Post who you vote for!

Fine Gael.

краљица од Хартс wrote:Fine Gael.

Labour.

I'd bet money on all the 'Murricans here voting Democrat.

Huh?

BigAndy9 wrote:Huh?

Post the name of the political party in your country that you vote for.

I vote Fine Gael.
Phil votes Labour.
etc.

Labour of course!

Greens
In Australia

краљица од Хартс wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:Huh?

Post the name of the political party in your country that you vote for.

I vote Fine Gael.
Phil votes Labour.
etc.

Oh.  Never heard of them.

I'll leave it till i'm in the booth - then I'll reveal who I vote for.

edit: don't even know who's gonna be on there yet - there could be some surprises.

BigAndy9 wrote:

краљица од Хартс wrote:

Post the name of the political party in your country that you vote for.

I vote Fine Gael.
Phil votes Labour.
etc.

Oh.  Never heard of them.

I'll leave it till i'm in the booth - then I'll reveal who I vote for.

edit:  don't even know who's gonna be on there yet - there could be some surprises.

Fine Gael is the largest party in the Oireachtas (Parliament).
An Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny is their current party leader.
They've been around since 1933.
Centre-right politically.

краљица од Хартс wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:

Oh.  Never heard of them.

I'll leave it till i'm in the booth - then I'll reveal who I vote for.

edit:  don't even know who's gonna be on there yet - there could be some surprises.

Fine Gael is the largest party in the Oireachtas (Parliament).
An Taoiseach (Prime Minister)  Enda Kenny is their current party leader.
They've been around since 1933.
Centre-right politically.

Never taken any interest in Nigerian politics.

Hope they win for you though.

BigAndy9 wrote:

краљица од Хартс wrote:

Fine Gael is the largest party in the Oireachtas (Parliament).
An Taoiseach (Prime Minister)  Enda Kenny is their current party leader.
They've been around since 1933.
Centre-right politically.

Never taken any interest in Nigerian politics.

Hope they win for you though.

Still pissy because I was mean to you in the Falklands thread?

Joy Division wrote:Labour of course!

Doug was never political at all....Hardly ever voted in his life, but he did help me out, on the campaign trail in the past!   

...He used to hate me putting on political programs, like QT, now he is glued to the set....I think that many people in the firing line of this awful Lib/Con coaltion are getting more interested in politics, now that their lives are being put at risk.

As i have said to him....Many aren't in the situation, where our future is secured.

краљица од Хартс wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:

Never taken any interest in Nigerian politics.

Hope they win for you though.

Still pissy because I was mean to you in the Falklands thread?

lol ?

Catman wrote:

Joy Division wrote:Labour of course!

Doug was never political at all....Hardly ever voted in his life, but he did help me out, on the campaign trail in the past!   

...He used to hate me putting on political programs, like QT, now he is glued to the set....I think that many people in the firing line of this awful Lib/Con coaltion are getting more interested in politics, now that their lives are being put at risk.

As i have said to him....Many aren't in the situation, where our future is secured.

That's so true Mr Catman.

I too have noticed that those who voted Labour in the past have never been interested in politics and were completely clueless for what they were voting for, just choosing to copy their fathers.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Catman wrote:

Doug was never political at all....Hardly ever voted in his life, but he did help me out, on the campaign trail in the past!   

...He used to hate me putting on political programs, like QT, now he is glued to the set....I think that many people in the firing line of this awful Lib/Con coaltion are getting more interested in politics, now that their lives are being put at risk.

As i have said to him....Many aren't in the situation, where our future is secured.

That's so true Mr Catman.

I too have noticed that those who voted Labour in the past have never been interested in politics and were completely clueless for what they were voting for, just choosing to copy their fathers.

Well, i've always been quite political, since i was knee high.

OK...I left school, after doing the lower sixth form....At least i got an 'O' level in politics.

I went out to work, because my mum was a single mother...The extra income was very important you see!

I actually voted Green until Bush won. Then I realized that as much as I wanted to support an agenda to the left of that of the Democrats, the Democrats were the only party with the hope of keeping the likes of George W. Bush out of office.

I find that in general, in the U.S. at least, those on the left are far more capable of putting differences aside or accepting changes that might not be as drastic as we'd hoped. For example, I would have far preferred a single-payer health care system to Obamacare, but since the real choices were either what we had or Obamacare, I gladly supported Obama's reforms.

I don't reflexively decide that everything Republicans have to say is wrong, just because they're Republicans, however. I think the issues through and consider what they have to say -- I just find myself disagreeing with the vast majority of it, once I'm done learning about the issue and thinking it through.

 

EITHER Labor or Greens in the "Lower Houses" in Federal elections, depending on how the current balance of power is looking down here...  Have voted for genuine "Independents" at times over the years for local (council) and state elections..

Have ALWAYS voted for the Greens for the Senate/"Upper Houses" ever since they were established here (1992).   

Ben_Reilly wrote:I actually voted Green until Bush won. Then I realized that as much as I wanted to support an agenda to the left of that of the Democrats, the Democrats were the only party with the hope of keeping the likes of George W. Bush out of office.

I find that in general, in the U.S. at least, those on the left are far more capable of putting differences aside or accepting changes that might not be as drastic as we'd hoped. For example, I would have far preferred a single-payer health care system to Obamacare, but since the real choices were either what we had or Obamacare, I gladly supported Obama's reforms.

I don't reflexively decide that everything Republicans have to say is wrong, just because they're Republicans, however. I think the issues through and consider what they have to say -- I just find myself disagreeing with the vast majority of it, once I'm done learning about the issue and thinking it through.

I lost all respect for Republicans when they showed themselves to be such liars.  Lying about WMDs to start a war is unconscionable.  Then I figured out why they lie: they work against the interests of most people and want to avoid admitting that.  Now, of course, they are much more open and uncivil about their elitist hostility toward the people, so it's not worth listening to them.  I already know what they are going to say.  They hate the people and are surprisingly candid about it.

Original Quill wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:I actually voted Green until Bush won. Then I realized that as much as I wanted to support an agenda to the left of that of the Democrats, the Democrats were the only party with the hope of keeping the likes of George W. Bush out of office.

I find that in general, in the U.S. at least, those on the left are far more capable of putting differences aside or accepting changes that might not be as drastic as we'd hoped. For example, I would have far preferred a single-payer health care system to Obamacare, but since the real choices were either what we had or Obamacare, I gladly supported Obama's reforms.

I don't reflexively decide that everything Republicans have to say is wrong, just because they're Republicans, however. I think the issues through and consider what they have to say -- I just find myself disagreeing with the vast majority of it, once I'm done learning about the issue and thinking it through.

I lost all respect for Republicans when they showed themselves to be such liars.  Lying about WMDs to start a war is unconscionable.  Then I figured out why they lie: they work against the interests of most people and want to avoid admitting that.  Now, of course, they are much more open and uncivil about their elitist hostility toward the people, so it's not worth listening to them.  I already know what they are going to say.  They hate the people and are surprisingly candid about it.

Yep, I think back at Shortnews some of the left-leaning members like me and Lurker used to play "predict what the conservatives will say about this" -- we were almost always right. For such rugged individualists, they certainly seem to have a creepy hive-mind thing going.

Remember, they only hate you if you're not white, you're not Christian, you're a woman who wants equal pay and reproductive rights, you want to marry someone of the same gender, or if you file for unemployment benefits. That's got to leave a healthy 20 percent of the American public that they like!

   THE REPUBLICANS should be renamed "The Incredible Shrinking Party"...

Before GWB was elected POTUS they had support from well over 35% of the American public in the polls..
Before the last election, they were still up somewhere over 25% of the public support.

AFTER Barrack Obama was Re-elected to a Second Term, recent polls have shown that the Republicans general support among the wider American public had slipped below 20% ~ as low as 15% in some cases..

Apparently the lowest point ever in their history ?  How much more irrelevant can a political party become, than below 20% of the public's support, before they are officially listed as a 'BASKET CASE' ?!?    ::dedhrs::

The Republican House of Representatives has dipped down to as low as 6%.

To be fair, Obama's once lofty approvals have taken a dive as well.  But I believe that is the far left, disappointed that Obama wastes his time trying to appease Republican fools.

Listen, if Republicans are going out--and by all indications, they are--put your foot to their ass and give them a push.  We haven't the time nor the resources to indulge them with the kind of politeness they would deny us.  I say the sooner the better, and then replace them with a moderate party.  The nation needs to move leftward to get in line with the public, anyway.

Liberal Democrats   

Monster raving loony party...or failing that the left hind leg of delaneys donkey