View Full Version : Who did you Vote - UK Elections 2005
Mr_Jailer
05-05-05, 08:32 PM
Its Election Day - Who did you vote?
Labour
Conservatives / Tories
Lib Dems
RESPECT
Green Party
Workers Party
Abstained
Inelligible to Vote
Not Saying
i went to hand in an empty ballot paper
i voted for no 1 cos either way, im gonna someone who i dont want to be in power, i think they all as bad as each other.
im sick of people telling me how many women died to get us women the vote, yeh im glad they did but u tell me, if those same womens brothers, sisters,children, had been raped, torured, killed ,would they be voting for those same candidates who are up for election?
i dont think so
(sorry jailer, hope im not hijacking your thread!)
Arsalan
06-05-05, 06:58 AM
i was going to vote green party... but went to polling station and saw no green part on ballot paper :(
iam just gutted.
i was going to vote green party... but went to polling station and saw no green part on ballot paper :(
iam just gutted.
lol
i think they shoulda won!
u should complain to them bro...
Mr_Jailer
06-05-05, 07:08 AM
Mornin' M_G,
Thanks for hijackin' the thread, u terrorist.
Hows ur mornin'... its a beautiful day, wakin' up to a glory trail of red... as I see it better Blair in charge than Michael Howard, even though I abstained.
Salma Yaqoub did really well for her Sparkbrook Constituancy with Respect gainin' second place - an increase of 27.5% votes.
But Labour did suffer and lose seats in numerous Constituencies.
i voted for no 1 cos either way, im gonna someone who i dont want to be in power, i think they all as bad as each other.
im sick of people telling me how many women died to get us women the vote, yeh im glad they did but u tell me, if those same womens brothers, sisters,children, had been raped, torured, killed ,would they be voting for those same candidates who are up for election?
i dont think so
(sorry jailer, hope im not hijacking your thread!)
Mr_Jailer
06-05-05, 07:14 AM
lol
i think they shoulda won!
u should complain to them bro...
What???? :rubeyes:
Didn't they use recycled paper?
Mornin' M_G,
Thanks for hijackin' the thread, u terrorist.
Hows ur mornin'... its a beautiful day, wakin' up to a glory trail of red... as I see it better Blair in charge than Michael Howard, even though I abstained.
Salma Yaqoub did really well for her Sparkbrook Constituancy with Respect gainin' second place - an increase of 27.5% votes.
But Labour did suffer and lose seats in numerous Constituencies.
sorry! i didnt mean to bro, jus that when i read the title of your thread, i started to get smoke coming outta my ears and i jus couldnt help myself.
You have my permission to hijack my next thread...
i kinda new Labour was gonna win ,i mean they didnt realy have any competition now did they?
Recycled paper? u will have to ask bro abdulmajid about that...
moshyman
06-05-05, 08:57 AM
Was no repect in my area so voted Lib Dems... but darn Labour woman won the seat anyway...
Hoping George Galloway drives Tony bLIAR nutz in parliament and stirs the place up every week...
Was no repect in my area so voted Lib Dems... but darn Labour woman won the seat anyway...
Hoping George Galloway drives Tony bLIAR nutz in parliament and stirs the place up every week...
inshallah, inshallah
Mr_Jailer
06-05-05, 09:31 AM
inshallah, inshallah
Should make PM's Questions extremely interestin' to watch... most the time they joke around n cuss each other anyways... Blair handles the cusses well.
Galloway wants Labour to sack Blair tomorrow hehe.
Chained_Water
06-05-05, 09:39 AM
I voted for Salma Yaqoob.. she came second 'cuz the anti-war/asian vote was split between Lib Dems and Respect :(
She was 3000 behind the Labour candidate who won with 13000
It would have been great to have a Muslimah in parliament debating the losers like Blunketts replacement and Blair ..and highlighting issues of concern to Muslims.. and I'm confident that as a practicing Muslimah she would take the Islamic line when it came into conflict with Respect.
Shame she lost. :(
Being a MP has a great wage packet attached to it people ;)
:nuts:
Umm Layth
06-05-05, 06:01 PM
I voted for Salma Yaqoob.. she came second 'cuz the anti-war/asian vote was split between Lib Dems and Respect :(
She was 3000 behind the Labour candidate who won with 13000
It would have been great to have a Muslimah in parliament debating the losers like Blunketts replacement and Blair ..and highlighting issues of concern to Muslims.. and I'm confident that as a practicing Muslimah she would take the Islamic line when it came into conflict with Respect.
Shame she lost. :(
What a shame .. she lost :D
Sis have u ever met Yaqoub?? If you know her like I do, she is as practising as the Pakistani politician Bhutto. But I respect Bhutto more since when I met her, I couldnt help noticing how politically sharp she is and not to mention a woman with sense of style and dignity, however low and deep she is in the world of dirty politics of man made laws. Whereas our Yaqoub, from several meetings with her doesnt know ABC of politics, actually believes staunchly in her party policies -which no doubt stem from communism dubbed social liberalism. Bound by her party policies, that is her identity and not Islam, since it were her party policies which did not allow her to attend some important Islamic meetings regarding the anti-terror bill...also she declined to support the Muslims. I have all the proofs, if anyone requires -not that it matter anymore since she lost. Wallahu Kayrul Makireen.
Oh and not to mention that hijaab - things these politicians would do for votes? Did you see pictures of khan in the Gurdawara?,,..lol. Perhaps you were not there at the STWC march, where she hugged and kissed Galloway. And at the bham meeting I couldnt help noticing her hijaab which was way OFF the mark..lol. Ms Bhutto has some hayaa as she keeps lifting her Dapta up.. but Ms yaqoub as shameless as her peer Galloway.
Now this guy Galloway somehow attracts Muslim women, his wife happends to be a Muslim who has finally seen sense and lodged for divorce. May Allah forgive her for the life of zinaa she lived whilst 'married' to him, and I hope she is free from this sin soon.
Western system is dirty, if anyone believes participating in it as candidate, MP, or parliament is getting political.. then I suggest they should read some political journals.
This takes me on to Tony Benn, the man himself...the socialist agnostic who has been a total inspiration to the likes of Yaqoub (as she proudly admitts) said after his years of government participation, when he finally resigned he said, 'I have now entered POLITICS'.
Truely politics is to look after the affairs of the people by holding those incharge accountable. This is what Yaqoub failed to understand about politics, since I have never seen her in any Muslim community gatherings, conferences, talks or any other Islamic event in and around bham. Perhaps her party policies over ride this, since the leader of the party believes and considers Islamic Shariah violation of human rights. The only time she decides to like in the central mosque, her co-speaker is always a kaffir from her socialist respect party, she takes full responsibility of bringing such filth in to the house of Allah (swt).. May Allah guide her.
As for representing Muslims.. Galloway himself has parlimant attendence rate of 3%, I dont believe she could do any better.
I hope and pray both these women Bhutto and Yaqoub see sense by liberating themselves from man made policies into sumbission to the policies of Shariah and become flag barers of Islam as oppose to their illigitimate political parties. Ameen
i didnt highjack did I ? :outta:
I thought Galloway's wife was an Iraqi Christian
Umm Layth
06-05-05, 06:28 PM
I thought Galloway's wife was an Iraqi Christian
Nope .. a Palestinian Muslim unfortuntly. :(
The Sunday Times - Britain
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May 01, 2005
Galloway’s wife seeks divorce on election eve
Nick Fielding
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GEORGE GALLOWAY, the controversial leader of the Respect party, is facing a damaging divorce action on the eve of the election.
His Palestinian-born wife questions how he can call the party Respect when she claims he has been disrespectful to her by having a series of friendships with other women.
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Amineh Abu-Zayyad has told The Sunday Times she can no longer tolerate his behaviour and will be contacting solicitors this week.
She says she has received a number of phone calls from women who claim to have had romantic links with him. She adds that Galloway has tried to smooth things over by telling her it is a plot by an unnamed intelligence service to discredit him.
The threatened divorce action will be a blow to Galloway, who is standing for election in Bethnal Green and Bow, east London. He is trying to attract the substantial Muslim vote in the constituency to displace the sitting Labour MP, Oona King.
Divorce still has a social stigma in the Muslim world where a man can technically divorce his wife by saying he is divorcing her three times. But it is still unusual for a Muslim woman to divorce her husband.
Speaking from their home in Streatham, south London, Galloway’s wife, a Muslim, said: “I should tell you that when he told me his new party was going to be called Respect, I went upstairs and cried. How can he call it this when he doesn’t even treat his own wife with respect?”
Zayyad, a 39-year-old scientist, married Galloway five years ago. They had met at a political meeting in Glasgow in 1991. “He was my hero,” she says. “He did such a lot for the Palestinians.”
Zayyad said she became increasingly suspicious of her husband: “I had started hearing rumours about one woman from several sources so I called her and told her the rumours were hurting me. She told me she would hang up and call me back.
“When she called me back she said George had told her he was divorcing me in order to marry her. She was 22 and told me that she would never marry a man who was her father’s age.”
She claims she also received a number of phone calls from people telling her she should be concerned.
One incident allegedly occurred in February this year when Zayyad was in Jordan and she claims to have received a call at her mother’s house from a woman who knew Galloway in London.
Zayyad said: “She was very stressed, crying. She said she wanted to apologise for all the pain she had caused over the previous two years . . . She asked me to forgive her. I was so upset, almost broken. I collapsed to the floor.
“An hour later George called and asked me what ‘this crazy woman’ had said to me. George told me that she had asked him to marry her, but that he had refused and this was her revenge.”
She said he later suggested she should go to Beirut and not return to Britain until after the election. “George said it was the intelligence services, his enemies, that were trying to get at me.”
Umm Layth
06-05-05, 06:29 PM
Nope, a Palestinian 'Muslim' regretfully.
Messed up .. or what?
The Sunday Times - Britain
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May 01, 2005
Galloway’s wife seeks divorce on election eve
Nick Fielding
aoladp://MA11219875-0003/image003.gif
GEORGE GALLOWAY, the controversial leader of the Respect party, is facing a damaging divorce action on the eve of the election.
His Palestinian-born wife questions how he can call the party Respect when she claims he has been disrespectful to her by having a series of friendships with other women.
NI_MPU('middle');
Amineh Abu-Zayyad has told The Sunday Times she can no longer tolerate his behaviour and will be contacting solicitors this week.
She says she has received a number of phone calls from women who claim to have had romantic links with him. She adds that Galloway has tried to smooth things over by telling her it is a plot by an unnamed intelligence service to discredit him.
The threatened divorce action will be a blow to Galloway, who is standing for election in Bethnal Green and Bow, east London. He is trying to attract the substantial Muslim vote in the constituency to displace the sitting Labour MP, Oona King.
Divorce still has a social stigma in the Muslim world where a man can technically divorce his wife by saying he is divorcing her three times. But it is still unusual for a Muslim woman to divorce her husband.
Speaking from their home in Streatham, south London, Galloway’s wife, a Muslim, said: “I should tell you that when he told me his new party was going to be called Respect, I went upstairs and cried. How can he call it this when he doesn’t even treat his own wife with respect?”
Zayyad, a 39-year-old scientist, married Galloway five years ago. They had met at a political meeting in Glasgow in 1991. “He was my hero,” she says. “He did such a lot for the Palestinians.”
Zayyad said she became increasingly suspicious of her husband: “I had started hearing rumours about one woman from several sources so I called her and told her the rumours were hurting me. She told me she would hang up and call me back.
“When she called me back she said George had told her he was divorcing me in order to marry her. She was 22 and told me that she would never marry a man who was her father’s age.”
She claims she also received a number of phone calls from people telling her she should be concerned.
One incident allegedly occurred in February this year when Zayyad was in Jordan and she claims to have received a call at her mother’s house from a woman who knew Galloway in London.
Zayyad said: “She was very stressed, crying. She said she wanted to apologise for all the pain she had caused over the previous two years . . . She asked me to forgive her. I was so upset, almost broken. I collapsed to the floor.
“An hour later George called and asked me what ‘this crazy woman’ had said to me. George told me that she had asked him to marry her, but that he had refused and this was her revenge.”
She said he later suggested she should go to Beirut and not return to Britain until after the election. “George said it was the intelligence services, his enemies, that were trying to get at me.”
brad_uk
07-05-05, 08:34 AM
With the currently situation, You honestly think YOUR vote would make any change in the current system?
Mystique
07-05-05, 01:58 PM
Couldn't vote but if i could i'd have voted LIB DEMS
Umm Layth
07-05-05, 02:33 PM
Couldn't vote but if i could i'd have voted LIB DEMS
As if they dont have the blood of Muslims on their hands.
Didnt bother voting had better things to do. Like Sleep
Umm Layth
07-05-05, 02:44 PM
Didnt bother voting had better things to do. Like Sleep
:up:
lib dems, free checkups and no tuition fees.
knew they wouldnt get in, but rather vote then not.
they won in my area anyway.
MalikOne™
08-05-05, 12:33 AM
Mr jailer u forgot to put the BNP on the polls ;)
Salman Al-Farsi
08-05-05, 12:45 AM
i voted for no 1 cos either way, im gonna someone who i dont want to be in power, i think they all as bad as each other.
im sick of people telling me how many women died to get us women the vote, yeh im glad they did but u tell me, if those same womens brothers, sisters,children, had been raped, torured, killed ,would they be voting for those same candidates who are up for election?
i dont think so
(sorry jailer, hope im not hijacking your thread!)
MashaAllah Sis.. refreshing to know people think about their actions and how they can effect our brothers and sisters, however little.
:up:
Arsalan
08-05-05, 12:59 AM
i have a problem everytime elections come round..
i get alot of ridicule in my house for not voting labour . and alot of harsh words....lol. Does my head in so bad.
so i usually walk to the polling station late in the evening, and give in a form full of crosses.. because the green party are not putting candiadates in my area :(
Salman Al-Farsi
08-05-05, 01:05 AM
i have a problem everytime elections come round..
i get alot of ridicule in my house for not voting labour . and alot of harsh words....lol. Does my head in so bad.
so i usually walk to the polling station late in the evening, and give in a form full of crosses.. because the green party are not putting candiadates in my area :(
alhamdulilah, no one in my family votes. This time around my mom just tagged along with the other aunties and voted, but she doesnt know who she voted for.. aww bless her.
Arsalan
08-05-05, 01:16 AM
alhamdulilah, no one in my family votes. This time around my mom just tagged along with the other aunties and voted, but she doesnt know who she voted for.. aww bless her.
aww :)
muslims need to realise that instead of fretting of their poltical parties, they can do alot of community work or dawah etc.. that will make a bigger difference on their prospects in this world and the next!! :up:
aww :)
muslims need to realise that instead of fretting of their poltical parties, they can do alot of community work or dawah etc.. that will make a bigger difference on their prospects in this world and the next!! :up:
i agree bro abdulmajid, community wrk and duas to allah (swt) is what is gonna our brothers and sisters who are suffering evrywhere, not these so called politicians.
May allah(swt) ease the suffering of our brothers and sistersand have mercy on them, allah(swt) knows best.Ameen.
MashaAllah Sis.. refreshing to know people think about their actions and how they can effect our brothers and sisters, however little.
:up:
worth a rep point ya think?......:rolleyes:
Amatullah
08-05-05, 10:37 AM
alhamdulilah, no one in my family votes. This time around my mom just tagged along with the other aunties and voted, but she doesnt know who she voted for.. aww bless her.
aww...
my dad always goes on about voting and how we HAVE to (even though the previous friday he came back from jummah with 100's of leaflets on NOT voting :rolleyes: ) and really thinks his vote counts and he's doing something good....but now we've decided to allow the arguments and just let him vote (although my mum almost threw away the ballot papers... ;) )
even though i didn't vote...i'm happy that the lib dems won in my area...our mp's really nice ...and labour were using tactical mp's by putting a muslim women candidate in our area...but it backfired...oh well
dhakiyya
08-05-05, 05:28 PM
i have a problem everytime elections come round..
i get alot of ridicule in my house for not voting labour . and alot of harsh words....lol. Does my head in so bad.
so i usually walk to the polling station late in the evening, and give in a form full of crosses.. because the green party are not putting candiadates in my area :(
I voted green in the council election..... I wrote "none of these represent me" on my general election ballot...... I considered returning a blank ballot, but I don't think they'd understand this..... I can just envisiage some little old lady at the count saying "oooooh, dearie, you forgot to put a cross on your ballot!"
dhakiyya
08-05-05, 05:29 PM
even though i didn't vote...i'm happy that the lib dems won in my area...our mp's really nice ...and labour were using tactical mp's by putting a muslim women candidate in our area...but it backfired...oh well
if you can recognise that one candidate is clearly better than another, why didn't you vote?
Question for everyone: if you have an independent (i.e. not from any party) candidate who is a Muslim and who's manifesto is to promote Islamic values and will vote the Muslim way (e.g. pro Palestine, anti legalising cannabis) on all parliamentary issues would you vote for them?
Salman Al-Farsi
08-05-05, 07:42 PM
if you can recognise that one candidate is clearly better than another, why didn't you vote?
Question for everyone: if you have an independent (i.e. not from any party) candidate who is a Muslim and who's manifesto is to promote Islamic values and will vote the Muslim way (e.g. pro Palestine, anti legalising cannabis) on all parliamentary issues would you vote for them?
Very unlikely. :)
Such person would probably be portrayed as a Terrorist or exteremist and no one would vote for him... if he doesnt play his cards right most likely end up in cuba. :p
dhakiyya
08-05-05, 08:28 PM
yeah, but I think it would solve many of the issues with having to toe the party line. (problems with cannabis, gay marriages etc) Personally I think it would be much better of Muslims to stand as independents, not as a member of any party.
The press slate any candidate with a chance of winning that does not support capitalism, it's one of the problems with the system... the capitalists control the media through advertising, the media slate anti-capitalist candidates. However there are enough anti-capitalists and Muslims (Allah slammed usury before capitalism was even a word) to get candidates in, so long as we can make sure those people don't believe the lies from the capitalist media.
And the lies of the capitalist media go so much deeper than that (look at how they portray the Israel/Palestine conflict for just one little but very telling example!) it would be essential to get Muslims to wise up to them whether anyone ever stands as a candidate for election or not. There's not one decent national daily paper, the BBC is as good as it gets and they leave a lot to be desired!! (but at least they don't rely on advertising so they are not so bad as some)
brad_uk
11-05-05, 10:08 PM
Being a MP has a great wage packet attached to it people ;)
:nuts:
and?
Niqaabi
17-05-05, 10:00 PM
:salams
did see this thread!
Anyways i wasnt able to vote because im underage @).
If i had the chance, i would have created my own box and put my name on it! @)
IMO, if you vote for one, your voting for them all.
im thinking of running for the next election, think i have a chance? :hidban:
Mary Carol
18-05-05, 01:54 AM
I would have voted if I'd lived in the UK, just as I have voted in every election here in the US, local, State, and Presidential since I was of age to vote.
It takes more than just voting though to get what you want from a government, it also takes a willingness to keep track of what the candidates accomplish after they get in office. You must be willing to keep your voices heard via letters, emails, participation in community activities, and by using the media to your advantage.
Of course, it is easier to not vote, not take part, not make an effort, not let your voice be heard.
Easier, but a real dead end.
Ankaboot
05-06-05, 07:09 AM
I would have voted if I'd lived in the UK, just as I have voted in every election here in the US, local, State, and Presidential since I was of age to vote.And I've never voted in my life (apart from on Ummah polls)..
Easier, but a real dead endI don't feel trapped..
I couldn't vote because I am too young, but I would have voted Labour if I could vote.
salam i stil don av da vote bt i was out on da electon day leafleting 4respect because i believe respect is a good party dat can make a difference!!!!!!! if al da muslims workd togetha mayb we cud of gt salma yaqoob into parliment n gt our voices heard (da muslims) roger gt 1000 votes more dan salma bt if only ppl voted respect salma cud of had her place n gt da muslims to be heard!!!!!!!!
Irfan GBH
13-08-05, 04:16 AM
I went for Lib Dems myself.
I don't see a problem in voting, considering if I don't vote then people we don't want around will gain mor power (BNP, Labour, Conservative...). Ofcourse this is not to say democracy is a good system, but still, better to vote and stop blair gaining power...
slaveofalmajeed
14-11-05, 09:00 PM
didnt vote as i am unsure if it is halaal or not
Ummati Al Islam
14-11-05, 09:13 PM
There are some who say the Shari'ah renders voting as shirk. One of the reaons that come to mind is the Ayah in the Qur'an where Allah says: "The rule is for none but Allah."
stephenoskie
16-03-07, 01:52 PM
i dont know
because they ALL dont fulfill their susposed duites
voting is from the taghut, it has nothing to do with Islam.
i sat at home on election day and sent a message to all the political parties by dressing up like a clown. that'll learn em.
Don't remind me of the 2005 elections. I thought that would be able to vote because I would turn 18 by then, but I turned 18 a week after the elections. My mother voted Lib Dem and my father Labour (which annoyed me). I woulda voted for the Lib Dems myself.
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