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Posted by Ian on May-20-2004 11:20:

Local Euro Elections - Who are you voting for ?

Not sure on others, but we've had most of the party leaflets thro this week, outlining what they're all going to 'do' for us if we vote them, but I wanna know what other ta's are thinking with regards to who to vote for ?


Posted by tu_face on May-20-2004 11:23:

i will vote for jeff's party


Posted by Ian on May-20-2004 11:25:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
i will vote for jeff's party


me too, if there will be cake ?


seriously tho, I dunno who the hell to bother voting for, It won't be the BNP or the UK Independance party as they want us totally out of Europe, and there are some good aspects to it along with the bad ones that most people pick at, Maybe Lib Dems or even Labour (as I hate the tories, people seem to forget what they did for 20 years b4 Blair had the task of undoing all their shite)


Posted by slinkyhead on May-20-2004 13:10:

local: conservative
euro: not sure either liberal or greens


Posted by tu_face on May-20-2004 15:03:

its going to have to be labour for me. the lib dem council round here have made a right half-arsed job of it since they got in last time round..

the rest are either no-hopers or twats...


Posted by Ste on May-20-2004 16:06:

well here it goes:

- the tories are fascists
- for labour, blair is a ****
- the BNP are nazis
- the green party are vegetarian nazis



by process of elimination it leaves the lib dems, but id rather have a party at jeffs


Posted by Ian on May-20-2004 16:21:

I'll be deep in the ground before I vote conservative, they're bastards, complete & utter 2 faced ****s who ruined the country in the first place, now they want to ruin europe


Posted by Az on May-20-2004 16:37:

quote:
Originally posted by slinkyhead
local: conservative

sad ****


Posted by tu_face on May-20-2004 16:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Az
sad ****


harsh ****


Posted by Az on May-20-2004 16:44:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
harsh ****


that wasn't based on one statement, that was what sealed it for me though


Posted by slinkyhead on May-20-2004 18:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Az
sad ****


they couldnt run central government but local they are by far and away the most effecient. our local council changed to a lib dem and thyey were the biggest pain in the arse to get anything done, the amount of bureacracy was riducolous, then conservatives came back in and sorted out all the mess. And as for labour council surely there is no coincidence that the 10 most failing local council are all labour.

each election; local, national, regional, european needs to be looked at separately but unfortunatelty that doesnt happen. people will use these local elections as a referendum on labour and the europeans and a referendum on the euro when it shouldnt be like that.


Posted by Ian on May-20-2004 18:46:

our local Labour gov are fine, the guy is really nice, hard working & does a decent job, when Edwina Currie was your tory rep for so long tho, any1 else will do


Posted by slinkyhead on May-20-2004 18:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian^
our local Labour gov are fine, the guy is really nice, hard working & does a decent job, when Edwina Currie was your tory rep for so long tho, any1 else will do


i presume you are talking about your MP. if you are then you have proved my point about people dont appreciate the difference betwen local, national, european etc.


Posted by Coup on May-20-2004 20:03:

lib dems.


Posted by Ian on May-20-2004 20:09:

quote:
Originally posted by slinkyhead
i presume you are talking about your MP. if you are then you have proved my point about people dont appreciate the difference betwen local, national, european etc.


I did vote labour in local and national last time, simply cos I didn't want the tories in power, and i'd do it again, If i felt the lib dems or others had a chance to win then I might vote for them, but I dont see it happening anytime soon, as much as I'd like to. On this I'm Pro-Europe so i'm obv not voting conservative


Posted by sykadelik on May-20-2004 20:30:

I don't think I am gonna bother tbh, it won't make the blindest bit of difference. The country will still be run by a bunch of fuckups


Posted by Spin Doctor on May-21-2004 15:41:

I�m not!

Last year I moved in with my Grandad, and in order to save a quick buck on council tax he�s classed me as a �guest� so I can�t register to vote here or he�ll have to pay extra council tax. My first chance will be the next general election because we had locals a year ago (which I voted two lib dems, and one independent), by which point I shall be register at uni.

If I was going to vote, Lib Dem would be the choice for both.


Posted by irishclubbing on May-21-2004 22:11:

we get to vote for either DUP, UUP, SDLP or Sinn Fein. Aren't we lucky


Posted by donegalredneck on May-21-2004 23:30:

Don't forget the Alliance Party Irishclubbing I don't even know if they're even putting a candidate forward though. So-called middle ground parties have never had any impact in the six counties.

Anyway, back to the question. The party I support don't have any candidates in my area, neither for the European constituency or local constituency. So to Europe I'll be voting for an independent candidate running on a 'human rights' ticket. In the local elections I'll be voting for independents too. The best local candidate is one I'd like to vote for (best worker for the people), but the party he belongs to prevents me from doing so!


Posted by swisstoni on May-22-2004 12:42:

quote:
Originally posted by slinkyhead
each election; local, national, regional, european needs to be looked at separately but unfortunatelty that doesnt happen. people will use these local elections as a referendum on labour and the europeans and a referendum on the euro when it shouldnt be like that.


i couldn't agree with you more. people aren't voting on the merit of a particular candidate in relation to his or her political party, rather on the merit of that political party nationally. shame because it takes away the point of these local elections. its these candidates that we can get the most out of because its the most individual attention we are going to receive


Posted by Dave_Masters on May-23-2004 00:05:

quote:
Originally posted by sykadelik
I don't think I am gonna bother tbh, it won't make the blindest bit of difference. The country will still be run by a bunch of fuckups


Tbh it does annoy me to hear such things as this?

I mean what country would you rather live in, that has a better government?

Im very glad i was born in this country, and i happen to think the government does a good job running the country.


Posted by Spad on May-25-2004 16:22:

Lib Dem coz I like the idea of council tax being replaced by local income tax.

Not a clue about their other policies. Doesn't take much to convince me


Posted by tu_face on May-27-2004 13:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Spad
Lib Dem coz I like the idea of council tax being replaced by local income tax.

Not a clue about their other policies. Doesn't take much to convince me


if you lived in chesterfield before the lib dems got in, you would vote the other way

at least labour can put new road surfaces down properly! our current lib dem council just lobs stones at it and leaves the cars to roll em in....

i agree, council tax should be replaced by a higher income tax, but a) that has nothing to do with the european elections , and b) it would take legislation from a national government to change council tax like that unfotunatly :/

i still like the idea of jeffs party


Posted by Coup on May-27-2004 17:17:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
at least labour can put new road surfaces down properly! our current lib dem council just lobs stones at it and leaves the cars to roll em in....

hahaha

goto vote for them just for their style


Posted by evil_bastard on May-28-2004 23:32:

quote:
Originally posted by slinkyhead
And as for labour council surely there is no coincidence that the 10 most failing local council are all labour.


There is another way of looking at that. The regions with strongest Labour support were those most neglected by the Tories. A few years later it's no surprise these are still difficult areas.


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