Election:Blair Names The Day - Page 3

grannyclaret · 06-04-2005, 19:24

well said wayney ,,,,every body should use their vote

Margaret Pilkington · 06-04-2005, 19:57

I agree with the sentiment of using your vote, but I do not trust ANY of the politicians.......Do they really listen to what the general public want?????? In the last election 58% of the population who were entitled to vote did so. So this government is not the majorities choice....it is only the choice of the majority who voted.
I cannot align myself to the policies of any one party........that is my quandary.
I will listen to what each of the politicians has to say and probably vote with a pin on the day.

Doug · 06-04-2005, 20:16

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington]Do they really listen to what the general public want??????/QUOTE]

They will now Mrs Pilkington, every word you utter. Then when the b*****ds are in they'll p*** off and forget every word you said. What we need is a Great British revolution. Let the buggers know you mean business and vote for a change.

Margaret Pilkington · 06-04-2005, 20:23

I had a note from the Labour Candidate put through my door on Saturday.......It said something along the lines that the Labour Party canvassers had called and there was some blurb on there about choosing........it should have read 'choose'.......but was spelt 'chose'.......tell me, how much did they pay for their literature ? Did anyone proof read it ? Should I trust my vote to people who can't even get their own publicity stuff right ?

Margaret Pilkington · 06-04-2005, 20:24

And as for postal voting......well, that is a joke and a half!

Doug · 06-04-2005, 20:29

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I had a note from the Labour Candidate put through my door on Saturday.......It said something along the lines that the Labour Party canvassers had called and there was some blurb on there about choosing........it should have read 'choose'.......but was spelt 'chose'.......tell me, how much did they pay for their literature ? Did anyone proof read it ? Should I trust my vote to people who can't even get their own publicity stuff right ?

Not a question you should ask a dyslexic Mrs Pilkington. I can’t bl**dy spell at the best of times. It’s a question of if it looks right with me I’m afraid. But I wouldn’t trust any politician who tells lies, written or verbal.

Doug · 06-04-2005, 20:34

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And as for postal voting......well, that is a joke and a half!

I totally agree with you their madam. But I have no doubt that a few thousand illegal immigrants, petty criminals who profit from them, asylum seekers and a few bent politicians just love the idea.

Margaret Pilkington · 06-04-2005, 20:47

The thing is Doug.......I don't remember moving to a banana republic!

Graham Jones · 06-04-2005, 21:09

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Originally Posted by pendy

Labour equals higher taxes. Not an opinion, a historical fact. Simple. SO - if you work for a living and pay taxes, it's your choice. Taxes will go up still higher if Labour get back in, because Blair inherited a very sound economy from the Conservatives, which is now beginning to limp due to their ham-fisted policies.

Also despite having promised that he would never do so, Blair has handed control over OUR immigration policy to Brussels. So the Germans and the French can decide how many more immigrants WE take. Anyone coming to this country has the right to vote, so long as they are on the electoral roll - asylum seekers etc. They have an interest in voting Labour, because it is Labour policy to follow the Human Rights Act slavishly - therefore, even if they have no right to be here, you can't kick them out because that infringes their human rights. ... work that one out.

And that is not a racist comment - this is a small country, France is roughly 5 times the size with about the same population. Wholesale immigration prejudices those decent people from the immigrant population who have lived and worked in this country for many years.

As for Europe - vote Blair back in and you can kiss goodbye to your pound - it will be Euros sure as sure.

No prizes for guessing which side of the fence I stand!

I have narrowed it down to two possibles; MONSTER RAVING LOONY or BNP

garinda · 06-04-2005, 21:44

I have always voted Labour, but the coming General Election, and main stream politics in general is just one big yawn at the moment.

I will go to the polling station though just to spoil my paper, to show l've thought about my action.

Doug · 06-04-2005, 22:09

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Originally Posted by garinda

I have always voted Labour, but the coming General Election, and main stream politics in general is just one big yawn at the moment.

I will go to the polling station though just to spoil my paper, to show l've thought about my action.

Revolutions aside. Would spoiling your paper not be the same as not voting in the first place, all you will accomplish is wasting paper and prolonging the count, would you not? Spoiling your paper as a political statement it’s ineffective, they will record your spoiled paper but only as a statistic of voting attitudes. Outside of that no one will really notice. If you are to do anything please use your vote. Even if you use it as a protest vote it still might make some difference.

Busman747 · 06-04-2005, 22:19

On most occasions, I have voted Labour but unless Blair steps down before the election and Gordon Brown takes his place, (VERY unlikely) I will vote Conservative this year.

I feel that Blair has become complacent about the needs of the country and is acting like a mini dictator. I worry too about the influence his wife puts on him as I consider her the biggest PC nerd yet!

The Tories on the other hand want to cut the PC crap, stomp on the travellers, stop illegal immigration and severly restrict legal immigration. ALL the things we have beeen moaning about on the Accy web!

Of course, most will be forgotten when they get into power but if that happens, Labour will be returned at the next election WITHOUT BLAIR!!!

slapperdapper · 06-04-2005, 22:45

BNP FOR ME!
I'm not racist before anyone calls me......its just the others are all as bad as one another and couldn't run a pi** up in a brewery.
The economy is down the drain and wont get better when we join all the other idiots in using the euro!
The problem with this country is that our leaders follow everyone else (usa,brussels) that we cant stand on our own 2 feet!

Busman747 · 06-04-2005, 23:00

B.N.P. is fine in theory but like it or not, many ENGLISH people originate from the Asian continent and under the B.N.P. would be treated like second class citizens.

EVERY person that is legally entitled to live in this country should be treated equally without this P.C. nonsense and without bias!

Labour go in the other direction in that "minorities" get preferential treatment but there must be neutral ground somewhere?

slapperdapper · 06-04-2005, 23:05

Minority groups get a lot more than the whites because labour let them and,they always play the race card.
Again not being racist (because i aint) but shouldn't british citizens come before immigrants and scroungers?
Tony blair has open the floodgates for more and more immigrants to bleed this country what little money it has left!.........and who pays for it?.............we taxpayers do!