Who will you be voting for in the General Election?

Who will you be voting for in the General Election?

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T_K said:
Oh well where are you slotting me in??? I'm as British as they come, full time employed with no children.
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You didnt quote my second line:p I dont think labour have rewarded the ordinary workers, thats why they wont get my vote.
At the end of the day we are all free to elect the party that we think will do the best job.
We have two small business and labour policies have crucified us.We have had to cut back on staff becasue of minimum wage and my husband is working nearly 12 hour day to keep afloat.Next thing to go will be my horse:(Can only speak from experience.
This government has not helped the small business people and banks arent lending the money to keep them afloat to get over financial crisis.
 
Just read the manifestos of the two I'm considering voting for (who also happen to be the two parties with a chance in my seat).

Not voting Labour, it's been proven time and time again that public spending does not bring an economy out of recession... and their taxes are all secretive and hit those on the lowest incomes proportionally hardest (NI, VAT, Fuel Duty all hit lower paid workers hard, these are the taxes Labour has raised/plans to raise most)

Badly torn between Tory and Lib Dem. Read the Tory manifesto, and it all seemed a bit weak and wishy washy. Nothing I actively disliked, but nothing that I strongly agree with either. Lib Dems have 2 points that I strongly disagree with. Trident replacement theory strikes me as wildly optimistic, and I think that they may be short sighted in ruling out nuclear energy out of hand if it is so important to reduce carbon emissions. All the electricity imported from France is nuclear, and it would be nice to know that we have our own in case demand in France goes up... I'm not thrilled about their planned electoral reforms - all the PR systems seem to lead to hung parliaments and messy coalitions where the tails wag the dog, and as soon as you have a directly elected second chamber, the balance of power between the two chambers can get messy (US Senate and Obama's health bill being an obvious recent example). That said our parliamentary system is less important to me than the other issues leaving me torn by a party I feel I maybe should vote for on a tactical level but don't really agree with, and a party I agree strongly with on a lot of points (especially raising the personal allowance - it's ridiculous to take money away through tax, and then hand it back through tax credits - totally unnecessary bureaucracy) but have major issues with others.

If I didn't feel strongly about voting, I'd be highly tempted not to vote as the BNP aren't standing in my constituency!
 
T_K said:
I will never vote anything BUT Labour, just who I am and the way I was brought up. I would have to seriously consider whether I would stay in this country or not if the Tories got in...and we all know that Lib Dem will never win....it's a wasted vote IMO.
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There is no such thing as a wasted vote. 100 years ago women were dying just so that we could have the right to vote
 
T_K said:
I will never vote anything BUT Labour, just who I am and the way I was brought up. I would have to seriously consider whether I would stay in this country or not if the Tories got in...and we all know that Lib Dem will never win....it's a wasted vote IMO.
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Its looking increasingly like a vote for labour would be a wasted one !!! however nice it would be to see them in third place I would look and question some if not most of lib dems manifesto promises..they realy are loopy when you scratch the surface..
 
I just think its a terrible shame that we should have to be thinking of the National picture and the wasted votes when we are essentially choosing our local representative in Parliament. What we should be able to do is choose that person on their merits as a supportive local representative and how they stand on local issues and support and not have to worry how that will effect who occupies number 10!

My old MP was very supportive and I got a personal reply and support in parliament for a lot of issues raised on this and other forums, sadly he stood down not for the money scandal but for something he did a while ago (allegedly) in his London flat, which all came out when he went for the job Nick Clegg has!!!!! So we have a new Lib Dem standing this time round so will have to start reading and asking questions again. I have always voted for him because he is so supportive of local issues and has lived locally for many years (he might even be local) he is not apparently up there to get his face on TV.

That's why I objected to the Conservative candidate last time who was shipped in from elsewhere to stand as they thought they'd have a better chance of a win that way.
 
People seem to forget this isn't America... we aren't voting in Cameron, Brown or Clegg. We are voting for our LOCAL MP. I cannot stand David Cameron, but I will vote Conservative as our local Conservative MP is the best of the lot, and I agree with the way he's voted on numerous issues in the past. And overall I agree with more Conservative policies than any other party.
 
T_K said:
Do you not think that voting Lib dem is a bit of a wasted vote? Although if you're either going to vote Tory or Lib Dem then go ahead and waste your vote ;)
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Here in Cornwall I will vote Lib Dem as always. It keeps the Tories out ( thinking back to their 15.3% interest rates the last time the economy was in trouble and THEY were in charge!!). We have the local,anti hunting Dan Rogerson going up against the Tory career politicion Sian Flynn lol lol She moved down from Surrey only after becoming Tory candidate. Bye again Sian!!
 
T_K said:
Do you not think that voting Lib dem is a bit of a wasted vote? Although if you're either going to vote Tory or Lib Dem then go ahead and waste your vote ;)
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Well actually, conservative is a wasted vote where I live - last election they only got 4% of the vote. We are expecting a landslide lib dem vote this year, as the entire town and area is full of lib dem posters and placards in everyones windows.

Nothing is a "wasted" vote. I don't believe in tactical voting, and could never ever understand it, or do it myself. It is completely un-democratic, and says a lot about a person. We have democracy and votes because it is supposed to be a way people can express their own views and beliefs. People are supposed to vote for what they believe in, not by who they think can win.

I would much rather someone vote UKIP after thoroughly researching party policies, and decide that they are against Europe/the euro (rather than the whole racism thing), than someone voting in a party they don't like, don't agree with and giving that party their vote. Madness.
 
rosiefronfelen said:
hear,hear-Quadro. i have voted conservative all my life, like my parents before me, am proud to do so and hence will never vote for another party.
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My grandparents were pro-nazi before the war, so going by your theory I should blindly accept my 'heritage' and start doing the two-step. However, luckily I now have the foresight to vote for what *I* believe is right, based on my own views and beliefs.
 
(to continue my ranting!)

Saying that lib dems are a wasted vote and so voting for another party is like saying you can never win the lottery, so giving a stranger a pound to play instead.
 
Fair enough, it was only the "I am voting conservative like my parents did and hence I will never vote for anyone else".

To me that sounded like you were saying that you were voting for the same party your parents did, and so you weren't going to vote for anyone else ever again. But I can see where I went wrong.


I don't really care who people vote for, as long as they truly believe in what that party stands for, be that labour, lib dem, tory, UKIP or green. For me, personally, a lot of the Tory policies go against not just my liberal beliefs, but my beliefs as a humanitarian. But yeah, that personal. (And that "voting for change" by voting "conservative" seems rather counter-intuitive).
 
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I am going to vote UKIP - if you think our expenses scandal is bad, you would really be upset if you knew what goes on in Brussels.

Actually there are two things I really like - stop spending £42m per day on the EU, make our own laws and simplify everything. You will protect public jobs and save money

Then I like the flat % tax approach, I don't believe in CGT and I don't like our current system (and I'm a chartered accountant and understand it!)

Sadly its the same old tripe from labour and torry, and the lib dems haven't got a clue. Basically all 3 will tax me more!
 
CotswoldSJ said:
I am going to vote UKIP - if you think our expenses scandal is bad, you would really be upset if you knew what goes on in Brussels.

Actually there are two things I really like - stop spending £42m per day on the EU, make our own laws and simplify everything. You will protect public jobs and save money

Then I like the flat % tax approach, I don't believe in CGT and I don't like our current system (and I'm a chartered accountant and understand it!)

Sadly its the same old tripe from labour and torry, and the lib dems haven't got a clue. Basically all 3 will tax me more!
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very well put..and as ive said before soon it will be of very little reilvance who we vote for unless there is a vote on our relationship with Europe...
 
I would say Lib Dem but I do think it would probably be a wasted vote regardless of how well they're doing at the moment.
Out of the other 2 main contenders I honestly can't choose - Gordon Brown doesn't do himself any favours and hasn't done very well so far but Cameron is a massive tool and it would seriously go against the grain to vote for such a man!
So in short - no idea!!!!
 
If all the people who thought about voting Lib Dem but decided was a wasted vote actualy voted for them perhaps they would win?
 
I think it has been really difficult....but I am not lured by the LibDem hype, I'm not that much pro-Europe, and I just am reminded how good an MP one of the candidates was when I was resident in his constituency, West Oxon, so, over to you for the country - go Dave!
(P.S. Find all the inverted snobbery totally revolting, so do refrain if you're going to comment! )
 
probably conservative, though in a very safe area so possibly ukip to make the conservatives realise how many people would like us OUT of Europe.
Voted Labour back in 1997, as although I knew we risked the rape of the countryside, I couldn't square my conscience with the Tories' overseas development/aid policies.
Though I didn't know how utterly, UTTERLY **** for the countryside it was going to be.
 
I think it will be conservative. But i am having major struggles with myself since i am very very strongly anti hunting and think it would be a disgrace to turn over a law which was made based on the majority of britains population's views, and took many years to put through. How this can be overturned 'in one day', based on nothing but Mr Cameron's blatent attempt to win votes... is pretty dispicable. However, i don't like any of the other parties, i find the lib dems a tad unrealistic, and i think david cameron would make a good leader and get our financial crisis a bit more on track. I wouldnt vote labour if you paid me a million pounds, and everytime i have to listen to that stupid scotish man speak it makes me cringe.

So Mr Cameron, i will vote for you and then i will be hammering on your door to stop you from making a big mistake. (no wish for a hunting debate on this thread, just explaining my inner turmoil over blasted may the 6th!)
 
To be honest, as long as Labour don't get back in - I'm not as fussed.

I'm planning to vote Conservative, as I prefer the conservative policies. In the area I'm voting in (uni) it is very close Lib Dem/Conservative. Conservatives have always got in, but Lib Dems got in at last local election. Therefore my vote needs to be Conservative as I think a lot of this area will be Lib Dem.

I don't mind a lot of the Lib Dem policies, although I prefer Conservatives. I just think Cameron will make a much better leader than Clegg.

If I was voting back home, Conservative is the only party to really vote for: they get in with massive landslides.

I want Conservatives to get in, but I think the LibDems massive popularity this year may just shake them up a little bit that it's not the two horse race they seem to blazenly presume it is.
 
cellie said:
I think labour will only be voted for by immigrants, single parent mothers and 3rd generation unemployed.
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Wow. Aside from the voting issue, my mother never asked for or wanted my father to walk out on her, or to have to go back to work full time almost the moment I was weaned, but she did and she is still working, she will probably work till she drops because she has forgotton how not to.
Not all single mothers are dole-bludging scroungers, thanks very much.
 
I was a life-long Labour voter from the first time I was old enough to vote in the 1980s until 1997, when I felt that Blair was taking Labour much too far to the right, abandoning the core values for which I had always supported them. So I started voting Lib Dem - and will be voting for them again this time.

This means of course that I have never once in my life voted for the party that actually won!
 
Labour have been trying to ruin this country, the United Kingdom since 1945 and in the last 13 years they have practically succeeded.
A French commentator in the 1920's said 'Anyone who is not a socialist under the age of 20 hasn't got a heart, anyone who is still a socialist over the age of 30 hasn't got a brain".
As someone with a brain I shall be voting Conservative or UKip.
 
Very difficult I think, and I haven't decided yet. I'm not comfortable with the Tory ideas about preferential treatment for married couples, or the fact that they intend to abolish free nursery places for 3 and 4 year olds. But I like the idea that they might get business-like about sorting out some of the scroungers in the benefits system. On the other hand, a lot of what Labour stands for scares me. Oh, and the Lib Dems, when you read their manifesto some of that is pretty scarey.
So... on the fence still!
 
Definitely Conservative. This mad spending spree of money the Government doesn't have is crazy and must stop asap. Please vote Conservative
 
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