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I'll be firmly ensconced in my 'wanking chariot' on election day, and wanking furiously I might add.. Though I won't be complaining that nothing changes 'cos it never does anyway (except perhaps for the sheets..
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Er, steady on old chap. I did start the post with "and to lower the tone a little".
OK who's getting excited about May 7th? I am...
Evey
That he's a fucking tool goes without saying.
What fucking annoys me about the whole premise of this kinda thing is this: I don't give a flying fuck whether our Prime Minister (or First Minister) likes football, or supports this team or that, or whether they keep up to date with Game of Thrones, or like Blur or Oasis, or know the price of a pint of milk. This kind of shit is blown up by the media into something important, as a measure of whether politicians are "down with the people" or not. I wouldn't expect the CEO of my employer (or even my grandad, if I had one) to know or give a shit about any of those things, so how come we're supposed to expect the person that's RUNNING THE COUNTRY to do so? It's just facile mainstream media froth, designed to stop us thinking about the things that really matter.
Fuck right off. Spoiling a ballot paper is as useful as lying in your wanking chariot and complaining that nothing ever changes.
Er, steady on old chap. I did start the post with "and to lower the tone a little".
I think Mosh's answer is a bit more relevant.
As for spoiling your ballot paper not changing anything....yes it would if enough people did it. Spoilt ballot papers have to be recorded. Their number is always read out at the count. There is a reason for this. Governments need political legitimacy. This is why the media rant on about turnout all the time. With a low turn out, the poll lacks legitimacy. If the head of the count had to read out
"Spoilt papers, 44,567" at each count, the legitimacy and the system would crumble. It's why I wanted, and got thanks Shambles, an option for NOTA on this BL poll.
You could say its a form of extra-parliamentary activity. And extra-parliamentary activity, such as demonstrations, action by unions etc, is the ONLY thing that changes things.
The number of spoiled papers is read out once, at some ungodly hour & then never referred to again. Your spoiled paper counts as turnout, which adds legitimacy to the vote & is ranted about in the media all the time. So it's even less useful as a protest than wanking furiously all day instead of voting.
Usually I'd sit at home wanking on election day (avoiding political broadcasts, MPs & candidates make me lose my erection), but I'm voting Green this time, they seem to have a few positive social policies & the environmental stuff isn't ever likely to happen.
100% spot on.
I just hope the rest of the UK see this as the opportunity to break up the two party system and also to expose the dirty tricks they are capable of.
The referendum last year was eye opening. The Bullshit, lies and smears that came from the Westminster parties was unbelievable and the whole of Scotland has now seen it for what it was.
Its exciting times indeed if the SNP get a bigger say in things.
For all Tory + Lib Dem voters read this:-
Torys and Lib Dems voted against proposed amendments to the official secrets act which would allowed for easier investigations into the Paedophile ring at Westminster..
http://chrisspivey.org/shhh-its-an-official-secret/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvrfIohsaw
Fucking massive corrupt cover up.
Cunts.....every one of them who voted against this.
I genuinely don't understand the mindset of people who spoil their vote. People who actually leave their house, make their way to the polling station, draw a cock on a piece of paper (or whatever), and then go home.
The only motivation I can think of is that it gives people a tiny frisson of excitement when the quantity of spoiled papers is read out. "245 spoiled ballot papers - LOL one of those was mine!" 8(
It's like a 4 year old drawing on a wall with a crayon. I don't get it.![]()
So your Green vote, presuming you don't live in Brighton, will be read out once at some ungodly hour and then never referred to again.Nice protest you're making about (in your words) 'environmental stuff (that) isn't ever likely to happen'. Voting Green as such is pointless.
The reason spoiling your paper is pointless is because the system is set up so that those votes are recorded in a lump with mistakes and unclear papers. This classification is used deliberately to help stifle democratic protest. Its another reason to burn it down, not to slag off the people who deliberately spoil their vote.
Good luck with that Green vote.
Felix: It can be an expression of not believing the system is actually a democracy, and showing your contempt for that. It's a valid choice to make in a ballot (all choices are valid - that's supposed to be the point). I'd personally rather vote for someone obscure like king arthur (scargill), which is just as 'invalid' in numerical terms.
Well they know their demographic i suppose, but that only makes me like her more (though i think i'm probably scum in the eyes of that paper). 'She was a very strong-minded girl' is put there as if it's an insult! She 'devilishly hacked the hair off her sister's beloved doll!' - my god! Won't someone please save us from this evil?!
I did much worse things to my wee brother when I was growing up. One time, me and my friends set fire to my brother cletus's Action Man tank (and the Action Man driving it) and pulled it up a hill with a bike on a rope, with the Action Man screaming in agony, while everyone laughed like fuck.
Having such a shady and potentially embarrassing incident in my past has clearly disqualified me from any political ambitions. If news of this ever got out, I'd have ended up in the political wasteland.![]()
Ridiculous nonsense. I dunno how these tabloid journalists sleep at night.