Caithness Election Poll

**Rheghead** · 18-Apr-05, 11:26

Not all the parties here will be represented in Caithness never the less I thought I would include them.

**SandTiger** · 18-Apr-05, 12:08

Would it be worth adding "abstain"?

**Rheghead** · 18-Apr-05, 12:13

I am cannot edit a poll after i have posted it except the title, anyway democracy does not work that way, we are not going to get a PM who is a leader of the Abstention party.

My personal opinion is that everyone eligible to vote should do so or stand themselves.

**SandTiger** · 18-Apr-05, 12:29

According to phpbb you can edit polls - How do I edit or delete a poll?
As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator, or board administrator. To edit a poll, click the first post in the topic, which always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if people have already placed votes only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it; this is to prevent people rigging polls by changing options mid-way through a poll

I just thought the addition may make for a more rounded poll. For all I know there may be a wide and thrieving community of Anarchists within Caithness

**Rheghead** · 18-Apr-05, 12:33

Sorry i can't edit it as votes have already been cast.

**SandTiger** · 18-Apr-05, 12:43

Fair enuff - I forgot that you have to vote on a phpbb poll before you can see other votes so it appeared as if no votes had been cast - Since the Natural Law Party is no longer a registered as a political party I shall vote for them and have a look

**squidge** · 18-Apr-05, 13:11

Originally Posted by SandTiger

For all I know there may be a wide and thrieving community of Anarchists within Caithness

I had to look at that closely - i wasnt sure if you meant thriving or theiving

**SandTiger** · 18-Apr-05, 13:15

**scotsboy** · 18-Apr-05, 13:29

I have been watching some of the election campaign news coverage via Sky News. Is it just me or does every Labour representative (with the exception of Gordon Brown) appear to be condescending, patronizing and totally unaware of public perception? They get asked a question and then tell the people what is best for them, and back this up by saying this is what people want………yet when people on the streets are asked they never agree.
I have to register my membership as a fully paid up member of the Anti-Blair brigade, but John Reid has taken over as my prime target of abuse. In fact whenever he comes on the screen now the wife has to change the channel for fear of having to buy a new TV.
Unfortunately my registration slip arrived after the deadline and I will be unable to vote this time around, if I had been able I certainly would not be voting labour.

**Rheghead** · 21-Apr-05, 23:34

What do the SNP stand for? and what are their policies? We all know independence from the rest of the UK would be unworkable so why vote for them?

**kwbrown111** · 21-Apr-05, 23:56

Labour

**Zael** · 22-Apr-05, 08:44

We all know independence from the rest of the UK would be unworkable so why vote for them?

Do we indeed? You sound like a labour candidate in the making, telling us what we know and what is good for us. If we, the current majority in this poll, decide that independence is best then you'll just have to live with that won't you. AFAIK the majority vote wins the election. And you can argue about any issues you like, but the only one that is of interest to me in independence, once we have that then I'll be voting for an independent MSP, none of the parties, including the SNP, represent my views.

jjc · 22-Apr-05, 11:11

Originally Posted by SandTiger

Fair enuff - I forgot that you have to vote on a phpbb poll before you can see other votes so it appeared as if no votes had been cast - Since the Natural Law Party is no longer a registered as a political party I shall vote for them and have a look

Chalk me up for Natural Law too...

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Okay, so who voted for the BNP?

**scotsboy** · 22-Apr-05, 11:27

Me - its my democratic right......why

jjc · 22-Apr-05, 13:21

Oh, no particular reason... not sure I'd want to admit to voting for a party that's leadership is currently on bail, awaiting trial for race-hate crimes though.

**307** · 22-Apr-05, 13:47

I had a listen to the BNP campaign on the radio yesterday (I think it was yesterday).
I was initially going to switch it off, but decided to listen to it as it would only be a couple of minutes anyway.
What was presented was a logical argument on why we should not accept or put up with racial abuse - remember that it goes both ways . I've dealt with abusive people from all sections of the community in the UK and have no issues with what the BNP are presenting currently.

If they were represented locally I would give them due consideration, as is my democratic right.

All parties have extremists - one of the national newspapers presented some soundbites from the Conservative candidates and it makes them look like morons.....

By the same token I'll accept that there are some morons in the BNP, as well as all of the political parties.

Nothing new in taking the law into your own hands to push your political opinion....... didn't the worlds greatest living statesman Nelson Mandela do just that ?

**DrSzin** · 22-Apr-05, 15:48

I missed the beginning of the BNP's Election Broadcast on TV last night, so I didn't know what I was watching. However, I think I saw most of it.

I thought it made the BNP look so ridiculous that I was pretty sure I was watching an anti-BNP tirade from some other party: perhaps a rubbishing of the BNP by the Conservatives. I was astounded when the credits announced that it was an election broadcast on behalf of the BNP!

jjc · 22-Apr-05, 17:32

Originally Posted by 307

I've dealt with abusive people from all sections of the community in the UK and have no issues with what the BNP are presenting currently.

I was talking about this on another board not so long ago and came to the conclusion that the BNP enjoy the support of two distinct types of person:

There are the 'true' supporters who believe that to be British is to be a white Christian and that anybody not falling within the confines of that definition is, in one way or another, inferior.

Then there are those who see the slick new suits and aggrieved expressions worn by the likes of Griffin as they proudly proclaim that all they want to do is 'discuss' multiculturalism and are fooled into believe that all the BNP needed to do to clean up its act was to claim to have cut its ties with the National Front (whilst openly hosting a dinner in honour of Le Penn!!).

I have no qualms at all in stating that I believe the former to be ignorant racists and the latter to be crassly gullible.

You say that you have 'no issues' with BNP policy? It is BNP policy to bar "all further non-white immigration" and to resettle all non-whites currently in Britain to "their lands of ethnic origin".

Are you sure you have no issues with BNP policies?

**scotsboy** · 22-Apr-05, 17:35

I see a surge in the BNP vote

Actually I couldn't decide whether to vote for them or the SNP, both sides of the same coin really.

**Rheghead** · 22-Apr-05, 18:57

Originally Posted by scotsboy

I see a surge in the BNP vote

Actually I couldn't decide whether to vote for them or the SNP, both sides of the same coin really.

I cannot understand your last comment, are the SNP racist as well?

I asked earlier, why should I vote SNP? and I have not received a satisfactory answer yet except for independence. Are they just a one policy party like Goldsmith's Referendum Party in 1997?

Lets assume SNP get full independence, what next? Scotland has not got any oil, coal, fishing, food self sufficiency, naval self-defence, etc etc etc

It has got 5 million inhabitants that will have to support an infrastructure for an area ~50% the size of England.

Hmmm, I can see that working?!

[cynicism intended]