Poll: The Last Leaders Debate – Live tonight at 2030 BST on BBC One

[PermaBanned]

I agree, not voting at all can make a strong political statement. But nowadays when people or politicians look at non voters they automatically think they're lazy, uneducated people who don't care about their country. Which is why i for one think it's important to set yourself apart from those who just can't be bothered.

I think it should be like the Australian system, where you get fined for not voting but they do have an abstaining box on there already.

 

[ard-tullaich]

The last debate was the best, but clegg was very poor - thin policies and he ran out of steam or anything original - it took 3 to expose it, but at least we got there.

 

[meghatronic]

The last debate was the best, but clegg was very poor - thin policies and he ran out of steam or anything original - it took 3 to expose it, but at least we got there.

Many would disagree, hélas.

 

[Glaucus]

Many would disagree, hélas.

but many would say their party won, even if he said nothing.

I actually think Brown made the best arguments (until the final speech), not that I believe a word he says or that he'll act on it.

 

[DB_SamX]

I agree, not voting at all can make a strong political statement. But nowadays when people or politicians look at non voters they automatically think they're lazy, uneducated people who don't care about their country. Which is why i for one think it's important to set yourself apart from those who just can't be bothered.

I think it should be like the Australian system, where you get fined for not voting but they do have an abstaining box on there already.

You have the option of spoiling your ballot paper on purpose.

 

[meghatronic]

A Conservative vote on Thursday is a vote for a new government on Friday that will immediately start the urgent work of getting our economy moving and resetting the relationship between government and the people.

We face immense challenges as a nation, but we have defeated greater threats in our history. If we all pull together, if we leave no one behind, we can do amazing things together — just as we have in the past.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ele...-to-No-10-Ill-give-the-power-back-to-you.html

Interesting.

 

[pingwing]

you're madder than a box of frogs on LSD

Realism, just accepting we cannot do it alone as we are not as bigger nation as the U.S.A. and are economically dependant on the EU (like it or not) so it would just be silly not to integrate further!

 

[meghatronic]

Realism, just accepting we cannot do it alone as we are not as bigger nation as the U.S.A. and are economically dependant on the EU (like it or not) so it would just be silly not to integrate further!

Non sequitur x2.

 

[RDM]

I personally will vote as there is a choice for me that represents the majority of my views. It is sad that no-one seems to represent RDMs views, but to denigrate his choice to not vote is to infringe on his freedom to choose.

For what it is worth I was talking generally. I have already voted in this election.

I agree, not voting at all can make a strong political statement. But nowadays when people or politicians look at non voters they automatically think they're lazy, uneducated people who don't care about their country. Which is why i for one think it's important to set yourself apart from those who just can't be bothered.

Except because we do not have a "none of the above" category on the ballot paper all you do is move from the "lazy, uneducated" box to the "too stupid to vote correctly" box. The end result is exactly the same, your vote counts for nothing. So if you are not going to vote for a party due to ideological reasons then save yourself some time and not vote rather than spoil your ballot as both count for nothing.

I think it should be like the Australian system, where you get fined for not voting but they do have an abstaining box on there already.

I don't, much like I don't agree with many laws that force you to exercise a right even if you don't want to. Too authoritarian for my liking.

 

[robgmun]

David Cameron has been speaking to the Sunday Times about the key pieces of legislation that would feature in his first Queen's Speech. They'd include a "great repeal bill" - to scrap ID cards, home information packs and dozens of criminal offences

Sounds great to me!

 

[Neil79]

Sounds great to me!

And me

 

[Dolph]

Sounds great to me!

And me

And me.

 

[atpbx]

For this reason alone anyone with who is of sound state of mind should vote conservative.

Hopefully see a reduction in CCTV as well.

 

[Gaidin109]

And me.

And me.

 

[scorza]

Why get rid of Home Information Packs? My understanding is that these are generally held to be working quite well.

Also, I note that the Conservatives want to get right in with their plans to privatise the education system via the back door:

Cameron also wants his education reform plans to be put into law by the end of the summer so that the first new “free” schools could open in time for the new academic year in September. “In terms of education, we don’t want to wait around,” he said.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Because they are expensive and useless. They were originally destined to be brilliant, with the Home Condition Reports section... but the government dropped its plans to include this in HIPs.

It makes things more expensive for buyers, provides little benefit, and almost every major estate agent organisation is trying to boycott them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Information_Pack#Controversy

 

[atpbx]

Why get rid of Home Information Packs? My understanding is that these are generally held to be working quite well.

Also, I note that the Conservatives want to get right in with their plans to privatise the education system via the back door:

?????

Thats giving people the chance to open free schools.

If it was privatizing the education system, get this, you would have to pay to use it.

 

[scorza]

?????

Thats giving people the chance to open free schools.

If it was privatizing the education system, get this, you would have to pay to use it.

How many people do you know with the time to set up their own school? One important footnote in the Conservative education plans (which I wouldn't know if it wasn't for Dolph pointing it out) is that they will allow private companies to start up their own schools too, so far from being parents setting up their own school it will be parents asking a company to do it for them.

 

[Dolph]

Why get rid of Home Information Packs? My understanding is that these are generally held to be working quite well.

Because they don't actually provide any real benefit, and indeed make the same mistake that regulators made with the credit reference agencies, namely changing something that should be a service for the buyer and therefore will naturally have a pessamistic outlook to something that works for the seller and therefore the competitive pressure is to be over optimistic.

Also, I note that the Conservatives want to get right in with their plans to privatise the education system via the back door:

Because a better, fairer and more free education system is a bad thing why?

 

[Kristoph]

Anyone watching the Politics show on BBC1? David Miliband, William Hague and Ed Davey in front of a panel of undecided voters.