2014 Elections: Urban Exit Poll

[Cid]

Our lass stopped over last night and we had an Indian. Stopped to vote on the way to the train station to see her off and she waited outside for me. I'd been holding it in all morning and it was starting to get dangerous so I let a few quiet ones go in the polling station. It was fucking rancid, got some right dirty looks. So although for once I didn't spoil either of my ballots I did spoil the air in the polling station so I think that counts. Alsoo if there's one ward in Sheffield with a really low voter turnout it's probably mine lol

Polling station for Walkley ward wasn't exactly rammed. I did go at about 11 though.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Why did you vote at all then? And why lib dem? Why not tory or bnp?

Well I didn't vote bnp or any of the other numerous anti-EU parties because I wanted to vote for MEPs who actually engage with the daily European parliamentary process and try and achieve something useful within the confines of the current EU set up. I didn't vote Tory because the batch on offer didn't seem to have a particularly good voting record that I would support, same with Labour.

 

[butchersapron]

What sort of prat talks about tribalism as regards politics? Maybe all the parties should just get round the table as well? Bleurgh.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

What sort of prat talks about tribalism as regards politics? Maybe all the parties should just get round the table as well? Bleurgh.

What else can I say in response to "Don't vote LibDems because they all suck because I said so"?

 

[Kaka Tim]

Urban75 politics forum: rising above the tribalism of party politics and actually discussing useful things.

Or maybe not

Sorry that we dont meet your high standards.

But at least we didn't vote for the kind of scum that kick the poor out of their homes and privatise the NHS for a go in a ministerial limo.

 

[butchersapron]

What else can I say in response to "Don't vote LibDems because they all suck because I said so"?

Do you, in. 2014, really need telling why?

 

[Ranbay]

Done,

amazed Britain First was an option on the card.

 

[chilango]

What else can I say in response to "Don't vote LibDems because they all suck because I said so"?

Their record of 5 years in government = "because I said so"?

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Do you, in. 2014, really need telling why?

There isn't a general election this year so yes I do.

Sorry that we dont meet your high standards.

But at least we didn't vote for the kind of scum that kick the poor out of their homes and privatise the NHS for a go in a ministerial limo.

How have Euro MEPs done that exactly?

 

[killer b]

The reasons the Lib Dems suck are legion, and have been discussed ad infinitum on this forum.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Their record of 5 years in government = "because I said so"?

Oh, my bad, I was looking at their record in the European parliament. These being the European parliament elections. Whoops.

 

[quimcunx]

Specifically they're standing in the euros to fight the us/eu free trade agreement thats being sneaked through atm, which will be v. Bad for the NHS if it happens in its current form.

If I'd known that before I went I might have voted for them. As it was I didn't recognise most of the parties on the EU list so went for Green. TUSC x3 in the council election.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Polling station for Walkley ward wasn't exactly rammed. I did go at about 11 though.

Good mate of mine is the TUSC candidate for walkley - frogwoman and SpackleFrog know him as well.

 

[Kaka Tim]

There isn't a general election this year so yes I do.



How have Euro MEPs done that exactly?

Oh im sorry - the Euro Lib dems have no relationship whatsoever to the Lib dem parliamentary party then?

 

[killer b]

If I'd known that before I went I might have voted for them. As it was I didn't recognise most of the parties on the EU list so went for Green. TUSC x3 in the council election.

it's a shame they haven't been able to get the word out tbh. I can't see them doing too well as it is, although I'm not in London so I dunno how well they've penetrated. Not so well, I suppose.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh, my bad, I was looking at their record in the European parliament. These being the European parliament elections. Whoops.

Two entirely unconnected things of course.

 

[fractionMan]

I would have voted TUSC if it'd been an option. Me and about 3 other people in bath.

 

[geminisnake]

Oh, my bad, I was looking at their record in the European parliament. These being the European parliament elections. Whoops.

Ignore them, you don't need to justify your vote. Some people here probably voted Tory, now that is LOW!!

 

[SpineyNorman]

What else can I say in response to "Don't vote LibDems because they all suck because I said so"?

240 pages worth of reasons why the lib dems 'suck' (who even says that apart from Beavis and Butthead?) here.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Oh im sorry - the Euro Lib dems have no relationship whatsoever to the Lib dem party then?

When I vote I do it based on what I think that person is actually going to do, not what the party they have aligned them-self with has done elsewhere. That might help inform my decision but it's not the deciding factor -why should it be?

 

[killer b]

Ignore them, you don't need to justify your vote.

yes s/he does.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I convinced my mum to vote No2Eu in the Euros. Then she voted tory in the council elections. Obviously I need to work a little more on that one.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Ignore them, you don't need to justify your vote. Some people here probably voted Tory, now that is LOW!!

Thank you! I just tried to make the best decision I could by doing my research.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Thank you! I just tried to make the best decision I could by doing my research.

Research into what? What right wing wanker should I enable?

 

[Limerick Red]

Jaysus pretty boring locals round here, main 3 and greens... So spoiled that one, no2eu in the euros.

 

[J Ed]

BTW, a funny (at least to me) anecdote. At work today my manager told us all that we must vote no matter what, and admonished those who didn't, I started to talk a bit about voter disenfranchisement and how a lot of people didn't vote because it legitimises a system they don't believe in and then he told me that no discussion of politics was allowed in the workplace

 

[NoXion]

The Lib Dems deserve nothing less than extinction.

 

[frogwoman]

Nobody so much as mentioned the election today at work. I passed the polling station on my way home and realized I didn't know which one was 'mine' having only moved here in August. Oh well.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Good mate of mine is the TUSC candidate for walkley - frogwoman and SpackleFrog know him as well.

Representing the National Union of Amphibian Workers

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Ignore them, you don't need to justify your vote. Some people here probably voted Tory, now that is LOW!!

Yes of course people who make posts in discussion threads shouldn't have to justify their comments, everyone just post what you like and no one reply to anyone let's have no discussion