General election

Back to DahmerIsDead - as I recall, we became UK citizens about the same time. I too was quite excited about being able to vote.

Whether the candidates excited me is another story; most don't - and never have, anywhere I've lived in my 67+ years. BUT - I can at least go to the polling place, walk in, and register my choice, and be a full part of society in my adopted country (which, by the way, I love - warts and all).

To be fair, the Lib Dems are also to blame. Turning their backs on their electorate and abandoning their manifesto 5 years ago not only allowed the Tories to force their horrific policies on the British populace, it also allowed a situation where many of their former voters last night went to the Tories or UKIP instead. God, I'm so depressed right now.

Absolutely!

I suggest that you take off your rose tinted glasses and discover what REAL England is like!! I have no idea why you are so excited about voting!!!

England is where the unemployed will get sanctioned and their benefits stopped for weeks, even months, if they turn up just 5 MINUTES LATE for an appointment at their local Job Centre Plus, so, hence, they cant feed themselves or their families, no money to pay for necessary bills, and cant even get referrals for food banks(of which just 5 short years ago, there wasnt any in this country!!)

England is where in a NHS hospital there are patients in beds in corridors and also the NHS has failed anyway due to a severe lack of government funding and medical tourism!! Also, where hospitals and clinics are in such ill repair and antiquated that in all honesty I wouldnt take a dog in one!!! In fact, if any hospital here was in the USA, it would be declared unfit for even animal use!!

The same goes for schools, colleges and Universities here which are all falling down around the students!!

These are just 3 examples!!

Also the general population of the UK is nothing but simple-minded, brainwashed Hobbits, who have no minds of their own and hang onto every word that comes out of Camerons mouth and out of the BBC and Sky, and what they read in the Sun, Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and the Daily Express!!

The UK is not a Narnia land of Enchantment as you seem to think it is!!

I could go on and on about how dire the UK is!!

DISLIKE!!!

It felt weird to be watching election results with so little knowledge of how the process works! I'm usually a huge election/politics nerd but I just haven't had the time or energy to really immerse myself in UK politics. Not to say I support the Tories in even the tiniest way, but given the embarrassingly pathetic state of affairs in my home state, I can't get behind the gloom-and-doom of a Tory victory today. Yeah it sucks but at least they're not arguing about whether or not evolution is a thing.

(This is not to negate anyone's upset feelings today, this is just my personal perspective.)

Oh gosh I know exactly how you feel. Being from South Carolina, which is a thoroughly red and tea party state, I'm not as depressed as my fiancé today. I disagree with the Tories on everything, but I know they are further left than my state government. And on the north test side, NIGEL FARAGE IS GONE! Seriously glass he lost and resigned as leader. I'm hoping his charisma was the only thing really holding UKIP together, though the 3.8 million votes for them yesterday was upsetting.

See, I think Farage would be pretty good as like a talk show host, like Bill Oriely or something.

See, I think Farage would be pretty good as like a talk show host, like Bill Oriely or something.

Hahaha. Yes. I have to give it to him--he's a very engaging and charismatic leader. He just uses his powers for evil.

I suggest that you take off your rose tinted glasses and discover what REAL England is like!! I have no idea why you are so excited about voting!!!

England is where the unemployed will get sanctioned and their benefits stopped for weeks, even months, if they turn up just 5 MINUTES LATE for an appointment at their local Job Centre Plus, so, hence, they cant feed themselves or their families, no money to pay for necessary bills, and cant even get referrals for food banks(of which just 5 short years ago, there wasnt any in this country!!)

England is where in a NHS hospital there are patients in beds in corridors and also the NHS has failed anyway due to a severe lack of government funding and medical tourism!! Also, where hospitals and clinics are in such ill repair and antiquated that in all honesty I wouldnt take a dog in one!!! In fact, if any hospital here was in the USA, it would be declared unfit for even animal use!!

The same goes for schools, colleges and Universities here which are all falling down around the students!!

These are just 3 examples!!

Also the general population of the UK is nothing but simple-minded, brainwashed Hobbits, who have no minds of their own and hang onto every word that comes out of Camerons mouth and out of the BBC and Sky, and what they read in the Sun, Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and the Daily Express!!

The UK is not a Narnia land of Enchantment as you seem to think it is!!

I could go on and on about how dire the UK is!!

Definitely harsh. I have worked on a number of US bases in the UK (4 different ones), Germany and Japan.....there were always a fair amount of Americans that hated wherever they were....I think they probably hated being where they were in the US as well. The US has plenty of its own issues. I have moved back to the UK permanently, I wouldn't have done so if it was the hell that the AmericanGirl says it is. Now.....at times mind you.......the weather here in N Yorkshire will cause me to mutter a few very foul words