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for commercial breeders in Southern Australia World class science creating first class beef Acknowledgements Written and edited by Bob Gaden with grateful acknowledgement to NSW Department of Primary Industries Beef Advisers Brian Cumming, Steve Exton, Jeff House, John Irwin and Greg Meaker. The Beef CRC was established with a Commonwealth grant in 1993 with four core parties – CSIRO, NSW Agriculture, Queensland DPI and the University of New England. They had a seven-year charter to develop strategies to capitalise on the potential for producing higher quality beef. The program was renewed in 1999 to continue the research and continue fine tuning and implementation. A new seven year program began in 2005 with a wider range of participants, to develop and implement new genetic technologies for the benefit of the beef industry. 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This leaflet outlines the have the best balance between breeding ones that you will find most useful. and growing stock? How well does this system handle drought? Apart from these, there are many factors that help determine the profitability of your • Age and weight of turnoff – am I adding herd. To maximize profit it is important to the most value to my progeny by making get the basics right first - having healthy best use of the growing season and cattle, adapted to their environment and suiting market demand? producing marketable progeny. • Market suitability – Do my turnoff stock Ask yourself these basic questions: match buyer requirements for breed, age and weight and time of year? What • Breeds – is my breed or breeds the best other markets are available or likely to adapted to low cost breeding, growth become available? and market suitability my environment? Many of the suggested actions in this • Breeding system – could I be more leaflet will then add to your profit and set productive with a crossbreeding or the direction for on-going improvement in composite system that combines higher the future. female productivity with higher turnoff rates and market suitability? CRC began with a huge program of testing • MARBLING is moderately heritable and the progeny of selected sires in seven varies between breeds. For marbling mainstream breeds, and a crossbreeding markets, choose suitable breeds and experiment. An overlay of experiments in select sires using EBVs and gene nutrition and others in animal behaviour markers. and meat processing helped define exactly • TEMPERAMENT has a moderately what determines the carcase and meat heritability but is hard to select for quality characteristics. because seedstock breeders usually give CRC Findings and principles: fractious bulls extra handling to quieten them. Culling females doesn't work • BREEDPLAN EBVs work – and with CRC either in the long term. research, they predict the performance (a) The best approach is to measure of progeny with more accuracy. temperament in all animals (flight time, • BREEDPLAN has new carcase traits – fat crush score or yard test) and use the data depth, eye-muscle area, retail beef yield to produce EBVs. and marbling. (b) EBVs are especially good for selecting AI sires. • SCANNING produces good EBVs for carcase traits and is much cheaper and • FLIGHT TIME in tropical breeds is more practical than testing the carcases genetically correlated to tenderness. of steer progeny. These breeds can use flight time measurements on young stock to • The same EBVs can be used for grass produce EBVs for tenderness. (First of or grain production systems and for these EBVs due in 2007). domestic and export markets. • NET FEED INTAKE (NFI) is a moderately • EBVs are calculated for all traits, but heritable measure of feed efficiency and they are more accurate if all traits are EBVs are now available in some British measured in all animals. breeds. • TENDERNESS: (a) The level of blood protein IGF-1 is correlated to NFI and is easier to measure, (a) has a low heritability in British and so it is used to help calculate EBVs. European breed types – concentrate on factors other than genetics to improve (b) The correlation with IGF-1 may not be tenderness. as strong in tropical breeds and this is being studied further. (b) has a moderate heritability in tropical breed types – there is potential to use (c) Testing for NFI must be done in each genetic techniques to improve it – use breed to ensure the same genetic gene markers and EBVs calculated from principles apply, and enable calculation of EBVs. flight time. (d) EBVs from actual testing are more (c) In the next few years it is expected that accurate and will always be needed. hundreds of genes and gene markers will become available to improve the (e) CRC is developing gene marker tests for accuracy of genetic analyses. NFI and in future this will make selection easier and more accurate. What to do • BREEDPLAN EBVs are not comparable • Select the appropriate breed(s) and across breeds, but eventually all breeds breeding system to suit your property will move to a common base. As a step and markets. towards this, research has produced a set of adjustment factors for some traits • Get to know BREEDPLAN and use it with in some breeds. confidence to select sires for growth and carcase traits. • GENE MARKERS for marbling and • If you are aiming at markets requiring tenderness represent the beginning of a marbling, use gene marker information new era of gene discovery. as well as EBVs to help choose bulls. (a) Gene markers are useful for improving marbling and, in tropical breeds, for • Encourage bull breeders to measure all improving tenderness. traits rather than rely on BREEDPLAN to predict them, to increase the accuracy of (b) In future, BREEDPLAN will add EBVs. knowledge about GENE MARKERS to • Encourage seedstock producers and improve the accuracy of EBVs. This their breed organizations to measure will be known as "marker-assisted and produce EBVs for temperament . selection" (docility). Growth to weaning A series of experiments has examined the • Calves restricted for 4 months at weaning effects of normal and restricted growth (200kg, 9 months) will only partly before birth (during pregnancy), from birth compensate when returned to good to weaning, around weaning time and in feed – their growth potential is reduced. the growout (backgrounding) period before • Eating quality of meat is virtually entering finishing on grass or grain. Studies unaffected by a period of growth have included the effects on subsequent growth and compensatory gain, and the restriction, except for a slight reduction ultimate effects on carcase and meat due to increased age at slaughter. quality. What to do CRC findings and principles: • Ensure cows are adequately fed during • Overall, cattle can tolerate quite a wide pregnancy, to ensure cow fertility and range in nutrition in early life without future growth potential of the calf. serous adverse effects on meat quality, but severe restriction can reduce their • Ensure cows and calves are adequately future growth potential. fed so calves grow at a minimum of 0.6kg/day (to reach a minimum of 140kg • Cows restricted during pregnancy will at 6months, 180kg at 9months). give birth to lighter calves that have reduced ability to grow during pre- • If weaning calves early, make sure they weaning, backgrounding and finishing. continue to gain at least 0.6kg/day to (a) Cows calving 100kg lighter would have preserve their future growth potential. calves weighing about 5kg lighter. This may require specialized feed supplements. (b) A 10kg reduction in birth weight flows on to become 30kg at weaning, 40kg at • Set market targets for growing stock and yearling and 55kg at finishing. manage their growth to achieve targets and maximize pasture utilization. • Calves restricted in early life, between birth and weaning, will only partly catch • If supplements are needed, make sure up when returned to good feed. they complement the available feed and are cost effective and practical. • Early weaning requires quality feed or supplements for the calves. They • Manage weaners to achieve target must gain at least 0.6kg/day to achieve weights for feedlot entry/finishing before adequate growth and meat quality later. reaching market limits for dentition/age. • For maximum marbling, aim for an uninterrupted growth rate of around 0.8kg/day from weaning to feedlot entry. • If backgrounding growth is slower than about 0.7kg/day, they will show faster, more profitable compensatory growth in the feedlot. See if you can get paid for this. • Beware of buying weaner or yearling cattle that have had an early growth check as their potential for growth may be reduced and they may reach market limits for age (dentition) before they reach weight targets. At Weaning Weaning is a critical time for calves. (c) Essential requirements are to confine Continuing satisfactory growth is important weaners in strong, well-drained yards to retain their potential for growth during (not small paddocks) at high density (4 backgrounding and finishing. It is also a sq m per beast) for 5-7 days on good hay/ key time for learning experiences that will silage and good quality water, preferably help them adapt to production systems in troughs. that take them toward a domestic or export (d) Replacement females will become markets. These experiences will affect their quieter and are trained for feeding and future growth, health, meat quality and yarding. profitability. • TEMPERAMENT is related to feedlot CRC findings and principles: performance and meat quality, not to • Earlier weaning allows more efficient use mention safety to you and your staff or of pasture. Cows can recover quicker and family. can do so on lower quality feed, so your (a) To achieve on-going improvement in best feed can be targeted to weaners. temperament, you must use genetically • You can wean after the youngest calf docile bulls. Culling temperamental is 100days old, and the lightest calf females doesn't fix the problem. is 100kg. HIGH QUALITY PASTURE (b) Bull breeders can hide the genetics of OR SUPPLEMENTS will be needed, to poor temperament by giving fractious ensure they gain at least 0.6kg/day after bulls extra handling – but they will still weaning. breed fractious progeny. • Weaning is an ideal time to carry out (c) EBVs for temperament identify the quiet HEALTH TREATMENTS according to local genetics – use EBVs, or encourage your recommendations. breed to introduce EBVs for temperament • DEHORNING should be done by weaning (docility). at the latest, or preferably earlier (2-3 (d) Weaning is a good time to address months). Better still, use a polled bull. temperament. Measure flight time, crush • YARD WEANING is a simple practice score or yard test. that improves the performance of cattle when they enter a feedlot later in life: What to do (a) Disease in feedlots is strongly related to • In southern Australia, WEAN EARLIER (5-6 poor immunity resulting from high levels months) rather than later. This maximizes of stress. cow fertility and lets you target the best pasture to the weaners. (b) Yard weaning is a learning experience that reduces stress when they later enter • Wean down to 100 days of age or 100kg a feedlot. liveweight for maximum feed efficiency but it is critical feed the weaners a high quality diet to ensure growth of 0.6kg/ day. • Yard wean by confining calves for 5-7 days at 4sq m per head on good quality hay/silage and water. • Be particular about health – drench, and if necessary, use fly control to reduce pink-eye. • Dehorn well before weaning if possible. • Measure temperament on all calves. Cull any with unacceptable temperament. Growing Out and Backgrounding The period of growing out after weaning What to do and before entering a grass or grain finishing system is known as backgrounding. • Define target markets (e.g. feedlot entry The CRC has identified significant effects or slaughter specifications). of backgrounding growth on feedlot • Set target growth rates and manage feed performance and meat quality. It is also quality/quantity to achieve them. a time when cattle can be given special vaccines to prepare them for optimum • Develop a relationship with your feedlot performance. markets - seek feedback on growth and CRC findings and principles: compliance to key carcase specifications • Adequate growth is required to meet (yield, fatness, marbling). feedlot entry weight before reaching • Understand the differences between market limits for age (dentition). breeds with respect to growth, carcase • Faster growth during backgrounding yield and marbling, and market results in earlier feedlot entry, fatter preferences, so you can target the right carcases, slower feedlot growth and markets. maximum marbling. • If the cattle are not yard-weaned or their • Slower growth during backgrounding results in faster, more efficient finishing history is unknown, give them a "yard growth, leaner, yielding carcases but not weaning" experience for 5-7 days. as much marbling. • Discuss the use of vaccines and other • Vaccines against respiratory pre-feedlot health treatments with your disease (Bovilis-MH ™) given during feedlot buyer. backgrounding will reduce sickness and improve performance in the feedlot. • Consider retaining ownership (custom feeding) if your stock are above average • If cattle are not yard weaned, an performers. equivalent experience early during backgrounding is better than nothing. Pasture Management Beef output per hectare is a key profit • It is more efficient to maintain a high driver for commercial beef producers. In stocking rate by using supplementary both breeding and growing enterprises, feeding to fill short term feed gaps, producers can accept lower performance compared to reducing cow numbers. per head to achieve higher stocking rate • Feed supplements are best if they and total beef output. complement the available feed by The Beef CRC has focused mainly on meat supplying missing nutrients, rather than quality rather than grazing management in replace available feed. its research so far, but has helped define the • Cost of the limiting nutrients and effects of different growth rates in the early practicality for feeding out are important life of steers on achieving market targets. considerations when choosing feed supplements. Principles: • Pasture growth follows a seasonal What to do: pattern. Cattle production is most • Maintain a restricted joining/calving efficient if animal requirements peak period and calve when it best fits when feed is most plentiful and vice- seasonal pasture growth. versa. • Wean calves early and ensure they • Cows generally eat a lot more than receive priority pasture or suitable high weaners but can utilize lower quality quality supplements to achieve growth feed. targets. • After weaning, cows are very efficient at • Manage the nutrition of cows and feed using lower quality feed. them if necessary to ensure fertility. • Cow fertility declines if cows slip too low • Buy feed supplements according to their in body condition. suitability, cost and practicality. Future Research and Information Delivery in CRCIII The new CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies improving carcase and meat quality will run from 2005 until 2012. It is developing traits and feed efficiency. and implementing new tools to help produce • Improving tick resistance and defining high quality beef products efficiently and animal welfare. keep our industry competitive. • Genetic improvement of fertility in the Using these tools we will be able to identify northern environment. and breed animals with better carcase traits • A major program with supply chains and such as yield of saleable meat, tenderness producer groups, working to achieve and marbling, while at the same time faster adoption of new technologies. improving the basic herd productivity traits such as fertility, adaptation, parasite Progress is already impressive, and if resistance and temperament. research targets are met and the industry adopts the findings, benefits are estimated Programs under way include: to be worth an additional $179m per year to the Australian beef industry. • Genetic and other technologies for improving beef yield and quality in To take advantage of the opportunities, commercial supply chains. breeders will need to stay in touch with changing markets, keep an open mind and • Genetic studies linking maternal be prepared to modify some traditional efficiency in the breeding herd with practices. 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"Fred Byus, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and formerly a group vice president at Battelle, has been appointed general manager of the nonprofit science and technology organization's maritime systems unit."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Jan. 14, 2014)—Fred Byus, a U.S. Navy retired Rear Admiral, has been named General Manager of Battelle's Maritime Systems business unit.
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Marc Kloker has been appointed as the Region 6 information and education program manager for Montana of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. He will be based out of Glasgow, and replaces Ron Selden, who passed away unexpectedly in August.
Kloker, 37, a longtime Valley County resident, comes to FWP from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, where he worked as a land use specialist in Glasgow.
He graduated from Nashua High School and obtained college degrees in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana and Secondary Science Education from Dickinson State University.
For 10 years, Kloker taught science education in Nashua and Culbertson. During the summers he was a wild land firefighter and range technician with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at CMR in Fort Peck.
As the new information and education program manager, Kloker will be involved in several areas of public outreach and information, including news release distributions, social media updates, setting up public meetings, and administering the Citizens Advisory Council meetings for Region 6.
"I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to reach out to the public about all the great things that are taking place here," Kloker said. "We have hardworking wardens, biologists, technicians, office staff and volunteers that help make Region 6 one of the best areas in the state for outdoor recreation."
Kloker will also be involved in youth and adult education and is the Region 6 contact for the Hunter and Bowhunter Education programs. He is also a volunteer instructor.
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"I'm particularly excited about the educational aspects of the job," Kloker said. "Coming from an education background, I'm eager to use my teaching skills to share my love and respect for hunting, fishing, nongame wildlife, and all other types of recreation we have in this region, which I hope can lead to developing positive relationships with the state's fish, wildlife and parks now and into the future."
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The Poplar Middle School Wrestling season ended with another successful season. The Indians started the season with 23 wrestlers, including three females, and ended the season with 18 wrestlers.
Eighth-graders Tyson Sutherland and Caleb Klinger were team leaders and did exceptionally well. Sutherland finished the season with three losses. The other team leader was seventh-grader Hunter Reum, who finished the season with two losses.
The squad improved throughout the year.
Other wrestlers were: seventh-graders Aaron Ayers, Daunte Azure, Smiley Gibbs, Dusette Grandchamp, Myles Grant, Damian Mathison, Trey Pribbernow, Kalen Smith, William Turcotte, sixth-graders Catherine Martin, Tyler Pribbernow, Anna Two Bulls, fifth-graders Jacob Berger, Jase Frederick and Payton Klinger.
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This basketball season has ended for the Poplar eighth-grade girls with a successful season as for fundamentals, but goals were not reached. Every game was important for the eighth-graders, who have been through so much as Lady Indians at the junior high level. Last weekend was their last game. Despite the season ending without a win, the girls got along and worked well with each other. Pictured are (front row, from left to right) Nancy Hagadone, E'leena Sherman, Mia Frederick, Andrea Hale, Labrea Boadle, Kallie Escarcega, Myah Young, (back row) Deah Blackdog, Mercedee Dionne, Reese Belton, LilyAnn Taflan, Aiesha Smith and Rachel Diaz-Deleon. (Submitted photo)
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The first picture is the participants in the Wolf Point Elks Lodge No. 1764 Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Contest on Saturday, Dec. 20, who placed for their ages and gender. They were: (front row, from left to right) Gracie Ferdina, fourth, girls ages 10-11; Jaxon Azure, first, boys, 10-11; Keein Ackerman, third, boys, 10-11; Christian Solberg, second, boys, 10-11; Brent Weston, second, boys, 8-9; Brian Weston, first, boys, 8-9; (back row) Tiara Whitmus, first, girls, 12-13; Micah Solberg, first, boys, 12-13; Sage Hutchinson, second, boys, 12-13; Mikaya Smoker-DeWitt, first girls, 10-11; Lu'Lani Miller, third, girls, 10-11; Jodi Houg, second, girls, 12-13; and Jaylee Azure, second, girls, 10-11. Not pictured is Emily Kinzie, who finished third in the girls, 12-13. In the second picture, Frontier Elementary School sixth-grader Jodi Houg takes one of 25 shots. She finished in second place in the girls ages 12 and 13 competition.
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The road to the Elks Hoop Shoot National Finals in Springfield, Mass., started in the Wolf Point High School gym, Saturday, Dec. 20, for five future Wolf Point Wolves and Frazer Bearcubs who were winners in their gender and age groups at the annual Wolf Point Elks Lodge No. 1764 Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Contest.
Eight- through 13-year-old boys and girls from Frazer School, Frontier Elementary School, Northside School, Southside School and Wolf Point Junior High School garnered first, second and third place as they showed off their free-throw shooting skills.
Acing the Wolf Point competition were the following first- through third-placers: boys, 8-9 years old, Brian Weston Jr., first, Brent Weston, second; girls, 10-11, Mikaya Smoker-Dewitt, first, Jaylee Azure, second, Lu'Lani Miller, third; boys, 10-11, Jaxon Azure, first, Christian Solberg, second, Keein Ackerman, third; boys, 12-13, Micah Solberg, first, Sage Hutchinson, second; girls, 12-13, Liana Whitmus, first, Jodi Houg, second, Emily Kinzie, third.
There were no girls competing in the ages 8 and 9 category.
Winners received medals.
The top placers advance to the Montana East District Contest at Sidney High School, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. If first place finishers cannot attend, the second place finisher will be invited to represent Wolf Point. From the district contest, ace free-throw shooters advance to the state contest at Sleeping Giant Middle School in Livingston, Feb. 7, 2015, where they can earn bragging rights as the best in Montana for their age and gender. The next step for top state placers is the Northwest Central Region 2 Hoop Shoot Semi-Final in Rapid City, S.D., March 14, 2015, for the winners from Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Regional winners advance to the Hoop Shoot National Finals in Springfield, Mass., April 16-19, 2015, for a chance to win cash prizes and scholarships. The names of national winners are permanently inscribed at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield.
Montana has produced several national champions including Bailey Finn of Livingston, last year's girls ages 8-9 champion; and Matt McCoy of Plentywood, 2001-2002 boys ages 8-9 champion.
The Elks National Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Program and Contest is funded by the Elks National Foundation, which offers youth the opportunity to engage in healthy competition. The Hoop Shoot program has continued every year since the 1960s.
More than 1.5 million youth participated in the hoop shoot last year on a national level.
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The first picture is Wolf Point's Tyson Bridges (14) and Aaron D'Ambrosio (0) and Poplar's Orlando Young (40) vie for the ball. The second photo is Poplar's Alex Lone Bear (10) driving to the basket with Wolf Point's Dalton Hafner staying with him. The third photo is Journey Gourneau, four, cheering on the Indians and ready to become a Poplar cheerleader in about 10 years. (Photos by John Plestina)
The Wolves beat the Indians 51-33 in Poplar Thursday, Dec. 18, and won 51-46 in Harlem, Saturday, Dec. 20, to start the season 2-0 in District 2B.
The Wolves (2-0, 3-1) did not play a scheduled non-conference game at Sidney, Monday, Dec. 22, due to weather. That contest might be rescheduled after New Year's. The Wolves are next scheduled to play at Malta Friday, Jan. 2, at 7:30 p.m.
"The first half, their [Poplar's] points were on free throws," Wolf Point head coach Kelly Nieskens said. "You get them to the line."
He did see some issues that need to be corrected.
"We could take care of the ball a little better," Nieskens said.
"As long as we stay focused," Nieskens said.
"We started out shaky," Poplar head coach Frank Gourneau said.
"It's tough when you're trying to come back," he said of the Indians trying to tighten the score after getting into a deficit. "We cut it to nine. That was as far as we got."
Gourneau credited the Wolves for being a tough team.
"Wolf Point is a good team. We look forward to playing them again," he said.
Trevor Hamilton recorded 22 points for the Wolves, followed by Tyson Bridges with 16.
Waylon Youpee recorded 15 points for the Indians.
Wolf Point 51, Poplar 33
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WPHS: Dalton Hafner 3, Hamilton 22, Hayden Hanks 8, Josh Nieskens 2, Bridges 16
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to consider spoiling the ballot?(78 Posts)
I'm what the media calls a floating voter - I don't vote for the same political party time after time, I vote on the issues (not that it makes any difference where I currently live, as vast numbers of people seem to vote for the same party simply because they always have!).
But just lately I've been thinking - if an election was called tomorrow I really don't know who I would vote for. As things stand I don't think there is a single party that I would want in power. I have voted in every election I am eligible to and always been very scathing about those who don't bother - but I really don't know what I will do at the next general election. As far as I can see the only option that reflects my true opinion is to spoil the ballot but then my vote is wasted...
Very confused.
Cross-posted with you there. It was this bit that needled me - God forbid you fall on bad times, or get ill, or need a safety net of any sort. I find it safest on MN to never make assumptions about a poster's life (which is why all the 'if that's all you have to worry about...' responses irritate me so much but that's an entirely different discussion!).
If I wanted only people who agree with me to post I wouldn't be in AIBU!
OK, fair enough
I think the point I was trying to make was that if you have a government in power who are attacking the vulnerable in the way this lot are, surely you it makes sense to vote against them, even if the alternatives aren't great.
OK, that bit was a (pretty bad!) paraphrasing of Kinnock's speech, which was in my mind as someone else posted it on mumsnet very recently. I didn't really think of it as making assumptions about your life in particular although I can see how it reads like that!
"If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you.
I warn you that you will have painwhen healing and relief depend upon payment.
I warn you that you will have ignorancewhen talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.
I warn you that you will have povertywhen pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that wont pay in an economy that cant pay.
I warn you that you will be coldwhen fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich dont notice and the poor cant afford.
I warn you that you must not expect workwhen many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they dont earn, they dont spend. When they dont spend, work dies.
I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.
I warn you that you will be quietwhen the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.
I warn you that you will have defence of a sortwith a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.
I warn you that you will be home-boundwhen fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up.
I warn you that you will borrow lesswhen credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday
- I warn you not to be ordinary
- I warn you not to be young
- I warn you not to fall ill
- I warn you not to get old."
I'm sorry if it offended you I will have a ponder on that ...
That's a really interesting parallel with today's situation, thank you. I've never heard that speech before but it really fits today as well.
I think perhaps I'm more ignorant about politics than I realised.
I don't think anyone doesn't agree we are in a financial mess.
But the Tory's solution is worse than the problem. When are they going to reach into their own millionaire pockets to help people rather than pulling money from those who truly, definitely need it?
I am American and the same thing is happening there, even with a liberal President, thanks to a conservative House and Senate.
And I don't think it's going to get any better in 4 weeks when America goes to the polls.
I suppose the question is, if you don't like any of the parties, and want to show your protest at the lack of genuine representation, what other avenues are there?
If you can't bring yourself to vote tactically to get the current government out, abstain. Please don't fall for the 'local issues' thing and vote in a Lib Dem or Tory.
Candidates get to read the spoilt papers....
If you don't vote then you're effectively giving equal weight not only to the few main parties, but also the BNP, UKIP, Monster Raving Loonies and everyone else.
There's no point at all in spoiling a ballot paper, it has no effect except you lose your vote. No-one takes any notice of the spoilt ones, you may as well stay in bed.
Candidates get to read the spoilt papers...."
And it's a way to get your point across more directly. One of our local elections had a terrible turnout. The elected person pontificated that it was because everyone was happy. If all the abstainers had gone in and written why they weren't voting then there was no way he could have said that.
Oh, the naivety of youth!
Still better than abstaining.
You can't abstain in the UK. Not voting is not the same as abstaining.
The candidate will not read the spoiled papers. He or she will be too busy settling into their office in Westiminster, rubbing their hands with glee at having won a seat they never expected to because people in their constituency didn't understand how the democratic process works.
Why didn't all the abstainers write him an email or letter? Surely more useful and measured, and more likely to be taken seriously, than a brief scrawled note?
Yep. A stiff email's going to work wonders.
VOTE! Our freedoms are hard won- don't fritter them away.
That was in comparison to spoiling a ballot paper, seeker.
Of course voting is a much better option.
Polititicans do take notice of correspondence, especially if a lot of people get in touch about the same thing. It doesn't mean they'll agree with you but at least there's a chance of getting some things changed.
I've never heard of any political changes ever being made due to spoilt ballot papers, so it does seem a pretty ineffective thing to do.
Actually (well at the counts I have been at) the candidates and agents crowd around looking at the spoiled/rejected ballots as some of them are clearly votes for a particular candidate but not in the prescribed format (I saw one once that was a smiley face for example), and they review them with the people running the count to see if they can be allocated to a particular candidate or if they are truly spoiled papers.
And in our council election some of the comments from the paper were being tweeted by journalists at the count, it was an excellent way of getting your view into the public domain.
Here in Oz voting is compulsory. At the last federal election the informal vote reached 6% and was seen as something of a wake-up call to the major parties as Labor only won by forming a coalition with the Greens and Independents. Following the last electoral redistribution at both state and federal levels my area which is fairly much working class was made part of a rural electorate. The conservative candidate was always going to win, so I voted informally and lodged a blank ballot in the lower house. Our Senate candidates are voted by the entire state so it was a worthwhile exercise to spend the time numbering the several dozen candidates in order, and in fact a progressive and generally clear-thinking Independent candidate easily achieved a Senate quota despite not being preferenced by any of the major party tickets.
BNP got a seat on my local council with less than 8% of the vote
voter appathy and spoilt ballots allows idiots like this to think they are important
if you think your vote is worthless due to the area you live in, or because you don't like the main party, please still use your vote tactically
So if my choice is simply liberal or Tory and I don't want either of them in, and I'm a labour supporter, what do I do?
And before anyone says "stand yourself" I'll point out that that is not a realistic prospect for me.
So, what do I do?
^vote anyway. Not voting = Tory gets in. Ok, so the Lib Dems fucked up the only worthwhile thing they could have had a hand in delivering, i.e. electoral reform, but FGS vote anyway.
seeker thank you so much and others for posting. I never thought about the harm my spoiling the vote paper could do. I always go to make my mark thinking so many fought for me to have the opportunity. I will not spoil my paper in future.
Like I always say amazing the knowlege that is gained through MN.
The Tories get in if I vote lib dem, if I spoil my paper or if I don't vote. The result is the same
Simply not voting is not an option for me. It is part of my DNA that I must vote
I cannot bring myself to put a cross in the lib dem box. Couldn't stand them even before clegg sold his
arse soul to the devil. Just can't do it.
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Come visit me, Carter-Justice For Ozzi-TY 4 BOTD 8/28/14, Doo Diligence-Justice for Ozzi, Cookie-Justice For Ozzi-thank you for BOTD 7/31/14, Charlie-Justice 4 Ozzy-TY for BOTD 10/29/14, Tricky D- RIP 12/12/12-Thank you BOTD 12/12/14, Teal'c-Thank you for BOTD 10-14-14 Justice for Ozz, Elvis Thank you for BOTD 2/22/15, Joshua Chico Justice for Ozzi, Blue-Justice for Ozzi-TY 4 BOTD 9/7/14, Moggie -Justice for Ozzi, George (Gen George Hammond)RIP Gen 12/13/08, Cu-Bird -Justice for Ozzi, Nanday Security Services, LLC, Miranda -Justice for Ozzi, Captain Darling-RIP 5/19/2014 ty 4 BOTD 9/19/14 & Baldrick Thank you for BOTD 3/20/14.
Come visit me, JeTTa - Hangin' Uppy Down......
Come visit me, chaka's campaign story, Prayer Requests, Chaka#215291 ty 4 botd 062914, Botm Winners Circle-VOTE SPOT & CHAKA & CALY'S BUFFET & GROCERY.
Ron & Dee Ann, Bellevue, NE.
Come visit me, Baby/Vote10K /Chip257319/ & Oki,/Vote BOTM BooBoo162724/Mournin- g Gizmo.
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