Vote Nobody at the Welsh Assembly elections
Nobody | 04.04.2007 18:21 | Culture | Other Press | Social Struggles
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whoever you vote for the government always wins
VOTE NOBODY, because Nobody cares...
. . . about the Health Service
502 acute hospital beds - an entire Welsh hospital’s worth - are clogged up by bed-blocking. Ambulances are queuing outside hospitals unable to offload patients.
. . . about Our Children
The UK is the 4th-largest economy in the world but has one of the highest levels of child poverty of all industrialised countries. Recent figures show that 27% of children in Wales live in poverty!
. . . about Human Life
Welsh troops continue to fight and die in wars in the Middle East to protect US oil interests. Does Rhodri Morgan support these wars which have resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 Iraqis? He’s not saying! Nobody seriously opposed the war!
. . . about the Environment
Global warming is a proven fact. We need to reduce our consumption of oil and gas, not increase it! The development of a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in Milford Haven is absurd, and the building of a massive and very dangerous pipeline to ship the pressurised gas across Wales is madness! Locals fearing for their safety have had their questions ignored.
. . . about Our Jobs
Unemployment across Wales has been increasing for 10 consecutive months, in some places by up to 35%. Over 600 manufacturing jobs have been lost in mid-Wales since 2001. 300 jobs have gone at Burberry in the Rhondda, and more will go at the Corus Steelworks after the takeover by yet another multinational company.
. . . about Transport
The Roads are clogged with cars and lorries, and our privatised train and bus services are among the worst in Europe.
. . . about the Housing Crisis
According to Shelter Cymru, 53,000 people are trying to find decent accommodation from their local authorities. So what is the Assembly government doing about it? Encouraging councils to sell off and privatise council housing. The result? Less rights for tenants and fat salaries for housing association bosses.
VOTE NOBODY in the welsh assembly elections on 3rd May!
Politicians go on and on about apathy, but they’re missing the point.
We DO care about the NHS, education, and the other issues that affect our lives. The fact is we know that there is no real choice to be had.
Whoever we vote for, politicians and big business win!
History shows us that those in power of whatever party do nothing for the majority of people and everything for the rich. So why give the assembly yet another opportunity to treat us like fools?
This isn’t apathy it’s antipathy! Let the politicians know how unpopular they really are!
Never Mind the Ballots!
Instead of the current system of representative democracy we believe in Direct democracy which is based on equal participation. In order to be free & happy, we need to run our communities, our workplaces & our own lives. Anarchism is a way of organising society in which everyone has an equal say on how things are run.
Anarchism is about standing up for ourselves and resisting unfairness; it is about sharing resources so everyone has what they need and it’s about creating a more peaceful world where we are free from poverty, violence and war.
Anarchists believe there are alternatives to the current political system where a minority force their decisions on a majority and where a few people hold all the power and wealth.
We want accountable delegates rather than careerist politicians, shared ownership rather than private profit, human need rather than economic growth, & mutual aid rather than free trade.
Politicians say “vote for me!” We say VOTE NOBODY! and start organising for ourselves!
. . . about the Health Service
502 acute hospital beds - an entire Welsh hospital’s worth - are clogged up by bed-blocking. Ambulances are queuing outside hospitals unable to offload patients.
. . . about Our Children
The UK is the 4th-largest economy in the world but has one of the highest levels of child poverty of all industrialised countries. Recent figures show that 27% of children in Wales live in poverty!
. . . about Human Life
Welsh troops continue to fight and die in wars in the Middle East to protect US oil interests. Does Rhodri Morgan support these wars which have resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 Iraqis? He’s not saying! Nobody seriously opposed the war!
. . . about the Environment
Global warming is a proven fact. We need to reduce our consumption of oil and gas, not increase it! The development of a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in Milford Haven is absurd, and the building of a massive and very dangerous pipeline to ship the pressurised gas across Wales is madness! Locals fearing for their safety have had their questions ignored.
. . . about Our Jobs
Unemployment across Wales has been increasing for 10 consecutive months, in some places by up to 35%. Over 600 manufacturing jobs have been lost in mid-Wales since 2001. 300 jobs have gone at Burberry in the Rhondda, and more will go at the Corus Steelworks after the takeover by yet another multinational company.
. . . about Transport
The Roads are clogged with cars and lorries, and our privatised train and bus services are among the worst in Europe.
. . . about the Housing Crisis
According to Shelter Cymru, 53,000 people are trying to find decent accommodation from their local authorities. So what is the Assembly government doing about it? Encouraging councils to sell off and privatise council housing. The result? Less rights for tenants and fat salaries for housing association bosses.
VOTE NOBODY in the welsh assembly elections on 3rd May!
Politicians go on and on about apathy, but they’re missing the point.
We DO care about the NHS, education, and the other issues that affect our lives. The fact is we know that there is no real choice to be had.
Whoever we vote for, politicians and big business win!
History shows us that those in power of whatever party do nothing for the majority of people and everything for the rich. So why give the assembly yet another opportunity to treat us like fools?
This isn’t apathy it’s antipathy! Let the politicians know how unpopular they really are!
Never Mind the Ballots!
Instead of the current system of representative democracy we believe in Direct democracy which is based on equal participation. In order to be free & happy, we need to run our communities, our workplaces & our own lives. Anarchism is a way of organising society in which everyone has an equal say on how things are run.
Anarchism is about standing up for ourselves and resisting unfairness; it is about sharing resources so everyone has what they need and it’s about creating a more peaceful world where we are free from poverty, violence and war.
Anarchists believe there are alternatives to the current political system where a minority force their decisions on a majority and where a few people hold all the power and wealth.
We want accountable delegates rather than careerist politicians, shared ownership rather than private profit, human need rather than economic growth, & mutual aid rather than free trade.
Politicians say “vote for me!” We say VOTE NOBODY! and start organising for ourselves!
Nobody
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Comments
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PLAID CYMRU - with a circle around the A
05.04.2007 15:40
I consider myself an anarchist and I'm voting in this election. I don't expect Plaid Cymru or the SNP are better people than any other politicians, and if they get in power I will work against them. I do think this election is the most pragmatic way to consign the British state to the dustbin of history once and for all. I don't think England will keep it's damaging seat at the UN without the celtic countries, and I can't see England using it's own troops as cannon-fodder in foriegn wars of occupation. I'd also support any attempt to break England down into it's regions. Breaking the British state down into managable chunks seems to benefit anarchists more than anyone. The 'divide and conquer tactics' employed by the state also work against it. Once you have freed yourself, help free those around you.
orca
Resolving Votiing Problems.
05.04.2007 23:36
I well understand why they have metal detectors covering everyone who goes into the Welsh Assembly building. I assessed that a half trained assassin could take him out with a knife before the security guards could act when I saw him there, though he carried too many papers against his chest for a stab to the heart. Perhaps he knows how people think..
But with the MP for Ammanford trying to impeach Blair in Westminster, and L Woods activities in the Assembly there can be no other vote in Wales unless you have the privilege of having a scraming Lord Sutch candidate.
A Welsh Solicitor thanked Peter Hain for enabling him to vote for a Candidate he really believed in. Because Peter Hain came in a by election, Lord Sutch stood against him, and had that Solicitor's vote.
Ilyan
Plaid Capitalism - The Party of Capitalism
06.04.2007 15:28
You claim to be an anarchist yet you are voting for a party whose leader says that he would be prepared to be first minister in a coalition with the Tories!
While leading "left wingers" such as Adam Price say they would be prepared to be in a coaliton with New Labour!
Plaid supported the St. Athans Murder Academy, they welcomed the arrival of union-buster, Amazon to Wales, they are in no way on our side.
Alexander Cordell
negative voting
06.04.2007 16:42
No I'm not, reread the post. Alex Salmond never once said that he join in an alliance with the Tories. And if you think the Tories are a bigger threat to anarchism than the Labour party then it's you who needs to examine your principles.
Chomsky drew a lot of flak for asking people to vote against Bush. He wasn't asking for people to vote for the Democrats, just against Bush. That was a stolen election anyway, maybe this is too. I didn't vote in the last election, I don't think voting has much of an effect. I will be working in this one in a way designed to end the British state, and if you are going to call me a moron then you should say something smarter than playground insults to prove your point.
If I were in Wales I'd vote Plaid Cymrhu. Once they were in power in an independent Wales, I'd fiebomb their offices. Understand ?
orca
Vote or Act?
06.04.2007 23:21
And there are some who think that the Welsh are a gutless lot of cowards who do not deserve what they are not prepared to die for. It is not a reasonable charge.. Makarios had no more men under arms than there were Welshmen fighting in Spain against Franco.
And there are some who think Wales is too poor a Country. Bled white for centuries to fatten London. Now we have welsh people bleeding to thieve the resources of other countries to benefit those Sais who have thieved England and the USA, and build the Global Fascism that will enable those thieves to keep their ill gotten gains.
One day it might come out that the BNP was funded to provide a smokescreen as an anti-fascist distraction while the Labour Party was taken over by the Rich and got on with building Global Fascism. to dominate the World.
Meanwhile as Michael said in 1954 "Economics will force young Welsh to go to England to work, and cheap housing in Wales will draw the English into Wales, that will homogenise the British population." The Welsh are not being genocided by immigrants, they are being genocided by inmigrants who move out of England to get away from 'Pakis', go to work in Tesco, and pull faces .and make offensive comments when you say "Diolch yn Fawr".as you take the change. Thankyou very much!
Racially bigotted English people are flooding into Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire as part of a deliberate ploy to kill Wales dead.
Amddiffyn Ein Hunain did not get it right about BSE. Anyone know what they plan about new strain rust in wheat? Will they show sufficient Solidarity with the Mandans and the Apache to hit the USA with it soon enough?
George is so stupid he will not close down the Airlines. There is probably no reason for A. E. H, to get involved.
Amddiffyn Ein Hunain started experimenting with wheat rust when the EU decided that no field of wheat in Wales should have the subsidy available to the English and the Continentals. It might be some while before you laugh.
Ilyan
the inequality of states
07.04.2007 01:07
If your vote could end the British state, would you vote ?
I'm not Welsh, but I know the Welsh were the first to fall under the English empire, and at no small price. I know the Welsh have mangaed to resurrect thier language more than Ireland or Scotland. And they are proud to be poets and singers, which is a grand thing to be proud of.
And I'm not anti-English, I personally love the language and a fair few of their girls. I'd love to share a pint with one or two of their blokes. I am anti-British though. The word 'British' leaves a bad taste in my mouth. No such country imo and I'd wipe my arse on the Union Jack. I'm not keen on 'my flag' but my flag is black with a big A encircled. Once the nation I was born in is independent, it will be my enemy. Until then, its establishment is my best bet to end the tyranny of Westminster.
praying for revolution,
orca
1926 betrayal by TUC guaranteed Doom.
10.04.2007 22:33
How could anyone vote to end a State?
When a formal Socialism was brought to Wales in about1880 it was accompanied by Anti-Parliamentarianism. There was a full denial of most of what Socialism turned into in that. Plebs College have a CD containing a text which mentions that origin.
There is a Thesis at Greenwich U. titled "Anti-Parlaimetarian Passage: South Wales and the Internationalism of Sam mainwaring (1841-1907)" an email to
there is a CD to be extended to a DVD, and Plebs, college has some of the machinery to do that, but there ios a lot of OCR scanning to be done.
Ilyan
"Vote Nobody" poster for use nationwide
18.04.2007 01:26
Vote Nobody (poster preview)
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