just utterly confuzzled. But absolutely hugging myself at what the Murdochs must be currently saying.

FRIGGINGHELL

you lot watching newsnight or what?

DC having to offer cabinet seats to (his arch enemy) david davis, michael howard and ID fucking S!!! hahahahahahahaha

sorry but i yearn for a spitting image sketch about that meeting.

DC caught between rock and hard place, and frankly lab and cons clearly over a barrel...great great news for electoral reform.

I am doing a BA in politics and sociology MmeLindt, at the end of my first year, hence the pesky exams. I am just trying to decide what to do next year as I actually get to pick a module, currently floating between gender politics, contemporary british politics and american foreign policy.

The timetable of the lectures might influence my decision, I don't like uni on a Friday

Not so sure nearlytoolate:

-if Labour behaves well, they can pick up more of the antiTory vote.

-Tactical voting by Libs and Labour might increase

-Tories are a bit demoralised as this was theirs to win

Important thing is conduct and NC is doing well on this. So is GB now.

It's true that the tone on the Politics board has deteriorated hugely over the last six weeks or so. (Eeeh, I remember when Politics used to see one new thread a week, which would get 20 posts max.)

Someone on another thread was saying that MN got like this around the Iraq War - sophable will probably remember, I wasn't here then. So I guess everybody will get over it and return to normal eventually. And we'll still be here talking about Apple's fish.

Just marking really but please let us keep this little oasis here a bit longer. It's harsh out there.

god it was blood on the walls (most of it mine iirc) over iraq...i loved it tbh...

sorry if everyone is upset that behaviour is bad (vociferous posting? what does constitute bad behaviour...i think i'm very bad indeed prob) but i am SO PLEASE AND INVIGORATED AND VITALISED by how INTERESTING and open it all is, it is fabulous at the moment that anyone gives a shit! love that poeple are caring enough to get hot under the collar...huzzah!

(can someone fill me in, why there is angst here?)

tone has deteriorated? Not on this thread - its just like old times(!)
Glad I haven't ventured onto the other threads...
TDiddy hope you are right. I'm not that optimistic though.

Need to go for shower and disinfect after Gove said 'seductively' to Wark.

Tosser.

The McCann case (sadly) was very divisive, I recall...I bet some lefties were arguing against each other on the (sad) McCann loss. So it will heal.

didn't gove to rather well on here t'other day?

i think you've got to love an openly out gay tory...imagine the fucking stick he got/gets!

we are having angst because Policywonk feels that the lefty threads are becoming what PG Wodehouse would call;

"a rift within the lute,
which by and by shall make the music mute".

Hello, can I butt in again? Going to bed now, but just wanted to ask if someone could explain the meerkats thing for me ready for the morning. Apologies if I'm being really thick/humourless/ignorant of vital cultural references.

Oh, btw, re unelected PM - haven't looked at that thread but has anyone made the point that Winston Churchill wasn't either, in 1940? That should shut 'em up

awww....policy don't you think that the righties can take it?

lets be robust ladies!

LDs want PR referendum to have equal state funding on both sides. Darn right.

Party funding is another calculation on coalitions and timing