Government want to look at disability bank accounts to see what we are spending on: this is not good for us autistic.

I too have read this. It is alarming and scary. 

But - this is mostly pre-election rhetoric, aimed at gathering support from the far-right part of the electorate. In the event, it wouldn't be cost-effective to check or monitor the accounts of all people in receipt of disability benefits. I believe (happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) that the DWP can already do this, if they choose to, as they can also monitor social media accounts, in any case, so what would change? 

The Tories are caught between a rock and a hard place, behind 8n the polls on one side and under pressure from Reform for the far right vote, so at this point, they'll say pretty much anything that might help them gain support.

I agree. It's fodder for their base. Or what's left of it.

Or what's left of it.

Not much!

Well, we'd better hope they do go down, otherwise things will get worse.

The Empire call the shots.

SNP is national socialism.
its a nationalist party... that claims to be socialist... its national socialism then?

although they now have a iranian in charge of their party that hates scottish people lmao its pretty weird 

good for the majority the sounds like populism, majority rule, stuff that disfavours minorities which the left are championing above the majority these days as they put minority above majority now as is majority is evil and minority is virtuous

it's not too distinct an idea from Socialism. Which is also believe in.  it's about doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.  So, to use an example.  If one party had a policy of employing one more  nurse than another party, I would vote for that party. As I would be helping to do good.  Think of all the good one Nurse can do in the world.  Then times that Nurse by 100.  All the cancer patients that would be treated.All the elderly that would have someone to hold their hand.  The utility of my vote would help bring that slightly better world into being.  It doesn't bother me that that government will then turn around and do things that I  disagree with. Because why am I so special? I'm just an ant. A part of a collective.

And SNP types here in Scotland, although I think that may be changing now at long last 

yeah i think she only got to that power position anyway because people though she was tough on russia... but turned out she was all talk and she was weak. backing down from any position at the first sight of trouble. she shouldnt have stepped down she should have carried on. in stepping down she proved she was too weak, her tax ideas would have worked, and the latest budget shows that rishi sunak is backpeddling now and trying to do liz trus style tax cuts himself as his tax raise idea has fucked things up for the economy

I hated on Liz Truss (when it was relevant) because she encouraged people to go and fight in Ukraine then when some of those UK fighters were caught and threated with execution by the other side (which didn't actually happen, I was glad to see.) She threw 'em under the bus saying something akin to: "They chose to be there". 

no but i can google it if i wanted to.

but from the word, i can split it up and see the word utility in it and see its likely about either the government functioning and running the utilities we need... or its about using the government as a tool.utility itself?

Every Tory Government will be undermined, by the Elites, as they want LibLab Dictatorship.

but labour and conservatives are side by side copy pasting one another and totally the exact same in every single way... theres no difference, so you cant complain about one party then vote another which is matching that party...

plus parties will never match what you want... do you understand there can be millions of separate policies in politics? ....how can any party truly match and allign with what you want? its impossible, you have more chance of correctly guessing all 6 or 7 of the winning lottery numbers every single day for a entire 4 year term than it is to get a party to ever allign with what you want or even come close to it as the amount of decisions and policies are so vast people cant comprehend how vast it is.... infact the parties dont either as they neglect and leave alot of policies untouched which then gives that effect of every party being the exact same because they are keeping most policies untouched all the time and the same.

i suppose you can dumb it down to focusing on taxation as that directly effects how much money they take off us or allow us to keep.... but yeah, you all hated liz truss who wanted to give us tax cuts and allow us to keep our money, so then that made the ruling party see that hate and think you wanted tax raises instead so they kept our taxs the same and raised it on rich people and businesses think thats what you wanted but then you still criticised that.... to have effective government you need effective criticism and tell them what you want rather than just hate them for the sake of it. but thats what we got, we got a population that doesnt understand politics and sends mixed messages because they vote from hatred rather than from understanding politics.

Especially the Old Labour types, who were politicised in the Early Eighties. They still view Socialism with rose-tinted glasses.

It generally means I have a choice of Labour, the Lib Dems or the Greens, if they're on the ballot, considering my personal beliefs. I've voted for all of them at one point or another. I would very much like proportional representation to come in because a lot of the time it feels like a vote for anyone other than Labour or the Tories () is wasted.

Ditto. I am aligned to no party. I look at the issues, candidates and manifestos each time I vote and make a selection.

One of the biggest problems with our democracy is people who build an identity around a political party then keep voting for them even when it’s clear the party has changed or just run out of ideas.

I vote for the candidate/party that most closely aligns with my personal values, and do my due diligence on them before each election.

I vote because otherwise I have no grounds to complain about what happens in this country. If you're dissatisfied with something then you work to make the change you want.

I'd say that there was a utilitarian case for voting. Are you familiar with Utilitarianism?

Imperial outreach.

The USSA wants total control.

I try to be rigorous...

i dont vote for parties myself...

people may get angry about that and say that people died for my right to vote... but voting for parties i think is a insult to everyone that died for a vote because voting for parties isnt actually real democracy or real voting.

you vote for a party because you agree with one of their policies.... but then all the other 1000 policies they have you disagree with but yet because you voted the party you voted many thousands of policies you disagree with .... so you gave open consent to the party to do any horrendous thing by voting for them.... never give someone open consent to do anything.

voting parties is what we call elective dictatorship... your voting for a party to take away your votes and make decisions for you to dictate to you. this is why i dont vote elections.... this is why i liked brexit because for once it gave us a direct single policy to vote on instead of a party to dictate this to us instead. we need more of this direct democracy and less party dictatorship.

You are very Libertarian which is pleasing to hear.  I personally vote though as I think it makes a slight difference.  Not a huge difference.  People expect too much from their vote, in essence.

I like to make sure that various  campaigns  get a little gift too. But not every can do that  as people are skint these days.

I Sperg said:

some hippie in the sixties

Lol thats some great citing 

I Sperg said:

some hippie in the sixties

Lol thats some great citing 

I try to be rigorous...