Spoilt my ballot paper when voting yesterday. My 'choice' was Plaid, Labour or some independents whose manifestos I thought were rubbish. I had fun drawing over my ballot paper though.. As for the results - I can't stand Labour (who pretend to be a party of the people but are anything but), but I'm glad they given the Tory-led Govt a kicking. The Tories have been a bit useless recently. Here's hoping Cameron will raise his game now.
You can't stand labour yet YOU chose not to vote. Well done /sarcasm. Surely if you had voted against Labour there was a chance they wouldn't have got in?
I can't stand nationalism, so Plaid were out (as a voting choice). And the indies weren't going to get my vote. Whilst I can't stand Labour, I dislike Plaid even more. So I was stuck in terms of voting. But nope, my electoral area (CF83) seen Labour win in a landslide. Edit: Plus I did vote
Are you serious? Labour got us in this mess after 10+ years of spend spend spend and not save for a rainy day. Open door on immigration - another massive problem they have caused us. God knows how many terrorists and scum we harbour on this island. Lenient to no punishment for actions - Murder is no longer classed as murder it's manslaughter and the punishment is a few years inside.We need a government which has a backbone and is prepared to stand the ground for the countries people and not sell us out! The illegal war in Iraq or have you forgotten about that too!
Are you insinuating that only foreigners are scum? http://englishdefenceleague.org/ Anyway, Labour spent in an era of prosperity - conservatives are conserving in an era of penny pinching. Im not a fan of the conservatives but at least they do what they say on the tin... to be honest I would barely mind them at all (though absolutely preferring someone else) if its wasn't for his chief arch-wieselness Mr Michael Gove.
They haven't done a good job and haven't done a bad one either. Given that they don't have a majority and have had to contend with needing to reduce the deficit that's praise.
So that's it (in London), but it was close. I'll have to look at the stats tomorrow about exactly how many people couldn't be bothered to use their 2nd preference votes considering there was 3% in it between Boris and Ken (62,538) with the average for smaller parties around 100,000 except the Greens in 3rd but the winner having to get a million votes to get "past the post".
i live in the middle of labour sheeple territory... they could put a cardboard cut-out of hitler forward as a candidate for *insert election here* and they'd still all vote for it out of blind loyalty... not that that there was much of a choice... the candidates i had to choose from were [and how they did]... Labour [70%] Conservative [11%] Lib Dem [7%] National Front [6%] Trade Unionists and Socialist Coalition [6%]
Thanks to Gordon Browns miss handling, we owe trillions. We have the biggest benefits bill in the World. 1 in 4 school leavers not in work or education. We are swamped with immigrants (a lot of them are not registered legally and still get to stay wtf) Hospitals and schools crumbling under the strain of coping with too many immigrants. We have police who will arrest us for taking photos. We get fined for using a handkerchief in a stationary car. Pensions were increased and decreased at the same time and we have a bunch of two faced liars in government who will do anything to stay in power but praise the lord!!!!! pensioners get a free bus pass paid for by our own good selves from the council taxes that increase massively every year. If thats what labour voters want, then i fear thats what we will get more of because immigrants and benefits receivers wont bite the hand that feeds or more correctly keeps them down in the gutter. What a load of bollox.
If he became leader of the conservative it would be better than the wishy washer liberal buffoon Cameron!
Tonnes better. Not sure whether the country would elect him in. Then again he did just beat his own party's performance in London by 12-14%.
Nice to know that the cult of personality is alive and well. Isn't that how George Galloway got elected?
Does it say something that you can tell there isn't a personality cult around Milliband/Clegg/Brown but there was/is around Boris/Blair using recent examples. Good leaders will create a personality cult due to being good leaders.
Pack dynamics: we are programmed to follow the alpha. But people who are good at being alpha's are not necessarily good or wise leaders. Hitler and Stalin were pretty charismatic too. The question is: what did Boris Johnson do that makes him a good leader?
Personality isn't the reason Boris got elected. Being a competent leader got him elected. Ken had a personality too. Pitty Ken was (allegedly) corrupt, a liar and a tax avoider (otherwise he would have won in a landslide). So yeah - both had personalities. It was the policies wot won it.
