UK Election - Who will you vote for

[Thorogoods]

I agree with your daughter emm, not voting shows apathy. There should be a box on every paper to register a "Protest Vote".

[melvazquez]

I definately wanted to vote this time, but even as I stood in the booth I was unsure as to who to vote for! Would have prefered to have put a cross in a box that said "None of the above-Protest vote"!

mel

[E. Cosgrove]

I was tempted to write across mine " you must be joking!"<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by emm
You should go and vote, even if it is to spoil your paper by putting a cross in all the boxes, or by putting a line through it and writing 'None of the above' at the foot of the paper. I was thinking of not voting for the same reasons as have already been expressed here, but I was given a stern talking-to by my daughter, who is studying Politics, and told that not voting just shows apathy, spoiling your ballot paper registers that you care what is going on in the country and are unhappy about the situation.
[/quote]

[julieanne]

I've voted - I agree with others that you should use your vote.
However not one of the parties in our area has called or even put a leaflet thru the door. I had to do my own research and find out what my choices were, and I did feel - well if they can't be bothered with me, why should I bother with them?[msnmad]

But in the end I had to go and "do my bit" [msneek]

[John Rocke]

all ballot papers are counted, so if you do spoil your paper as a protest, that will be declared with all the others.

its a bit late now though.

jr

[pieman790]

All finished now and Tony Blair is Prime Minister once again. I have been watching the results on and off all night.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by pieman790
All finished now and Tony Blair is Prime Minister once again. I have been watching the results on and off all night.
[/quote]

Oh NO![msnscared]

[DisneyDreamer]

Wonderful, I can look forward to paying more and more of my wages to the Government

[Snapper]

In case you are interested in the poll, the numbers who the forum would vote for were:

Labour: 13 (27%)
Conservative: 24 (50%)
Lib Dem: 5 (10%)
Other: 6 (13%)

The results (no comment!!) were:

Labour: 353 (58%)
Conservative: 195 (32%)
Lib Dem: 60 (10%)
Other: 0 (0%)

So we more or less have Labour/Conservative the other way around. The ratios are reasonably close but reversed.

I guess that says something about the regulars on the forum vs. the rest of the population.

[Jill]

Have just been watching the lunchtime news analysis and they have just reported that since records started for counting the number of people who are eligible to vote against the number of people who actually voted for the winning party, Blair has won another record. This government has taken the title of having the fewest number of eligible people vote for Labour at 22.2% (24 seats still to be announced at time of notification). No wonder they are not shouting off the rooftops about this record.