Moderators PowerButchi Posted May 22, 2014 Moderators Posted May 22, 2014 Today's the day when we put our x in the box. Â Did you vote? Did you not bother? Why not? If you did vote, who and why? Â Personally while I like the concept of an EU, I don't think it's the fairest thing in the world as it's run. Anti Trade Union legislation and free trade movement, which I'm actually a huge fan of if done right, creating an unfair competition where the only winners are the ones making the profit off
Paid Members Boycie Posted May 22, 2014 Paid Members Posted May 22, 2014 I may well be slated for this but I voted Conservative. The main reason being I see them as the best chance of delivering an EU referendum. UKIP will never be in a position to give the people of this country a referendum and Labour simply won't, so that's basically why I voted Conservative.
Loki Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 The EU is massively flawed and corrupt, and in need of serious reform, but you can't do that from the outside. In the long term, leaving will hurt our economy.
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted May 22, 2014 Paid Members Posted May 22, 2014 Will be voting on the way home. Â My job & lots of jobs in my home town are reliant on us being in the EU so it's pretty important to me that we stay in. In terms of British employers exploiting foreign labour with low wages & forcing wages down. I'd rather see people taking an active stance against these practices, boycott these companies, protest, highlight their employment practices on social media etc rather than just calling to leave the EU. Seems like chucking the baby out with the bath water.
MoKonjic Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Vote Socialist locally and Green in Europe. Â Simple case of them matching my personal beliefs the closest. I'm in favour of the EU, but would support a referendum.
Magnum Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 I voted Labour. I think Butch and others make good points on the flaws within the EU, and for me personally the EU involvement in the rather grubby situation in Ukraine has added to my reservations on the Union. Having said that, from a personal point of view I feel my career prospects are being eroded in Tory Britain, and can only see that getting worse if/when they're re-elected in 2015, so I've pretty much resigned myself to having to move abroad if I'm to make any sort of career for myself. The lack of restrictions on trade within the EU make that easier for me, so it's in my interests that we remain part of it. Â EDIT: Voted independent socialist in the locals.
Keith Houchen Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 No2EU in the Euro, for the reasons Butch mentioned, and TUSC in the locals.
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 22, 2014 Paid Members Posted May 22, 2014 TUSC & Green. I don't think there's a NO2EU candidate standing in my area.
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted May 22, 2014 Paid Members Posted May 22, 2014 I know UKIP haven't but have any of the parties in favour of an EU exit actually explained how they provision for the job losses an EU exit would cause & the interim years when we'd be renegotiating trade agreements? Â If we give UKIP et al the benefit of the the doubt & say the government have massively exaggerated the number of jobs dependant on EU inclusion. They claim 4m, let's say it's actually 2m. What happens to 2m people on the dole? Also, Australia & Japan just agreed a trade deal & it took 7 years! If we now need to renegotiate trade deals with 35(ish) countries, what happens during the years when talks are in progress? Â I know an EU exit is a long term strategy & in the end it might be beneficial but I've seen little consideration to 'the wilderness years' in between.
GalaxyV.2 Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Voted for the NHA in the Euros. The privatisation of the NHS is the biggest threat to this country under this Government, and if they can get any sort of publicity that would be great. Think they're only running in London. Â I'm a socialist at heart, and so Ed Miliband's Labour means shit all to me at the moment. Could never vote Tory. Â I'm pro Europe but it needs to be changed.
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 22, 2014 Paid Members Posted May 22, 2014 I've found myself becoming anti-EU the more I've learned about it. I like the idea of unity in Europe, as it's been the world's worst battlefield for so long, and because I believe that it's only through unity that we'll have any chance of equitable dealings with the US and China. Â The main things that have turned me right off it though are the anti-Trade Union legislation and the anti-renationalisation laws. These, for me, are important. I don't believe in total renationalisation all across the board, but I do believe things like water, power and public transport should be in the public sphere, and the EU's demonstrated through these laws (and others) that it's anti-socialist. Â I'm all for an overhaul, but I just don't think it's a battle we can win.
Moderators PowerButchi Posted May 22, 2014 Author Moderators Posted May 22, 2014 Greens are winning so far. I never knew we had so many tree hugging wheatgrass eating spiders off corrie here. Â Just joshing, anyone wants to furnish us with why the Greens got their votes? I reckon they're growing at a decent rate.
Sphinx Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Also surprised the Greens are leading on here. I gave them my vote. As I've said before, I know fuck all about politics but they seem closest to my beliefs. In times prior, I've been fine with Labour but don't have the same belief now. Won't vote Tories or UKIP and don't feel strongly about leaving the EU though there does seem to be flaws.
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 22, 2014 Awards Moderator Posted May 22, 2014 Greens was a process of elimination vote for me. Of the candidates in my region, there were the three main parties, all of whom were out for me (Conservatives have Michael Gove, and are therefore out for me until he retires at least, I wouldn't vote Lib Dem after the last few years, and I haven't been impressed with Labour's "we'll not tell you what we'll do, just listen to how crap the Tories are"), which left Greens and a load of far-right parties and UKIP. I'm not going to the far-right or for UKIP (I know some would consider UKIP far-right as well) ... and that left Green! Which I'm quite happy with, I read up on all of them beforehand and the Greens' ideas correlated most with mine. They could do a bit of good in Europe, potentially.
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