Who Will You Vote For In The Euro's?
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Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
sum r worse that others tho. I'd rather be oppressively ruled over by the non-Hitlerite wing of the shysters.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Some are worse than others, but that's like saying that pus from a leaking wound is slightly less unpleasant to drink than farm slurry.
The fewer people who bother to take part in the charade of 'democracy' as it's presented to us, the less 'legitimacy' the current system has. Therefore I make a political decision, not an apathetic one, not to engage in a charade that I don't feel has any real legitimacy or genuine democracy to it.
The current system reminds me of a prison warden saying to a condemned man 'You can be shot or hanged. You'll still be dead, but at least you get to choose how.' It's an illusion of choice when, in reality, there is little to really choose between a bunch of careerist political hacks wearing different coloured rosettes, and when by far the majority of whom will soon forget any principles they might have had, sacificing them on the alter of such political buzzwords as 'realism', 'pragmatism' and 'political necessity. And that's assuming they aren't there just to get their piggy little noses in the money and power troughs and a nice seat on the political gravy train for a while.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
To be fair, there's quite a selekshion on offer - social democrats, trots, stalinists, xenophobes, greens, tories, hitlerists, conservatives etc. Only for the Euro Parliament tho - has fook all power compared to the commission, the ECJ and council. It would be a fooking embarrassment to have that squinting Hitlerist cunt Griffin repping the UK though. 
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Wow. A lot less nazis than when we did this a couple of months ago. Were they targetting the boards?
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
I think spoiling is more important than not bothering. If I see a funny or well written one at a count I make sure it is read out by the RO if I'm in a position to.
To be honest though the quality of spoilt ballots has gone down in recent years in my experience.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
I always turn out (even for local concil elections) and I only spoil the ballot if I can support any of the listed candidates; and then out of protest of a lack of an official "none of the above" slogan. So I write the prosaic "abstain".
I'm sure there are plenty of witty messages to tide over the returning officers.
I'm sure there are plenty of witty messages to tide over the returning officers.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I was torn between "Don't be bloody stupid, why would I want to vote for any of that shower?" and "Greens".
Went for Greens as I really feel that i have to at least turn up to vote and they seem like the least harmful over all, especially as they will not win.
*slightly ignorant disclaimer here*
Went for Greens as I really feel that i have to at least turn up to vote and they seem like the least harmful over all, especially as they will not win.
*slightly ignorant disclaimer here*
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I might vote for Turkey's entry, Hadise - Düm Tek Tek. It's quite a catchy tune. I like it. It's almost up there with Tarkan's Aya Shukadum Shukadum Dum (sp?)
And taffboy, on an unrelated note, did you receive and pass on an email to your missus about a film? And I'll probably be home in a couple of weeks, hope to catch up then.
And taffboy, on an unrelated note, did you receive and pass on an email to your missus about a film? And I'll probably be home in a couple of weeks, hope to catch up then.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
*marks N_igma's card*
plasticene
New Member
Sweden
To be fair, there's quite a selekshion on offer - social democrats, trots, stalinists, xenophobes, greens, tories, hitlerists, conservatives etc. Only for the Euro Parliament tho - has fook all power compared to the commission, the ECJ and council. It would be a fooking embarrassment to have that squinting Hitlerist cunt Griffin repping the UK though.
Decent people not voting would help towards that scenario though i can understand their disillusionment
I don't even know who's standing here - i have had a Lib Dem and Greens leaflet. Nothing else. So if that (and the 2 Tory parties and the nazis) is the full scale of whats on offer it'll be the greens. The Liib Dem started off well...."we will scrap ID cards" but then it went on... "to pay for 10,000 officers on the beat"
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Well, this has answered my questions about juryteam...
Personally i think its good that people say who they vote for including any BNP voters. People should be able to debate political issues with as many different people as possible.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
I think I'll probably vote for the Greens. No2EU are on the road to nowhere and they have a really shit name to boot. Greens are actually in the race and offer the only credible way to take on the evil, repugnant and utterly foul BNP-UKIP-Tory axis of racial hatred and utter dispair.
John Headstrong
technohippy
well it is bit of a distorted view of the juryteam, while yes the juryteam is funded by a millionaire, he don't get to choose the candidates, they are selected in what is termed "open primary" where you get people to txt vote for the candidates. Even John Swinburne and Esther Rantzen will have to be selected by txt if they choose to run in the by-elections with the support of the juryteam.
While it is not the most democratic, it is public and open. The main parties candidate selection processes are fairly closed processes, with the local party getting a vote and then the national party getting the final say (or something like that).
Anyone can apply, I did. and I am the second on the list for the Scotland region
Jury Team candidates have their own views and their own manifesto and they are not representative of other the Jury Team candidates. The Jury Team is the umbrella group for independents - each with their own policy positions.
Martin Bell has a great article about it http://www.totalpolitics.com/magazine_detail.php?id=407
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Despite my disappointment with them for not advocating nuclear, I'll be voting Green.
scifisam
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Greens, though the LibDems and an independent candidate tempted me.
Euros should not have an apostrophe. It's not a contraction - it's a clipped form. Cite in case the word of an English teacher isn't enough.
Euros should not have an apostrophe. It's not a contraction - it's a clipped form. Cite in case the word of an English teacher isn't enough.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
damn. Okay, I'll agree now, but someone else can pm the mods to ask for it to be changed
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I think you need to apologise b-boy.
scifisam
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damn. Okay, I'll agree now, but someone else can pm the mods to ask for it to be changed
Nah, it's not important.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
AAAARGGHHH!!!!! Nooooooo!
<nervously awaits advent of patron saint of pedantry>
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I will be voting for Sinn Féin.
A vote for europe tsk
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I wish to let all members of this prestigious bulletin board know that I take full responsibility for the incorrect use of apostrophe's, and I have immediately sacked the person responsible.
I can only apologies for this appaling and egregious failure of proper punctuation and i will reimburse the treasury accordingly.
