Poll: Which party will get your vote in the General Election?

Which party will get your vote in the General Election?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 704 38.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 221 12.1%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 297 16.2%

  • British National Party

    Votes: 144 7.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 36 2.0%

  • UK Independence Party

    Votes: 46 2.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 48 2.6%

  • Don't care I have no intension of voting.

    Votes: 334 18.3%
  • Total voters
    1,830
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AcidHell2 said:
I do put part of the blame on government who have gone along of the lines you are to much of idiots to do anything so government must do it all. To many hand outs and to much H&S other laws.

Just like this snow, why not introduce similar laws to Germany, it helps people to realise they can stand on 2 feet and not to look at government for every little thing.
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With regard to health and safety, it's actually a good thing as it means that all risks must be adequately controlled, leading to a better workplace environment (IE, H&S legislation would be fine with a warning sign for most things), the problem is overzealous implimentations, for example a business banning something, when in reality all that's needed is a warning sign, or a step ladder. H&S also requires a first aider in the workplace, and for all accidents to be logged, again, both good things as a recurring accident can be picked up and then looked at in more detail, as well as injuries being able to be dealt with effectively, safely and promptly!
 
I'm not old enough to vote (just, I'll be 18 in June, grrrr!)

But if I could, the local MP in my area, Bob Russell (Lib Dem) does a good job, and so he'd get my vote :)

Too many people vote based on the leader, and not their local MP, this isn't America, the leader isn't directly elected.
 
tuffty747 said:
I'm not old enough to vote (just, I'll be 18 in June, grrrr!)

But if I could, the local MP in my area, Bob Russell (Lib Dem) does a good job, and so he'd get my vote :)

Too many people vote based on the leader, and not their local MP, this isn't America, the leader isn't directly elected.
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I like Bob, he's a really nice chap. My local MP (Brooks Newmark) is a conservative, and I feel that he is a good constituency MP, I've written to him about various issues and he's always replied pretty quickly, he also got me a ticket to see Prime Minister's Questions back in March, which was fun. Unfortunately I disagree with most of his & his party's policies so he won't get my vote :P
 
By the way, I assume you aren't blaming the 1992 devaluation of the pound (and 12% interest rates) on Labour, as the Tories had been in power for 13 years at that point.

IIRC the UK treasury lost over £3bn in one day as well.
 
dirtydog said:
And with the Tory government prior to that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Day_Week
(often wrongly attributed to Labour)


I predict the Tories will win, make a mess of things and then Labour will get back in again, perhaps after another 10-15 years. And the cycle continues ad infinitum.
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Of course, we could both place the blame where it was due for both situations, and that was the trade unions...

Who do the unions bankroll again?
 
Yet bad though Labour undoubtedly were, the Tories were so bad that people in desperation voted Labour back in again, in 1997. What does that tell you about how popular and successful the Tories were... and what should it tell us about the prospect of them getting back in again. It tells me that neither party deserves anybody's vote.
 
The Lib Dems are currently 100/1 to win the most seats at the next general election. In 2005 this required around 9 million votes. Why don't we get a facebook group together, get 9 million members to agree to vote Lib Dem, then all put £1000 on them.

£100,000 win for everyone, and the Lib Dems finally get to have a go at being in charge :)

Incidentally, the total amount we would all win is £900 billion which is roughly the same as the UK's national debt. So if we were all feeling generous, we could pay that off with our winnings :)
 
dirtydog said:
Yet bad though Labour undoubtedly were, the Tories were so bad that people in desperation voted Labour back in again, in 1997. What does that tell you about how popular and successful the Tories were... and what should it tell us about the prospect of them getting back in again. It tells me that neither party deserves anybody's vote.
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People suffered from short memory syndrome and blair presented a new image of Labour, although the fundamental policy flaws (spending, state control and authoritarianism) remained underneath the shiny new clothes.

The tories are a bad choice, but pretty much everyone else is worse since the lib dems lurched to the left economically and socially decided to only be liberal when they felt like it and every other party falls into the lunatic fringes or single issue parties.
 
If Labour stood in Northern Ireland I would would vote for them, since they don't I guess I'll be voting SDLP.
 
Dolph said:
People suffered from short memory syndrome and blair presented a new image of Labour, although the fundamental policy flaws (spending, state control and authoritarianism) remained underneath the shiny new clothes.

The tories are a bad choice, but pretty much everyone else is worse since the lib dems lurched to the left economically and socially decided to only be liberal when they felt like it and every other party falls into the lunatic fringes or single issue parties.
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This party will win: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=liblabcon

They always do.

The election is a farce really, there isn't any real choice so it's pointless voting. BNP if you want to make a protest although under this rigged electoral system they won't get a single MP, even if they get millions of votes nationwide.
 
dirtydog said:
Yet bad though Labour undoubtedly were, the Tories were so bad that people in desperation voted Labour back in again, in 1997. ...
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People elected New Labour because they hated Thatcher and everything she stood for - particularly the Poll Tax.

They also realised that Blair was a closet Tory with just about the same socialist credentials as G Dubya Bush and hoped that they would profit from a continuation of Thatcher's policy of handing out bribes by privatising everything owned by the public.
 
dirtydog said:
A reminder of Tory economic incompetence when they were last in power, for younger members or those with short memories...

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18 years ago?

**** me if you are still holding that grudge 'old man' then you got problems.

I do believe the main members of the Tory party have changed since then.
 
I believe I'll be voting UKIP at this rate, more a vote against the Tories though who naturally I would have voted for. But I'm against their recent trend of indecisiveness and their switch to the Centre of the scale.
 
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