Political Alignment Check

gullifer · Postby **gullifer** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:10 am

Hmmmm, with election time looming, who do people think that they will be voting for?

(Or alternatively, who did people vote for in the US presidential election, if applicable)

(Or who would people vote for if they had the right to....)

(Or just say why democracy is wrong.)

Postby **jessia** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:13 am

what's ukip?

Cookiemonster · Postby **Cookiemonster** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:13 am

jess wrote:what's ukip?

UK independence party.

Will · Postby **Will** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:25 am

They would ideally like to detach the UK from the Earth and orbit around it in a condescending manner.

I picked Lib Dem on this poll, but I'll vote Labour at the election, as they're much closer to getting out the Tory here.

Dante · Postby **Dante** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:27 am

If I was old enough to vote, I'd agree with Will.

I'm glad there's no BNP in this poll.

Qu Klaani · Postby **Qu Klaani** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:36 am

I picked Lib Dem on this poll, but I'll vote Labour at the election, as they're much closer to getting out the Tory here.

I did the exact opposite, I picked labour, but Ill vote lib dem at the election, as theyre much closer to keeping out the Tory here.

Blossom · Postby **Blossom** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:41 am

i suppose i'd vote labour, not that i agree with anything they've done lately. what the hell is that savings thing about? as soon as each kid turns 18 they'll only spend it on drugs/music/flying scooters. well i know i would.

Townie · Postby **Townie** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:43 am

I predict a Tory victory i.e. that grinning Tw*t staying on.

I've always voted with my heart so it's green, I'm afraid. Not overly keen on 'em, but there you are.
If I was voting with my head I'd vote Lib Dem cos they've pledged to scrap the council tax (which is bleeding me dry) and scrap ID cards - And more importantly they've the best chance of getting the Arch-Blairite Labour moron we've got here.

gullifer · Postby **gullifer** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:55 am

Hmmm, as much as I hate to say this, the Conservatives have views coincident with mine on the issues that affect me the most. Mainly on education. I couldn't conscience voting for Labour given how much they've messed up the education system. (As well as the fact that they are pursuing a truly retarded anti-terrorism policy.) Still, I couldn't never vote for nasty little opportunist Michael Howard and his party of disunited and confused misfits. And as for the Liberal Democrats, they have no bloody policies. So I don't know.

krebbe · Postby **krebbe** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:57 am

Lib dem just for the hell of it, but I'm not sure if I'm eligible to vote. I spend half the year under a different government at home: the Bailiwick of Jersey

Max · Postby **Max** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:08 am

gullifer wrote:I couldn't conscience voting for Labour given how much they've messed up the education system. (As well as the fact that they are pursuing a truly retarded anti-terrorism policy.) Still, I couldn't never vote for nasty little opportunist Michael Howard and his party of disunited and confused misfits. And as for the Liberal Democrats, they have no bloody policies. So I don't know.

That's why I wouldn't vote Labour, Conservative, or Lib dem; Labour's seemingly exemplary economic performance is offset (and then some) by their educative ~*iguana*~ and yes, their demagogic liberty-infringing terrorist policy. So I'd vote Green, because I know they won't win, but supporting them would help highlight the point that ~*iguana*~ up the world is not good.

Will · Postby **Will** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:09 am

Yeah, voice your protest! ...

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Max · Postby **Max** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:12 am

Will wrote:Yeah, voice your protest! ...

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Now Will, that's not in the spirit of democracy. ...

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Will · Postby **Will** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:14 am

supporting them would help highlight the point that ~*iguana*~ up the world is not good.

It just won't, see.

Kinders · Postby **Kinders** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:18 am

* sigh *

I voted Green last time and I'll vote Green this time. It's just sad that I (and just about everyone else who votes with me) am voting Green because they're the least *bleaurgh* party out there.

But that's politics...

Will · Postby **Will** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:19 am

Give 'em enough power and they soon will be.

krebbe · Postby **krebbe** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:22 am

Labour's higher education policy doesn't make much sense to me - make university more accessible to everyone by making everyone pay more. I agree with the Tory policy of sending fewer people into higher education. Everyone who really wants to go into higher education should be free to, but encouraging people to turn away from an apprenticeship in the working world in favour of a generic low level university course, which may give little or no additional value to your job prospects, does no favours for anyone involved.

Qu Klaani · Postby **Qu Klaani** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:30 am

Top up fees is one of the (increasingly) many issues where if you're against labour for it, you've gotta be against the tories, because even though they voted against, theyre all for them, they were just being all lib demish (oppurtunistic.)

krebbe · Postby **krebbe** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:37 am

Qu Klaani wrote:Top up fees is one of the (increasingly) many issues where if you're against labour for it, you've gotta be against the tories, because even though they voted against, theyre all for them, they were just being all lib demish (oppurtunistic.)

They're not behind the inexplicable aim of sending everyone into higher education just for the hell of it, which to me seems to be a considerable factor in the need for top-up fees. I'm not against top up fees per se; it's more the idea of making students, who are doing really worthwhile courses pay more, because the funds that would otherwise have been available for them are depleted by students who are only there because they feel they're supposed to be there or because uni looks like a good laugh (I have friends who did this from my school, some of whom have since dropped out and others don't seem to give a damn about their course and are more interested in the cheap drugs and nightlife - apparantly I'm missing out by refusing to try 'pills').

None of this affects me, since Jersey still has a grants system for higher education - lucky me.

sg249 · Postby **sg249** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:56 pm

Labour - only way to get a real Labour government in a couple of years time and keep the Tories out in 2009.

sam

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