Are you going to register to vote?

balletshoes

fawd1 wrote: »

It says that they should work towards making everyone they know who didn't vote, get up off of their backsides so that the government that the country actually does want will be running the country. Also, I would say that you surely can't be dismissing the importance of voting because you didn't get the outcome you wanted?
It's a democracy which means you get the government that most people wanted.

do you think most people wanted a coalition?

jp1964

I always vote, and have done since I was old enough to.

I believe in having the choice to vote, though, and respect the right of people not to vote if they choose not to.

I have no confidence in any of the three main parties at all, though, due to the negative ways that their policies have impacted upon my family, and do need to consider my options before May is upon us. I do intend to vote and will be following the political campaigns with interest.

My youngest daughter will turn 18 just 4 days before the election, and will therefore be casting her vote for the first time, she has said she wants to vote and is researching all the options before she decides what she wants to do. My eldest two daughters choose not to vote, and that is fine by me as well. The third daughter also votes and has done every time since she has been eligible to.

Personal choice in my view.

Jagraf

DKLS wrote: »

Yeah great example, I must admit I don't like to see people falling over however I would intervene and have done so, recently I tended to a young lady at a london train station who had fallen, my fellow commuters thought it appropriate to stride over her. I didn't I put her in the recovery position, called an ambulance and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived.

Exactly. So the way you feel when people are striding over her is the same way as I feel when people don't use their vote (or at least destroy it). I personally see it as a moral obligation, rather than leaving it others.

You don't have to vote. Fair enough. But someone has to.

Jagraf

balletshoes wrote: »

do you think most people wanted a coalition?

We don't know, as only about 60% of people voted :cool:

eskimo26

Maybe, maybe not lets be honest it's not really important is it? A career politician is a career politician regardless and they are all money grabber, self interested slime who care largely about themselves and their friends.

The whole thing has become a masturbatory process where it is done simply for it's own sake.

If you came up to me and told me I had to pick one of three turds sprayed with gold leaf to step in otherwise there was a risk a non-gold neo-nazi affiliated, quasi-racist turd would be forcibly rubbed on my shoes I would choose tell you to take a hike.

Jagraf

eskimo26 wrote: »

Maybe, maybe not lets be honest it's not really important is it? A career politician is a career politician regardless and they are all money grabber, self interested slime who care largely about themselves and their friends.

The whole thing has become a masturbatory process where it is done simply for it's own sake.

If you came up to me and told me I had to pick one of three turds sprayed with gold leaf to step in otherwise there was a risk a non-gold neo-nazi affiliated, quasi-racist turd would be forcibly rubbed on my shoes I would choose tell you to take a hike.

The end product unfortunately of people not caring less.

ognum

Yolina wrote: »

Been living in the UK for 20-odd years, but I'm French and so am only able to vote in local elections here, not General Elections. I therefore reserve the right to complain

I assume you have a right to vote in French elections though or you could become a British citizen, I don't have the right to vote in France either

gettingtheresometime

I've always voted for the reasons given previously but I have to admit I'm struggling to decide which party to vote for this time.

I've always voted for one particular party but can't help feel that they sold their soul 5 yrs ago ....and whilst I doubt my vote has ever made a difference to the outcome, I feel I should vote but who for?

So what should I do ?