Ot- May calls for election in June.

[roger_ramjet]

My choice of movie would be The Usual Suspects

[RedBasie]

My choice of movie would be The Usual Suspects

Why does your latest avatar look like Jimmy Saville ?

[roger_ramjet]

That is a fair comment! It is the cartoon character from which the name comes...

[Oldtimeram]

I know i should probably take an interest, but politics bores the pants off me and I think the majority of politicians are parasites and are downright dodgy.

[ramAnag]

I know i should probably take an interest, but politics bores the pants off me and I think the majority of politicians are parasites and are downright dodgy.

I agree with you completely about the politicians OTR, but like it or not, it is all going to effect you.

[roger_ramjet]

But regretably I think a Conservative landslide is what we will get.

As a matter of interest, did you vote in the Labour leadership election? The reason I ask is that I have observed, and eventually stuck my ample nose into, a number of discussions dominated by folk who 'want' the Conservatives out of power, see Corbyn as the biggest obstacle to that, but couldn't be arsed to do the obvious thing about it, join the Labour Party and vote him out. Anyone who espouses socialist/welfare-focussed ideals yet didn't take the golden opportunity to make their vote REALLY count (in 2015 and even more so in 2016) only have themselves to blame for possibly a generation of 'never kick a man unless he's down' government.

This doesn't give any indication how I will vote by the way, its just an observation!

I'm not sure about that Andy, but 6 of my friends / colleagues paid their pennies and joined the labour party in order to vote FOR Corbyn as leader. They are dyed in the wool Tory supporters and saw this as the best way to ensure the perpetuation of conservative rule. Who is to say that they are wrong but what a strange world we live in!

[Andy_Faber]

I'm not sure about that Andy, but 6 of my friends / colleagues paid their pennies and joined the labour party in order to vote FOR Corbyn as leader. They are dyed in the wool Tory supporters and saw this as the best way to ensure the perpetuation of conservative rule. Who is to say that they are wrong but what a strange world we live in!

They may be right and yes it is a strange world. I have only voted tactically once, and that was at a karaoke competition in Majorca maybe 15 years ago. Scene of my only ever rendition of foreigner's 'I want to know what love is' if you are interested, a song I realised just too late required a range I didn't possess.

[ramAnag]

They may be right and yes it is a strange world. I have only voted tactically once, and that was at a karaoke competition in Majorca maybe 15 years ago. Scene of my only ever rendition of foreigner's 'I want to know what love is' if you are interested, a song I realised just too late required a range I didn't possess.

Voting tactically and joining something to deliberately put a spanner in the works are surely two quite different things. The first requires a degree of insight and intelligence...the second is just fundamentally dishonest.
'I want to know what love is'...big, big range...did your tactics work?

[roger_ramjet]

Voting tactically and joining something to deliberately put a spanner in the works are surely two quite different things. The first requires a degree of insight and intelligence...the second is just fundamentally dishonest.
'I want to know what love is'...big, big range...did your tactics work?

I am intrigued, Anag. What is dishonest about joining a political party and exercising your right to vote? You might question their motives, but dishonest?? No.

[ramAnag]

I am intrigued, Anag. What is dishonest about joining a political party and exercising your right to vote? You might question their motives, but dishonest?? No.

Surely in such circumstances motives and honesty are synonymous Rog. It is, imo, dishonest, dishonourable and completely lacking in integrity to join something with the express intention of damaging it. If your friends feel so strongly about Tory supremacy over Labour then shouldn't they be prepared to argue the case rather than acting as 'fifth columnists' and furtively 'joining' something in order to destroy it from within?

Dishonest in my book...perhaps disingenuous might be a better description.