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Election Poll

terratech | 15.04.2010 18:35 | Education | Other Press | Social Struggles

With the election frenzy of the media in the past week, just where do you stand?

Whichever TV channel you watch the media frenzy to capture your attention is unavoidable, so just where do you stand on the Big Election Question being asked?

Resources over at the Unemployment Movement website are being made available which are a unique opportunity for the Indymedia members to get involved to either vote on or if not satisfied with the question to submit a poll yourself (moderated just in case of spam).

Our newest Poll asks;

Which Party will best represent Benefits Claimants?

(Benefits claimants are faced with a tough choice, do any of the Parties here offer us the Respect & Dignity afforded to the workingman.)

VOTE HERE!

 http://unemploymentmovement.com/component/communitypolls/viewpoll/polls/2-which-party-will-best-represent-benefits-claimants.html

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not sure this is wise

15.04.2010 20:06

I totally agree with you about unemployed not being criminals / thick / stupid.... totally agree.

Just some thoughts.....not having a go....

But I notice you are long-term unemployed. I disagree with how you are going about you are trying to achieve a better livihood. The benefits is meant to be short-term - not long term. Focusing on trying to improve benefits is a short term solution to your prediciment.

I understand your point about bankers/politicians destroying jobs, but that doesn't mean theres no jobs out there. Millions of people are working in jobs, and millions of jobs are being advertised.
To blame external forces is the exact same attitude that smokers and obese people have. Blame it on something they can't control so they don't have to blame themselves.

Politicians and bankers are not going to give you jobs.... FACT.
You are the only person that can get yourself a job... FACT

I'd also look at self-employed options. You obviously got the skill to set up a dynamic based website (wordpress / joomla?). It wouldn't be a fair-fetched to get work setting up such sites for small-businesses. How? Well, plenty of small business have really, really bad websites. Perhaps approach them first. You'll probably have to start small to build up a confident portfolio, but thats what EVERYONE else has had to do in the industry too. My first work for some very small companies. Then i used that to show better smaller companies and so forth.

I've got a job now, but I still do freelance work. If I pushed harder I could get more.

Not rocket science. Just a pain in arse to get it moving.

charlie


an odd poll

15.04.2010 20:38

Wouldn't it be better to ask "Which party will best represent the unemployed?" rather than which will best represent benefit claiments ?

Your poll just seems to indicate that you want better benefits, rather than actually getting a job.

DAvid


More than about me

15.04.2010 20:54

Thanks Charlie no offence taken, however if you had looked a bit further (FAQ) you would see that its more than about me. The Unemployment movement is about encouraging those claiming benefits to come together, under no political banner with the objective of securing our most basic of rights especially when the unemployed are abused and discriminated against.

terratech


my vote

16.04.2010 22:30

is for the Tories.

Sorry, I can't afford to keep thousands of public sector workers in non-jobs and fantastic pensions while plenty of the working class suffer.

Pete


Ha, ha, ha. That was a joke wasn't it?

17.04.2010 14:54

-- Quote --
I can't afford to keep thousands of public sector workers in non-jobs and fantastic pensions while plenty of the working class suffer.
-- End Quote --

Because if the Tories get in they will sack those public sector workers (many of whom are working class), and give the money to the working classes that are suffering? They won't just give the money to the upper-middle and upper classes (as they've done every time they've been in power over the last 100 years), and watch as working class communities spiral further down?

I don't claim that a vote for Labour, Lib-dem or Green is a vote for the working classes. But a vote for the Tories is definitely a vote against the working class.

6 of 19


Torys

17.04.2010 18:54

Are the same cunts theyve allways been. They will talk about broken britain clamp down on the poor working class in shocking ways, be homaphobic (which wev already seen) give tax breaks to people who are maried and ignore the single people and single mothers and genrally be complete tosspots to everyone but the upper class

ateve scum


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