People voting Labour in protest

[Jim Graham]

What was it at the last General Elcection, Labour have lost, get over it? Well, now the Conservatives have lost, get over it!

 

 

I think you'll find Dave is still in No10 and will be for the next three years. Get over that!

 

PS: Nice spelling ............................... Sheffield education?

[rickiethecat]

Its all a bit puzzling really.

 

Labour made a big mess of it.

Condems are making a mess of sorting the last mess out

So we vote for the original cause of the mess because the new lot are making a mess of sorting their mess out...

 

I agree it's madness but what alternatives are there when Labour and Conservative are the only two credible parties in the UK?

 

Local elections are effectively the public being asked the question "Are you happy with the government? If yes, vote Tory, if no vote Labour". No-one votes Labour because they like their policies, they vote Labour becuase they dislike Tory policies.

[andygardener]

You have got me on that one andygardener I still don't know to this day how they got in that time round.

Mainly Neil Kinnock, if you remember he held a triumphalist "victory party" in Sheffield at the Arena a couple of days before the election, which ****** off plenty of people and he blew a significant poll lead to let Major in. So Labour being total incompetants is not a new phenomenum.

[Balpin]

I'm sorry but these stupid comments are starting to wear thin. Just because someone is posh or not, it doesn't mean they are or are not fit to lead. Your mentality would leave us with hardly any leaders through history including Churchill.

 

It's not where you come from, it's where you're going that matters.

 

I do not think that posh is the correct word.

Cameron is not posh, he is an ill tempered violent bully.

He is not suited to government at all, except maybe in a banana republic.

 

You mention Churchill.

Read his life story.

The man was a soldier, lock stock and barrel.

 

Do not even try to compare the slimy creep Cameron with him.

[Balpin]

I have voted for every party except the BNP, in one election or another.

 

Why? Are you having some kind of competition with yourself?

[Hairyloon]

Local elections are effectively the public being asked the question "Are you happy with the government?

 

No they are not. They are asking the public who they want to run their local council.

It is most unfortunate that they are taken as the question you state.

[taxman]

No they are not. They are asking the public who they want to run their local council.

It is most unfortunate that they are taken as the question you state.

 

Maybe the difference between the parties in their plans for running the council are so miniscule that it does actually become a vote on National Policies instead.

 

How else could the electorate demonstrate how they felt about a Government or about various political parties? Wait 5 years and do it at a general election? Or try and give them a bloody nose on the off-chance they might take a blind bit of notice?

[andygardener]

Maybe the difference between the parties in their plans for running the council are so miniscule that it does actually become a vote on National Policies instead.

 

How else could the electorate demonstrate how they felt about a Government or about various political parties? Wait 5 years and do it at a general election? Or try and give them a bloody nose on the off-chance they might take a blind bit of notice?

 

But that could be cutting off your nose to spit your face if you elect the wrong people. While I've got no time for labour on a national level everyone I have spoken to who has worked with Julie Dore and Paul Skriven have been pretty much of the same opinion, she's business friendly and determined to make Sheffield a dynamic place in which to do business, he was several sandwiches short of a picnic and not fit to do the job. I happen to have voted for my lib dem local councilor because they do a good job in my ward, but I'm not unhappy with the overall labour vote as their local leadership is better for Sheffield right now, which is what local elections are about.

[Balpin]

But that could be cutting off your nose to spit your face if you elect the wrong people. While I've got no time for labour on a national level everyone I have spoken to who has worked with Julie Dore and Paul Skriven have been pretty much of the same opinion, she's business friendly and determined to make Sheffield a dynamic place in which to do business, he was several sandwiches short of a picnic and not fit to do the job. I happen to have voted for my lib dem local councilor because they do a good job in my ward, but I'm not unhappy with the overall labour vote as their local leadership is better for Sheffield right now, which is what local elections are about.

 

Those days have gone mate.

It would be great if that could be the situation, but it is all controlled from HQ these days.

[gnvqsos]

Margaret Thatcher got in because she was a breath of fresh air, at the time. John Major won the election in 1992.

 

My local area.

 

ANSTON & WOODSETTS: Foulstone, Charles David, Green Party, 240; Hughes, Darren Jason Louis, Labour, 1156; Hunter, Doris Joan, Conservative, 428; Jepson, Clive Robert*, Independent, 1249. Turnout: 34.67%.

 

I am glad somebody voted for this chap, below.

 

BOSTON CASTLE: Bingham, Christopher James Edward, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts, 189; Hussain, Mahroof *, Labour, 2141; Kramer, Christian Carl Backer, Conservative, 499; Meharban, Mohammed, Liberal Democrats,134; Mehban, Umar, Official Monster Raving Loony Party, 64; Woffenden, Harry, UK Independence Party (UK I P), 654.Turnout, 39.49%.

She certainly created a lot of fresh air in the east end of Sheffield!