Will you vote in the next general election?

[Grand Fromage]

Don't want to know who for, just interested if people on here who are often outspoken about the Government, will actually play their part next time an election comes around. (And please God let it be bloody soon!)

[Scraggles]

always will, so many people do not vote as they think it a waste of time, last lot got in on 31% of the population deciding it was worth getting out and voting

[Jasandjules]

Yes.

I think it is almost a duty to vote. However, that is tempered with the fact that it is a democracy so you should also have the freedom to abstain if necessary.

However, if you don't vote, I don't think you have the right to complain about what the shower of s**e in power are doing.

[RJE1966]

I suspect that more peeps on here will be inclined to vote than compared to the population as a whole.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Don't you have to agree with what a party has to say and trust them.

I don't agree with any of them and all are untrustworthy and corrupt, so how do i vote?

As far as I'm concerned, no party deserves my vote.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 18th March 08:07

[AdeTuono]

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Don't you have to agree with what a party has to say and trust them.

I don't agree with any of them and all are untrustworthy and corrupt, so how do i vote?

As far as I'm concerned, no party deserves my vote.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 18th March 08:07

Well, don't vote then. Easy.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

AdeTuono said:

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Don't you have to agree with what a party has to say and trust them.

I don't agree with any of them and all are untrustworthy and corrupt, so how do i vote?

As far as I'm concerned, no party deserves my vote.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 18th March 08:07

Well, don't vote then. Easy.

I don't .

Would like to but can't.

[Jasandjules]

Westy Pre-Lit said:

so how do i vote?

As far as I'm concerned, no party deserves my vote.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 18th March 08:07

SPOIL the vote then.

[Don]

AdeTuono said:

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Don't you have to agree with what a party has to say and trust them.

I don't agree with any of them and all are untrustworthy and corrupt, so how do i vote?

As far as I'm concerned, no party deserves my vote.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 18th March 08:07

Well, don't vote then. Easy.

No. Please do vote.

Go to the booth. Take out your ballot paper and write "None of the Above" on it if you must. Vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party Candidate and help him save his deposit. Vote for your local indepedent if you can't stand the major parties. Vote Green or BNP if you have to but please vote.

They have to count even the spoiled ballot papers. If you are genuinely so disaffected with ALL the possible candidates register your displeasure with "None of the Above".

Riots, Marches, Protests - none of these get a politicians attention like a VOTE. Because a VOTE is the only thing that decides if they have a JOB or not!

Make your vote count - whatever your political leanings. The bds deserve it.

[ali_kat]

I will vote, always do.

If you don't vote, you can't complain

My Nan voted every time, no matter what was wrong with her (one time she made such a fuss she got the Hospital she was in to put on facilities for patients to vote!). She always maintained that her vote cancelled out someone elses for the Party she hated, no matter who she did vote for, it wasn't a vote for them.

[Cara Van Man]

I'm gonna vote.

I voted for the first time ever at the last election, as I was driven to being so incensed by Labour that I wanted to help get them out.

It failed.

However, I'll try again this time.

[The jiffle king]

[quote=ali_kat] I will vote, always do.

If you don't vote, you can't complain

quote]

Agree with this completely. If you don't like something, stand up and take action. The masses who complain, but don't make themselves heard reflect the apathy which is wrong with this nation

T-J-K

[Plotloss]

People have died so each of us has a voice in a democratic nation.

Not vote?

Inconceivable.

[Ewan S]

I think the problem is how to vote when our system is completely wrong and the party that gets in is the one that gets the most seats in individual areas. For instance I live in Farnham, Surrey and its pretty much a tory stronghold area. Now I certainly don't want labour in again, and I'm not sure the tory's are much better, but surely if we were in a position to vote for a particular party for the entire country, rather than our local mp then the end result would be different. I'd love to not vote tory, but you can't help feel it would be a wasted vote in this area.

This is why people are cross that gb is currently prime minister. We don't get to choose the party based on the leader, like in the USA, and have to do vote instead for some local muppet which might be a complete waste of time as his party are only important in that one region. Or something!

Hmmm, not being very concise here, am I? I'll try again later!

[Nolar Dog]

I've never voted and won't be doing next time either.

[shirt]

no. i have done in the past but i don't plan to be resident in the uk next year, so i'm not too fussed which out of the 2 'choices' you all pick.

[Jasandjules]

Nolar Dog said:

I've never voted and won't be doing next time either.

That's a shame. At least spoil the paper to show your view?

[Don]

Plotloss said:

People have died so each of us has a voice in a democratic nation.

Not vote?

Inconceivable.

Agreed. That sums my views up so completely I wish it had been me who made that post.

[Established 1984]

I'll be voting just not sure who for yet, currently laning towards the MRLP as a protest vote. Don't trust any of the big 3 parties to run the country properly. Hopefully we'll get a good independant candidate.

[neil_bolton]

I'll be spoiling my vote: I don't want to vote for any of the parties, and seeing as Lord Sutch is no longer, I've no alternative other than show my protest that way.

I'm absolutely resolute in that if Lord Sutch were still alive, he'd probably be very close to winning something somewhere...