The Real Oldham Election Results
| How Can Yvette Cooper say on Radio 4 that the Oldham Result gave a clear message of anger to the Government ? They got just over twenty per cent of the Vote. The Parties that make up the Coalition got nearly 22%. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Libertarian Party had a good candidate in Gregg Beaman but the North West branch had come to the conclusion that a Christmas campaign to try and persuade the 72 700 voters of Oldham to vote for us would be both a waste of time and a £500 donation to the local council. They were absolutely right. Every party below the Conservatives lost their deposit in real terms. Their concerns do not matter under this FPTP farce. The clear winner was the Could No t Be Bothered To Vote Party. 52% The Libertarian Party made a positive decision not to take part in this circus and to concentrate on local elections. Less costly and where the individual candidate can make a difference. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| See here what one man achieved, through non intervention. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We are, as a country being run by a small clique that use ‘Representative Parliamentary Democracy’ as a smoke and mirrors cover for their activities. All three words give the impression that you as an individual actually count. You do not. The new Honourable Member for Oldham & Saddleworth Debbie Somebody or other, has no influence on the Marxist friends of Miliband, she is purely lobby fodder. Miliband himself barely scraped in by dint of the Trades Unions The ‘Honourable members’ have precious little legitimacy, they narrowly survived the national anger of the ‘Country’ Party over expenses, the ‘Court’ Party need to tread carefully. The only anger is against repression, high taxation and the big State. |
January 15, 2011 at 15:45
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surely the way forward is to stand as the
“Couldn’t be bothered to vote” Party (or whatever name these non-voters are
given by the electoral bods). Then, as in Old and Sad, when the results are
announced, you’d win every time!
Just a thought – back to the vino…
- January 14, 2011 at 13:31
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So 15000 easily influenced voters justifies socialism does it?
Even the
late soviet union was more democratic than this – despite only being offered a
choice of different representatives from the same party, voters could always
tick the ‘none of the above’ box. If none of the above won then they had to
find fresh candidates. I say if ‘none of the above’ wins, as clearly happened
in this case, then the people obviously don’t want to be coercively governed.
Those 15000 who do could perhaps subscribe to some sort of daily email
commands from their chosen leader although it would cost them far more than
60% of their income because they would no longer be able to externalise their
costs onto us. There is no logic or rational ethic that would support these
15000 chosing who can coerce the majority. Even if it were 99% coercing 1%
that ain’t right.
We are individuals not a herd. Chosing your master does
not stop you being a slave.
http://www.voluntaryist.com/index.html
http://praxeology.net/molinari.htm
http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
http://c4ss.org/
Campaign
for a stateless society
http://www.freedomainradio.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/FreedomainRadio
- January 14, 2011 at 16:14
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Spot on Will
But it will take something major to stop the rot. Clegg, Cameron and
Miliband are not my Leaders or my representatives.
- January 14, 2011 at 23:20
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thats the most common sentiment on many blogs atm. the whole ‘not in my
name but what can we do?’ question.
- January
14, 2011 at 12:23
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This result highlights exactly why Dave Sutch formed the Looney Party – to
represent the non voting majority who always win!
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January 14, 2011 at 12:18
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The BBC will not enter into any debate other than about the ruling Fabian
coaliation of the Labour,Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
- January 14, 2011 at 12:05
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Note that the BNP got nearly 3x the votes given to the Greens. I wonder
whether that will ever be mentioned on the BBC?
- January 14, 2011 at 11:22
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The problem the Libertarian Party will face in the local elections, if they
decide to field candidates, is that you’re completely unknown. At least the
English Democrats and UKIP are known, they’ve puts leaflets and stuff out over
recent years, and have knocked on people’s doors to introduce themselves.
Even then, they generally get nowhere in the locals.
The only way any of you can realistically hope to achieve any measure of
real success is to pool your resources instead of competing against each other
with tiny activist resources.
A new, combined party of all three would stand a far better chance, and
would provide a news story and some media coverage. It would be a different
kind of challenge, were it even to be possible to join forces (I don’t know if
your policies could be meshed) but it is the only way I can perceive for any
of you to make an impact.
It needs thinking about at least, or you’ll all just be also-rans about
whom most of the public care nothing, and few have even heard of you. If
you’re content with pretend politics you can stay put. The way has now been
prepared for coalitions and even mergers (Liberal/SDP being the most
successful and well-known) so you’re going to take a hard look at where you
want to go, if anywhere, ever.
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