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Post by yeokel on May 19, 2017 12:37:07 GMT
If you read this, Mick, I just want you to know that I think you should be embarrased about yourself. "Mick Billington, Hanley town centre's postman, hasn't voted in years" ""The literature comes through my door from all the parties, but I don't read it. I just throw it in the bin," he says." "I thought about voting in the referendum. The Mrs kept saying 'come on, we should go', but you know how it is, you get in from work and you're comfortable." Mick Billington, Hanley town centre's postman |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 12:38:48 GMT
Why should he?
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Post by yeokel on May 19, 2017 12:41:07 GMT
If you don't know, there would be little point in explaining it to you.
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Post by ohbottom on May 19, 2017 12:46:13 GMT
I saw that article and found I feel shame and embarrassment that I come from the place with the lowest voter turnout in the UK. Let's face it, Stoke-on-Trent isn't short of people who like moaning about things, so why can't they do the ONE concrete thing everyone can do to affect the outcome?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 13:26:40 GMT
Understandable he dunner bother If you don't get it it's pointless me explaining it  |
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Post by boothenboy75 on May 19, 2017 14:14:40 GMT
Perhaps if he hadn't been either ignored or taken for granted by our main political parties throughout his life he'd give more of a toss?
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Post by boothenboy75 on May 19, 2017 14:16:38 GMT
Perhaps if he hadn't been either ignored or taken for granted by our main political parties throughout his life he'd give more of a toss? Although, I bet he fucks off after 75 mins. :) |
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Post by yeokel on May 19, 2017 14:28:51 GMT
Understandable he dunner bother If you don't get it it's pointless me explaining it OK..... The reason for the bevity of the reply was the need to get back to work. But, since you've asked, Mick is working for a business that was under public ownership for nearly five hundred years until it was sold off by the Conservative/Liberal coalition. In the forthcoming election, one of the main protagonists is suggesting they may try to take Royal Mail back in to public ownership. That might be a good thing or it might not. Mick will know whether things have improved for him at work or got worse since privatisation. This leaves him with a clear choice of voting for a party who will maintain the status quo or one who will effect change (for the better or worse) for him personally and the country as a whole. His vote, and that of many like him, is the only way he can express his views other than going on the BBC and effectively saying "I don't give a fuck who out of them wins". His pension is in grave danger too. I'm not too well up on the facts but I do remember there was a brew haha about Royal Mail pensions a few years ago. Do the Labour and Conservative parties have differing views on the desirable outcome of that issue? I should imagine they do so he could cast his vote with that in mind. He says "he would be happy to pay an extra £1 a week to help the NHS." His vote offers him the only opportunity he has to affect NHS funding for better or worse and in way that may cost him a lot more, or a little less than his £1 per week He couldn't be bothered to vote in the referrendum which is likely to have been one of the most important opportunities to influence a national decision in his lifetime. I could go on, but I might begin to bore you. But, if anybody could say all of the above about me, then I would be embarrassed about myself just like Mick should be in my opinion. |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on May 19, 2017 14:42:08 GMT
I don't get the obsession with people must vote. If he doesn't feel like any of them will do anything good for him then that's how he feels, why should he be forced into voting for someone he doesn't really want?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 14:45:45 GMT
He's happy is old Mick. Leave him be for fucks sake....
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Post by harryburrows on May 19, 2017 14:50:57 GMT
A lot of sanctimonious clap trap . It's micks choice whoever he works for
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 14:56:23 GMT
A lot of sanctimonious clap trap . It's micks choice whoever he works for The only thing I'm confused by is it's Mick himself pushing the literature through his own door in the first place  |
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Post by harryburrows on May 19, 2017 15:07:43 GMT
A lot of sanctimonious clap trap . It's micks choice whoever he works for The only thing I'm confused by is it's Mick himself pushing the literature through his own door in the first place Yep me too , I wonder if he leaves himself the sorry you were out cards ? |
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Post by woodstein on May 19, 2017 15:11:18 GMT
What's worse - fraudulent voting or not voting at all? One is a crime, do you want to make the other one a crime too?
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Post by woodstein on May 19, 2017 15:13:25 GMT
Is a vote for a nondescript party that has absolutely no chance as bad as not voting at all?
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Post by yeokel on May 19, 2017 15:50:47 GMT
Is a vote for a nondescript party that has absolutely no chance as bad as not voting at all? No, I think people should continue to vote Labour if that's what they want to do |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 16:02:39 GMT
Understandable he dunner bother If you don't get it it's pointless me explaining it OK..... The reason for the bevity of the reply was the need to get back to work. But, since you've asked, Mick is working for a business that was under public ownership for nearly five hundred years until it was sold off by the Conservative/Liberal coalition. In the forthcoming election, one of the main protagonists is suggesting they may try to take Royal Mail back in to public ownership. That might be a good thing or it might not. Mick will know whether things have improved for him at work or got worse since privatisation. This leaves him with a clear choice of voting for a party who will maintain the status quo or one who will effect change (for the better or worse) for him personally and the country as a whole. His vote, and that of many like him, is the only way he can express his views other than going on the BBC and effectively saying "I don't give a fuck who out of them wins". His pension is in grave danger too. I'm not too well up on the facts but I do remember there was a brew haha about Royal Mail pensions a few years ago. Do the Labour and Conservative parties have differing views on the desirable outcome of that issue? I should imagine they do so he could cast his vote with that in mind. He says "he would be happy to pay an extra £1 a week to help the NHS." His vote offers him the only opportunity he has to affect NHS funding for better or worse and in way that may cost him a lot more, or a little less than his £1 per week He couldn't be bothered to vote in the referrendum which is likely to have been one of the most important opportunities to influence a national decision in his lifetime. I could go on, but I might begin to bore you. But, if anybody could say all of the above about me, then I would be embarrassed about myself just like Mick should be in my opinion. I could put a list of things up that Blair and browns labour did to damage my family. From pensions Right through to blairs changes to the NHS which I still say to this day killed my dad but, I won't bore you All depends what you want to believe I'm pretty sure now that whoever gets in out of the Westminster club it's not going to be good for the ordinary man on the street But, you dream on |
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Post by bathstoke on May 19, 2017 17:32:51 GMT
Understandable he dunner bother If you don't get it it's pointless me explaining it Mick is working for a business that was under public ownership for nearly five hundred years until it was sold off by the Conservative/Liberal coalition. . Oh come on Yeo, Whilst it is a bit of a one that Mr Billington has not voted in all his years(Surely something would have caught his ire!?!)500yrs of the postal service. Surely you can't be including the days of sealant wax & mistress stuffing scrolls down their garters. I'm sure that would get Mr Billington motivated! "Would you like me to post that in the box, My Lady!?!" |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 19, 2017 17:59:26 GMT
If you read this, Mick, I just want you to know that I think you should be embarrased about yourself. "Mick Billington, Hanley town centre's postman, hasn't voted in years" ""The literature comes through my door from all the parties, but I don't read it. I just throw it in the bin," he says." "I thought about voting in the referendum. The Mrs kept saying 'come on, we should go', but you know how it is, you get in from work and you're comfortable." Mick Billington, Hanley town centre's postmanI'd have more respect for you if made that statement without the benefit of anonymity. I disagree with the guy's attitude, but at least he's had the balls (or naivety) to make his comment without a pseudonym to hide behind. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 18:09:38 GMT
Understandable he dunner bother If you don't get it it's pointless me explaining it OK..... The reason for the bevity of the reply was the need to get back to work. But, since you've asked, Mick is working for a business that was under public ownership for nearly five hundred years until it was sold off by the Conservative/Liberal coalition. In the forthcoming election, one of the main protagonists is suggesting they may try to take Royal Mail back in to public ownership. That might be a good thing or it might not. Mick will know whether things have improved for him at work or got worse since privatisation. This leaves him with a clear choice of voting for a party who will maintain the status quo or one who will effect change (for the better or worse) for him personally and the country as a whole. His vote, and that of many like him, is the only way he can express his views other than going on the BBC and effectively saying "I don't give a fuck who out of them wins". His pension is in grave danger too. I'm not too well up on the facts but I do remember there was a brew haha about Royal Mail pensions a few years ago. Do the Labour and Conservative parties have differing views on the desirable outcome of that issue? I should imagine they do so he could cast his vote with that in mind. He says "he would be happy to pay an extra £1 a week to help the NHS." His vote offers him the only opportunity he has to affect NHS funding for better or worse and in way that may cost him a lot more, or a little less than his £1 per week He couldn't be bothered to vote in the referrendum which is likely to have been one of the most important opportunities to influence a national decision in his lifetime. I could go on, but I might begin to bore you.But, if anybody could say all of the above about me, then I would be embarrassed about myself just like Mick should be in my opinion. I wish you had this revelation at the start In a FREE country, we have the right to vote in democratic elections but are not legally required to. In fact, part of the freedoms we have is that we don't have to vote if we don't want to. No candidate stands for me, I really don't have any preference for the options available. So - I send my message that nobody is worth my vote. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 19:31:09 GMT
I think it's wonderful that the only time our MPs give a flying F**K about us is when their job is on the line.
Then and only then do they go away and come up with a raft of policies that they think will get our vote completely forgetting the utter crap they have been shoving down our throats for years.
It's like Hannibal Lecter telling us he is going to become a vegetarian.
Policy one should be "No one sleeps on the streets"
Policy two "No one goes hungry or cold"
Policy three "No one is bullied or discriminated against"
The rest as they say is "Eye-Candy"
Interestingly NONE of the parties have ever come close to achieving this.
PS None of them deserve my vote this time. The first time ever I will not vote.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 21:46:14 GMT
Carry on Mick ....it's your choice mate  |
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