Exiles-who are you voting for this May?

[liam88]

FPTP is an idiotic electoral system. Another reason to vote LD right there...

100% agree with ya there AMS is they way foward!

[Pat O' Banton]

A Lib Dem vote is wasted vote under FPTP lads!

No such thing as wasted vote, if people followed that theory no one would have ever voted Labour in this first place. Surely you should vote on the party you agree closely with the manifesto of not vote on the grounds that you do not like a party, that is surely turning democracy into a negative rather than positive activity.

[Macy]

I think that it is now 'cool' to hate/dislike Blair, but to be fair, the man has come through a lot this term, and i wish him all the best for the next.

It may be cool, but doesn't mean that many of us don't hate him. Back in '97, millions like me voting for the first time really thought "things could only get better". Turned out that the only thing they did was out tory the tories.

See the next target is Incapacity Benefit - I'll never forgive the tories for the worry they caused my old man in the years before his death (from cancer ffs) over the cutting of benefits and how we'd manage, and now these prícks are doing the same thing. They'll only make the genuine cases suffer, as the chancers are the ones that can operate the system.

FPTP is an idiotic electoral system

Compared to what? Our PR system that gives disproportionate power in coalitions to smaller parties? Witness the power the PD's have in Government compared to their actual vote. If the LD's had a chance of winning under FPTP they wouldn't support PR, just the same as it mysteriously disappeared from Labours radar after the 97 landslide....

[lopez]

It may be cool, but doesn't mean that many of us don't hate him. Back in '97, millions like me voting for the first time really thought "things could only get better". Turned out that the only thing they did was out tory the tories.

See the next target is Incapacity Benefit - I'll never forgive the tories for the worry they caused my old man in the years before his death (from cancer ffs) over the cutting of benefits and how we'd manage, and now these prícks are doing the same thing. They'll only make the genuine cases suffer, as the chancers are the ones that can operate the system.

Totally agree. I'm gradually coming round to thinking that he's worse than Th*tch (at least you can argue that her war was justified as 'British' territory was invaded). I voted for Labour in 1992 and 1997 on the specific grounds that they did NOT privatise the London Underground where I work. They subsequently went on to do exactly that when they came to power. FFS, I may as well have voted for the tories.

[green goblin]

Having lived my whole life in the Tory heartland, it has always given me great pleasure to display a "Vote Labour" poster outside Goblin Mansions- even when I wasn't entirely sure if I liked them anymore, such as at present.
It's still worth it just to annoy the natives. Even now, it's worth it.
I'll probably vote labour yet again, lacking any real alternative.

It's funny, but many Monster Raving Loony manifesto pledges over the years, such as all day drinking, have slowly become accepted. One candidate was elected to a council in Cornwall, I believe, purely on his pledge that if elected he promised to do absolutely nothing at all. This sounded pretty good to voters, and in he was voted in.

[Peadar]

I'd vote Veritas if I had a vote.

[Bluebeard]

Is the Monster Raving Loonatic Party still going over there?

[green goblin]

Is the Monster Raving Loonatic Party still going over there?

Apparently so. We're never going to be short of attention seeking English eccentrics, so it's likely they'll continue forever. But as I say, many of their original ideas have now become accepted part of everyday life such as all day drinking and voting at 18. It says from their website:

With "real" politics in its most deplorable state for generations, it's more important than ever that we're around to prove that we've got better hats than anyone else. But we can only do this with your help - be brave, get that top hat on your head, and stand in an election. It's free to stand as a Loony candidate in local government elections, and just imagine the sense of pride you'll feel when you open the newspaper to see your name at the bottom of the results list. Don't forget, too, that the whole idea of devolution, and pets' passports, were nicked off Lord Sutch by the "respectable" parties! We can expect to see more OMRLP policies become law, it's just that it takes "normal" politicians a while to catch up with us.

It's probably a wasted vote. But they're right, they do indeed have far better hats than anyone else.