Poll: Who will you vote for next General Election

[Raumarik]

Lots of the people who berate the conservatives on here, to be fair, were probably in primary school last time they were in power.

Some of us at least managed to have some grown up time in a society where there were police on the streets, NHS dentists, and Casualty departments at most hospitals.

There were millions less people in the UK when the tories last ran it too. They also dumped the poll tax on Scotland a year before anywhere else, then implemented it country wide even though it was incredibly unpopular.

Put simply the Tories don't give a damn about YOU or anyone else once they're in power, that's when the money grabbing starts.

Problem is as I live in Scotland it won't matter what I vote, labour will get back in regardless.

I'll still avoid Labour/Tory though.

 

[Conscript]

Funny how people can have such wildly different views. I will not pretend to know in detail what Thatcher stood for, nor can i be bothered to research it, but i know that my father raves about Thatcher as if she was the best thing to ever happen to this country. He also seems to see labour as the spawn of the devil and bangs on about the mess they caused pre Thatcher.

Me personally, i cannot see that either of the main parties will make much difference to my life. I hate the benefit system which labour seem to be so keen on, but i cant suggest a better alternative.

I'd love to put your dad and my dad in a room together and have them argue it out. My dad believes Margaret Thatcher to be the Antichrist, and hates her with a passion. He really is quite vehement whenever someone mentions 'that woman' and has several times said his one remaining aim in life is to outlive her so he can dance on her grave.

We've had a bottle of champagne in the fridge for a few years now, and when I asked him what it was just sitting there for he said "It's to be opened on the day that Margaret Thatcher dies"

 

[Adnams Drinker]

Conservative - you'll see me cut my balls off with rusty shears in Cambridge market square before I EVER vote Labour.

 

[Minto]

There's so many people who say "well I would vote lib dem but it's a waste", that if they all did vote lib dem it might not be!

 

[Energize]

Lib dems got something 22% at the last election, compared to 32% that the conservatives got, so it's hardly a wasted vote, I wouldn't be suprised if they surpassed labour next year.

 

[RDM]

There's so many people who say "well I would vote lib dem but it's a waste", that if they all did vote lib dem it might not be!

After their spineless performance over the EU constitution vote I don't trust them to honour their promises.

 

[Dolph]

Lib dems got something like 22% at the last election, compared to 33% that the conservatives got, so it's hardly a wasted vote, I wouldn't be suprised if they surpassed labour next year.

The problem is though, that with our voting system, you can get 49% of the popular vote and end up with no seats at all in parliament, while the other two parties get all the seats, at least theoretically.

 

[VoG]

Those who vote the Cons really are too young to vote and do not understand the damage they did last time round.

or there old enough to have lived thru the mess that was the winter of discontent.

 

[metamorphpwner]

I'm voting BNP if i actually bother to vote and that's because they're the only ones who've bothered to post a leaflet through my door.

 

[buckeejit]

have never voted and don't plan to.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

I'm voting BNP if i actually bother to vote and that's because they're the only ones who've bothered to post a leaflet through my door.

Good man

i say this thread becomes a *poll*.! or are there enough in britain.?

 

[rz30]

Watch "Andrew Marr's: A History of modern Britian" to see how bad the Tories were/are.

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

or there old enough to have lived thru the mess that was the winter of discontent.

I don't really see why that's relevant, since New Labour has decided to become a centre-right party.

 

[muon]

I would vote against any incumbent MP who stole money from the electorate under stupid rules (not an excuse really imo, since corrupt governments can most of the time claim they are acting within the law when it is clearly against the public interest). Hate corruption above all else.

 

[Dolph]

I don't really see why that's relevant, since New Labour has decided to become a centre-right party.

Interesting how a centre right party has managed nationalisations, and the biggest government debt in history... They may have tried to pretend to be centre-right, but deep down it's the same left wing economic incompetance that Labour are famous for.

 

[p4radox]

Too early to tell.

I don't like any of the main parties, but I don't think there's a decent enough smaller party that represents my views any better.

I'll wait for the manifestos I think.

 

[Tombstone]

I'll be voting Conservative, just as I have done for the whole of my life.

 

[Luseac]

Conservatives I should imagine, unless their manifesto is full of too much environmental left wing tosh. Failing that god knows, UKIP would seem an attractive centre right party, although sadly I don't believe in the withdrawl from Europe, I don't think I could bring myself to vote BNP either so it would be a hard one. I'm not a supporter of Labour, dad didn't work down t' mine so we don't have some irrational hatred for the tories and believe Thatcher was actually one of the best PM's this country has ever had. I'd be too worried about the Lib Dems turning us into a socialist republic and throwing away our heritage and ripping our defence forces apart by getting rid of things like trident.

 

[Rosbif]

I would vote Conservative since they 'typically' are a lowER tax party. However, since the Libdems have pledged to reduce the tax take as a % of GDP I will be voting for them, assuming they stick to that pledge.

 

[Liefrich]

I'll be voting Liberal Democrats. Ideally I'd like a reform of the electoral system so it is more proportionally based and forces parties to form consensus on issues, instead of forcing through badly thought out and drafted legislation.

Anyone who votes BNP is an idiot, and is going against everything our country is about.