May 1st local elections...payback?

Post by **stephen500** » 21 Apr 2008, 16:00

don't forget to vote!

PostfromNotts · Post by **PostfromNotts** » 21 Apr 2008, 19:15

Anybody in England who votes Labour now just ain't all there!!!!

Post by **stephen500** » 22 Apr 2008, 06:44

Keep the votes going on this poll.
It runs untill the local election.
I personally think Labour are going to get thrashed at the local elections.

Post by **stephen500** » 22 Apr 2008, 14:45

I just wish we had an election guru who could take the results of our poll and work out what it means nationwide!

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 22 Apr 2008, 17:24

It means the good labour MPs on a local level (and there are lots) will lose seats on a badly thought out and badly timed policy to drop the 10p rate.

borders · Post by **borders** » 22 Apr 2008, 22:34

the 10pence rate is a massive own goal and to think the Labour Party is prepared to penalise the poorest in our society is a disgrace. they have allowed the Capitalist Elite to Privatise Profits and now their accesses have gone tits up , Nationalise Losses and make us all pay for it. i had a good chat with a decent Independent guy the other day and that is where my vote will go, i hope the Labour party and the Tories get slaughtered. it is about time the ordinary person came first, all this crap about we need people like Leighton and Branson and dont worry because there will be a trickle down affect is Boll@2?s.

borders · Post by **borders** » 22 Apr 2008, 22:49

this is a small part of an article i have just read and goes some way to explaining what i mean:-

The bourgeois continually tell us that we are in a boom. According to the books this is a record setting boom - in terms of the profits of the multinationals and the enormous, and frankly disgusting, salaries of their respective CEOs and board members. But this is a peculiar boom in that it has meant nothing for the working class. An economic boom generally means that the bourgeois can afford more reforms for the working class - improved wages, working conditions, as well as improved provisions from the welfare state. But what has this boom meant? It has meant, as mentioned above, wage cuts, mass sackings, "downsizing", etc. This is a boom erected on the backs of the working class - on the squeezing and application of more pressure on the workers.

Even as this boom appears to be nearing its ignominious end, the working class is mobilising. As the exact nature, i.e. the depth and duration of the coming "correction" cannot be known in advance, neither can the response of the working class be known. A serious slump could take the wind out of the sails of the working class. However, on the other hand, after years of attacks, a serious slump may be just the thing that sets off an explosion of the class - the momentum is certainly there.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 22 Apr 2008, 23:47

stephen500 wrote:I just wish we had an election guru who could take the results of our poll and work out what it means nationwide!

Well haveing just voted that i am not voteing?. Im no guru but will tell you all this labour was KILLED by tony blair and his stormtrooper's ( prescott ) it make's me sick probably not him by the size of him BULIMIMA my arse!. And ( mandelson ) one but two regsignation's as bent as a five bob note or ( stephen byers ) you may remember him he opened the door's of "competition of the postal market of the uk!. Proven to be the biggest lying bast*rd of them all!. TO ME THE LABOUR PARTY WENT LONG A GO "NEW LABOUR" WILL SOON GO DOWN BENEATH THE POLITICAL SEA! FOR A SHIP IS ONLY ON A COURSE WHERE IT'S CAPTAIN TAKE'S IT AND THE "NEW LABOUR PARTY" IS TAKEING IT TO DAVY JONES LOCKER!.

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 23 Apr 2008, 00:31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHRrb5G-QI

Post by **britwrit** » 23 Apr 2008, 09:28

I live in London and I have absolutely no idea. Ken Livingstone has cozied up to the City and the big developers but other than that, he's always been a reliable leftwing sort of guy. And Boris Johnson would be a disaster. So I guess I'm going to hold my nose and give Red Ken my first preference vote.

It's better with the assembly. There you've got the Greens, the Left List and the George Galloway/Respect slate. For once, it's a question of picking the best and not just the best of two or three evils.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 23 Apr 2008, 12:48

I don't think anyone should confuse local politics with National Government. Nor should they confuse new labour with socialism but it's still better than the Tories. Another Tory Govt the likes of Thatcher and we'll be living in mud huts and touching our forelocks again. All politicians lie and make promises they can't possibly keep.

PostfromNotts · Post by **PostfromNotts** » 23 Apr 2008, 13:19

Thatcher was over 18 years ago!!!

Next you'll be saying 'Oh we don't want to go back to the days of fighting France at Waterloo.'

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 23 Apr 2008, 15:56

PostfromNotts wrote:I'm voting Tory and I don't care what anyone says on here.

Trade unions are finished as far as I'm concerned!!

Labour Party? Stuff em as they've stuffed us and make sure the tories get a huge following.

Desertion of the working class?

Past caring byeeeeeeee

David Cameron has a Trade Union Envoy, will do some digging for details.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 23 Apr 2008, 16:02

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/toryd ... point.html

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 23 Apr 2008, 16:06

postyparker wrote:I'm voting labour.

I am as well, as the canidate is old school Labour and is very pro trade union, he is the sort of fella we would like to see more of in the Labour Party.

Conservatives have had control of the council for over 30 years, im in John Majors old patch which is a conservative stronghold. Too many rich folks in all the villages voting tory. I the Green partuy were standing in my ward then i would struggle to decide between therm and Labour.

Voting Labour at local level does not mean i will vote them at National level!

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May 1st local elections...payback?

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