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Post by lollygagger on Apr 26, 2017 12:29:53 GMT
The point being don't loose sight of everything they'll hide in the small print while harping on about a coalition of chaos ad infinitum. I'm pro-Brexit but no Tory. I hate all politicians equally, the Tories are destructive, Labour are too controlling, Lib Dems are wet blankets, UKIP are baffoons. What's a voter to do? A la lanterne ? We're probably too polite and too wound up in the defense of our own little worlds for that.
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Post by lollygagger on Apr 26, 2017 12:34:20 GMT
Perhaps if ballot papers had an option of "send all candidates to the firing squad and start again" they might be more focussed on the people they represent as a party. Helping a few locals isn't enough to balance out being shite when it comes to supporting society as a whole.
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 5, 2017 8:14:31 GMT
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Post by patty on May 5, 2017 11:40:28 GMT
apparently or so i heard from some newsy programme i was half listening to, it doesn't always follow that whatever does well in locals then does well in the general election..but I'm sure for everything u hear there is someone spouting the opposite.
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Post by thebfg on May 5, 2017 16:23:20 GMT
I think your right patty. Local ones are different.
Where I grew up was a lid dem stronghold. But that's because the local mp was really good and did great things for the community and looked after everyone.
It doesent mean the town wanted the lib dems to run the country just they were good at running a town.
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 5, 2017 17:25:11 GMT
Can't really see the GE going any other way than to the Tories. Labour have an unpopular leader, who made the most disastrous mistake in backtracking on a lifetime's opposition to eu membership as soon as he got his grubby mitts on power, UKIP is as dead in the water as the "Ban capital punishment party" would have been in 1965 as compared to 1963 and those votes appear to have gone to the Conservatives, my money is on the Tories by 150+ seats.
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Post by thebfg on May 5, 2017 18:24:38 GMT
Hampshire county council results. Tory 56 seats.up 9 Lib dem 19 up 2 Labour 2 down 2 Independent 1 UKIP 0 down 10.
Turn out was only 36%
Having a city council meant we couldn't vote.
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 5, 2017 22:23:50 GMT
I won't be voting, it would just be too much of a faff, especially as I'm out cruising. If it's that important that I do vote, then the Powers That Be can wake up to the fact that we live in the internet age, and allow me to vote online rather than making me trot off to some infants' school to vote or pick up postal voting forms from some crappy Post Office which still hasn't woken up to the fact that every other shop in the land opens on Saturday afternoons and Sundays and has done for the last 30 years now.
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Post by quaysider on May 6, 2017 5:51:58 GMT
I won't be voting, it would just be too much of a faff, especially as I'm out cruising. If it's that important that I do vote, then the Powers That Be can wake up to the fact that we live in the internet age, and allow me to vote online rather than making me trot off to some infants' school to vote or pick up postal voting forms from some crappy Post Office which still hasn't woken up to the fact that every other shop in the land opens on Saturday afternoons and Sundays and has done for the last 30 years now. cheers - I hadn't registered we'll be Skipton bound (or returning) so you've prompted me to download a postal vote request form.
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Post by patty on May 6, 2017 6:03:49 GMT
I'm postal voting again...its great in a way cos post box is surrounded by knotweed....looks like triffids out to get you every time you post a letter...my last attempt at postal voting didn't end well as i never read the ballot instructions so then had to open it up again to put it in that other envelope then glued it all down. I'll vote this time cos my bit of paper comes to the house...if i had to be bothered to find the balloting station I wouldn't...I can do postal...and who to vote for?...still dunno but guess it'll be the Tory's cos labour not quite got its act together under Corbyn. However still time to ponder.
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Post by Saltysplash on May 6, 2017 16:07:24 GMT
Well the Gliberal Undemocrates stance of wanting a 2nd referendum and telling the leavers that they didnt know what they were voting for has not brought them much success. It was a very MEH! showing for them
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Post by Saltysplash on May 6, 2017 16:14:30 GMT
My area had an impressive 28% turnout, with the torys mopping up, UKIP 2nd and lib dems last
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 6, 2017 19:59:00 GMT
The problem I have is that Labour are still a pro-eu, anti working class party so I can't vote for them.
The Liberal Democrats are pretty much the same but with no chance of being elected.
Theresa May does at least seem committed to carrying out the will of the electorate, so if I voted for any party it would be for hers.
I just cannot get over the fact that Jeremy Corbyn was opposed to eu membership for over two decades, but did a complete U-turn on the day he was elected leader. Surely he can understand why he is almost universally considered to be a shallow, self-serving hypocrite?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2017 20:04:28 GMT
I just cannot get over the fact that Jeremy Corbyn was opposed to eu membership for over two decades, but did a complete U-turn on the day he was elected leader. Surely he can understand why he is almost universally considered to be a shallow, self-serving hypocrite? I just cannot get over the fact that Mrs T May was opposed to eu membership for over two decades, but did a complete U-turn on the day she lost the referendum. Surely she can understand why she is almost universally considered to be a shallow, self-serving hypocrite and rightly has the nickname of Cruella?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2017 20:16:22 GMT
Politics is dead in the water. They (politicians) should go out and get a proper job...
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