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Or how to stuff our mattresses!
I need to sleep on that good idea....
Preferably a nice puffy one!
I spend a lot of time in bed, and I seem to spend just as much time looking after and dealing with money....
I'm sure the politicians will spend it all for you given half the chance.
There has never been a truer statement than yours, 144man!!!:D
They'll just have to take off me what is legally due, and no more. I'm certainly handing no donations to any political party!
Ditto for me westgrand.........
I'll still be voting in the General Election tomorrow.....
I was going to ask you about that.
And what were you going to ask me, Moe....?
If you were going to vote.
OK! Well, of course, Moe, I've already said I am indeed voting - which will be later today.
I have voted both Conservative and Labour in the last 20 years.
The problem I have is that I rarely do anything without a certain strength of feeling and conviction in support of my own actions..... but, in this instance, it is tricky......
I understand. There are those in the US who complain about the state of affairs but then never vote to change anything.
Hmmmm, that attitude is not only confined to politics, or the US!
It has very much to do with a 'somebody should do something about it' mentality....
But not them.......:[[
No, never them....:[[
Right; they'll complain quite a bit but when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is [[I.e. vote or help) they're nowhere to be found!
Babies cry, making sounds without words. Decades later, many of them use words but to make the same sounds, and are still crying...:[[
Voting is a problem. It can cause electile dysfunction.
True. One third of the UK electorate failed to insert their vote in the appointed place.
So do you want me to say it? The got screwed & didn't like it!:p
It was the result of controlled enthusiasm for the election on their part - or, sometimes known as spontaneous indifference....:rolleyes:
It's contagious westgrand.
Like yawns....
I was galvanised enough to desert the party I usually vote for.
A government with a 12 seat majority in Parliament was somewhat of a surprise.
Why is that?
All the opinion polls had indicated that support for Labour and the Conservatives was running so close that neither party would receive an overall majority.
I couldn't bring myself to vote for any party that voted in favour of the so-called Bedroom Tax. It's not just wrong; it's evil.
On the back of the Independence Referendum, the number of Scottish National seats went up from 6 to 56 out of a total of 59, based on just under 50% of the total vote. This result was achieved because the pro-Union vote was split between Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat, and also because a large increase in turnout affected the usual voting patterns. It makes me wonder that if compulsory voting were to be introduced whether election results might end up with a different balance between the major parties.
Another feature of the election was the collapse in the vote of the Liberal Democrats, who only held 8 of their 57 seats.
There were a number of reasons for this. Having been in government, there was the loss of the protest vote. There was more effective competition for the third party vote from the SNP, UKIP, and the Greens. Also a lot of Liberal Democrat support was based on tactical voting in specific seats in order to keep one or other of the main parties out. This worked when they were an opposition party, but in the expected scenario of their forming a coalition with the largest party, the reason for tactical voting disappears.
This is bad news for the Labour party as the Liberal Democrats traditionally take more vote from the Conservatives than them. Statistically, for Labour to win the 2020 general election they will need the Liberal Democrat vote to be running at a much higher level.
We've already seen the unexpected result of the Scottish Referendum. Perhaps the result of the forthcoming referendum on continued European Union membership will also lead to unforeseen consequences in support for the major parties.
I think that many people who were previously undecided, but felt they should vote rather than not, went for 'better the devil you know', and voted Conservative.
Very interesting....
Bet that happens over there in the US, too.
Even in our own individual lives, many of us [[most? all??) muse about doing something different when things don't seem to be working as well as they should...and then stick with 'the devil we know'...
The least of all evils...........
Where are the really good ideas and inspiration, when we need them....:confused:
A last word on the General Election.
That the Liberal Democrats joining the coalition caused the end of tactical voting in their support is my own theory. This view is strengthened by the fact that the sole Green MP retained her seat with a greatly increased majority as voters strove to keep the other parties out.
The inadequacies of predicting British election results were also highlighted. Even at the best of times, total voting preferences do not directly translate into seats won.
As individuals, none of us can say for certain what we're going to do, until we've actually done it.
It has to be impossible to predict what millions will do, except to identify a trend. Doing that doesn't take too long...after which, what else is there to do in the media except guess.....
Meanwhile, the rest of us just get on with what we planned to do....
Right. Now then. What was it, I was going to do....?