General Election 2017

kyoto49

kyoto49

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"£$%^&*() had me a nice little sticker by the knocker on my door saying 'Vote labour', and while delivering their leaflet one of the Green party or the Conservatives ripped my sticker off. Cheeky bastards!! Anyway, I had a roll of them so they are unlucky this time as I have stuck another on, but they are lucky I never caught them in the act!!!!!! Vandalism of private property is now added to my list of reason to hate the Conservatives. Actually like the Greens but they are a complete wasted vote :(
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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Cue

Cue

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kyoto49 said:
"£$%^&*() had me a nice little sticker by the knocker on my door saying 'Vote labour', and while delivering their leaflet one of the Green party or the Conservatives ripped my sticker off.
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We have a Green candidate?

On another note: Has Lefroy gone with a campaign about saving the hospital again? All I can think with that is "if you wanted to save it, you wouldn't be a Tory candidate"
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Cue said:
We have a Green candidate?

On another note: Has Lefroy gone with a campaign about saving the hospital again? All I can think with that is "if you wanted to save it, you wouldn't be a Tory candidate"
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Or you'd have saved it the last time you were voted in? Or maybe the time before that? Or maybe you just want it all in Stoke so it's nearer your house?
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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cj1 said:
The only wasted vote is the one never cast. If you believe the green candidate is best then that is who you should vote for.
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Don't agree. Anyone who votes for a party that have no chance of winning is wasting their vote, not so much their vote, as they've voted, but the chance of their vote making any sort of difference. The only 2 viable options are Labour and Conservative in the vast majority of England. I'm not saying that is right, but if I vote Labour they have far more chance of getting close to beating the Conservatives than the Greens have. I like the greens, so I'm sad about that, but it is the harsh reality of modern day politics without proportional representation.
 
1JKz

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kyoto49 said:
Don't agree. Anyone who votes for a party that have no chance of winning is wasting their vote, not so much their vote, as they've voted, but the chance of their vote making any sort of difference. The only 2 viable options are Labour and Conservative in the vast majority of England. I'm not saying that is right, but if I vote Labour they have far more chance of getting close to beating the Conservatives than the Greens have. I like the greens, so I'm sad about that, but it is the harsh reality of modern day politics without proportional representation.
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Sorry to disagree, i say vote for whomever* you like (i'm voting Labour, not sure any of you have noticed), be it Green if you believe in them strongly enough.

Noting your liver bird, so let's go football, where would Leicester City have been (2015/16), if it were not for support? Why watch Leicester City if you know in your heart of hearts, you're not supporting a team that has every chance of winning the Premier League, from one year to the next?

Why support Liverpool FC if you know you don't really have a chance of winning the Premier League?

Well done for getting into the Champions League bytheway!


*vote Labour!
...oh, @kyoto49, you are, right?
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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1JKz said:
Sorry to disagree, i say vote for whomever* you like (i'm voting Labour, not sure any of you have noticed), be it Green if you believe in them strongly enough.
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When I was in Portugal earlier this month I spoke to a friend (in her 60's) who'd just traveled from the Algarve to Lisbon just to vote in the French presidential election. (She's an American from Oakland, btw .... don't ask.) She was annoyed that she was effectively having to vote for her least worst candidate, and said she wouldn't be bothering to vote again.
 
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