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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427153 is a reply to message #427135] Thu, 29 April 2010 12:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i have an odd vision of cameron making a quick video saying gordon brown ought to be ashamed of himself... then getting into a car and driving off. we then hear "did you really think that david?" "whatever, i struggle to mask my contempt when i talk to the ordinaries"

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427377 is a reply to message #426139] Sun, 02 May 2010 16:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427426 is a reply to message #426139] Mon, 03 May 2010 09:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Lib Dems have some funny ideas about jail terms. Sentences under 6 months to be scrapped?
I know that there is material that suggests that these 6 months sentences are counter productive, but how can you justify letting so many people escape jail time?
There's a few other policies I do not like about the Lib Dems (EU anyone?).

Labour breaks more promises than it keeps, I cannot trust them. Plus, I hate this top heavy tier of free loaders in my country that Labour have created and supported.

Conservatives would scrap allot of police jobs, and I feel we need more, and not just these hippy youth "community support officers", I mean real police officers. I don't like their anti union ideas, and they seem to have it in for the NHS.

I have real concerns about all of the top three parties policies, therefore I think I'm seriously going to go for a "protest vote".



Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427432 is a reply to message #427426] Mon, 03 May 2010 11:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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protest vote for who, then?

is there a smaller party you prefer? UKIP, perhaps?


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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427434 is a reply to message #427432] Mon, 03 May 2010 11:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Spoony wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 14:17

protest vote for who, then?

is there a smaller party you prefer? UKIP, perhaps?


Probably, I really like most of their policies, especially on crime, the economy, welfare, education and the defense. Specifically on immigration, I think they've nailed it.
Their policies are what I would like to see happen, however unlikely...

If UKIP gained a significant enough share of the vote, then the party that gained power might take them seriously and actually look at what they're saying.



Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427461 is a reply to message #426139] Mon, 03 May 2010 16:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oh, you guys still have smaller parties? Vote for one of them if you dislike both, it's not that hard...

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427463 is a reply to message #426139] Mon, 03 May 2010 17:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Patrick Stewart, greatest Englishman to ever live, supports the Labor Party. I think that's enough said.

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427464 is a reply to message #427463] Mon, 03 May 2010 17:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If Patrick Stewart supported the Labor Party, it should be high time he started caring more about Brit politics.









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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427571 is a reply to message #427461] Wed, 05 May 2010 07:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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GEORGE ZIMMER wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 18:13

Oh, you guys still have smaller parties? Vote for one of them if you dislike both, it's not that hard...

yes. i've said many times that america has a better political system than we do, but in this regard, we're better off.


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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427634 is a reply to message #427571] Thu, 06 May 2010 09:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Back from the polling station.

Any Brits not voting?


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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427637 is a reply to message #426139] Thu, 06 May 2010 09:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You only just voted today Spoony? Shame on you, I voted by post last week Very Happy

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427638 is a reply to message #427637] Thu, 06 May 2010 10:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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my parents did that too cos they're on holiday now. trouble with that is something colossal might happen between then and the election.

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427641 is a reply to message #426139] Thu, 06 May 2010 10:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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so who'd you vote for? lib dems i assume?
Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427644 is a reply to message #426139] Thu, 06 May 2010 12:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I voted around 6 o'clock, it's hard to grab time to go out the house at the moment, so very pleased I was able to make the time.

I voted for UKIP in the general election, but couldn't bring myself to vote for anyone in the local election. Shame really, I was there with the paper in my hand and a pencil, but none of them was worth the effort.
I was tempted to chuck a vote in the local One to the BNP just as a Two fingers to the rest, but I couldn't live with myself if I did.



Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427650 is a reply to message #427644] Thu, 06 May 2010 13:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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reborn wrote on Thu, 06 May 2010 21:31

I was tempted to chuck a vote in the local One to the BNP just as a Two fingers to the rest, but I couldn't live with myself if I did.

YOU SHOULD HAVE :[


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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427654 is a reply to message #426139] Thu, 06 May 2010 14:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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They're fundamentally racist, and biggots. They try hard to appear as a decent party, but underneith it they really are racist. What they stand for isn't what I believe in.
I would feel like I betrayed myself if I voted for them.

Immigration is bad in this country, but it's not worth wasting a vote on the BNP for just One issue trying to get the subject more stern attention.

Besides, I believe any amount of votes they get would be ignored by the other parties (for various reasons), but they may take note of votes for UKIP.



Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427665 is a reply to message #426139] Thu, 06 May 2010 18:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I would have voted UKIP.
Seems they're very similar to the Constitution party here in the U.S.

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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427682 is a reply to message #427654] Fri, 07 May 2010 00:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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reborn wrote on Thu, 06 May 2010 16:27

They're fundamentally racist, and biggots. They try hard to appear as a decent party, but underneith it they really are racist. What they stand for isn't what I believe in.
I would feel like I betrayed myself if I voted for them.

Immigration is bad in this country, but it's not worth wasting a vote on the BNP for just One issue trying to get the subject more stern attention.

Besides, I believe any amount of votes they get would be ignored by the other parties (for various reasons), but they may take note of votes for UKIP.

Oh, obviously. But it'd still be hilarious to see an obviously racist party even get more than 3 votes.

On a serious note though, I hope more parties come into play for England. Maybe America would follow suit. It'd be nice to not have the same old two important parties, and every other party is just "a third party"


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Re: my fellow brits... who're you gonna vote for? [message #427684 is a reply to message #426139] Fri, 07 May 2010 02:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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And yet again we see how screwed up the UK electoral system is. The Lib Dems (at time of writing this, 36 seats are yet to declare results) have 23% of the total votes, yet they have less than 10% of the actual seats (51 / 650). The Labour party, with just 6% more of the vote (29%), has 500% more seats than the Lib Dems, with 245 (over 35%). Absolutely ridiculous.

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reborn wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 18:30

Lib Dems have some funny ideas about jail terms. Sentences under 6 months to be scrapped?
I know that there is material that suggests that these 6 months sentences are counter productive, but how can you justify letting so many people escape jail time?

In Belgium, sentences under 3 years are hardly ever done simply due to a lack of jails. So 6 months seemsvery reasonable to me Razz. But then again we have no waiting lines at all for healthcare Wink.


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Goztow wrote on Fri, 07 May 2010 10:15

reborn wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 18:30

Lib Dems have some funny ideas about jail terms. Sentences under 6 months to be scrapped?
I know that there is material that suggests that these 6 months sentences are counter productive, but how can you justify letting so many people escape jail time?

In Belgium, sentences under 3 years are hardly ever done simply due to a lack of jails. So 6 months seemsvery reasonable to me Razz. But then again we have no waiting lines at all for healthcare Wink.



Well it's hard to form a waiting line in a non-country which clearly has a non-population xD







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Yeah, I live in a non country, that must mean I'm a non person! Razz

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Goztow wrote on Fri, 07 May 2010 10:39

Yeah, I live in a non country, that must mean I'm a non person! Razz


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GEORGE ZIMMER wrote on Fri, 07 May 2010 00:59

Maybe America would follow suit. It'd be nice to not have the same old two important parties, and every other party is just "a third party"


lol.

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least the greens got one in brighton. apart from that - disaster.
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