First the Labour MP so well-known I can't remember her name tweets a deriding picture of white-van man, then former MP the Mellorphant Man charms a London cabbie and is exposed on tape and finally Andrew Mitchell loses a costly High Court libel case to The Sun. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...on-judge-decides-DID-call-police-f-plebs.html These people are or have been elected to serve the very people they treat like something they've trodden in when they're not busy fiddling their 'expenses', tells you all you need to know about what is wrong with our 'rulers'...
What do we, the electorate, expect from them? We repeatedly vote these arrogant gravy-trainers in regardless of their personal morals, convictions, abilities or personalities, so it's little wonder they continue to treat us with contempt. Come May next year it's pretty much a certainty that one of either blue or red will be asked to form a government by Her Madge and we'll get the same old ****. How can we complain about how we're represented when we elect snooty hypocritical champagne socialists like than inexecrable Thornberry woman? The Mitchell affair seems to have blown out of all proportion and have cost somebody - hopefully only Mitchell, but possibly the taxpayer too - a lot of moolah. To call the police plebs in the heat of the moment was stupid and inadvisable, and Mitchell deserves what's happened to him for his own inflated self-importance. But hasn't it been one almighty bore!
So will you lads be witholding your vote next May, or can UKIP expect another couple for their total? Are they not the 'anti-politics' alternative? At least we live in a place where behaviour like this gets exposed and ridiculed, and the perpetrators suffer for it.
WTF is wrong with this one? Stroke, drugs, alcohol or reptile! [video=youtube;xOhwOzsNd9Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOhwOzsNd9Q[/video]
I don't live in Brighton, Sooper, so don't have any knowledge of how the local council is performing. My voting Green in the Westminster election would be as a protest vote against the kind of people you describe in the OP. None of the mainstream parties currently represent me and I wouldn't vote UKIP as long as I have a hole in my arse.
They did a spell of spectacular infighting a couple of years ago and I seem to recall their costs soared and they made the local environment worse. Personally, I'm not a fan of single issue parties (that includes UKIP IMO) although I'd vote for the Greens if I thought they WOULDN'T get in because that at least sends a message about the specific interests of the local electorate (and the main parties, with the pliable policies and standpoints, would lap that up). Not great for choice across the board at the moment (hence we're saddled with John Gummer's spawn here in Ipswich).
I've won't be making up my mind until I get the opportunity to see the choices on the ballot paper, Stan. There are a few local issues that interest me, so it would be of interest to me to see somebody representing my views on those.
Similar for me, though I'm less concerned about local issues and suspect there will be a choice of two realistically. I know whoever I vote for it will be with a heavy heart and little optimism.
\as Billy Connolly once said.. Any person whos ambition is to be a politician, then that alone should stop them be allowed to be one. I base my vote on the economy so i know where my votes going
Thanks, no one else gives me any respect on this site. Chuka Umunna used to be my MP otherwise would still have voted Labour. Down here in Ukiplandia I doubt we'll even have a Green candidate. 20% of the vehicles in my area are vans, a UKIP landslide is to be expected.
The big problem is whoever you vote for you are voting for the party rather than the individual. Add to that you could vote for UKIP and get Miliband as PM just as those who voted Lib Dem last time ended up with Cameron in a sort of Tory-Lite coalition. I have to say I can't remember the last time I voted which says more about the choices on offer than anything else...
Having just seen on the news the behaviour of many citizens at the Black Friday sales, I think we have exactly the calibre of politician we deserve. Fighting (literally) to get their hands on a cheap TV on which to watch......X Factor or similar mindless pap. Imaz, why did you have to mention Chuka Umunna? I was having a pleasant evening.
Chuka's up there with Blair in the filth stakes, Labour need to dump scum like him: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nna-party-loving-MP-hailed-Labours-Obama.html
Don't get me started on Black Friday. Why on Earth have we inherited a tradition that's akin to panic buying during a four minute warning? How can retailers be allowed to promote violent hysteria (a lot of the time scooping up crap that they wouldn't rationally buy even at half the sale price? Where is the social and moral responsibility to protect these sheep from themselves? Incidentally, this farcical event was brought to my attention by an old episode of South Park bizarrely interwoven with a take on Game of Thrones - it seemed ludicrous then but the reality isn't much saner.
I have first hand, what a bloody mess they've made of it. And cost the council tax payers a fortune. Can't see them getting into the council again.
I think political parties should be banned and we have truly independent MP's. Then they can all vote per their conscience and beliefs rather than as they are told or whipped.
