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Original poster

...to be sick of this election - can we just vote, and get it over with?

77 replies

DameCatrionaSnidelyGoads · 17/04/2015 23:02

It's all foreplay and no coitus at the moment!

Do we always have to have nearly six weeks of twatting about before we put an 'X' in box?

Not sure I can bear another THREE weeks of it....

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Samcro · 17/04/2015 23:03

YANBU

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DameCatrionaSnidelyGoads · 17/04/2015 23:04

I didn't think I was the only one....

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littlebillie · 17/04/2015 23:06

I'm with you

Sixweekstowait · 17/04/2015 23:08

If you think all this is tedious, just wait for afterwards - the horse trading will probably go on until Christmas, will collapse in the New Year and we'll have another election in the Spring

AgentZigzag · 17/04/2015 23:09

Another YANBU.

Even though I flick over as soon as he's (or any of them are) on, it puts me in a very difficult position when I have to keep seeing Milliband without having the means/way of punching in his smug lights out

AgentZigzag · 17/04/2015 23:11

'will collapse in the New Year and we'll have another election in the Spring'

Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup

Canyouforgiveher · 17/04/2015 23:11

Six weeks! Luxury!

here in US the foreplay for the November 2016 elections is well underway and I am about to institute my ban on radio as a result. I can forgive politicians a lot but the f-ing boredom and tedium and hearing the same old crap over and over again for more than a year ... unforgivable.

ZenNudist · 17/04/2015 23:15

I was about to say glad we're not American. Couldn't believe it when I ready about Hilary announcing her campaign and being 550+ days til she'd even be elected. Shock

I'm really interested in the election but all the waiting is really bad for the economy. We just seen to be in limbo until a new leadership is announced.

Also nervous about what's going to happen after!

HelenF350 · 17/04/2015 23:16

YANBU! Sick of them all talking crap and everyone arguing about it. Put an X in the box and get it over with.

Silverdaisy · 17/04/2015 23:18

Personally I think it is very interesting. We should be thinking about it all year round. Plus I really don't think deciding on the government should be consideded "twatting about".

Grantaire · 17/04/2015 23:19

I am still enjoying it and feeling buoyed up. I'm about to peak however. I think I've got another 3 days left in me.

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DameCatrionaSnidelyGoads · 17/04/2015 23:19

Belgium went for 353 days without a government Bourdic Won't be surprised if we have to have another election to decide the result of the election...probably like 1974 Easter Hmm

Miliband has a face that yells out for a frying pan impact in the Reeves and Mortimer style Zigzag

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Grantaire · 17/04/2015 23:21

I've started idly thinking about getting more seriously involved in local politics. That's usually a good sign it needs to move along at a pace before I do something drastic.

The actual politics I love.

ouryve · 17/04/2015 23:21

Personally, I think it's been too long. I mean 5 years? With this shower?

HelenF350 · 17/04/2015 23:22

I do take a keen interest in politics but I'm thoroughly fed up of the whole thing at the moment. Being Scottish it feels like it's been non stop with the bloody referendum going on for months too. It's virtually split the country in two. Vote, get result, deal with it.

Pyjamaface · 17/04/2015 23:22

YANBU

I'm sick of it.

I'm very glad I'm in a forrin land for the last week of it so I'll miss the worst of it

Haggisfish · 17/04/2015 23:23

Yabu. I find it all quite exciting in a way and am becoming more political as I get older. Am also idly pondering becoming involved in local politics!

forago · 17/04/2015 23:25

I am massively bored of the whole thing and haven't managed to watch or listen to.any of it. wrong I know. no idea who to vote for. can someone remind me who has promised to abolish tuition fees? (not that they will/could im sure)

Sparklingbrook · 17/04/2015 23:26

YANBU. I want it all to be over. Looking forward to mid June when the election and DS1's GCSES will be done and dusted. Hurrah!

AgentZigzag · 17/04/2015 23:26

Grin DameC, I'd like to see it all decided on who's best at cheese rolling, keep us thickos plebeians out of it.

Nayville · 17/04/2015 23:28

"It's all foreplay and no coitus"

FANTASTIC LINE

and YANBU

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DameCatrionaSnidelyGoads · 17/04/2015 23:28

Plus I really don't think deciding on the government should be considered "twatting about"

But what difference does the aforesaid "twatting about" actually achieve? Anyone changed the way are going to vote as a result or the debates? The moronically-biased newspaper/TV coverage? The enervating spin and bickering?

(I have a politics degree, by the way, which I got in the days when they paid you to go to university, and when you could tell the difference between the parties)

TWO weeks of campaigning then open the polling booths, and then sort yourselves out!

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AgentZigzag · 17/04/2015 23:29

I realise that by keeping us out of it I'm basically plumping for a dictatorship (kind of).

But so long as they're kind (like that nice Michael Palin (who's prob not v good at cheese rolling if the truth be known)) I could live with that.

Haggisfish · 17/04/2015 23:31

Actually, yes, I have found the debates helpful.

forago · 17/04/2015 23:33

tuition fees? anyone? I have decided to vote based purely on this one issue (but not ukip as they just promise everything anyone could conceivably want to hear)