Louise Mensch causes backlash in Corby.

[taxman]

Reports that the Lib Dems were just 5 votes away from losing their deposit.

 

Were they looking at pictures of the former Corby MP?

[Obelix]

A little bit tacky but still exceedingly funny

[Obelix]

Yes Maggie was rather silly to do that as Major just brought in civil war with him.

 

I don't think you can say she left per se.

 

Not like the gentleman in 76. Although his reasons for doing so were perfectly valid.

[WalkleyIan]

Reports that the Lib Dems were just 5 votes away from losing their deposit.

 

I think I just read that one on the Viz Profanisaurus app.

[Mr Prime]

I don't think you can say she left per se.

 

Not like the gentleman in 76. Although his reasons for doing so were perfectly valid.

 

I was making a daft point in response to a daft point. From what I've read Wilson was clapped out after 1970 and should never have returned. As 'Sunny Jim' Callaghan was massively popular and reflected the average man and woman of the 70's he should have taken over earlier.

[gnvqsos]

Fancy people leaving their job half way through, imagine if a Prime Minister did that.

 

What like Eden,Churchill and Lord Salisbury,all Tories,not to mention,Thatcher and Blair,also Tories.

[Guest sibon]

Reports that the Lib Dems were just 5 votes away from losing their deposit.

 

They have lost their deposit. The second time this parliament.

 

The party leadership have some thinking to do.

[TeaFan]

I think the low turnouts in most of the by elections and the police commissioner websites are excellent news. People are no longer willing to give a mandate to politicians who don't represent them and who are in hock to the rich elite.

 

If the 'winning' Labour candidate in Manchester South had any principles she'd refuse to take up her seat on an 18% turnout, but principles are unlikely to get anyone very far in the modern Labour party, or any other electoral party.

[Thorpist]

Just wondering how you would get a representative government without voting.

Are you suggesting that,unless a certain percentage voted there would be no representative for that constituency

 

 

 

I think the low turnouts in most of the by elections and the police commissioner websites are excellent news. People are no longer willing to give a mandate to politicians who don't represent them and who are in hock to the rich elite.

 

If the 'winning' Labour candidate in Manchester South had any principles she'd refuse to take up her seat on an 18% turnout, but principles are unlikely to get anyone very far in the modern Labour party, or any other electoral party.

[TeaFan]

Just wondering how you would get a representative government without voting.

Are you suggesting that,unless a certain percentage voted there would be no representative for that constituency

 

I don't believe liberal democracies are designed to give a representative government, just ones with enough of a veneer of representation that they can get on with the business of representing the rich without too many people asking questions. Consider that the UK government went to war in Iraq without any mandate, and having pledged no top-down re-organisation of the NHS the Tories immediately embarked on a massive top-down re-organisation of the NHS that massively undermines its founding purpose. Just two examples of why this isn't a real democracy.