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Anyone else voting today, i will only vote so then i got a right to moan at the cunts running the place

Bizarrely and illegally I have three polling cards despite filling in all the paperwork correctly - one for ny parents old address in Swindon, one for their new address in Dorset and one for my current Swindon address.  I'll only vote in my current Eastcott ward, although I'm inclined to spoil my ballot paper as they are all as bad as each other, and I'm leaving Swindon soon so the local issues don't really affect me.

I got 2, will be using both.

I didn't get a polling card, but then again I only moved in 8 weeks ago.

i'm voting and have in every election since i was eighteen.
i find local elections are more about the individual candidate rather than the party they represent.
so i vote accordingly.
oh and anyone in the parks area dont vote for that southgate prick,he was a scab at my place of work and now is a bnp candidate.a prize prick if ever there was one

voted last week online.

It's not illegal to have more than one polling card, only to vote more than once.

But obviously SiPi having three polling cads facilitates an illegal use, nto that I'll bother though,  all three wards are totally clear cut who'll win it's not worth the effort of breaking the law for.

I always had 2 polling cards when I went to uni. Only ever used the one though

not got a polling card through, only moved 4 weeks back.

I can't be arsed.

I've got to count votes at work tomorrow  :evil: get £50 tho for counting 9am - 3pm. Steak dinner for me and Sussex Friday night  :beers:

heard its quite nice, enjoy it :P

 :shake:

give paul what he wants, dont be such a meanie

Who are you living with now then?

Where have you moved to, Hoppalong?

I'll be voting tonight for whoever my pen lands on from a 2 metre height.

You are one sick fuck james, even I am not that disgusting and filthy.  You have out birded yourself this time.

:O seriously? good god... you're getting mellow in your old age!


moved in with the girly in haydon wick, with no net access (apart from at work, in the key locker, where i happen to be on rehab  8) )

You don't fuck about do you!  :shock:

When's the wedding?

p.s Rehab is for Cunts.

well i was sleeping at her place 99% of the time, spending most of my time there, so we agreed it'd be for the best!

no wedding, and no kids, for a few years ta :P


rehab is ACE. i'm doing 6hrs tho, its so boring. aint getting a break either, so i get to go home at 7:30. woop!

Jesus! No messing there... :shock:

When he say's he was sleeping at her's he meant to say "hiding in her cupboard, and sneaking outside in the morning to ring the doorbell"

I have the music from Psycho playing in my head

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you bunch of fuckers

No idea who to vote for. All I've seen is a crap letter from the Lib Dems come through my door.
I also had a birthday card from James Gray *shudder*

One person I definitely WON'T be voting for

I might just vote Labour so I then have a right to complain - they need all the votes they can get here and will still get their arses caned

I voted Labour and probably always will.

I'm voting for the Green Party in my area Norwich, they'll win because this town is full of hippies.

I voted Green....SBC is a corrupt organisation that needs a thorough overhaul with new direction.  Not that it will make a difference, but I have that option for my vote so use it.

i voted green too.on a local level i think they would be good.and the candidates seem genuine people to me.plus the labour and tories seem to just snipe at each other over and over again

I had the choice between a Tory candidate who seems more interested in filling my village with speedbumps and traffic calming measures which are just shit or Green and Lib Dem candidates who I know fuck all about.

I was tempted to draw a cock on the voting slip but I voted Green instead.

im not going to bother. they are all the same so whats the point?

 Blimey the Green party is on roll.....prepare for government.

  Rich.....you need to be 18 before you can vote.

I couldn't bring myself to vote for Gary "I'm a complete cunt who closes perfectly good schools" Perkins in Shaw & Nine Elms, so I didn't bother. I don't think much of the other candidates either, tbh.

Now if Johnny Doyle had stood for Labour this time around...

 :P

 :? im 20 in a few months mate?????  :?

exactly, i dont really see what a vote for labour/con/libdem would do at a local level, other than reassure the parties that they can carry on monopolising the system from central government. a vote for greens is more likely to result in useful positive changes in your local area on the issues that matter at a local level. more power should be given to local government, if they are ready for it, because many local issues must be addressed locally and not on a national level. the diversity of our country means that problems in one area are non-existent in others, and vice versa.

i'm glad to hear you did your research into their manifestos, rich. you are certainly an enlightened abstainer.

What...that freekin nutcase para has stood before? :shock:
If i had known he had stood before, i would have gone up against him..... fuckin nimby.

Fuck my old boots. :roll:

i couldn't find any info about my local candidates bar the tory bloke who sent us about three flyers and visited us the other weekend. he seemed alright and i did consider voting tory on the basis that he at least put the effort in to win the votes, but i couldn't bring myself to do it so thought a vote for the green party would be a vote that wasn't wasted.

John stood last May, Matt.

He didn't stand a chance against Keith Williams (Con). S&NE is probably the most Conservative ward in Swindon bar the Old Town ones.

It needed an independent conservative this time round, but I couldn't find anybody who wanted to stand. And no, not me - I just wouldn't have the patience or cool head to be a fucking councillor. It would drive me mad sitting through all those shite meetings and Full Council every month.

I'm 26 this year and i'm yet to vote

 Point of information comrade.....Eastcott Ward which contains most of Old Town's housing, has returned Liberals for years, interspersed with some Labour ....back in the very early 80's Bawden, held it as his private fiefdom, due to a happy knack of getting the postal vote from the surprising amount of care homes, in the Ward.

 It was a night of long and hard celebrating when he was sent packing, only to return in Lawn.

 Lawn now seems to picked up the name Old Town and Lawn, which appears to be a bit of estate agent rebranding.

I usually make a point on voting but the locals this year don't mean much to me, so I haven't bothered.

no can't be bothered. we have been stuck under a Labour council for years except the last few and i dont think much has really changed here with the Tories in charge. the only thing they have managed to do is get town centre regeneration on track. on a local scale i dont really think it matters too much who you have in charge. it's either going to be Labour or Conservative who are not much different in my eyes so i didn't bother this time round. i dont believe in voting Green because there is more to politics than making sure we all meet our green targets. thats just my opinion anyway

Rich

With all due respect it is about leadership.

Fuck what the parties stand for (and this is the main problem with local elections...local politics do NOT equal national politics or leaders).

The man at the helm of SBC is just so, so much better - in fact a billion miles - better than the last council leader.

I really want him to succeed - he has more real world nous and reality checks than anybody has in Swindon since David Murray John.

Having said that, I couldn't bring myself to vote for one of his dead wood blinkered associates today. Not the leader's fault - he's got to play politics within his party as well.

Yes, I understand your Reginaldness.

Eastcott is a dichotomy and I agree thet OT&L is the real stronghold of the Tories.

Which is wot I woz aiming at.

Rod Bluh isn't our ward though Alan

No, obviously.

But voting for his "party" candidates is a show of support. Believe me when I say that Rod is not a big C Conservative, it's just an easier route to getting in to fix things.

So that's why I have a seriously bad problem with voting for Gary Perkins this time around.

I hate the cunt. Yes, "cunt". He is a faction within the cabinet (and an old Mike Bawden stooge) that I very seriously want to stab with a Bristol Rovers fan.

A rock and a hard place.

Do you know Jonnie D well then Alan?
Ive met him a couple of times, and whilst he is articulate and intelligent with a fairly big pair of kahoonas to boot, he doesnt strike me as the sort who would have many friends in the political world!! Ask him what he thinks about Iraq....you will be there for feckin hours!!

Reg OT and Lawn area covers the Mall, Goddard Av area and all of Okus - some way from the Lawns, the old town wards are very 'class oriented' depending which side of bath road you live - i'm now in Eastcott (I think) having previously been OT and Lawn, personally I had only two flyers through the door, and no door knocking and it didn't convince me either way - much less info than I got when in the OT ward.

Turns out I could have voted for MJAD...

Indeed I do.


Cruel but funny
 :soapy tit wank:

Fair play. Mike's ok.

 Having tramped the streets of Old Town, canvassing and knocking up support for more years than I care to remember, the ward boundariies are indelibly stamped on my brain.