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Voting intentions at next General Election poll

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    #21
    Originally posted by expat View Post
    Can't vote tory: too too many wrongs in their past, and few if any have changed. And they are not the party of individual enterprise in any sense that we understand, that's just the clothes they try to wear. They are certainly not the party of individual liberty: (New) Labour are awful for their illiberal laws, but with the Tories it is deep in their roots. Your liberty does not excite them; only their own does.

    Won't vote Labour: a few rights in their past, but they were always poor on liberty (since Roy Jenkins, anyway), and they are far beyond the limit now.

    Might vote LibDem. They make enough sense (far more than any others) and don't have any real showstoppers. Why does it just not feel good to vote for them?

    UKIP are not serious, or at least I wish they weren't. BNP are, alas. These 2 are really just crazy minor parties that happen to get more votes than Screaming Lord Sutch did.

    The Greens are, but they're too, well, po-faced. Most of what they go on about is true, is a real issue, and needs addressed. Probably in politics, but by pressure groups, not general election parties. This is true for UKIP's few good points too.

    So I can't really vote here either.
    If you don't vote your opinion is worthless.

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      #22
      My constituency has only ever returned a Tory since it was founded in 1885. With 54.8% of the vote last time around I can't see it changing any time soon.

      If the Tories win the general election, I'll wind up with a senior minister as my MP which I means he'll be too busy to do anything local, so I won't vote for him.

      If we get any interesting independents standing here I might consider them, if not I suppose the Lib Dems will get the cross in the box.

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        #23
        If the Tories are planning on scrapping or reforming IR35 then I will go with them.

        If not, I haven't got a clue.

        I doubt I can bring myself to vote Labour.

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          #24
          If voiting changed anything - they would abolish it.

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            #25
            Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
            My constituency has only ever returned a Tory since it was founded in 1885. With 54.8% of the vote last time around I can't see it changing any time soon.
            Same here. Complete waste of time voting.
            Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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              #26
              Originally posted by Churchill View Post
              If you don't vote your opinion is worthless.
              That's the biggest load of crap I ever heard. Your opinion is equally worthless whatever you choose to do with your vote. Low voter turn-out is something all parties should take note of.
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                #27
                I hate the big parties and party politics. It is not democracy.

                So if the Missus drags me kicking & screaming like she did last time, I'll waste my vote on some independent or the Greens.

                Either the Tories will get in and lie to us and screw us and fiddle their accounts and bugger everything up, or Labour will stay in and lie to us and screw us and fiddle their accounts and bugger everything up.

                It's all meaningless. We may as well just give up and call them Democrats and Republicans or Thieves and Tossers or Pr**ks and C**ts.

                The MPs are only allowed to vote in the way they are told to. Currently that means a hereditary, unelected, Prime Minister is effectively dictator.

                Voting all seems so futile and pointless. It's just a way of pacifying the masses and making them think they have a voice.
                My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                  That's the biggest load of crap I ever heard.

                  Your opinion is equally worthless whatever you choose to do with your vote.

                  Low voter turn-out is something all parties should take note of.
                  If you don't vote you can't whinge about the outcome, end of.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                    That's the biggest load of crap I ever heard. Your opinion is equally worthless whatever you choose to do with your vote. Low voter turn-out is something all parties should take note of.
                    Which is why NuLabour rashly changed postal voting rules, believing it would increase their number of votes, without sufficient checks. The result being electoral fraud, especially in parts of Brum. Appalling hijinks including postal vote "factories" and houses with supposed occupants numbered in double figures.

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                      #30
                      Three people selected the BNP? bizarre.
                      McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
                      Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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