A plea

[Rita_Poon]

Beautiful niche humor here.

You picked out the tough one, and missed the easy one.

 

[Joey66]

Who are you Voting ?

Labour when Starmer is gone .....voted for them last time first time for years as I usually do not vote ....

A trade unionist all my life still a member at the age of 71 ....

 

[Swartzy]

Labour when Starmer is gone .....voted for them last time first time for years as I usually do not vote ....

A trade unionist all my life still a member at the age of 71 ....

71 and yet still full of life

What is your secret to youthfulness..

 

[Joey66]

71 and yet still full of life

What is your secret to youthfulness..

Most of my old friends have gone died - boy do I miss them - the GOT makes up for that - & I have trouble sleeping - but yes we get by live in a lovely place .....

 

[msb]

One of the reasons I never vote

You should, people died to give you the right to vote, even if you spoil your ballot paper.

Voting should be compulsory.

Don’t vote, then don’t moan about the state of the nation or politics. Not that you are, but in a general sense.

 

[Charro]

You should, people died to give you the right to vote, even if you spoil your ballot paper.

Voting should be compulsory.

Don’t vote, then don’t moan about the state of the nation or politics. Not that you are, but in a general sense.

People died for the choice to vote or not.

 

[msb]

People died for the choice to vote or not.

In principle yes, but not really the intentions of Pankhurst et al. Quite right about the freedom to not vote, but spoiling a ballot paper achieves both ends and respects the actions of past heroes and heroines.

 

[jazzy]

You should, people died to give you the right to vote, even if you spoil your ballot paper.

Voting should be compulsory.

Don’t vote, then don’t moan about the state of the nation or politics. Not that you are, but in a general sense.

A bit of a controversial view but for some time I've been of the opinion that you should have a minimum level of intelligence before having the privilege to vote

 

[Ming the Merciful]

You should, people died to give you the right to vote, even if you spoil your ballot paper.

Voting should be compulsory.

Don’t vote, then don’t moan about the state of the nation or politics. Not that you are, but in a general sense.

If people can't be arsed to vote a couple times a decade they obviously don't care to have a voice.

And how do you plan to enforce this compulsory voting?
Fines? Imprisonment? Criminal record?

Sometimes freedom is being able to not do something as well as doing something.

 

[jazzy]

Labour when Starmer is gone .....voted for them last time first time for years as I usually do not vote ....

A trade unionist all my life still a member at the age of 71 ....

If you can't stomach Starmer surely you will have to make a decision on who is leader of the Labour party before you decide whether to vote for them again...or is it like your view of Everton Manager....you don't care who it is as long as it's not Moyes?

 

[Mr. White]

A bit of a controversial view but for some time I've been of the opinion that you should have a minimum level of intelligence before having the privilege to vote

No. That's a terrible undemocratic idea. Excluding any voting group is essentially an effort to stop people from voting if you think they won't vote the way you want.

How do you decide you is intelligent enough? By what metric?

Intelligent people can make stupid, bad decisions. And less intelligent people can make good decisions! Everyone has their own life experience that qualifies them to contribute to the voting process.

 

[Joey66]

If you can't stomach Starmer surely you will have to make a decision on who is leader of the Labour party before you decide whether to vote for them again...or is it like your view of Everton Manager....you don't care who it is as long as it's not Moyes?

Definitely so - the new leaser has to have competency eg Burnham deliberately blocked- no to Wes Streeting - yes for Angela Rayner OK...

 

[GrandOldTeam]

You should, people died to give you the right to vote, even if you spoil your ballot paper.

Voting should be compulsory.

Don’t vote, then don’t moan about the state of the nation or politics. Not that you are, but in a general sense.

Or perhaps - people died for freedom, your second line would contradict that.

 

[Nymzee]

Haven't voted in years. No one I want in power more than the other these days and not trekking to the ballot just to scribble on it.

 

[Papa Shango]

Haven't voted in years. No one I want in power more than the other these days and not trekking to the ballot just to scribble on it.

As much as I agree there is one glaring party that I will do my best to not let into power (Well as much as one vote can do...)