I voted for the first time in a general election to prevent labour or tory being able to rail through their austerity measures untempered. We can't allow these parties of capitalism, these apologists for statism and capital to go unchecked.
A Hung Parliament
Ideally I would be able to replace capitalism with something better now the bankers and statists have been shown up for the shower of sharks they are. The politicians haven't been given a clear mandate to shit on high on us. The bankers, every one of them, are still on borrowed time.
They might act like they know what's going on, but they are shitting themselves at the thought of people acting for themselves. They are afraid of working class people taking control of and self managing their own lives. And so they should be...
They might act like they know what's going on, but they are shitting themselves at the thought of people acting for themselves. They are afraid of working class people taking control of and self managing their own lives. And so they should be...
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Que?
23.05.2010 20:03
Only me
Reason why
24.05.2010 08:07
Get your thinking caps on and figure out something better; then we'll smash the state and roll it out.
Reason
Oi - 44-year-old political mastermind
24.05.2010 09:55
Right - you say your motivating factor for voting in this election was to limit the "austerity measures" that are going to hit public services.
And you thought the best way to do that was to vote for a hung parliament.
So now - as a direct consequence of the hung parliament - we've now a Tory-Lib Dem coalition that's going to bring in austerity measures *faster and harder* than Labour had planned.
So you've messed that up, then.
Norvello
Let's wait and see
24.05.2010 17:05
If you believe the new labour line that's your problem. I bet you believe the opportunistic twats who now declare themselves against the iraq/afghan/never ending war.
Most of us think they should be hung in the hung parliament.
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How much tempering happened yesterday?
25.05.2010 09:24
Of course austerity measures were coming, no matter which of the three main parties got in. The question was, which party would cut the most, and the fastest.
You believed a hung parliament would, as you put it, temper the austerity measures. Well, you were proven badly, badly wrong yesterday.
In case you missed it, the Tories set out £6.25 billion in spending cuts. It's hard to see which, if any, of those were "tempered" by the Lib Dems, who backed the package. Indeed the Lib Dems had backed many of the cuts ahead of the election, including the one to child trust funds.
Hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds of those cuts were to services which Labour had specifically said they would protect.
Don't change the subject to Labour and the wars - I never voted for Labour. Just accept that your grand announcement about the benefits of hung parliaments has been shown to be dodgy.
Norvello
why did you
25.05.2010 16:16
bother voting?
The bigger picture
27.05.2010 17:09
You believed a hung parliament would, as you put it, temper the austerity measures. Well, you were proven badly, badly wrong yesterday."
You read like some lame sky journalist trying to create the news for herself. I wasn't proven wrong, because I never asked that question.
"In case you missed it, the Tories set out £6.25 billion in spending cuts. It's hard to see which, if any, of those were "tempered" by the Lib Dems, who backed the package. Indeed the Lib Dems had backed many of the cuts ahead of the election, including the one to child trust funds.
Hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds of those cuts were to services which Labour had specifically said they would protect.
Don't change the subject to Labour and the wars - I never voted for Labour. Just accept that your grand announcement about the benefits of hung parliaments has been shown to be dodgy."
It's okay the election is over now, you don't have to pretend you don't have allegiances to the statists/stalinists who drove the new labour project right through the civil liberties of the people of this country. I look forward to the repealing of the most autocratic statist legislation I have ever endured.
Look out for the 44 year old dancing in the street when we get rid of the ID card database, the DNA database, and onward to a less surveilled and more open society...
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