05/08/2010: "The labour party - clinging to power"

our voting system:
it used to work well, why are people so critical of it, and not the party that sets the rules?
all criticism points at the electoral commission... but who sets the rules for it? the government!

it stuns me why people are so amazed that there are increasing numbers of irregularities with voting in recent years - legal cases being heard because of postal voting fraud is vastly on the increase - this time, we have mostly council workers counting the votes instead of banking staff, stories of incomplete postal votes being collected by political party workers and then being filled out, people not being able to vote, voting registers not being updated, mysterious boundary changes which see a party win a larger percentage of the vote than the previous winners - yet not be able to gain enough seats to form a majority, when the previous winners vote resulted in a healthy majority.
polling stations running out of ballot papers, etc, the stories of failure continue to be reported.

why is no one questioning this?
boundary changes that dont make sense... safe wards for opposition to the government, being moved to a neighbouring constituancy, which is miles away and a relatively safe government seat.
MP seats made up of only 35000 voters is ludicrous!
every MP seat should have 65000 possible voters give or take a few hundred, it cant be that hard to do, as it was done this way prior to 1997, so why not now?

i read a blog post comment about 8 weeks ago, which said that the public should be thankfull that they are even getting to have an election... it wouldnt surprise the poster if an emergency way to postpone a general election was used to prevent an election being held under less favourable conditions for the government.
it wasnt like this before labour got in! - the system isnt failing because its out of date, its failing because its being manipulated by the government in office for the past 13 years.

running a close second to this madness, is a simple question:
what does gordon brown have to do, before some people vote against him?

i fully support a person's choice, you decide and all that, but it would appear gordon brown could shoot children in front of the TV cameras and STILL win votes..... its truly bizarre

under the blair/brown governments, we have seen record levels of debt, record levels of borrowing, record levels of people living on a form of benefit, record levels of immigration, record levels of people being dependant on taxpayer subsidies just to live.
we have experienced businesses collapsing, manufacturing destroyed, school leavers pushed into higher education and on to nothing courses at university, just to keep them off the jobless figures, and paying vastly inflated sums, from future earnings, where it used to be free

there has been the ludicrous way businesses can pay shareholders a dividend and state they are in profit, when they have vast amounts of debt hidden off their books, the choice for customers on everything they buy and use has collapsed, the legal system doesnt protect the consumer anymore, the customer is no longer always right.

there are vast numbers of quangos producing report after review of nothing, distorting selected figures and arguing points, not based in fact, that we the public, are all paying for.
you cant do this idea... as this report says that wouldnt work, etc etc
it wasnt always like this!

we have people paying into pension funds for 30 years and more, coming to retire and finding firms have been allowed to use their funds, that should have seen them comfortable in their old age, for machinery and paying off debts, just before the company is sold or goes bust, the man on the street is left with nothing.
when a person dies, their assets when passed on are taxed again, pension funds have to pay 5% of any profits to the government, taxation levels are at record levels now..... what happens when we try to raise cash to pay off the country's debts/deficit?

more than 20 million people have to rely on the taxpayer funded working and child tax credit system, if the minimum wage and living costs were good enough to live on, why the need to subsidise each and every one of those 20 million people?
public transport costs have more than trebled, revenue raised by this government, from the motorist - in the name of "green" taxes and public transport projects - sees less funding than is being raised... more than Ł40 Billion raised in 2007-08, from the motorist, yet less than Ł9 Billion spent on the projects the government stated they were being taxed for.
it hasnt always been like this!

personal information being sent to countries not under the law of the data protection act, and nothing is done about it, as its sold around the world for profits and taxes for the government, legislation introduced, bringing in snooping and id cards by the back door, making id cards voluntary in the worlds eyes, yet without an id card, workers cannot work, security being used to prevent legitimate protests of more than two people.
should someone dare to voice their opposition whilst the prime minister is in earshot of the tv cameras or press, its ajudged perfectly acceptable to drag them to the floor and take them away..... shocking treatment of the people!
mrs duffy, treated with utter contempt by the prime minister, who then proceeds to spin through his advisors (that we are all paying for) that it was a slip of the tongue, during a stressful day... yeah right!

even after a heavy defeat in the election, still brown acts as if he is prime minister, where others have gracefully stepped down and allowed those who have attained more seats to step in, brown clings to 10 downing st like its his devine right to be there

there are many more examples of the sheer disrespect that blair/brown show towards the voting public, and yet people still vote for them.... its beyond belief.
i ask again - how bad does gordon brown have to be, before someone who normally votes labour, votes for another party?

today's comments from labour party supporters and lords and MPs, are a joke.
"yes gordon didnt win the election, but neither did the tories as they dont have enough seats to take control... so the public didnt want them either!"

its so sad really...... we look like getting another decade of damp squib government, until one of the parties stumbles upon a conviction politician, who has the balls to stand up and say at an election.. this is where im going, you either like us or dont... in the meantime, everybody, fan or not of the labour party, suffers.