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| 14 Apr 10, 4:19 PM mini_velvet UK(EH), 6 yrs  |
It's never even occurred to me to vote according to anything related to BDSM. I love the smell of sexual napalm in the morning. | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 4:23 PM Plein_Soleil UK(NP), 2 yrs |
Quite right . " It's the economy , stupid ! " " Yeah . Well I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while " Groucho Marx | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 4:26 PM Iphis_me UK(E), 4 yrs  |
I do agree that everyone should use their right to vote. No matter how limited our democracy is - and voting the government in once every 5 years with no right to recall in the meantime is pretty limited (didn't the Chartists demand annual parliaments?) - it's better than no democracy at all and people have died for the right to vote that we take for granted. "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 6:54 PM Gibbon1 UK(WC), 8 yrs |
The thing is with something like the Extreme porn legislation it's not just that legislation that's the issue, it's the whole attitude and integrity (or lack thereof) of the Labour government that it displayed. Is a party that will invent stories about Guatemalan snuff movies and create patently fake reports about scientific evidence on the effects of pornography, in order to throw innocent people in jail. OK, it's small fry compared to fake stories about WMD's in order to start a highly destructive war, there's just no way I could ever dream of voting for such immoral scum. | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 7:58 PM Prunesquallor UK(RG), 7 yrs |
Great argument against democracy. | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 8:02 PM SirOpenSource UK(E), 6 yrs     |
You cannot join my party. You have not relinquished your current state in return for pure unbridled Apathy. Real Apathy supporters do not sit on their asses they sit on their rightful thrones SOS
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mahatma Gandhi | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 8:06 PM Prunesquallor UK(RG), 7 yrs |
We are faced with two right-wing parties who only differ in their emphasis. Labour is authoritarian and the Tories have a laissez-faire attitude to economics, letting the market do all the work, only tweaking the system to benefit the better-off. As far as I am concerned, the best possible outcome would be a hung parliament (which many think of as the worst possible outcome) with the Lib Dems holding the position of power. I will be voting Lib Dem this year. I wouldn't dream of telling other people what to vote, but I will say that anybody who votes fascist is an utter fool, incapable of learning the oft-repeated lessons of history. | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 8:08 PM SirOpenSource UK(E), 6 yrs |
You think I speak twaddle and then relate a serious matter like voting for The Apathy Party to a taddlesome, mythical character such as Shrek who doesn't even have the money to raise a deposit. I hereby vow that if enough people vote for my Apathy Party I will stand as an MP. SOS
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mahatma Gandhi | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 8:12 PM Dracosons_Mina UK(M), 4 yrs |
Thirded - my father in law says it is a wasted vote but i say hey there is a facebook group called "We got RATM to number one at xmas, now lets get the lib dems into power" - so damn it they have a chance! | ||
| 14 Apr 10, 8:15 PM CurvyCaz UK, 3 yrs |
Was she the one renting a flat from Norman Lamont? She was fantastic! |
