(April 30, 2015 at 5:16 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: The Green Party sticks to their founding principles. Only thing I really disagree with is their stance on power generated by Nuclear Fission because newer reactors are so much more efficient and safer.

That seems to be a bit problem with Green Peace as well. They support some worthy causes, yet also some where the science doesn't support their viewpoint e.g. GM food.

Not that other parties are any more scientifically literate.

(April 29, 2015 at 7:17 am)robvalue Wrote: ...

Sadly some new versions of research such as stem cell and growing live (but not sentient) tissue to experiment on have been blocked in America at least because they are "unethical". What they really mean is "ungodly and icky" as they are actually completely ethical, and would replace a dubious-at-best testing on animals system. ....

You Brits are amateurs when it comes to batshit crazy.  We in America are NUMBER ONE!!!!


And remember, we have a lot of nuclear weapons, too, and are the ONLY country to ever have used them in war.  Sweet dreams!

(April 30, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I don't live in the UK anymore and don't plan to again in my life

I wouldn't vote UKIP but otherwise that's exactly my sentiment right now. I'm leaving at the first opportunity I get, although it still probably won't be for a while yet.

I'm woefully ignorant on UK politics, but is there a British equivalent of the Tea Party in the UK? Hyper-libertarian, very religious, nearly-anarchist nutty people?

Does anyone take Miliband at his word when he says he won't go into government with the SNP? I believe him, i don't think he would explicitly promise he wouldn't if he intended to go back on it, people wouldn't let him live it down. It can't be a last ditch attempt to convince Scottish voters to vote Labour because if the opinion polls are to be believed they'd need to win about 20-30 seats in Scotland to be able to form a coalition without the SNP which he can't possibly believe will happen

So if neither of the main parties will do a deal with the SNP then unless the opinion polls are drastically wrong it's impossible for either of them to be able to form a government and it's hard to see how that will ever be the case even after a second election unless the voting system changes or Scotland stops voting SNP which won't happen until they get independence

Are we gonna be like Belgium after this election where we just don't have a government for a while until the first past the post system is changed?

I stopped paying attention to Question Time last night after Miliband said that, the campaign rhetoric and promises are all pointless if no-one can actually get elected

I'm not too up on that particular topic, but I don't trust milliband in general. Especially after this recent attempt to attack free speech with his complete misunderstanding of "islamophobia". I actually find him less believable and trustworthy than Cameron and that's saying something.

I can see this election being the closest yet and I wouldn't rule anything out.

To be honest I don't understand how English parties teaming up with Scottish ones actually works or what it means.

(May 1, 2015 at 9:59 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm not too up on that particular topic, but I don't trust milliband in general. Especially after this recent attempt to attack free speech with his complete misunderstanding of "islamophobia". I actually find him less believable and trustworthy than Cameron and that's saying something.

Ooh I didn't hear about this, but it doesn't surprise me. It's very Labour-ite

I trust him more than Cameron, but only marginally, and definitely more than I ever trusted Gordon Brown. Cameron and Brown are snakes.