If I might chip in....

I can't vote Labour. They screwed up the country last time and the time before and the time before that. They just do, its their way.
I don't like Cameron one little bit so I won't be voting for him.
The Green part.... whats the point?
Liberal. We as I don't live in the South West theres no point in that either.
That leaves UKIP. I don't go in for the BNP nonsense. They want a cap on immigration. I agree - we're full. They want a sensible look at the NHS, private healthcare relieves pressure from the NHS. What the problem? They want out of the EU because of their red tape and the ridiculous amount of money we pay into it. I agree. They want to look seriously at our overseas development budget as do I. India for example can pay for a space program yet still trouser £1bn a year from us.

Nigel Farage will get my vote.

The above post is at best ignorant and at worst deliberately misleading/untruthful.

Farage was a commodities trader at the time of the crash? Which crash was this?

Once again, UKIP (and myself) are not against immigration. They want controlled immigration.

I can't comment on what he said on BBC Tees but based on the other things you've typed, I'm sceptical.

The net cost to the UK being in the EU is about £33m a day. I've no idea why you're doubting it's a cost. It's easily verifiable.

The cost of re-establishing trade rates links at full cost? What does that even mean? Cost for what?

The UK has a huge trade deficit with the EU. Why on earth do you think the EU wouldn't want to have trade agreements with the UK?

But most of what comes from the EU doesn't come from Europe? What does this mean and what's your point?

He wants to change the legislature of Human Rights so that it's not the EU and make some changes, not get rid of it. Not always being able to deport criminals is one area of madness.

Erm how do I know if I've registered to vote?

Has anyone on this thread said they were voting for Labour in the local elections ? If they have I didn't see it.

still no sign of anyone justfying a vote for labour locally ?? howay lads, surely something springs to mind.

Yes. UKIP are dangerous not nice people who should be shot with shit. The only other slightly less cunty party who have a chance of stopping these not nice people are Labour, therefore they get my vote.

I'm also preparing to dig out the post where I told you the SNP would get a shitload more seats than UKIP !

I'm not misleading anyone and if your sceptical about what I said that your problem but I know what was said.

You say its £33million a day yet I've had UKIP election material claiming its £52 million a day so if its that simple you might want to tell them. Also I'd like to point out that I'm at university and one of the countries leading researchers on the EU says any figure is not possible to be proved. similar to the fact no one can accurately say what percentage of our laws come from Europe.

We have beneficial trade agreements with other EU member states and removing ourselves from the EU would mean we have to re-establish these agreements at rates which would not be but not at the rates we currently get for being a member.

Not being able to deport criminals is exactly what I mean about leaving the EU not solving that issue. That comes from European courts which is an entirely separate thing and something we would still be bound by leaving the EU. Its the same as when we were told we should give prisoners the right to vote, it had nothing to do with the EU. I understand what your saying but UKIP are oversimplifying what are complex issues and personally there quick fix 'solutions' would solve anything.

There's free trade between all members of the EU, so I'd imagine that is pretty much exactly what he's talking about.

If these premiums you speak of are tariffs and duties, then yes.

If you're talking about people from the EU charging us less for stuff, then no probably not.

It's mind-boggling that people believe the figures that UKIP throw out, even though people that know more than the phrase ''we're full'' say that they're clearly made up.

The anti EU sentiment is fuck all to do with money and is everything to do with small minded little Englander attitudes that are feeding and feeding on nasty xenophobic sentiments and a horribly too common inability to care about other human beings.

what a load of shit. and a shit excuse for allowing wright, akers-belcher(s) et al to carry on using hartlepool as their own personal cock-wipe. why not just say that you don't give a fuck about anything to do with the town because you can't see past the end of your own nose ? what about someone independent or PHF ?

I think us fascists have it.

regardless of where your vote goes on a national basis, surely to fuck people can see that voting labour in hartlepool is tantamount to giving your support to nepotism, corruption and a bunch of lying twats basically giving each other massive amounts of hartlepool taxpayers money to start up businesses that employ people on zero hours contracts (seems to be a pet hate of the labour voters on here but strangely doesn't put them off voting labour).

personally, i'm of the opinion that there is no room for party politics on a local level. in our unfortunate town, power is divvied up amongst a clique that will literally do ANYTHING to retain their power and influence, and i'm including both the ruling labour mob AND the pathetic tory opposition. i honestly don't know if PHF will be any better, but on a local level i can't for the life of me understand why anyone could continue to vote for the major parties.

i see alot of rhetoric on here abount people bemoaning the fate of the working man under the coalition, but then most of those saying they will continue to vote Labour, who have lost the town it's hospital and basically taken the piss out of the 'working man' on an hourly basis. would love someone to justify a vote for wright on the basis of what the fat fucking crank has actually, really done for the town. i won't hold my breath. i take it none of these staunch labour voters have seen a second of the recordings of our beloved ruling party in a council meeting. the labour party in hartlepool is NOTHING like the labour party that your fathers and grandfathers voted for. it's literally jam packed with career politicians who lie, cheat, bully and intimidate their way to staying in authority. a vote for them is basically a lazy, dogmatic helping hand to more years of hartlepool being fucking shit on.

hey, but anyone but the tories eh ?

I trust you are not using admin powers to block vote.

Who is The Colonel voting for?