Fuzz

I've been sat here for about an hour (admittedly on 56K as the BB is down at home )
Trying to look at what each of the parties are going to do.
I'm not the type to keep abreast of what noramlly goes on as politics like this bores the living **** out of me, but I do feel I should make the effort to make the right choice based on what I believe should be done.
Lib dems was my first port of call and a quick search didn't reveal my local candidate, however I could find a large pdf of the manifesto... 56k I don't think so.
Doing other searches on "local elections/ Tewsbury borough/ etc brings up pretty much sweet FA... almost to the point of saying bollox to it (it is starting to get late anyway. )


Should I persevere or just eeny meenie miney mo on the "x in the box"


Andy

AudiLover

labour is only good for the lazy and the scum. Vote tories.

Spring Heeled Jack

That's what all the rent boys say..

Fart Man

Well, Labour, lying control freaks, on the "green" cash cow band wagon.

Conservative. Sleazy, jumping on the same "green" bandwagon

Lib dem: half soaked croanies, no focus, no direction.

.....makes UKIP and BNP look promsing; both don't appear to have any drastic focus on green issues...good!

So, do I vote the racists, or the closet racists?

Tough call

51st state

spoton

you forgot to add immigrants and who ever else wants a free ride on the hard working
if you work hard for what you've got, theres only one choice!!!! the tories

51st state

.....makes UKIP and BNP look promsing; both don't appear to have any drastic focus on green issues...good!



So, do I vote the racists,(not quite) or the closet racists(b*ll****)?

Tough call [/QUOTE]

Fart Man

Of course, that's what Heir Cameron and Mademoiselle Blair would have you belive ....

Talking of which, did UKIP ever get an official apology from Cameron after he called them a bunch of fruitcakes and racists?

Charley Horse

Vote with your hearts and also your hands my friends...

Kick the Socialist and Third Way scum out....

warrenm2

No they dropped any court procedings as they had to prove damage - whereas all evidence pointed to the fact they got increased support because of DCs remarks!

FWIW - UKIPs manifesto state that they are a non-racist, non-sectarian party. And they advocate building more prisons, which is nice!

Fuzz

What's just hacked me off is the conservatives website...
I can't find a clear manifesto of what THEY are going to be doing.
All I can find is extracts of how Blair and cronies are doing it all wrong.
It may as well be a Labour hate site !!

Baa FFS, battery on the lappy is nearly flat now..


Andy

tonybooth

Will be voting BNP again due to their excellent policies on Health & Education

Apparition

I'll vote, because not to vote is not to have a say in this country. But I'll vote for the least likely to get anywhere. Maybe if enough did this then those in power currently might sit up and take notice.
Yve

druddle

Will not be voting for the Tories. Do people not remember what happened last time.......

But what are the remaining options ? Hmm tough call.

Dave

Petem95

Tories under Cameron seem to have changed into a mix of the green party and the Labour party.

Labour of course are not even an option - the party for scum and scroungers.

Doesnt leave much else really - Lib Dems would be a waste of time, UKIP could be an option I suppose.

Parties like UKIP and I suppose others like BNP could stand to really gain as even traditional Labour voters have now had enough of voting Labour, and also I think a lot of traditional Tory voters wont vote Cameron, so will also be looking elsewhere.

TonyG

I was the eleventh voter in the polling booth this morning - almost an hour after the doors opened. Not a good sign is it. As for voting? Well, there was the ancient unscrupulous weasel who's never answered any of my emails, someone who looks like a right-on Seventies Socialist uni student (or maybe one of those strange characters who used to present the OU programmes in the middle of the night), and a third one who is a dead ringer for Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. That's the Labour candidates. There's four other candidates- three Conservatives and one Lib Dem, and I had three votes. Perm any three from four in a random order. Whatever the outcome, I'm pretty sure I voted for at least two Tories.

davyboy

Labour!

I've only ever prospered under them.

pslewis

90% of the population have prospered under Labour ..... making money whilst sleeping with an easy concience.

That said I will not be voting Labour - it is a Local Election ..... I will vote for the best Local Canditate and thats not Labour sadly.

warrenm2

I think you're being naughty.....

Petem95

A statement repeated by lay-abouts, dole-scroungers and immigrants nationwide

davyboy

Typical response from a non home owner who thinks the grass is greener

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

in 22 now, 23 in 3 months, never voted once. waste of time. although i was suprisingly impressed by the free A5 sized bnp poster sent in the post yesterday.

whats the point in voting, every party has its down falls, and if something gets sorted, eg nhs, something else eg, roads/public transport, goes down the pan.

as for prospering under labour, yeah right. it now costs me more to drive to work, to earn less of a percentage of my own wages, to go home on a potfilled road passing decisively unsafe public transport and chav scum on the streets, to my humble house, which i pay more council tax for every year (above inflation), to get my bins cleaned out half as often.

Chip

Please explain yourself

Chip

fivetide

iTrader: (1)

To be fair i have to say the same.

We moan a lot about the government but one thing you can say for Labour is that there hasn't been a recession under them, not like the boom and bust and collapsing house prices of the 80's.

Things are looking like they might be slightly wobbely now but still better than they were before. If we could sort out all the work shy soap dodgers and the immigration issues things wouldn't be that bad.

5t.

pslewis

And you state that it's a waste of time voting

Any complaint you now have about the council, government, etc. will be null and void as you couldn't even get off your sorry **** to use the vote that 1,000's died for!!

Petem95

So you think there is no more boom and bust? Are you aware of the current state of public and state finances?...

There hasnt been a recession under Labour because borrowing and keeping interest rates artificially low has prevented it - but it just stores up more problems for the future.

What Labour have done over the last 10year has been an utter disgrace - we would be better off having had a recession, but instead we have;

- Record public debts of 1.3trillion pounds
- Government sold off almost all the UK's gold when prices were 1/3 of what they are now
- Labour's raid on pension funds has destroyed pensions for many

And we're going to have a worse recession because of all this.

This sort of thing happened in the 70's and the Tories were left to sort things out - they had to raise interest rates to well over 20% etc as a result.

pslewis

Anyone who remembers the Tories would be totally MAD to allow them another chance to mess it up!!

It has taken Labour all this time to try and put right the mess left by the dead-in-the-water Tories ....... Labour are still struggling with the children of the Tory years, who are those you ask?? CHAVS!!!

Petem95

Who are irronically Labour's core voters!

mart360

Ive just come back from voting...

you could amost say it was a loaded vote...

we had to vote for 3 candidates form the choice offered...


4 were Lib dem
2 were Labia
1 was conservative
1 was independant..


i wonder how many people did what i did and only voted for two candidates....

mind you one of the other wards had a monstor raving looney party candidate.. they,d have got my vote


mart

Fuzz

What a bloody farce that was.
The lib dems site mentions two different candidates on different pages and neither of them was on the polling card when I got there.
The name that was on the card didn't even come up in a search of the site.

The only flyer or even snipet of information I've had over what the local council plan to do was from the Conservatives in the form of a bit of card not much bigger than an average envelope. On it was five loosely worded bullet points of information that wasn't even long enough to be classed as a sentence!

That was it,two candidates, two parties...
and they wonder why there is so much apathy!

God knows what I actually voted in


Andy

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

so because 1000s of people died, im presumed to go vote in something that will just make a bigger ***** up as the last bunch.

are you going back to your bullying trolling days again pete.