webcraft
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After all the recent political threads and rants , I thought this might be of interest to see how the good folks of Scuttlebut spread themselves across the political spectrum:
Straw Poll
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StephenSails
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No Monster Raving Looney Party?
jhr
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No Monster Raving Looney Party?
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He's included UKIP. Same thing, surely? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
No Monster Raving Looney Party?
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He's included UKIP. Same thing, surely? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
StugeronSteve
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He's included UKIP. Same thing, surely?
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What about Veritas?
He's included UKIP. Same thing, surely?
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What about Veritas?
StephenSails
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Silly me! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
jhr
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Veritas
Not sure how far we should go with including minority groups in the poll; parties of one are probably taking it a bit too far...............
Can't help feeling that, rather than calling it Veritas, Kilroy-Silk should have called it Invino - on the basis that it will specialise in the demented rantings of someone who should have learned to shut his mouth when he's had a couple. Allegedly.
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Not sure how far we should go with including minority groups in the poll; parties of one are probably taking it a bit too far...............
Can't help feeling that, rather than calling it Veritas, Kilroy-Silk should have called it Invino - on the basis that it will specialise in the demented rantings of someone who should have learned to shut his mouth when he's had a couple. Allegedly.
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StugeronSteve
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Re: Veritas
Or maybe Uvvino, on the basis that he should keep his mouth shut after imbibing on the sun bed!
Or maybe Uvvino, on the basis that he should keep his mouth shut after imbibing on the sun bed!
Cornishman
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Not going to votre
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Not going to my what?
No Mebyon Kernow, either.
Not going to votre
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Not going to my what?
No Mebyon Kernow, either.
zefender
Active member
Re: Veritas
I worry that he will clash terribly with the Greens
I worry that he will clash terribly with the Greens
TheBoatman
New member
The Problem with this Poll
Is that it exactly reflects what I would expect from a load of rich boat owning middle class, higher income earners as can be found on this type of website.
I suspect that if you were to take the same poll on pikeys_r_us.com or burglarsdowithimpunity.co.uk you may get a different outcome.
I must admit that I didn't intend to vote for any of them next time round, becasue it only encourges the bar stewards but I rather like the idea of a huge cross and the words none of the above on the ballot paper. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Is that it exactly reflects what I would expect from a load of rich boat owning middle class, higher income earners as can be found on this type of website.
I suspect that if you were to take the same poll on pikeys_r_us.com or burglarsdowithimpunity.co.uk you may get a different outcome.
I must admit that I didn't intend to vote for any of them next time round, becasue it only encourges the bar stewards but I rather like the idea of a huge cross and the words none of the above on the ballot paper. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
scarlett
New member
Re: Veritas
I think you lot are mean kicking RKS when he is down.
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ps Not voting 'I'm am not going to vote' in a straw poll about voting intentions is maybe taking things too far.
I think you lot are mean kicking RKS when he is down.
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ps Not voting 'I'm am not going to vote' in a straw poll about voting intentions is maybe taking things too far.
Matrosen
New member
Re: Veritas
Living as I do outside the UK, I miss out on some of the gossip. What's RKS been upto then. If it's been in the papers, it can be repeated here.
A link would be fine. Thanks.
Living as I do outside the UK, I miss out on some of the gossip. What's RKS been upto then. If it's been in the papers, it can be repeated here.
A link would be fine. Thanks.
jhr
Well-known member
Veritas - the Movie
Oh, gosh: long story and it depends how much of the background you are familiar with. About 2 years ago, RK-S wrote an article, as one of his regular columns in a UK daily newspaper, suggesting that many Arabs were not terribly nice people and that their religion was a blight on human progress and enlightenment (I'm precising his argument somewhat, you understand). At the time of publication, it didn't arouse much controversy, but it was accidently republished a year later, in the aftermath of the 2nd Gulf War, and all Hell broke loose. RK-S was sacked from his morning TV Chat Show by the BBC and then announced that he was going back into politics (he used to be Labour MP) by joining the UK Independence Party (UKIP). You can probably guess my opinion of them from my comments above, but basically, they are an anti-Europe party and have attracted many from the Little England wing of the Tory Party and various, unsavoury points further right.
Support for the UKIP grew magically, spurred on by the presence of the perma-tanned one, but he left the party a few months ago, in a welter of acrimony and insults, and has recently announced that he is setting up his own party, Veritas. Its mission isn't entirely clear but I suspect it will turn out to be a UKIP clone but stripped of some (but only some) of its less savoury opinions and with added media charisma, courtesy of the Man Himself. I doubt, personally, that it will get far or achieve much, beyond providing a monument to RK-S' own monumental vanity.
All allegedly, imho and without prejudice, subject to contract................
Oh, gosh: long story and it depends how much of the background you are familiar with. About 2 years ago, RK-S wrote an article, as one of his regular columns in a UK daily newspaper, suggesting that many Arabs were not terribly nice people and that their religion was a blight on human progress and enlightenment (I'm precising his argument somewhat, you understand). At the time of publication, it didn't arouse much controversy, but it was accidently republished a year later, in the aftermath of the 2nd Gulf War, and all Hell broke loose. RK-S was sacked from his morning TV Chat Show by the BBC and then announced that he was going back into politics (he used to be Labour MP) by joining the UK Independence Party (UKIP). You can probably guess my opinion of them from my comments above, but basically, they are an anti-Europe party and have attracted many from the Little England wing of the Tory Party and various, unsavoury points further right.
Support for the UKIP grew magically, spurred on by the presence of the perma-tanned one, but he left the party a few months ago, in a welter of acrimony and insults, and has recently announced that he is setting up his own party, Veritas. Its mission isn't entirely clear but I suspect it will turn out to be a UKIP clone but stripped of some (but only some) of its less savoury opinions and with added media charisma, courtesy of the Man Himself. I doubt, personally, that it will get far or achieve much, beyond providing a monument to RK-S' own monumental vanity.
All allegedly, imho and without prejudice, subject to contract................
Matrosen
New member
Re: Veritas - the Movie
Thanks for that. I've heard comments about him being not the flavour of the month etc. in newspapers and the TV, but missed the original story as I was working in the south of Spain without TV when the Gulf War II was on.
Thanks for that. I've heard comments about him being not the flavour of the month etc. in newspapers and the TV, but missed the original story as I was working in the south of Spain without TV when the Gulf War II was on.
gandy
Active member
Re: The Problem with this Poll
But it's interesting all the same. Judging by the noise on the forum, you'd have thought it was 99% Tory.
Tony S
But it's interesting all the same. Judging by the noise on the forum, you'd have thought it was 99% Tory.
Tony S
VicMallows
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Poll is undemocratic ... just like the parties ..... AOL users can't vote!!
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FergusM
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Re: The Problem with this Poll
It is 99% Tory. All the other votes were cast by Alistair Campbell as a spoiling tactic.
It is 99% Tory. All the other votes were cast by Alistair Campbell as a spoiling tactic.
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whisper
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Re: The Problem with this Poll
So, if the Labour lot agree to further derogation of Red Diesel, will all of these Tory and Lib Dem voters change their allegiance, thereby giving T.B. a huge majority ? Or doesn't it work like that ?
So, if the Labour lot agree to further derogation of Red Diesel, will all of these Tory and Lib Dem voters change their allegiance, thereby giving T.B. a huge majority ? Or doesn't it work like that ?
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bob_tyler
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Poll is undemocratic ... just like the parties ..... AOL users can't vote!!
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Poll is undemocratic ... just like the parties ..... AOL users can't vote!!
Vic
[/ QUOTE ] I'm on AOL and voted with no problem! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif