Come Vote With Me
Last night’s Newsnight special hardly covered the referendum in glory, despite the best attempts of the BBC to nail their colours to their sleeve. With the headline “Majority want overhaul of voting system, poll suggests” you would have thought that it was good news for the Yes campaign, but get to the second paragraph of their story and you find: “63% of those polled said a referendum on changing the system is a waste of time and money when there are other pressing needs in the country.” Hmmm…
Jo Swinson did not help her cause last night with her strictly quite ridiculous suggestion:
On Twitter in the aftermath even her own side rejected the idea. Messy.
Be there or Be Square
You don’t seem to be very popular with your fellow scotch Goirdon, judging by the comments.
“We still talk of Thatcher’s children – a whole generation whose lives were blighted by years on the dole.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/02/17/gordon-brown-our-kids-are-being-consigned-to-a-lifetime-on-the-dole-86908-22929266/
The argument appears to run, “I want it but, when I get it, I will become bored with it.”
Are you still talking about your Laura K pantasies, Mr M.
*** Touché! ***
that’ll be a first
today is the first day of the rest of my life
Let’s hope it’s the first of very few.
Me me me me me me me little me-ee! Hello-o!
(Waits for applause. Not a sausinge).
“The Strictly model” Jo Swinson may have just helped shaft her own cause. What a way to make AV ridiculous.
I reckon if the yes campaign wins it will be due to low turnout.
Voter apathy was how labour got re-elected twice.
?? won’t it be on preferences
@AV or not: You are right, the cost argument is spurious. If it’s a problem, then why do we have elections at all?
When questioned about STV, the Lib Dems should have pointed out that AV is STV with single-member costituencies.
As for “it’s too complicated”: I would have thought that even the products of our worst schools could manage “Number the following in order of preference.” And, while counting under STV is complicated, AV need only add a couple of hours’ overtime on election night.
To be Fair, Jo Swinston is barely out of school therefore the references to Strickly and the X factor are perhaps more relevant and cutting edge to her than to the rest of us.
Lib Dems haven’t kept to a promise in their manifesto; why would anyone want AV so they do not even have to provide an excuse for their lies or be held to account for anything.
Swinston was piss poor and admitted she wanted more if this came into existence. She appears to be already out of her depth- a bit like socialist Cable and Clegg.
The Propaganda broadcasting association was its normal socialist self. Once more, failing to comply with its own independent broadcasting policy. Come on Dave, FFS, do something about it.
It’s not necessarily just the Lib Dems who would benefit from AV. Presumably most UKIP voters would put Conservative as 2nd preference, (and probably some vice versa), which could save the odd few seats for the right.
And probably Labour would pick up votes from the further-left parties.
Also interesting that Newsnight guesstimated that the result of the last 6 elections would have been the same.
Kind of kills of the “Scotch” stereo type much loved by little Englanders on here doesnt it. We dont want brown either he was/is a disaster along with some other English disasters like the two Eds, God help us !!!!
Sounds like you’re a “Wee chippy jock”
Sounds like your an arsehole.
Why did the Lords suddenly back down? all that effort into blocking the referendum including an all night sesh then they suddenly cave in.
They were probably just maximising expences.
They noticed that they were making an eloquent case for their own abolition/root and branch restructuring.
Even a dog in a manger knows not to bite off the hand that signs off on its expenses, or something like that.
We want Christmas
and stuffing
Anyone for a boundary change?
If there is grass on the wicket ….
By the way, the introduction of AV will do great economic damage to the UK because it will help labour to regain and keep power becasue within an AV system labour and lib dems will quietly cut deals together to help eachother by encouraging their core voters to give the second vote to the other party.
I wanna cum over Jo Swinson’s face, even though she’s a Scotchist
Only her face?
You cant Your English and therefore unable to get an erection , unless there is a young boys bottom involved.
Take your fantasies back to the gayer tenements of scotchshire
Sounds like your a chippy Englishman insecure in his sexuality.
Your fantasy skirt wearing jock mong
She is in fact a nice young woman as I had the pleasure of sitting next to her once at a meeting and I am English !!
This is the result of the UK’s ‘superb’ education system, is it? Thousands of taxpayers pounds spilt down a black hole for each of these morons to be let loose into our ‘elite’ to spout mindless drivel.
Really, do I want a complete tw@ like her (and there are simply hundreds and hundreds of ‘hims’, too) running my life, having an influence on me and my family?
You may not want it, but it will be. Your life will be controlled by the state. All decisions regarding your education, welfare, healthcare, housing and job are mine to make. Your interference is forbidden. Your opinions are irrelevant.
you will do what you are told ..how you should do it and the expected outcome. You will obey…obey…obey.
Keep the sytem we have its time tested. The real problem is getting the vote out…on the blogs is one thing ..on the hoof is another..widespread apathy towards these type of subjects until the soundbite run-up to voting day.
Anyone hearing this fucking drunken fucking doctor on Vicky Pollard’s show at the moment?
A fucking Doctor who’s pissed out of her head at 11.48 in the am, drinking Guinness whilst she’s on the fucking radio.
Unite/Unison will arrange a day of action if the NHS fire her
My proud working class members will bring the Toob to a standstill if the Tory scum have her fired for being an alcoholic Doctor
She works better when she’s drunk anyway, like my members
Her problems are due to the Tory cuts
I second that!, English Tory vermin must be stopped from having drunken doctors fired
Who will be next? Nurses fired for leaving elderly patients to lay in their own piss for days?
Is that what you want Cameron you toff bastard?
put the kettle on luv
Who is responsible for this?
Mrs Thatch!
I may have one of the biggest fuckin Carbon footprints in History but I offset it with Carbon Credits. They are totally awesome and work a bit like medieval indulgences, you know pay the money up front and sin away till your hearts desire.
I so with the students by the way.
“nail their colours to their sleeve. ” Sounds a tad messy to me.
Best nail them to something wooden, like, I dunno, a mast, say? Leave the sleeve as a place to wear one’s heart, or possibly colours.
email me please Tony i need your address for prize… harry.cole [at] guynews.tv
Tuscan Tony
c/o
Guido Fawkes,
Conservative central office
Westminster
London
Englandstan
If you nailed anything to your sleeve you could then “Knit up the ravelled sleeve of care”.
How about they nail them to the Director General’s head?
Sorry, my head was buried in the sea.
Err…try sewing!
“Dave” thinks that AV was a “price worth paying” to get “Nick” into the Coalition and even if less than 40% of the UK Electorate vote in it….. the result will be valid..and the LibDem Hegemony of British politics will be complete rather than their annihilation as a party in 2015 on the present first-past the post system………………
she sounds (and looks) like a halfwit.
but is her glass half full or half empty?
whatever it is, it’s 50% full of shit
I’m tat! I’m a mong! yap yap yap yap! Wheeeeee!
I FLIE OFF THE HANDAL AT FATCHURS EVIL TORY CUTS.
I like flying of my handle…give us a large one Slater
Cameron just said at his press conference “I do listen to Today on occasion even though it gets in the way of my wellbeing”.
I listen to some of it in the bathroom but I switch it off when it becomes “men shouting at each other” or when the interviewer interrupting the interviewee does it too much. Thought For The Day , should I be in the bathroom when it comes on, gets the off switch instantly.
I should add that the only other thing I listen to on BBC radio is ISIRTA.
I get all my news from Al Jazeera, it’s less biased than the Beeb.
+ 1 and Fox at 10.00am
Radio Prune.
For ISIRTA read ISIHAC. I used to listen to ISIRTA…
The only thing I listen to on the radio is the Weather Forercast – best daily radio fiction programme on the air.
depends how blue lionel is on the day for me..
The Rabbi bats for the other side.
he does indeed…oveyyyyy
delicious
I prefer First Past The Post.
I prefer Pass the Parcel.
Followed by Musical Chairs.
I prefer Snog the Babe. YMMV.
I prefer the first piss on the post
I prefer being pissed whilst sorting the Post
I think you were also pissed whilst a minister. Either that or you were just a naturally shit minister.
I prefer smashing your missus
Get in line.
Serious question, how does it benefit them?
no seriously, what motive is Guido ascribing to the BBC here? Just wondering how it benefits them.
The BBC think that AV will lessen the Tory vote (and they are probably correct).
The BBC want anything which will further trash the country
And keep them in the luxury, coke, travel, rentboys inflated salaries and expense etc to which they think they are entitled with our money
And AV will just produce shit coalitions
Which will never be able to abolish or flog off the BBC as it should be…
BINGO! (or, if Billy is about, HOWZAT!)
That’s easy AV will ensure that all future governments are either Labour or a Coalition with the Libdems and that you will never get a Tory majority government ever again and whichever way you look at it…is a result for the BBC
Because if Labour and Libdem voters all vote in favour of AV, Yes will win, and most likely in future there will always be a Labour led coalition?
Thank you, my puppet. Good little puppet. Give me another £45,000,000 today, puppet. You may scrap more of your Royal Air So-called Force to pay for it if needs be. Or raise VAT again. Whatever. Gimme gimme gimme.
Fuck the Post, where’s the Piss
And she represents LieBore?
Nuff said.
She’s a Lib Dem and member of the coalition government.
What’s the difference?
You’re saying there’s no difference between NuLab and the coalition?
Thank you.
You have of course provided the perfect reason to reject AV and continue with FPTP.
I heard Mrs Brown loves pussy.
What’s new ?
Jonah at George Sq theatre in Edinburgh tonight at 7 for talk and book signing, tickets £4.
He won’t take questions, the clues in the fact that he’s just going to talk, and only certified sycophants will get the chance to get a book signed, so don’t expect a Mrs Duffy moment!
that woman is a spigot
Unfortunately an equerry had left a “live” mic in the audience room and HMQ was heard to say “Who put me with THAT man! It was a disaster ! I think it was Sue wasn’t it ?”
Farage, Hezza, Cable and Mrs Blinky on panel.
they always have one blonde airhead, tonight they get eva too
Today I will consider bottling my book signing again.
I prefer the voting system in Liechtenstein, where it’s your Count that votes.
Please Guido
We are only doing this referendum to keep the Mexican General on board…
So a few people put their heads above the parapet and the forest changes are kicked out.
Millions want out of the corrupt EU juggernaut and their bizarre law making yet nothing is done.
Fucking wankers.
The EU is a sacred, honest wonderful institution and if we withdrew britain would immediately be isolated, shunned and hated by the rest of the world. Plus we want to get oour snouts in the EU trough when we are kicked out.
Bounders!, the lot of them.
i have taken to reading toilet pan splatter in order to predict the future
what does a floating glace cherry mean?
what colour is it?
So that’s where it went!
Try examining your own liver, an obsidian knife is in the post.
Is it lunch time already?
our headboard is made of bacon
The only porking going on in that bedroom…
++++ LATE SCORE ++++
Ents 1 (Cameron, o.g.) Wizards 0 FT
Baroooomba!, privatisation is such a hasty word.
You can’t beat a bit of bully.
Yap!
Ed Miliband has to have his speeches cleared by me first. He’s my bitch.
100th!
What needs to be sorted – and this is what liebore is really scared of – is the re-drawing of boundaries and the culling of a few seats so that labour MPs do not have an inbuilt advantage in every election. That and sorting out postal vote fiddles should see them off for a few decades.
Isn’t it funny how Ms Macauley’s always in London and her hero’s always in Scotland? It must be sheer misery for them to be so far apart. It coincidentally coincided with his departure from Downing St. Funny, that.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
shes coming to her senses after a long run nightmare with the chingrinner. Time and distance strategy…as afar away and as often as possible . Not unlike myself ..even if I say so myselfI think I have been singularly quiet of late…just putting the future finances in order…pip pip
just think of Ed Von Ballsup and his henchwoman Eva Brickup Cooper in No 11 and the little boy with birdshit on his head in No 10.
Could anything be less appealing ?
thats a yorker BB we’re in it matey bubblebath and staying…..level playing field for trade and commerce..sovereignty retained. Best in the tent influencing the future
than outside it whining in the cold.
I would rather be outside the EU tent and pissing in, particularly over Von Pompey
I’ll stick to the sun terrace in that case.
I once put it in your corned beef sandwich.
but when I dumped in your handbag you weren’t amused
Comentators are always banging on about how great it is in Oz because they have preferential voting, no one mentions its absolutely hated because you end up with some loser who no one want but hasall the preferences.
First past the poll, approx a fraction less that half of people are unhappy, the other fraction more than half are happy, preferential voting, no one is happy.
One thing they don’t mention, the donkey vote gets more votes that a lot of candidates.
the problem in Oz is you end up listening to that bloody woman with the hair who is a cross between a badly behaved spaniel and a Dame Edna relative. Being in possession of an accent like that should be an offence.
She’s Welsh you know.
no shes a moose with attitude
whats that behind you Gordon ?…yes that black dangling thing with your protection officer behind it…….
We want change to the voting system
But only on our terms
Couldn’t organise a referenDUMB in a nut house.
Death of Libdems announced. When the vote turns down AV they’ve effectively lost their raison d’etre. That and everyone hating them.
Still, you’ve got to laugh.
The BBC are a collection of leftist Euro-toadies. They know that, under AV, there would be a permanent LibDem minority holding the balance of power.
That means that there would be no prospect of Britain ever standing up to the EU, much less leaving it. Furthermore, the BBC would never be privatised.
The AV campaign will be like the last General Election — once more, dear Beeboids, to the breach once more …
How about a write-in at the Referendum
Whoops,
How about a write-in at the Referendun
Leave the EU
On and on the ball runs and argument goes on and on and on!