Have You Bothered to Vote Today?

[Lee.]

How many of you have actually voted today?

And whilst we're at it.. if you did, did you vote yes or no in the AV referendum?

Poll to follow... :)

[Locke.]

No.

[Novo]

Haven't voted, not even sure who i would vote for anyway.

[Lee.]

Andy.. you didn't even know it was actually voting day!!

[Novo]

and that...

[Lee.]

:laugh:

Both of you.. get your jammies/spiderman outfits/whatever off.. and go and vote!!

[Locke.]

Wouldn't have known about it either unless I saw it on facebook this morning.

And don't even know where to vote

[arista]

yes 7AM sharp
this morning


No to Cleggs AV.

[Niamh.]

:laugh:

Both of you.. get your jammies/spiderman outfits/whatever off.. and go and vote!!

:laugh3:

[Shaun]

I overslept, and wasn't really decided with which way to vote anyway. Guess I could still pop down if I make my mind up in a couple of hours :laugh:

[Lee.]

I overslept, and wasn't really decided with which way to vote anyway. Guess I could still pop down if I make my mind up in a couple of hours :laugh:

You still have 5 and a half hours

[Shaun]

I honestly can't make my mind up RE: the referendum. The "no" campaign seems petty and an attack against Nick Clegg, but I also genuinely don't want minority parties making decisions. The "yes" campaign is equally petty and seems to be going for the 'we have loads of comedians and celebrities supporting us, vote for us' route. But I guess is more democratic.

Aaaagh I'll vote yes. -goes to put on shoes-
as for the mayor, I'll just pick the name that looks nicest.

[Lee.]

I honestly can't make my mind up RE: the referendum. The "no" campaign seems petty and an attack against Nick Clegg, but I also genuinely don't want minority parties making decisions. The "yes" campaign is equally petty and seems to be going for the 'we have loads of comedians and celebrities supporting us, vote for us' route. But I guess is more democratic.

Aaaagh I'll vote yes. -goes to put on shoes-
as for the mayor, I'll just pick the name that looks nicest.

Yay! Go Shaun!

[Locke.]

I don't get it, are we voting for the new Primeminister or what?

[Lee.]

To be honest.. I'm not positive what you're voting for in England.

In Scotland, we were voting for our First Minister and for our local MSP.. plus this bloody AV thing!

[Josy]

I never voted, but I did see one guy standing alone outside the school with a sign telling people not to trust Labour it was pouring down with rain too and he was still standing there when I passed again an hour later :laugh:

[arista]

I don't get it, are we voting for the new Primeminister or what?


No its

Yes to Nick Clegg Fecked up AV

or

No to AV.

[Shaun]

we're not voting for MPs today - but councillors, mayors and the Alternative Vote referendum.

Just voted. There were only two other people there :laugh:

[arista]

I never voted, but I did see one guy standing alone outside the school with a sign telling people not to trust Labour it was pouring down with rain too and he was still standing there when I passed again an hour later :laugh:


Labour
got us into the mess

They can get Fecked

[arista]

we're not voting for MPs today - but councillors, mayors and the Alternative Vote referendum.

Just voted. There were only two other people there :laugh:




No to AV will Win.

[Josy]

Labour
got us into the mess

They can get Fecked

:laugh:

[Angus]

Yes - voted NO obviously since AV will just give us a future of hung parliaments and coalitions. If we can't have PR, my preference, then FPTP is fine with me. AV would be a complete and utter disaster and if you're not sure what it would mean or what you're actually voting for, why would you vote Yes? That's just dumb. Those that can't be arsed to vote at all have no business whingeing and whining about the outcome.

[Omah]

No - I sent in my postal votes last week .... ;)

[Niall]

If I could vote I'd vote yes. :)

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Yes

I voted Labour, Labour and No

[Alf]

i voted no

[Scarlett.]

I voted and I voted no, also voted in the local elections too

[Shaun]

wannashag :amazed:

[Alf]

wannashag :amazed:
alright shaun the music man:elephant:

[KG.]

I voted yes to AV and Labour.

[MTVN]

Cant vote for a couple of months yet but would have voted Yes I think. I dont want AV, but it's slightly better than FPTP I've decided, and without a Yes here we'll never get PR

[joeysteele]

I voted at 8am this morning, a very firm NO to the AV question.

I also voted for the candidate best placed to beat the Lib Dem one as to the Local election.

[Judas]

Yes I have.

I voted Yes in the Referndum and Green, Lib and Lab in the council elections - however, this was only as they were students who are there to mainly represent student interests.

[Shaun]

I voted at 8am this morning, a very firm NO to the AV question.

I also voted for the candidate best placed to beat the Lib Dem one as to the Local election.

you're willing to risk the entire future of democratic voting on the basis of one current politician? Well, okay.

[MTVN]

How come there's local elections in some places and not others? There arent any here

[Shaun]

there isn't really a national term time for local councils I don't think

[Marsh.]

I threw my postal vote in the bin. They're all lying bastards so I can't have a hand in electing one of them.

[Kerry]

Didn't vote

[joeysteele]

you're willing to risk the entire future of democratic voting on the basis of one current politician? Well, okay.

I am the first to admit that my voting today was in a good part of a petty nature and a bit of revenge.

However, I will vote how I please and also I got my first vote last year at the General Election, as a Student I was bombarded by Clegg and the Lib Dem party machine promising me this, that and all else for my vote.
I trusted them on the things I believed in and in the policies that they promised they would uphold and assured me they could not and would not support otherwise in Parliament,with them never saying once, but if we have to join a coalition we will not be able to keep these promises.

I believe they got my trust and my vote falsely, I did today what most people do in elections when they get the chance to kick the party who they feel has let them down.

That actually ''is'' democracy and what it is in action, that in elections, we the voters get the chance to pass judgement on what the people we voted for before have done with our votes, trust and the power they got from them.

Far from risking demcratic voting,I have with my vote today more likely helped preserve it.
However, I will use my votes as I wish, how I wish and if I don't wish to help a party that kicked me in the teeth for my trust in them I will never have any qualms as to returning that treatment to them when I get the chance to in elections of any kind.