Local elections

[limpwrist]

I used to vote Labour up until and including Blairs first triumph but thanks to him there is no difference between any of the three main parties.
So my postal vote went in the post with a big black X against the "Raving Looney candidate".
To many people died/deported for scruffy urchins like me to vote so I feel the need to use my vote. However it would be nice to have something different to vote for.

[otanswell]

dont vote, cant moan IMO

[walcot red]

dont vote, cant moan IMO

Agree, i've emailed all the parties with issues and concerns I have about the swindon. But i've heard anything back from labour or the lib dems, and nothing to convince me to vote for the cons so i may just vote for an independent. got nothing to lose. i live right next door to my polling station so i have no excuse

[fatbasher]

Doesn't just have to be a straight choice between the old and the new, sheepshagger. Kareen Boyd, who was part of the anti-Croft school campaign and led the way in uncovering a lot of the incompetence and arrogance surrounding that decision, is the "Arab Spring" candidate in Old Town and it would VERY much upset Mr Bluh et al if he were to be unseated by her.

Think yourself lucky - after they made themselves virtually unelectable in Old Town, we've had Bawden and Foley dumped on us in Lawn and Chiseldon. Talk about "a pig in a blue rosette"...

I can remember years ago Bawden coming into the shop where I worked sucking up to the owner like a sniveling little creep, god it was cringe worthy. He only came in once in a blue moon for his "special" purchase rarely bought anything else and it denied the regular customers who spent more and more regularly and were grateful for the service we provided. As a died in the wool Tory he makes my skin crawl.

I sent Perkins away with a flea in his ear the other night too. Cheeky fucker bristled when I challenged him and the Conservatives in Westminster. Tried to wriggle by saying we're nothing to do with Conservative government. Now I'm not thick I bloody know that so he should not have patronised me & rubbed me up the wrong way on that one, but I had him by reminding him he was stood on my property with a fucking blue rosette on! I know a lot of the shit were in is as a result of the financial melt down caused by the Last government but there is so much locally and nationally that is wrong and pissing me off. UKIP 4 me at the local and next general. I want out of Europe for a start. £50m a day, for what?

Sorry about the rant.

[leefer]

dont vote, cant moan IMO

Communist party for you then....everyone is entitled to moan...everyone has to pay taxes and LOCAL council taxes so i feel if i dont vote i can moan as much as i want seing as its my hard earned doing the hard work not a few local councillors.


What a ridiculous thing people say....dont vote cant moan.....you vote and you moan if it makes you happy but it will change sweet fa.
If you are 15 you cannot vote but you are entitled to moan and have a view.....i dont like voting just for the sake of being able to moan...i dont vote because the general elections are a joke...ask the people of Bradford....that will be Labour again at the next proper election.

[Arriba]

Considering the bloodshed and wars to create democracy in countries i think every one should turn up and make their vote, even if that means spoiling the ballot paper.

[leefer]

Considering the bloodshed and wars to create democracy in countries i think every one should turn up and make their vote, even if that means spoiling the ballot paper.

No one can tell me wars were won and lost to protect democracy.....didnt the Germans get run out of Russia....not much democracy there is there.
If a person dosn't want to vote whats the problem.....its my democratic right not to vote if i dont feel the need.
I have voted for years...not this year though...had enough.

[ghanimah]

Considering the bloodshed and wars to create democracy in countries i think every one should turn up and make their vote, even if that means spoiling the ballot paper.

One of the 'best' spoiled papers I saw was someone had drawn a rather accurate pencil illustration of a farm yard scene over their ballot paper - tractors, pigs, trees, birds the lot. It must have taken them ages - yet still I had to agree with the returning officer that it showed 'no clear intention' Though I was tempted to say yes it did - i.e. they didn't give a shit.

[Simon Pieman]

I agree with Leef, though I end up voting more out of duty than anything.

[Barry Scott]

I won't be voting, but I am absolutely disgusted with the way the council spend money drawing white lines everywhere. If people can't see a fucking curb, or more amusingly a roundabout, it's their car that suffers not the curb you absolute cunts.

[reeves4england]

Living in Camden, I get the joy of voting for the Mayor. A few of the candidates...

UKIP: Lawrence Webb - stop immingration 

BNP: A Uruguayan called Carlos - no, really 

Lib Dem: Brian Paddick - promising to sort out the Met police 

Conservatives: Boris Johnson - reckons cutting waste at City Hall will save £3.5bn, ermmm 

Labour: Ken Livingstone - basically promising to save people money and spend more, as usual

This won't be an easy decision.

[chalkies_shorts]

A lot of the Tories have got a face for a fist, Bluh, Martin, Perkins. The wi-fi fiasco alone should cost them their jobs. 

[Shaw Rosso]

A lot of the Tories have got a face for a fist, Bluh, Martin, Perkins. The wi-fi fiasco alone should cost them their jobs. 

So true, had Martin and Perkins and Keith someone or another leafleting my area last week, fucking arseholes. Labour have no hope in Shaw and Nine Elms as the majority (although not all) are middle class, 4 x 4 driving Tory Fuckwits, that sadly for them, know no better.

I asked Keith whatsisname thingamybob about the failed Wifi fiasco and was told "I understand your concerns, but dont judge us locally on what is happening nationally". What the fuck has that got to do with those tax leeching cunts spending £400k of our money on a pile of wank that was Digital City and national politics is beyond me.

I would rather remove my own testicles with a blunt cheese grater than ever put an X next to the name of anyone that has (Conservative) next to it. They have failed us locally, nationally, and will continue to do so until there is nothing left to possibly fuck up. Cunts

[fatbasher]

So true, had Martin and Perkins and Keith someone or another leafleting my area last week, fucking arseholes. Labour have no hope in Shaw and Nine Elms as the majority (although not all) are middle class, 4 x 4 driving Tory Fuckwits, that sadly for them, know no better.

I asked Keith whatsisname thingamybob about the failed Wifi fiasco and was told "I understand your concerns, but dont judge us locally on what is happening nationally". What the fuck has that got to do with those tax leeching cunts spending £400k of our money on a pile of wank that was Digital City and national politics is beyond me.

I would rather remove my own testicles with a blunt cheese grater than ever put an X next to the name of anyone that has (Conservative) next to it. They have failed us locally, nationally, and will continue to do so until there is nothing left to possibly fuck up. Cunts

There's very little left to fuck up, the last lot made sure of that. What in fact you mean is this current lot appear to be fucking up what's left.

[pauld]

There's very little left to fuck up, the last lot made sure of that. What in fact you mean is this current lot appear to be fucking up what's left.

Never ever underestimate the ability of politicians of all parties at whatever level to find new things to fuck up, often combined with the ability to re-fuck up that which has already been fucked up but in new and interesting ways