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Iv'e allways voted Tory and at the last general election I again voted Conservative even though we have got the most vain and obsequious sitting MP. The old bogeyman of vote UKIP get Labour overcame my better judgement, but I have no such reluctance this time, It's UKIP that will get my vote.
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Pretty much agree with all that has been said previously, all the parties will promise the earth to get their hands on power then only deliver what they believe will keep them there.
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I have voted for all three major parties over the years, but I have always voted for the party that promised the best for the UK, not me personally. At local elections I vote to keep the existing member/party, if they are doing a good job, as they are here in Telford, or the candidate that offers the best for the local community. In fact, I think local elections should be non political; it only causes problems with central government, especially if they are in opposition.
I stopped voting Labour when they wanted to ban the bomb, I stopped voting Conservative when Thatcher went too far and decimated our industry, and on their recent performance in the coalition, I will never vote Liberal again. Our problem really is that they are all going for the centre ground, but that leaves so little choice; with old Labour and Tories, you had a distinct choice. Didn't they say Tony Blair was the best Conservative Prime Minister we have ever had! I hear what people say about Ukip, but I shall vote for them, if for nothing else than to fire a warning shot across the bows of the others. I have always thought our democratic system is flawed and suffers from too much politicking. Every time we get a change of government, the new incumbent spends £billions undoing the old systems and implementing their own system, only for the whole sorry thing to be reversed when the next lot come in; touble is, it is our money they are wasting. Wouldn't it be nice if the major facilities provided by central government were governed by a long term cross party agreed strategy, whereby there was a continuity of control, rather than complete change, when the government changed? Sorry, gone on a bit here! Roverite. |
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>>>would they be able to hit the ground running with all bases covered well enough to run the country<<<
They don't have to. The country is actually run by zillions of people in zillions of offices all over London and the UK, all working off instructions from zillions of "political PR advisers" that all parties seem to have on permanent hire... The people we elect just go to meetings to arrange more meetings, and attend press conferences to get their photo's taken. They don't actually do anything.... Dunno why people expect political threads to get locked? provided no one starts making personal attacks, or something similarly daft, we are all adult enuff to be discus anything we like.. innit... UKIP will get my vote in the hope something will change at last, coz I don't like where we are heading at the moment, it's pure lunacy..... ... |
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My vote in the local will be non political and my vote in the Euro will be a protest vote over lack of reform.
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9th May 2014, 14:08 | #18 |
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I shall not even bother,no interest,all of them a bunch of wasters.
UKIP is like voting for Hitler
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I can only base my judgement on my personal dealings with the local council, which I think is Lab., but absolutely no complaints there. Our Councillor is also Lab., but our MP is Cons. Again both Councillor and MP have been fine with their dealings with me. As the general consensus in this thread and the earlier seems to suggest the only effective way to give our present government a good kick up the backside, is to vote UKIP, then they have my EU vote. I also quite enjoyed watching the series of vids of Nigel giving the EU Parliament some grief - you could say that vid was what persuaded me the rest of the way to UKIP. BTW, I registered for a postal vote and it took me a good while to work out what goes in which envelope, what label to stick where and which ballot paper to put where, but I think I got it right in the end.
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