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Charles Clarke just sacked – a week too late I’m afraid.
FSL – just who do you propose replacing Labour with then?
At the moment I think any of the parties could do a better job. In the long term I’d be happy to give the Conservatives a chance.
Great to to see "voters" finally waking-up to these charlatans.
Regards- Matron<br>:cool:<br>
2nd raters all of them – and that’s probably flattering them. What a pity the opposition have been (and suggest might continue to be) 3rd rate.
Clarke would have been sacked a while ago but Blair, obviously realising they were going to get a pasting, waited for obvious reasons: –
a) Detract attention from said pasting
and
b) "Look – we’re doing something about it"
Lee
Conservatives all the way :biggrin: In fact I’m sure it was my campaigning that got them Pinhoe in Exeter.:cool:
Having said that I’m not the biggest fan of Cameron and wasn’t expecting them to do so well, but after the latest Labour debacle then it’s not altogether surprising.
Iraq is the only issue that seperates any of the main three parties. On almost every other question, they take the same, right of centre, middle-class, pro-big business moralising line and use the same vacuous management speak to obscure their lack of substance.
The Conservatives will eventually crawl back into power by default – yesterday’s results are in no way surprising, indeed, if the government had not got a local election pasting after nine years then it would have been a dreadful Tory performance.
The only ‘alternatives’ are Respect or the BNP, both repellant. I voted Green at the last election rather than not voting at all. They were the least worst option. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
I am a "young folk" too and as an active committee member of the Conservative Future on my Uni campus, I have to say I have a solid interest in politics.
Then again I have since I was little as my parents have always been into it. There is scummy carry on everywhere in life but it’s no reason to abstain from voting and whinge about it. If people are that bothered about the lack of choice etc then they should maybe get off their backsides and do something about it themselves. (OK I’ll admit it’s not always a practical option but people not voting in protest is hardly going to help IMO).
EC – Since being at University I’ve found more politically minded people. As well as the young Tories I know, some of my other friends voted Lib Dem and other parties in the last election and at least have a decent grasp of politics.
However the average young person I know from back home, relatives etc, have probably never heard of Gordon Brown let alone anyone else. One of my surfer-chick friends from Newquay was asking me who to vote for in the last General Election because she said she didn’t know the names of the Parties or what they meant. Overall she said it was boring complicated stuff and she didn’t care, and she’s not unintelligent either!
It’s easy to become disillusioned with politicians and politics, perhaps, but I think the topic of how a country is run is one of the most important there is and mass apathy could result in all manner of things.
The w(h)igs have gone underground. Michael Fabricant MP is their leader, but Wogan funds them heavily
I’m glad NuLabour got stuffed and I am also pleased that the smaller parties all made in roads into the political scene especially the Greens and the BNP .. that’s what democracy is all about afterall.
We need a PR system in this country and voting should be made compulsary, that would sort em out.
My last 5 votes have gone as follows (most recent first)
Tory<br>UKIP<br>Green<br>Labour<br>Tory
If I get the chance I’ll vote BNP in the next election.
Iraq is the only issue that seperates any of the main three parties. On almost every other question, they take the same, right of centre, middle-class, pro-big business moralising line and use the same vacuous management speak to obscure their lack of substance.
They aren’t a whole world apart.
However, the reason I want to see Labour out is that they’ve – just like the tories before them – grown so arrogant, unaccountable and in love with their sense of power – that they’ve lost track of the fact that they don’t own the country, they’re meant to run it on our behalf.
Plus Blair seems to be running the country on behalf of (his twisted notion of) god.
("god will judge me" … no, Tony, the voters just judged you and they handed you your arse on a plate)
It’s time for a change.
Yes, it’ll be pretty much the same sort of policies, but – for the first few years at least – there won’t be quite the sleaze.
We need a PR system in this country
I agree.
voting should be made compulsary
I disagree.
With PR, the voting turnout would increase immediately.
At the moment, most people’s votes don’t count because they live in safe seats and the election is decided by who has the least small minority in a handful of seats.
If everyone’s vote counted, a hell of a lot more people would bother their arse to find the time to use it.
Steve
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