Place your vote with your conscience

Cross posted from Ian PJ on Politics

Place your vote with your conscience May 5, 2010

It is now less than 24 hours before the voting stations open in the 2010 UK General Election.
After 3 weeks of end to end coverage, there has been some positive campaigning countered by even more negative campaigning, there have been lies and counter lies, information met with disinformation and rightly the public are confused as to which is the best way to place their vote.
I can only say that you alone must make that decision, but I would suggest you now set aside the propaganda from all sides, and think. You don’t have to vote with the herd simply because you think everyone else is doing so, be yourself and vote with your conscience.
Voting for smaller parties or Independents is no sin if that is what you believe will be the right thing to do, if you believe that they will do the right thing and represent you properly if elected. No vote is a wasted vote no matter where you place it, so long as you do place it, but if you simply act like a herd you will be treated as such beyond the election.
Throughout this campaign we have seen and heard an awful lot about promises, pledges and contracts, some we like, much we don’t, but as we have discovered to our cost in recent years, those Party Manifestos are not subject to the law, and have indeed been proven in court to be ‘not subject to legitimate expectation’.
There is only one Pledge that will be legally binding when you go to vote tomorrow, that of The Albion Alliance. Those politicians who have signed up to it have agreed to the following.

I pledge to work tirelessly to give the voters of my constituency a democratic and direct voice in the United Kingdom’s continued relationship with the EU.
I pledge that I will sponsor a Private Members Bill, written in clear concise terms, calling for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union – and/or support any motion for such a referendum – and to vote positively for any Bill that may call for such a referendum, irrespective of Party Whip, with a view to the successful outcome of this pledge within 1 year of a new Parliament or sooner.

If you really want change, if you wish to see the democratic deficit restored as much as these few can make it, I hope you make good use of the Albion Alliance database (click on ‘refine search’, then ‘pledged’). Look at those candidates kindly who have taken the time, trouble and have been bold enough to make this personal pledge on your behalf, by rewarding them and their honesty with your vote.
We would have liked to have seen far more candidates willing to stand up and be counted in this way, but those 99 who have already pledged, if returned to parliament can make a huge impact.
They may not represent a party that you would normally vote for, but consider whether on this matter alone, and the likelihood of the Lisbon Treaty coming before parliament again this autumn for re-ratification, does that individual candidate represent you and your view rather than the if/but/perhaps/maybe vagueness of the others.
Remember, If you continue to vote the same, you will continue to get the same.


I am one of those 99 so choose wisely.

Here is my write up in the Ham and High

Nineteen Boxes on the Ballot Paper for London

Nineteen boxes

That was the choice I had moments ago when I did my democratic duty for the EU elections.

I am happy to say that I voted for an independent. Even the UKIP didnt get my vote here.

I was going to vote UKIP but then I thought Sod that I dont even like them

So I voted with my principles and went for someone completely unknown

Better than spoiling the ballot paper.

Gordon has a secret plan to Join the EURO

From PJC journal
Whitehall departments are spending time and taxpayers’ money updating their plans for the switch and each one has a named minister in charge of the process, it emerged in the Express today.

Detailed talks have taken place in departments about what they would have to do if Britain joined.

They include explaining to the public how the move would affect their council tax and business-rate bills and how the BBC would pay for the £10 million cost of changing the TV licence fee to Euros.

The disclosures come just months after European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso claimed Britain was “closer than ever” to joining the Euro.

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said:

“The public will be alarmed that Government departments are spending time and money on preparing to scrap the pound.

“It now appears that Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson have a secret Whitehall agenda to exploit their appalling mismanagement of the public finances and use it as an excuse to join the Euro.
“Time and resources better spent on improving local public services are now being spent on preparing to issue council tax bills and TV licences in the new currency.

Libertarian Party leader Ian Parker-Joseph said:

"The need for a huge change of direction in order to facilitate recovery in the UK from a debt based economy to one based upon sound financial grounding means that the very idea of joining a monetary system that would be outside of our control is unthinkable".

“When President Barroso said ‘the people who matter in Britain are currently thinking about’ joining the Euro, he certainly wasn’t talking about the British people. He was talking about Gordon Brown and his team of ‘Euro ministers’.”

Today, a ComRes survey for the TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals that just 28 per cent of the public think Britain should join the Euro, with 68 per cent opposing the move.
The Communities and Local Government Department’s plan spells out the need to prepare for council tax and business rate bills to be issued in the new currency.

Remember that it was a Tory MEP who stated in the EU Parliament that he could not wait for the Conservatives to win power in the UK so that the Euro could be implemented.


If you continue to VOTE THE SAME, you will continue to GET THE SAME

Questions for Canvassers

By Neil Clark

British voters go to the polls on June 4 to choose who will represent them in the European Parliament. Canvassers will be on your doorstep soliciting your vote. How to respond? Here are some questions which show up the contradictions - and sometimes the absurdities - in each of the parties' policies.

Questions for Labour
1. Why did your party break its promise, made it in its 2005 manifesto, to hold a referendum on the new EU Constitution?

2. Why does your party support the UK's opt-out from the EU's Working Time directive, even though a majority of Labour MEPs oppose this opt-out?

3. Why, after the unhappy experience of railway privatisation in Britain, has the British Government pushed for other European countries to 'liberalise' their excellent domestic rail services ?

Questions for Conservatives
1. Why, when your leader is calling for a work-life balance, does your party campaign for Britain's continued opt-out of the EU's Working Time directive, which would restrict the working week to a maximum of 48 hours?

2. Why does your party support a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but not one on Britain's continued membership of the EU?

3. Does your party agree with views expressed by leading Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan on Fox TV in America, that the NHS was a 60-year "mistake" which has made British people "iller"?

Questions for Liberal Democrats
1. If your party is so committed to 'Europe acting together', why is it against the formation of a European Army to replace the US-led Nato?

2. Can you explain how your party would reduce unemployment when it is committed to a 'liberal and open system' of global free trade and supports the elimination of subsidies?

3. Why, if your party says it doesn't want to compromise 'Britain's traditional legal system and civil liberties', does it support the European Arrest Warrant, under which a British citizen can be deported for something which is not considered a crime in this country?

Questions for UKIP
1. Why does your party say 'No to the EU', but 'Yes' to the EU's generous MEP salaries and expenses?

2. You claim that your opposition to the EU is due to a desire to protect Britain's national sovereignty. But why do you support British membership of other bodies such as the World Trade Organisation and Nato which also impinge sovereignty?

3. Why does your party refuse to publish details of its MEPs' expenses?

Questions for the Green Party
1. Where would the money for your proposed £45bn 'Green New Deal' come from?

2. How do the introduction of Eco Taxes, which hit the poor disproportionately harder than the rich, square with your commitment to greater equality and social justice?

3. Why does your party not address in its manifesto what Sir David Attenborough has described as "the frightening explosion in human numbers" and the effect that population growth has on the environment?

Questions for the BNP
1. How can you claim not to be a racist party, when membership of your party is restricted to 'indigenous British ethnic groups deriving from the class of "Indigenous Caucasian"'?

2. Your party's website states that "anyone not born here who commits a crime here should be deported". Would that apply to the likes of Sir Cliff Richard (born in India), Joanna Lumley (India), and Peter Hitchens (Malta)?

3. Why does your party's website put the word British in inverted commas when describing the black UKIP candidate Rustie Lee, a British citizen who has lived in the country since childhood?

Well I have one to add to that Nigella Lawson are you going to repatriate her to Lithuania?

Election Special

So its early I had a change of heart.

I have had the immense fortune to see a ballot paper for the people standing in the Yorkshire and Humber region

12 parties in total

No 1 BNP Protecting British Jobs we'll believe you thousands wouldn't Six people

No 2 Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship" six people

No3 Conservative Party six people

No 4 English Democrats " putting england first" six people

No 5 Jury Team only three people

No 6 Liberal Democrats six people but one of them lives in London

No 7 No2EU Yes to Democracy six people

No 8 Pro-Democracy: Libertas.eu six people

No 9 Socialist Labour Party ( Leader Arthur Scargill) six people

No 10 The Green Party six people

No 11 The Labour Party six people

No 12 United Kingdom Independence Party six people one of whom lives in Sutton Coldfield.


Faced with a difficult choice.

Make it easy and vote for one of the 12.

I suppose I would vote for the UKIP but Dad has said that hes not voting for anyone.

Apathy rules ok

In fact one third of the constituency I live in didn't vote last time at the General Election. Their votes are equivalent to a majority They could actually vote in another candidate and leave the others to be voted for as before and actually change things.

Happy New Year 2008

Kenya is in election meltdown,Cyprus and Malta have adopted the Euro and the NHS is starting to roll out the electronic record for everyone.One cannot help but be struck dumb at the pace of change.