How are the SNP and the Welsh Nationalists looking? or do they only have any effect in the regional elections?

Im not sure about those, Im in england so it doesnt get much mention. Maybe theyre somewhat independant but im clueless tbh.
About not liking brown.... I dont think anyone likes him but some people will vote labour anyway. Im not one of them - im still torn between the other 2 'big parties' since minorities have no influence in my region.

SNP and Plaid Cymru only stand in their countries - if there is a very tight hung parliament they may end up having a great amount of power.

Quote from: Rebis on April 22, 2010, 11:04:31 PM
Why don't you peoples vote for Arnold. He's beaten California down and he can do it to your island too. Then you'll have a German in charge and my great great uncle Wolfgang Kahler will have won his bet that a German would one day rule the UK.

well we,ve just given the railways and transport to the germans so the rest won't be far behind

With the number of Aussies and Kiwis over there, they don't stand a chance, it'd be Tobruk or Villiers Bretonneaux all over again.

Ummm.  Seems to me the English already have a German on the throne, specifically one descended from the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.  Seems that slithered by the Aussies and the Kiwis when they were playing cricket, or drinking, or something.

I thought Arnold was Austrian. Am I wrong?

He was now he iz from Kal-i-fornia.  Anything you have a governor who can't properly pronounce the name of the state they are governing, you're pretty much in deep doo-doo.

I can't argue with that Tekla.

Quote from: LordKAT on April 24, 2010, 04:34:30 AM
I thought Arnold was Austrian. Am I wrong?

when you are German, or a descendant of, as I am, the whole world is German.

Quote from: Rebis on April 24, 2010, 09:47:22 PM
when you are German, or a descendant of, as I am, the whole world is German.

Pure German here, doesn't cut it.

I should have realised that American's don't get our ironic/laconic humour. 

Quote from: LordKAT on April 24, 2010, 09:57:56 PM
Pure German here, doesn't cut it.

You shall be annexed.

That's kind of Borg-like. You will be assimilated.

What does everyone think of the Lib Dem's view on LGBT rights - http://network.libdems.org.uk/manifesto2010/mini/libdem_2010_lgbt.pdf

i'm impressed they recognise gender identity issues, usually its eclipsed by the other 3 letters in GLBT. not sure how to interpret their meaning though. its like they want trans people accepted but discourage medical intervention?

Labour continues to display complete ignorance of the complexities of the spectrum of gender identity.
During the passage of the Equality Bill, it showed relentless and ill-informed determination to keep as
one of the protected characteristics 'gender reassignment' rather than 'gender identity'.
Throughout this process, Liberal Democrats consistently pushed for a broader defi nition of what
it means to be transgender, based on how someone considers themselves rather than an expectation
that they are seeking medical help. We will therefore change equality law to encompass this broader
defi nition.

I think it's opening the idea of transgender to people like myself - being transgender, rather than seeking reassignment.

I have just watched Gordon Brown's " OMG, the Mic is on!!!" moment on the TV News tonight.
Will this be the last nail in the coffin for him?
With regard to GLBTI issues, I would have thought that the Tories would have had these "well in hand" for a long time!

 - The guys in the last election debate are talking about a prospective person, a poor - ->-bleeped-<-ed over person.... namely, a teaching assistant on £10,000 a year - that is exactly my situation - apparently I am eligible on tax credits - they never told me about that.

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 29, 2010, 02:58:45 PM
- The guys in the last election debate are talking about a prospective person, a poor - ->-bleeped-<-ed over person.... namely, a teaching assistant on £10,000 a year - that is exactly my situation - apparently I am eligible on tax credits - they never told me about that.

I'm watching it on the BBC News site and commenting on Facebook via the Sky News site.

I've just got bbcc iplayer - I was very worried that nobody had a decent answer to help this poor teaching assistant - cos I owe my landlady a months wages.