Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

I can honesty say I'll be glad when I can turn on the TV without being bombarded by all this election crap.

I personally think we should adopt something the USA does, and that is the week before voting there is no coverage in campaigning (any media).

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

The apathy at election time in this country is astounding especially when you see such low turnouts, we should do as many other countries do and adopt a policy of fining people who do not vote.

I ensure that my vote is cast by registering for a postal vote and my vote was sent back a week ago.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

I'm voting for the guy that managed to keep his suit jacket on.

Cameron looks a real wilf in his rolled up cheap cream shirt. Does he think rolling up his sleeves makes him appeal to the both the common man (of course they don't wear suits, just shirts) and the toff (the kind of look sported at the weekend, kinda casual like).

At least Brown looks sharp, dress wise.

As for Clegg, the least said the better innit...

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

What I want to know why our vote tomorrow isn't private.

You look when you go and get your ballot paper tomorrow, they will take it out of a "cheque book" type book and when you state your name, they will write a number on the stub.

On both the stub and ballot paper are punched holes unique to that paper/stub.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

Are you kidding? The trade off in the USA is that you get campaigning for an entire year before the election. Do you really want that?

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

I'd presume that it's to minimise electoral fraud....

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

No, you don't ... but this is a discussion forum. The clue's in the title. ;)

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

True, but don't they have a sort of pre election, to see which of each parties canditates you wan't to run for president?

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

They have primaries, yes, and they serve to extend the whole bandwagon, but the campaigning is underway long before that.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

Not here it doesn't.
They tick your name off the address list and hand you the ballot papers.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

Well maybe although it's mostly Labour buttering up the Lib Dems.

Action that needs to done in whose mind? Again, if the share of the vote is too low then any government cannot really claim much of a mandate. It's bad enough Labour got a majority with 38% of the vote last time. Other countries have successfully have collation governments, it tends to provide some balance to a single party ruling the shop passing whatever they want.

I don't really understand it. You can get involved with your community, via charity or other schemes. I don't have time to help run a school, I elect people to manage the education system and my taxes go to pay professionals to do the job for me. People don't want to set up their own schools, manage their local NHS trust, they want good schools and good hospitals. That's better achieved with adequate funding and leaving it free of political interference than with gimmicks.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

That speech was a desperate last chance at getting votes, I wonder if he actually wrote it?

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

Probably not but I felt he had conviction when he said that. Something few have managed in this campaign, apart from maybe Cameron getting annoyed in the debate.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

It's not either/or Damien, I'm suprised you hadn't realised that.
They're not saying local people must run schools and hospitals, they're saying you can if you want to.
You say you want schools and hospitals free of political interference, yet are misunderstanding the policy from the one party which is actually offering you that.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

Who cares about policies, as long as they are in a suit.....:rolleyes: - I can understand your viewpoint, though, as the New Communist Party likes people in suits; you know, Kim Jong-Il, Mao Tse-Tung, etc....

btw, your red-tinted glasses need adjusting - GB looking sharp must be an oxymoron..... :D As the BBC said in 2007 And further down the article, it states;)