Lord Young: "people in [the UK] today have never had it so good" - forced to apologise

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26246928]I was talking about the UK Conservative party (note, Conservative with a capital 'C' refers to the party, not the political stance).
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I see.

[editline]23rd November 2010[/editline]

How many political parties you guys got anyways?

[ChestyMcGee]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;26246954]How many political parties you guys got anyways?[/QUOTE]

Um... too many to count.

There are only three real electable parties though (some might argue with that, but there's only ever three that anyone are interested in).

The three are essentially indistinguishable in their ground ideologies now-a-days though. It used to be a case of left vs right vs liberal centre but now it's just three centralist parties.

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26247306]Um... too many to count.

There are only three real electable parties though (some might argue with that, but there's only ever three that anyone are interested in).

The three are essentially indistinguishable in their ground ideologies now-a-days though. It used to be a case of left vs right vs liberal centre but now it's just three centralist parties.[/QUOTE]

Isn't it like labor party and tory or something like that and conservatives?

[ChestyMcGee]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;26247445]Isn't it like labor party and tory or something like that and conservatives?[/QUOTE]

Tories is like a nickname for the Conservative Party. The other two parties are the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats.

[Askaris]

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26246928]I was talking about the UK Conservative party (note, Conservative with a capital 'C' refers to the party, not the political stance).

Yes that's what fucking sucks about the US Government. You have a choice between only two parties: horribly right-wing or slightly closer to the centre but still right-wing. I would feel so horribly disenfranchised if I was a US voter. I feel your pain.[/QUOTE]

What's the difference between the US and the UK? It boils down to labour or conservative, and both are right wing these days.

[ChestyMcGee]

[QUOTE=Askaris;26248561]It boils down to labour or conservative, and both are right wing these days.[/QUOTE]

Barely. They're both pretty central - either way we get a shit load of minor socialist measures. In the US they can't even get state healthcare.

[Cherry Gmod]

I am sorry if i had inadvertently insulted anyone and to be honest i was generalizing a little, for that i apologize, i wouldn't want to make enemies over how people vote.

Curiosity though David29, how did it come around that as a lower middle-class family person that you are who as you said is struggling with income did you happen to vote conservative? Its just that my view has been very skewed as i know of no-one in you situation who has voted conservative and the only people that i know who have live out in the country off inheritance. Well, apart from Acezors but i can't talk to him about that, or we just start arguing.