Red, Yellow or Blue?
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ah, carry on.
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It's gotta be red. But if green was an option then that would be my choice. Blue and yellow are boring. But red means action!
We want a little action when we can get it
EDIT - didn't realise it was election related when I started writing. Oh the irony
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Oh bummer, I voted blue because it is clearly superior to yellow and red as a colo(u)r. I have no idea where it stands in the British Political spectrum...
Chris
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Blue is conservative which is roughly equivalent to your republican party (or whichever party is on the right.)
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Haha... How should we (non-Brits) know?
BTW we had the first round of the general elections last week. For two periods (8 years altogether) we have had red's. Now the orange's (wow, they have English pages, too!) seem to overtake but they probably even reach 2/3 that is crucial for certain laws to change.
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Got to be blue, (I didn't see the BNP)
That bas**rd Gordon Brown wrecked my final salary pension scheme with his thieving tax grab. I shall be lucky to get half of what I was promised during all those years of paying in!!
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I watched a little of the TV debate the other night and as far as I see they all sucked, but the younger guy (I think he is a liberal democrat) came across less tainted and slightly more believable.
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Interesting to hear an 'outsiders' point of view, cheers pete.
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vote conservative!
i think you have to be a bit mental to vote labour. im really sick of that gorilla faced gimp running our country. and what's with his little nervous mouth twitch?!
anyone hear gordon brown's cock-up today? he left his microphone on by mistake haha truly amateur!
I am glad to see there are only 2 labour votes in this poll, lets hope thats reflected in the election.
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Just out of curiosity (I'm not tuned to y'all's politics) How do the Conservatives in UK and Conservatives (Republicans) in the USA match up? Is it just a word or do they share the same values?
I guess in the same vein the Democrats (USA) with the Liberal Democrats on your side. -
Yeah, the repulicans and conservatives are roughly the same in that the major right wing party. Id say your democrats are roughly the same as our liberal democrats, being slightly left of centre (from my point of view at least, im sure you could argue this point) and then our labour party are the major left wing party.
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Are the Green's big enough to make show in the UK?
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No, theyre not really a major player, although as smaller parties go theyre pretty big (bit of an oxymoron there.)
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So what are the major issues that can swing this election?
I heard them going on about Immigration, withdrawing troops, something to do with EU (saw highlights on BBC international)
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ooh its neck and neck!
jobs, economy, immigration, foreign policy, europe, tax and more transparency i guess. oh and lets not forget climate change
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Reform of the electoral system is on a lot of peoples minds as well, i think. With the current system (first past the post) a party can get a majority without getting the most votes, more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_past_the_post
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Specific issues are probably a red herring in this election. There's little to choose between the parties. None of them are telling us the full story, especially on the economy. You just know that whichever party gets control, the true state of the economy is going to be revealed as much worse than any of them want us to know ahead of the election.
I'd be happy just knowing that the winning candidate had the integrity and morality to act in the best interests of the country and put those ahead of his/her own interest and ambition (and greed.)
Sadly, I suspect that would be a vain hope.
Having never managed to vote for the winning candidate in the 38 years that I have been voting I've little hope that my vote is going to make a difference anyway..
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@john.warburton said:
Having never managed to vote for the winning candidate in the 38 years that I have been voting I've little hope that my vote is going to make a difference anyway..
I hear this all the time, but every vote is important. Not too long ago we had local elections where only 16% of the electorate bothered to vote. Yet, I'm always hearing/reading the complaint that politicians aren't accountable. When 84% of the voters are apathetic, of course the politicians are gonna get the message that people don't care and they don't have to be accountable. 16% is an extreme example (our turnouts have improved since), but regardless, anytime there is a low turn out it sends the same message. It also sends our children the message that voting in a democracy is not important.
Also, voting reflects the mood of the electorate. There's a difference between winning with 51% of the vote as opposed to 75% or 90% (although, in this country some think 51% equals a mandate).
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ooh I see there's a couple more labour supporters voted!
they must be kinky! 5 more years of a government taking the piss? no thanks!
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@daniel said:
@john.warburton said:
Having never managed to vote for the winning candidate in the 38 years that I have been voting I've little hope that my vote is going to make a difference anyway..
I hear this all the time, but every vote is important. Not too long ago we had local elections where only 16% of the electorate bothered to vote. Yet, I'm always hearing/reading the complaint that politicians aren't accountable. When 84% of the voters are apathetic, of course the politicians are gonna get the message that people don't care and they don't have to be accountable. 16% is an extreme example (our turnouts have improved since), but regardless, anytime there is a low turn out it sends the same message. It also sends our children the message that voting in a democracy is not important.
Also, voting reflects the mood of the electorate. There's a difference between winning with 51% of the vote as opposed to 75% or 90% (although, in this country some think 51% equals a mandate).
...and I will vote of course. It is a safe Labour seat - I'll not be voting Labour, though.
The way it is looking, I suspect that we'll be voting again by the autumn anyway.
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