UK election result next week

parky


Joined: 13/06/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 12:14

Just over one week to the Uk election, who will win if anybody? Could well be a hung parliament, will the Lib Dems hold up? Do you care?

prediction

Conservative 295 seats

Labour 228 seats

Lib Dems 93 seats

others 30 seats

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 12:39

parky

' Do you care? '

No.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 15:35

I care, I get a UK pension,

Geoff

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 16:14

parky, almost spot on! Tories lead but short of a majority by 61 seats.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 17:13

Dear AJ,



it DOES matter - even to you...



1/ Pensions



2/ Foreign Policy



3/ EU

Quarmby


Joined: 15/09/2008
Posts: 975

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 17:19

It also matters for the foxes of the country. If the blue rinse brigade get in, the slaughter of foxes for fun will start all up again!!.

Rocker



Joined: 24/09/2008
Posts: 384

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 19:40

After Gordon Browns hic cup today he aint done Labour any favours.

I care I want my pension.

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
28/04/2010 19:55

The headlines in the UK's 'big' papers today were shouting out what all 3 parties have NOT been telling us - because the truth is so painful a prospect they're all terrified of the loss of votes. That truth (which is no secret to most thinking people) is the sheer number of cuts in public spending any new govt. will be forced to make just to try and plug the whopping hole that's the National Debt. The experts believe it will take at least 4 years just to make ANY worthwhile impression. Over those 4+ years it will have to be a case of 'cut, cut and cut again' with the 1st year or so seeing a freeze (at the very least) or temporary abolition of regular financial perks we all take for granted. Only an honest party/government will dare to take this on in the long-term interests and benefit of the UK as a whole, knowing it will make them the most unpopular government in decades. I still feel that while being nowhere near ideal, the Conservatives have more openness on this issue

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
29/04/2010 01:24

I't understand how anyone can say they don't care. It took hundreds of years, many deaths

for the struggle towards democracy. It's a chance that millions in the world still don't really get.

Such people may wake up one day to find things are not as they want. But who can you blame

if you didn't bother to vote? Shame on you.

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
29/04/2010 01:26

I can't understand how anyone can say they don't care. It took hundreds of years, many deaths

for the struggle towards democracy. It's a chance that millions in the world still don't really get.

Such people may wake up one day to find things are not as they want. But who can you blame

if you didn't bother to vote? Shame on you.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
29/04/2010 01:52

phylray - indeed. Shame on those who do not use their very hard-won vote. Especially us women. However, I, personally can understand those who do say "I don't care" anymore. To quote your messages 9/10, I have "woken up to find things are not what I want". I live in a country, which, to my mind, has no moral standards, no backbone, no work ethic. I live in a country where millions of pounds are ploughed into an NHS service that used to be the envy of the world - and not one where people are afraid of going into a hospital for fear that they will come out in a worse condition than that they went in with. A country where people have no respect for nothing or no-one. A country - where - yes - pensioners are expected to live on a pittance having worked all their lives. So, tell me, someone (anyone) which party I should vote for next week in Godforsaken Great Britain, because, frankly, "I don't care" - it's all the bloody same to me.

Isabella


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
29/04/2010 09:08

The voting system does not help. At the moment both parties know that they will get into office after a certain period of time. When they do they spend their time undoing what the other did during their term of office - hence quite a large proportion of our revenue is wasted - education and NHS are cases in point.