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2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 4:33 am
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who do you think you will be voting for or have you decided not to vote?
I'm planning on voting Green as I want environmental issues to go up the agenda a bit more. I'm solidly left of the Labour Party and (depending how pissed off I am) the Greens too, but they are the best option I've got here. The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUCS) and the Communist Party of Britain are standing far-left candidates in many constituencies but are not truly national by any measure; it is more for the sake of offering people a choice than the likelihood they will get in at this point. I would certainly consider voting for one of them if it was an option.
I want Labour to win nationally, but I live in a Conservative safe seat so it doesn't really matter who i vote for at this point, the outcome is a forgone conclusion who will be my MP. 
(edit: this isn't a public poll, so its still secret if you want).
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 5:08 am
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I'll most likely be voting Green as they have the best environmental and animal welfare policies. I watched the big debate and I was not impressed with the big parties. Tories and labour came off as very slippery. UKIP ironically came out one of the best due to actually being honest, but they have some truly terrible ideas I can't support. So it will be Green or Lib Dem as I'm in England. I'm thinking Green, not because I think they have a chance of winning, but to get more of a voice for animals and the environment, things we don't hear enough about. I am happy to see them as a recognized party now rather than fringe loonies.
I was surprised to find out that Labour does actually have very good animal welfare policies, second only to Green.
The Scottish and Welsh birds came off better than the England representatives to me.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 5:36 am
The Green Party also want rid of Religious schools, but that's just a bonus really. If I was in government, I would go further and get rid of foreign for all religious buildings, in particular Mosques, so that al-Saud cannot spread his cultural hegemony. Saudi Arabia spends billions spreading hatred and division.
We need to get away from this notion that it's the left that supports terrorists and their ideals. Religion fanaticism was, and still is, seen as an antidote for Communism, hence the United States supported it and turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabian funding for bigots. Communists, and others in the left, have traditionally been against religion, in particular the Wahaabism which Saudi Arabia and others support.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 5:37 am
If I was British I would vote in anyone who vehemently opposes UKIP
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 5:53 am
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Tories want to bring back fox hunting (more properly named fox torture) just for its toff friends, so there is no way in this earth I would vote for them. UKIP also wants to bring it back, as well as other insane ideas like handguns and more fracking. I found out that the lib dems have actually been holding the Tories back from doing some bad things such as fox hunting while in a coalition, they've done more than I realised so I'm thankful to them. Lib dem have good animal policies, just not as good as labour or green.
Oh yeah, religious schools are pure unfettered bullshit. I want them gone.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 12:06 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 5:53 am)robvalue Wrote: Tories want to bring back fox hunting (more properly named fox torture) just for its toff friends, so there is no way in this earth I would vote for them. UKIP also wants to bring it back, as well as other insane ideas like handguns and more fracking. I found out that the lib dems have actually been holding the Tories back from doing some bad things such as fox hunting while in a coalition, they've done more than I realised so I'm thankful to them. Lib dem have good animal policies, just not as good as labour or green.
Oh yeah, religious schools are pure unfettered bullshit. I want them gone.
I think fox hunting was in their 2010 manifesto but it never happened. But yes, UKIP have some insane a ideas. They have maybe one or two sensible policies, but there have nowhere near enough policies I like for me to vote for them. They have some strange people in UKIP, like that person who said the reason for flooding is because "there are too many homosexuals". If only it were true, and then we could get a good climate system going and maybe tackle droughts and global warming, by distributing homosexual people in the right amounts around the world the world.
Even though the Liberal Democrats have watered down David Cameron's plans for the country, I'm not going to vote for them since I don't have enough agreement with them. I like that they are fighting for free speech.
It was only recently that Edward Miliband said: "we will make it a crime for people who know more about the Quran than they should to speak out". Isn't "Islamphobia" a crime already? We have anti-discrimination laws, surely.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 12:13 pm
I don't know who I'm voting for, but I'll be putting a big cross next to UKIP to show that I definitely don't want to vote for them.
Actually, I'll be in the Labour camp. Despite the horrendous shit that Blair's mismanagement caused, principally by being stuck up Bush's arse, I despise Cameron/Clegg more. Another term of the Laurel and Hardy of politics will be a disaster.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Most likely Labour, though Green is an option as well. Basically, I would vote for Green, but I know they have little chance of really winning, so I will fight the Tories any way I can.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 12:39 pm
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(April 27, 2015 at 12:13 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I don't know who I'm voting for, but I'll be putting a big cross next to UKIP to show that I definitely don't want to vote for them.
Actually, I'll be in the Labour camp. Despite the horrendous shit that Blair's mismanagement caused, principally by being stuck up Bush's arse, I despise Cameron/Clegg more. Another term of the Laurel and Hardy of politics will be a disaster. Are you sure? Mr. Milliband will take away our freedom of speech. He will make it so that criticizing the content of the Quran becomes illegal, in an effort to get a couple of extra votes:
Labour would outlaw Islamophobia, says Miliband in an exclusive interview
This man is crazy. He is agreeing with people, Fascists funded by Saudi Arabia, who want to silence people who know more about the Quran than they should. He will stifle freedom of expression because he wants the votes of those attempting to export the Saudi Arabian status-quo.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
April 27, 2015 at 1:04 pm
You forgot about the Norther Irish parties that are in the election.
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