Who will you be voting this summer?
I know most of you wont be old enough, so say if you could vote, who would you vote?
I am not going to list all the parties in the poll as its pointless.
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Who will you be voting this summer?
I know most of you wont be old enough, so say if you could vote, who would you vote?
I am not going to list all the parties in the poll as its pointless.
Pirate Party UK
The Pirate Party's three core policies:
* Reform copyright and patent law -- legalise non-commercial file sharing, reduce the excessive length of copyright.
* End excessive surveillance of innocent people.
* Ensure that everyone has freedom of speech and freedom to participate in our shared culture.
monster raving loonies ofc!
nah it would be labour, but my birthday is on the 22nd may so looks like i'm going to miss it! not that bothered about missing it cos i live in a safe labour seat aha.
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Originally Posted by Cod
What the main reason of you supporting them?
Just wondered aha
Conservative.
labour or mrl? :PQuote:
Originally Posted by lazerman
shock horror.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misawa
Labour..
Labour - whens the vote?
Cant say i have voted and i doubt i ever will doesnt bother me and the way i see it my vote isnt really gonna make a difference.
quite a few reaons really. firstly, i'd say im mostly middleleft, i'm not a complete socialist but i agree with a lot of their policies. i like what they stand for (what they actually do stand for and not what, like many other parties, pretend to stand for). cba going into too much detail cos it's my week off college so i'm slumming it. oh and as my friend would say, 'cos me dad voted labour' (or 'one's papa used one's right of suffrage to vote tory'......). i know it sounds slightly fickle, but it's not really a major factor as i have my own mind and culture, maybe just the way i was brought up has slightly rubbed off on me?
i also really really really really dislike conservatives. :P
trust me man, your vote may not seem important in the whole spectrum of it, but it really is! say you had a certain view or slight wish and a party had included it in their manifesto, you could regret not voting. i'm not forcing you to vote cos it's your choice but i think it's imperative to get young people interested in politics. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by TheHexGirls
sorry for double post btw.
Edited by Tash. (Forum Moderator): Please don't double post within the 15 minute time limit.
UKIP, i'll vote Call Me Dave if and when I hear some real policies from him. Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are all the same.
RESPECT.
i was under the presumption you were 16/17? :OQuote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
I am lol, i'll miss voting by a few months this year but theres always next May in the local elections. I guess i'll be 'supporting' UKIP then. :P But seriously, although they wont get into office anytime soon I want a hung parliament because with any hope the Conservatives will either ditch Cameron or they'll start offering real Conservative policies which we need to get this country back on track as we did in the 1980s under Thatcher although again, not much faith in 'cast-iron' Dave. A lot of the vote this year is going to go away from the Tories and to UKIP and the BNP which could very well cost the Conservatives a large number of seats. I think in 2005 UKIP cost the Tories 30 - 40 seats due to splitting the vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cod
Anyway the election means your only voting for a government which decides a mere estimated 25% (could very well be less than that figure) of our laws, the rest are decided in Brussels by unelected, foreign eurocrats.
although i agree with the cameron bit, wouldn't class myself as a thatcherite lmao.. :P don't want to turn this into another debate cos i want people to decide for themselves but..Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
oi to the bolded bit! :@ none of that in here please... :P
BNP. Say no more.
Everyone is a Thatcherite; if your family owns a business, wants lower taxes to spend on yourself, believes in the law and justice, wants smaller government and less state control and so forth then you are a Thatcherite like it or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cod
If you want business to be nationalised via the government, want higher taxes to spend on the state and others, believe in the notion that prison doesnt really work and laws should be less hefty, want bigger government and more state control and so forth then you are a socialist (to the left [Labour] so to speak).
I read about Thatcher with a biased mind against her just like you may have now - I supported the Liberal Democrats and believed she had ruined this country. When I actually sat down and read about her, the history of the country and how bad the 1970s were for Britain, I changed opinion because it just made common sense what she did and what she stood for. EU, well its true and its a great shame. Many dont vote in politics now because quite honestly they [ruling Lib/Lab/Con elite] no longer reflect the majority view so people just think 'stuff it' or get pushed to the extremes such as the BNP because they feel there is little hope elsewhere. Our government cant even decide what lightbulbs we should use or how large our fruit should be.
Ew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amzoe
Would vote labour. If I could ;)
Christ why does everyone want to vote Labour? I'm probably going to end up wasting my vote. Although if I was undecided, I'd probably just vote for anyone other than Labour rather than waste it.
whoever the person that buys me a drink tells me to vote for.
Id happily give my vote for a pint
;)
Often younger kids are more left-wing and support Labour because they believe it stands for things such as equality and so forth, aka helping everyone despite the fact the opposite is true. They also do it because they dont have much money, so money doesnt really play a part in their lives and doesnt make much of a difference to them because young people dont know the value of money and as we know, Labour have a very poor track record in the handling of money because they also do not know the value of money - especially when its not their own. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Black_Apalachi
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” - Sir Winston Churchill
UKIP then. ;)Quote:
whoever the person that buys me a drink tells me to vote for.
Id happily give my vote for a pint
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They can surely handle money better than UKIP and Tories.Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
And most teenagers do know the value of money actually. Maybe you don't hence you are making those comments but believe me, most teenagers I know value money.
History doesnt say that, 1979 and 2010 show the opposite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saucy
On teenagers, most teenagers are always skint and therefore don't know the value of money. I probably dont properly either, my parents urged me to save mine up and at first I didnt want to but I did and i'm glad now because now all my mates are skint, i'm not.
Skint as in they spent their pocket money or EMA if they are in college. Considering alot of teenagers drink, and so do adults, both spend similar amounts on alcohol each week. But because they spend their allowance doesn't mean they do not value money "/.Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
If you waste all/most of your money on drink/other stuff, then thats not being sensible with money. You are supposed to be sensible and save up money. I'm not having a go at teenagers, of course teenagers will spend money more at ease but that doesnt mean they are great at money - it infact means the opposite. I sometimes wonder how my mates waste so much money, and even myself when i'm somewhere and i'll come back with a lot less and i'll wonder to myself "jesus how did I spend that much" and when you really think about it, you waste an awful lot of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saucy
It doesnt mean young people are stupid or ignorant, just kids being kids but its no reason to pretend that kids know the value of money - because they dont.
Do your parents spend money on you? E.g. clothes, bus, entertainment, if you go out then for food?Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
Because many peoples parents dont, hence they go "skint".
Bus money is (85p a day), clothes no and food - it depends, although I dont really ask for the money back and i've become more aware of how much I waste so i'm far more strict with what I buy now "do I really want that" and most of the times its a no, so I don't buy. Indeed many kids are like that, some will be like me and save up and others will spend and its the majority who spend it like theres no tommorow - hence why they have no concept of money and its value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saucy
This dribbles to politics because the fact is we have adults incharge of the country and incharge of our money and they should be far more careful when spending our money. Its like a small child, you give them £10 of your money and they'll most likely waste it. You give them £10 of their own money, they'll be far less eager to waste it.
legalise cannabis society
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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
The Tories do full pints atleast :)
I can't vote sadly however my vote would definitely go to the Conservatives. For obvious reasons I don't want Labour in again (The reason being, the past 13 years :P) and I feel the Conservatives are the only real choice. They'll bring a bit of change for the better, probably not as much as needed however a vote for anyone else will just be a wasted vote and end up helping Labour or causing a hung parliament, I do not want that.
I'm voting K.RUDD! I think he is labour.
Maybe 85p where you live but £2 (to school and back) in Manchester. Besides, kids cant vote anyway, so it really doesn't matter who they support. Most students who vote are at university and believe me, I know from experience, most uni students value money and look after it.Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
No one, none of them deserve MY vote.
Most likely either Conservative or UKIP. Labour have run out of steam, in power for what, 13 years now, when was the last time we saw anything new come out of the party
How old are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by ifuseekamy
And so you will be wasting you vote if you can actually vote?
Liberal democrats, the only one of the 3 mainstream parties who offers real change. I guess it won't surprise a lot of you that I am voting for them but what may surprise you is I'm also standing as a Liberal Democrat Councillor in the Local Elections.
cool where abouts do you live? is it a safe seat or you reckon you got a chance?Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyDuo
Swindon, the Conservatives will likely win the ward. Thats part of the reason I'm being allowed to stand when I'm fairly new to "Real" Politics, it's to gain experience so in future elections I will be able to contest places where the Liberal Democrats stand a really good chance of winning it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cod
Undertaker I'd also like to point out how "kids" can't vote in elections.
Labour made all those promises in 1997, and only made things worst, child crime is up, blinge drinking is up and a kid at my school punched a teacher in the face and was suspend for a day because under government law they couldn't expel him?
Either UKIP, Lib Dems (they have quite different policies, love to try them out!) & Conservative ftw.
I don't have the figures for child crime but overall crime is down drastically so I'm sure child crime couldn't have risen by much if it did rise. People believe crime is up because of the "Crime complex" and increased awareness of crime because of new mediums such as the Internet but I assure you it's down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajthedragon
Again I don't have the exact figures so I can't really comment but surely binge drinking rates are hard to monitor?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajthedragon
Not true, someone has told you a porky. Firstly they could suspend him for longer than a day, secondly they could expel him although its the governors who make the decision. Are you sure he doesn't have some kind of mental issue? That would explain it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajthedragon
Both UKIP and the Conservatives support the decaying old systems. The Conservatives say "Year for Change" but I can't find any real change in their policies can you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajthedragon
Labour have totally lost their way but it really annoys me when people jump on the bandwagon and bash labour. They gave us the longest period of sustained economic growth, falling crime and greater social mobility. If anything you should be complaining about Top up fees and Iraq.