16000 votes

[DaveB]

That rather shows your bias doesn't it?

Btw, nearly 80% of the electorate voted against Lib-Dems.

Still, if you wish to vote for a party that never has and probably never will be in power, knowing that a strategic vote would've rid this country of one of the worse Governments it's ever had in a definitive show of strength then by all means, waste your vote - it's your right.

Not expressing bias, simply staing the figures. If the Conservatives had got 50%+ of the popular vote I'd have no argument with them being in power, even if I dont like it, but they didn't.

Tactical or otherwise I can't bring myself to vote for a party who's last spell in government saw their policies cause the widest civil unrest the country has seen in 50 years.

[Churchill]

Not expressing bias, simply staing the figures. If the Conservatives had got 50%+ of the popular vote I'd have no argument with them being in power, even if I dont like it, but they didn't.

Tactical or otherwise I can't bring myself to vote for a party who's last spell in government saw their policies cause the widest civil unrest the country has seen in 50 years.

Things had to be done. If you think that hurt just wait until we start paying this latest set of bills that Labour have saddled us with.

[cailin maith]

Bloody foreigner!

[Churchill]

He shoots, he scores

[cailin maith]

He shoots, he scores

He will also get a kick in the ass when he comes home on Friday

[Churchill]

He will also get a kick in the ass when he comes home on Friday

You'll have forgotten by then.

[DaveB]

Things had to be done. If you think that hurt just wait until we start paying this latest set of bills that Labour have saddled us with.

You can blame labour for a lot of things, but one thng you cant blame them for is a gobal financial crisis that started in the US and is affecting the entire world to a greater or lesser degree.

Even the Conservatives hav'nt tried that. They may have been criticising Labours plans to deal with it but they havn't blamed them for it, because they know damn well the same thing would have happened if they had been in power.

[DaveB]

You'll have forgotten by then.

*makes a note to remind CM on Friday afternoon.*

[Churchill]

You can blame labour for a lot of things, but one thng you cant blame them for is a gobal financial crisis that started in the US and is affecting the entire world to a greater or lesser degree.
Even the Conservatives hav'nt tried that. They may have been criticising Labours plans to deal with it but they havn't blamed them for it, because they know damn well the same thing would have happened if they had been in power.

You're joking, right? Bloody hell, you almost had me on that one!

In the calendar year 2009 the UK recorded a general government deficit of £159.2 billion, which was equivalent to 11.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).

At the end of December 2009 general government debt was £950.4 billion, equivalent to 68.1 per cent of GDP.

The Maastricht Treaty's Excessive Deficit Procedure sets deficit and debt targets of 3 per cent and 60 per cent respectively for all EU countries. The UK's compliance is assessed on a financial year basis. The debt measure used under the Maastricht Treaty does not take account of assets held by general government.

These data were reported to the European Commission at the end of March 2010.

[Mich the Tester]

You can blame labour for a lot of things, but one thng you cant blame them for is a gobal financial crisis that started in the US and is affecting the entire world to a greater or lesser degree.

Even the Conservatives hav'nt tried that. They may have been criticising Labours plans to deal with it but they havn't blamed them for it, because they know damn well the same thing would have happened if they had been in power.

Call-me-Dave was warning about the ‘credit card economy’ back in 2005, in parliament. Brown just said ‘you don’t know what you’re talking about’. OK, so the banking crisis was perhaps due to the coming together of lots of circumstances, some of which were due to British lax supervision. But, Labour ran deficits during growth years, which meant that Britain had nothing in reserve when the tulip completed its unavoidable journey toward the fan.