Who would you vote for?

[Mr. Charts]

Who would you vote for if there was a General Election next week?

 

[Trader333]

Not Labour and not the Lib Dems and not any extremist either.


Paul

 

[TheHoneyMonster]

Bnp.

Policies : The British National Party

 

[Atilla]

Liberal.

After witnessing Labour and Conservatives in action for the best part of my life I've got to see Liberals in power for at least one term.

Do parties actually make any difference???

 

[gedward3]

Nope,

Which ever party gets in they see it as their god given right to stick their noses
in the trough. We must remember that these MP's are the equivalent of a
football player or the like making it to a premiership team and not 2nd or 3rd
division. They see themselves as above the law and we the people as a
bunch of pawns in a game that they have the upperhand in.

My 2 cents

Liberal.

After witnessing Labour and Conservatives in action for the best part of my life I've got to see Liberals in power for at least one term.

Do parties actually make any difference???

 

[wasp]

Is Jeremy Clarkson still an option?!

 

[MrGecko]

You missed an option... emmigrate.

I saw George Osbournes response to the Labour Budget... he is about as much use as a fl@cid w@nk. Seriously, emmigrate. I can use what I save in taxes to get a leased line through to my brokers in the UK; even just use the setup here and use a VPN (well, a couple of VPN's because of the single point of failure thing).

p.s. just don't go to Gib. Cyprus and Malta are favoured personally, I just need to wait long enough for my property punt to pay off.

 

[rathcoole_exile]

D.U.P. in the absence of the Monster Raving Loony Party

RIP Screaming Lord Sutch, sadly missed from the face of British politics. And great gigs down in Ashburton every year

 

[arabianights]

I'm far more interested in the Isle of Man for emigration, that's my kind of place

I would be happy to vote for the old Liberal party, unfortunately that no longer exists, having merged with the SDP who made up a far bigger part of the Lib Dems and are very similar to New LAbour...

 

[timsk]

RIP Screaming Lord Sutch, sadly missed from the face of British politics. And great gigs down in Ashburton every year

Ditto r_e. - were you a visitor to Ashburton or did you live in the area?
I was a Friday night regular in his pub (now converted into rather bland flats) in the early 80's. Usually there was a local band on stage strutting their stuff, to which whole families would attend. It was not unusual to see ninety year old grannies 'dancing' with their grandchildren, aided in some cases by their zimmer frames (the grannies that is, not the grandchildren :cheesy, while the band belted out their version of Honky Tonk Woman or some such. Just in case the excitement got too much (for either the old or the young), there was a St. John's Ambulance crew in attendance, who kept a low profile and sipped cups of tea all night, seemingly oblivious to the eccentricity of the occasion, along with the pungent herbal smell that replaced the air and completely masked the Old Holborn or Golden Virginia that it was rolled with. The image is forever etched in my mind! Aah, those were the days . . .

 

[Trader333]

I would be happy to vote for the old Liberal party

Would that be when the whole Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott affair was going on with quotes such as "I just lay there biting the pillow"


Paul

 

[rathcoole_exile]

Ditto r_e. - were you a visitor to Ashburton or did you live in the area?
I was a Friday night regular in his pub (now converted into rather bland flats) in the early 80's. Usually there was a local band on stage strutting their stuff, to which whole families would attend. It was not unusual to see ninety year old grannies 'dancing' with their grandchildren, aided in some cases by their zimmer frames (the grannies that is, not the grandchildren :cheesy, while the band belted out their version of Honky Tonk Woman or some such. Just in case the excitement got too much (for either the old or the young), there was a St. John's Ambulance crew in attendance, who kept a low profile and sipped cups of tea all night, seemingly oblivious to the eccentricity of the occasion, along with the pungent herbal smell that replaced the air and completely masked the Old Holborn or Golden Virginia that it was rolled with. The image is forever etched in my mind! Aah, those were the days . . .

spent my mid-teens in Torquay before joining the army so had a lot of mates still down there.
used to try to get down most years for the Annual Party Conference of the MRLP which was always in the Golden Lion (?) Ashburton.
So a nice short trip across the moors from Torquay, stopping off only to gather mushrooms. For medicinal purposes only, obviously.
Of course, despite being far better than anything the main parties could throw up, the Annual Conference was just an excuse for a mega weekend of fun & excess

 

[TheHoneyMonster]

I am a big fan of the BNP's voluntary repatriation scheme.

Everywhere i look there are african refugees.

On one level I dont begrudge them a little comfort in a supposed 1st world country.
But on the other hand i think, what are you doing here. And why am i paying for it.

I remember when the black people youd see were of afrocaribean heritage and UK born. Now the majority of black people you see about the place are african.

Its good in a way for the africans to be able to come here as it is europe that has ****ed up their homelands so why should they not escape.

Not just africans but the EU quota is far too great in briton. Send them back to the eastern block. Britain, the most remote country in europe, seperated by sea, but the choice for all eastern block people where they know they can get an easy ride.

 

[TheHoneyMonster]

Albanians are among the worst. They come over in middle age, no intention of working, just happy sitting in the town centres and smoking all day long on my taxes. Send em back!

 

[Atilla]

Albanians are among the worst. They come over in middle age, no intention of working, just happy sitting in the town centres and smoking all day long on my taxes. Send em back!

There is a lot of nonsense here about foreign migrant workers.

Most are hard working and strive to get ahead. They do the work which your average Brit refuses to. You only have to look at all the hard labour jobs in London.

On radio 4 a farmer was complaining that they just can't get the labour to pick their produce. More recently the £10-£15K offered for picking crops weren't being filled by Polish and other workers as it is back breaking work. So he said he is having to improve his facilities (like beds and showers) to get people to sign up at the low rates.

If you were to add all the scivers and lazy gits I'd doubt you were losing more than £500m in total. In contrast the black market economy contributes 4%+ of GDP. Some say even up to 8%.

Much more than that is wasted by NHS, DSS, Defence and last but not least politicians and local councils on a collosal scale.

Finally, the little amounts of money these poor ******* manage to fraud @ £150 p/w normally goes straight back into the local economy in terms of housing food and clothing from market stalls. Your filthy stinky **** rich good for nothing banker or bereaucrat is likely to spend it on produce manufactured abroad ie Renautl / BMW and money would go straigth to the French or German labourers pocket.

As always knock the little guy as he can't fight back.

Knock the fat cat bonuses for doing **** all work and everyone is accused of bitching and jealousy.


Freaking treacherous double dutch upside down back to front wrong way round twisted world we live in...

 

[montmorencyt2w]

"None of the above"

 

[SAINT]

There's not really much to choose from. Lesser of two evils but at least David Cameron, who undoubtedly will be the next PM, is making the right noises today in saying that a complete
overhaul is needed in the country.

I don't buy Alistair Darlings growth figures which he has used to pretend to the public that the
level of debt he has given us is justifiable and manageable.

I also think entrepreneurship must be supported and taught from an early age. Better money skills
taught at schools etc. The present government seem to be crushing entrepreneurial spirit and making it harder, yet in my opinion I believe that we need to encourage it now more than ever.

Britain is now massively in debt but what do we have to sell now? The economy was growing at 3% before the crash and since then we have seen the financial industry, which was one of the main reasons for the growth, crumble, with massive job cuts. Other sectors such as car manufacturing and retail are also shedding. Firms are cutting back on risk, businesses can't get credit and consumers can no longer feed retail with a flood of house equity and debt.

Where he gets 3.5% from I have no idea??

Britain has a strong history of invention and this is needed now to push the country forward.
Everyone seems to be sitting around waiting 'for things to pick up'- house prices, jobs etc but
are failing to see that the goalposts have been moved.

 

[neil]

Britain can't be too bad since people are queueing up in Calais to get to britain.

 

[montmorencyt2w]

There's not really much to choose from. Lesser of two evils but at least David Cameron, who undoubtedly will be the next PM, is making the right noises today in saying that a complete
overhaul is needed in the country.

"right noises"? There is an old saying - "Empty vessels make most noise".

I don't buy Alistair Darlings growth figures which he has used to pretend to the public that the
level of debt he has given us is justifiable and manageable.

I also think entrepreneurship must be supported and taught from an early age. Better money skills
taught at schools etc. The present government seem to be crushing entrepreneurial spirit and making it harder, yet in my opinion I believe that we need to encourage it now more than ever.

Britain is now massively in debt but what do we have to sell now? The economy was growing at 3% before the crash and since then we have seen the financial industry, which was one of the main reasons for the growth, crumble, with massive job cuts. Other sectors such as car manufacturing and retail are also shedding. Firms are cutting back on risk, businesses can't get credit and consumers can no longer feed retail with a flood of house equity and debt.

Where he gets 3.5% from I have no idea??

Britain has a strong history of invention and this is needed now to push the country forward.

Invention - yes, just like those growth figures of "Dastardly" Darling's.

Everyone seems to be sitting around waiting 'for things to pick up'- house prices, jobs etc but
are failing to see that the goalposts have been moved.

House prices need to fall until they are again within a sensible range of average earnings. The fact that Brown & co. want the housing market to "recover" just goes to prove that they have learned nothing about the problems of the last decade or so.

LibDems? All much the same - these parties "all pee in the same pot".

The fact that they have all just been caught with their hands in the till, stuck to our money,is a minor embarrassment that they will seek to brush under the carpet, probably with more secrecy and "t*rr*r" law before very long.

 

[rathcoole_exile]

vote DUP - I could just imagine the Rev as PM

no surrender - to any kunt !! frog, kraut, nip, septic ......