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Well have you?  Have you?  Are you sure?  Do you need me to knock at your door to remind you?  I'll even offer you a lift to the polling station!  Kids sick?  We'll babysit while another of us drives you to the polling station!  Once you get there be sure to say thanks for the flyers that are shoved in your face and even when you come home I'll knock at your door AGAIN to check if you've been yet.

 

I effing hate voting day.....Yes I have voted so leave me alone for the rest of the day   I don't know how many times these people need to knock at the same doors all day. 

 

Is it the same in your area?  I know they are just tryin to get people not to waste the vote but geebus!

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I voted about 5 hours ago. There was someone ouside making a note of those who had voted, and I've just seen him walking down past my house knocking at the door of those who hadn't yet voted, so he didn't knock at my door.

 

Apart from a couple of flyers, one Conservative and one Liberal (Labour doesn't bother as they have no chance of winning the ward where I live), I have had no-one knocking at the door during the campaign.

 

And at General Election time I am unlikely to ever get people knocking at the door as my MP represents another town over 10 miles away.

El Loro
Originally Posted by EllaBella:

Maybe it's just my area then   I even got asked by one of the people at my door if I had voted for their party!  It was tongue in cheek but still put me on the spot

I would have said no even if I had they shouldn't be asking. But at least it wasn't on the way in.

 

I voted No to AV it would be ok if there was 4 or more main parties but as it stands it would favour the libdems  too much.

neil3842
Originally Posted by EllaBella:

Maybe it's just my area then   I even got asked by one of the people at my door if I had voted for their party!  It was tongue in cheek but still put me on the spot

What is your constituency? Are you foyle or east Derry or what? 

 

Been in and done it, takes less than 5 minutes. I hate people who don't vote yet have the audacity to complain about the government.

RiverRock
Originally Posted by RiverRock:
Originally Posted by EllaBella:

Maybe it's just my area then   I even got asked by one of the people at my door if I had voted for their party!  It was tongue in cheek but still put me on the spot

What is your constituency? Are you foyle or east Derry or what? 

 

Been in and done it, takes less than 5 minutes. I hate people who don't vote yet have the audacity to complain about the government.

Foyle....aye it was quick, in fact there was only one other person in voting but a lot of people outside the polling station.

Ells

I've just taken Growly Jnr to vote for the first time - she was very excited   We haven't got local elections here, so it was just the referendum vote.  I don't think I've ever missed voting in any kind of election since I was 18. 

 

We don't seem to get many canvassers round here during the run up to elections - perhaps after all these years, the Labour Party know better than to come knocking on my door

FM
Originally Posted by neil3842:
Originally Posted by EllaBella:




Maybe it's just my area then   I even got asked by one of the people at my door if I had voted for their party!  It was tongue in cheek but still put me on the spot




I would have said no even if I had they shouldn't be asking. But at least it wasn't on the way in.







I voted No to AV it would be ok if there was 4 or more main parties but as it stands it would favour the libdems  too much.




But it's not about what the state of the parties are just now, it's about how things might be and/or become in the future too. How do you know you WONT have 4 or five to choose from in the next election, or  the next, or the next...







And yes, I've voted, why do you think I'm so late home. We have three papers to fill in in Scotland....for a person for a specific seat, for a party for a general seat and for the AV referendum.
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Originally Posted by neil3842:
Originally Posted by EllaBella:


Maybe it's just my area then   I even got asked by one of the people at my door if I had voted for their party!  It was tongue in cheek but still put me on the spot


I would have said no even if I had they shouldn't be asking. But at least it wasn't on the way in.



I voted No to AV it would be ok if there was 4 or more main parties but as it stands it would favour the libdems  too much.


But it's not about what the state of the parties are just now, it's about how things might be and/or become in the future too. How do you know you WONT have 4 or five to choose from in the next election, or  the next, or the next...



I don't nor do I know I will have. In the here and now I am not happy with AV so chose to stick with FPTP I would have voted for PR but that wasn't a option. The way I see it with only 3 major partys it would only benefit the lib dems.Plus no one else seems to want it (labour is split on the issue)

neil3842
That's sad. I understand your viewpoint but I would prefer more people to vote otherwise democracy doesn't work. A hundred years ago you probably wouldn't have been allowed to vote. Since then many activists died, went on hunger strike, or merely chained themselves to railings so that you might vote. Ah gwan, gwan, gwan! You still have time. I don't care if you vote Tory and Yes!!
Garage Joe
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:

I've not voted at all .. am not voting at the next election either, for the first time ever since I was able to ... 

 

am sick of all politcal parties... they can all do a running jump and they are all pretty much, much of a muchness nowadays despite pretending they aren't..

 

We should form our own Government Olly, they do like competition don't they?

 

 

 

Ensign Muf
Originally Posted by ッmufッ:
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:

I've not voted at all .. am not voting at the next election either, for the first time ever since I was able to ... 

 

am sick of all politcal parties... they can all do a running jump and they are all pretty much, much of a muchness nowadays despite pretending they aren't..

 

We should form our own Government Olly, they do like competition don't they?

 

 

 

We could always form the gaga party with a policy of free 20 megabyte broadband for all

neil3842
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
That's sad. I understand your viewpoint but I would prefer more people to vote otherwise democracy doesn't work. A hundred years ago you probably wouldn't have been allowed to vote. Since then many activists died, went on hunger strike, or merely chained themselves to railings so that you might vote. Ah gwan, gwan, gwan! You still have time. I don't care if you vote Tory and Yes!!

Lol

Technically if you voted Tory and Yes, You'd be voting against yourself , bit like arguing with yourself and losing

Ensign Muf

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