DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

Also reminded me how little campaigning I've seen in London this time around.

Depends where you are I suppose, obv. no point in campaigning in my constituency f'rinstance but I imagine a few doors are being knocked in Bermondsey.

our door's been knocked an aggravating number of times (marginal constituency) but i've seen almost no posters or signs in people's houses contra other years, you could walk through most residential neighbourhoods round here and have no idea there's an election on

i was saying on the other thread or maybe this one, that nobody has called to my door. i guess bg/bow is nailed on labour.

yesterday a car drove down my (quiet and one-way) street and a child was shouting "vote glin robbins" (local socialist candidate) into a megaphone - it was extremely loud and weird and overall kind of wrong. who would have their child do this? it was nice to see some community spirit rising as people beeped their horn and shouted abuse, i think the car was moving very slowly. i mean, is this even legal?

Yeah, we had a SNP guy megaphoning/driving round our part of the East End of Glasgow on Sunday morning, which seemed incredibly counterproductive - difficult to think he's making many converts, and more likely to piss off the slumbering undecideds.

yeah i was thinking that, that ending up 10 minutes late for something due to a politician or their son screaming into a mic is prob going to influence a person more than any policy. though i doubt anyone is voting for glin robbins anyway, it had a feeling of wacky british "banter" or something which made it even worse.

i guess bg/bow is nailed on labour.

Can Respect really not be arsed these days or has that ship sailed?

dunno if they're even running. i didn't see any flyers or anything. you'd barely know anyone is running here, i got a few flyers but no other sense of anything going on.

i find it kind of pathetic that they wouldn't canvass based on "o well labour are going to win this anyway" - like is it not part of the point of this that you might meet your future mp or whatever? it's p symptomatic of the rank state of politics in this country.

FPTP

it's just such a farcical system, the powerlessness...

bg & bow I've had a few election flyers in the past fortnight but half as many as takeaway flyers

otm - they really bombard you with those - tho i've voted top taste szechuan on roman road since about 2013 and they've always got the job done.

Time for a change?

possibly, recently i was in my room listening to music and didn't hear the bell and the driver rang expressing concern for my safety - "you always answer the door quickly so i wondered if something was up"

Christ the front pages this morning are abysmal. The Mail's in particular is farcical with the "Don't Vote Ed!11!!1!/In other news the NHS is fucked" double-hit.

i was saying on the other thread or maybe this one, that nobody has called to my door

Tory/LD marginal here and nobody has called, or at least not while I've been in. Labour haven't even sent any leaflets round.

There are as many posters up around me as I've seen in any previous election or maybe more, though; have seen quite a few for each of the 3 (formerly?) main parties, plus Greens, but no UKIP that I recall.

Some of the Tory and Lib Dem posters are comically huge, like a couple of places have Lib Dem diamonds several feet across, just on a suburban fence or the side of their house or w/e. Also the Lib Dem ones say "winning here" which is slightly questionable since they didn't win in 2010 and they're not ahead in the most recent local poll I saw either.

I'm not really sure who'll win scrape into govt locally or nationally (not even sure who I'll vote for), but I am beginning to brace myself for either another 5 years of horrible Tory-led coalitions or 5 years of Labour ever more desperately pretending to be the Tories and having any non-horrible policies defeated (if they think of any), all to daily shrieking front pages about nanny state reds under the bed end of proud tradition of British democracy whatever. What fun we'll have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8

i was promised a "short-lived" era, wtf

Given this overlong era is drawing to a close (in one way or another) I'm going to lock this one and keep the conversation going on the other thread:

2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.