UK: Who will you vote for?
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- ********
I'm voting for the Liberal Democrats.
- pascii0
Pedro
- Bluejam0
an interesting site..
- sleepyfatso0
I know people have been talking about the advantage of a hung parliament in the UK, cause it would give more powers to more parties. But, a hung parliament blows! We have a minority gov here in Canada, and it stinks. Nothing ever passes quickly. Every party is trying to recruit other MPs, making deals, cutting corners. Our parliament has been prorogued (on pause) for 5 of the last 15 months. Basically, nothing gets done. When people put a question/motion to the PM that he can't win/doesn't like, he prorogues parliament. A hung parliament in the UK would be the same.
- sounds like the US Congress. Everyone so Americanized these days.kpl
- sleepyfatso0
Also, that article recommends that Gordon Brown goes against his own Party Rule Book. If he did that, he'd have to kick himself out...
A member of the party who joins and/ or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member, subject to the provisions of part Chapter 6 A.2 below of the disciplinary rules.
- hans_glib0
i'm voting against labour. whoever is second where i live they get my vote. sick of brown and his cronies pissing our money away... let someone else have a turn at pissing our money away
- Jimbo820
If Cameron gets in, I'm off.
- Yeah? How come?sleepyfatso
- Because Cameron is a S N A K E********
- lowimpakt0
I'm leaving the UK if the Tories get into power.
Warming to Lib Dems.
If Gordon Brown made every speech like he did last night I'd vote for him
- Jimbo820
Lib Dems are the only ones who would provide a real change.
This is nice...
- ... and a real change to your tax if you are or become financially comfortable! Thanks but no thanks...goldieboy
- FFS I'm sure the wealthy will survive Goldieboy.Jimbo82
- They will, because they'll all seek employment in other countries therefore not brining in the business that our economy needs to survive...goldieboy
- economy needs to survive...goldieboy
- the richest 10% of the uk is 10 times richer than the poorest 10%. tax the fuck out of them!3stripe
- kingkong0
Anything to get rid of Brown and labour which probably means Tory.
I just dont see after everything thats happened the last decade or so that anyone would vote for Labour. They've fucking ruined this country way more that the conservatives did. You're all as blinkered and a Surrey banker is about Maggie.
- sleepyfatso0
For kingkong...
- vespa0
I REALLY WANT to vote for the Lib Dems.
However, my seat is classified as "marginal 2" which means that it's on the front line between Labour and Tory. I'm currently in a Labour seat, but they only won with a 6.86% majority. We'd need a 10% swing to get the Lib Dems in, but only an 8% swing for the Tories to get in. So I'm stuck in the hideous choice of possibly having to vote Labour to keep the Tories out.
Check the awesome info graphics of the Guardian Swingometer here!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politi…We'll see how the polls are tomorrow morning, maybe the Lib Dems will make back some ground, in which case I'll totally be voting for them.
- cracking job. well done. good thinking. better to vote for a failed government than risk the torieshans_glib
- Projectile0
anything but labour. They're basically a bunch of spineless pussies who let anyone with the smallest accusation walk all over them.
to the point where people who should be working and earning the country money are able to suck it dry by pointing the "human rights" finger, chavs and yobs can do whatever they want and get out of jail scot free because some hippie fuck points a "cruelty to minors" or again the "human rights" finger at them, the banks just bash the shit outta them in front of us and they just say "don't do that again please"
the tories are snakes, yes, and they'll probably bring a bunch or rich-get-richer uber-capitalsit bullshit into the system, but fuckit there's gotta be some kinda balance
- seeessess0
Thinking of voting Lib Dems?
Happy to pay £800 per year for road tax for your 2 litre diesel Ford Mondeo?
Vote for Lib Dems.- http://www.telegraph…seeessess
- What will I pay for a 2.5 petrol turbo car? Robbing bastards.seeessess
- It'll be insignificant vs the petrol costs you'll be facing.Grassnutt
- lowimpakt0
(as an outsider) I don't know why every is saying Labour ruined the country. They actually managed to bring the shithole through the longest period of sustained economic growth and they seem to be emerging from the global crisis that involves everyone fast than any other G8 country
There are still parts of the country that are only just getting over the mess the tories left them. Structural and entrenched depravation caused by Tory policies and actions
Even the small things don't make sense. e.g. The tories, including David Cameron, opposed the introduction of things like the minimum wage.
What kind of an asshole would you need to be to oppose the introduction of a minimum wage?
here's some quotes to remind you..
"ECONOMIC GROWTHThe UK has enjoyed steady, if not spectacular, economic growth during Labour's ten years in office – the longest uninterrupted period of growth in 200 years
One of the first acts of the Labour government was to give the Bank of England independence to set interest rates – while the Chancellor set the inflation target it had to meet.
Since then, inflation has been remarkably well-controlled.
The economy has enjoyed a period of low unemployment, with the rate coming down sharply from the high levels of the 1980s.
The total numbers in work are also at a record – but it is still proving difficult to get older men and lone parents back into the workforce.
Now unemployment is creeping up again as growth slows.The one figure that has not been so favourable for the government is the balance of payments.
Britain’s strong growth has been led by consumer spending, and shoppers have preferred to buy the cheap goods on offer from abroad."
- Are you saying you don't see the relation between minimum wage and high prices of local products?raf
- Minimum wage creates unemployment. Say, I have a company. I have £10/hr for 2 employees...raf
- ...if minimum wage is £6, I can only employ one and have to send the other to the bread line.raf
- That's bullshit raf. The minimum wave is essential.********
- for marx, hitler and lenin probably yes, they hate freedom of choicebyname
- lowimpakt0
this is the speech from Monday that I mentioned...
- lowimpakt0
Raf - should someone living in the UK be paid less than £1.50 an hour?
also, while a theory (S&D) may suggest that a minimum wage can cause unemployment, it is rarely born out in reality. e.g. you can read around page 216 of this OECD report http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/o…
- lowimpakt0
"Or, as someone else said:
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money""how does this quote play out in a "non-socialist" system, whatever that is, in relation to the provision of public goods?
and can the provision of public goods (i.e. not paid for by the market because of ) be excluded of any interpretation of such a system?
