Not Cricket!

[neonlyte]

The UK...

Glass Houses, etc...

Amongst the farce currently prevalent in UK politics, was the recent announcement that the Parliament had repealed a 1950's law that prevented Traffic Lights being synchronised so drivers didn't need to keep starting, then stopping. The law was enacted to protect and increase tax revenue from the sale of gasoline (about the highest in Europe - if not the World). Despair doesn't come close to how I feel about current UK governance

PS: For UK users;- my Blog - willamado.wordpress.com is recording SPOILT BALLOT votes for the forthcoming UK European and Local elections. Record your SPOILT BALLOT vote on my blog so we can show UK politicians how disgusted the electorate is with their behaviour.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

The UK...

Glass Houses, etc...

Amongst the farce currently prevalent in UK politics, was the recent announcement that the Parliament had repealed a 1950's law that prevented Traffic Lights being synchronised so drivers didn't need to keep starting, then stopping. The law was enacted to protect and increase tax revenue from the sale of gasoline (about the highest in Europe - if not the World). Despair doesn't come close to how I feel about current UK governance

PS: For UK users;- my Blog - willamado.wordpress.com is recording SPOILT BALLOT votes for the forthcoming UK European and Local elections. Record your SPOILT BALLOT vote on my blog so we can show UK politicians how disgusted the electorate is with their behaviour.

Isn't this ultimately the same as not voting though?

I suspect most politicians are very happy with that. Apathy is business as usual as far as they're concerned. The current government has a large majority despite only something like 37% of the people actually voting for them (I'm not sure of the exact figure, but I seem to remember reading it's around that)

For the MEP's you'd be better off voting for one of the loony fringe parties like UKIP or the BNP (shudder, I now have to go vomit, wash my mouth out with caustic soda and vomit again). MEP's don't matter a great deal and a shock surge for the British Nazi Party would send a much stronger signal to the major parties to get their act together or else.

The General Election is much simpler. Tactically vote out every Labour MP. Do the same to any Conservative or Lib Dem MP found to be a little too creative with their expenses. They won't care if they get in with 30% of the vote instead of 56%. They will care if you put them on the dole queue.

Where's Martin Bell and his white suit when you need him.

 

[jomar]

Isn't the repeal a good thing?

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Isn't the repeal a good thing?

I don't know.

Someone mentioned UK government and the red mist descended

 

[Handley_Page]

Isn't this ultimately the same as not voting though?

Where's Martin Bell and his white suit when you need him.

No, it ain't the same at all.
It took several centuries to get a working system, what with one thing or another (including death).
A spoiled ballot paper is a better method, until we get a "none of the above" option on it (fat chance!). Failing that, look for the daftest candidate (Monster Raving Loony was my personal choice).

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Oops, wrong topic.

 

[jomar]

I don't know.

Someone mentioned UK government and the red mist descended

Ha! I know the feeling.

 

[Handley_Page]

Ha! I know the feeling.

A lot of folk are getting that feeling. . . . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You'd think by now that someone in the New Labour elite would begin to get it. The voters are sick and tired of them. If they call an election now, they'll get thumped good and proper but if they wait and call it on schedule, the voters might just exterminate them all together. They really need to choose the lesser of evils. It really won't matter who the PM is. They can keep Brown and get thumped or replace him and get thumped. And the sooner the better, IMO!

 

[neonlyte]

You'd think by now that someone in the New Labour elite would begin to get it. The voters are sick and tired of them. If they call an election now, they'll get thumped good and proper but if they wait and call it on schedule, the voters might just exterminate them all together. They really need to choose the lesser of evils. It really won't matter who the PM is. They can keep Brown and get thumped or replace him and get thumped. And the sooner the better, IMO!

I don't think they do 'get it'. I watched two political programmes on TV last night and they made me cringe. Politicians don't appear to understand voters objection is to the morality of what they are doing. The expense claim form charges them to only claim for expenses incurred wholly and exclusively to enable them to perform their parliamentary duties, when personal expenses are claimed (cleaning swimming pools, £800 per month for food, horse manure, hanging baskets... etc) they are knowingly transgressing. Repaying the over-claimed money is less important that their willingness to claim it in the first place.

I spoilt ballot is a valid ballot in so much that our voting system declares the number of 'spoilt ballots' submitted. A spoilt ballot is a better choice than a 'revenge vote' that may see the neo-fascist British National Party win seats.