# Fuck off, Labour: you do not deserve my vote **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095 "2007-04-29T22:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/21 "2007-05-03T07:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] What is the color-symbolism scheme for Brit political parties? [/QUOTE] Red - Rose - Labour (New Labour) Blue - Keeps Changing - Conservative (Tory) Yellow - Winged Bird - Liberal Democrats Green - ? - Green Party (Environmentalists) ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/22 "2007-05-03T13:50:42Z")
Other Scottish parties include Scottish Nationalists - [yellow](http://www.snp.org/) with a black Saltire-ish loop Scottish Socialists - [yellow & red](http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/) with a yellow star Solidarity (demagogue Tommy Sheridan’s splinter group from the Scottish Socialists) - [green & red](http://www.solidarityscotland.org/). But their placards are blue and white. And, voting this morning, as a mark of heightened security against vote rigging, etc. instead of taking my polling card, checking it off the register, and saying “Mr. xxxx, right?” they actually asked me my name before reading it themselves off the card I gave them which had it printed on! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/23 "2007-05-03T14:07:22Z")
I must admit, if I lived in Britain, I couldn’t really vote for anyone at all. Most every party seems downright awful to me, a coalition of statists and power-mongers trying desperately to lock up every last human being in the British Isles. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/24 "2007-05-03T14:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] trying desperately to lock up every last human being in the British Isles. [/QUOTE] You do know we have a _much_ lower [incarceration rate](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4481261.stm) than the US, don’t you? Apart from that, I largely concur with your post. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/25 "2007-05-03T14:37:20Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] You do know we have a _much_ lower [incarceration rate](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4481261.stm) than the US, don’t you? [/QUOTE] Only because the jails are full and they keep releasing people on bail who commit more crimes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/26 "2007-05-03T14:43:04Z")
BTW I’ve voted. Have you? ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/27 "2007-05-03T14:45:40Z")
I have a postal vote so I voted last week. Now I suppose some NuLab-loving postie is busy tearing it up and eating the evidence. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095/28 "2007-05-03T16:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Only because the jails are full and they keep releasing people on bail who commit more crimes. 😃 [/QUOTE] To match the per capita incarceration rate of our transatlantic bretheren, we’d have to increase our jail capacity by 400%. Not even a throw-away-the-key Tory would want to fund that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-labour-you-do-not-deserve-my-vote/402095.md?page=1)