Someone sent me this, quite interesting I think to see where you are.
http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/
http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/
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Pissing in the wind is more apt. As economist Jim O'Neill said last year 'the UK is in a strong position to benefit from one of the fastest accelerations in the global economy for more than 30 years'.
EU elections are next month then, and as far as I can gather, no one really gives a shit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/e...nto-school-to-help-hungry-pupils-9270143.html
This is the impact of government policy on real people.
This is the impact of government policy on real people.
It is interesting. Apparently I am 75% Conservative, even though I don't think I am. But the 25% Labour was on crime, which is the most important issue for me, so that settles that.
It would have been easy for them to cave in to external views on economic policy such as the IMF, they stuck with something that seemed early in their term not to be working. I'm not aware of some global economic trend that would propel the UK to the top of the pops for G7 growth.
Apparently I'm 20% BNP, 20% Tory & 60% Green Party, what a load of shit.
Does that mean you get really high and blurt out racist things in the middle of the forest?
No mate. I'm 100% BNP, England 'til I die. It's not racist you don't know what you're talking about. So shut up.
Might be something in it though, alastair came out 100% 'I'll lick your arse if you went to Eton Party'.
World trade 2012 – 2015: +7% per year, GDP + 4.6% per year. Tory troglodyte polices didn't work then and haven't worked now - what they've done is retard the process of recovery.
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Are you comparing global growth including emerging economies to UK growth? I was looking at peer countries in G7.
Global growth (hint)
Christians are unhappy because David Cameron shuts their door to them and Atheists are unhappy because Cameron refers to Britain as a Christian Country. He's a special kind of dick.
Maybe some people can never be happy and look for an excuse to be annoyed about everything.
Offend the socially conservative Christians with gay marriage. Offend the progressive Christians, by hitting the "undeserving poor". Offend the rest of us by proclaiming us a Christian country.
It's the South Park policy of "as long as we offend everyone it's okay".
Would you give the Conservatives credit for anything?
Oh and when people do policy tests, generally people are far more Tory than they realise. This is because their policies are the most reasonable.
There must be a reason why they don't vote Tory then. I blame Thatcher, there's still some detoxifying to be done there yet.
It's Thatcher, principally. It must be.
I mean, what are the chances that just basically nobody in Scotland is a Tory? It's quite unlikely.
And the Eton thing of course.
If they ever did anything that was in the interests of fairness and not in the interests of their class.
They've maintained foreign aid at a higher level than the rest of the G8, despite the recession. I wouldn't have predicted that I'll admit, but there it is.
Anyone answer me something, how come we've had Conserves or Labour since like forever, certainly in my lifetime (yeah yellow Clegg whatever whatver), but we always seem to vote them in again? We get fed up with Thatch and co selling everything to big business so get in Red Blair who annoys everyone with an illegal war so we then get back in the blues who sell everything to their mates again... rinse and repeat.
Are we all just slaves to the media in the same ways we buy whatever shaving foam, deodorant or fast food they say or just coincidence?
Are we all just slaves to the media in the same ways we buy whatever shaving foam, deodorant or fast food they say or just coincidence?
Voting system is a large part of it, discouraging competition beyond a two-party system. We've got those particular parties because they appealed to the broadest swathe of people when suffrage was universalised, with Labour at that point superseding the Liberals.
The Liberals trashed their party by entering into a coalition with the Tories in 1921 - they've probably gone and done it again.
I think the parties represent a dichotomy in human nature. Individual desire and motivation to gain from your own work and stand on your own merit versus the collective necessity of pooling labour for large projects and to aggregate risk. The other political forces can be accommodated in some way by both approaches but these two ways of thinking don’t blend well and are opposed.
Well it's 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' contrasted with 'screw you Jack, I'm OK'.
Source?
The nature of the FPTP(First past the post) voting system discourages third party voting. It is surprising that third parties have significant influence in the UK, to be quite honest. Look at the U.S for an example of the FPTP/party system gone horribly wrong. Also there are a host of philosophical issues with the party/whip system but that's beside the point.
Basically first past the post is a fairly undemocratic system which makes voting for a third party a 'wasted' vote more often than not, since it's very difficult to break the Labour/Con duopoly on most of the seats in Parliament, even if a third party has a substantial portion of the popular vote.
Also Rupert Murdoch.
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When people got sick and tired of Cowell's X factor 20m viewer show guaranteeing the Xmas number 1 single year after year, making it unfair, they took to the web, nominated an old song (Rage rock band) and all voted it, hell I even bought two copies and the people won, Xfactor came second despite its huge advantage/leverage with media.
Why can't this happen with politics? Someone pick a party, don't have to fully agree with EVERYTHING they do, be it Farage's UKIP, Green Party, whoever, anyone who ain't ultra nasty and clear the same old two parties out. People power.
Instead everyone seem's to just watch BBC and ITV news and vote on what they hear, the rest don't vote at all, too busy with soaps, reality tv, social media or their football teams. Even work or their families.
Seems to be a lot on the news lately about Farage and his party, wonder why.... I'm not buying it. I think someone is scared of his party's rise and using the media to bring him down. Same old two parties then!
Why can't this happen with politics? Someone pick a party, don't have to fully agree with EVERYTHING they do, be it Farage's UKIP, Green Party, whoever, anyone who ain't ultra nasty and clear the same old two parties out. People power.
Instead everyone seem's to just watch BBC and ITV news and vote on what they hear, the rest don't vote at all, too busy with soaps, reality tv, social media or their football teams. Even work or their families.
Seems to be a lot on the news lately about Farage and his party, wonder why.... I'm not buying it. I think someone is scared of his party's rise and using the media to bring him down. Same old two parties then!
How can it be undemocratic when people have just voted to use it as the method for elections. Just because it has problems doesn't mean there is a better alternative which is free from flaws.
It might be that people think about their vote in a general election a little more than X factor. It is right that as a party rises in public awareness it receives more scrutiny. As the general election approaches people tend to go back to the main parties because the quirky alternatives are fun to use to toy with the main parties but you wouldn't want them to have any real power.
What's the drawback with mandatory voting?
It could lead to a spike in the share of the vote for lunatic/fringe parties as people vote for them as a protest at being made to vote in the first place. If people wish to disengage from the process that's as much their democratic right as ours is to engage.