Dont forget to VOTE

whose MP?

mine is Neil Gerrard, Labour MP for Walthamstow. On and Harry Cohen is
Labour MP for Leyton and guess what Ian Duncan Smith is Conservative MP
for Chingford and IIRC David Lamay (sp?) is Labour MP for Tottenham - he
is a minister in the Labour Government. They are all the neighbouring
constituencies.

Oh and if you live in darsy land up Enfield way then your (Labour) MP is
Stephen Twigg who booted out Michael Portillo in 1997. Oh and that's all
from memory - I've not checked any website.

Next stupid question.

 

What are their registration numbers, and are they 'dangers on the road'?

 

I'm not interested in learning how it all works, as this involves effort
on my part into something I find intolerably dull (I smell a vicious
circle here). I would love to find out incontrovertibly that all
politicians are wonderful, caring, compassionate human beings of
integrity and honour, whose sole motivation is the betterment of their
fellow man, without reservation.

Here's my main gripe. It may seem simplistic, and isn't necessarily
relevant to the current elections, but this is it. Where I live is a
very, very safe parliamentary seat for party X. It would take nothing
short of the personal appearance and direct overt intervention of a god
to make it otherwise. My beliefs and principles, limited as they are,
do not allow me to vote for this party, but voting for anyone else
serves no purpose. Why, therefore, should I vote at all, if my vote
does nothing?

 

It's easier to believe they're all bad than they're all good, especially
when you feel as powerless as I do, and I think that's the heart of it.
At least in a dictatorship I wouldn't have to pretend I could change
anything.

 

You instant gratification addict.

 

Is that a polite term for wanker?

 

You hope for Utopia. You're not going to get from here to there without
exerting yourself. Think of this as a sort of civic duty.

It helps to keep the bastard honest(ish). Your opposition should be
implacable, even if this only consists of trudging up the road occasionally
to incise two intersecting lines on a bit of paper.

Is this too much to do?

 

Ha. We got postal this year. How much easier could it be? Parish
council elections (no party affiliations) for us, too - my mum's
standing for that one (should I be allowed a vote on that?).

As a matter of fact, I rarely miss the opportunity, out of principle.
It's my right, that people fought and died for, and I'm going to use it.
I just wish it *felt* like I was doing something important, or making a
difference.

 

Darren goes postal...

Fair play. I know I'm doing something important, I just wish it felt more
like stuffing Blair into an orange jumpsuit and slapping[1] him into the
Tower. Mined yew, it was amusing to see that the nation decided to use the
Euro-elections to administer a richly-deserved drubbing. Just a pity that
the Tories had to benefit.

[1]Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! Thud! Clank!
Rattle! Clink!

 

Locally here they didn't, Lib Dem won back a conservative seat on a no
overall control council, unfortunately one with labour still holding
more seats than the other parties.

I'm glad I voted now, mind.

 

Overall, the Tories are smirking.

I always feel a sense of duty done, this time there's a little extra.

 

I actually miss his presence, but then I'm sad... I'll get me coat...
--
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1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

Shame, and you being so clever an' all...
--
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1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Petri dish ?

P.

 

You're not missing much

HTH

Paul.

 

AOL. I hear that he not actually very mad any more, from those in
Another Place. Contrary to what he obviously thinks, I'm really rather
fond of him.

 

Well, I have to admit it was mostly the fact that I was smarting from
being told I couldn't vote which got my dander up. Earlier in the day
I had decided I wasn't going to bother but found myself at a loose end
so popped down there.

In retrospect I'm ambivalent about it.

 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:23:35 +0100, Champ wrote:

I can understand this, but I think there might be value in votging for the
party you want, regardless. It's a very long term strategy, though, and
sometimes one of the candidates will be so awful that one has to do
whatever's necessary to keep them out.

Labour do have a couple of seats on the council though, don't they?[0]
With NOC one or two sweats can give a party a disproportionate influence.
So a Labour vote isn't necessarily wasted.

I don't remember seeing them on the ballot form before. Nor have I
noticed that they have any sort of presence here, or elsewhere in
Gloucestershire.[1] Have I missed something?

[0] Mostly from student-rich wards. Pitville used to return a Labour
councilor, I think.
[1] Gloucester, iirc, is the only constituency in the country to have
returned an Asian MP which does NOT have a majority asian population.

 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:30 +0100, Darren Robinson wrote:

So called "safe" seats can change, but it takes time. Your vote may
encourage more votes at the next election, and the one after that until
one day it isn't so safe anymore.

 

My life has meaning again! And I'm no longer the establishment within
the Union.

Oh, to take on the old CP Stalinists, former comrades, who have all the
tactics but none of the politics.

Actually, I fucking hate them and it.