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UK elections today.. how are you voting.. or would you vote for non citizens
Don Seer:
what ya'll voted/voting for then?
my town is the #1 target on the lib dem list..
and surprise surprise i'm voting lib dem... only voting for them since they are the ones that have a chance of beatnig the conservatives.. a labour vote is lost here
the conservatives hold it currently.. but i doubt for much longer.. stupidly the local conservative mp wants to shut down a large govt run place on the edge of town that employs 3000 people.. and probably supoprts more people.. in a place where the difference was a few hundred votes last time.. thats a bad move on his part!
i've seen little evidence of conservatives down here.. i saw a few public schoolboy type (quel surprise) with conservative banners.. but i've seen a lot of lib dem support.. plus the lib dem leader visited on bank holiday monday
last tmie there was a 0.4% margin between the lib dems and conservatives down here..
here are the results from last time..
Conservative 41.7%
Liberal Democrat 41.3%
Labour 14.9%
Others 2.1%
results for my town will be up here later >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/571.stm
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: Overseer on May 05, 2005, 06:25:56 AM ---stupidly the local conservative mp wants to shut down a large govt run place on the edge of town that employs 3000 people.. and probably supoprts more people.. in a place where the difference was a few hundred votes last time.. thats a bad move on his part!
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It's a stupid move if you're a politician that runs your office based on which way the wind's blowing, and what's popular.
Perhaps he's an honest politician who feels that the plant needs to be shut down for whatever reasoning he has, and believes it so strongly that he doesn't care if he even gets voted out of office for it. Closing a business and laying off thousands of people is never popular, but sometimes it needs to be done.
Just chiming in, I don't know shit about it, so take my comments on a whim. & I'm not just saying it because he's a 'conservative' I realize the parties are different over there than over here.
Don Seer:
yeah i get what ya saying.. but unfortunately.. if you want to remain an MP.. in a seat you won by just 300 votes.. you dont piss off 3000+ people on the eve of an election do ya?
i'm not quite sure how our parties line up against the US ones.. i think conversatives = republicans, lib dems = democrats and labour would be unheard of.. these days they're more in the middle but they are traditionally very left wing.. commies :D
Trauma-san:
We've got to understand too that he may be getting different info than we are. He might not think the people are that pissed off about it, or he might be under the impression that he's a landslide to win. OR, maybe he knows he's losing, ever thought of that? Maybe he knows he's not going to win re-election, and he's just getting all his shit done before he leaves.
I was just saying the 'honest politician' thing to be devil's advocate, I'm not sure if there ARE any honest politicians in the world... the only thing politics rewards you with is power, I think that's what motivates most politicians.
Don Rizzle:
just about to goto to the polling station to place my vote, here its between conservatives and lib dems, i'm voting conservative because i don't want lib dems taking the seat but i want labour to stay in power.
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