Hooiveld's Hangout - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

who for?

 

I voted for Conservative in the EU and TUSC in the local.

 

So I went for two indies and a conservative in the locals, but afterwards I went to do a spot of shopping and I went into the town centre and yet another shop had closed down.

This time a shop called 'The Sweet Shop', you can guess what they sold but they always seemed to be quite busy and I'd often pop in on my way back from town and purchase a few sweets.... But it's just symptomatic of what's been happening here in the last few years! Now the most exciting shop left in town is WH ***ing Smith! Two pound shops have come and gone, there's apparently only 26 former Woolworths that still remain empty in the entire country and one happens to be here (it was a pound shop for a time but that closed down) an IT/tech shop relocated from one of the roads going into to the town centre to the town centre and are now relocating away from the town centre! And the Conservatives had the cheek to say the town centre is doing okay compared to most town it's size! Yes, if by okay you mean turning into mixture of empty units, charity shops and few coffee places! But it's getting beyond a joke now!

Honestly, had I gone shopping beforehand and seen yet another popular business having closed down, I'd have given all three of my votes to the Indies, but as it is, I'm glad I only gave the conservatives one vote.

 

I voted green for eu and labour for council, can anyone out-liberalleftwinghappyclapper me?

 

There's a guy standing in Millbrook called "Ricky Lambert". Reckon he could have a good chance.

 

I can match that! I also revisited the political compass test and got my most radical result yet! http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.88&soc=-8.67

 

That's the most radical result I've ever seen on Political Compass.

 

There are a few people on /r/UKpolitics with more. And obviously /r/Socialism and /r/Communism. I think I should really be organising a revolution as opposed to going to vote.

 

I vote by post (as I'm a lazy barsteward). At one time you had to have a very good reason to have a postal vote (for instance I had a postal vote when a student in Wales so I could vote in my home town). Now it is dead easy, which leaves it open to fraud...especially reported in the Asian community where elders collect all the voting forms....don't want to risk a woman saying she is going to vote one way, then secretly defying orders.

 

I'm not sure what I'll do when I (hopefully) go to uni. I'd love to remain voting in my current constituency since it's a narrow labour majority. But my Uni's constituency is Nick Cleggs and I'd love to do some political damage to him.

 

I voted Green for MEP. We didn't have local elections here. As far as Somerset politics goes, the Greens are about as ultra-left as you can get. We had 11 parties on the ballot, and apart from the Greens, Tories, Labour, and Lib Dems, they were all anti-EU / anti-immigration / Nazi / more right wing than Genghis Khan / anything that will appeal to the average Daily Mail reader / loonies.

 

Damn you to hell

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When I did it before, I was slightly left wing and slightly libertarian. If I was American, I'd be considered far left because I believe in universal healthcare and gun control!

 

Whoa Hitler, want to jump anymore to the right?

 

I voted Green for EU and LD for council.

 

Crickey, at this rate the Greens might do alright....

Though UKIP will still probably get the most overall votes *sob*

 

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.49

I naturally tend to be towards the right which is where I expected to be. However, I'm basically kind and like to live and let live, so that is why I suppose I'm into the libertarian side. The questions were rather general...there are certainly areas that you wouldn't want to get me started on.

 

Tell you what though, the UKIP bloke royally pissed me off today.

Chair right next to the door, then stood in the doorway (unintentional, I'm not sure?) so you had to shuffle past him.

Then he tries to spark up a conversation about whether I want a flag, badge, sticker, poster etc. etc. and wants to shake hands and what not. GO AWAY!

 

I think this board is one of the most liberal/left wing ones on here, a lot of the others seem to be ukip lovers

 

That's because Southampton fans are angelic tree huggers.

(See halo and tree on crest)