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Started by msd in Chit-Chat

I see the BNP and UKIP had great results…just shows how much Labour have fucked things up over the last 12 years.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 12:09

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

it makes me laugh, the bnp and ukip are always going on about how they want out of europe, why the fuck are they in this election?

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 12:18

#2

fatboy wrote:

I knew that Labour were going to be shat on, though having the BNP having two seats is rather frightning when there are other far right parties (from Europe) have been voted in. And as a Welshman, I find that the Tories being voted over Lib Dems, Plaid quite surprising.

Time for a general election, within the next six months and not next year, please. We all know that Gorden Brown has fucked things up with the job that he more or less bullied his way into.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 13:04

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

The only good thing about the BNP votes is that they only won cos Labour lost so many voters - in actual fact the BNP received LESS votes for at least one of those candidates than last time around. Doesn’t help really, but small mercies and all that.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 13:15

#4

Gav wrote:

We are kidding ourselves if we think we are going to be any better off under the Tories…

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:04

#5

Epitome (Dave) wrote:

“We are kidding ourselves if we think we are going to be any better off under the Tories…”

Yep.

Right now none of the main parties seem to have any good leaders or a brain between them. I say “right now”, though that’s usually the case anyway.

By the way, been wondering this for a while, why is their no option to quote the most recent comment in here?

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:52

#6

Dermot wrote:

There used to be, now people usually just put this sign if they want to refer to the quote above ^

Think the mods thought that the threads were getting too cluttered

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:56

#7

Dermot wrote:

And oh yes, to contribute, I voted Green (who got eliminated after the first count but did OK). Will be interesting to see how Northern Ireland pans out this afternoon

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:58

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KJC Dublin (Karl) wrote:

Brian Cowen and his clan of muppets got the bitch slapping they deserved in the elections. Not that it will make BIFFO stand down, but heres praying for change…

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:12

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Gav wrote:

I felt totally unrepresented - it was a really effor to work out the least worst party to vote for. I really couldn’t bring myself to vote for Labour as I dont agree with their stance on Europe - at the same time I couldn’t bring myself to vote Tory.

I voted Liberal, as even though they are pro Europe, they promise a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

We didn’t have a council vote.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:14

#10

Dermot wrote:

If I lived in England I’d probably vote Lib Dem

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:21

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Gav wrote:

I don’t think they will ever achieve power though - I think it is stacked against them as we dont have proportional representation.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:27

#12

Gav wrote:

…for government that is

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:30

#13

Fiona (Fiona Lamont) wrote:

To be honest I think they’re all a bunch of money grubbing, useless bastards. Too much involved in their own pathetic lifes than getting down to it and working for the people they are meant to be representing. I didn’t because I don’t think any of them are worth wasting the time and effort on.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:40

#14

Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

I would have voting Labour except they’ve been so useless and clueless of ‘late’. Would have voted Green because of Sian Berry’s wonderful breasts. But forgot. :-s

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:51

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fatboy wrote:

deadsetgav wrote:

We are kidding ourselves if we think we are going to be any better off under the Tories…

Well said.

No matter how much David Cameron tries to distance the Tories from the Thatcher era, there will be those, myself included, wouldn’t even think that a Tory would be a relief from Labour’s cock ups…though for one, I would like to see a Lib Dem government (I know, dream on)

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 16:37 in reply to an earlier post

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msd wrote:

I don’t agree with Nick Griffin about much but I had to agree with this:

Griffin said: “Isn’t it time that the BBC stopped asking me the same questions and got on with talking about something else for a change instead of being obsessed with race.”

Aren’t you obsessed with race, Humphrys shot back in a mocking voice.

Griffin: “It is the BBC that has a black Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, for heaven’s sake. That is race-obsessed craziness.”

Humphrys: “Is it, why?”

“Black people have been in this country overwhelming since 1948 and the peasants in Robin Hood’s time were what your previous director general Greg Dyke would have referred to as hideously white.”

Humphrys declined to respond.

:)

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 17:28

#17

msd wrote:

Actually, having just read an interview with him I agree with him more than I thought I did…in terms of being anti-EU and having serious doubts about manmade global warming :-/

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 17:35

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CS (Colin S) wrote:

Dermot wrote:

And oh yes, to contribute, I voted Green (who got eliminated after the first count but did OK). Will be interesting to see how Northern Ireland pans out this afternoon

NI is a complete freak show. We vote on colour, not on party manifestos or any of that rubbish.

It is encouraging to see the Green Party and Alliance improve - I actually talked my gran out of voting for DUP and she made Alliance & Green her 1&2 :)

That made me happy as I was 13 days off the voting age… GRRR!

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 17:37 in reply to an earlier post

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Pip (Philip Kelly) wrote:

KJC Dublin wrote:

Brian Cowen and his clan of muppets got the bitch slapping they deserved in the elections. Not that it will make BIFFO stand down, but heres praying for change…

Me too but I don’t trust Fianna B either (Fianna A being Fianna Fail)

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 19:05 in reply to an earlier post

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Lola wrote:

KJC Dublin wrote:

Brian Cowen and his clan of muppets got the bitch slapping they deserved in the elections. Not that it will make BIFFO stand down, but heres praying for change…

the alternative isn’t any better though…i have never once heard enda kenny or any of his cronies offer one solution - all they ever do is slate everyone else.

i voted for brian crowley and dan boyle in Munster

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 19:59 in reply to an earlier post

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mrs h wrote:

Dennis wrote:

The only good thing about the BNP votes is that they only won cos Labour lost so many voters - in actual fact the BNP received LESS votes for at least one of those candidates than last time around. Doesn’t help really, but small mercies and all that.

That’s a really important point - it just proves what can happen when people don’t vote!! 150,000 people in Yorks and Humber didn’t vote and now look what’s happened - it’s absolutely disgusting.

Really it’s a disgrace not to vote when you live in a democracy. If you have no confidence in any of the parties then you should turn up anyway and spoil your ballot paper - at least that proves you wanted to vote and it sends a message to the politicians.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 07:39 in reply to an earlier post

#22

Dermot wrote:

^In Australia and a few other countries it’s illegal to not vote

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 08:23

#23

Gav wrote:

People have given their lives to ensure we are able and free to vote - I personally feel really bad if I dont do it.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 09:56

#24

fatboy wrote:

^^^Well Said^^^

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:40

#25

msd wrote:

I voted for Labour in 1997 and look what happened - they were were responsible for the deaths of countless innocent Iraqis and British service personnel. So you could argue that I was indirectly responsible for that, which is why I have no problem with people who choose not to vote, as long as they have a reason for doing so and not just because they’re lazy.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:42

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

Basically what ive found with people my age is that the more liberal people have refused to vote because they cant bring themselves to it and the more conservative people have gone for the ukip with the uninformed ignorant people choosing the bnp.

Im about a month too young to vote in this election and to be honest I dont know who I would have chose, in my area we had the choice of labour, lib dem, conservative, plaid, bnp and ukip. not one of them i realy agree with all that much, I agree with some of the lib dems policy but am strongly against alot more of it but if i had to chose i’d probably go with them, labour and conservative are the exact same party nowadays. im not voting for ukip or bnp ever in my life but the worrying thing is alot of people are and any progress this countries made is going to the shitter because of them.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:44

#27

Gav wrote:

I have wrote “None of the above” on a voting slip before now, and I will again given such pathetic choice.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:00

#28

g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

If a good percentage of people did that would anything happen?

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:02

#29

Gav wrote:

Spoilt votes are counted. In a region with a high number of spoilt ballot papers it would probably be enough of an encouragement for an independant to look at standing in the next election.

Sadly I think independants have an uphill struggle to get elected - they lack the election budget that the mainstream parties have.

I guess its better than sitting on yer arse watching Corronation Street…

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:14

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msd wrote:

Someone should start a “None Of The Above” party

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:15

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