I won't be voting on May the 5th because...

[mr_tony]

Just to say I'm officially fed up with the pollitics thing as I won't be getting involved.

FYI I moved house before christmas and am of no fixed abode right now, so am no longer on the electoral register.

Anyone else got a better excuse for not voting?

[crazydave]

I plan to form a dictatorship.

Is that better?

[tonyhetherington]

Cos they're all as bad as one another? That's my reason. Oh, also that if I vote for party x/y/z..this is what it means to me...

Party X: I get shafted and pay over the odds for everything I enjoy most.

Party Y: see (x) above

Party Z: see (y) above

[parrot of doom]

Erm excuse me, but why are some people so blinkered as to think they can only vote for people affiliated with a party?

There are independants you know. Vote for one of those instead - be thankful you have the right to vote.

[mechsympathy]

tonyhetherington said:

Cos they're all as bad as one another? That's my reason.

That's how I used to feel, so I'd spoil my paper or vote for the loonies just so I registered. However I a sick of being lied to and treated like a child by the current incumbents, so this time I'm voting properly.

[rev-erend]

Vote for Jamie Oliver

Then we would all get school dinners .. just remembered what schoold dinners were like ..

Don't vote for Jamie

[tonyhetherington]

But, as much as I'd love to agree with you regarding getting the current bunch 'out'...would the then forthcoming bunch not be, as we have said, equally as bad.

In 'theory'...my political stance is very much to the right, but I just can't see that divide anymore between the possibilities we have

[dazren]

tonyhetherington said:

In 'theory'...my political stance is very much to the right, but I just can't see that divide anymore between the possibilities we have

Look at it this way. Which party is likely to over motorists the least.

DAZ

[mechsympathy]

Equally as bad? Probably, but it'll take them a few years to get round to messing the country up, by which time we can try and get another bunch in.

Hopefully we'll see a very close run election, so legislation can't simply be passed on the whim of one party.

[Don]

If you just can't vote - OK.

Otherwise - PLEASE VOTE! Vote for the Monster Raving Loony candidate if you must - it could help save his deposit!

If you can't bring yourself to vote for any of them "spoil" your ballot by writing "NONE OF THE ABOVE" all over it and put it in the box...it has to be counted and is a message to whoever is in power that you are dissatisfied!

[tonyhetherington]

You raise good points Daz/Mech...hmmmm.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not toying with deciding between Labour/Conservative/Local etc...I'm toying with not voting or spoiling / Conservative!

[granville]

Mr Tony, if the blues can't rely on your eminent ilk then what even vague hope is there?

[Tuna]

If your local MP suddenly sees a bunch of votes going to someone else - even a no-hope independant - they will want to know why. Voting for someone - anyone - who's policies appeal to you sends a message to all of the parties.

Sure, it won't necessarily do anything about the worthless, dishonest wastes of space that get in to government, but it can (and does) change policy. Voting for the local guy who has a clue makes a real difference.

Also, with very low voter turnout, getting to the poll station (with your family, friends, mates, colleagues) can actually make a difference. Voting tactically can also really work.

Besides, if everyone on Pistonheads voted next month, I suspect Ghengis Khan would stand a chance

[wolves_wanderer]

I moved house recently as well, is there any way of making sure the clowns at the local council make sure I will be able to vote?

[dazren]

tonyhetherington said:

You raise good points Daz/Mech...hmmmm. Don't get me wrong, I'm not toying with deciding between Labour/Conservative/Local etc...I'm toying with not voting or spoiling / Conservative!

Just remember which scunthorpe resident of 10 Downing Street signed up to something that will allow French gendarmes to put points on our english licences. A spoilt vote, is a wasted vote, which still leaves him in number 10.

DAZ

>> Edited by dazren on Wednesday 6th April 12:56

[tonyhetherington]

The voting part of it is no problems (i.e. I'm in the country that day, very willing to go and vote), so, as you are so subtly () alluding to Daz, it's really a case of just getting current bunch out (which I am more than happy to do).
Consider it done...

[oggs]

dazren said:

Just remember which scunthorpe resident of 10 Downing Street signed up to something that will allow French gendarmes to put points on our english licences. DAZ

Yep Tw4t get him out

[scruffy]

mr_tony said:

FYI I am no longer on the electoral register.

Doesn't mean you can't vote- the nice kindly lady from the Labour Party sent me a lovely letter allowing me to vote using something called the post...

[anonymous-user]

Don said:

If you just can't vote - OK. Otherwise - PLEASE VOTE! Vote for the Monster Raving Loony candidate if you must - it could help save his deposit! If you can't bring yourself to vote for any of them "spoil" your ballot by writing "NONE OF THE ABOVE" all over it and put it in the box...it has to be counted and is a message to whoever is in power that you are dissatisfied!

I did once, in the local elections when I lived in Oxfordshire, write NONE OF THESE WANKERS on the paper. Somehow it gave me a strange sense of satisfaction.

[mr_tony]

derestrictor said:

Mr Tony, if the blues can't rely on your eminent ilk then what even vague hope is there?

Wasn't much in te first place really was there though Der - insiders I know have always talked about the 'margin of defeat' on this one - back since December...

besides the only place I coudl vote (runnymede) is about as likely to turn commie as Norman Tebbit...