The Labour Party won the 2005 UK general election with 35.3% of the popular British vote. The Conservative Party was just a few points behind with points behind at 32.3% of the popular vote, but because of the first past the post voting system, the Labour Party had a significant majority with 356 parliamentary seats […]
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If you are honest there isn’t one party worth voting for. They are all a bunch of self absorbed assholes who only care about theirselves. They do not give a damm about the average joe bloggs on the street. They go on about getting everybody off of benefits not considering the fact that most people who are receiving benefits are genuine.Why don’t they put more effort into giving poeple decent wages and stop all those mps from conning their expenses, my god i have to pay my own bus fares and buy my own dinner and pay for anything i need for my house. I don’t get expenses. These mps claim for everything they are nothing but a bunch of crooks. I could go on and on,but what’s the point it falls on deaf ears. The trouble with this country is the poeple in it are a bunch of sheep and cannot think for themselves. Nobody should vote for any of the parties we should start form scratch.
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Voting Conservative because of these unpublished as yet ‘silent plans’ by Yvette Cooper.
“Tens of thousands of claimants facing losing their benefit on review, or on being transferred from incapacity benefit, as plans to make the employment and support allowance (ESA) medical much harder to pass are approved by the secretary of state for work and pensions, Yvette Cooper.
The shock plans for ‘simplifying’ the work capability assessment, drawn up by a DWP working group, include docking points from amputees who can lift and carry with their stumps. Claimants with speech problems who can write a sign saying, for example, ‘The office is on fire!’ will score no points for speech and deaf claimants who can read the sign will lose all their points for hearing.
Meanwhile, for ‘health and safety reasons’ all points scored for problems with bending and kneeling are to be abolished and claimants who have difficulty walking can be assessed using imaginary wheelchairs.
Claimants who have difficulty standing for any length of time will, under the plans, also have to show they have equal difficulty sitting, and vice versa, in order to score any points. And no matter how bad their problems with standing and sitting, they will not score enough points to be awarded ESA.
In addition, almost half of the 41 mental health descriptors for which points can be scored are being removed from the new ‘simpler’ test, greatly reducing the chances of being found incapable of work due to such things as poor memory, confusion, depression and anxiety.”
These plans are not being made public by Labour BEFORE the election so we need to make them public as these ‘plans’ are diabolical. Labour truly are the Nasty Party.
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@ Claire
At the end of the day those who need the money will get it, those malingerers who have had it cushy for so long will be caught out. Sounds fair to me. There is a huge difference between those who are genuinely disabled and just cannot work and those who can work just feel they shouldn’t. If they can sit, they can work sat down. If they can stand they can work stood up. Where’s the rocket science?
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I Totally agree with everything you have said Claire. I pity & despair for the future for anyone who may be unfortunate enough to have to rely on State Benefits? These “New” proposed “Simplified” test’s offer no-one no chance! They are Draconian & represent a Big swing AWAY from this Country being known as a Caring Society! Needless to say, we now know WHERE the monies will come from to help pay back the Massive Debts imposed on us via G Brown! This after his latest admissions of making big mistakes!
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I don’t think any party is going to be perfect for the job. Surely it would make a lot more sense to have a coalition government made up of the people best for the jobs required! That could of course cause arguments between politicians but if they could agree on what is best for the country rather than worrying about who is in charge etc then we might get somewhere. Why does it have to take a disaster to bring everyone together and getting us working as a whole rather than bickering like adolescents.
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A hung Parliament/ coalition Government is exactly what you shouldn’t want! The parties are quite split over such things as the economy, politics itself and the European union… A coalition Government would achieve nothing and would mean that another, annoyingly media controlled election would have to be held a few months later!
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well if you want a government run by the best people for the job , that counts out most of the politicians, the socialist ruined us, so thats them out, the tories have good ideas but there is only one real statesmen, and the lib dems are mostly wind, so that leaves, well not a lot, you cant have undergrads leaving university and straight into government posts, you wont get the british spirit back the way the government are running it, and giving it away, our way of life and what our fathers fought for is eroded, my grandfather was gassed in the trenches, my father volunteered at 15 to fight for us to keep us free, what good did it do them, not a lot, our country is no longer british, its european, the sooner we are back to being british with british ways and a government that is for the the british then its time to rethink where we want to go, at the moment we are all going to brussels.
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WHY WHY does our counrty have to be run by people who have no idea about how it is to live in avaerage britain, why should we be told what to do by people who only can pick fault with what the other people are trying to do, if they spent half the time the spent slagging each others ideas we may have a half decent country to live in, They have no idea what they are doing and they fight like children in a playground, this country needs some one who knows what its like and we need some one who is not running the country for them selvs to try and get one over on the other partys and get some one who can run the cournty and is doing it FOR our country, we cannot have our country run by people who just want to out do their enimies, the whole thing is rediculess and goverenment should be re-done so that it will actaully benifit the country !!!!!!!!!
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So you are hoping for the hung parliament then?
I don’t think anyone is worth voting for. Doesnt matter who’s policies are what the MP’s will still be robbing the voters with their expenses scams and bankers and others who fail to do their job properly will still get massive handshakes and bonuses. Power to the people.
I’d like to point out that Lib Dems are for electoral reform which would make voting fairer, and would allow individual votes to actually count for something.
Which is a very good idea if you ask me, otherwise we’ll just keep toing and froing between the two main, but very similar, oppositions (Labour and Conservative).
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I now live in Richmond upon Thames and I will defiantly cast my vote for the Conservative party here.
My reasons are quite simply that the country will be a lot better off with the labour party out of power; and here in Richmond the liberal party, after thirteen years in office;. are not to be trusted with their latest Machiavellian tactics.
So I will be voting for the Conservative candidate who has the best interests of Richmond in his heart.
Slainte
Sean Gallagher
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