General Election 2010

[Biker Biggles]

I vote for a hung parliament but despite all the hype in the media I doubt we will get one.The reason I want no overall majority is that it would prevent any one party implementing their insane ideas without restraint.I believe the kind of elected dictatorships we have had since the 1970s have done us no favours.Where I live the tories win so I will vote for someone else.

Incidently I predict a clear tory win on May6.

Can you vote for a hung parliament?

And would that be any good?!

Originally Posted by keith_d

No, it's local representation which is broken in the current system where MPs are virtually compelled to toe the party line. It means that rather than voting for someone to represent your needs in parliament you are choosing between two groups of backroom policy makers based on what they claim they will do.

However, as the present incumbents have demonstrated, it is far to easy to promise one thing and deliver something completely different. I'm old enough to remember decades of Labour banging on about civil liberties, but once they were in power it was CCTV on every street corner.

In the end at least we still have the option to vote. So change is still possible, if you can convince enough people to vote for you.

Keith.

Exactomundo. The whip system should be abolished because it means my representative that I helped vote in does not reflect the views he promised. The three line whip is now such common practice; a state of affairs that should never have developed.

It's the battling I can't be bothered with. A hung parliament that could actually work together for the common good rather than petty point scoring could prove invaluable. After all, we're at war and in the biggest recession in living memory.

[Biker Biggles]

No you cant vote for a hung parliament but I mean I will vote for any party that isnt one of the two who will get most of the seats.Actually it matters not a jot who I vote for here as the tory always wins just like all the safe seats in the country.
The reason for a hung parliament is because I dont think any of them are competant to run the country so Id rather none of them had all the power.The less they can do the less damage they can do IMO.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Actually it matters not a jot who I vote for here as the tory always wins just like all the safe seats in the country.

Do you mean that all safe seats are Tory? coz it's pin a red rosette on a donkey around here.

[Biker Biggles]

I mean that in safe seats of either party it doesnt matter how we vote as the same party always wins.Theres actually a very small number of voters in marginal seats who swing elections one way or the other.Just a few thousand voters apparently,which is why the canvassers go all out for them,and the party manifestos court their very specific interests.Time for electoral reform I think.

I will vote for 'other' there not on your list, dont know why there bigger than a couple of the ones on the poll...

I always vote at elections. Figure that I don't have the right to moan about things unless I do

Plus, not to vote would be disrespectful the memories of those who fought and gave their lives so I can.

However, one hears about apathy amongst the younger voters. If you're aged 18 - 25 (or thereabouts), will you be voting? If not, why not?

Originally Posted by Jabba

I always vote at elections. Figure that I don't have the right to moan about things unless I do

Plus, not to vote would be disrespectful the memories of those who fought and gave their lives so I can.

However, one hears about apathy amongst the younger voters. If you're aged 18 - 25 (or thereabouts), will you be voting? If not, why not?

I don't know about that. Their fight TO vote has surely got to include a right NOT to vote?

I think everyone should who feels informed enough. But I'd hate for loads of people to vote for Labour since their parents always have .... doh!

More independents please

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

I don't know about that. Their fight TO vote has surely got to include a right NOT to vote?

Quite a few of the older generation (i.e. older than me!) see it as their "civic duty" to vote. Got to admit that I can see where they're coming from.

But yeah, I agree with you, voting for a party* because you always have, because your father/mother always did and their parents before them, is no way to go about it.

Wouldn't it be great if politicians were open and honest about their policies and their implications, both for the country and for individuals, so people could vote from a position of knowledge?



* do people vote for the party or the person? Is it different at local elections?