Poll: Who will you vote for next General Election

Who will you vote for at the next general election?

  • Labour

    Votes: 43 5.7%

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 303 40.0%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 101 13.3%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 25 3.3%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 30 4.0%

  • BNP

    Votes: 77 10.2%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 3 0.4%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 12 1.6%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 8 1.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 2.0%

  • Abstain from voting

    Votes: 84 11.1%

  • Don't know

    Votes: 54 7.1%
  • Total voters
    758
  • Poll closed .
deuse said:
I mean those who had a family/house and so on when they was in gov.
I still can remember the interest rates going up to 16%
lucky for me I sold my house just before it happend.

And the poor guys who committed suicide because of the CSA mistakes.
and one was a police officer.

And at sandvik halesowen a guy died on site(heart attack)
within 3 hours there was 100 people lineing up for his job.

I could go on all day.

terrible days it was like a nightmare.
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Well I remember the last conservative government, my parents didn't have any trouble with their house, the actual cost of housing was a lot lower as was the general cost of living, my school was good, If I had to go to my local hospital to get treated, it was done reasonably quickly and the place was clean (this myth of crumbling victorian hospitals is ridiculous, they were far cleaner and better run then. Yes, more doctors and nurses would have improved it, but all the bureaucracy that's come with it has been unnecessary). Yes, there was a large amount of upheaval in my area due to the miners strike but there was one person to blame for that, Arthur Scargill. Social mobility was the highest it's ever been in this country but since they left the wealthy have been growing faster than ever while the poor haven't shared the rewards. What does that say about the party of the working class?

To be honest, apart from the first year or two of the Blair adminstration, this country has been steadily worsening, yes it's taken quite some time for the economy to tank but that was because it's been artificially inflated by Brown. I made the mistake of voting Labour in 97, that's not a mistake I'll ever make again.
 
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Skidder said:
It is tacit approval. Nobody can condone or overlook the BNP's views on race and repatriation without being either racist or totally unsympathetic regarding their fellow man. Wrap it up however you like but a BNP vote is a bigoted vote.
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Not really it can also be a protest vote there's no way in hell the BNP are getting in it's like voting for the monster raving loony party.
 
Tefal said:
Not really it can also be a protest vote there's no way in hell the BNP are getting in it's like voting for the monster raving loony party.
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I really hope you're right and that is why some people vote BNP but it's a bit of a dangerous protest vote I'd have said, not least because I'd probably trust the Monster Raving Loony party more if they got into power - at least they'd be good for a (intentional) laugh.
 
It is tacit approval. Nobody can condone or overlook the BNP's views on race and repatriation without being either racist or totally unsympathetic regarding their fellow man. Wrap it up however you like but a BNP vote is a bigoted vote.
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So you agree with me that if you vote for the BNP it doesn't actually make you a racist.

I also find it ironic that you accuse BNP voters of bigotry whilst displaying the exact same qualities yourself.

A bigot is a person who is intolerant of or takes offense to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own, and bigotry is the corresponding attitude or mindset. Bigot is often used as a pejorative term to describe a person who is obstinately devoted to prejudices, especially when these views are either challenged, or proven to be false or not universally applicable or acceptable.
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Your deep intollerance of the BNP or even the thought of someone voting for them or thier right to exist put you right up the top of the bigotry list.
 
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amigafan2003 said:
Your deep intollerance of the BNP or even the thought of someone voting for them or thier right to exist put you right up the top of the bigotry list.
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It doesn't really put you at the top as you restrict it to those that are racist. To be put at the top of the bigotry list you would have to dislike all other races, all other sexual orientations, all other political views and all other religions.
 
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So you agree with me that if you vote for the BNP it doesn't actually make you a racist.

I also find it ironic that you accuse BNP voters of bigotry whilst displaying the exact same qualities yourself.



Your deep intollerance of the BNP or even the thought of someone voting for them or thier right to exist put you right up the top of the bigotry list.
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I don't think entering into semantics is required.

Of course a vote for the BNP does not make you a racist - having racist views makes a person a racist, but siding with a party which is at its core racist and sidestepping this issue due to their policies in other areas, or the deficienceis of other parties, is in my opinion highly dubious.

As for me expressing my opinion on the BNP (in this discussion on this discussion board - how dare I) putting me at the top of the bigotry list, I find that laughable. I am not intolerant of the BNP to the point that I would like to expel them from the country! So, perhaps they may be slightly higher up the list than me.:rolleyes:

I have purposefully expressed an opinion on the BNP, because some of the posting here suggests people are planning to make BNP "protest" votes and in some cases haven't thought this through. I am intolerant of intolerance ;) and have expressed it with a bit of tongue in cheek aggression - not sure that puts me up there with Nick Griffin on the bigotry front.
 
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If the Conservatives get in power it will be a lot worse than it is right now.

As much as im fed up with the lot of them i think i'll give Labour another shot because i dont see anyone out there that can do anything better.
 
The number of people who think that the answer lies in Labour (a quick look at history shows this to be flawed) or the BNP (A quick look at their policies shows the vote to be insane, well, unless you're really making an alternative statement) is quite sad...

The next few years are going to be tough whoever gets in, that's the traditional Labour legacy and is going to be the same all over again...
 
Dolph said:
The next few years are going to be tough whoever gets in, that's the traditional Labour legacy and is going to be the same all over again...
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Things have gone bad, but this was also the legacy Major inherited from Thatcher, and the legacy Labour inherited from Major to a lesser extent.

When Labour bring in horror measures like doubing VAT to keep taxes down for higher earners, have nigh on 15% interest rates, 3m+ unemployed then start patronising everyone telling them to stop moaning about no jobs and to spend the redundancy money they need to keep their family going on business upstarts during a recession that's the point they become as bad.
 
Conservative. Have done since Blair and co ruined my town and turned it into a dump. I've been wanting change for years regardless of whether the country can be saved or not.
 
Skidder, due to you last couple of posts I feel you have explained your viewpoint very efficiently and I can now see we seem to have similar viewpoints, even if we express them in a different manner. You have my respect.

For the record, in case anyone didn't notice, I wouldn't vote for the BNP as I find some of their policies despicable - I only hope the other parties adopt some of their "good" policies (particularly their Social Anarchism themed ones) and hence create a situation whereby the BNP has no reason to exist EXCEPT on racist ideals, then their attraction will diminish into irrelevance.
 
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I'm not sure what shocks me more. The 1 Labour vote, or the 2 BNP votes.

I bet that 1 Labour vote came from a fool in the North East - 'red' counties who have been absolutely decimated by New Labour. It is funny how these kinds of counties never learn that by voting red for the last X decades, no government will ever spend money there - neither Labour (why waste money buying votes when they are on a plate) nor Tory (futile battle).

Makes me think people in the red Northern counties are just downright stupid.
 
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