Brits who are you going to vote for next time?

[Bonniedundee]

I thought I'd take an early stock-take and ask Brits who they are planning to vote for in the next general election. Vote either ideally or based on what you think will be available in your electorate, it doesn't really matter.

Personally at the moment I'd probably vote Greens ideally because although they have many factions they are generally decentralist and mildy eurosceptic.

I'd also consider Liberals(not the lib dems!), Mebyon kernow(if I was back in Cornwall.) and even UKIP if they were fielding candidates in my eletorate.

[Zan de Man]

I really don't know. I don't think I could vote Labour if Gordon Brown was still leader. Firstly, he was in the cabinet that acceded to the invasion of Iraq. Secondly, he's continuing with the most illiberal programme I can remember.

I think I'm constitutionally incapable of voting Tory and, anyway, I think Cameron is just a figleaf for old style Thatcherites like John Redwood. I might have voted Lib Dem when Menzies Campbell was leader. He may not have been a smooth Commons operator, but he had real gravitas, and I can't forget his principled and unpolemical stand against the war. He was almost a lone voice and certainly the only one who made sense. But I'm not sure about this new guy. He seems a bit callow. I'll look at his statement on the NHS and see what I think.

[Neko]

No one. I can't be arsed to get on the register.

Also, if they bring those poxy ID cards in I'm turning French anyway. Deprive them of my non-participation, that'll teach 'em.

[Gilles de Rais]

Originally Posted by Neko

Also, if they bring those poxy ID cards in I'm turning French anyway. Deprive them of my non-participation, that'll teach 'em.

You're welcome. We need all the smartie pants we can get. but, re. ID cards, errr, i am afraid we already have them... Not that we truly suffer from it, mind you...

[Bonniedundee]

I voted Greens on the poll but I'm seriously considering the liberals if I can(not the Lib dems the old liberal party remnant.). They have some ideas I really like land value taxation and ending drugs prohibition and euroscepticism without being so factionalised as the Greens. The Greens have so many different individuals and factions with different views I wouldn't be sure I wouldn't be voting for alot of views I detest.

[Neko]

Originally Posted by Gilles de Rais

You're welcome. We need all the smartie pants we can get. but, re. ID cards, errr, i am afraid we already have them... Not that we truly suffer from it, mind you...

Yours haven't got all your medical details on them though. Granted, I'd rather go without entirely, but that's not one of my choices.

[Bonniedundee]

You could just not get one.

Buy a homestead and send all relevant gov't departments a declaration of independence.

[contracycle]

I do not participate in bourgeois elections. I will not give them a mandate or allow them to claim they act on my behalf.

[Neko]

I should have said that.

[Gilles de Rais]

Yeah but from you, it'd sound like a semi-spiteful, semi-funny, totally elitist joke

[Bonniedundee]

Originally Posted by contracycle

I do not participate in bourgeois elections. I will not give them a mandate or allow them to claim they act on my behalf.

As a former libertarian socialist(I even often used the other name for this ideology!) and still someone quite close to those principles I can sympathise with that position, I once held it. But I now sort of believe, that it although our parliaments are far from perfect, that we might as well try and use them for good as there are few real alternatives today.

[Viv]

Originally Posted by Bonniedundee

I thought I'd take an early stock-take and ask Brits who they are planning to vote for in the next general election. Vote either ideally or based on what you think will be available in your electorate, it doesn't really matter.

Personally at the moment I'd probably vote Greens ideally because although they have many factions they are generally decentralist and mildy eurosceptic.

I'd also consider Liberals(not the lib dems!), Mebyon kernow(if I was back in Cornwall.) and even UKIP if they were fielding candidates in my eletorate.

SNP...like everyone else in Scotland.

[Odins Raven]

Dear God!! The lib Dems!! Are you serious!

[Odins Raven]

Originally Posted by Bonniedundee

I thought I'd take an early stock-take and ask Brits who they are planning to vote for in the next general election. Vote either ideally or based on what you think will be available in your electorate, it doesn't really matter.

Personally at the moment I'd probably vote Greens ideally because although they have many factions they are generally decentralist and mildy eurosceptic.

I'd also consider Liberals(not the lib dems!), Mebyon kernow(if I was back in Cornwall.) and even UKIP if they were fielding candidates in my eletorate.

The Green party have no concrete policy and are incapable of grasping the most simple of concepts regarding national and international politics, law, budgets, the economy.

[Zan de Man]

That's what we like about them.

[Odins Raven]

Originally Posted by Zan de Man

That's what we like about them.

That would be quite amusing having hippies run he country for a bit!

[Zan de Man]

Amateurism would be a refreshing change from professional ineptitude.

[Bonniedundee]

Originally Posted by Odins Raven

The Green party have no concrete policy and are incapable of grasping the most simple of concepts regarding national and international politics, law, budgets, the economy.

They have many policies and grasp these things better than most. The problem is they are split into too many, albiet reasonably amiable, factions. They have too many policies you could say. I'm split between them and the liberals(not the dems.) or MK. But it doesn't really matter, we don't live in a democracy.

[bunkum]

Originally Posted by Zan de Man

I really don't know. I don't think I could vote Labour if Gordon Brown was still leader. Firstly, he was in the cabinet that acceded to the invasion of Iraq. Secondly, he's continuing with the most illiberal programme I can remember.

I think I'm constitutionally incapable of voting Tory and, anyway, I think Cameron is just a figleaf for old style Thatcherites like John Redwood. I might have voted Lib Dem when Menzies Campbell was leader. He may not have been a smooth Commons operator, but he had real gravitas, and I can't forget his principled and unpolemical stand against the war. He was almost a lone voice and certainly the only one who made sense. But I'm not sure about this new guy. He seems a bit callow. I'll look at his statement on the NHS and see what I think.

thats spooky zan.

basically... ditto.

to the letter.

[bunkum]

Originally Posted by contracycle

I do not participate in bourgeois elections. I will not give them a mandate or allow them to claim they act on my behalf.

thats fair enough, but you do realise you have to stay home with a blindfold and earmuffs on for the rest of your life?

if you spend your time whilst not voting watching tellie, eating a takeaway, talking on the telephone, putting out your rubbish, or basically doing anything *at all* you're already engaging with the filthy bourgeois regime and thus legitimising it; you're just letting them make all the rules.

in the famous words of nelson muntz: ha ha!