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Originally Posted by arista

Its Easy
just One "X"


Nothing Complex

It is simple arista, sadly a good number of people look for any reason to say they didn't bother voting and when the weather is unpleasant, that is the main one.
I really doubt we are going to learn a great deal today from these elections.

In the general election, all parties will be getting far more airtime while the run up to these elections today have seen UKIP plastered,good and bad, over the TV screens for weeks.

I expect UKIP will however do very well indeed.
Also if Labour gain more than 200 council seats and the Consersvatives lose same, although that is hardly a great move,it would represent that no way will the Conservatives win the 2015 election on such figures.

Sorry Nedusa,I love your posts and agree a great deal of the time with you as you know but I could never vote UKIP, I am firmly a supporter of the EU even with it's faults and I recall my Grandfather saying to me that in his view the EU was a good thing too,he saw the 2nd world war as a hopefully final means to end wars in Europe for good.
In his view, the EU has helped that process in the joining of Nations together.
A different take on why such wars were fought but for me I cannot support anti EU parties.

I certainly also don't want any referendum on the EU until we are 100% sure of getting the full info as to the EU,(the great benefits from it as well as the unpopular things too,fairly debated and relayed by the media and govt.to us), which could have us sleepwalk out of the EU.