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No-one, it's a waste of time
I'm voting for the SNP, mainly because the last 60 or so years have proved the 2 party system we have in the UK is inept, corrupt and deceitful with politicians vying for votes with promises that are broken as easily as pie crust and leaders forgetting they were elected to serve not rule.
I want Scotland to be independent and free of the interference of an English system geared to English needs, I want a political leadership in Scotland that is concerned in the needs of the Scottish people, unfortunately the present regime in Holyrood is under the control of Westminster and Blair's sofa cabal.
Before all you little Englanders jump on your conceited xenophobic bandwagons, I'm English and have lived in Scotland for 32 years AND LOVING IT!
Only 60 years? Don't you mean "10,000-odd"?
And sorry, but I'm not convinced the SNP is radically different in that way from any other political party - although yes, it does seem that Scottish Labour politics is, ahem, not exactly clear, transparent and accountable.
Also, I don't think it makes much sense for me in Finchley to vote SNP
Me too - I think independence'd be good for both countries, personally.
Hmmm, maybe I should vote SNP
Probably because most of the Cabinet seems to be Scottish...
Err, OK then
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Blimey, where's the bandwagon? I dunno, public transport these days...
I voted dont know Cameron does appeal in some of the things he says but i guess we will have to get closer to the election before the tories reveal their actual policies. Would probably be a Lib Dem voter by nature (although i have never voted for them) but have to confess i don't really know much about them at the moment. Have grown steadily less and less impressed with Labour and really don't think i could vote for them at the moment.
The general election around here is a bit of a sham really as being in what was John Majors constituance and having lots of wealthy land owners means that there is and always will be one winner in this area.
I have personnally never voted conservative but as I am now a business owner and have slightly different values I have to admit to being biased towards them. I am still a bit of floating voter though and really haven't made my mind up.
Maybe this will win over a few waverers?
BBC NEWS | Politics | Cameron hair - the barber did it
Cant decide if this story being in the news is a vaguely amusing sidetrack (no pun intended) or whether it is really bad that this makes the news at all
Hmmm, based on the poll it looks like a Tory landslide
Both! I consider myself happily diverted! With respect to the comment towards the end of the article, I wouldn't put it past the majority of the British electorate to vote for the person with the most hair! After all, it's as good a policy as any... isn't it?
I quite like Cameron so far. He's got a very thin line to tread, though, to avoid one of Britain's finest, fossarii reporters unearthing something 'of interest' in a bid to expose him.
They, of course, are, on the other hand, upstanding, honest, moral templates as to how we should all live our lives!
I'm curious about the high numbers for the Tories versus the Lib-Dems...
Why, when we know what the last Conservative government was like, would folks vote to try them again? Isn't it time to try something different?
(My different option is to vote for an independent Scotland – only a month and a half or so to go...)
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Well, I suppose that, to put the positive spin on it, most politicians might call this a landslide. Perhaps a little premature!
High numbers? I only counted 6!
Because the personality tends to be more important than the party policies for most people. Tony Blair has 'ruled' in a quasi-dictatorship for at least the latter part of 10 years, but when he first arrived on the scene, he was the honest, youthful, energetic, butter-wouldn't-melt type that people could supposedly trust. He's gone against his own colleagues so many times recently, that his party's politics seem almost irrelevant. I'm not suggesting that any other would turn out significantly different given the same office, but those early impressions often count more in determining people's opinions than the party itself. Rightly or wrongly.
Cameron has now what Tony Blair had. Who knows at the moment whether or not this can be relied upon were the Conservatives to come to power. It would seem either way that the Conservatives have come a long way since their last term of office and most recently Cameron is the public face of this.
Probably no need to panic. There'll be an influx of Sunday-afternoon voters to sway the balance I'm sure!
I'd like the chance to vote for Gordon Brown.
I did think at one time that I should vote Lib-Dem so that small groups like the Green Party would potentially get represented when proportional representation was brought in. But Green issues have apparently been taken onboard by the major parties now, and PR would probably just result in British National Party MPs taking seats in the House of Commons.
So I guess I'll stick with Gordie.
Well, I dunno about her, but I certainly don't, no - any more than I think it'd be right to allow any extremist hate-based group to have political representation.
We're too damn tolerant of some people sometimes - the obvious other example being the plethora of Islamo-fascist movements masquerading as religious organisations.
I used to think that way - unfortunately, the recent history of the Lib-Dems, to me, doesn't inspire me with any notion that they're less sleazy or small-minded than any of the others.
Whilst I agree with you that institutionally it'd be a good move* - moving power closer to the people is always a good move - I guarantee that Scottish politicians will turn out to be just as incompetent and corrupt as Westminster-based ones are.
* Plus, it's always fun to see Gordon Brown squirm when trying not to be too Scottish...
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Absolutely - that's the institutional part of it. And they're closer to home so can hopefully better hear you yelling at them
The worst things Thatcher did, to my mind, was centralisation of power and trivialisation of local / regional democracy.
And the best things Labour have done, to my mind, have been to partially redress this imbalance (devolution, London mayor etc.) - John Smith's legacy, of course. I wonder what the country would have been like after 10 years of a Smith government?
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