clbarclay
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| posted on 6/4/05 at 10:31 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ-Turner
and the Lib Dem's don't look like they could run a bath, let alone the country.
Exactly why they will probably get my vote, leave the running of the country to civil servents (mady i've watched too much yes minister), not
people with political ambition.
In other words the torys and labour in particual produce a lot of hot air so that they get elected every 4 years.
Out of the parties with no chance of getting in power libs are the only ones that are not extreamists.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/4/05 at 11:38 PM |
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economic stability or speed cams. whats the most important?
and what flesh did the conservatives put on the bones of that one then?
If labour hadnt bought in speed cams, we would have had the conservatives saying they were gonna cut down on the yob culture of speeding youths and
rising car accidents under labour.
wasnt it the car loving conservatives that bought in the policy of increasing fuel prices by 5% a year?
get real!!!!
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by robinbastd
Found this and thought of you (all)
Conservatives - We want to make driving less of a misery
Shadow Transport Secretary Damian Green today said the Conservative Party wanted to "make driving less of a misery", as he unveiled
"a series of common sense practical measures" to enhance road safety.
He said: "We think that responsible drivers have been badly hit by this Government and we want to make driving less of a misery. What we are
proposing today is a series of common sense practical measures which will get the Government off the back of the sensible driver and restore
confidence in the way we enforce the speed limit."
Let us remember this "car hating" government on polling day.
Ian
Died in the wool right wing Tory.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 07:30 AM |
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To be perfectly honest, I don't care which bunch of self-serving wastes-of-space get in - as long as they have a small majority, and have to
work for their policies. Most of the recent governments from either side have had large majorities that could vote in whatever bit of vote-grabbing
nonsense they chose to support.
Me - I'd vote 'Yes' to proportional representation tomorrow, if it wasn't for the fact that whatever party gets into power
under the current system would never bring in PR, knowing that it may put them out of power at the next election. Labour would never do it,
that's for certain.
David
P.S. I know that PR has its own problems, but at least the outcome wouldn't be so skewed.
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dozracing
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| posted on 11/4/05 at 11:47 AM |
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Can anyone explain, why when the polls say the Tories and Labour are neck and neck why its still possible that Labour can win by a landslide.
Its obviously something to do with actual numbers of seats rather than total numbers of votes, but, it seems from memory that each government has a
"seat" advantage even with very close opinion poll voting.
Was this why John Major won even though he was considerably down in the opinion polls running up to the election?
I also think the argument over voting for someone rather than no one is rather strange way of behaving. If you don't want any of them for
whatever reason surely you don't vote, and by this you reflect your opinion and still have the right to moan.
Its like saying you have a choice of mass murders to babysit for you, and you have to choose one of them, you don't have to choose you can opt
out.
The classis reason to do jus this is that with very poor turnouts the political parties start to get the idea that people are dis-illusioned with
politics and they better start getting their acts together or its only going to get worse. Why can't the parties understand that we hate their
two facedness, their self serving ideas and the way they enforce rules on us without canvassing our opinion.
How many laws have this government brought in that have not been done democratically by canvassing opinion in elections. Tons.
Still i reckon they have lost 6000 votes in the midlands. The papers are full of financial centre worries over another Labour election win this
morning, for everything that happened under the last Tory government the city hasn't gained lost any faith in the Tories and are still sceptical
of Labour.
According then to this poll, we'll have a Tory governement on May 6th and a Kent MP as Prime Minister, would be very good for my area.
Kind regards,
Darren
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 11/4/05 at 08:58 PM |
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we vote in elections so that the govt can make decisions for us.
if they threw a public vote everytime some important issue came up, you would get reactive sun reader, london weekend tv cilla black pleb attitudes to
running the country.
this way, we get to screw things up just the once.
do you really think not voting would change anything? if there was a single vote going, and the party in power knew they were gonna get it, they
wouldnt change the system.
in your mass killer example, the 'do nothing' option would allow your kid to be on its own for a few hrs, not in the care of a mass
killer.
there is no do nothing option in voting, as a party WILL win. there is no 'idle state'.
atb
steve
[Edited on 11/4/05 by stephen_gusterson]
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wilkingj
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| posted on 11/4/05 at 09:19 PM |
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I am voting for Luigi Viento
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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andyps
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| posted on 11/4/05 at 09:45 PM |
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It was suggested that Sharon Osbourne may stand for election where I live, in which case she will get my vote - mainly to show that I think the others
need to do something more positive.
May go for the spoiled paper option as it doesn't have a "non of the above" box.
I would say that Bliar fits the middle class twat description, except that with the income his family have he is probably an upper class twat/village
idiot (delete as applicable/necessary).
[Edited on 11/4/05 by andyps]
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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