Negative campaigning
- 7 March 2014 19:43261950we are used to barry reciting vote ukip get labour, now we get this from the ukip south thanet facebook page.
no wonder less and less people vote at each general election.
WELL DONE JANICE ATKINSON! She was spot on with her comment "Vote Tory, get Labour" on TV today. Here in South Thanet, as well as Folkestone and North Thanet, Ukip and Labour seem to be running neck and neck, and it is only the Tories who will let Labour in. A vote for Ukip is the best way to keep the Labour Party out of East Kent. Get the message out everyone VOTE TORY, GET LABOUR! - 7 March 2014 19:48261952I do not care ,who when,how,anymore not at my age.
- 8 March 2014 08:22261970Today my PC goes off the air for the last time.and also all papers etc I have on council and my papers etc about my roll over the years in partys it all goes to the tip
no good anyone coming back to me asking for anything.End. - 8 March 2014 09:07261973Perhaps better to shred or burn the paperwork?Audere est facere.
- 12 April 2014 20:05264021charlie and his cohorts were out and about this morning in dover handing out these spoof purple leaflets.
no wonder fewer and fewer people vote each time.
- 12 April 2014 20:47264024It is extraordinary that the governing party is so obsessively paranoid about a party with no MPs. Charlie was handing these out today like confetti.
Interestingly, the local councillors who were part of the entourage refused to hand them out, choosing generic Tory ones instead. - 12 April 2014 21:03264027i forgot to say that the average person would have needed a magnifying glass to find out who produced the leaflet.
lord ripley aka the kingsdown kid brought it to my attention. - 12 April 2014 21:11264028Howard, it was pointed out to us by numerous people, a massive own goal.
- Jan Higgins
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12 April 2014 21:48264038David Little wrote:Charlie was handing these out today like confetti.
Not one of his group was handing anything out when I went past their group they were to busy chatting to each other.
Negative politics is a complete waste of time. We voters want to know what what the politicos will do rather than what the others have or have not done.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 12 April 2014 21:51264039Very true Mrs Higgins but that is the one thing they will not or cannot give you.
It makes my blood boil over the way the election is going along at this time it is all rubbish . - 13 April 2014 08:34264057I don't like negative politics or leafletting and agree that is the wrong thing to do.
As I don't have any input on leaflet production, would like them to be what we are going to do/have done.
Roger - 13 April 2014 08:48264058Agree entirely roger.
The Tories are in power, UKIP have no MPs yet their leaflets are put together like UKIP leaflets, it's clear they are developing a paranoid obsession. - Captain Haddock
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13 April 2014 11:422640791. Howard! It's 'fewer and fewer people' not 'less'. (same as we get less rain but fewer raindrops)
2. Having just had our polling cards for the Euro election delivered to Marlinspike Hall (the postie has been delivering a lot better since I pointed out that since the Royal Mail sell off I partially own him) the memsahib and myself have been metaphorically wrestling both collectively and separately - since we still are not sure whether to consciously uncouple, as seems to be the latest fashion - to decide which way to cast our vote.
My initial view was that since most of our laws come from Europe this was a Very Important Election.
SWMB(occasionally)O claimed that Euro Laws only impinged on the straightness of bananas and that I had already submitted myself to them by taking extended lunchtimes and refusing to answer my ' téléphone portable' after six.
A quick google over the marmalade (and don't try this at home!) came up with this:-
http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/what-percentage-of-laws-come-from-the-eu/
As a conspiracy theorist at heart obviously this page could have been put out as black propaganda by GCHQ, NSA, Herman Van Rompuy or the local Big Issue seller but it would appear that nobody knows the answer!
The problem with the forthcoming vote is that it seems like we are meant to chose from a number of people we have never heard of, who somehow have slimed their way up their individual parties list, to decide which should win the lottery prize of £80,000 p.a. + expences.
There really should be a box for 'none of the above'. At least Viv Nicholson was honest when having won the football pools she said she was going to 'spend,spend,spend'.
So what do we do?
Vote UKIP? The problem is that if you try to sweep out the Augean Stable from inside you merely get covered in shit. The way forward is surely to renegotiate our position within the EU looking towards something much more towards the old EFTA agreements with free movements of goods AND citizens. Choosing my words (as ever!) very carefully any recent European influx, whilst it might have tweaked things economically has not changed things culturally in wider terms of the European Age of Enlightenment.
So who am I /are we left with?
Sorry Lib Dems, In spite of the excellent Danny Alexander you are not going to be the next majority government.
Labour? Edd Balls as Chancellor and Beaker as P.M. I think not.
Conservative?
Hello-Hurray - what a nice day for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - I hope rain stops play for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse,
Tore down the house of commons in your brand new shoes,
Composed a revolutionary symphony,
Then went to bed with a charming young thing.
Moving on (and how prescient the young Paul Weller was looking at last week's revelations in the press!) it looks like it's a trip to the Polling Station to write 'none of the above' on the principal that if you don't vote (or at least spoil your paper) you have no right to complain..................."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 3 May 2014 13:35265457here is another one.
- Brian Dixon
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3 May 2014 13:42265458and you wonder why people get pi55ed of with politics and politcos. - 3 May 2014 14:29265461another one here brian.
- Brian Dixon
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3 May 2014 15:38265462they are all at it,there must be some sort of election coming up.
- 3 May 2014 18:00265476There's absolutely nothing wrong with negative campaigning. What is the point in traipsing the street during the hustings if you're not going to trash the opposition? It's pointless otherwise.
It seems that some are content with local politicians posing for the camera surrounded by their volunteers or standing next to a big box of bananas. How on Earth is that going to give me an idea of who I should be voting for?
Politics is a dirty business, always has been and always will be.
In my experience there's more bile and a deep nastiness in labour campaigning, and for that matter liberal, than, say, the Conservatives. Really horrid.
As far as the UKIP campaign goes I find their poster campaign deeply distasteful along with their "policies" which are nothing of the sort. - 3 May 2014 20:40265486So who will you be voting for phill ??
- 3 May 2014 21:30265495Dunno yet.
