[UK Election] Who are you going to vote for?

[Sam_The_Man]

5) Tories shouldn't be voted for anyway, considering the backward semi-fascist anti-state view on things

You're part-right, but how on earth can you be fascist and anti-state?

Anarchist is the word you're looking for, I think.

*edit*

Is anyone voting for Gorgeous George 'Sir I salute your indefagibility' Galloway and his Respect Party?

 

[stoned_jedi]

erm what does the socialist workers party have to do with asylum?????

there pro immigration afaik

 

[edhe]

Sorry, meant anti-social tbh

Torie policy is all about selfish use of everything to get yourself ahead - let people manage themselves (ok idea.. but not really..) and give rigid laws etc, but to be honest it's all about the upper class controlling the lower class, hence the original labour.


edit - p.s. scotland relies on immigrants boosting the workforce, anti immigration policy extension would hurt the economy up here - my flatmate would have a harder time. I'm all ok for proper scrutiny of asylum seekers and jobless immigrants, don't want people just arriving because that screws up my taxes ..

 

[Euphoric Beaver]

erm what does the socialist workers party have to do with asylum?????

What I was trying to get across was that voting for minority groups is not a wasted vote as they can directly affect agendas.

 

[stoned_jedi]

What I was trying to get across was that voting for minority groups is not a wasted vote as they can directly affect agendas.

never thought of it like that, nice one

 

[anaemic]

conservatives ? ****ING CONSERVATIVES ? who the christ is voting for the racist old men?

lib dems all the way, im usually a labour man, but as the poster in my window right now says, "F**k labour". there is no way in hell i will be voting for them for a long long time.
(that picture rasterbates raather well if anyone else feels like doing a bit of promotion)

ps i am the dirty liberal who hides under your bed at night

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[Kilham]

It's just a ripoff of http://www.politicalcompass.org/ . Their questions are probably a bit more constructive and don't let you worm out of answering with a 'don't know'.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.87

I certainly don't intend to vote for one of the mainstream clones but the options here are a bit limited (No Monster raving loony candidate ). Maybe the Greens, but whoever you vote for the Government wins.....

 

[edhe]

I'm like, Ghandi, dude.

Both confirm my liberal/left opinion on things... compass one had me at right about ghandi level.

 

[O.S.T]

I wish they'd make it compulsary to have an exam to vote, and clever kids could take it.

hell no!
clever != sane
I wish the legal age for voting would be 21+ and not 18 in germany, because young people tend to be radical and to fall for demagogues, but at the same time they think they're more right than anyone else

 

[Balton]

hell no!
clever != sane
I wish the legal age for voting would be 21+ and not 18 in germany, because young people tend to be radical and to fall for demagogues, but at the same time they think they're more right than anyone else

AND THATS NOT TRUE?

 

[Iron Archer]

I'm voting for Darth Vader.

 

[_Zd_Phoenix_]

The economy has grown despite Labour, not because of it. Labour boasts of the uninterrupted economic growth during their term, but that period started in, er, 1993.

Without them it could have quite easily faultered. Just because growth started before they came to power does not automatically mean that they had no effect upon economic growth.

How was it ours, then?

We were there with the americans, our troops helped take saddam's regime down. In that way it was obviously our war. On whether it SHOULD have been our war then there are many issues about foreign policy that are largely philosophical and subjective, so I'm not going to go into it because I don't want it to be a debate thread other than answering your points.

As far as I'm concerned, they're the only party that ISN'T wishy-washy.

Whenever they put across their points for their policies, which never seem particularly well thought through, they usually apply them as primarily being against other parties ideas, and focus less on the isues themselves.

Kennedy can't even admit that the party is to the left of Labour, saying it is just more 'progressive'. Doesn't sound true to itself to me. I wish it was, but I really don't think it is and probably won't be under Kennedy.

The three lasting legacies of Tony Blair will be the Iraq war, the Millennium Dome (remember that? unless you read Private Eye, probably not), and foot and mouth disease (ditto).

Who knows what the legacy will be, but I don't think you can tell how the Iraq issue will be viewed in the future, or how Britain's re-emergence on the international scene will affect us. Personally, I will particularly remember that under his government Section 28 was dropped and civil unions introduced, along with policies designed to promote eqaulity.

Privitisation of railways? I think that was Labour. Whether that can pull itself up to be a success is still to be seen.

Also you have to remember that ID cards could have a long legacy either positive or negative.

/edit on the political compass poll i was about the same as anae

 

[Symbolikal]

hell no!
clever != sane
I wish the legal age for voting would be 21+ and not 18 in germany, because young people tend to be radical and to fall for demagogues, but at the same time they think they're more right than anyone else

I meant kids as in under-18's who take a genuine interest in politics, and everyone else. If they did that, there probably wouldn't be any Labour voters or readers of The Sun voting in the election.

 

[O.S.T]

I meant kids as in under-18's who take a genuine interest in politics, and everyone else. If they did that, there probably wouldn't be any Labour voters or readers of The Sun voting in the election.

hahaha, unfortunatelly interest in politics doesn't mean they're no ****nuts
maybe you're wise enough to vote, but most children have to calm down first, before they should be able to vote and decide in which direction the country has to go(and I don't want to have a right- OR left-radical party in the parlament and studies showed that many 16year old kids would vote for them)

btw. I don't like the idea of balking people from voting, who have a different opinion or prefer a piece of **** to a newspaper, but maybe that's just me

 

[Otej]

looks like i'm a dirty conservative

 

[_Zd_Phoenix_]

By the way, since i'm fed up the the black and white Labour views that are floating about (not neccesarily on here) I thought I'd just post this to show they have done some good things:

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work

19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997

25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

plus civil unions and abolishment of Section 28.

Doesn't seem so much like the party from hell as some people suggest, even if they are far from perfect.

 

[O.S.T]

By the way, since i'm fed up the the black and white Labour views that are floating about (not neccesarily on here) I thought I'd just post this to show they have done some good things:

[STUFF]

Doesn't seem so much like the party from hell as some people suggest, even if they are far from perfect.

can we borrow them if you're through with them?

 

[_Zd_Phoenix_]

can we borrow them if you're through with them?

I'm sure alot of people would be happy to let you take them

 

[Sam_The_Man]

Not much surprise there

 

[Hunter]

For my first vote ever I'll probably vote lib dem