How is the election affecting you??

You would think, living down here in the sticks, that I would have been pretty much left alone on this campaign.  Not so.  If anything it has gone politics mad down here.

I have had letters from all of the big parties-we don’t do UKIP down here, not offended.  They are all addressed to me personally, and are all promising the world.  As the Zero’s crowd know I have a very attractive bright orange sign in my garden, asking one to vote for the lib dem’s, who have held office down here as long as I have been alive.  It is not there through choice, but obligation.  The bloke in question helped me to get this house, something that I am eternally grateful for, and as I did nothing but hassle him for a year until I got housed back in the villiage I grew up in, he now thinks that it is fine for him use our garden for any campaign that he is running.  He won’t be getting my vote, but please don’t tell him that.

I have had locals and other’s coming around and knocking on my door asking me for my vote, it is everywhere you look and I am actually finding it quite exciting this year, for the first time ever.  I guess that this must come with age, where as before I knew which party I follow and have voted for, but I always used to be quite blahzay about the whole process and think that it didn’t really matter who got into power.

(Not that I am going to rush to watch Question Time now, that is a bit much for me, but I can take a healthy interest from the side lines.)

xxx

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Author: Cornish Kate

I am a mum of 3, living in a wonderful part of the country, have some mobility problems, love and fight life in equal measures, am very frie

40 thoughts on “How is the election affecting you??”

  1. Morning, Kate:

    It seems to have passed us by in this part of the world, so far, we have had One Communication from the Conservative Party. That’s it; nothing else: no boards, window posters, wild parties, zilch!

    We are totally underwhelmed!

  2. The less I get of it the happier I shall be.

    I am not prepared to hear a single lie from the mouths of the big three. They have proven themselves to be embezzlers and frauds and I shall have nothing to do with any of them.

    Fortunately, I shall be away in Turkey soon and shall not return until it is almost all over. I shall register my utter disgust by voting UKIP and sit back and enjoy th edisgusting u-turns and policy reversals to come from whichever lying bunch of criminals gets the job.

  3. How is it affecting me you ask?

    Well I am seriously cheesed off, my news channel of choice SKY World (ha ha!) News is now wall to wall your election. I now have to suffer CNN or BBC world.

    I’ve also given up posting anything on MyT, the political posts now outnumber the spam, hardly anything of general interest is posted these days.

    (By the way a late welcome from me, (I’m in S.Africa, just in case you didn’t know))

  4. This might be a good place to kindly request that the UK Elections be mostly ignored on DNMyT. An oasis of calm if you will.

    After all a lot of the contributors are from overseas and probably bored and bemused by it all. I know I am and I live here.

    Authors are of course entitled to write whatever they like, but for me, and it seems my chum Soutie, a lot less of it would not necessarily be a bad thing. 🙂

  6. Fortunately Soutie our media seems to be largely ignoring it.

    I’m interested in the election since most of the family still live in the UK – but I’m delighted that I don’t have to listen to hours of known liars spouting insincere promises simply so they can put their hands in the taxpayers’ pockets for another five years… and, as far as I can see, just about the only choice UK voters have is the name of the ‘party’ who gets in – the three main contenders all sound the same to me.

  11. Ferret,

    Is there a Labour nominee around new forest who is an Uyghur Turk? (=muslim, Turkish and from China)?

    (Can you see my halo?)

  12. Hilarious Levent, I’m still laughing https://i0.wp.com/planetsmilies.net/happy-smiley-575.gif

    (Sorry Larry but even you have to admit it’s funny ;))

  14. Around here our MP is standing down due to retirement. He was one of those not implicated in the expenses scandal, and is generally a pleasant guy.

    His replacement if he wins (very likely) will be Boris’s little brother.

  15. Just did the test on who I should vote for.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7541285/How-should-I-vote-in-the-General-Election-2010.html?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_vm&utm_campaign=election1404am

    Apparently I am
    77% BNP
    67% UKIP
    37% Conservative
    31% Labour

    You could have knocked me over with a feather. Actually, the questions were all pretty reasonable and nothing extreme as far as I could tell. I did not have to swear an undying hatred of other races.

  17. Sipu,
    Knocked you over?

    I’m pretty impressed too that you as a whole ammount to 212%!

    Thems good statistics is them. 🙂

  18. The percentages indicate how close you are to that parties ideology, they don’t have to add up to 100, mine add up to 176, but I made a small error, so I’ll redo it later

  19. Man and Superman.
    Soutie has explained it.
    I am not sure how I could possibly agree with 31% of Labour’s policies. What is also scary is that Labour and Conservative seem so close.

  20. I came up as 57% Lib Dem, 52% Green, 50% Labour, 45% UKIP, 37% Conservative, 17% BNP.

  26. I’m more L Democrat in this test, where I came out more conservative in the last one I did.

  28. Nym,

    In the other test I came out 100% BNP.

    This time I get:

    UKIP 73%
    BNP 62%
    CON 40%
    LD 28%
    LAB 12%

    I can live with most of it but I know the tories are lying their backsides off so make them the same as LD. 🙂

  31. Nym,

    Take my advice, book a holiday and get the feck out of dodge until it all blows over.

    Ah buggrit you can’t because of the swimming stuff. In that case, I suggest cotton wool or the fingers in the ears singing “la la le la la I can’t hear you” approach may be efficacious. 😉

  35. We may well have done Pseu….I used to blog at MyT as Bahula and also just Kate in the end, a couple of years ago. Thankyou for the welcome and also noted, no more election.
    Have a good evening.
    xxx

  36. Hey, Kate, don’t let my feelings on the election stop you! Fairly productive afternoon. I have re-hung some curtains with blackout linings, so maybe the earlier mornings will be kept out a little longer as we move into Spring! And the walk has put me in a better frame of mind.

  37. Cornish Kate, welcome.

    I thought it had to be you. Hope you enjoy it here.

    I know that we should not really MyT reminisce but I always felt that you were treated really badly by some people when you came back there after your time at POI. Never said anything at the time, because that was, and is, my stance on MyT. Only there to enjoy myself and not to fuel the flame wars.

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