General election

[ImTriggerHappy]

Touchè but at least morris dancing music isn't as bad as bagpipes.

[Jambo88]

Touchè but at least morris dancing music isn't as bad as bagpipes.

Some bagpipe music is ok. Try highland cathedral that sounds nice.

[ImTriggerHappy]

Some bagpipe music is ok. Try highland cathedral that sounds nice.

You lied its still sh*te and now my ears are bleeding. BARSTEWARD

[Zak Da Mack]

If you have a really good bagpipe player, some of the stuff can be good. Beats morris dancing anyday.

Surely devolution to include fiscal independence is going to end badly, or it will have to be restricted in some way. Having two different fiscal policies tied to the same currency cannot end well.

[BBrotherwood]

Marching with a band that has bagpipers is fucking awesome...

I did Nijmagen and on the last day a random bagpiper was waiting and every time he spotted a British team he would march along with them for 1/4 mile or so and play a song.

[ImTriggerHappy]

There you go off independence and the election and onto bagpipes.

[BBrotherwood]

I was defending bagpipes as I think they are brilliant when done properly...

[Jambo88]

There you go off independence and the election and onto bagpipes.

Independence is as off topic as bagpipes.

[Ian_Gere]

If you have a really good bagpipe player, some of the stuff can be good. Beats morris dancing anyday.

I'd tend to agree, but most of the stuff you hear bagpipers playing is utter shite and would be no matter what instruments were chosen, but if you ever hear a lament played on either Scottish style pipes or uilleann pipes then you'll know there is no better instrument for the job.

 

Surely devolution to include fiscal independence is going to end badly, or it will have to be restricted in some way. Having two different fiscal policies tied to the same currency cannot end well.

That's an interesting point which puts the result of the election into proper focus - north of the border the vast majority of the population are of a determinedly more socialist outlook than those south of the border. For those living in south east England I suspect there is a tendency to think, "Fuck 'em, then - let 'em try to be socialists without the backing of the Pound Stirling!" and these days it is difficult to imagine from where the funding for the kind of public spending Scots have voted for will come. However there is another argument to be made: what happened to the wealth from North Sea oil? How much of that did Scotland see under Thatcher?

 

But also, since it is now a matter of public record that Thatcher's government deliberately destroyed the UK's heavy industry in order to bring down the power of the TUC, which included selling publicly owned assets to the private sector at knock down prices (and the profits generated by Thatcherism ended up in the South East only), is it not time that said shift of wealth is redressed? Scotland have a parliament, Wales and Northern Ireland each have assemblies, perhaps it's time that the North of England has an assembly also.

 

We are being told that 'austerity', ie massive reduction in public spending, to pay off the UK's creditors is good for the Pound. Well, perhaps Westminster need to add the North, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland to the list of creditors...

[JamesAirsofterAgent]

Well, I think we should all vote MRLP.

Did anyone vote for them?

I mean come one, whjo doesn't like their policies:

AIR bags will be fitted to the Stock Exchange immediately, ready for the next crash.

HALF the grey squirrels will be painted red to increase the red squirrel population.

MEGA carwash will be created by punching holes in the roof of the Channel Tunnel

NATIONAL debt will be cleared by putting it all on our credit card.

OAPS will qualify for a Summer Ice Lolly Allowance if temperatures exceed 70 degrees.

TERRORISTS will be made to wear Bells and Horns so we know where they are.

UNRULY teenagers will be superglued together as if you can’t beat them, join them.

VEHICLES will be fitted with bungy ropes in order to save fuel on the return journey.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Was no local Looney for me or i would have, always a classic. Turning the country into a giant episode of Monty Python seems better than the alternatives

[Jambo88]

Was no local Looney for me or i would have, always a classic. Turning the country into a giant episode of Monty Python seems better than the alternatives

2 seats in Glasgow had tramps running. They represented the legalise cannabis party.

[Colonel Kurtz]

2 seats in Glasgow had tramps running. They represented the legalise cannabis party.

 

Do you have to vote for them or just put a couple quid in the box?

[EvilMonkee]

Ahh I thought they were the SNP candidates....... ;p

[Jambo88]

Ahh I thought they were the SNP candidates....... ;p

 

https://mancunianspring.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/the-best-election-result-that-a-free-north-could-wish-for/

 

 

You should give that a read minus the North of England joining scotland it's a decent article.

[EvilMonkee]

Absolute twaddle.