The Tory benches might be in open revolt, but one man is calling for calm:
“Sometimes failure is needed to refocus the effort to succeed… I know that there will be questions in the media about the threat posed by UKIP. It would be easy to start throwing our weight around and slinging mud in every direction. But that’s not the sensible way of going about things. We need to reflect calmly. We need to think carefully about what people are saying to us. Now is not the time to get side-tracked from the central issues facing the Country. David Cameron is doing a good job in difficult circumstances and we must all work together and make every effort to help him and our Party get it right.”
The failure line could be read several ways…
Et Tu Brute
I keep hearing that: “he(Dave) must try harder to get his message across”. What blind arrogance!
The problem is that he HAS got his message across, and that it is a very left wing anti Tory message.
If you hadnt split the Conservative vote they would have won you mean ! the arrogance of ukip makes me laugh, no MPs yet, but they are full of it !
NOW NOW DAVE NO NEED TO BE SALTY
Of course its the number of MPs that matter, not the electorate who voted.
Dick
Touchy! I do like a touchy lass
If you must be a gay tory, please do it in the privacy of your own toilet.
Orange & stockings optional.
Ha Ha Ha.
UKIP don’t need to win a single seat, just taking a great chunk of the Tory vote in every constituency, will do in DC and his pals.
Where’s the 1922 Committee when you need them ?
Or were they designed by a camel ?
Probably! The Tories still don;t get it, they need to radically change their policy right now. Slash welfare and taxes, slash the bloated public sector and stop all immigration.
I cant understand why the eastleigh voters still voted for the libdems, the conservatives came second last time, why does anybody thing they should have done better this time ?
Anony – get your head around the huge undemocratic (FRAUDULENT) postal vote rigging issue. It happens in all the safe seat AREAS – where ‘block votes’ are ‘always cast’ and invariably. the rigging is done by “a select few” in each town / district – who at any election know that they have say a 10,000 vote advantage at the outset.
Don’t for one minute think that the Commission are going to ever look deeper than the surface at vote rigging – it would show what a monstrous fraud the system has become.
The stench is over every election in current times.
You are no Julius Caesar.
Ego civis Romanus sum.
Romani ite domum
Guido, do you not have questions about the peculiarly high proportion of postal votes for LibDems?? I personally have high hopes that UKIP will ask for a check of the postal vote and may win Eastleigh after all!
Me too. Postal voting should be banned from 5pm today.
Ed Balls owes his seat to the easy availability of the postal vote. This alone should be enough to prompt a total overhaul of the postal vote system.
If you are able to walk to a polling station, on the day of the election, you should be denied a postal vote.
Nah! Ed Balls owes his seat to the Tories putting a boy up to do a man’s job.
Totally agree
Cameron is a posh cock who would rather borrow money from China to give to India to compete against British business interest
Cameron is a complete wanker who has increased tax and regulation and borrowed more monet than the fiscal spastic Gordon Brown
Fuck off Cameron
on the one hand society is run on plastic.
on the other hand cashless society is encouraged.
seems like bartering ones time, products and servces for another’s might be worth considering….it is big step change?
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time to work on relationships and support systems.
what would one do for a steak meal and some Mercedes Benz alloy wheels?
well, if you are dealing with rennard …
Instantaneous Barter is massively less efficient than the temporal barter allowed by SOUND money.
‘seems like bartering ones time, products and servces for another’s might be worth considering..’
It’s already happening: check out Freecycle, and your local LETS scheme.
Obviously you cannot pay the gas bill with dog-walking, but there’s huge scope for those with more time than money. LETS is an alternative currency, so is not bartering in the crude sense: A walks B’s dog, who gets C to weed their garden, who gets to borrow D’s scaffold tower for a week, &c. The Transition Town movement has a lot to say about how communities can be strengthened by local informal cooperation networks, whether or not you buy the whole energy-depletion argument.
Helped by the fact you do not lose 50% to the parasitic state.
What’s the conversion rate between lentils and plumbing per hour?
In both cases the PTB can check out your movements. Cash is king, but barter is better.
You are obviously a thick cock, i know who i prefer. Somebody with an Oxford degree !
Is there any information about the postal vote numbers separate from the voting station vote?
‘Ahead of polling day, Eastleigh Council told the BBC it had issued 14,276 postal votes and that 9,485, or 66.4%, had been returned by Tuesday.’ BBC news.
How long can we let this scam survive?
My wife and I have postal votes. No scam there.
It’s rather fun to tell canvassers that we’ve already voted.
And it’s nice to avoid those fuckers who ask for your voter number at the polling station, WHICH THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO.
Calm down, and don’t SHOUT.
They have every right to ask you for your polling card number. And you have every right to decline to give it to them.
Simples.
If you have a postal vote, why do you go to a polling station ? It should be made clear that you don’t have to tell anyone outside the polling station. Anyway about time we brought voting into 20C – cant we do better than crosses on bits of paper and only voting on a Thursday ?
Labour introduced it. The old system was wide open , this on demand 100 times worse. Another crooked policy the coalition should have dealt with on day one along with the 50p rate and boundaries before the yellow creeps found an excuse to resile their promise!
Why should the coalition want to change it! It leaves power in the hands of the incumbents. In other words, it’s business as usual, ripping off voters and taxpayers. There is not a cigarette paper’s thinckness of difference between any of them. They don’t want the B&P or UKIP to muscle in on their scam.
Too many of the electorate understand David Cameron’s message loud and clear.
Likely his blinkered party will go down with him.
Hes incapable of getting it right because he doesnt know right from wrong, lets have a Tory PM for a change its been too long.
Wait to you see the whites of Dave’s eyes, fire.
Which is the central issue?
How best to f*ck over the country?
Entre les jambes d’une jeune femme.
Who can harvest the most from the magic money tree. The democratic fail state.
The noes to the Left, the knives to the Right.
Surely neighs to left, knives to the right ?
Alfie, let me help you out here.
Camoron is so obsessed with occupying the Center ground that he has failed to realise that the public mass is firmly on the right.
There is a fucking open goal son staring you in the face. rouble is Farage is standing rit in front of it with the ball, and you still haven’t got your boots on.
How to Win Elections For Dummies – Rule 1 : LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC
I actually like Adam Afriye. He seems like a calm and sober fellow and the tories could do worse than listen to what he has to say. He’s a decent hard working man and I don’t see anything wrong with going for leader. I agree with him on everything he said, except that David Cameron is doing a good job -he isn’t. Most incompetent PM in living memory
Well almost the most incompetent but not quite. No-one but no-one is ever going to beat gordon’s record for THE most inept and incompetent PM ever.
All Dave needs to do next is sign something as odious as Lisbon, or not correct that error. Then he has beaten Brown.
I would rather he was stopped first. Things have gone too far to allow any more idiots in Westminster to continue ruining the country and pretending they know what they are doing.
X100
We aint seen Millitwat in action yet and hopefully never will.
Afriye would obviously say what he has. One of the few MP’s who has actually had a job before being an MP and a very successful business career to boot elevates his suitability to lead over any of the elitist clique of the conlablib cartel. Good luck to the bloke.
My admirition of the man would accelerate if he truly had the balls to defect to UKIP along with messrs Redwood, Carswell and others. That would set the cat amongst the gideons
Wotchu talkin’ ’bout Willis?
‘The Prime Minister has my complete confidence’: always a bad sign.
Yeah, he must be mentally ill.
Joanne, in making that statement you indicate that you are either:
a) born after May 2010
b) mad
c) Gordon Brown
(note: answers b and c are interchangeable)
Cameron is a titanic Met-Lib twat, agreed, but he light years away from being Jonah McBroon.
Oh to damn with faint praise!!
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Go take a leek, has-been Dave.
what a slime bag, the Welsh flag is not the same as St David’s flag. Dickhead
To govern is to choose
Does Wales seriously give a fuck ?
We should celebrate those brave, brave sheep.
We’re happily governed by Labour.
Great Dave in NI can he have that on St Patricks day?
Cut to the fucking chase and stick an Islamic crescent up there.
Yes if you do not you will offend the whole of the muslim world includes the unborn muslims god is great you filthy white pig. Do as you are told now.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha fucking ha.
Watch out for that power line Nigel. You flying too….Ooops
No chance of the Tory party thinking carefully about what people are saying to them if they don’t ***!! listen in the first place…!
Sorry, what?
I think its a hoot that Labour came last ! cant wait for PMQs next wednesday !
I know ! to come last in a midterm by election is bad.I think its hilarious !
A bit like scraping the bottom of the barrel?
Comming last how big was this orgy?.
I have to do a piece to camera in 5 to defend our position, if only the zip on my Tutu wasn’t stuck.
Pedicabo et irrumabo vos
Adam is playing a smart game, and a bit cheeky. Projecting leadership from behind Dave by urging for calm etc.
What they need are a couple of defections, and perhaps another major donor to withdraw funding to properly refocus.
The main problem is: EU.
I really had expected to hear of the first UKIP MP today.
Not as a result of yesterday’s by-election but because of defection. If one was going to go, it might have been at the most charged moment to obtain maximum effect.
It seems that we are led by sheep with not a lion in sight.
Afriyie family motto: Speak softly and carry a big stick
LOL
UKIP are the future, Cameron has let the British people down we are fed up of the EU and the government looking after everyone but British people
Sign this petition to restrict Bulgarian and Romanians from entering the UK:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492
Almost 64,000 at 100,000 it goes to Parliament
Vote UKIP and change the country
Is this for the 4 million Romanians ukip think are coming. Out of a population of 4m?
With numbers like that and people like the fraudster Neil Hamilton on board it’s no wonder you are a protest joke vote like Respect
Please post a link supporting what you have just said. i.e. Where UKIP state that 4m Romanians will come to the UK.
Thanks
No? Didn’t think so
Insidious, isn’t it.
They won’t be happy until we are all coffee-coloured peasants, licking the boots of our socialist elite betters.
And we should also check up on what numbers the government have projected are going to be coming. That is where the 4m figure started, but it is Romanians + Bulgarians.
That is classified information, well above your trough grade
Make that over 20m
”the fraudster Neil Hamilton”
I seem to remember him being done for fraud and later cleared while he was a Tory.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Rumania population: 2011 census… 19, 043,767, yes that’s 20 million, not hard to do some basic research, so you are out by a factor of 500%, doesn’t exactly fill me full of confidence with your predicted immigration levels.
Romanian population going on for 20 million.
You do know that ukip dont have any MPs dont you ? do tell how they are going to change the country? im all agog.
We will see how many MP’s they have or don’t have after the next election m8.
easy to say not easy to achieve
Torie have lots of MPs but still carry out Gordon Brown’s policies, so what is your fucking point gay boy?
Surely no rational human being would vote for ukip in an election that meant something. And doesn’t polling show those who voted in Eastleigh wouldn’t vote again for UKIP
Ps thinking ukip are a bit of a joke doesn’t mean I am funded by the EU
I think you may be wrong in your assumptions.
Perhaps you’re the irrational one.
UKIP is the Cassandra amongst the political classes. Everything UKIP warns about the PPE set ignore but comes true. The voters have noticed.
Couldnt agree more, they are hilarious ! Nigel, posturing with a pint !
Why not? I have heard some Labour supporters can be described as rational but haven’t met one yet.
Surely no rational person would vote Tory?
What is there to gain?
Higher taxes and more taxes.
More immigration.
Government run by stupid posh twats.
Devaluation of the currency.
Inflation far outstripping savings rates.
Further destruction of pensions.
An, at best, flat-lining economy.
Frittering away the high taxes on the EU.
Frittering away the high taxes on foreign aid to countries whose economy is doing better than ours.
etc.
You may as well be ,you twit.
Damning David Cameron with feint praise. Cameron had best watch his back.
Already am doing that with the gay marriage vote. Not completely stupid you know.
Don’t you mean “faint preise”?
I think we’ve got a very clear message, a loud and clear message that Britain cannot let up in dealing with its debts, dealing with its problems, cannot let up in making sure that Britain can pay its way in the world.
You are
David(oops !) Ed Miliband and I want my AAA batteries back.Your very clear message that I receive is that you are playing around the edges with the debt problem. You are doing this on a part time basis while you waste time on issues that were never in the manifesto.
If you think yesterday was bad Dave, just wait till the May 2nd. Council elections.
Circa 1500 Conservative Councillors and 30 Councils are going to get the UKIP treatment
Best guess? Down to 1000 and 20, maybe worse.
WOO HOO
Will be interesting to see if Labour hold, and Lib Dems retain through postal vote fraud.
Lots of Lib Dems jailed for fiddling local authority elections, quite a few Labour as well.
Having calmly reflected I have come to the conclusion that Adam might shut the F up during election campaigns?
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage continued to be critical of the prime minister.
He said: “The Conservatives failed here because traditional Tory voters look at Cameron and they ask themselves ‘Is he a Conservative?’ and they conclude ‘No, he’s not.’
“He’s talking about gay marriage, wind turbines, unlimited immigration from India. He wants Turkey to join the European Union.
“The Conservatives’ problems are not because of UKIP; they are because of their leader.”
LOL
This bloke has about as much chance of leading the Neo Nuts, as Guido has of getting a main stream media job
Good job Guido hasn’t got a sunday column in the most read paper in the country.
oh…
They don’t read it, they look at the pictures.
Why did anybody think the conservatives would win, its a lib dem seat !
Just been checking Eastleigh’s voting history on Wiki.
Eastleigh was Tory for 40 years until they lost it to the LibDems in 1994.
The Liebor vote has been falling regularly whereas UKIP’s vote has been rising of late, and this time in spectacular fashion.
The LibDems have just managed to hold on, but their vote was actually little more than half of what it was last time.
The Conservative vote has halved.
Farage is right – the Tories split the anti-LibDem vote and denied UKIP their first MP.
I had to LOL I just realised that I said Labour needed to “redouble its efforts” to increase its appeal to voters, in the south of England and elsewhere, who were not traditional supporters.
Double 4,088 = 8,176 and we would still be 4th. Oh well back to plan Z
So the Tories are revolting! And this is news? Not to many of us.
Typical political claptrap.We are all working hard you idiot but what is Dave achieving? For God sake go back to your index linked MP’s pension and shut up.
Scary graph!
What’s the % though? And how long does the change last?
Rafa Out
Nothing to do with Eastleigh, but worth reading:
http://tinyurl.com/cskldfe
Seems we are down to 1.50 against $ now, and figures released to day bad.
Nobody’s buying that horseshit about how enforced austerity, agreed by Obama and Congress in 2011 but only now set to come into play as of today (assuming it comes at all), is going to wreck the US economy. So if you have a choice of GBP or USD, which do YOU take?
March 1 2013: Black Friday ? Markets sharply down in UK / Eurozone.
Manufacturing figures released today show contraction.
So, UK is in recession, tax receipts will be guaranteed down, bond market set to pop soon.
Typical, your sort always looks on the bright side.
Perhaps if there had been less time messing about with gay marriage, and more focused on issues that matter, such as the economy, then such things would not be happening.
This on top of the AAA downgrade from Moodys is in no way shape or form positive. Unless someone wants to spin this along the lines of it being good that others are doing well at the UKs expense.
This is more reason for Dave and the idiot Osborne to be removed.
There are people in the Conservative party who have an idea about how to run a country. Many on the front bench demonstrably do not.
I don’t get this. What good is it going to do to the economy, if the politicians sit round on their arses thinking of stuff that’ll make the economy grow.
Unless of course, you want state intervention in all sorts of things (I’m guessing not), perhaps they’d be better off sitting about chatting about gay marriage more of the time.
Dude that’s such a good point.
All those twats in Dave’s Faux-Conservative party one minute whining about free markets and the next minute planning to shit all over them.
Far better for One-Term Dave and his bum-chums to sit around all day debating anal nastiness than getting involved in markets.
the only way to spin Moodys is the truth … they are a discredited reference point but whatever their status their downgrading was expected AA1 is only one down and the states have the same grading with no plan as yet to balance the budget in any term let alone a stated term so what does it mean…sfa
Cameron has spoken :
“This is a by-election, it’s mid-term, it’s a protest. That’s what happens in by-elections.”
Dave, you are an arrogant twat. Just go. NOW.
There’s rumblings in the Party to-night—
Twenty marginals to take and the election to win—
A fractious rump and a troublesome right,
Two years to go and an inherited deficit to spin.
And it’s not for the sake of fame so dear
Or the selfish hope of an easy rise,
But his Party’s gratitude and just reward
A cabinet job and leadership in time
And so through gritted teeth he says
David Cameron is doing fine and calls a truce
To his colleagues he turns and calmly exhorts
My loyalty to the leadership is in no doubt.
David Cameron of course he supports
Until that is he loses…then he’s OUT
Is Cameron the real loser. Could the real loser be Ed Miliband. If the coalition is doing so poorly shouldn’t labour have done so much better at Eastleigh? Surely labour need to increase their share of the votes in seats such as Eastleigh.
Difficult to see how Liebor were ever going to do well in a LibDem stronghold like Eastleigh, surely ?
Meanwhile, Cameron’s response suggests that he’s in total denial.
Surely the real testing ground for labour’s popularity is in seats such as Eastleigh.
they would never have considered they could realistically win eastleigh
If you check the voting history you find that Liebor are on course to vanish up their own arseholes pretty soon in Eastleigh.
They are both losers. Ed is so out of the running no one even thinks about him any more. He must be really fed up.
Miliband and Cameron are real losers.
Cameron lost most last night.
actually IDNND I think ukip acts like a relief valve…all those who feel dissenfranchised from their own party are voting ukip as a protest …
in the same way they voted libdem after Clegg suprised himself and
everyone else with his early TV debate performance …
UKIP is a new ‘idea’ establishing itself on a rump of dissatisfaction of the other three main parties.
The real question is will UKIP have traction.
With EU elections coming they can only build stronger electoral support by promoting themselves to be elected to an organisation they are pledged to ditch ..
how they square that circle with the electorate will be interesting to hear.
UKIP have got traction, the past four by-election results alone show that.
The idea is not a new one, but an old one. They represent sovereign independence and traditional conservative values.
Yesterday, even more so, they shifted the center ground of politics to a point now where if the LibLabCon do not start to address real issues. The usual PR spin and b/s for not doing so has less credibility now.
They were previously a protest vote, but that is not true any more. All this protest vote b/s is just mainstream party spin and devalues democratic expression by rendering legitimate contrary public expression as being infantile.
UKIP ditching the EU is not a problem. In its current form the EU is not a goer.
Note that UKIP do remain pro Europe itself, and have said absolutely nothing about how they view a future federal Europe set up, only that they are committed to extracting the UK from the current attempt.
This is a correct and very level headed path to follow.
Manufacturing down again — producing useful goods.
Banks losing big money — producing fuck all — just gambling with other peoples’ money — underwritten by the taxpayers
My conclusions — allow the fucking bankers to continue paying themselves grossly excessive bonuses — let manufacturing go to hell
The banks have been engaged in massive fraud, sanctions busting and the narco trade.
They are currently being prosecuted and fined very heavily in the US and elsewhere.
The Tax payer should not be on the hook for these illegal activities, or their legitimate trading losses. !reland has recently made the correct decision, following !celands exemplary lead. Spa!n is also shortly to follow.
The UK tax payer should not be liable for UK commercial bank losses. The Bo.E is the lender of last resort in those circumstances.
Government needs to start implementing legislation modeled on RICO and enforce in order to clean up the Financial Services sector.
The FSA has asked retailers to test beef products for the presence of more than 1% of horsemeat, with anything above that figure considered to be a sign of adulteration.
But FSA FFS don’t test the Lamb products!!
They’re as fucking gormless as the mainstream politicians.
Why are the Financial Services Authority bothering about horsemeat? I thought their specialism was bullsh!t.
This is the Food Standards Authority, but they are only interested in financial fraud, not food adulteration ?
Stay calm
rethink
double our efforts
listen to the people
then VOTE UKIP
Can your majority stand a minus 14% swing in 2015? If not you had better pig down as much swill from the trough as possible before 2015, because you’re your appointment with the abattoir is booked.
UKIP will do jack-shit in a GE. You delusional tw@t!
Would you bet your career on that? By the way, after the GE, there will be proper inquiries into corrupt MPs, unlike the smoke and mirrors we have so far seen
Wait and see — don’t say you weren’t told that Dave is a fucking disaster
Expected response from expected delusional tory arse pirate.
UKIP are not against gays, it’s just that no one wants a gay tory.
You think we know damn nothing, well let me tell you we know damn all !
Eat my shorts
I’ve never liked Chris Bryant. He’s always struck me as the kind of man who’d take a mirror picture of himself in dirty underpants and post it in the internet, declaring that he’d love a good long fuck.
I’m free later baby.
Oh, hang on, you were talking about me.
I just offered to fuck myself. Better late than never.
Thank f*ck he’s not an MP. Because if we had useless filthy perverts like that in Parliament, we’d be truly f*cked.
Now, I shall just google his name and see who he is..
The Tories are fucked. Plain and simple.
*** STOP PRESS ***
The political pygmies of the Press will be spinning all maner of blame left, right and centre on Saturday … But they they get it yet
The Public are not going to take any more of their duplicitous, weasel, rhetoric – nor their doom-mongering, fear-mongering or end of the world global climate change myth-mongering.
typo – They don’t get it yet.
M00dy Bstwrds.
Frankie Maud is a leading light of common purpose – A mongrel
Mad Frankie Maude ?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/311653/Francis-Maude-is-urged-to-quit-over-his-advice
You haven’t been listening to his advice on petrol have you ?
We keep asking Dave if it’s OK to ‘ interview’ Leon Brittan but he won’t respond.
Now with Cliff, that’s a different matter.
On Wednesday my midweek Observer (Slough Observer group) recorded that “Mr Afriyie was one of 10 Royal Borough Tory members who travelled to Eastleigh on Saturday, to canvass for the by-election”.
Clearly his appearance in Hampshire was the kiss of death to Conservative hopes of winning the seat!
Tories vote UKIP because they feel that the “Conservative” party are not conservative
LibDems vote UKIP because whilst they used to vote LibDem as a protest vote, they now realise the LibDems are lying sanctimonious Huhnes like everyone else.
Labour people, particularly northeners, vote UKIP because they don’t share the wierdy beardy metropolitan view of immigration.
It’s almost impossible for the Tories to meet all three problems. Basically they are f**ked!
Quite right! What used to be the Conservative party of Margaret Thatcher is now:
I think the term omnifubar needs to be coined for the Cameron premiership.
Hopefully the mong will not sign B.A.E over to Europe.
I give you a cast iron guarantee I will not sign BAE or anything else over to Europe.
Good Lord, no! I am resolute on the EU; this far, and no further!
Well, perhaps a little bit further.
Toodle pip!
Frans Timmermans has it all wrong – it’s the EU that’s the crocodile, not UKIP.
Who is Frans Timmermans?, OK I don’t really want to know, he must be a c**t of the first water.
Just for the record, and not to irritate you, Frans T!mmermans is a Dutch politician and member of the Netherlands Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid), currently Minister for Foreign Affairs.
He is an official member of the B!lderberger Group.
Churchill said: ‘An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.’
@LS is correct in that the EU is the crocodile, and you are correct in your assessment of T!mmermans.
It should be noted that T!mmermans is very much part of the crocodile, judging by his history of working directly with the Commission, and OSCE.
For anyone who does want to know, he’s the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He gets a mention near the bottom of this :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/01/eastleigh-doubts-cameron-general-election
And – oh dear ! He was born in Maastricht.
Given Eastleigh was and remains a longstanding liberal area David Cameron whilst not wanting to be outvoted by UkIP will read little into the tories not having won.
The UKIP narrative works well with farage coming across strongly as the things he says resonnate with a common held set of opinions… of which the ‘EU costs us too much’ and ‘open immigration problem’ mantras have remained consistent components.
Turnout was down quite strongly and the mid-term urge to kick the coalition is at a real quandry when the target is a heartland territory for one element in this case the libdems. Thus whilst UKIP has picked up a valuable bounce in political standing percentage-wise their new thinking further policy development will now start to appear thin in real terms. Careering into the central ground of british politics is not easy and UKIP do not have any depth …..yet.
The telling comments today were from Tory heartlanders saying they felt ‘hurt’ or ‘ignored’ and that things they are concerned about are not being addressed …but worthy but perhaps not priority welfare reforms and gay marriage were seemingly the main focus. Most recognise that the economic problems were severe when the PM took over and give the governemnt credit for having made good progress but that only has so much currency
for so long.
The Tories cannot be immune to the reality that their atypical core voter will have lost out very badly throughout the low interest rate periods over recent years… they have lost any chance of seeing the inheritance thresholds ever hitting £1m and they just see their consumables rising in cost.
There is nothing in any of the last two and half years to hearten the weary middleground striver’s political enthusiasm and if nothing else this by-election will help David Cameron refocus his ‘more radical ideas dept’ to get their thinking caps on fast before the next election overuns the tory cause completely and we end up with Ed Miliband as PM….a truely sickening prospect.
Eastleigh was for 39 years, from 1955, a Conservative constituency.
It has been under Lib Dem control for 19 years, since the last Conservative MP, St3phen M!lligan was found dead under odd circumstance in 1994.
Chris Huhne was in power 2005, after David Chidgey retired, Thornton succeeded Huhne in 2013 after Huhne was forced to stand down following a guilty plea to charge of perverting the course of justice.
David Chidgey did get into power in 1994 during a period when the Major government was embroiled in issues of sleaze, a large part of which have since been shown to be unfounded left propaganda.
I realised it was tory prior to ’94 but it has become a fairly solid libdem area through which UKIP has chirped a message that rings in the ears of all those who have had enough of all the others…farage has maintained a good ‘public’ following whether it be because he is outspoken on issues that echo or a
colourful character…clearly a bit of both but ukip is currently depthless and I struggle to see how they can promote themselves as a potential government in the uk when their professed focus in on the european elections to an organisation they are pledged to ditch.
They are however an obvious component for the next coalition.
Agreed. Especially on the coalition aspect.
To early to say, but there may be a 5 Star type situation brewing for the next GE here in the UK.
History does not extrapolate well. An x-party stronghold is soon a y-party stronghold.
Democracy of course hinges on the electorate. It is both a strength and a weakness. The debasement of education under Labour has weakened our democracy, as has the importation of millions of immigrants.
What is most important, above all, is the maintenance of democracy. We must be ever vigilant for those who would seek to weaken it.
Afriyie has changed his tune in less than a week. Another fucking tosser like Chuckus Yamoney. Err, what have they got in common that is self-evident?
The Conservatives have lost their historic and natural voting tory churchgoer, which gave them their majority – Jew, Muslim and Christian from all denominations because of this same sex obsession which Cameron LED into the Commons. He did not need to do it and has been blamed. As it progresses he will lose more goodwill. I do not think he will become PM now as the Silent Protest has started. Decent Britains find the matter unacceptable.
The Pope resigned because he could no longer hear God on his watch, Cameron should have the good grace to resign as he can no longer hear the vast majority of his party.
Q’s gadgets aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
Shaken but not stirred
I suspect Dave and other cabinet ministers no longer care, they have put in place enough polices ( selling of schools, outsourcing of the NHS etc ) to ensure they get lots of non exec director roles paying money into their offshore bank accounts for the rest of their careers.
The laugh here is Cameron is the most acceptable face the Tories have.
The right-wing drooling swivel-eyed lunatic element that makes up most of the Tory party (and ukip for that matter) are about as appealing to the average voter as a fresh ‘you-know-what’ in a public swimming pool
Yes, that will be why the majority of voters in this election voted for (supposedly) right wing parties.
Twat.
As evil as Cameron is, and boy is he evil, large parts of the Tory party are far, far, far more evil. Cameron is like an 80s Tory. The rest are ever further to the right. Thatcher’s evil, evil, evil children. and they will eventually depose Cameron (probs after next election). the party will emerge, even more further to the right. The press will continue dragging us further to the right. The centre ground in this country is being dragged right each day, and it will only lead to tragedy for all of us.
Aunt Fanny needs to give you a proper flea in your ear mate!
Bobs
Your in cloud cuckoo land lad…
Tories are moving further to the metropolitan socialist left each day.
Twat.
“Evil” is a nonsense word, suitable for Americans and 3rd world barbarians.
If you are an Englishman, you should be ashamed.
Go to the pub, have a couple of beers and in the morning go for a 5 mile run.
Pull yourself together man!
Failure needed to refocus?
What a load of hocus-pocus
The day that Cameron succeeds
In owt at all the country needs
Hair will be springing from billiards balls
And gobsmacked ghosts from Westminster’s halls
Afriye Translation for the politically. Obtuse :
You ve screwed up for the last time. Cammers.
I want your job and I m going to. Take it
It will. Be me giving the. Leaders. Speech in. September. So. Get ringingthe removers.
The tories gave us the first female prime minister, but whether they will ever agree to an Obarmy lookalike for PM is perhaps debatable as it will go down like a proverbial balloon on fire in the Shires.
Making Alfyie conservative leader would be gift from heaven for ukip.
I hope the Tories do it, they would then lose a lot of deposits and stop splitting the ukip vote.
UKIP would be entirely delighted with the right candidate regardless of skin colour.
The words that have come back to haunt Cameron :
” The good news will keep on coming ! ”
- Borrowing up, not down.
- Ratings agencies downgrade triple A status .
-Tories come third in Eastleigh
Yes, but I’ve used the money from my 299 tax rises to fund India’s space program, African windfarms and Icelandic tourist information offices. And, by Jove, I know how jolly proud this makes you all feel!
Through massively generous foreign aid, I will jolly well buy my way to victory in 2015, what what!
Toodle pip!
Have you considered promoting the cultivation of groundnuts in East Africa ?
have you heard that David Cameron is sitting down with nigel farage to discuss a joint initiative on common domestic and european objectives ?
Ratings agencies are about as truthful and useful as the BBC global warming/climate changing weather forecasting department. To be ignored (and prosecuted for amazing fraudulent shenanigans over the past few years).
But … to someone like Call ME Dave, for whom money will never be a problem, the ‘central issues ARE things like gay marriage, for his chums from Eton, and an unlimited supply of cheap staff from India! How can anyone suggest he’s not attending to what are, to him, the central issues of the day?
Oh, no : not England’s Obama, again …
An Afro Chukka Bumma
“It would be easy to start throwing our weight around”
Fuck off – you think you are going to force people to vote for you, khunt?
Hes incapable of getting it right because he doesnt know right from wrong, lets have a Tory PM for a change its been too long.