I'll be voting too - I wouldn't dream of not using my vote as it was so difficult to get in the first place. Amazingly we have 8 candidates to choose from this time. It won't be BNP but that's all I'm willing to say on my choice.
I'll be voting too - I wouldn't dream of not using my vote as it was so difficult to get in the first place. Amazingly we have 8 candidates to choose from this time. It won't be BNP but that's all I'm willing to say on my choice.
Anne
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Dennis, what a wonderful idea - and amethyst and perisot are 2 of my favourites
I'll definately be in the booth on Thursday - we usually take our daughter with us too, to try to make sure she realises the importance (and she likes to draw the cross in the box!)
Dennis
I forgot to say that the pieces you put up are fantastic! Especially love the earrings (meant to say it but was enjoying the thread theme).
George as to the rest, if you're reffering to me then I hold my breath and cross my fingers quite enough for my "position of trust".
Everyone has their own opinions and we're hopefully mature enough to discuss them without offence.
Lisa I found your comments both thoughtful and very interesting, I feel terrible for any person that loses their job & the North suffered so much due to the loss of jobs during that period. Was that not also the time of the Miners strikes & the fall of the Steel Industry though?
Realistically unless we as individual citizens actively CHOOSE to pay more & buy British could those industries ever be replaced? Any government must find the problem of cheap overseas imports difficult to deal with (as we do on a smaller scale). I'm not sure what the answer is but I know that the country hasn't got bottomless pockets and the welfare system seems to be broken.
It's hardly surprising that so many people spend their lives on benefits when in some cases they can get as much money from benefits as many people earn in work. I don't blame them, I blame the system that allows the "benefits trap" to happen.
I'm also considering joining The TaxPayers' Alliance it seems to fit with my Grumpy old woman complaining about the world gone mad politics...
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Yep, I'll be voting on Thursday, though haven't quite decided who I'm voting for. I'm in a very marginal seat, and may decide to vote tactically this time. But I don't want to have to.
I love the necklace in particular - and also the starburst effect at the top of the earrings.
Because it wasn't just about the "North South divide" but where the manufacturing industry was located that aided the
disproportionate loss of jobs
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Is that not an integral factor in the 'North South divide', then? The location of manufacturing industry?
Yes but what I'm saying is I that it doesn't matter what party was in power in the 80's manufacturing was likely to be effected.
In the same way the world economic crisis would've created UK downturn whichever party was in power here, so
that isn't an influencer on my vote
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Manufacturing was at best neglected and at worst crushed as part of a wider government economic policy in the '80s. It was thought by the PM at the time that Britain no longer needed manufacturing and would become a service economy.
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