I for one will definately make the effort to vote! Anybody else???
Nope, never!
I'm in Montpellier for work. I'm might get a postal vote but this area is so completely Tory nobody else gets a look in.
Nope, I won't be voting.
Yeah, I'm going to make an effort too.
What does it involve...........walking to the polling station ?
I'll be voting for something with 3 letters and it ends in NP.
Safe labour seat so not much point for me - for the first time in my lifer I have no enthusiasm for the election of a labour government.
Teh election is decided by a couple of hundred voters - the undecided votors in the marginal seats.
here we go TJ will be here soon ranting on about various issues
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bloody hell a new TJ has been born
Can't remember phoenix ? It's a tricky one. I reckon they should reduce it to 2 letters.......to help their supporters remember. Maybe just have a 'swastika', to make it proper simple.
I will make the effort to go to the polling station and spoil my ballot.
Why would a centre left party want to have a swastika as their symbol?
To be fair ernie when you conduct the current polls, some people say they just cant be arsed! To me it's just one voice yes, but I'd like to think it was heard. And tbh if I didn't vote the mother in law would kill me, I swear she was a sufragette, she looks old enough anyway! 🙂
As I've said before, I might vote Tory this year. [i]The end justifies the means[/i] and all that....
What you doing in the centre left phoenix. Get back where you were.
Always been centre left ernie. I think the SNP would do a fantastic job of running the UK.
arse. work all day, then straight to gig in another town for soundcheck, not home until after polls close. If I want to vote I'll have to take half a day off. Unless the polling station opens before 7.15am
Always been centre left ernie. I think the SNP would do a fantastic job of running the UK.
He's done you, right up!
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Are the SNP 'centre-left'? Can't say they've ever registered much on my interestometer. But then, I'm not Scottish.
lol 🙂
haha..like a kipper!
I was phone MORI-polled the other night... even the pollster sounded disinterested.
I'll vote alright. It's our duty... but, blimey, I can't say I've ever been disinterested more 🙁
Actually voted last time (for the first time ever, yea, I know) and think I will this time... If I can decide who for...
The pollster OUGHT to be disinterested. Neutrality is their business.
But uninterested - there's a different matter.
Yes, I will vote.
OK, it's a fair cop Talkemada........ you think Trolling Smee Phoenix has [i]done[/i] me. Personally, it went right over my head.
[i]"Are the SNP 'centre-left'?"[/i]
Labour Party members used to call the SNP the Tartan Tories. But that a long time ago, before New Labour reared it's ugly head.
druidh - stop fishing we ain't biting - just no one will ever speak to you again if you do. Go and wash your mouth out
edinburgh south west constituency is it not? labour reasonably safe with tories and lib dems fighting for second. More likly lib denm to oust labour IMO if thats what you want (swing voters more likely to go LD ???) - snp have no chance. almost certain to be a labour hold tho.
Labour 17,476
Conservative, 10,234
Liberal Democrat 9,252
SNP 4,654
SNP are left of centre now - but they haven't always been and there remains tension in the party - the rural wing is tartan tories but the urban ones are tartan trots ( to oversimplyfy greatly).
Back in the 70s there was an attempt to create a left of centre alternative as the SNP were so right wing. They still have this tendency - right wing economically left wing socially - hence the sucking up to trump
Moses: You're right. Wrong choice of words.
I did find the whole thing a little [i]unprofessional[/i] though....
(Only giving two options (Blue or Red) for a response, for example, rather than leaving open ... however academic that third [or fourth or fifth] option may be 🙂 )
Ernie, I think there must be a hell of a lot goes over your head mate. That one was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Sinn Féin aren't putting someone up in my constituency so I'm a bit stuffed really. I'll have to do a bit of reading up I suppose.
Even I saw it coming Smee. Ernie must be having one of his couple if drinks a year. I mean, y'know, subtlety was never one of your things.
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druidh - stop fishing we ain't biting - just no one will ever speak to you again if you do. Go and wash your mouth outedinburgh south west constituency is it not? labour reasonably safe with tories and lib dems fighting for second. More likly lib denm to oust labour IMO if thats what you want (swing voters more likely to go LD ???) - snp have no chance. almost certain to be a labour hold tho.
Labour 17,476
Conservative, 10,234
Liberal Democrat 9,252
SNP 4,654
Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green, Baberton and the posher parts of Colinton have a lot of "natural" Tory voters. LDs have basically lost all credence in Scotland after their inept coalition with Labour in Hollywood. I reckon Alistair Darling should be worried about his seat.
I think there must be a hell of a lot goes over your head
All the time mate......humour is a very personal thing.
[i][b]"That one was like shooting fish in a barrel"[/b][/i]
Ah, come on mate..........give yourself more credit. Talkemada was impressed. Even if I wasn't.
Great stuff 🙁
This country is buggered medium to long term anyway, irrespective of which government (and let's hope it is not a hung parliament, pfft!) gets in.
Enjoy the short term whilst we can folks 😀
oooh, how exciting. I've never voted in a General Election before.
Labour 14,188
Lib Dem 13,783
Conservative 10,291
Most stuff through the letter box is from the Conservatives, which is interesting.
Being young, I haven't really yet formed any solid opinions on how the country should be run, so who should I vote for?? 🙂
Aye druidh - tories will always get a decent vote but I doubt the swing voters will go to tory - more likely Lib dems or SNP
If lib dems were a distant third it would be different - but the scots are getting used to tactical voting and thinking a bit more about their votes since the advent of PR.
Is your tory candidate tweedy? or a edinburgh lawyer with gravitas? Teh only tories allowed in Scotland. None of your shifty salesmen wanted!
Used to be rif****ds seat did it not when it was Edinburgh Pentland
My seat - I just checked - labour /lib dem marginal - 2000 labour majority. Huge swing from labour to lib dem in 2005. Hmmm - might have to think a bit more about my vote. It always used to be safe labour. Must be the yuppie influx
miaowing_kat
3 way marginal - you are lucky. You will be one of the few hundred thousand voters who actually decide the election. Pm me off list and I'll trell you who to vote for - or better still sign the proxy vote I will send to you and then I can vote on your behalf.
I offer bribes
Being young, I haven't really yet formed any solid opinions on how the country should be run
FFS, I remember a time when 'being young' meant that you had all the answers.
Sometimes I truly despair.
Aye Ernie - the youth of today eh? I remember when I were a lad it was all 3 day weeks and miners strikes and devaluing pounds and stuff
"the pound in your pocket" Thats what they said
Hooray since no one else is voting my vote will count. What I mean is I'll be voting for the party wanting a fairer voting system because our venerable first past post system is demotivating the electorate and damaging our democracy (which is the worst kind of goverment apart from all the other kinds.)
Actually I'm simply voting for The Change Party. Because I want to sling out the long standing sleaze bag who spent my money Manuring the garden of his country residence.
I actually wasn't joking TJ. Although you appear to be. The de-politicising of youth in society, I find extraordinarily depressing.
One vote among millions, once every five years, for a choice of three politicians, none of whom represents my political views.
I'm drunk with power!
oh dear ernie, you don't want to go walking round my University. some of the people I know couldn't tell you who the leader of the Conservatives is. (and I'm not joking either)
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The front man is "call me dave". Who is the leader?
Bless Miowingkat. Just a baby. You can blame the likes of Ernie and TJ for the mess our political system is in now. It's their fault. 🙁
The front man is "call me dave". Who is the leader?
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ernie - you are right to be worried really - a representative democracy needs a reasonably informed electorate to function properly.
Hung parliament, lib dems make PR their sticking point to support a queens speech, new elections next year. green and socialist representation.
PR has made a difference in Scotland i am convinced - especially in renewing local democracy
Bless Miowingkat. Just a baby.
You patronising ****
work all day, then straight to gig in another town for soundcheck, not home until after polls close. If I want to vote I'll have to take half a day off.
Proxy vote, in that case, or is it too late?
Ernie, can you not last 5 minutes without being nasty to anyone? 🙁
It's too upsetting.
Its your fault torquemada. Put that red hot poker down!
The front man is "call me dave". Who is the leader?
Murdoch!
I hope that anyone who doesn't vote will acknowledge that this removes absolutely any right to complain about the result....
Voting is not a right, it is a privilege which should be exercised at every opportunity
ealing acton shepherds bush 2005
greens 2000
limp dems 9986
torries 11059
labour 16579
i think it will be very close im going for the lib dems as i want a hung parliament, PR and im still protesting about the war, even though the labour incumbent seems like a fairly decent chap and has replied to quite a few of my emails
Safe labour here. Oh well...
On a lighter note....we're in a very safe Tory seat, our MP clearly didn't know what to say last time round when he asked Mrs Wombat if he could count on her support and she said no...
I thought the SNP were just the ginger northern wing of the BNP??
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Oh...
I'll be voting. Edinburgh South West is my constituency so I am represented by Alastair Darling and his scary eyebrows. Last general election both the Tories and Labour were very keen to present the constituency as a two-horse race. Presumably the Tories were trying to persuade LibDem voters that switching to them would be the only way to get Labour out of the seat and Labour were trying to scare people considering a LibDem protest vote that doing so would let the Tories in.
In the end, as TJ's statistics showed, Labour got a reasonable majority, the Tories came second and the LibDems were a close third. I wonder how the various parties will portray the contest this time round?
it was a very close race in 2005 in my constituency, although I didn't live here then - Labour held a majority of 484; 39.9% of the vote compared with the Lib Dems at 38.3%
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my vote could count for something... so I'll be tossing a coin on May 6th