National Voter Registration Day is taking place on 5 February 2015 as part of a UK-wide week of national action (2-8 February) to inspire young people to register to vote.
There are still people across the county that have not registered to vote, and if they don’t register by 20 April 2015 they will not be able to vote in May’s parliamentary and district and parish elections.
It’s the over 50s who have the real voting and spending power. We are the most politically engaged of all age groups, and are the people who nearly always vote in the general elections. We are the demographic that already controls 80% of disposable wealth in the UK, that will constitute 50% of the population by the year 2020.
However, only 65% of people actually voted in the 2010 General Election.
Have you voted in all previous General Elections? What are your views?
Women fought hard to get us the vote and therefore should always be used.
I must admit I am struggling this time as to who to vote for.
This last coalition has been a nightmare so I must try and be rational.
Is the one we have not sufficient?
Clause 61 of Magna Carta makes it clear that if the People are wronged by the Crown and no remedy is forthcoming after all steps have been exhausted, that the People may take whatever action is necessary to obtain satisfaction without fear of reprisal. As Sir Winston Churchill wrote (A History of the English Speaking Peoples -1956) “The underlying idea of the sovereignty of the law, long existent in feudal custom, was raised by it into a doctrine for the national state. And when in subsequent ages the State, swollen with its own authority, has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the subject, it is to this doctrine (Magna Carta) that appeal has again and again been made, and never as yet, without success.”
There is claim that section 61 has been lawfully repealed. By whom and under what proper mandate of the People of this realm??? It was 'repealed' by the very people it was created to proect us from! Section 61 is just as valid today as it was previously. It just needs defending and enforcing by us lot. I defend and enforce it every day and am constantly saddened how few people these days have even read Magna Carta or the Bill/Claim of Rights. Apathy and ignorance are how you erode a nation's heritage.
Declaration of Arbroath 1320
" It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
I don't need a "new Magna Carta".....
Best way to 'complain' about bad law is to take it to court and have it tested and repealed/changed, not just bleat about it to an MP in the vague hope he/she will give a damn. If challenging bad law in the new corporate courts doesn't work for you then make your stand as a man and withold taxes and compliance as a last resort. If enough people got off their backsides and did that we'd get rid of these bad laws and policies quick-style. That's how it used to work in this country anyway...
Bleating and whining and passing the buck to someone else to sort out our issues is being asleep at the wheel, my friend.
Are you aware that an MPs formal hierarchy of obligations is first to the economic welfare of the State (i.e protecting the Bank of England and the City of London and speculators), then the general well-being of the populace (I can look after my own well-being thanks and am not a herd animal), then their political party and policies, and right at the bottom is the concerns of you lot - the squealing electorate. This response came from the House of Commons on the back of an information request in case you were wondering. I might have added some emphasis here for dramatic effect but I didn't make up the hierarchy. As an elector your concerns and desires are fourth on the list of priorities for your elected MP! Think about that when you are next crossing the box.
Its all a matter of trust and after years of lies and scams and deliberate deceit being practised by 'our' elected representatives and their party whips I don't trust a one of them. The whole system is now even being reported in the mainstream media as being infiltrated by criminal cartels, big money, big corporations, lobbyists, political 'fake' charities, and a whole raft of other special interest groups. The alternative media has been breaking these stories for far longer than the mainstream. Dare I also mention current attempts at investigations into paedophile rings at all levels of local and national government and how the parties and institutions of government and the judiciary balance protecting their own interests above that of the poor victims. I can never forgive the blanket of secrecy that has been brought over paedophiles and paedophile gangs for decades to protect the establishment. I think of what these thugs have done to our children and I can never forgive them or anyone who has covered for them. While I have every respect for you I do not have any respect for 'The Establishment' and it is my view that a vote for any political party is a vote of confidence in 'The Establishment'. Hence why I and my family have recorded a vote of no confidence. I can't help you further if you do not know the power of a vote of no confidence.
Good luck with the election and I hope that whomever and whatever you vote for delivers some of their promises. You'll get played and you'll all be whining about the same stuff in 4 years.
Truth be told, as a Libertarian I did have some interest in UKIP and their economic policies but I do not trust Farage or Carswell. Both are creatures of The City! As a Libertarian I believe in a minimalist government that knows its place and understand that it is the servant and not the master. Not one party is talking about downsizing the State apparatus or giving precedence to our individual liberties and freedoms.
Oh and if you check the royal website you will note that Brenda is now an EU Citizen and a British National. Have a good think about the ramifications of that little beauty.
Its time to wake up and smell the coffee, perhaps. This is not a democracy any more! Do you really believe that your votes and opinions have any effect whatsoever on anything that has already been agreed by the guys who really run this country? Parliamentary elections only give an illusion of democracy to keep the peasants pacified. Its worthwhile looking up David Davis' very powerful speech on 'Parliament and Liberty' given in the Speaker's House last October. You can find it on Youtube. I don't trust him but I do like what he has to say about how Parliament has been negligently asleep at the wheel and allowed the unelected Executive to run the show. Interesting to hear your thoughts on what he has to say....
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tyranny
Tyranny has a range of meanings. Let's focus on despotism for now. From my own research I do not recognise Parliament as being the holders of true governmental power any more and MPs have increasingly relinquished their law-making powers to the EU, the Privy Council and the unelected Executive. Who is in fact running the show these days, and has Parliament been reduced to an advisory body? I mean the big and important decisions on important stuff? Would the international and national power brokers trust that uncertain outcome to the great unwashed to decide? Just think of the broken promises of a vote on the EU and the undemocratic surrender of this country to foreign powers... I seem to recall a Mr Gordon Brown saying that the people can't be trusted with a vote on the EU. Sounds despotic to me.
This means you and I have very little say or influence on the myriad laws and regulations and orders that are throttling our inherent and fundamental freedoms as free British men and women and our gift for innovation and commerce. Is that what your ancestors died defending? I can assure you its not what my distant and recent forebears fought and died for.
I suggest a re-read of Magna Carta and/or the Declaration of Arbroath.
Is there anything you would give your life to defend, I wonder?