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Originally Posted by Guinness
So..what is your answer..what will you do to effect a change?
It's all too easy to snipe at someone who has convictions, no matter how misguided and simplistic, without offering an alternative.
It's also so easy to say 'they are all the same'..and write 'none of the above' on your ballot paper....which the official counter just chucks in the 'shows how wasted magna carta, suffragettes, WW1 & 2 was' bin without giving your opinion a second thought.
I'm a socialist..but i'm voting for an ultra right UKIP...
Why?....send me a PM asking why a Labour run LCC is enforcing cuts to private sector social care whilst ploughing money into LCC social care
Or...why a Labour run Hyndburn council ( many of whom are related/close friends) feel that they can get some councillor living in Rishton deciding its best to move a war memorial in Huncoat regardless of public feeling (oh wait..this is what his leader is doing over the EU)..
You really need to put your 'X' where it 'MAY' count
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I freely admit that I do not have the answer.
I am not alone in this.
I am not politically apathetic. I do not vote traditionally for a particular party....I have no political allegiance.
If I am going to award my vote to someone it has got to be because I believe that they have the interest of the country and the common man at the heart of what they do.
That they respect the person who gave them their vote....?Not that they think we(the electorate) haven't got the brains to work things out, to read, to research.
I do not give my vote easily or without thought.
You think I am sniping at C'mon......it would be good if we could understand what his posts mean.....but the way he posts leaves much to assumption and guesswork.....all because he doesn't punctuate his posts.
Come Thursday I will take myself down to the polling station and I will do what my conscience permits me to do.
The Magna Carta and all the other historical stuff you quote allows me the freedom of choice....it means that, if I wish to, I can withhold my vote.
That is what freedom allows....a choice.
You believe in democracy?
It is a mythical beast. If voting changed anything they would stop us from doing it.
All the political parties know that once elected they can do pretty much what they want for a period of five years....and the electorate can do burger all about it.