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  1. 1. Who will you vote for

    • British National Party
      2
    • Conservatives
      5
    • Green Party
      3
    • Labour
      5
    • Lib Dems
      15
    • Scottish National Party
      9
    • Socialist Labour Party
      1
    • UK Independence Party
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    • Other parties and independents
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I know I'm asking the unobtainable here but..

 

If people are willing I would like people to post up who they are voting for and why as briefly as possibly.

 

I would also prefer it if people just stuck to there own choice of party rather than start a debate about someone else's opinion.

 

(*** Mod - For debate, head over to this thread ***)

 

I have also posted them up in alphabetical order as to avoid favouritism.

 

Cheers fae moi

 

Ps if i remember I will re post this nearer the election to see if anyone has changed opinion.

 

EDIT: I had to miss out, due to restriciton on number of options on poll

Plaid Cymru

English Democrats

NO2EU - Yes to democracy

Jury Team

Christian Party/Christian Peoples Alliance

Libertas

Northern Ireland

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I don't know who I'll vote for yet. I'll listen to what the candidates have to say over the next four weeks.

 

However, whoever I vote for the Lib Dems will win in Orkney and Shetland. So actually I feel disenfranchised.

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I agree with jz , the liberals always getting in here is rather dis heartning .

And why ? Well its mostly old people rather than the young who bother to vote and many vote lib dem for no other fact than they have always voted lib dem .

And as a disenfranchised ex fisherman , who under continued lib dem representation , had to dump perfectly good edible fish over the side to the point of bankruptcy (this dumping of fish has been going on now for over 20 years!!) and the lib dems have proven to be as much use as a fart in a spacesuit!.

And at a crucial point we were disgraced by our Scottish Msp Mr Traitor scott betraying us on a key vote in scottish parliament( towed the party line , the weasel) . Yes thats right he lied and ended up having to resign from his frontline post , but similarily to the like of peter mandelson he's back " IN THE THICK OF IT " !!

Basically the libs are pro europe and the remaining beleagured fishermen of these Isles are still to this day dumping fish as part of an insane regulation scheme which has been a massive ecological and financial disaster .

Traitor and carbuncle have done NOTHING to change this state of affairs.

Well now that that rant is over I must say Im really hoping that the lib/lab/con all lose lots of votes . They thouroughly deserve to have there noses rubbed in there own excrement and left to sit outside and think about it for the next 5 years .

A big swing to the smaller other parties & independants would be great ( except the BNP) and a hung parliament would probably favour the national assemblies quite well as far as having leverage is concerned .

And what with this financial crisis they are always banging on about , then a coalition working together would make more sense than the usual squabbling apart .

We still only have 5 to choose from ? I would like to see green or other independants on the list to .

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EDIT: I had to miss out, due to restriciton on number of options on poll

Plaid Cymru

English Democrats

NO2EU - Yes to democracy

Jury Team

Christian Party/Christian Peoples Alliance

Libertas

Northern Ireland

 

You probably could have missed out several of the others too as I don't suppose they will be fielding candidates in Shetland. We might end up with just the five who have announced so far. The Greens are not putting up a candidate, which is a shame - they got about 10% of the vote here in the last Scottish elections.

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no UKIP candidate for here? Those are the boys who were going to abolish these pretend parliaments n bring some common sense to the smoking regulations

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I've voted labour all the time until after their first term in office. What Bair and the rest has done is criminal in my eyes and so since then I've voted Lib. Dem.

 

However, much as I am disgusted with Labour I'd rather they get in than the Tories, as I don't think Lib Dem will quite make the grade, so I'll be voting Labour while I stick pins in myself for doing so, I think...

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The mainstream British media are a disgrace. You'd think that there were only three parties(Con, Lab, Lib) in the whole of the UK because that's all they force-feed us.

 

I'm loathed to vote for any of the above because non are of any real relevance to Shetland but I've clicked UKIP because at least they offer a glimmer of hope from the EU/Westminster ball and chain......

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However, much as I am disgusted with Labour I'd rather they get in than the Tories, as I don't think Lib Dem will quite make the grade, so I'll be voting Labour while I stick pins in myself for doing so, I think...

 

I've clicked Labour for exactly the same reason.

 

I was interested in UKIP and thought of a token vote for them, that was untill I read their manifesto in detail! :shock:

 

Over the campaign I *may* change my mind, (about labour, definitely not about UKIP!) so will be intertested to see a similar poll nearer voting day.

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However, whoever I vote for the Lib Dems will win in Orkney and Shetland. So actually I feel disenfranchised.

Well that is not strictly true. Certainly true that the Liberals and the Lib Dems have held the Orkney and Shetland seat for a long time but they only continue to do that because they get more votes than anyone else. But votes are given by the electorate and if enough people decided not to vote Lib Dem then we would have a different result. And meanwhile perhaps the votes given to the losing candidates encourage them to fight harder next time.

 

One thing I would urge is that people get out and use their vote. People fought and died to give us the right to vote for our MP and it is an insult to their memory if people just do not bother voting.

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http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1526-ukip-expert-slams-fat-cat-council-salaries

They would have made more of a stink about the dave clark saga than our present spineless wonders .

 

I will be voting UKIP , I dont expect them to become the next government unfortunately but they are the only party who display real common sense on the big issues for the Northern Isles - most importantly fishing and agriculture.

I am also extremely impressed with there open minded approach to climate change , the only party to show a sense of realism where all others fear to make any other dispute .

And finaly there candidate is a man from the real world , a working fisherman and businessman , not a career politician or another towing the party line like lib dem carbuncle .

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I said SNP but as a tactical vote, purely to set the ball rolling to shake things up regarding our own status and allegiances.

 

But I now think Labour may be the best bet for the UK as a whole, again another tactical vote, if they win again, I think the UK will probably descend into utter chaos and hit absolute rock bottom, bankruptcy and complete meltdown which is really whats needed to purge this rotten system of governance.

 

But as another poster said above, in the end it really makes no difference if I vote or not, lib-dems will disastrously get the Shetland vote again, so might as well not waste the fuel driving to the voting station.

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One thing I would urge is that people get out and use their vote. People fought and died to give us the right to vote for our MP and it is an insult to their memory if people just do not bother voting.

 

I take your point, but when someone is of the opinion that it is the system that is wrong and inherently corrupt, and that whoever you vote for is irrelevant, as by default whatever they may be, they become part of the problem and perpetuate it. You feel its insulting the living and those yet to be born to encourage its continuance. Only a candidate that stood for radical across the board changes in the Government machine will give that, and lets face it, that person is never going to get anywhere on their own, and no party is going to touch it, they'dbe too scared of rocking the boat and making themselves unelectable given how the media would turn it in to a mass panic issue. A revolution or coup would be the only way it could come about, and good old stiff upper lip Brit has never been much for those.

 

The country is governed at all levels, by permanent senior civil servants, despite the elected members, not because of them.

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But I now think Labour may be the best bet for the UK as a whole, again another tactical vote, if they win again, I think the UK will probably descend into utter chaos and hit absolute rock bottom, bankruptcy and complete meltdown which is really whats needed to purge this rotten system of governance.

 

Careful what you wish for, I recall the mid 70's when that happened last. As if that wasn't bad enough, the "solution" was....Thatcher! :?

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