Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:49 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Being in opposition, especially in a party that has less than an outside chance of ever having a sniff of power must be the easiest job in the world, you can sit and criticise all day long for five years and no-one will ever ask your advice

Bit like the LibDems......until they finally got a bit of power and found out how very very difficult it is to keep their promises in the real world

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:55 pm  

I thought UKIP's biggest masterstroke was getting a free 1 hour party political broadcast on primetime BBC1 last night, under the title 'Motorway Cops'.

A drunken, gormless looking Polish van driver, that bladdered that he actually p!ssed himself....Groups of impoverished, weasley looking Romanians roaming our road networks, stealing all our cables....All capped off with the coppers saying how this type of crime never existed until the last 10 years, which happily coincides with the opening up of the UK borders to any Tom, Dick and Harry from the wonderful Euroland....

Farage and his crew must have been sat at home thinking all the Christmasses had come at once!!...

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:15 pm  

Lord Elpers wrote:

Bit like the LibDems......until they finally got a bit of power and found out how very very difficult it is to keep their promises in the real world

Yes indeed.
Surprised no-one mentioned that.

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:10 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Yes indeed.
Surprised no-one mentioned that.

Indeed
Suprised I never mentioned it really...

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:45 pm  

The Lib Dems are not in power though, neither are the Tories although people seem to think they are.

Compromise government.

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:18 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

The Lib Dems are not in power though, neither are the Tories although people seem to think they are.

An entirely valid point. The argument could be made that, for 30-odd years, to some extent or other, big business and big finance have been in power.

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:23 pm  

Mintball wrote:

An entirely valid lint. The argument could be made that, for 30-odd years, to some extent or other, big business and big finance have been in power.

You pays your money!!

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:48 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

You pays your money!!

That's not what democracy means, though.

In fact, quite the opposite.

Good to know where you stand though, Sal.

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:26 pm  

Mintball wrote:

That's not what democracy means, though.

In fact, quite the opposite.

Good to know where you stand though, Sal.

What does democracy mean - the will of the majority?

For a start <70% of those eligible to vote did so of those - of those only 10.7m voted for the Tories so 36% of those that i.e. 36% of 65% turnout giving 24% of the total eligible to vote - hardly the will of the majority?

Are you suggesting bigger business should be ignored?

I am sure you liked it more when the likes of Jack Jones and Gormley told Harold what to do - more your cup of tea!!

Re: UKIP masterstroke : Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:12 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

What does democracy mean - the will of the majority?

For a start <70% of those eligible to vote did so of those - of those only 10.7m voted for the Tories so 36% of those that i.e. 36% of 65% turnout giving 24% of the total eligible to vote - hardly the will of the majority?

Are you suggesting bigger business should be ignored?

I am sure you liked it more when the likes of Jack Jones and Gormley told Harold what to do - more your cup of tea!!

Yet your mates in government and the idiot in charge of London, would like to ignore a trades union strike decision unless a majority of the members, not the voters, decide to strike.

The irony of representation is lost on them