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cee-dee · ‎30-03-2015

Is "The News" on TV worth watching for the next few weeks?

At lunchtime today the BBC spent twenty minutes on the election issue and Sky news was the same. What for?

The actual, real news was that Parliament had been dissolved and that was it. The rest of the waffle was numerous commentating nobodies espousing their take on little or nothing. Surely devoting so much time on non-news surrounding political issues will only bore people to the extent that they will take no interest in either politics or voting?

Perhaps that's the idea so that only hard-bitten political followers will bother to vote?

They've already produced numerous "opinion polls" showing the percentage of "voters" for the main parties and a couple of also-rans and when you see how many people they'd roped in to their "poll" (less than a couple of thousand) don't you think such "polls" are of little value?

So, leaving aside one "side" or the other, what sort of interest in politics is there here?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
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astrologica · ‎02-04-2015

Have you good folks on here already decided how you are going to vote in the forthcoming election? Could your decision be possibly swayed by anything you see and hear on TV between now and then?

jd.linklater · ‎02-04-2015

I certainly won't be voting Labour. I think Miliband has lost the plot completely re. banning zero hours contracts. Don't get me wrong, I've never agreed with them on principle. A thriving economy needs consumers to spend money on a regular basis, people who are stuck in zero hours contracts can't make any long term financial commitments so if such contracts proliferate it's the economy that suffers long term. But many people are happy to work in such contracts because of the flexibility it allows them, to just ban them outright won't result in more full time jobs, just more part time contracts and many more unskilled people thrown out of work.

Sports Direct as an example employ around 23,000 countrywide with 20,000 of those on zero hours. How many of those will wind up on the dole?

electric*mayhem*band · ‎02-04-2015

@astrologica wrote:
Have you good folks on here already decided how you are going to vote in the forthcoming election? Could your decision be possibly swayed by anything you see and hear on TV between now and then?

Yes, Astro. My opinion of all politicians is that they're simply a bunch of self-serving and unscrupulous crooks, with no idea of how the rest of humanity are living. Manufactured from the same mould, and all with policies that you couldn't pass a cigarette paper between. Promises, promises, promises. Promises that aren't fulfilled. I don't want to waste a vote, and so I will be placing my cross in front of the MP with the most personality. This MP will be Nigel Farage, simply because the other three haven't got one.