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Voted Labour "without illusions" until and including 1997. Then SSP until I moved down south. Didn't vote at the last election, although I did vote IWCA at the last London Mayoral election.
 
steeplejack said:
No 'I hope you all die very painfully very soon you cunts' spoilt ballot paper option?
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I did consider writing 'Luton scum' on it but decided against at the last minute.
 
1975 Labour (local)
1976 Labour (local)
1977 - only (local) election I've ever missed, got held up and made the polling station after 9pm when it was closed, tories won a safe labour seat, never made the same mistake again
1978 no elections
1979 - Labour (local and general) voted for the awful Evan Luard who was the last Labour MP for Oxford City and lost the seat to the even more awful John Patten. Made up for it by voting for an IMG member who was one of the Labour candidates (!) in the locals, though she narrowly lost.
1979 - Labour (Euros)
1980 Labour (local)
1981 Labour (local)
1982 Labour (local)
1983 Labour (local)
1983 Labour (general) Most depressing election ever - Andrew Smith lost to the awful Steve 'Shagger' Norris and Tony Benn lost his seat; lots of tears at the local Labour club. Dennis Healey would have been strung up and lynched if he'd set foot inside.
1984 Labour (local)
1984 Labour (Euro)
1985 Labour (local)
1986 Labour (local)
1987 Labour (local)
1987 Labour (general) - the one time my vote has actually elected an MP as Andrew Smith beat Norris. Was on the Campaign Committee. Went to the count and celebrated.
1988 Labour (local) Think this was the one I was election organiser for; won seat very comfortably (it's now held by Greens).
1989 Labour (local) - narrowly managed to avoid being candidate by tactic of getting shortlisted in seat of Labour Group leader, but then nearly won the selection (phew! close escape!)
1989 Labour (Euros)
1990 Labour (local)
1991 Labour (local) - voted for Militant Tendency member in Liverpool who won and was later expelled. They tried to set up the Broad Left group as an independent party
1992 Labour (local)
1992 Labour (general) - voted for Nev Bann against the truly awful David Alton in Mossley Hill. There were only about six of us in his campaign team, as all the rest of the left had decamped to help Terry Fields do badly in Broadgreen. I felt Militant had badly misjudged the situation in the Party and their subsequent decimation in Liverpool confirmed this in my view. Nev was well-meaning but a bit of a plonker.
1993 no elections
1994 Labour (local)
1994 Labour (Euros) - Mark Hendrick yuk!
1995 Labour (local)
1996 Labour (local) - candidate was ex-SWP
1997 Labour (local)
1997 Labour (General) voted for Marcus Johnstone, ex-Clause 4 member now blairite functionary on Council, against the execrable tory Nigel Evans. Was asked to be election agent but managed to get out of that. Had to stand in for candidate at the biggest hustings (he was ill) and according to all neutral opinion wiped the floor with the others. Nigel still tries to put a brave face on it and pretend he likes me - he rushed up to me when I was in the house of commons a couple of years ago and clapped his hands round my back asking how I was. Yuk! Canvassed and went to the count of my old friend Audrey Wise in what was to be her last election victory - at least had something to celebrate; got back home just to see Portillo.
1998 Labour (local)
1999 Labour (local)
1999 Labour (Euros)
2000 Labour (local) - voted for my wife!
(narrowly missed Preston by-election in Nov 2000 because although I moved and lived in constituency I didn't qualify for electoral register - voted for Valerie Wise in the selection meeting, would have voted Socialist Alliance in by-election; )
2001 Labour (local)
2001 Green (General) - voted for the excellent socialist Green, Richard Merrick who despite no tradition of Green Party activity got a reasonable vote.
2002 Labour (local)
2003 Labour (local)
2004 Labour (local)
2004 Respect (Euros)
2005 Respect (local)
2005 Respect (General) - excellent voting for Michael Lavalette, one of best candidates I've ever voted for.

2006 ? No election in my ward - what am I going to do?
Canvass for Respect elsewhere that's what!!!
 
Donna Ferentes said:
Indeed I am.
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I was pissed off with NuLabour...can there be any other reason? Why should I submit to threats made by the Labour Party? I vote with my conscience not because some party bullies me.

And no, I did not see "So Now Who Do We Vote For?" The choice in this borough is between 4 parties and I was not particularly attracted to any of them. There were no proper socialist candidates standing otherwise I would have voted for them. Also after my discussion with the then MP, Iain Coleman, I was convinced I should vote differently. Did you see the Labour election leaflets? Not one of them mentioned anything other than populist causes: anti-social behaviour and so on.

I had actually considered spoiling my ballot.
 
Donna Ferentes said:
No, but I'm aware of the Tory leaflets. Really, really vile.
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They were horrible, weren't they? Labour sent through questionnaires that asked about such things as "anti-social behaviour" and "vandalism" which led me to believe that they operate on one track only; and that no matter what our real concerns were they made it clear they would concentrate on populist issues only.
 
I think I've voted Green every time since the European Elections I first voted in - was that 88 or 89?

Well, except for the odd occasion where there wasn't a Green candidate, or where you had to vote for more than one person, or whatever.

Still waiting to vote on an un-traceable ballot paper, though.
 
nino_savatte said:
They were horrible, weren't they? Labour sent through questionnaires that asked about such things as "anti-social behaviour" and "vandalism" which led me to believe that they operate on one track only; and that no matter what our real concerns were they made it clear they would concentrate on populist issues only.
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Oh yeah, Labour weren't any good and were made worse by the imposition of a candidate at a late stage: that always guarantees you get a placeman who will follow the centrally-preferred line and tactics. But I still don't believe in letting the Tories win if at all possible.
 
Donna Ferentes said:
Oh yeah, Labour weren't any good and were made worse by the imposition of a candidate at a late stage: that always guarantees you get a placeman who will follow the centrally-preferred line and tactics. But I still don't believe in letting the Tories win if at all possible.
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Living in this borough means that you have no choice but to vote for shit or faeces. It isn't a great menu and yes, Hands is a cunt but he doesn't have a stonking great majority.

I fucking hate living in H & F. :mad:
 
Divisive Cotton said:
Come on Butchers, you're keeping quiet here - who have you voted for in the past? It's not as if you were born a class-conscious anarchist ;)
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Myself in a local election once, that's it - i wouldn't say the first time i failed to vote was a conscious refusal though. It was after that though
 
nino_savatte said:
Living in this borough means that you have no choice but to vote for shit or faeces. It isn't a great menu and yes, Hands is a cunt but he doesn't have a stonking great majority.
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In many ways I worry far less about who the MP is than about who I want to be celebrating on the night. Happy Tories I do not want to see.
 
I might have voted Labour in 1992 when I lived in Newcastle but generally I vote LibDem in Somerset to try and get the Tor out - failed so far. :( But at the last election it was a POSITIVE LibDem vote as they seems left of labout and I can't vote Labour while that fucker Blair is around.

Local elelctoions generally Labour, depends on the candidates.

Euro-Lelections, last one was either LibDem or RESPECT, I can't remember! :D
 
1996 - locals 3 votes, one labour, one independent, one libdem (they all got in as well)
1997 - general - labour
1998 - locals - labour (it was for my dad's mate though)
1999 - euros - socialist labour party
2000 - locals - socialist labour party
2001 - general - socialist alliance
2002 - locals - socialist alliance
2003 - locals -socialist alliance
2004 - london assembly list - green
london assembly constituency - spoilt ballot
london mayoral - iwca
euros - green (the green votes were more anti respect than pro green)
2005 - general -<cough> janet alder<cough>
 
Fisher_Gate said:
1975 Labour (local)
1976 Labour (local)
1977 - only (local) election I've ever missed, got held up and made the polling station after 9pm when it was closed, tories won a safe labour seat, never made the same mistake again
1978 no elections
1979 - Labour (local and general) voted for the awful Evan Luard who was the last Labour MP for Oxford City and lost the seat to the even more awful John Patten. Made up for it by voting for an IMG member who was one of the Labour candidates (!) in the locals, though she narrowly lost.
1979 - Labour (Euros)
1980 Labour (local)
1981 Labour (local)
1982 Labour (local)
1983 Labour (local)
1983 Labour (general) Most depressing election ever - Andrew Smith lost to the awful Steve 'Shagger' Norris and Tony Benn lost his seat; lots of tears at the local Labour club. Dennis Healey would have been strung up and lynched if he'd set foot inside.
1984 Labour (local)
1984 Labour (Euro)
1985 Labour (local)
1986 Labour (local)
1987 Labour (local)
1987 Labour (general) - the one time my vote has actually elected an MP as Andrew Smith beat Norris. Was on the Campaign Committee. Went to the count and celebrated.
1988 Labour (local) Think this was the one I was election organiser for; won seat very comfortably (it's now held by Greens).
1989 Labour (local) - narrowly managed to avoid being candidate by tactic of getting shortlisted in seat of Labour Group leader, but then nearly won the selection (phew! close escape!)
1989 Labour (Euros)
1990 Labour (local)
1991 Labour (local) - voted for Militant Tendency member in Liverpool who won and was later expelled. They tried to set up the Broad Left group as an independent party
1992 Labour (local)
1992 Labour (general) - voted for Nev Bann against the truly awful David Alton in Mossley Hill. There were only about six of us in his campaign team, as all the rest of the left had decamped to help Terry Fields do badly in Broadgreen. I felt Militant had badly misjudged the situation in the Party and their subsequent decimation in Liverpool confirmed this in my view. Nev was well-meaning but a bit of a plonker.
1993 no elections
1994 Labour (local)
1994 Labour (Euros) - Mark Hendrick yuk!
1995 Labour (local)
1996 Labour (local) - candidate was ex-SWP
1997 Labour (local)
1997 Labour (General) voted for Marcus Johnstone, ex-Clause 4 member now blairite functionary on Council, against the execrable tory Nigel Evans. Was asked to be election agent but managed to get out of that. Had to stand in for candidate at the biggest hustings (he was ill) and according to all neutral opinion wiped the floor with the others. Nigel still tries to put a brave face on it and pretend he likes me - he rushed up to me when I was in the house of commons a couple of years ago and clapped his hands round my back asking how I was. Yuk! Canvassed and went to the count of my old friend Audrey Wise in what was to be her last election victory - at least had something to celebrate; got back home just to see Portillo.
1998 Labour (local)
1999 Labour (local)
1999 Labour (Euros)
2000 Labour (local) - voted for my wife!
(narrowly missed Preston by-election in Nov 2000 because although I moved and lived in constituency I didn't qualify for electoral register - voted for Valerie Wise in the selection meeting, would have voted Socialist Alliance in by-election; )
2001 Labour (local)
2001 Green (General) - voted for the excellent socialist Green, Richard Merrick who despite no tradition of Green Party activity got a reasonable vote.
2002 Labour (local)
2003 Labour (local)
2004 Labour (local)
2004 Respect (Euros)
2005 Respect (local)
2005 Respect (General) - excellent voting for Michael Lavalette, one of best candidates I've ever voted for.

2006 ? No election in my ward - what am I going to do?
Canvass for Respect elsewhere that's what!!!
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Diarist or autist? :D
 
I have trouble remembering things like which year I got married or sat my standard grades, so I have to admire his power of recall.
 
1990 - LE - labour
1992 - GE - spoiled ballot paper
1994 - LE - couldn't be arsed
1997 - GE - never got round to spoiling ballot paper
1998 - LE - couldn't be arsed
2001 - GE - spoiled ballot paper
2001 - MAYOR - couldn't be arsed
2002 - LE - couldn't be arsed
2004 - EURO - spoiled ballot paper
2004 - MAYOR - iwca
2005 - GE - spoiled ballot paper
 
Never had a Green candidate to vote for in a general, have voted Green in most locals since the 80's (apart from one lefty independent and one tactical Labour vote where there was no Green and it helped remove the Tory councillor) and Euros.
For general elections -
1970s - Unable to vote
1980s - Did not vote on principal
1992 - WRP (I think :D ) :eek:
1997 - Lib Dem tactical.
2001 - Spoilt ballot
2005 - Lib Dem tactical.
 
I once voted in one of the US elections in the 70's. I voted for Eugene McCarthy, a third party candidate who claimed to be for the 'yoof'.
 
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