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A personal view of life in the Town of Books
Eigon
Save the River Wye
The Kingdom of Hay
Long Live Hay-on-Wye!
Links
- A Book a Day in Hay
- Alex Valentine's music
- Antur Brewery
- Artistraw Cider
- Barbara Erskine
- Billie Charity photography
- Black Mountain Vineyard
- Black Mountains Lions
- Black Mountains Preserves
- Brecon Beacons Tourism blog
- Brecon Foodbank
- Bronllys Well Being Park
- Buddhist Retreat house in Brilley
- By the Wye Glamping
- Carol and David Brown, Linocuts
- Cat Weatherill
- Cusop Community Website
- Cusop History Group
- Drover Holidays
- Eighteen Rabbit
- Fairtrade
- Fairtrade Hay
- Fitzwilliam String Quartet
- Floral Images
- Friends of the Upper Wye
- fyi Talgarth
- Great English Outdoors
- Green Valleys
- Hay Castle Trust
- Hay Chamber of Commerce
- Hay Festival
- Hay Music
- Hay Outdoor Training
- Hay Public Library
- Hay Theatre Group
- Hay Tours
- Hay Town Council
- Hay Writers' Circle
- herbfarmacy
- Hereford Times
- Jasper Fforde
- Jump4Timbuktu
- Kilvert Society
- Laurie Engel Fund
- Lion Street Gallery
- Little Knapp Distillery
- Lizzie Harper illustrator
- Lower House B and B
- Lucky 7 Brewery
- Majestic Bus
- Marijana Dworski Books
- Oh Pioneer Spoons
- Phil Rickman
- Plant Dyed Wool
- Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
- Richard Priestley, global problems, global solutions
- Sanctuary for Refugees
- Shepherd's Ice Cream
- St Mary's Church
- Talgarth Mill
- Tegfan Garden Suite B&B
- The Globe
- Transition Towns
- U3A
- Village Quire
- Whinyard Rocks Vineyard
- Wiggly Wigglers
- Wobbly Owl
- Wye Local
- Wye Valley Falconry
- Wye Valley Meadery
- Wye Valley Yoga
Blog Archive
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- Jolly Fun in the Hereford Times
- The Numbers Game
- Red Cross Fire
- Events over the Festival
- Rhydspence Again
- Small Business Saturday
- In memory of Hay's Poet Laureate
- County Council Shake-up
- Getting Ready for the Festival
- Meanwhile, back in the Real World....
- More London Enjoyment
- A Day around Greenwich
- Hay Girl in the Big City
- Small Business Saturday
- Does the Light Get in?
- Small Business Saturday
- Shopping in Hereford
- A Fun Day Out .... Spoiled
- Small Business.... Sunday
- Our New Council
- Floods
- A Comment on the Election
- Wonderwool
- Your Town, Your Vote, Your Future
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About Me
- Eigon
- Hay is a fascinating town - but there's more to it than bookshops! I like to take a look behind the scenes, at what the locals are doing. I also maintain the Fairtrade Hay blog, and Morwenna's Tower, a blog about my writing and other interests.
6 comments:
I beg to differ!
Outstanding! And what's more, Somebody speaks out like this and guess what.....?
Nobody listens!
Written by a prat. If you can't be bothered to vote you forfeit your right to criticise. Contrary to what this moron wrote, apathy really doesn't rule.
Excellent sign. The thing is though to spoil your ballot rather than not vote. That way your voice is heard clearly - I don't want any of these in office.
Perhaps if just one of the candidates had been a little less vague, and more specific on how they would help people...
"If you can't be bothered to vote you forfeit your right to criticise."
Then it's impossible to criticise the quality of candidates on offer by witholding one's vote?
I would have said we have the right NOT to vote, and that it's the perfect equal of the right TO vote. The two aren't mutually exclusive in a true democracy, and there shouldn't be the possibilty of practical or theoretical sanctions, either way. We shouldn't be made under some kind of technical duress to enter a polling booth any more than we should be prevented from going into one if we choose.
If - for any reason - one chooses not to vote (or perhaps couldn't for some unimpeachable reason), are you seriously suggesting that that person should suspend the exercise of their critical faculties for some period?
"The thing is though to spoil your ballot rather than not vote. That way your voice is heard clearly."
No it isn't. The teller looks at your spoilt paper and destroys it. What have you gained from that pointless exercise, Eddie?
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