After nearly 4 hours nobody has told you that you have missed off green. I guess they arent winning anything. If you have them as other I will chuckle mate. Haway mate, your matchday threads arent this shoddy
I had 2 votes today...Mrs Yellowbelly is away with her mum so sorted out a proxy...good job she asked me to vote for her the same way as I did for myself otherwise I would have had to lie to her... Won`t make any difference around here though - Tories had something like a 75% share of the votes last time around, 30,000 majority, the seat hasn`t changed hands for more than 70 years and, is something like the 10th safest blue seat. My personal election highlight was speaking to the current MP on Saturday when he wandered over to me and a couple of mates at the pub table we were sat at asking us to confirm our support...I enjoyed myself telling him what a **** I think he is for 5 minutes...happy days
I strongly disagree with those voting Reform but I generally feel like they're misinformed. It's the handful who have voted conservative that really have me baffled. What could they have possibly seen in the last 14 years to make them think "more of the same please"? Unless some have done it just as a wind up of course...
There are those that will vote red whatever they do, and those that blue whatever they do. It is one of the oddities of politics. Honestly think it might be 20 more years of it then it will be more how it should be. I grew up in a Labour house, and voted Labour blindly. Then Blair did his thing and I thought hold on a bit, that is not what I voted for and certainly not what I wanted. Since then I have voted based on policy and who I think will do best for my kids. My lads dont know who me and my wife vote for. But we are a politically engaged household. I work a lot with local councillors on local issues, and with the local MP recently. But we dont encourage a particular party. My lad surprised me today as he voted, having been adamant he wouldnt. He is a bright lad and had said I cannot possibly support any of the parties because they are offering nothing to my generation. Then out of the blue he came in from work and said I voted after all and it was Green. His words - every other party do not seem to be looking at the long term. Not sure he is right about the greens, but at least he hasnt fallen for the tripe his grandparents have been banging on about recently. Maybe the younger generation are bright enough to see a different type of govt 20 years from now, I hope so.
We had an SDP candidate and they seemed eminently sensible to me. Sadly its probably a wasted vote. I can understand people voting for any of the parties, to be honest. Reform have said they'll have zero tolerance on anti-social behaviour. That seems fair enough to me. The Greens' policies on the environment are bang on. But both have policies that I cannot possible countenance. The same goes for most of the parties. It seems to me its a case of what **** policies you're willing to hold your nose over and accept.
I like to look back on history mate, as you know Not since WWII has the need to spend on unexpected things been so great as in the last term. After WWII we had a period of consensus politics for the greater good of the country. Now I dont obviously things are as extreme as they were then. But post Brexit, Covid and Ukraine it may well have been beneficial to have a greater sense of consensus politics. I have no doubt we would all have been better off. However we are in a team sport environment with parties publishing manifestos that cannot be afforded or delivered. In this case though it doesnt matter because folk just want to give the tories a bloody nose, and hoping Labour arent as bad. Fair enough I suppose, but I sometimes laugh at US politics and I am beginning to think we are following that path.
Yeah, I thought a national crisis like Covid would bring people together, get people pulling in the same direction, but it seems we're more divided than ever. I have said this before, but I think there is something very wrong with politics currently and with society in general.
