I have simply forgotten to register my vote. What a mong.
Who are you voting for on June 4th? If you can't, who WOULD you vote for?
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:27, archived)

Freezing of the electoral roll as it stands on 27th May 2009.
 
Nifty editing there.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:28, archived)

I am of the old school and believe my voting choices are private*



*I haven't got a shitting clue
( Mrs Sp@m, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:29, archived)

The person who looks least like a triple-chinned bespectacled militant Catholic potato

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:29, archived)

Are foreigners allowed to stand for election in Poland?

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:30, archived)

You can be born outside Poland
but you have to become a Polish citizen, which is a bit like paying an agency to make you die of cancer.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:32, archived)

Can you become a polish citizen if you don't look like a triple-chinned bespectacled militant Catholic potato and refuse plastic surgery?

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:33, archived)

Yes
but then you lose all your rights to make the sweeping xenophobic generalisations that having a British passport gives. Your list of demeaning targets is reduced to Ukraine, a small island somewhere in Polynesia (probably Vanatu) and, of course, France.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:36, archived)

I don't know
but a leaflet I've got here seems to imply you can't vote for anybody, but you have to choose a bunch of six people by their party.
That sucks.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:29, archived)

Sort of.
Parties can enter up to six candidates (or however many seats there are in the constituency) and you vote by party. The seats are then allocated roughly according to the proportion of the vote each party receives. There is nothing to stop an individual standing as a one-man party.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:32, archived)

I don't want to vote for a party,
I want to vote for my representative. I hate parties. And I'll cry if I want to.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:33, archived)

Enter yourself.
Vote for yourself. Don't come crying to me if your neighbours don't think you're all that great.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:34, archived)

No way would I vote for myself.
I don't think I'm all that great, either.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

Sorry, back to this one.
All the elected MEPs will be your representative, and just hold your hand over the candidate list so that you can only see the 1st choice candidate for each party - then it will be just like a normal election.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:44, archived)

yeah except not really,
that's like playing pretend. Actually it's one of the worst bits, if the major parties are practically guaranteed to get at least one seat, it means their first choice of candidate will definitely get into parliament, which effectively means the party appointed them and the entire election was pretty much irrelevant. The battle is only really fought over candidates #3 and up.

I just think this sort of PR is stupid rubbish. STV is alright, although unfortunately it seems to be a bit beyond a lot of people.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:47, archived)

Right then, use two hands or a craftily cut piece of paper to cover the two certainties and all bar the first remaining choice
on each party's candidate list.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:49, archived)

Reduced Council Tax If Your Soft Furnishings Are FABULOUS Party

( moohalaa, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:29, archived)

clickin dis

( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:32, archived)

Lib Dems.
If we can retain all our seats and gain four more then Bristol will have a Lib Dem council!
( LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:29, archived)

They seem really good
It's a tossup for me between them or the BNP (LOLRACISM). Mainly because of the EU stance costing us a lot of money, and their education policies.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:33, archived)

This may be the first time any political party has been described as looking "really good"

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

For any tiny bit of good the BNP does, there are a trillion bad things they do.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

Name a party that doesn't do that
I think making Britain seperate from the EU would be a good start though.

During a recession, the idea that companies should employ British people as opposed to 'cheap foreign labour' appeals to me at the minute.
Normally, I'd say it's anybody's choice, but right now, there are tonns of us that are fucked.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:43, archived)

what,
the minimum wage applies to everybody. "Cheap foreign labour" is usually when it's outsourced to India.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:44, archived)

No no, using illegal immigrants for your work force and paying them less than minimum wage is legal under the current Labour government.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:46, archived)

illegal immigration is legal?
what?
It's not legal to employ illegal immigrants on ANY wage.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:47, archived)

You didn't understand my post.
I was being sarcastic.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:48, archived)

I erred on the side of caution.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:49, archived)

... surely caution would put you on the side of not thinking I'm a complete moron.
surely hopefully
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:51, archived)

I thought the cautious line here
would be to make that point as clear as possible, for a certain individual.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:53, archived)

That's the ridiculously optimistic line.

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:55, archived)

I shouldn't worry, he's shit.

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:51, archived)

Did you not see the headlines?
They made me laugh
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:51, archived)

Any particular paper?
Yes, sometimes newspaper headlines can be very funny. Often because they are the completely deranged rantings of a madman with a grudge, with all the grammar taken out.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:54, archived)

Could have been either the Daily Express
Or some London paper.

It was purely the headline. I don't bother reading those.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:56, archived)

Jesus

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:57, archived)

This is certainly true in theory.
In practise, there are a number of unscrupulous employers and agencies who deliberately hire workers with a poor grasp of English so that they can exploit them, paying them less than the minimum, or even charge them for work. These are usually big (multi-)national companies, e.g. Dominos.

Personally I'd prefer tigher auditing and tougher penalties, but like any other prohibitive law, it would still be circumvented; some poor bastards with no crime other than some dodgy book-keeping would get whacked with the full punishment while the real criminals would still flout the law with bare-faced cheek, because they can afford to hire the best lawyers.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:53, archived)

Yeah someone will always break the rules
even if it was the BNP who had made the rules.

Anyway I reckon it's all the immigrants leaving that's crashed our economy in the first place.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:56, archived)

But it's only poor people who are affected by that.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:44, archived)

Pretty much every party in the UK has policies that overall do more good than bad
even if it's 51/49 one way.

the BNP is about 1/99.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:44, archived)

Are you joking?

( LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

This clash of minds should be well worth watching.
*gets popcorn*
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

Has any other party taken a hard line stance on France receiving
20% fucking percent of the ENTIRE budget of the EU? TWENTY PERCENT! Of money that's meant to be distributed between 27 states? Do you see that? TWENTY FUCKING PERCENT. That's worth some casual racism.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:44, archived)

i believe you are forgetting the rebate the UK gets
1.2.3.13/bmi/newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41065000/gif/_41065272_net_pay_gra203.gif
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Wed 27 May 2009, 18:54, archived)

Really, it's not lolracism.
It's just plain old racism.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

The (LOLRACISM) bit was because people think I'm a racist
Therefore would vote BNP on those grounds.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:40, archived)

If you vote BNP, people will think you are a racist, confirmed.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 19:01, archived)

people will think , confirmed lunatic, and you should be jailed for your own good
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 27 May 2009, 19:03, archived)

Knuckle-dragging Nazi cunts or wishy-washy North London cognoscenti.
Interesting choice.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:43, archived)

There's no-one worth voting for and I'm (potentially) moving out of the area in June,
so I see no point
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:31, archived)

You're moving out of Europe?

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:32, archived)

I was under the impression that it was local elections too

( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:34, archived)

me too

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

In some areas.
Possibly in MoT's area. Even if he doesn't want to lumber the people left behind once he has vamooshed with his preference he could still spend a couple of minutes putting a cross in a box for the European election.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:36, archived)

I have an exam on the 5th.
I'll be busy.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

Neither of the big parties.
Therefore, I may as well not bother.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:32, archived)

PR for the European Parliament, so you may as well bother.

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

Well I'm all for removing Britain from the constraints of the EU
Again, financial reasons. But there's also a bit of the old "he commited a crime in Greece, you MUST send him to Greece for trial. Now. Sod the evidence."
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

The evidence presumably comes up during the trial.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

Everyone knows there's no such thing as justice and democracy beyond Dover.
Filthy foreigners. Bunch of xenophobic savages.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:40, archived)

He's British so he's ON OUR SIDE
and its our duty to look out for our own. Hands off. He may be a filthy murderer, but he's OUR filthy murderer and we love him.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:43, archived)

Well, with evidence, then there's no dispute, is there?
I'm sure evidence would be presented in the case of applying for extradition
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:48, archived)

Yeah, why even have a trial at all, if there's evidence?
I mean, if they got arrested, they must have done something.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:49, archived)

Erm
A lot of people would disagree with that.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:53, archived)

I was hoping even you would.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 19:04, archived)

haha
are you drunk?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Wed 27 May 2009, 18:59, archived)

actual story here,
an ignorant workmate of a friend when she got her jury citation through actually said as much. Jury trials for great British justice.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 19:05, archived)

it's just a PR stunt if you ask me

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:40, archived)

why not? you don't get a prize for guessing who's going to win
might as well vote for who you like. if nothing else, it cheers them up
( spacefish bong!, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:42, archived)

i want to vote for the jury team
but i don't actually like any of them
( spacefish bong!, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:34, archived)

I'm putting my X next to the S Club Party

( magnum, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

Apparently there isnt a part that even remotely resembles them

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:36, archived)

and the Get Rid of Magnum's Mouth Ulcers Party

( magnum, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

salt, and a stick to bite down on

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 27 May 2009, 19:06, archived)

I ripped up my voting card and threw it in the bin
/apathy blog
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:35, archived)

apathy would have just left it on the doormat to rot
I bet you don't rip up all your other junk mail
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

I LOVE readers digest stuff
keeps me entertained for hours
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:40, archived)

Yeah, that's apathy.
Ripping up the card before you threw it away.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:37, archived)

That'll show 'em
They'll be rueing the day they lost your vote! RUE IT HARD they will
( Theoban What of it, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

Whoever's the best
They get my vote
( Theoban What of it, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:36, archived)

That's a vote in the bag for good ol' MoT then.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:38, archived)

Each one of my votes is worth six of a normal person's vote

( Theoban What of it, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:40, archived)

Who do you think is the best?

( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:39, archived)

MoT is winning this early race
He's 10 points ahead in the opinion polls
( Theoban What of it, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:41, archived)

dunno, the only leaflets we've had were from the BNP
we got a Christmas card from the Tories though :/
( TopUpTheTea you ain't seen me, right?, Wed 27 May 2009, 18:45, archived)

We had leaflets from Labour, addressing me as "Comrade"
ffs
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 27 May 2009, 18:59, archived)