The United Kingdom Elections 2010

[Furunculus]

You are a wealthy young man, living at the peak of a wealthy time for this country. Your knowledge and experience of the world are limited. You mistake what you have through luck as what you deserve and what you believe with what suits your circumstances.

Some of us have seen these cycles come and go. And we are about to see it happen again.

as i consider the approach of my mid thirties, looking back at the times when i have been an executive director, unemployed, self-employed and more, currently living in a deprived part of britain, previously having lived in africa, as well as quite some time in rural poland, i fail to recognise in myself that silver-spoon attitude that makes me impervious to the needs of others......?

[Idaho]

as i consider the approach of my mid thirties, looking back at the times when i have been an executive director, unemployed, self-employed and more, currently living in a deprived part of britain, previously having lived in africa, as well as quite some time in rural poland, i fail to recognise in myself that silver-spoon attitude that makes me impervious to the needs of others......?

None are so blind as those who will not see.

[InsaneApache]

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Indeed.

[shlin28]

Instant polls said Cameron did best in the latest debate, followed by Clegg then Brown. Cleggmania was only a temporary phenomenon I guess...

[Subotan]

Instant polls said Cameron did best in the latest debate, followed by Clegg then Brown. Cleggmania was only a temporary phenomenon I guess...

I've looked through the various newspaper websites from the Guardian through to the Torygraph, and I haven't see any which could replicate a similar answer to what the poll commissioned by Sky News could find. I smell a rat.

[CountArach]

Instant polls said Cameron did best in the latest debate, followed by Clegg then Brown. Cleggmania was only a temporary phenomenon I guess...

Nope. All 3 of the real polling companies (ie - not internet polls) who have polled it thus far have the leaders within margin of error. 1 has Cameron winning, 2 have Clegg. Clegg didn't have the same surprise factor that he had last time and as such the expectations were higher - thus making it harder to 'win' a debate.

[InsaneApache]

It's certainly one of the most unknowable elections for many a year. It's anyones to win or lose. Except Brown that is. He's toast.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

It's certainly one of the most unknowable elections for many a year. It's anyones to win or lose. Except Brown that is. He's toast.

This is, unsurprisingly, under-reported here. Would it be possible for Brown to win by having both other major candidates split more or less evenly and allow his party to edge both of the others out narrowly? Or do the polls suggest that that is an impossibility?

[Furunculus]

None are so blind as those who will not see.

What straight-jacket?

Clegg makes the fair point that a view of history best left to the schoolyard and football stadium, has an altogether too large influence on civilised English society. Best to leave 'Two World Wars and One World Cup' to the football stands. (Never mind that the World Cup and at least one World War owe a good deal to Russians. Never mind too that it has never occurred to the singers of it that German fans, Europe's most succesful football nation, are of course not the least bit impressed by foreigners celebrating their one little success of fifty years ago)


Perhaps the real significance is that Murdoch send his bloodhounds to scour over the whole of Clegg's past, and this non-issue is the best they could dig up.

simply unimportant, and thus still utter bobbins.
thanks for the biblical style metaphor, but what of substance were you trying to say...............?

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just watched the foriegn policy debate; all came over well, but nick clegg interrupted a lot, had fewer good answers, and gordon got shot down a lot.

[Myrddraal]

simply unimportant, and thus still utter bobbins.

Couldn't agree more, but the Telegraph managed to make a big deal of it. All it takes is a bit of creative quoting, and you get people saying "I don't want to be governed by this anti-British "

I couldn't watch the debate

[Louis VI the Fat]

I couldn't watch the debate

I'm watching much of it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/