let’s keep on pushing wendy.
i’m becoming a politics bore but needs must.
feel so strongly that i can’t stand the sight of cameron’s smug face. it needs hitting with a brick.
surely the british public aren’t all thick, immoral, rich or all three.
come on GB let’s get it right this time!
wasn’t it good to see morgan freeman speaking up for the labour party!
martin freeman i meant. oops.
Wendles & pigpen… I’m with you. Yes yes yes YES! I hate the Tories, with a passion. They need to go! Labour have always got my vote. I wouldn’t vote anything else. 
Ok Lol, if you’re voting Labour I will continue anon.
The majority of GP’s in this country are excellent and prescribe for patients appropriate to their needs.
Stop making these type of comparisons, it is all propaganda.
Severe gum disease can cause other serious conditions??
x
This report originated in the daily mail - need I say more.
in the run up to any election there will be lots of red herring “news” aimed to get us to take our eye off the ball.
The only question is which party will serve the needs of the majority of people in Britain, which party will have the needs of the sick and the vulnerable at the forefront. I truly believe that only Labour will lead to a fairer society in the kind of Britain that I want to live in.
just my message for anon
forget about toothpaste and concentrate on the main matter at hand.
use your vote wisely.
which party has the interests of the majority who own a tiny bit of the wealth at heart?
which party looks after the small percentage who own most of the wealth?
it’s that simple
carole x
Our local Town Mayor and a Labour councillor had a brick thrown though her window just after midnight. She believes for displaying the party’s election poster. The brick was thrown with such force, it travelled several feet across the room and crashed into a fish tank.
She can’t say for certain that the incident is related to the election but finds it odd that, of the 5 windows they choose the one to smash with the election poster on it. It must have been thrown with some force to get through double glazing. It also follows a recent leaflet campaign to mark the upcoming election.
She was speaking to my husband on the phone and understandably shook up, the lady is not young. She said she won’t allow it to intimidate her, which is good but this kind of thing makes my blood boil.
Hopefully CCTV cameras may show something.
Behavior like this doesn’t help any party.
X
We must be twins in an alternate reality…!
Worked for NHS for 18 years
get contribution based ESA
receive NHS pension
took early retirement on ill health grounds
had MS for 15 years
Don’t have a modified car though because I developed epilepsy last year and so cannot drive.
tracy
better not happen here blossom
because i’ve just sent for a very nice, artistic labour campaign poster for my window!
i have 3 big men here. hubby can look like phil mitchell if he wants to.
youngest son at 6ft 2" can look a bit intimidating but that’s nothing compared to how he can ruin someone with words.
eldest son is a bonny lad who can handle himself.
i’m the disabled old dear but if pushed i’d wack them with my walking stick!
carole x
100% agree labour for me !
Hmmm I’m undecided. The Welsh Assemby is Labour run and No DMDs available here! Ed Milliband was on radio 1 in the week. The DJs were saying to him how bad the NHS is in Wales and that people go across the border to get drugs! His answer was that people also come over from England to Wales. I think he must mean for treatment not for meds. Do they??? He said if he gets into power he will make sure the NHS is the same across the board! He doesn’t say which way though. Rubbish like ours with the free prescriptions which are great you just can’t get the drugs you need (which I think is a bit sick) or great as in England where you pay for your prescriptions but can get the ones you need. Grrrr all makes me so cross and I don’t believe anything any of them says!
I work for the nhs also but on a career break to look after my severely brain damaged daughter who had a brain haemorrhage the day she was born. I’m her main carer so need to keep as fit and active as I can. My hubby works. It’s the hardest and most demanding but rewarding thing looking after her never mind having MS and the fatigue that comes with it!
Give me someone who is going to sort the NHS out fairly and not rip off people who genuinely need benefits etc. Oh look a flying pig just went past lol.
Rach x
i understand what you are saying rach.
however, we all have to choose one of the parties so choose the lesser evil.
tories have been abysmal so a big no,
lib dems sold out last time so a big no.
greens have good outlook for the planet but we need care nearer to home so sadly no.
UKIP i wouldnt be able to live with myself so a great big no.
labour need another chance. ed milliband needs a chance to prove himself so a resounding yes!
let’s hope that whoever gets in will listen to what we (non-milionaires) have to say.
Hello Jane,
Just wondered why you said not to vote for UKIP pls? Asking as im still undecided who to vote for but the younger group of people that i know through my 16 yr old; are all veering towards UKIP. Any advice greatly appreciated.
Regards
Anna x
Some 30-odd years back (1979 to be exact) I was one of the committee running an independent candidate against a sitting Tory MP. Not only did we get into the 4 figures, but we got the highest poll of any indy candidate… Some of the people who originally agreed to serve in the committee had resigned:
One left because the candidate was too right wing.
The other left because the candidate was too left wing.
I think that Team Farage are people who are to the right of the Tories - and most of whom would never get selected as candidates for that reason. However, the words that they are using do strike a chord with the young (as they are intended to do), and it is a fair bet that UKIP will never have to deliver on their promises.
Geoff
Hi Geoff,
Really sorry but i am having a ‘Brain Fog’ week and for that reason, would you mind if you could write what you have written above; in ‘laymans terms’ please?
I’d really appreciate
thanks
Anna
Why not UKIP? As someone once said, ‘For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong.’ He wasn’t thinking about UKIP, but he might have been.
The parties that have a realistic chance of forming a government try (not always with success) to avoid the temptation of proposing rabble-rousing, vote-winning, totally unworkable solutions that are ‘clear, simple and wrong’, because they know they might actually have to deliver.
UKIP has no such qualms. It can revel in spraying unachievable promises in all directions without the slightest blush. Honestly, Nigel Farage is just another version of Russell Brand. They have way more in common than you might first think in terms of the rubbish they talk. Maverick extremists usually do.
So it’s best to vote for a grown-up party, I think. Take your pick. They are none of them perfect, but they are all more serious than the show-boating blow-hards who know that they are just playing at it, really.
Alison
Hi Anna,
In my original post I was urging people to vote anything BUT Conservative, I said that almost anything was better but you are right I did single out UKIP.
My reasons for not recommending UKIP to anyone are legion but I will share a few (since you specifically asked)
Many of the hard won rights of the last few decades would be lost. Much of what we take for granted would be wiped away. Equality would be a far off dream for many. UKIP would like us to pull out of compliance with the European human Rights Act. (This was born out of the atrocities of WWII and ensures Liberty for all ) Women’s rights would be trashed. Paid maternity leave would disappear. Nigel Farage said that women were worthless to an employer when they became mothers. UKIP MEP, Stuart Agnew said: “Women don’t have the ambition to get to the top, something gets in the way. It’s called a baby…” It would no longer be possible for a wife to charge her husband with rape (back to the days of marital “rights”) one of the parties largest donors claimed women should be banned from wearing trousers because they “discourage love-making" I could go on and on listing stupid sexist comments made by UKIP party members.
Worker’s rights would also be in jeopardy. Statutory holiday entitlement would disappear and they want to make it legal for employers to discriminate on the grounds of gender or race. The protections offered to disabled people by the equalities act would most likely be at risk. I’ve not read anything specific about this but it stands to reason that a party who will so readily trash women are not going to wave the flag for wheelchairs!
They believe that climate change is a myth. (I’m not even going to the comments about the floods being caused by homosexuals!!)
Geoffrey Clarke, a Ukip candidate, said that the NHS should introduce compulsory abortion for foetuses detected to have a disability
Ukip candidate Alexandra Swann argued that the unemployed shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Personally I can’t stand Nigel Farage but who else have they got? This is a political party standing on the shoulders of one man because frankly whenever one of the others speak it is to utter the sort of nonsense above.
Jane
Thank you to all who replied.
I think it was ‘Jane’ and ‘Geoff’ who explained things in laymans terms.
My gosh, they sound like they would take us back into the ‘dark ages’ don’t they! I wonder why all the teens like what they are saying to them then? Maybe, its the ‘Jobs for British people’ thing that they keep saying?
Thanx again guys
Anna
I know what you mean Geoff, but…
people have given their lives for our right to vote
Any number of ‘single votes’ can make all the difference e.g. '97 election
If you’ve not voted then do you have the right to criticize the choice of government? Discuss
Is there such a thing as a safe seat anymore?
One good thing is that it’s got us discussing politics