Tory landslide inevitable - maybe

.. oh, and I forgot ....

include sufficient modest, bed-sit accomodation in the new building, rather than this "second-homes" garbage !

I agree, and would add

Make them legally obliged to deliver on their manifesto, and if they don't, they forfeit the chance of running in the next election.

I would also add...

Make lying in a public statement akin to perjury, so that ther is a slight incentive for politicians to become more honest. This would also remove the disadvantage one would gain from telling the truth whilst 'the other man' is lying through his/her teeth to get elected.

Kinda but no

The resolver model is based around a specific part of the ICM survey. ICM ask respondents how the voted in the last election, and then how they will vote in the next election. This gives a much better idea of how voters move in between parties from election to election, and therefore provides a much better template on a per constituency basis for analysing the potential result.

I also agree...

...and would like to further add that the only way I will be able to cope with the next election is if the Tory party are somehow eradicated in an 'accidental' Tory party conference incident.

The desire to punch David Cameron and George Osborn in their smug narrow grins is too much to handle!!

Outrageous - poor people can vote to????

> Electoral geography creates a Labour bias within our electoral system.

My god - you're telling me that a poor persons vote counts the same as mine?

Disgraceful I say - surely some system based on the size of my house/ number of cars I own/foreign holidays I take/newspaper I read would be fairer and more equitable?

And while we are at it - the capability for us to vote the lot out at a moments notice on the whim of the Daily Mail as well - that way we can have the populist mob rule we've always dreamed of!

yes, but

I'm all for mandatory voting but the ballot paper needs to then include "none of the above" as an option.

If a constituency's "NOTA" then gained a majority, they shouldn't send a representative to the Commons. This would then incentivize the would be politicians to actually engage with their local electorate. Worst case we save a pot of brass on politician's wages and expenses. Best case we get politicians who actually give a fig about their constituency.

Paris, 'cos she'd get my vote.

Most Tory supporters

seem to be smug gits who think that they'll never be unemployed or ill or poor or old. If any aren't then they must be just delusional, or like being ordered about by posh people(as many working class people do have inferiority complexes the size of Birmingham and think they deserve it)

Oh get a grip.

We're going to get a Tory government either way, and at least the official Tory Party is slighter left wing than the "Tory Plan B".

@beelzebub

Nice idea, making lying illegal. Remind yourself of that when the kids' hamster dies or you forget the flowers on monthers' day :-)

Meanwhile, politicians actually need to lie sometimes. "All our ships were sunk, we're all doomed" is somehow less likely to improve morale than "the enemy gained a minor tactical victory but we're fighting back".

And then there's the problem of defining what a lie is: "I intend to stamp out child poverty" isn't a guarantee that the speaker will succeed, and who's to say he didn't genuinely hope to do it?

Vote Local

I'll be voting for the best candidate to represent me, not Labour since it's Meg Hitler (deliberate misspelling).

I could never bring myself to vote Tory, I'd rather spoil my ballot.

Stuff the Polls and Swings.

Why should people take it for granted that the next Government is going to be a Tory one? Just because part of the daily media are in Tory overdrive to annoy the hell out of our Unelected Prime Minister, does not mean a damn thing at this point in time. No matter how much talk there is about the Tories, it does not equate to a Tory victory come next May/June (assuming that's a good time for the country to go to the polls).

Furthermore, the pollsters should keep a beady eye on those pesky Liberals for keeping quiet at the right times, and allowing the wart hogs of Cameron, Osborne and co. to whore themselves out to the media with very little in the way of sound, solid and convincing policies to win over the electorate.

In addition, as a nation we've already experienced just many years of bleakness with Tories running this country, and for them to be replaced with Blairs Nu-Cheka. People don't simply forget about the hardships and sufferings endured under the previous Tory Governments, and therefore possibly less likely to forgive and vote for them, and it's possible these same people put their faith into Blairs Nu-(cheka)-Labour, only to find that they have been defecated on from a great height once more. It's Time For A Change.

Either give the Liberals (who may do better, if they were to form an alliance with the Green Party) a chance (they cannot be any worse than what we have now or had previously, can they?)

Or lets go with a hung parliament, that way all parties become responsible and held to account, and if they mess up, then perhaps we the people can have serious reform brought about to this draconian way of being Governed.

This sums it up

When a previous election wa sbeing held , a friend of mine was disturbed by the tory party people knocking on the door and cheerily asking

"Are you going to be voting tory in this election?"

My friend noticing the labou people were doing the other side of the road , pointed to them and replied:

"No, I'm going to be voting for that other bunch of lying cheating bastards"

Gawd knows what the aliens make of us

@In a true democracy

There hasn't been a true democracy since the fall of Athens.

The defecation habits of ursine mammals...

Occur primarily in arboreal areas.

There really is very little choice out there. Gorgon Broon and his bunch of Fascists, David "Tony B Liar lite" Cameroon, or the Limp Dems

God we're screwed (!)

Me? I will vote, but not for the current incumbents, and I can't bear the thought of voting tory. I have too long a memory for that.

I suppose I'll either vote Lib Dems, or some other bunch.

Ideally a hung parliament would be good. Its at times like this, that the local MP's actually have a bit more influence, so can be "Persuaded" to do the right thing.

I don't know where I read it, but it feels like a truism, that parties don't win elections. The opposition just loses them

@Mycho

So you're in favour for repealing votes for women and slaves?

Change the system

to MMP (Mixed Member Proportional ) system like down here in New Zealand.

It is fairly effective in preventing little Hitlers from doing what they like.

The party with the most votes gets to form a Government but they need support from others to get acts passed in Parliament .

It must be good because our present Prime Minister doesn't like it.

The icon is what most politicians deserve.

Summing it up for IT in a Brain Washing Sentence

"Gawd knows what the aliens make of us" .... By Boris the Cockroach Posted Monday 27th July 2009 16:47 GMT

Boris,

Surely, they would realise the Default Stupidity in Man and as a Kindness would Sublimely Take Over Critical Strategic Communications InfraStructures with IT and Media Controls which Beta Manage Human Perceptions and Present an Alternative ProgramMING.

Oh, and they would most probably also PreAdvise you of the Facility Transparently on a Global InterNetworking Communications Web, in Order to Search for the Best of any Present and Prescient Higher Human Intelligence to Partner and Drive the Stealthy Renegade Renaissance Train, Virtually, from an Untouchable Space of their Creation. And there would be countless numbers of such Intangibles 42 Guarantee Unqualified Success.

And Dogged Disbelief in the Possibilty Ensures ITs Currency and Presence, even whenever it is Posited and Shared to be an Inevitable Future Certain Probability too, and Cloak IT with Cloudy Layers of Cover, in Order to Allow and accomodarte the Chaos Element to Play its Bespoke Part, Measured and Made to Order, for Major and Minor Roles/Virtual Bit Parts in what would be, undoubtedly, something more than just a Global Crisis one could choose to Ignore and Deny for even a Plausible Denial is Real Evidence of the Virtual Reality Actuality.

And you have been also advised AIdDirectly via Closed MIChannels/VPNChunnels too, [and here is a Convenient Identification Marker of one such Who/What/Where/When Contact for Investigative Inquiry with the following Time/Date/Location Information Stream ..... 0915200907232https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/contact-form.html ..... Reporting/Importing/Exporting Suspected Threats/Suspect Novel Threads, Subjectively ....... and also BetaTesting Assured AIR&dDevelopments with Advanced IntelAIgent Virtual Defence Systems for the Silent Operation of Highly Unconventional and Irregular Asymmetric Attack Theatres of ........ well I do believe it is Masked Conventionally in such Ethereal Phrases as Play with Human Consciousness in the Great Game and New World Orders, to name but Two ..... but Any and All would be/are just Simple Advanced ProgramMING of Binary Numbers for Digital Signal Manipulation/Realisation of Future Actuality.

"International actors in the current era have awakened to the potential of such “unconventional”

methods for compelling an enemy to do one’s will. Avoiding the advantages of U.S. military power, these international actors seek to erode the ability of the United States to employ that comparative advantage. Using the other instruments of power—especially the informational — they seek to employ what is variably referred to as “irregular,” “asymmetric,” or “unrestricted” warfare. Even when violence is joined, direct methods are generally avoided for the classic techniques of guerrilla warfare, terrorism, sabotage,subversion, and insurgency." .... http://wikileaks.org/leak/us-fm3-05-130.pdf

And you can be assured that things have moved on quite considerably InterNetionally from that Paranoid MilitaristIQ View ..... and is moving on at a quite extraordinary pace, which by such IntelAIgent Design, results with Most Unaware and in its Wake as IT Consolidates and Exercises Leading Control Positions in AI and an Alienating Semantic Web of Programs/Future Projects.

But that is Progress …. via ITs Confusion at a Higher Level Portal?

amanfromMars....

....for Prime Minister!