Do yanks care about UK general election?

[rong]

Do Americans, in general, take any interest in the UK general election? Is it a big deal on TV and in the media?

Just curious as the US election is big news over here, so wondering about the effect when it's the other way round.

[lolzzz_321]

no

[BooG690]

Are your elections come around?

Other events across the world barely get any media airplay...except if it's us doing good and spreading democracy to other places such as Iraq. Thank the troops for saving the Iraqis.

[wufwugy]

We live in a bubble

[BennyLaRue]

See, this thread is a ldo level because you don't elect Queens and stuff.

[surviva316]

See, this thread is a ldo level because you don't elect Queens and stuff.

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[Halv]

afaik it's not a big deal in norway either. The US election is given crazy coverage here though.

but don't worry, at least it's a bigger deal than the canadian election (if they even have elections). Most norwegians can at least name the british prime minister, but we don't have a clue who the Chief Mountee or w/e is.

[BennyLaRue]

I Chief Mounteed your Mom.

No, wait, that was bigred's.

[wufwugy]

Would you unpatriotic foreigner heathen frenchies like to take a guess as to why US politics are so big in other nations?

[JL]

but don't worry, at least it's a bigger deal than the canadian election (if they even have elections). Most norwegians can at least name the british prime minister, but we don't have a clue who the Chief Mountee or w/e is.

Oh Snap!

Where the heck is Norwegia anyways? Is that a state near Georgia in the US?

And I doubt very many Canadians can name the PM in Britain. I just figured the Queen = Prime Minister.

[WillburForce]

who u voting for Danarong?

I could never vote tory, but another Labour government doesn't feel right. Can I really vote Liberal????

[WillburForce]

as for US not taking any interest - why would you not be interested in what your grand rulers are doing?

This is why the woring classes will never rise up! Lack of interest.

[Keith]

as for us not taking any interest - why would you not be interested in what your grand rulers are doing?

This is why the whoring classes will never rise up! Lack of viagra.

fyp

[BennyLaRue]

And I doubt very many Canadians can name the PM in Britain.

I can do better than that. I can name all of them.

For now, it's a dude named Gordon Brown. I heard he is James Brown's cousin. Before him was a dude name Tony Blair. I heard he is George Bush's cousin. Before HIM was a dude name Major John. I heard he wasn't really a Major...he was just a Bowie fan. Before Bowie dude was Maggie Thatcher. Her cousin was that Jaws guy from the James Bond movies and she was actually a Russian Spy who murdered runaways for fun. Before HER, it was Winston Churchill and he was PM for, like, 90 years.

[flomo]

Yep, it's big news.

i voted this because it is the most sarcastic reply

[Luco]

who u voting for Danarong?

I could never vote tory, but another Labour government doesn't feel right. Can I really vote Liberal????

You pretty much have to imo

[Keith]

Would you unpatriotic foreigner heathen frenchies like to take a guess as to why US politics are so big in other nations?

could it be because we wonder which part of the world you'll be invading next and what particular measures the candidates are proposing that will turn out to screw the world economy next?
Also kind of ironic that as chancellor of the exchequer brown kep boasting that he had broken the cycle of boom and bust .....now deep in the shit with borrowing out of control looks like he managed to get rid of the boom anyway.

[ensign_lee]

because we are your bitches?

fyp.

[bigred]

my asian friend is correct

[rong]

Well I can't say I'm that surprised that people don't give much of a toss, but I would have thought there would at least be a reasonable amount of media coverage. It's quite sad really, considering the impact that your foreign policy has on the rest of the world.

Is the live prime ministerial debate being televised over there? (It's the first time this has ever happened over here)

[givememyleg]

your election is kind of like the wnba i guess

[rong]

wnba?

[rong]

Wow! I just watched 1 & 1/2 hrs of three UK political party leaders bickering on live TV, I then voted in this thread

[Warpe]

J.K. Rowling on the election:

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[JKDS]

J.K. Rowling on the election:

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She isnt going for re-election? She was like the best prime minister eva!

[JR9477]

You have elections?!

[flomo]

media only goes out of the US, not in

[UG]

your election is kind of like the wnba i guess

haha this is great

[Luco]

Also kind of ironic that as chancellor of the exchequer brown kep boasting that he had broken the cycle of boom and bust .....now deep in the shit with borrowing out of control looks like he managed to get rid of the boom anyway.

Oh snap I lol'd

[ensign_lee]

wnba?

Let me google that for you

[WillburForce]

The American election was interesting because Thicko Bush couldn't get in again and it looked as though it could have been a women or (GOD FORBID!!!!!!) a black man.

Our election is between a toff ponce called Dave, a one eyed Jock who has a wierd mouth and someone no-one (prob not even his own party) has heard off.

But we have a Queen who rules the waves and the world so we win

[boost]

The American election was interesting because Thicko Bush couldn't get in again and it looked as though it could have been a women or (GOD FORBID!!!!!!) a black man.

Our election is between a toff ponce called Dave, a one eyed Jock who has a wierd mouth and someone no-one (prob not even his own party) has heard off.

But we have a Queen who rules the waves and the world so we win

I find your countries obsession with that decrepit old lady and her family to be quite disturbing.

[Muzzard]

most people in the UK don't care, so I don't see how we can expect other countries to care either.

[kb coolman]

Tony Blair isn't King anymore?

[boost]

Tony Blair isn't King anymore?

I think, to consummate his crowning, a new king must copulate with the queen, and mr. blair finally exhausted all the loopholes that allowed an extension on the deadline to do the dead. When it came down to it and there was no way left to wiggle his way out, blair simply could not muster the courage to tee off into that arid sand trap.

Could you?

[Ash256]

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[mbiz]

UK has some pretty boring leaders, even compared to australia

[wufwugy]

I think, to consummate his crowning, a new king must copulate with the queen, and mr. blair finally exhausted all the loopholes that allowed an extension on the deadline to do the dead. When it came down to it and there was no way left to wiggle his way out, blair simply could not muster the courage to tee off into that arid sand trap.

freudian slap

[Penneywize]

well I'm pretty much going to ruin the funnyness and shit going on itt but wtf else is new:

I doubt any of you all frequent drudgereport.com but the UK election's been featured rather prominently over the past several months, enough so that I know shit about David Cameron, the phrase "We Can't Go On Like This", Gordon Brown being a douchebag (actually already knew about this guy for quite a bit, having studied economic history and his role in keeping the UK out of the EURO, FWIW), and now some dude named Nick Clegg, who is an apparent overnight sensation.

BTW drudge is one of the most frequented news sites in the US, with about a billion unique visits in the last month... And Matt Drudge was cited as the U.S's 2nd most influential conservative over the past year by some mag who's name I can't recall atm...

tl;dr: yeah I'd say there's a pretty significant following of the UK general election within the US - just maybe not so much in the 18-30 age group most FTRers fall under. As far as foreign general elections go, it is probably the one "cared about" most by the US, or so I'd imagine

[flomo]

well I'm pretty much going to ruin the funnyness and shit going on itt but wtf else is new:

I doubt any of you all frequent drudgereport.com but the UK election's been featured rather prominently over the past several months, enough so that I know shit about David Cameron, the phrase "We Can't Go On Like This", Gordon Brown being a douchebag (actually already knew about this guy for quite a bit, having studied economic history and his role in keeping the UK out of the EURO, FWIW), and now some dude named Nick Clegg, who is an apparent overnight sensation.

BTW drudge is one of the most frequented news sites in the US, with about a billion unique visits in the last month... And Matt Drudge was cited as the U.S's 2nd most influential conservative over the past year by some mag who's name I can't recall atm...

tl;dr: yeah I'd say there's a pretty significant following of the UK general election within the US - just maybe not so much in the 18-30 age group most FTRers fall under. As far as foreign general elections go, it is probably the one "cared about" most by the US, or so I'd imagine

cool story bro

[givememyleg]

I think, to consummate his crowning, a new king must copulate with the queen, and mr. blair finally exhausted all the loopholes that allowed an extension on the deadline to do the dead. When it came down to it and there was no way left to wiggle his way out, blair simply could not muster the courage to tee off into that arid sand trap.

Could you?

fuck her and fuck this stupid family.

[Muzzard]

fuck her and fuck this stupid family.

+1

[Penneywize]

well I'm pretty much going to ruin the funnyness and shit going on itt but wtf else is new:

I doubt any of you all frequent drudgereport.com but the UK election's been featured rather prominently over the past several months, enough so that I know shit about David Cameron, the phrase "We Can't Go On Like This", Gordon Brown being a douchebag (actually already knew about this guy for quite a bit, having studied economic history and his role in keeping the UK out of the EURO, FWIW), and now some dude named Nick Clegg, who is an apparent overnight sensation.

BTW drudge is one of the most frequented news sites in the US, with about a billion unique visits in the last month... And Matt Drudge was cited as the U.S's 2nd most influential conservative over the past year by some mag who's name I can't recall atm...

tl;dr: yeah I'd say there's a pretty significant following of the UK general election within the US - just maybe not so much in the 18-30 age group most FTRers fall under. As far as foreign general elections go, it is probably the one "cared about" most by the US, or so I'd imagine

Such a bad post in retrospect

FU, Penney from 24 hours ago

fucking smart ass

[kevster]

There's some funny shit in this thread. So much I wanna talk about but need to be ....

a) not playing poker, or
b) sober

whichever happens first

[bigred]

What about elections at the University of Kentucky?

[WillburForce]

What about elections at the University of Kentucky?

Get a degree in Double Down from there do ya?

[bigred]

Nope

[WillburForce]

Nope

No Seminars from the Colonel?

[Warpe]

BTW drudge is one of the most frequented news sites in the US, with about a billion unique visits in the last month... And Matt Drudge was cited as the U.S's 2nd most influential conservative over the past year by some mag who's name I can't recall atm...

ahaha..ahahahaha....that's the most liberal use of the word "news" I've read in a while.

[bigred]

No Seminars from the Colonel?

I say you he ded!

[WillburForce]

the Colonel never dies. Theres a little peice of him in all those lovely chicken dishes.

[Penneywize]

ahaha..ahahahaha....that's the most liberal use of the word "news" I've read in a while.

yes it was a gay post sry jesus

all I meant to say was that if it was being featured on drudge, lots of right-wing douches were paying attention to it

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[BooG690]

In Communist Russia, ...shit, I can't think of a joke.

[Halv]

He wasn't kidding when he chose his nick.

[Luco]

Clegg is gonna get spitroasted tonight. Like 100% certain that he will lose some popularity.

[Penneywize]

Clegg is gonna get spitroasted tonight. Like 100% certain that he will lose some popularity.

seriously, what was that bit about "german guilt" and england being worse off due to winning the war and its "illusions of grandure".. and england needin to be "put back in its place"?! I know I'm paraphrasing, but, god, what a fucking moron

Anyhow, he pretty much had nowhere to go but down, right? one strong debate does not a good PM make.

[Keith]

one debate (where his opponents didn't want to upset him too much in case they need him to form a coalition to govern) does not a good pm make.tactic that backfired spectacularly , brown and cameron will be turning the heat on him now else they'll be the ones clegg will be offering a deputy pm role too.

fyp

[wufwugy]

How long before the elections do the candidates announce their candidacy?

[Jack Sawyer]

Gordon Brown is a stupid idiot.

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Whislt I agree with your vaild points I shall still be voting for BNP.

[Luco]

Whislt I agree with your vaild points I shall still be voting for BNP.

With such amazing true stories as this one, they're sure to sweep the board on May 6th:

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[Luco]

I would absolutely go see LowCostLinks.com, they sell the very best quality links online!

I would absolutely bet money that you teabag hobos while choking yourself.

[wufwugy]

where in the shat have all you blowsy wankers been? gordon brown nards his career and i have to hear about it on jon stewart? maybe if you weren't so busy spotting tea and rogering mums...

[rong]

Yeah, the man is a complete donkey. What worries me more is in spite of his latest bush-like stupidity, I'm still most likely voting for his party.

Also, I'm really disappointed with those debates. They didn't really debate anything, it was more like each of them taking it in turns to have a mini party political broadcast. Nobody was ever really forced into a corner to state one thing or another, they were in general allowed to be vague and not really answer questions, waste of friggin time imo.

And worse still, the dumbassed UK general public will probably now be basing their voting decision on how some chap came accross on TV rather than their policies.

I think we should change the rules of voting so that you have to take a mini exam & point out each parties stance on say 10 main topincs. If you can't do it, you don't have the right to vote, and I don't mean some multiple choice shit either. (FWIW I would fail this misurably)

But seriously, what is the point of some dumb fuck bein allowed to vote. By not having an understanding of the implications of policy and therefore not having a real opinion on who he would like to vote for or why, he simply becomes a pawn of whichever newspaper he reads.

And another thing, what exactly are people supposed to be basing their vote on? The choice that will do what's best for the country or the choice that would do best for them or the choice that would do best at a local community level? As these won't all be the same. In fact the more I think about it, the more I think democracy is wasted on the masses. Great in pronciple, but a complete waste of time in the real world.

[Jack Sawyer]

Gordon Brown is a stupid idiot.

hahahahaha, prediction of the future

not that it was real hard lol

bigotgate?

[Keith]

And worse still, the dumbassed UK general public will probably now be basing their voting decision on how some chap came accross on TV rather than their policies.

I think we should change the rules of voting so that you have to take a mini exam & point out each parties stance on say 10 main topincs. If you can't do it, you don't have the right to vote, and I don't mean some multiple choice shit either. (FWIW I would fail this misurably)

But seriously, what is the point of some dumb fuck bein allowed to vote. By not having an understanding of the implications of policy and therefore not having a real opinion on who he would like to vote for or why, he simply becomes a pawn of whichever newspaper he reads.

I have to agree , majority of the population are too damn thick to ever be allowed the vote. My mum's hairdresser was telling her yesterday that Brown was only doing what she did herself(i.e talking about people behind there back) so couldn't really blame him for that. And her family have always voted labour as they are working class.She could never vote tory and as she was fed up ewith labour she was thinking of voting Lib dem. When asked if she wanted a permanent hung parliament because of election changes, move more power to europe , get rid of the pound etc ...she said hell no they don't want to do that do they?

As for a pawn of newspaper they read........some of them can't even manage that. How can you vote labour though? Whoever gets in we are in for heavy spending cuts and massive tax hikes. The reason for this is the Labour party. Its ok to say that the current economy has been hit by a worldwide recession after the banking crisis. Our recession has been made much much worse , and our debt is astoundingly huge because when the economy was still booming as a result of the last tory government, brown was not only spending every penny that was coming in to the countries coffers , he was predicting continuing growth in the econowy at a unlikely rate to finance being able to borrow against those unlike future revenues instead of putting money aside for a rainy day and spending his funds judiciously. He had abolished Boom and bust and was arrogant enough that he believed it so he never had to worry about a recession.

The way he acted was like a person on 20k a year assuming he was going to get 5% payrise each year and committed himself to buying loads of luxury goods on credit cards mainly just paying the interest on them.All well and good while he still had the job and payrises . Get made redundant( i.e banking crisis triggering recession) and the whole lot comes crashing down , and thats just what Brown did.And now he's still stupid enough to boast about his achievements on the econmomy when he took an economy that was in healthy shape when he took over form the Tories and like every other labour chancellor of the exchequer in history has turned the economy into a disaster. We now have the same debt in terms of % of GDP as greece and portugal and they are having to be bailed out by the IMF and EU.

The trouble with labour is that in effect the country is a company and they are all trade union sponsored and none of them have ever run a company. The tories tend to be a business oriented background . Hence the economy tends to get sorted out at the expense initially of social care under the tories but in the long term as the economy has been sorted out , interest payments that would have been made financing debt can then be targetted towards social care side of the economy.

Under Labour , theres usually a big increase in social projects, ramping up the debt dragging the economy down and eventually more money is spent financing the debt and is not available for the social side of government spending. The ecenomy is up shit creek and labour can't borrow from the banks cos they had to bail them out and in effect nationalise them because of the lax regultion regime they introduced . Tighten your belt , spending cuts Have to come in and the sooner the better for our future and its going to be painful just like 1979/80 when the last labour government F**ked the economy.

[Ash256]

I have to agree , majority of the population are too damn thick to ever be allowed the vote.

The way he acted was like a person on 20k a year assuming he was going to get 5% payrise each year and committed himself to buying loads of luxury goods on credit cards mainly just paying the interest on them.All well and good while he still had the job and payrises . Get made redundant( i.e banking crisis triggering recession) and the whole lot comes crashing down , and thats just what Brown did.

I love the way that people who advocate an intelligence-based exclusive democracy think everyone else's ignorant horseshit is horseshit but that their ignorant musings are some kind of golden nuggets of wisdom.

Keith, if you were running such a democracy, can you really say you'd allow yourself the vote? Can you?

[oskar]

What do you do with the old queen when you elect a new one?

[Keith]

I love the way that people who advocate an intelligence-based exclusive democracy think everyone else's ignorant horseshit is horseshit but that their ignorant musings are some kind of golden nuggets of wisdom.

Keith, if you were running such a democracy, can you really say you'd allow yourself the vote? Can you?

Of course I would. People should be voting on the issues and have an understanding of the issues , not because they have always voted for one party or another or a leader looks well presented, or isnt one of the other parties. As an example , independent MP Richard Taylor won and retained the wyre forest seat fighting on the issue of saving the local hospital. His constituents were made aware of a local issue and they supported him over the mass media advertising of the major parties. Issues should be the priority , not personalities. Not only would his election to parliament have helped the health service in his constituency but in debates on health service issues across the country.

I'd go further if i had my way, the shadow ministers would ideally have a background in the sector they are minister for, they should truly "shadow " the actual ministers , attend all the meetings where civil servants advise the minister so when the election is settled , the shadow ministers if they are elected already have a firm grasp of the situation, they know the civil servants who they will then be working with and they don't end up with the first few months being a training session .

[blake86]

I would say that for the majority no. However, my roommate is from London so I have become more immersed in it than the normal American.

[BennyLaRue]

I would say that for the majority no. However, my roommate is from London so I have become more immersed in it than the normal American.

Is she hot?

(I assume it's a woman...there's no reason to hang out with English dudes, I mean.)

((Just kidding, English dudes. If you're all as funny as Hugh Grant's roommate with the goggles in that shitty movie about love and travel books, you're alright with me.))

(((And those of you that aren't funny, if you sing like Elvis Costello, that too is alright with me. But I warn you that the range of English singers acceptable by this clause is narrow. I mean, Robbie Williams, what the fuck is up with that guy?!? The rest of your wankers are on your own.)))

((((Oh, for the record, I don't consider Irish dudes and Scottish dudes as part of the bracketed portions above. You guys are alright just being you and Gordon Ramsay. I can't say that I have an opinion on Welsh dudes though. I knew a Welsh woman once. What an uptight bitch. She even wore a bun constantly. However, I'm not one to go on small sample sizes.))))

(((((Labour sucks.)))))

[kiwiMark]

Benny's been drinking again and thinks he's posting in the grammar troll thread.

[BennyLaRue]

Sure, side with the Colonialists. You sure you're a Kiwi?