Disagree, everyone should vote it is because people stay at home and don't bother voting that parties can get 100+ majorities with 35% of the vote, everyone should cast a vote at the ballot box, no one should have a right to complain about government policy if they themselves sat at home and don't bother voting, that is not aimed at you but at people in general.

 

Stay at home voters are bad for democracy

 

But why should people vote if they disagree with the policies etc?

But why should people vote if they disagree with the policies etc?

 

Surely there must be a few policies you like in one of the 3 parties :unsure: Just seems such a waste that people have the opportunity to change things and don't take it up

Surely there must be a few policies you like in one of the 3 parties :unsure: Just seems such a waste that people have the opportunity to change things and don't take it up

 

Well it may all sound good, but I don't really trust them. Just because they say they'll do something doesn't mean they will.

It defeats the object voting just for the sake of it.

sorry craig but your selfish anti community/society line just sucks, well you took thatchers shilling and now have to live with the consequences. the society we have now is a direct result of her anti community notion.

 

every civilisation that has ever been was built upon a community of people who worked together for the greater good. to say that now doesnt apply is utter rubbish, just look on here about the threads on anti social behaviour... all stemmed from the selfish 80's idology that thatcher espoused.

 

tbh, i dont think you are doing youself any favours here.. id stop digging if i were you :)

sorry craig but your selfish anti community/society line just sucks, well you took thatchers shilling and now have to live with the consequences. the society we have now is a direct result of her anti community notion.

 

every civilisation that has ever been was built upon a community of people who worked together for the greater good. to say that now doesnt apply is utter rubbish, just look on here about the threads on anti social behaviour... all stemmed from the selfish 80's idology that thatcher espoused.

 

tbh, i dont think you are doing youself any favours here.. id stop digging if i were you :)

 

I am not here to do myself favours Rob I am here to express opinion and however heartless or greedy my opinion sounds it is still my opinion. Community spirit in a sleepy village or hamlet or whatever where there is a fete on a Sunday and everyone chips in and does their bit and so on is great but I live in the suburbs of a city of 7 million people even if I don't live in central London itself I am still a Londoner and it is a totally different world to sleepy villages where people chip in together

 

I dispute the current anti social situation stems from Maggie, it is very simplistic to say the least to just blame her policies, most inbred chavs and their parents would not be able to name her if they were shown her picture let alone have her as their inspiration, most of Britain's anti social behaviour stems from things that have come over from America - drugs, hip hop, violent computer games, trash tv/reality tv/fame at all cost culture and so on, American culture has done far more damage to society than Maggie's "greed is good" philisophy

Edited May 1, 200718 yr by Vic Vega

you dont have to be in the sticks to have community spirit though, and society build civilisations regardless of population. a strong society is good for everyone, not just the chosen few.

 

i do blame thatcher, not only because i want too..lol. but because it was her policies that not only encouraged greed and self, but allowed ... encouraged.. the americanisation of us. she was the one who was up reagans arse, not callaghan, not foot, not kinnock.. she was the one who forged closer relations with america and not all of it was beneficial.

 

if we had a stronger society (oposite of what thatcher wanted) then there would be more respect, equality, opportunity, wealth, and less anti social behaviour that the disaffected often commit.

you dont have to be in the sticks to have community spirit though, and society build civilisations regardless of population. a strong society is good for everyone, not just the chosen few.

 

i do blame thatcher, not only because i want too..lol. but because it was her policies that not only encouraged greed and self, but allowed ... encouraged.. the americanisation of us. she was the one who was up reagans arse, not callaghan, not foot, not kinnock.. she was the one who forged closer relations with america and not all of it was beneficial.

 

if we had a stronger society (oposite of what thatcher wanted) then there would be more respect, equality, opportunity, wealth, and less anti social behaviour that the disaffected often commit.

 

Americanisation of British culture (something I despise) would have happened anyways tbh whoever was in charge, Blair has bum licked Clinton and especially Bush to as much if not greater extent than Maggie ever did Reagan

 

I lost my voting virginity via a postal vote at the end of last week.

I voted for the Green Party for our area. ^_^

I'm actually quite excited about this Thursday's vote. :cheer:

 

Although I hope I don't wake up on Friday morning and it's a case of 'As You Were' <_<

I received 12 leaflets from the following parties today, couldn't get the bloody door open. :angry:

 

Labour 2, Liberal Democrats 2, Tories, Solidarity, Scottish Socialists, SNP, Scottish Voice NHS First, Scottish Christian party, and the Bnp!!!!!!!!!! :o

 

What a waste of money, I have already received stuff from most of them in the last 3 weeks. <_<

Americanisation of British culture (something I despise) would have happened anyways tbh whoever was in charge, Blair has bum licked Clinton and especially Bush to as much if not greater extent than Maggie ever did Reagan

Well, I wont argue with that, but I sincerely doubt that any of the several Tory leaders that came and went would've done any different with Bush Jr.... Major was up Daddy Bush's arse as well.... And you lot did vote for the Iraq invasion, the only mainstream large party to oppose the war was the Lib Dems (oh, and the SNP in Scotland of course), and they were right.....

you dont have to be in the sticks to have community spirit though, and society build civilisations regardless of population. a strong society is good for everyone, not just the chosen few.

 

i do blame thatcher, not only because i want too..lol. but because it was her policies that not only encouraged greed and self, but allowed ... encouraged.. the americanisation of us. she was the one who was up reagans arse, not callaghan, not foot, not kinnock.. she was the one who forged closer relations with america and not all of it was beneficial.

 

if we had a stronger society (oposite of what thatcher wanted) then there would be more respect, equality, opportunity, wealth, and less anti social behaviour that the disaffected often commit.

 

Spot on mate... Even in London neighbourhoods had a strong community spirit, some places still do... I lived in the East End for two years, and my neighbourhood was actually really cool, I knew most of the folks living in my immediate area, knew the shop-keepers.... Good, honest working class people for the most part...

 

I'm voting SNP all the way, list vote, MSP and no.1 on the single transferable vote for councillor. Labour and Conservatives have proved just as flawed as each other in Westminster and I don't trust the Scottish Lib Dem's leader.

Do the SNP want out of the UK or something? :lol:

My vote has swung twice in the last 24 hours :lol: Shall see if it changes before I plod down to the ballot box tmrw :lol:

 

Got another Labour leaflet today :cheer:

I'm voting SNP all the way, list vote, MSP and no.1 on the single transferable vote for councillor. Labour and Conservatives have proved just as flawed as each other in Westminster and I don't trust the Scottish Lib Dem's leader.

 

 

Ditto. :cheer:

 

Can someone explain to me what the SNP actually is? :(

Scottish National Party. Yes, they want to hold a referendum on Scotland leaving the UK.

Scottish National Party. Yes, they want to hold a referendum on Scotland leaving the UK.

 

So that's why your voting for them. :P :lol:

What's the point in voting for any of them?

All of the partys are scaming, greedy selfish snobs who couldn't care less about our lives, they raise taxes, they do nothing to

help, everything they do fails. I say clear the lot of them, get people who can actually run this country because society is a mess.

I know im moaning but stopping global warming, sorting out this mess of a society is more important then pleading 'vote us were do this, were do that', its all lies.