international 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 I guess the time of the year is coming just around the corner...as most of us should know by now that the election is just next year... Anyone keen to share who they would like to vote for? Share your opinion on specific parties and their members? I dont want this thread to divide the forum...sure dont take this seriously Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bimmer boy 21 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 I vote Helen. Intrest free student loans FTW! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gus 5 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 are you old enough to vote? who gives a f**k..they are both crap, and cant run the country to my satisfaction wait for the gustatorship Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bravo 34 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 (edited) 1) the current student loan scheme will prob stay no matter what - it was an electioneering scheme and now its in I doubt it will go so forget that. BTW no matter how long you take to pay of your student loan, its f**k all out of your life, and if you actually did a decent degree instead of some f**kall BA then you would earn enough so it didn't matter. I had a student loan - took less than 9 months to pay off on my fat new out-of-uni salary (saving hard of course and working while at uni to minimise the loan - my parents paid for diddley). 2) MMP is all about voting for the minority party whose policies you believe in. Chances are the plebs will vote the majority parties in, so the more votes the minority party whose policies you agree with get, the more say they have come coalition time. The strategy is - decide which majority is the lesser evil. Look at who they say they will form a coalition with. Decide which one of those you agree the most with and vote for them. Hopefully they get enough votes that the majority party you looked at joins up with them to form a government and (unless you are EVEN MORE cynical than me)at least your party gets a say. 3) It is attitudes like the this - People think these are worth voting for: Labour (f**k up my nice rental portfolio) "Lesbian Helen" vs National (Tax breaks vs. social cost, just to wind up Labour anyway - didn't they sell our assets and cause half of the problems with SOE's that they are now blaming Labour for?) "I'm a homo - John Key" - that is what has got us f**ked in the first place. Bring on the Gustatorship/bravosocialist coalition. Edited June 23, 2007 by bravo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 The local Eastbourne candidate for ACT wants to cut benefits for solo mums, so I vote for her in my electorate vote. The party vote I tend to decide on the day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gus 5 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 The local Eastbourne candidate for ACT wants to cut benefits for solo mums, so I vote for her in my electorate vote. The party vote I tend to decide on the day. you really are a tosser aren't you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpp 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 The local Eastbourne candidate for ACT wants to cut benefits for solo mums, so I vote for her in my electorate vote. The party vote I tend to decide on the day. WTF? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2007 you really are a tosser aren't you? Says the guy from North Shore... You like solo mothers? I forgot that senses of humour were banned north of the Bombays. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gus 5 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 North Shore is relative how? as for humour, try being funny. and get old enough to vote. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ED1RTY 2 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) The local Eastbourne candidate for ACT wants to cut benefits for solo mums, so I vote for her in my electorate vote. The party vote I tend to decide on the day. Kinda agree actually, i have a solo mum, sure a benifet would have helped a bit i guess. She works really hard, no child support of benefits. Benefits... f**k that makes them lazy, benefits make anyone lazy, i say can all f**king benefits and get the lazy ass freeloaders off their lazy asses and get f**kin jobs!! Also go Winston Peters. Get rid of the imports god dammit!! Edited June 24, 2007 by ED1RTY Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 North Shore is relative how? as for humour, try being funny. and get old enough to vote. My apologies, I'll get out the 'Bimmersport Guide to Politically Correct Humour and Pandering to Minorities" next time I'm at the library. As for North Shore, well, it's a Lower North Island in-joke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpp 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 Cutting all benefits will increase crime, decrease quality of life, and therefore we have a bigger problem. If anything, make it harder to get benefits. Or make them work for their benefits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi535 538 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 I reckon the status quo(far from perfect) is miles better than any alternative Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grant 4 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 I reckon the status quo(far from perfect) is miles better than any alternative I'm inclined to agree. Although I am likely to vote Labour again, I won't be too disappointed either way...but then again I won't be living here during the majority of the next electoral term, so it won't matter to me too much. Cheers Grant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nath 129 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) I think my mother qualifies as being a solo mum, but still i think Threeoneeight knows what he is talking about with benefits- and i would tend to agree. i'd simply prefer to see a National government. -he has a degree in politics, so may be able to back himself up... Edited June 24, 2007 by sylviaaa Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 I think my mother qualifies as being a solo mum, but still i think Threeoneeight knows what he is talking about with benefits- and i would tend to agree. i'd simply prefer to see a National government. -he has a degree in politics, so may be able to back himself up... Why thankyou. I'm fairly cynical about politics, which is probably why I study architecture now. As usual I was taking the piss, I don't ACTUALLY want to burn all solo mothers. Just the ones who do it over and over again. But to a lesser degree I do wish we had proper 'welfare' rather than 'money for nothing and the taxi chits for free' style of benefit overindulgence that both major parties seem to provide for. Whether they admit it or not depends on whos votes they're after. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OLLIE 26 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 politicians are all retards, doesn't matter who you vote for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Phil Ken Sebben Report post Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) Post removed due to Godwins Law Edited June 25, 2007 by Carl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 That hitler dude had some pretty sound ideas. Autobahns and Porsches, yes. Just a shame about his oversupply of raw material for the soap manufactuing industry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cainchapman 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) Zyklon B was a pesticide or disinfectant. Not used in Soap manufacture. Dictatorships achieve alot more than a democracy in a shorter time. Maybe not the best stuff though. Caesar effectively invented the Autobahn. Edited June 24, 2007 by Cain Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 Zyklon B was a pesticide or disinfectant. Not used in Soap manufacture. I was talking about ash- a byproduct of gas chambers, and traditionally used in soap manufacture(though not usually from gas chambers!). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M325is 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 Cutting all benefits will increase crime, decrease quality of life, and therefore we have a bigger problem. If anything, make it harder to get benefits. Or make them work for their benefits. Great the increase of crime will lead to a civil war against job haters and we all know who will win. We got the bombs man... We got the bombs. They, they can take there hoes and pitch forks and dig themselves their sorry little graves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThreeOneEight 0 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 Great the increase of crime will lead to a civil war against job haters and we all know who will win. We got the bombs man... We got the bombs. They, they can take there hoes and pitch forks and dig themselves their sorry little graves. I hate to alarm you, but I really don't think anybody in New Zealand has any decent bombs. They don't make good electioneering, you see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted June 24, 2007 what hand do you prefer to wank with? thats real politics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Phil Ken Sebben Report post Posted June 25, 2007 what hand do you prefer to wank with? thats real politics Someone else's - that is real politics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
