Are You Going To Give Your Normal Party Your Vote Tommorrow?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47961144
I'm not, the whole house of VBQ has royally angered me of late, the only non mainstream parties in my area are green and UKIP so UKIP it is.

[goodlife]

When you vote, ask your self what leader, for example, has proved himself so wise and powerful that he or she can eradicate crime and war? Who among today’s leaders has the resources and compassion to provide every human with food, clean water, and health care? Who has the knowledge and determination to protect and restore the environment? Who is competent and powerful enough to ensure that all mankind enjoy a long and happy life?

Even the best human leaders cannot guarantee their own future. Should you, then, trust them to guarantee yours? The Bible says: “Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” —Psalm 146:3, 4.

[ichkeria]

Our local paper is running an informal online poll for May 23:
The current scores on the doors:
UKIP (whose slate includes Carl “I wouldn’t even rape you” Benjamin) - 33%
Brexit Party - 26%
Lib Dem - 15%
Change UK - 6%
Labour - 6%
Green - 5%
Conservative - 2%
English Dem - 1%
Others/Not voting etc - 6%

I think I’ll emigrate :-)

[tonyav]

No.

[Spicerack]

You mean this Ukip, ichi?

ichkeria//UKIP are dead and buried. Farage or not. //

///That will come back to haunt you, again.///

22:57 Thu 12th Jul 2018

[Cloverjo]

Lab don’t usually even bother to contest local elections down here. There is a man this time and I will vote for him.

I am in a hugely Conservative area, but I haven’t seen a single Vote Tory sign anywhere. A few Labs and Libs are around.

[Spicerack]

I've been following Tommy's progress oop north.
The local 'journalists' say 'we don't him here'
The local politicians say 'we don't want him here'.
Yet most of the letters underneath the articles say 'we do want him here' and 'i'm going to vote for him'.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yup, removing "democrat" from the name (Trades Description Act) a good suggestion.

TTT's VB a bit tiresome and predictable, maybe.

We need a term to describe Remain parties which represents their intellectual and moral stance the EU, like we're better off (£££) in it than out of it, can only avoid war in it - "nationalism" threatens peace - but please note that a three hundred year old sovereign nation(us, get it?) was defending freedom against slave ideologies like Nazism and Fascism invented by countries which didn't have a hundred years of national identity between them. (Historical references are Bismarck and Garibaldi)

But, back to branding. The "Slaves with Benefits" party? Slaves on benefits works better as an acronym, though.

[JF85]

I would like to have had the chance to vote at all. My area is overwhelmingly one party, to the extent they get more votes than all others put together, but today has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

Out of interest, I wonder how many people who voted against electoral reform and proportional representation now see how it has left them underrepresented?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Out of interest, I wonder how many people who voted against electoral reform and proportional representation now see how it has left them underrepresented?//

A good question, JF. This (Brexit) voter didn't vote at all on electoral reform being happy at that time with FPTP.

My argument (such as it was) being that local MPs elected by a local majority would be as considerate for issues around the parish pump as they would be about broader policy. Instances in case from my youth: both Powell in Wolverhampton and Benn in Bristol West were MPs who were respected for their commitmt to all their constituents of whatever political stripe however different their stance on national policy (though not on the EEC).

[waterboatman]

I don't vote for the party, I vote for the person.

[10ClarionSt]

Labour for me. And always will be. No matter who the leader is. The Tories believe everyone should pay privately for everything. And anyone who says they can't pay, or haven't got the means, is a layabout or benefit cheat. The Tories have proved this by privatising everything, except the NHS, which they will, or would do, if they had a working majority in the commons. Vote Labour and give the country back to the people via nationalisation.

[10ClarionSt]

Oh yes, and in the European election, one of the candidates for our region is Tommy Robinson.
Nice man. :o)

[ToraToraTora]

good ole socialism eh 10CS! Of course it's been so successful around the world hasn't it! PMSL!

[ToraToraTora]

Nationalise everything, give everyone a massive pay rise, plant many magic money trees, sorted!

[ichkeria]

Interestingly, the local UKIP has suspended its own website on hearing that Akkad of Sargon (Carl Benjamin) was standing for it lol
Some things never change ...

[Spicerack]

^Lie.

[ichkeria]

Sargon of Akkad sorry :-)

[anotheoldgit]

10ClarionSt

/// Vote Labour and give the country back to the people via nationalisation. ///

Labour can't run a country never mind, everything they want to Nationalise.

Yes Labour makes many promises, but what they don't tell us is, where are they going to get the money from to fund these measures?

[theshedman]

Not only were our seats uncontested but the council still sent out voting cards and many people still turned up at the voting stations as they didn't know about it only to find them closed. I only knew as I saw it on social media. Think it's quite bad really. Council here got just about as much idea of running things as the rest of them in Westminster have.

[10ClarionSt]

I voted Labour today, and always will. The Tories think everyone's pulling a fast one and invents something called Austerity. To get money out of pebbles.