The ideal situation would have been Brown & co getting booted out and Purnell/Milliband/Milliband being instated – but they’ve possibly missed their chance now.

LittleBigPlanet to show how four grown-ups can enjoy cooperative gaming without a mature rating. Equally, it shows off some of the finest UK development to date.

Unless there is a big swing to games where fairies and elves go round fixing the planet and curing currently uncurable illness but would that sell?

That miht be a good thread to start – Describe a game you think could change peoples attitude to gaming?

As for games not hurting people I remember playing the first Turok game on the PC and I fell off my chair when a bloody great dinosaur came running round the corner!. Luckily I was playing using a wireelss gamepad so still got the dinosaur from laying on the floor.

As for other countries being in recession, none of them have been in recession as long as we have and none of the are in recession as deep as we are, believe all the red rag bullcrap you want but don’t be under any illusions that the length and depth of the recession is a direct result of Blair/Brown policies, and wasting money on stuff like s temp VAT cut where something like the Australian governments approach of directly giving people up to thousands of AUS$ means they’ve avoided recession altogether. In the US an extensive goverment spending plan including billions of dollars on broadband infrastructure, widespread road building and other national infrastructures means that their recession was shorter and shallower than ours, same with other developed countries like France & Germany.

The only thing this lot know what to do with money is to pay it out in benefit payments, which now by far exceed income tax revenues, in making benefit claiming a lifestyle choice the party of the working man has created a country of unworking men/women. The one thing in Gordons favour is that come election time that is millions of votes guaranteed for him.

Your talking about a different era in your comparison, one where the UK relied on coal for power, a large amount of houses didn’t have modern day amenities, it was before the rise of China as a manufacturing powerhouse so nearly everything was expensive, it was before the rise of the supermarkets, most people then could afford to have a ‘wife’ at home, whereas now anyone who works will know both people need to work to afford all the material things you mentioned, unless you both give up work of course and the state will now pay.

You mention strikes? well the unions are weaker these days, and in the real world I mean private companies people can’t really strike, that luxury is the domain of public sector workers, like various councils and Royal Mail etc… Police brutality you say? You seem to be forgetting the footage of police slapping women in the face and the ‘murder’ of an innocent newspaper seller on his way home from work in London earlier this year.

With the Tories imploding over Europe and the competition from the BNP & UKIP the Conservative win isn’t a foregone conclusion that some people seem to think it is, and when you take into account the millions of people who use benefits as a lifestyle choice, and the hundreds of thousands more who work for various quangos set up at great expense I predict another Labour win, but maybe with a heavily reduced majority or even a hung parliament.

I only wish there was a true choice but like I said earlier, it’s like choosing what flavour sh*t you want for dinner.

Politicians are the (unfortunately) necessary waste products of democracy. It’s just such a shame that anyone who want to run for office is the last person who should get in.

Couldn’t put it better myself.

I can’t even remember any murders in this country to do with video games. When people blame video games because someone has done something violent, is it because that person owened a violent video game? If that’s the case, I’m sure many murderers in this country are in that boat.

It’s kind of ridiculous that people do blame video games. Of course you are more involved than when you watch a film but only people that are already psychotic won’t actually be able to tell the difference between real life and video games.

The thought of Harriot Harman scares me as much as the thought of David Cameron, and don’t get me started on Mandleson.

Oh and just because you may not be directly affected by the mis-management of the UK’s economy, millions of people are being including myself, and not one government crackpot scheme is able to help me in anyway whatsoever, I’m also worried as to what the tax liability is going to be over the next parliamentary term in paying off hundreds of billions of pounds of debt and associated interest payments.

I’ve been old enough to vote for 3 general elections, and have voted for the winner everytime, I wouldn’t ever be able to vote Tory, but I sure as hell ain’t voting for Brown, Darling, Harmen & Mandleson… No ‘effin way I’m not sure anyone could afford 5 more years, yes 5 more years of that collective…

Unfortunately we live in a country where the election choice is akin to asking someone what flavour shit they want from dinner