mp's vote no for prisoners vote

[cornykev]

What do you reckon then the mp's voted resoundly against the con getting a vote whilst in prison, it was 240 something against 24 I think, what do the do gooders think,  :-X I know your a bit under the weather Ace but if you can drag yourself away from the duvet and bog roll I what like to know but the islands favourite thinks.   :P :P :P

[cornykev]

[ACE]

Give them a vote, half the criminal population of England is banged up here. This could be our next MP

[Unwashed]

I guess that social alienation, exclusion, and disenfranchisement has contributed significantly to criminality and having deprived them of their liberty I don't see a good argument to deprive them of the vote.

[BarriedaleNick]

I think the reasoning is that if they broke the law badly enough to be inside then they don't get to "make" the law by voting..

[cornykev]

Aah it's my old mate Frankie.     ;D ;D ;D

[Unwashed]

Aah it's my old mate Frankie.     ;D ;D ;D

Are we talking Howard League?

[Flighty]

Why all the fuss over what surely is not an important issue, and how many would vote if they could!

[cornykev]

Nothing on there Simon.       ??? ??? ???

[daitheplant]

With the number of politicians going down it`s only right to refuse them the vote. ;D ;D

[Unwashed]

Nothing on there Simon.       ??? ??? ???

Sorry Kev, it's there now.

I didn't understand the Frankie reference, I wondered if you were aluding to Frankie Howard, but I guess not. :)

[cornykev]

Ace's picture, an old mate of mine Frankie Frasier, he was a gangster in the times of the Krays and the Richardsons.     ;D ;D ;D

[ACE]

Don't tell me you were the getaway driver kev ;D



Not a lot of room for the loot, even less for a body in the boot.

[Nigel B]

What do you reckon then the mp's voted resoundly against the con getting a vote whilst in prison, it was 240 something against 24 I think, what do the do gooders think,  :-X

Back to the serious side of this for a mo..... :-\
Y'know... This government, and the last, always kept/keep telling us that we have to do this, or we must do that, and we had better b****y-well do the other; or face monetary penalty or even the loss of our liberty....... ... and all "Because the EU say so"..

... So how come they can vote which EU law they will accept or refuse, but we never get asked our opinion?  ???
I thought the EU was supposed to be a democratic organisation of member states? Wasn't it?  :-\

We just seem to be giving an awful lot of our civil liberties and rights away for very little in return...... >:(

Anyway. Back to the seed catalogue and dreams of summer smells..... 8)

[cambourne7]

Whilst i am not keen on people who are in prison serving punishment for a crime being able to vote as this is a liberty they give up when they break societies rules. I do think that people on remand who have not been as yet found guilty of any crime should be able to vote up to the point they are found guilty of a crime and sentenced.

[Bugloss2009]

the vote doesn't change anything wrt EU, it was just an opinion poll of MPs

[dtw]

There'll be millions paid out in compensation if the human rights lawyers get stuck in.  ::)

[djbrenton]

Whilst i am not keen on people who are in prison serving punishment for a crime being able to vote as this is a liberty they give up when they break societies rules. I do think that people on remand who have not been as yet found guilty of any crime should be able to vote up to the point they are found guilty of a crime and sentenced.

Remand prisoners can vote already