The TFF General Election

Whatever one thinks of the Greens or their policies, how does the election of 1 MP (or 0.15% of representation in the House of Commons) consitute a takeover of anything by anyone?

You see the problem with those of extreme view is that they see others in an equally extreme light. Thus those who advocate a solid socially responsible society drawing it's strength from good government and a fair taxation system whereby those who can afford it underwrite the deficit caused through having a considerable number of people in society who cannot afford the mean average are called "Marxists" by right wingers. Yet that is what guarantees a safe and stable environment in which we can all live.

You chose to move to a society in which the chronically poor live to be criminally exploited by the obscenely rich and take a look at the discord and potentially disastrous volcano of social unrest fermenting on your doorstep.

There have been those in this country of a right wing persuasion who have willfully manipulated the tax laws so that they contribute the absolute minimum into our society and we all know which political party they support. There are those in this country who, despite the evidence of the last hundred years of catastrophic wars; would have us leave the very fabric of the European Community that has gone such a long way to preserving peace amongst us all in the last fifty years.

Such people who promote and maintain the idea of a European Union and in social responsibility are not "Marxists" and any right wing, bigoted fool who believes they are is really just underlying what a complete donkey they are when surveying society.

I've never made a secret of my politics and I won't now........................my first priority has always been to vote anti Tory, thus when I lived in Devon I voted Liberal and when I moved to London I voted Labour with the exception of 1997 when I cast my vote for The Monster Raving Loony
party as I had a particular issue with my local Labour candidate Steven Timms.

I don't see how that makes me a Marxist, but if that is how you see me that is your prerogative.......................but then YOU reckon Paul Buckle is a useless manager so I rest my case.

Freedom of thought is one thing, but Libertarianism is NOT a freedom to exploit or exclude others.

You lot are just as bad as the ones who we voted for with all this point scoring going on, it`s also quite boring to read! I know why don`t I just scroll past and ignore it!

If the Liberal Democrats have anything about them, they will avoid a coalition with either the Tories or Labour but insist they will be their own party deciding which party's bills and policies they will suport as they see fit.

Wouldn't that leave us with a Labour Prime Minister of a minority government depending on support from all the minor parties who could then take advantage of their suddenly increased power by demanding their pound of flesh in return for their support?

The nearest we have ever come to proportional representation!

The people crowing loudest about how "terrible" the current situation is are the right-wing media who have been denied the Tory majority they felt they deserved as some sort of right.

I see nothing terrible in what is happening at the moment. If the Liberal Democrats were to form a coalition government with the Tories, then we'd have a government that was formed by two parties whose combined share of the vote was over 50%. Ditto if the Lib Dems were to form a coalition with Labour and the Nationalists and Northern Irish MPs.

When was the last time a British government was formed which received more than 50% of the popular vote?

I can see our Generals getting totally fed up with all this indecision so if an unelected Government is what is coming let's have the tanks rolling down Whitehall!

Although that was the will of the people as well. No, let's give the tanks a try