British Election Fever - How will you vote?
POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Sunday, April 17, 2005 22:46
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So it looks like the UK government are more than likely to call an election on 5 May!
In honour of the impending announcement (expected later today in the UK) I thought it might make for an interesting little social study to gage which way most British Brown Coats are gonna vote (if at all)?
If you don’t like to tell anyone your voting preferences, of course feel free not to reply, but I will produce a handy little graph of any responses I get (maybe).
To start the ball rolling, I’m gonna vote Liberal Democrat (of course! – What d’you all expect? I'm a middle-class, home counties, professional woman in her 30s!!) – (N.B. for non-Brits: the Home Counties are those counties in a particular area of the South East of England – weird, I grant you).
I could never vote Tory – for obvious reasons and seems to me Labour is just as hideous (and fascist) now . . .
Any body else got any views??
Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.
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Just wondering, is it a sure thing Blair will lead his party into this election ?
I remember reading that many in Labour were not exactly pleased with his kissing the American arse foreign policy.
I think the only reason the Liberal party here in Canada won the last election, was many in this country feel the conservative party would follow pretty much the same road as either Blair, or more likely your Torys. With the scandals and mismanagement the Liberals here have demonstrated in recent years, the only explaination I can offer to the continued public support is the popular view here is the conservatives are a bunch of sellouts and lackeys of the US. ( Mind you I refused to vote for either, fringe partys like the greens start to look much more appealing with these two choices )
BTW, where do Liberal Democrats stand on entering the EU ? I imagine that would have to be another major election platform.
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I think "Election fever" might be over stating things a little since "Election Apaphy" is likely to prove quite a factor in this Election.
Speaking personally, I cant see any real difference at all between the three major parties. A friend of mine said many years ago that no matter who you vote for you still end up with "the Government".
I am a Socialist (the old fashioned kind) and since i believe Labour betrayed their socialist roots a long time ago and unless there is a real socialist candidate standing in my constituancy (unlikely), I probably wont vote at all.
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I do agree with you re the apathy thing and also the betrayal of socialist roots - Am an old socialist myself - However, as a woman I feel that I must vote - people died to get me the vote blah blah blah - I can't moan about the government if I don't get involved etc. etc. Think Labour are a massive sell out and that the only people who seem to stick to their guns a bit are the Lib Dems . . .
Although, having said that, heard Brown on the radio this morning and the man really can argue - v intelligent man - still not gonna vote for him tho . . .
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Just wondering, is it a sure thing Blair will lead his party into this election ?
I remember reading that many in Labour were not exactly pleased with his kissing the American arse foreign policy.
I think the only reason the Liberal party here in Canada won the last election, was many in this country feel the conservative party would follow pretty much the same road as either Blair, or more likely your Torys. With the scandals and mismanagement the Liberals here have demonstrated in recent years, the only explaination I can offer to the continued public support is the popular view here is the conservatives are a bunch of sellouts and lackeys of the US. ( Mind you I refused to vote for either, fringe partys like the greens start to look much more appealing with these two choices )
BTW, where do Liberal Democrats stand on entering the EU ? I imagine that would have to be another major election platform.
Gino
How it goes is this:
the small group of intellectual middle Englanders do dissaprove of Blair's stance on Iraq - the rest of the UK don't care as long as it looks like Blair is gonna continue with not letting foreigners in (yuk!) and locking up anyone we don't like, terrorists, immigrants etc. without trial!!
Is v scary here at the moment - don't think Mr Blair or Charles Clark (Home Secretary) have heard of the Rule of Law . . .
The agreement is that Mr Blair will stay for the election but he has said he will step down sometime during the next parliament - the only remaining question being - who will take over . .. Very possibly Mr Brown (the Chancellor) but he is old Labour and the Blairites don't want that so its all to play for . . .
Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.
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I find Blair difficult to stomach at the best of times. He seems to believe that he is somewhere between a President and a Monarch.
The idea that he can step down from power when he feels like it smacks a little of a Banana republic dictator stepping aside so that someone equally appaling can take over.
People are too easily blind-sided away from real issues like tax, unemployment, schools, the health service etc by pointless arguments about Fox hunting and how many Gypsies there are in Berkshire.
I do reluctantly agree with ZOOT on the voting thing though. My father allways said it should be compulsory so maybre I will try to stir myself. It's just that I feel almost any vote is a wasted one in my area.
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I agree with you reluctantly too about the wasted vote thing - hey I'll be voting in Windsor for God's sake and NO ONE but a Tory has ever taken that seat - but still gotta do it if only in support of all the other people round the world who can't vote freely!
God, but I sound disgustingly preachy, I agree!!
And I also agree that Blair has totally lost sight of what a Priminister is - is only chief minister not bloody head of state . . .
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Whatever happened to Robin Cook ? I thought he was going to make a run at party leader before this election ?
I'm sorry to hear things are going that way in Britain... any chance that Labour and the Torys will split the vote enough for someone else to take a block of seats ?
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Not really much chance of anyone else getting a look in - Labour (and the Tories) can normally get votes by scaring the general populous that other more liberal parties will be soft on crime, thuggery, terrorism and immigration . . .
Robin Cook left the cabinet becuase he stuck to his guns over thinking Iraq was a bad idea and you can't really make a bid for leadership from the back benches - he's also way too principled to be leader of a party!!
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Sadly Lord Such died so there is no more Monster Raving Loony Party. That's where I would have voted....
Sounds flipant I know but given the fact that the 'serious' political party leaders have abused the little trust they had I feel enclined to vote this way.
Most probably I'll vote Lib Dem too - so as my vote counts against the fascist right wing of Lab,Cons and BNP
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