The Official 2005 YakYak Election Poll

TiltedKitty · Post by **TiltedKitty** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:25 pm 0

Now this might be a good way for non-supporters of the winning party to express their displeasure...

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:38 pm 0

How many yakyak members are there? Turnout is looking pretty low so far

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:17 pm 0

Tepic wrote:Life long Labour voter voting for Lib Dems because they are more socalist than Labour.

What a sad state of affairs.

I'm a capitalist dog but I'll be voting Lib Dem too. Best of a fucking appauling bunch see.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:07 pm 0

just because I'm socalist, it doesn't mean i'm Lenin!

russ · Post by **russ** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:38 pm 0

I'm a lifelong Labour voter me.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:00 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:
teamonkey wrote:No BNP or Veritas. Never mind, eh?
I can stick the BNP in for completeness' sake. As for Veritas, I don't believe it's announced its candidacy as of yet. If it does, I'll add it.

http://www.veritasparty.com/cgi-bin/dat ... cleID=0200

Post by **RiK** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:03 pm 0

gravy wrote:
Jedburgh wrote:
teamonkey wrote:No BNP or Veritas. Never mind, eh?
I can stick the BNP in for completeness' sake. As for Veritas, I don't believe it's announced its candidacy as of yet. If it does, I'll add it.
http://www.veritasparty.com/cgi-bin/dat ... cleID=0200

There you go then, I'll save Jed the trouble...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:34 am 0

When is it? Doubt I'll be voting, somehow.

Wait. Hang on. Is Harquin Fim Tim Lim Bim Bus Stop Fatang Fatang Ole Biscuit Barrel running? Him, then.

20thCenturyBoy · Post by **20thCenturyBoy** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:25 am 0

Veritas? Isn't having 90% of the Windows backup market enough for those fuckers? They want to run the country as well eh?!

laptoplover · Post by **laptoplover** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:57 am 0

russ wrote:I'm a lifelong Labour voter me.

I've never understood life long voters of one party. They change so much depending on who is in charge and what the issues of the day are that blindly voting for the same party year in and year out doesn't make sense to me.

russ · Post by **russ** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:31 am 0

laptoplover wrote:
russ wrote:I'm a lifelong Labour voter me.
I've never understood life long voters of one party. They change so much depending on who is in charge and what the issues of the day are that blindly voting for the same party year in and year out doesn't make sense to me.

I don't see it a being blind to vote for a principal. Isn't it worse to vote for a party purely because their policies suit your current situation? Don't we have a collective responsibilty to vote for what is best for the country?

Nor do I think that political parties change that much. It depends on how narrow your view is. Yes, policies change to react to events but fundemental principles don't change that much. You could argue that Labour principles have changed recently to become more centralist but in power, to the best of my knowledge, Labour has never followed a radical socialist adgenda and has been quite centralist.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:02 am 0

Despite Derek Foster retiring (Good riddence yah cunt) as you can see I doubt my vote will have much effect (Still going to vote though)

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/cons ... 26,00.html

laptoplover · Post by **laptoplover** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:05 am 0

russ wrote:
laptoplover wrote:
russ wrote:I'm a lifelong Labour voter me.
I've never understood life long voters of one party. They change so much depending on who is in charge and what the issues of the day are that blindly voting for the same party year in and year out doesn't make sense to me.
I don't see it a being blind to vote for a principal. Isn't it worse to vote for a party purely because their policies suit your current situation? Don't we have a collective responsibilty to vote for what is best for the country?

Nor do I think that political parties change that much. It depends on how narrow your view is. Yes, policies change to react to events but fundemental principles don't change that much. You could argue that Labour principles have changed recently to become more centralist but in power, to the best of my knowledge, Labour has never followed a radical socialist adgenda and has been quite centralist.

True, and I can understand your points. Personally I vote for the party that I think can do the best for the country and not for myself, but I think that depending on the national situation that can change and not necessarily always be the same party.

I do usually vote for the same party, but I do look into all of them before actually making my final decision that can be the same as the last time, but also may be different.

punkrulesok · Post by **punkrulesok** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:13 pm 0

Nah, I think the days when you vote in principle are way gone

There is simply too much change in the key policies. IMO, Labour are no longer the "working man's" party, and in fact, have heard some torries say they are the best Conservative Gov we've ever had.

The best thing about voting is seeing what the current state of the party is, and then choosing. I mean, look at the kip of the Torries now. Is it even worth voting for them, with such a shambles going on with their balance.

time for a spring clean this year I say

CharlieF · Post by **CharlieF** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:42 pm 0

everklear wrote:As a Canadian, I can firmly state that I don't understand the issues.
Who should I vote for?

Don't worry, as most of us don't understand them either

The Official 2005 YakYak Election Poll

Who gets your X in their box, then?