Poll: Who will you vote for next General Election

[Hatter The Mad]

.. part of my post which has been edited out..

Doh! Censorship in a political thread

 

[semi-pro waster]

18 is the voting age right?

Excuse the ignorance.

16 years old or over, you've got to be registered with your local polling station or have requested a postal vote. More information here.

I've chosen don't know for the poll above, I'm most likely to vote Liberal Democrats based on what I already know but really need to check out the policies further before I'd commit.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

16 years old or over, you've got to be registered with your local polling station or have requested a postal vote. More information here.

The voting age in the UK is 18....

 

[Dolph]

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.

You do know the state of the country when Thatcher took it over from Labour right?

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.

Labour do have 3m+ unemployed, if you remember their figures fudging, and the massive increases in unnecessary public sector employment as jobs that shouldn't exist.

You do also realise how much Labour are planning on having the country borrow over the next few years?

 

[Pinkeyes]

you mean they've ****ed it up this bad they can't possibly get any worse?

I am voting Labour because however bad they have ran things, they have been worse, and that was how the Tory party left the state of the Country before Blair came to power.
That's how I remember things anyway.

 

[RDM]

I am voting Labour because however bad they have ran things, they have been worse, and that was how the Tory party left the state of the Country before Blair came to power.
That's how I remember things anyway.

How much better is the country now and in what way? How much better was the country when the tories last left office compared to when they entered office? How long can we blame a previous government before the current government has to take responsibility for it's failings?

 

[magick]

All those saying because the Conservatives left the country in a bad state they are voting Labour should realise that the 97 Labour govnerment benefited from some very difficult decisions made by the Major government, that is Major made some economic decisions that at first appeared to harm the country but in fact laid the foundations for ecominc growth over the next 10 years. It's kind of like a gardener toiling over a field and planting seeds then when the crops grow a new farme taking over the land and claiming the recognition for the crops growing.

Second thing you should also realise is that Cameroon is going to win regardless of who you vote. Cameroons is the Elites new choosen one just like Blair originaly was. He will get in even if they have to rig the vote. As the saying goes 'it doesn't matter who you vote for the government wins'.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

I am voting Labour because however bad they have ran things, they have been worse, and that was how the Tory party left the state of the Country before Blair came to power.
That's how I remember things anyway.

Are you referring to the huge Tory budget deficit that never existed? I.e. the deficit that Brown made up, and repeated so many times in speeches people now think it is a fact?

Typical Brown tactic. Same reason why he uses the word Global unnaturally and so much when discussing the economic crisis.

Tony Blair was a lying, two faced and wretched scumbag. Gordon Brown is even more two faced, even more arrogant and egotistic. He's also a bad politician, economist and cannot keep Westminster under control. At least Tony Blair could do that.

 

[semi-pro waster]

The voting age in the UK is 18....

That's what I'd always thought but then went to the Electoral Commissions website which I've linked to and you can register to vote any time after your 16th Birthday, you're right though that you cannot use that vote until you are 18 however. My mistake in presenting it badly since I didn't read the question properly.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

That's what I'd always thought but then went to the Electoral Commissions website which I've linked to and you can register to vote any time after your 16th Birthday, you cannot use that vote until you are 18 however. My mistake in presenting it badly since I didn't read the question properly.

Oh ok I didn't know about being able to register from 16, either.

 

[LeJosh]

It's all good men, I'm 18 on the 15th of july. Not long but I think I might the voting day and I think I'm registered as is anyways. (My mum did it sneakily)

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Mods; can we make the poll results public so that we may expose the BNP voters, and heckle them?

 

[Pinkeyes]

So you agree with me that if you vote for the BNP it doesn't actually make you a racist.

I don't.

I cannot see how you can be anything but racist if you vote for a party who have core policies that are racist. It doesn't matter what other policies they have.

It's like saying you are going to vote for the "Brand the Forehead of anyone who is Ginger Party" because you like their policy on increasing the number windfarms in the uk, but you hope the redheads are all ok.

If a person votes for the BNP, that does in fact IMO make them a big stupid racist.

 

[LeJosh]

Wassn't there a "rule" (I forgot the word) the BNP had if they were elected they would deport all non-british people from the UK or something?

 

[Luseac]

Looking at the poll results I really wish this forum was more representative of the British public… Then I could perhaps rest easy knowing there won't be too many old northern mine types and trade unionists who may keep Labour in power.

 

[nero120]

I am voting Labour because however bad they have ran things, they have been worse, and that was how the Tory party left the state of the Country before Blair came to power.
That's how I remember things anyway.

Lol yeah, Britain really was a police state back then! My god man, how can you justify voting labour again? Regardless of what the tories have done/not done in the past, they have NEVER brought us close to a police state as we are now.

Anyone voting labour is basically saying "I want my individual freedoms removed and the government to make all my decisions", so don't freaking kid yourself.

 

[elroberto]

Second thing you should also realise is that Cameroon is going to win regardless of who you vote. Cameroons is the Elites new choosen one just like Blair originaly was. He will get in even if they have to rig the vote. As the saying goes 'it doesn't matter who you vote for the government wins'.

LOL magick. Best nip down the shop and buy some more tinfoil!

 

[elroberto]

Looking at the poll results I really wish this forum was more representative of the British public… Then I could perhaps rest easy knowing there won't be too many old northern mine types and trade unionists who may keep Labour in power.

This poll is actually quite accurate compared to national polls (for the Tories and Libdems at least).

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I'm Green!

 

[jbloggs]

Well, according to this poll so far, Labour are going to get absolutely thumped at the next election, and quite rightly so (bunch of prats that they are), and the Conservatives will get elected into power.

As for myself, living in the N Ireland, the calibre of person that offers themselves for election in the different parties is pretty dire...to say the least, so I just don't bother voting.