Who Will You Vote For In The Coming General Election?

[technodup]

I see the Greens much as I see UKIP. Essentially a single issue movement with other bits tacked on. Loosely tacked on at that, given they'll never have to implement anything.

The problem for both is that any good or popular ideas they have get stolen by others. All parties have borrowed from Green ideas, and obviously UKIP's raison detre is in the process of being met.

I think that is their contribution, and no more. Which is fortunate.

 

[legrandefromage]

Thats it for UKIP then.

 

[brocklanders023]

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Good.

 

[yorkie1956]

Thats it for UKIP then.

Never any real agenda. Doomed from the start.

 

[torqueless]

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I see the Greens much as I see UKIP. Essentially a single issue movement with other bits tacked on.

I think you could just as easily argue that it is the 'mainstream' parties that are fixated on the single issue of economic growth at any cost.

Those of us who never made it into the rentier class know the part that we are to play in this 'economic growth'- either insecure sporadic employment for longer hours and longer years with less pay, a steady diet of humiliation rituals and institutional abuse from the job centre, or vagrancy and destitution. In fact the way things are heading it'll probably be all three at once.. already is for some..

..and the NHS are left to deal with the fallout. Then the drugs companies make huge profits from marketing huge quantities of bogus remedies with weird 'side' effects which get pissed out of patients and end up in the drinking water, so we are all 'on' them even if they were never prescribed for us. Hell- even the 'wild' animals are on them. The oceans are so full of plastic that there are gyres the size of countries that are navigation hazards, and the marine fauna choke themselves. The stomach of an Albatross contains half a dozen 'disposable' lighters.

... I could go on, round in a circle back to where I started. And I could do that by any number of routes of varying length. If all that is a 'single issue' that can be put aside while we concentrate on something more important, like ticking boxes to help decide who gets the gig of ensuring continued profits for the shareholders and stakeholders who would seem to wish to continue this craziness until the planet is once more a barren radio-active rock, then we probably deserve whatever we get.

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Very disappointed there's no Monster Raving Looney candidate in yesterdays council elections, so didnt vote. Hopefully there'll be some suitably whacky choice at the general election.

 

[technodup]

Very disappointed there's no Monster Raving Looney candidate in yesterdays council elections, so didnt vote. Hopefully there'll be some suitably whacky choice at the general election.

There will be.

Corbyn.

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Ha! Not bad, not bad. Unfortunately, I don't live in his constituency.

The Greens are idtiots, make a lettuce PM, a lentil Home Secretary, abolish electricity etc, so if there are no professional loonies I'll have to vote for the amateurs.

 

[torqueless]

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The Greens are idtiots, make a lettuce PM, a lentil Home Secretary,

The funniest thing about your jibe is that you have unwittingly described exactly what has effectively been going on in general elections since whenever. The ship of state does not stray from its course just because the officers let the deck-swabbers choose which figurehead gets fastened under the bowsprit.

 

[M-Power]

Re: Re:

I see the Greens much as I see UKIP. Essentially a single issue movement with other bits tacked on.

I think you could just as easily argue that it is the 'mainstream' parties that are fixated on the single issue of economic growth at any cost.

Those of us who never made it into the rentier class know the part that we are to play in this 'economic growth'- either insecure sporadic employment for longer hours and longer years with less pay, a steady diet of humiliation rituals and institutional abuse from the job centre, or vagrancy and destitution. In fact the way things are heading it'll probably be all three at once.. already is for some..

..and the NHS are left to deal with the fallout. Then the drugs companies make huge profits from marketing huge quantities of bogus remedies with weird 'side' effects which get pissed out of patients and end up in the drinking water, so we are all 'on' them even if they were never prescribed for us. Hell- even the 'wild' animals are on them. The oceans are so full of plastic that there are gyres the size of countries that are navigation hazards, and the marine fauna choke themselves. The stomach of an Albatross contains half a dozen 'disposable' lighters.

... I could go on, round in a circle back to where I started. And I could do that by any number of routes of varying length. If all that is a 'single issue' that can be put aside while we concentrate on something more important, like ticking boxes to help decide who gets the gig of ensuring continued profits for the shareholders and stakeholders who would seem to wish to continue this craziness until the planet is once more a barren radio-active rock, then we probably deserve whatever we get.

Bang on.

I have just been reading about the pod of Scottish Orcas that have all become infertile ( due to become extinct ) due to the highest ever recorded levels of PCBs in their flesh. This is due to anti fouling paint which was used on marine vessels banned since the 70s ! Fukushima pumping out 350T/hr of radioactive water into the Oceans. :facepalm:

We can only hope that science and technology makes enough breakthroughs to at least start to undo some of the damage and be profitable in the process by spin-offs.