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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 21:38 
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I cetainly won't be voting any of the old gang-they are all utter morons!

From that there is not much choice but I don't want to waste vote. I would prefer if you could forfeit your vote to have all your local MP's and Councillors in a big stock and hit them with eggs and tomatoes all day :lol:

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Just turned 18 had my first vote and didn't know what to do with it, so voted for Lord Sutch (this was about the time he was talking about making Mersea Island in Essex an independant nation state with it's own link to the channel tunnel.

I still consider it to be the best vote I've cast.

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They all seem to be trying to 'out-green' each other.
There's absolutely nobody worth voting for anymore.

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I normally vote conservative, but this time it may be UKIP (if possible of course!).

I really don't know what the tories stand for at the moment with Cameron in charge.


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I am going to start the "None of the above" party

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It certainly won't be Labour!

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I'm considering voting BNP as a protest vote against our open-door policy regarding immigration.

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Cameron is currently showing off his "green" credentials by taking himself and a load of journalists on a totally pointless trip up into the arctic circle to see how the ice is melting. He obviously has yet to make any connection between the CO2 he is dumping and the "warming" - hello it is spring!

Really don't know who to vote for - again. Tories currently run the council, and they are trying to keep the council tax down by closing some local primary schools because they have 10,000 excess school places and central government is only paying by the pupil. Local Labour is playing pure party politics by saying that the closures are all the Tories fault, and that Tories only want to cut spending on everything.

I suspect that my vote as usual will mean nothing, but that the local result will be swung more by the local schools issue that the "I hate this load of lying, incompetent, tax you just for passing wind government" vote. In some ways it would be good because if Labour took over, then they would have to admit that all of their earlier electioneering was bulls**t. They would probably still close the schools and say that the decision was the Tories, and that it was too late to change it.

We'll see what options appear on the paper; at a national level it cannot be for any of the big 3 as none of them represent me - is it pension destroying, public service destroying, pension destroying, war mongering, lying, pension destroying, sleazy, pension destroying, incompetent Labour*, or the "Look we are Green now" lying sleazy, war mongering etc Cons, or the "We were Greener first" Lib Dems. None of which plan to do anything about the "Global Warming" problem other than to use it as an excuse to raise taxes. At least in Germany they are pushing ahead with subsidised micro-generation (solar panels etc), while in the UK the existing grant support was recently removed.

I suspect a "None of them" scribbled on the paper will be as effective as actually casting a vote.

* As you can probably tell I have an issue about how my final salary pension is being as good as closed to existing members - it isn't actually being closed but after a compulsory 2% extra contribution last year it will now be a) freeze it and go money purchase from now on, or b) accumulate in 80ths (was 60ths) at 2/3 of future salary increases. Both options predict a reduction in actual benefits when I retire of about 35%.


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I believe that if we make no other reforms to the electoral system, one that would be well worthwhile would be the combination of

1. Make it a legal offence not to vote if you are eligible
2. Have an official "None of the above" option on all ballot papers.

In terms of running Councils then only the Tories ever have anything approaching the degree of common sense that is required to run what is basically an exercise in simple economics.

In terms of running the country I absolutely despair. I've always voted Conservative but I just don't think I could bring myself to vote for Cameron. On the other hand if I were to protest vote then that just helps B'Liar (or worse still Brown) in through the back door like last time.

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Think I'll go BNP as well, it's not a protest vote though, I think they are the only party with the concerns of the UK and its people at heart. Mind you if they ever did get into power we might see the same old gang style politics coming through.

I'm glad the politicos are worried about people voting BNP, it's about time they listened.

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Think I'll go BNP as well, it's not a protest vote though, I think they are the only party with the concerns of the UK and its people at heart. Mind you if they ever did get into power we might see the same old gang style politics coming through.

I'm glad the politicos are worried about people voting BNP, it's about time they listened.

But bear in mind that while the BNP like to portray themselves simply as robust defenders of Britishness, in private they are admirers of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.

If you're happy to vote for that kind of people, that's up to you.

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I really don't know who to vote for as none of the main policital parties tickle my fancy. Perhaps conservative - I don't know. I don't normally vote in local elections though.

I think the BNP are cashing in on peoples dissatisfaction with immigration/assylum policies and also that silly religious hatred bill. Opportunistic springs to mind.

I have viewed their website and IMO it was laced with predudice and contempt for anyone who did not comply with their pro-white, pro-monarchy, antieurope policies. I think to vote BNP would be a step backwards in the wrong direction. I believe they also wasnt to abolish all income tax! Hows that going to work?


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On the basis that the BNP won't win anything, I would hope that the other parties would sit up and take notice that I/we are not happy with their performance or policies. I have no problem with the BNP being anti-Europe, or dissatisfied with the Religious Hatred Bill or the current open-door policy on immigration.

But I do have a problem with the main parties lack of grip on these problem areas.

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PeterE wrote:
But bear in mind that while the BNP like to portray themselves simply as robust defenders of Britishness, in private they are admirers of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.

If you're happy to vote for that kind of people, that's up to you.

Gotta agree with that 100%

While most of you know that I have some pretty radical (and possibly archaic) views of the way things are done, there is no way on this earth we need a bunch of racist c*nts running the show....that won't do anybody any favours at all.

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I think the BNP are cashing in on peoples dissatisfaction with immigration/assylum policies and also that silly religious hatred bill. Opportunistic springs to mind.


It's the same drum beaten by every party, look at how many times successive administrations have promised a better NHS, Education and a crackdown on illegal immigration. Of course you could say that the BNP are either opportunistic or reflecting on the concerns of the majority of the working population, which is it to be?

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andys280176 wrote:
It's the same drum beaten by every party, look at how many times successive administrations have promised a better NHS, Education and a crackdown on illegal immigration.


Agreed, but the BNP are beating this drum much harder and ferrociously than other parties and arguably their motives are predudice rather than politics. Anyone who is not of the Aryan race is introuble if they ever get elected.


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I wish I could vote for Deric Hatton :lol:


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Please don't vote for the BNP.


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Don't worry, they're the last party I'd vote for.

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I'm inclined to agree. The image they paint, and the party they are, are two very different things.


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