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dazzawhipple:

--- Quote from: Frankie-Boy on May 13, 2009, 11:31:48 ---
None of us votes for any Prime Minister, we get what the winning lot have at the top at the time or whoever they shove into the limelight in the event of the PM doing a runner.  ;)

Personally and this might cause a few raised eyebrows, I think it should be compulsory to vote in any elections, that would be one sure way of getting a fairer result and you have used your democratic right and if your chosen nominee doesn't get in, then you'd have the right to moan about it, but it'll never happen - some of us will keep voting and hoping but loads of people will say " I can't be bothered" and again they'll be the ones moaning about the government.

For pity's sake VOTE and try and change things.

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Frank

We have compulsory voting here...... it dont work We have just had a referendum here on daylight savings ( There are more important things I know!!!!) and over 20% of the voters didn't vote $20 fine on there way


Darren

Frankie-Boy:
Hi Darren, hope you're doing ok over there.  :D

If you got 20% of your Australian voters not doing so I'd see that as a result compared to here, you know yourself that we'd be lucky to get 20% that DID vote, then 90% of them would whinge about whoever got into power, and in any case the government wouldn't mind if folk didn't vote coz it would be another way of filling the coffers.

karoshi:
to the people in this thread who've said that they aren't going to bother voting can i please make a suggestion?

rather than just not voting at all, and therefore being counted into the massive "can't be bothered" section of the public, actually take the time to go to the polling station and write something along the lines of "i do not wish vote for any of this shower of <squeaks>" across your polling slip.

this counts as a "spoiled ballot paper" and has to be counted as a deliberate vote for no-one.

It's never happened before but in theory if there's a big enough percentage of "spoiled" votes the election won't stand and it'll force the main partys to actually look at their policies and image for a change.

As for me, i'll vote for any party that promises the things that i want, namely not forcing ID cards on the public and re-instating the 25yr rolling tax exemption  :(

Gordo:

--- Quote from: Lyndsey731 on May 13, 2009, 09:35:28 ---I have to point out that NOBODY voted for our current Prime Minister, what sort of democracy is that I ask?

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Not quite true - the voters in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath elected him as their MP.

As for the system of expenses, it has effectively become part of their pay. If you think about the responsibilities an MP has compared to someone in industry, the MP earns a lot less.

Yes, some of the MPs did take unfair advantage, but I would be interested to go through the expense claims of the journalists who broke this story because I bet there are a few skeletons in their closet too.

zebidee:

--- Quote from: KTM Gordo on May 18, 2009, 12:58:38 ---As for the system of expenses, it has effectively become part of their pay. If you think about the responsibilities an MP has compared to someone in industry, the MP earns a lot less.

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OK - I'll give you that ... now how about they operate as capably as someone in industry.

My wife has worked with MPs in the past on projects in the public sector & frankly they'd be complete failures if they were being paid for performance.

Z~

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