Captain Caveman 76:
I shall be spoiling my paper again this year. Spoilt papers are counted and are the only way to show your disatisfaction with the system.
IMO voting should be compulsory, but with a “none of the above” box available.
Hmm, might need to put my tin hat on after that!
Totally agree about compulsory voting. It’s not right that you can have a 40% turn out, with a government forming on less than half that. Take into consideration the amount of population that aren’t eligible to vote, and you get stuffed with a government that less than a fifth of the population voted for
I was tempted by UKIP but there’s a few policies in their manifesto that have persuaded me otherwise.
Everyone’s been squeezed these past years but to let a party in now who will unravel all the savings the current government have done will make the past 5 years worthless.
You must be UKIP Steve as con and labour were at 40 percent then dropped to 38 percent equally after your post
Con for me don’t mind sharing. It’s not 1940
No mate Labour for me. Never forgive what they did up around here and the likes of Wales, Liverpool and Scotland in the 80s.
Fathers and sons and brothers still don’t talk to each other up here after the miners strike. Areas such as Grimethorpe where Brassed Off was made have only just starting to recover with the likes of Asos, Symphony kitchens etc moving into the area. Yes Scargill dropped a right bollock but the Tory government intentions from the start were to shut productive pits and shove proud working men onto the scrap heap.
How ironic that I go and load coal from Largs that’s been imported from the USA or Russia when we have one of the best coal seams in Europe right under our feet.
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Firstly the Thatcher government was a result of what the Callaghan one did to the working class before her and council house tenants,who were all for socialism when it suited them, looking for a free handout in the form of her cheap state funded house buy scheme.While the NUM ironically got a worse deal from Wilson in '74 than Heath was offering them in '73.Also bearing in mind that it was the Kent miners who stayed out longest and wanted to stay out in '84,unlike all the rest.The strike being effectively lost before it began because the TUC didn’t call a general strike in support of the NUM and probably wouldn’t have got the backing from the so called ‘working class’ even if they had.Then ‘Labour’ gave us Blair and Brown.Now no surprise they want to get in again on a ticket of being all for the working class when their pro immigration,pro global free market economy,pro EU policy is no different to that of the Cons.Just like Callaghan.
On that note what’s to lose by backing UKIP and giving them a chance.Then if they don’t deliver they have more to lose in the form of being held accountable by the dissident Labour vote than that vote has to lose.As opposed to Labour who think they have a god given right to rule in the Norf because the working class there would vote for a donkey if it has a red ‘Labour’ rosette pinned to its ear.
OVLOV JAY:
Ukip for me. Hoping for a coalition between them and the conservatives. Farage would be a better deputy pm than Cleggy. And for anyone in two minds about voting Ukip, don’t listen to all the wasted vote bs. It’s not such a distant memory that lib dem was seen as a wasted vote, and they’ve just been partly running the country for 5 years. Whatever happens, I just hope the turkeys don’t vote for Christmas again like 97
Ironically in every policy that matters there is no way that UKIP can form any alliance with a Cameron led Con Party and keep their credibility.As it stands,just as since 1975,the Cons have more in common with Labour than any anti EU movement.
While the economy is going down the tubes because we’ve got an over supplied labour market that keeps wages too low to create the required spending and taxes and what does get bought is mostly imports.The fact is there is nothing in either the Cons or Labour’s policies that would fix that nor for that matter ‘most’ of UKIP’s.
While the fact that the Cons haven’t split along anti v pro EU anti v pro immigration lines realistically means that the country is zb’d whoever ends up running it.
While ironically even the SNP have more in common with Con policy than UKIP does at least regards EU membership and immigration policy.
Here we go again.
Mind you, I don’t think that vile Sturgeon bint’s forgiven the English for chopping up Scottish “Hero” William Wallace (even though it was the Scots who handed him over).
I’m not bothering voting, aslong as Labour or the Greens don’t get in, I’m happy.
Your not voting could get them in, while your vote could keep them out!
Coffeeholic:
Not voting as per usual. I’m nit on the electoral register and haven’t been for years and for that reason I’m out.
I thought you could you only opt out of the edited register? Has it meant avoiding jury service?
I haven’t opted out, I just don’t fill in and return the forms when they come out. They come calling a few times to chase it up, and you get the odd letter threatening fines, but as I live in a first floor apartment they have to ring a bell at the street door and I would have to answer the intercom and buzz them in. I haven’t answered that bell since I moved in here unless it’s someone who knows me and they call my phone before they ring the bell so I know who it is. The people trying to get the completed form from you give up eventually.
I hate the " oh we the?? will do xyz " promise as the pole starts to drift to another party. It always changes like this twaddle with shares in lloyd bank, where did that come from
good god the pits were back in the 80’s time to let it drop. agree with the whole northern thing and labour even as a northerner myself I just don’t get the love affair with labour and the shambles they have made of our country twice now.
I listen to mostly talk radio at work, got lbc on now. The worst thing during an election campaign is hearing idiots on the radio, who can’t be trusted to cross the road alone, saying “I’m a xyz party voter man and boy, 3rd generation, but hate what they stand for” vote for someone else then you mug! Makes me want to headbutt the steering wheel
but I’d vote BNP/ NF/ EDL/ British movement! 
cough cough I mean UKIP! 
happy ST Georges day everybody! 
23- 04- 15 
