: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:45 pm  

AJ wrote:

If most sensible people who perhaps didnt vote this time, use this as a lesson why they should, then it will not be a problem again.

Count me in.

I felt so guilty when I found out the numbers of BNP in Wigan.

I'll certainly be making an effort and doing my research next time around.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:40 pm  

The next General Election will be very interesting. Brown should hand his cards in now and save what little face he has left. Still haven't got a clue who I'd vote for out of this bunch

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:01 am  

nikos wrote: Any ignorant fools on here voted BNP? Cos its people like you that let Hitler steal power in Germany 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it?

nikos wrote: Any ignorant fools on here voted BNP? Cos its people like you that let Hitler steal power in Germany 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it?

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:54 am  

Vicki_w wrote:

But you can't really complain about stuff if you don't get off your ass and do something about it - if you feel strongly about high taxes or whatever, then vote for someone whose policy is different to encourage a positive change. For the EU elections last week there was enough choice on the ballot paper to keep everyone happy, from the far right to the far left and plenty in between. And if you don't like any of them, stand yourself.

I think the 'they're all the same' argument is pretty naive and ill-informed - if I'm not happy with the person I voted for last time, I vote for someone different next time to get them out of office, as is the general idea. If nobody voted, nothing would ever change (or even stand a chance of doing so).

Quite right.... people who don't vote have no right to express an opinion, as they have forfeited that right... So vote or just shut up. Should be compulsary as in Australia..

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:10 am  

ABP' wrote:

Count me in.

I felt so guilty when I found out the numbers of BNP in Wigan.

I'll certainly be making an effort and doing my research next time around.

but we're stuck with this moron for 5 years now

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:27 am  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote: 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it? Makes me feel sick. I don’t get all this "protest" vote malarkey. If these folk who voted are so British then surely they might realise the links between the BNP and Nazi/Fascist groups across the globe. This includes the KKK!. When will people realise that we are an Island Nation and that we have been colonised by everyman and there dog over the last 2000 years (and before). We have always been building on immigration. Did anyone else get the BNP leaflets through the post?. The amount of Bo*&cks it contained made me chuckle. At one point it blamed immigrant Polish workers for stealing jobs etc, the next paragraph it praised our war heroes and likened the BNPs fight to the "Battle of Britain"!!!!!. Don’t these fools know that the Polish Air force helped out the RAF during the conflict?. Morons the lot of em

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote: 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it? Makes me feel sick. I don’t get all this "protest" vote malarkey. If these folk who voted are so British then surely they might realise the links between the BNP and Nazi/Fascist groups across the globe. This includes the KKK!. When will people realise that we are an Island Nation and that we have been colonised by everyman and there dog over the last 2000 years (and before). We have always been building on immigration. Did anyone else get the BNP leaflets through the post?. The amount of Bo*&cks it contained made me chuckle. At one point it blamed immigrant Polish workers for stealing jobs etc, the next paragraph it praised our war heroes and likened the BNPs fight to the "Battle of Britain"!!!!!. Don’t these fools know that the Polish Air force helped out the RAF during the conflict?. Morons the lot of em

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:03 am  

Wigan Peer wrote:

:CLAP: Quite right.... people who don't vote have no right to express an opinion, as they have forfeited that right... So vote or just shut up. Should be compulsary as in Australia..

As I've said for ages.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:17 am  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote: 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it? Oh my god. These people need educating and fast.

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote: 7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it? Oh my god. These people need educating and fast.

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:46 am  

Wigan Peer wrote:

:CLAP: Quite right.... people who don't vote have no right to express an opinion, as they have forfeited that right... So vote or just shut up. Should be compulsary as in Australia..

Why though?

Can they not express why they didn't vote?

[Pemps]

: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:53 am  

king warrior wrote:

Why though?

Can they not express why they didn't vote?

To be fair you don't know all the parties political manifestos so you can't really say they're all the same and I suppose it doesn't put you in a position to give an informed optinion. That being said, I didn't vote either due to me not knowing much about the whole thing.