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[Frizzle]

Ya, today is another voting day for the UK. The three main parties, Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are all battling it out for Political dominancy. There’s still the little parties like, The Green party, the SDP, the UKIP, and the BNP, and even the Monster Raving loonie party, making it’s stand with the 99p coin. So if you could/can vote, who would/will you vote for? And why?  If this gets a few replies, I’ll bring up the debates on hand.

[Anonehmoose]

uk independence party! They rock, let's all leave EU!

Edited by Anon, 05 May 2005 - 10:43 AM.

[Dazz]

I don't know any of them

Edited by Ickle_Darren, 05 May 2005 - 10:41 AM.

[Frizzle]

How can you not know any of them? Their always in the news, propoganda and everything, the UKIP, is the United Kingdom Inderpendance party (Take a guess what they hate ), the SDP, The socialist Democrate Party, The green party is envriomental etc..

[Kimoflea]

Ssh.. Kim voted Lib Dem on both ballots on her mum's behalf
We had the candidates for our area in the year 12 and 13 assembly to talk to us. The Conservative bloke had his hands down the back of his trousers the whole time >.< , the Labour woman's whole 'why we should vote for her' speech was "(deep masculine voice) I'm a woman! Break through the glass ceiling! I went to this school! Vote an ex Wycombe High pupil in!" Err.. no, love. The Lib Dem bloke was amazing, seriously. Didn't treat us like idiots, and actually made sense. The UKIP guy was absolutely hil-fecking-larious. He starts off with " Go down to the cinema, and everyone you see has foreign name badges. These people are stealing your jobs! " in front of a sixth form approximately 1/4 asian or from europe. When he saw us all making faces, he got lost "..erm... Death taxes! Your parents will all kick the bucket in the next 10/20 years, and the goverment want to kick you in the pocket for it!" Poor guy... I felt so sorry for him..

I also helped to run our school's mini election, which was entertaining.  There was a candidate from each party per year group, and everyone voted on ballots and things. The year 12 politics party YOOF won 3 seats, Green won 2, Lib Dems won 2, Labour won 1. Tories and MRL won none Rawkin!

[BlackHawk]

I'm not from UK, but I'd vote for BNP because they're nationalists...

[Frizzle]

The British National Party isn't racist, it just favours White Britons over all others, which technically shouldn't it do?

[Kimoflea]

My form tutor is a politics teacher, and she reckons that Labour will win, but will only win with an 100 seat majority (they have 168 atm), she thinks Lib Dems will get about 70-80 seats (they have about 50 atm) and she thinks that the voter turnout will be about 50% (only 59% of the electorate voted last time, which was the lowest it's been since 1918 :blink: ).

So yes. Thoughts.

And Lee, shouldn't they just favour Britons? What's being white got to do with being British?

[Niche]

I dont no none of them either acturally I think its because my mum dont vote or nothing, she has and never will so...yea

[Kimoflea]

It irritates me that people don't vote when people have died for everyone over 18 to have that democratic right. If you're not voting out of protest, it's much better to just cross the 'abstain' box on the ballot.

If you have the chance to vote, but don't, you have no right to complain about the government we get.

[Frizzle]

Because white people are more British through genetics truthfully.

[Kimoflea]

Not true.. we've had coloured peoples here since the 18th century, and unless you can follow you true British liniage that far back, you can't really use that as an arguement.

[Niche]

It irritates me that people don't vote when people have died for everyone over 18 to have that democratic right. If you're not voting out of protest, it's much better to just cross the 'abstain' box on the ballot.

If you have the chance to vote, but don't, you have no right to complain about the government we get.

True but my mum dont complian I dnt think she really cares it just dont interests her I dont think it ever has

[Kimoflea]

I just realised how rude I sounded, I'm sorry I just get wound up, because I would love to have the right to vote, as I've followed this election from the beginning, and made an educated choice on who I'd vote for. I have to wait until I'm almost 22 to vote, so it irritates me when people don't. The politics of this country is so important that I think we should follow Australia, and make voting compulsory.

[Typhoon]

My mum voted Tory *shudders*. My step-dad voted Lib-Dem, yay! My dad voted BNP, meh.

I'm an official member of the Monster Raving Looney party so I'd vote them

[BlackHawk]

Not true.. we've had coloured peoples here since the 18th century, and unless you can follow you true British liniage that far back, you can't really use that as an arguement.

I've had no jews in my family at least  since 1750...

And as for that voting thing - I can't vote (yet), but I wouldn't even if I could - whatever you choose you're going to lose - the best political party in Poland in terms of its goals is Młodzież Wszechpolska, but even that still leaves some more things to be desired

Edited by BlackHawk, 05 May 2005 - 11:13 AM.

[Kimoflea]

BH, my bus driver is Polish and can't speak English.. teach me some Polish

[BlackHawk]

BH, my bus driver is Polish and can't speak English.. teach me some Polish

Your bus driver? You own him too?

Seriously though... please, be more specific of what do you want to say - there's no such thing as 'Polish in ten EZ steps' - it's much more complex even than german

[Frizzle]

Pfft that's what I hate, people who live in this country who can't speak English, same goes for all the English going to Spain and not learning spanish, utterly disrepsectful in my opinion. And I don't mean to sound racist, it's just, what matters more, Britions of course.

[Dazz]

we dome 3 words of polish in our school because my group were chosen to take these polish students round and we learnt hello, goodbye and I can't remember the other one

[BlackHawk]

Pfft that's what I hate, people who live in this country who can't speak English, same goes for all the English going to Spain and not learning spanish, utterly disrepsectful in my opinion.

Yep, that's a major annoyance Sure, I don't expect a tourist or a traveller to learn Polish (!!!), but if someone wants to actually WORK or learn... (work? don't be joking, there is NO work here!)

[Kimoflea]

I don't know what I want to say.. lol.. just speak at me in Polish, BH. I'm sure it's a very sexy language

[Dazz]

but he could be calling you an idiot and you wont know! XD