General Election

by craig on April 6, 2010 9:22 am in The Election

So it looks like we are off, with New Labour buoyed by an obviously rogue telephone poll in the Guardian, taken by ICM over the Easter weekend, when only New Labour supporters are sad enough to be answering their telephones in the hope that somebody likes them.

I shall be supporting the Lib Dems as the most progressive mainstream party, but with great concern about their lack of enlightenment over the diasatrous Afghan War, which claimed yet another British soldier yesterday, and doubtless several unreported Afghans. The great scandal of this election will be the conspiracy by the main parties to prevent any debate on Afghanistan.

This is why we should be debating our support for America’s imperial wars:

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/04/05/wikileaks-video.aspx

Sky News has gone opinion poll crazy this morning. Here is my prediction of the final outcome of the UK election in terms of vote share:

Conservative 38

New Labour 28

Lib Dem 24

Others 10

I will work out a prediction for seats later.

Meanwhile, today is Nadira’s birthday, so no more blogging till tomorrow.

37 Comments

  1. Suhayl Saadi

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:00 am

    Happy Birthday!

  2. Woody

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:18 am

    Happy birthday to your good lady, Craig.

    The LibDems are a hopeless case mainly thanks to their freaky un critical support for the corrupt EU. For that reason alone they’ll never do better than the 24% you suggest.

    I saw the Wikileaks video before logging on. Such brave gung-ho lads the Americans, so eager to pull the trigger on unarmed or lightly armed resisters. Just like their friends the Israelis.

    What we need next is footage of a murderous attack by an armed drone accompanied by similar disgusting chit-chat from the courageous armchair warriors steering and directing it.

  3. Stevie

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:24 am

    Anyone contemplating going back to Labour should watch the video in this link and have a good think. It was Labour that took us into this war. Just listen to the pilots voice at the end of the clip. They were innocent civillians passing by trying to rescue other civillians who had been murdered. Absolutely sickening and people need to remember this before they put an ‘X’ next to Labour

    http://www.france24.com/en/20100406-wikileaks-iraq-video-us-military-helicopter-killing-civilians-reuters-staff

  4. Suhayl Saadi

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:41 am

    Here’s my prediction, pulled off the side of the moon: the Conservatives will have an overall majority in seats of around 25. Turnout will be the lowest ever for a UK General Election.

  5. Abe Rene

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:05 am

    First, the important matter: Happy Birthday, Nadira!

    And now for lesser matters, election prediction. O ye of little faith! Here’s a better prediction, with my comments about earlier predictions.

    Put an Honest man into Parliament: 100 per cent. You do want an honest man in parliament, don’t you?

    New Labour: Zero. Comment on prediction of 28% regarding party position: Communist propaganda.

    Tories: Zero. Comment on prediction of 38% regarding party position: Capitalist propaganda.

    Lib Dems: Zero. Comment on prediction of 24% regarding party position: What position?

    Others: Don’t matter.

  6. mary

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:07 am

    I hope that this does mean ‘Happy Birthday’ Nadira.

    Tug’ilgan kuningiz bilan!

  7. Vronsky

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:21 am

    I’d slightly re-word your forecast, Craig.

    Conservatives 38

    Conservatives 28

    Conservatives 24

    Others 10

    I’ll be voting ‘Other’.

  8. Woody

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:37 am

    Rise again Lord Sutch.

  9. Frazer

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:43 am

    Happy Birthday Nadira…big hugs xxx

  10. Suhayl Saadi

    6 Apr, 2010 - 11:54 am

    Abe, I assume you were being partly humorous, but… do you think New Labour is a communist party???

  11. Ishmael

    6 Apr, 2010 - 12:23 pm

    I wonder what would happen if you were invited ‘back in’ to the establishment? The lib dems offer no difference. I am aware that it is better being on the inside and creating change for the benefit of humanity than being on the outside moaning about it, and therefore unable to do anything. Good strategy. Happy birthday to your partner.

  12. Vronsky

    6 Apr, 2010 - 1:52 pm

    “Rise again Lord Sutch.”

    Said Lord pbuh once gave me a One Million Pound Note. Of course it wouldn’t be legal currency until the government of the country was taken over by raving loonies, he said.

    Now that that has happened I see his promise being fulfilled, as my loony pounds approach the same worth as sterling.

  13. mary

    6 Apr, 2010 - 2:38 pm

    It’s not as much fun as that one where you threw shoes at Bush, but this one allows you to slap the three party leaders.

    A bit creaky at the moment probably due to overload.

    http://www.slapometer.com/

  14. Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    6 Apr, 2010 - 3:07 pm

    Murdering bastards – No RPG’s in sight – a shoot-em-up video game that pulped the stomach of a little girl and murdered Reuters reporters. Who cares though Mr Blair? You’all OK – got the dollars Bush promised you from Kuwait!!

  15. Freeborn

    6 Apr, 2010 - 3:19 pm

    Britain is bankrupt and the synarchy is desperate for an austerity and eugenics package worldwide beginning here in the UK to maintain their financial control over us.

    Election Prediction:Massive Vote-Rigging mainly to keep Labour in touch but ultimately to guarantee the result sought by the elite:coalition government.

    Only a coalition in which a pliable cadre of traitors to humanity will bleed us with steep tax increases and minimal public service provision can save the current financial system.

    Expect disappearing ballot boxes and a serious false-flag event if the shadow government thinks at any time things are not moving in their direction.

    Expect to choke on the volume of hot air and disinformation put before you throughout the campaign.

    If they don’t mention the Bank of England,the Rothschilds Inter Alpha Money Trust or the fact that we are utterly bankrupt they’re lying to you!

  16. Anonymous

    6 Apr, 2010 - 3:21 pm

    Suhayl

    Neo Labour is stalinism without the welfare.

  17. Clark

    6 Apr, 2010 - 3:22 pm

    Happy birthday to Nadira!

  18. Vronsky

    6 Apr, 2010 - 4:34 pm

    “Neo Labour is stalinism without the welfare.”

    Nah, it’s fascism without the rallies. Oh, wait…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOgB3Smvro

  19. ingo

    6 Apr, 2010 - 5:09 pm

    Happy birthday to Nadira, may she keep happy healthy and as beautifull as ever.

    I hope the Lib Dems, Independents and greens do well and we end up with a hung Parliament.

    Then they have to worlk together and sort it out, there should be no second election, they should be forced to work together in a pragmatic way.

    Me, I do not vote in general elections but would vote Indepedent, green or lib dem, in that order.

    Enjoy your birthday party.

  20. Anonymous

    6 Apr, 2010 - 5:17 pm

    Stevie

    yes the video footage is horrendous,

    what murdering bastards they all are!

    just makes you wonder what else has gone on and has ben recorded.

    if this was shown on BBC news would the public still vote for lib lab con. i guess most would not change their vote.

    it went on in a foreign country would be the view i’m afraid to say, none of our business…

  21. ingo

    6 Apr, 2010 - 6:43 pm

    Pleasae do follow through with publicising this video and the cover up, it is vital that Constituency get to know who we are calling our special relationship.

    baha Moussa was not the only one, everyone is tainted and there is no change on the horizon.

    Afghanistan will be pushed into civil war, it is not tennable that the Nortrhern alliance is predominant in the army and police,thats a receipe for disater many conflicts and finally a full blown civil war, with us in the middle of it.

    Let us remind each and every newspaper forum that the time has come for reckoning.

  22. writerman

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:10 pm

    I won’t be voting in the coming election. I can’t seem to raise any enthusiasm for a “choice” between three factions of the same tired, old, incompetent, conservative party. Meaningful democracy died out around the time of the Falklands War and the onslaught on the organised working class, known as the 1984 miner’s strike. Since that tainted era it’s all been down hill as precious resources and decades were thrown away on a witches’ sabbat disguised as a party.

  23. alan campbell

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:22 pm

    I’d just like to say that I won’t be voting in the coming election as I’m far too self-important and pretentious.

    Craig – I’d go Cons 38%, Labour 30%, Lib Dems 21%, others 11%. Maybe wishful thinking has influenced your prediction?

  24. Ruth

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:46 pm

    I completely agree with Freeborn when he says:

    ‘Election Prediction:Massive Vote-Rigging mainly to keep Labour in touch but ultimately to guarantee the result sought by the elite:coalition government.

    Only a coalition in which a pliable cadre of traitors to humanity will bleed us with steep tax increases and minimal public service provision can save the current financial system.

    Expect disappearing ballot boxes and a serious false-flag event if the shadow government thinks at any time things are not moving in their direction.’

    I think there’ll also be a lot of putting off the counts to the following morning which gives the intelligence services time and opportunity to switch boxes.

  25. alan campbell

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:48 pm

    “I think there’ll also be a lot of putting off the counts to the following morning which gives the intelligence services time and opportunity to switch boxes.”

    Hilarious. Let’s have another one, please.

  26. Ruth

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:54 pm

    My prediction is that there’ll be a coalition government, which will switch to government of National Unity possibily as a result of a false flag operation but more likely from revelations about the real state of the economy, which is dire and has been dire for the past ten years but has been kept together up by massive national and international fraud of all descriptions.

  27. Ruth

    6 Apr, 2010 - 9:58 pm

    Sorry,

    I meant to say that the state of the economy has been dire for the last twenty years not ten.

  28. alan campbell

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:00 pm

    No, please! Pray cease, lest my sides split!

  29. Anonymous

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:06 pm

    Politics don’t vote for them, organise voting groups and get support in those important catchment areas, even vote for your mother.

  30. anno

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:28 pm

    It will be impossible for the Conservatives to ask for a EU bail-out or to de-value the pound, or submit to tough controls from the IMF. Their strategy will be to sell UK plc to Global plc, and catch a few bucks in dodgy share deals for themselves.

    Gordon Brown has proved that he will submit to any scheme provided he stays in power. Lie back and think of Britain, should be his election motto. He will join the Euro, de-value the pound and submit to the IMF telling him to sell UK plc to Global plc and catch a few bucks for themselves.

    New Labour looks like an easy lay, but Tories tart has got a bit more class. They could privatise the NHS, doctors surgeries and pharmaceutical side. They could privatise parts of the legal system and formalise the lobby industry’s control over parliament.

    Look for more seedy decline from New Labour and soaring debt. Look for heart-stopping gall of asset stripping from the Tories. I agree with Ruth that it is a close run thing and by no means cut and dried. If New labour is a good imitation of Conservative, the public know that Cameron is dangerously extreme Right Wing of Thatcher’s last stand.

    Nobody in their right mind will ever vote Conservative again. But I’m not sure that middle England is in its right mind. They’ve lost money, lots of it, in the last year and a half. It’s not cricket or croquet, or funny to be fleeced by that horrible Scottish ( their prejudice, not mine,) bounder Gordon Brown.

  31. mary

    6 Apr, 2010 - 10:53 pm

    Who is this Alan Campbell? Any relation of the execrable Alastair by any chance or perhaps one and the same? Oh no – sorry – he’s working in the NuLabour election bunker and much too busy to waste time trolling here.

  32. Anonymous

    7 Apr, 2010 - 12:16 am

    they really must be shitting themselves in that bunker as it really does hit the fan

  33. anno

    7 Apr, 2010 - 6:30 am

    New Labour is bio-degradable. Everything that has been spun can also be unspun. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown will join Mrs Thatcher as some of the unspun heroes of our time.

  34. Jon

    7 Apr, 2010 - 1:53 pm

    I am inclined in the same direction as Vronsky – vote “other” regardless of who it “lets in”. I am fed up of New Labourites who talk about “letting in the Tories”. I don’t dismiss the Tories as harmless, but if Labour get a trouncing they will have brought it upon themselves, as well as any subsequent worsening of the inequality gap under the Tories.

    @writerman – I don’t blame you for not voting, but will you at least spoil a paper? Anything other than that is recorded as a vote for apathy, not a vote for “none of the above”.

  35. Uzbek refugee in the UK

    7 Apr, 2010 - 3:06 pm

    Dear Mr Murray,

    First of all, Happy Birthday to Nadira. I wish her all the best

    Secondly, my apologies for that this is not related to UK elections, but I was just wondering whether you have seen a speech that current British Ambassador to Uzbekistan has delivered on 10th March. It is HUGE shame for British government and for FCO that they replaced you with this Oxbridge Rupert Joy who according to his speech is more concerned with climate change and history of Uzbekistan than with thousands of political prisoners and torture.

    Here is this infamous speech

    http://ukinuzbekistan.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=Speech&id=21996817

  36. Polo

    7 Apr, 2010 - 8:04 pm

    Craig

    That speech is your complete vindication. Says it all.

  37. Abe Rene

    7 Apr, 2010 - 9:06 pm

    Suhayl:

    Someone made this point – I was referring to creeping authoritarianism, coupled with corruption and dishonesty, all aspects of tne Soviet state.

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