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political disenchantment
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dont you think no matter how bad labour are and how much you think they are doing some bad things to this country, that when it comes to voting, i have no idea who ill vote for
anyone else here have no idea wot to vote for??
i think ill be making my voe count by picking the bestlocal condidate no matter what the party, hoping socialist party even though my town is a safe labour seat, minister is in my ward (stephen timms = twat)
anyone else here have no idea wot to vote for??
i think ill be making my voe count by picking the bestlocal condidate no matter what the party, hoping socialist party even though my town is a safe labour seat, minister is in my ward (stephen timms = twat)
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i've been very tempted not to vote but ...that lets in to many freaks.
My boyfriend refuses to vote not because he is politically apathetic but because he feels that there are no parties or individuals he feels that truly represent his views and that he would trust running the country.
remeber whoever you vote for you get the government!
so id rather have someone who if some of their views are slightly odd, at least they honest aobut what they want to do, other than if they wanted what hitler or stlain wanted
Though I might change my mind: Shipley, my constituency, is quite a tight constituency. The Tories had it for fuck knows how long, with Marcus Fox, and lost it in 1997- I see it swinging back, so I might be tempted to vote Tory because I believe that any party, even the Tories, is better than Blair.
It's a big problem with FPTP- a Lib Dem vote in a Lab-Tory marginal is a wasted vote, because it means Labour are more likely to keep the seat. The sooner we have STV+, such as with the Bundestag in Germany and the Parliament in Australia, the better.
Seconded, I will be a Lib Dem voter next May (5th?). Just did a quick search and found my local MP here in Devon is Lib Dem (Not long moved down here).
Kermit, what is STV+? is it similar to Proportional Representation or completely different? I'm not a great fan of FPTP.
I know.
I won't vote.
we've been missing people right of centre here, andwe got a regular poster here now :P
dont nkow how anyone could consider voting BNP no matter what you think of labour, lib dems are just far too disorganised and dont know what they want, but legal porn age shuld be 16 :P
and bush, anythings better, but ll US presidents are the same, okay clinton was human so part from him :P
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Can someone translate for me?
the european elections are on regional lists or something right?
It will be my 1st time
i feel the country needs a viable third party to challenge the strangle hold labour and the tories have.
However my local MP who is labour seems a decent mp who listens to his consititualy (spelling )
No way in hell am i voted for the tories it offends my socialist sensibibilites
Is there really any need for this? Its not contributing to the debate at all.
like it used to be...? How is that then. My experience tells me that many of the problems facing this country right now are the direct result of Tory policies from 1979-97... most notably their massive underfunding of the public sector during this period.
Really? And there's me thinking that they have policies on Iraq, Education, Health, Crime as well...
And I'm sure he will. Legally or not.
Seriously, this would be a big mistake...
Just go in an spoil your paper or something. Or write "none of the above" atleast go to the polling station and do something. I don't get it how someone can just not vote. Even if i didn't know who to vote for i would still do something.
The thing I love about this option is that under election law, all candidates must see every spoiled paper. So will read anything you write...
so there is no policy at all that you support from any party out of the god knows how many parties there are
My vote won't change a thing, If my vote was on specific issues then you would have a point.
Not enough of them, no.
I still fail to beleive that.
which is why you vote for your local constituency representitive, so along to whatever they doing to promote themselves and find out which ones are decenct people, that is WHY we have a parliament, for people in it to question the government as a whole no matter what the party in control
which sadly seems to be disappearing under blairs presidency
Say there are three candidates, Ann, Bob and Colin. You choose the candidates in order of preference, and you can decide none of them are suitable candidates or only one or two of them are. All the first choices are added up, and the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Say I voted for Ann, but she is eliminated. In the next round, the people who voted for Ann would have their second choices counted instead. IN this case it would be a straight count between Bob and Colin, with ther person gaining the most votes winning.
It sounds complicated, but basically it works on order of preference. As your preferred candidates are eliminated, your most preferred candidate takes your vote.
This is how it work in Australia, but I was incorrect about Germany. In Germany they have a conventional FPTP election, in order to maintain constituency needs, but al the votes cast are added up, and there are extra members added to the FPTP members to make sure than the Bundestag numbers tie up to share of the popular vote. This is what happens in SCotland, as fara s I am aware.