What a drip..

[Scrumpy]

The heavy rain.. and the noise coming from some Labour wonkers was just mockery..
The poor man just took it in his stride.. He showed his weakness.. and vulnerability... He is not a ruler..
Why didn't he say 'I'm not bloody going out there in the rain'  ..
The press that attended all had umbrellas..
He makes me feel sad for him.. And I don't want that feeling about the person running my country..
I wonder what other countries thought of it all..

I won't even go round to the Co-op in the rain..

[JBR]

Just go to the board you want to add it and click NewPoll. It will give you a bunch of options to determine behaviour.

It will certainly count votes block or allow multiple votes depending on settings. From memory the rolling result can be shown or deferred to some date or other.

Just give it a go if you want to. I think the result will be a foregone conclusion and different from the national result but I may be surprised.

Btw I wouldn't vote in a lab, con, somebody else poll. The somebody else could be lib or green and I'd put either even lower than the other two losers.

Thanks.  You make a good point, and perhaps I'll just wait and see what happens.  It isn't too far off anyway!

[klondike]

Why didn't he say 'I'm not bloody going out there in the rain'  ..

It wasn't raining when he started. As with all his plans it was not well thought out and poorly executed. Most videos don't show the first bit before he started getting soaked. I wonder why.

[Vlad]

Nothing will change no matter who is elected, I will get poorer, my tax's will increase, the services provided by my local council will diminish, policing will on a self help  basis I suspect, ( catch your own criminal and get a badge)  the NHS will still be the same or even worse for those wanting healthcare. 
So absolutely no point in voting. 

[Silver Tabby]

There is something which the current rabble  politicians do all have in common - a complete lack of interest in the country which they are supposed to be running and in the people who elected them to office.  Avarice and self aggrandizement would seem to be their only concern.

[klondike]

Such a tiny step from running to ruining yet they all seem so adept at taking it.

[Scrumpy]

They simply do the job for the money.. Money they make (running) the country and money they make from ( back handers ) and ( favours)..
They get a good pension.. And can move to where it suits them..
It's like the Royals.. They will not be living here when the shit eventually hits the fan..

[klondike]

[klondike]

Nothing will change no matter who is elected

Can't argue with that but..

So absolutely no point in voting.

Does not follow.
If you fail to vote you have no right to criticise the outcome of the election which will surely be a further decline in this once proud land.

If your choice wins and forms a government which will obviously prove useless then you can both complain and remove them from your list of those you will vote for ever again.

If your choice loses then you can have the nice warm feeling of not being responsible and having made an effort to avert the inevitable mess that follows.

Admittedly this means that eventually you will never vote Labour nor Conservative as they are the only parties that get elected. Of course the LibDems did enter into a coalition but that was a bit of a disaster for them as was alienating over half the electorate in a later one.

 

No sir it is your democratic right to vote and I would go so far as to say your duty too. Despite the utter futility of doing so.

[dextrous63]

I'm voting for the UK Islamic Sharia Law Party.  Might increase my life expectancy if I show the willingness to kowtow and accept the inexorable.

[Vlad]

Can't argue with that but..Does not follow.
If you fail to vote you have no right to criticise the outcome of the election which will surely be a further decline in this once proud land.

If your choice wins and forms a government which will obviously prove useless then you can both complain and remove them from your list of those you will vote for ever again.

If your choice loses then you can have the nice warm feeling of not being responsible and having made an effort to avert the inevitable mess that follows.

Admittedly this means that eventually you will never vote Labour nor Conservative as they are the only parties that get elected. Of course the LibDems did enter into a coalition but that was a bit of a disaster for them as was alienating over half the electorate in a later one.

 

No sir it is your democratic right to vote and I would go so far as to say your duty too. Despite the utter futility of doing so.

I won't vote because I no longer care, it no longer matters to me who is in power, but I will still moan because I am paying my various taxes for services that neither party cannot or won't provide.

[klondike]

Moaning can become a fulfilling hobby. Certainly many millions of the British population avidly participate. We should thank our government for providing so much material which supports the national hobby

[dextrous63]

Have started to dig my first tunnel (every hidey hole starts with the first shovel load) to help local Hamas supporters protect themselves.  Crumbs, cement has gone up in price lately, but it's a necessary capital investment I guess.

On my way home through Crumpsall, I also managed a surreptitious shaking of my fist at a couple of Jewish children.  Gotta start somewhere.

[Scrumpy]

No one worth voting for..  I have never said that before.. 

[JBR]

No one worth voting for..  I have never said that before..

Well, we have three options:

1. Vote for any of the old parties, even the Conservatives or Labour.

2. Don't bother to vote.

3. Vote for Reform.

Think about it.  Carefully.