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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naffa said:
Please do not tell me that you think the Conservatives would have faired any better? :confused:
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Of course they would, not only would they not of spent the last year digging us into this, they wouldn't of started printing money. Who can say what they would have done, but it certainly wouldn't of been any worse.

And they certainly wouldn't of done all these stupid laws labour has introduced.

Beren said:
On balance I like more of their people and policies than I do others though.
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exactly no parties our perfect, all make mistakes.
 
britboy4321 said:
That's right -- someone even told me that we'd enjoyed the longest period of economic growth since records begin -- when Labour were in power.

What kind of decade of incompetance gives us the longest economic rise ever eh? Gosh labour were terrible as we were all absolutely raking it in.

I guess we really during those years needed a bout of 'conservatist competance' -- the kind in which we do NOT enjoy the longest period of economic growth ever.

I love the way the fact we had the longest economic growth in history is kind of 'Labour getting ready to screw us all up, and taking 10 years over it'. Next thing you'll be saying 'Yea the conservatives 'did the legwork' for the massice economic success and then labour just 'took it all' and free-wheeled for -- er -- A DECADE OF MASSIVE GROWTH!!! Lol!

If they were incompenent they would have taken us into economic distress within 18 months. It wouldn't take 10 years.

How quickly you lot forget of the longest period of economic growth in history. Hell, if a recession had not come for another 30 years you'd be saying 'Labours 30 years of incompetance FINALLY causes a recession'!!! Its almost laughable!
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Economic growth founded on consumption via debt and government spending via debt. In other words not the good type of economic growth. Completely irresponsible economic policy. I suggest you put your ridiculous claims in context. Labour are also about to hinder the driver of the good type of economic growth, the financial sector through ridiculous tax policy and demands from their core vote to bash the rich.
 
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Chimerical said:
I assume you're talking about the women only shortlists. In which case its pretty obvious that men hardly ever have problems getting 'opportunities' because of their gender so I don't see how the lists are sexist.
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You have a situation in which people of the "wrong" sex are completely forbidden to even attempt to be a candidate for election because of their sex...and you don't see how that is sexist.

You're very feminist.

Women have lost out on far more positions in politics because they are women than men ever have.
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For how long would you like to punish men for injustices that happened before they were even born?

You really are very feminist.

Obviously you consider sexism against men to be a good thing, so I won't bother trying to persuade you that sexual equality is a good idea. Instead, I'll try this argument:

You argue that anti-male sexism is a good thing in the present and future because anti-female sexism existed in the past.

That applies both ways and I'm sure you're aware that sexism can also be applied both ways. So the more success people like you have in imposing antimale sexism, the more you promote anti-female sexism in return from people using the same argument that you're using. Sexism breeds sexism.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Of course they would, not only would they not of spent the last year digging us into this, they wouldn't of started printing money. Who can say what they would have done, but it certainly wouldn't of been any worse.
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Wow... Unbelievable. Comments such as 'they wouldn't have spent the last year digging us into this' mean absolutely nothing. Please tell me what the Tory spending policy was over the course of the recession, and what it is now? All I seem to hear is white noise regarding the opposition and offence regarding the government, substance people, substance.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
No to nuclear power? How will we support our escalating power demands?
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Not just with uranium-based nuclear fission power, which is what's on the table. That's a short term temporary solution at considerable expense. Uranium is rare. If they get a thorium-based fission power station working, that would be a different story. Thorium is relatively plentiful. Or economically viable fusion, of course, but nobody's talking about that happening soon.

Kite-based high altitude wind power would be useful. Wave power likewise. Both are reliable and common around the UK.

A mix of methods would be a good idea, as there are drawbacks with all of them.
 
naffa said:
Wow... Unbelievable. Comments such as 'they wouldn't have spent the last year digging us into this' mean absolutely nothing. Please tell me what the Tory spending policy was over the course of the recession, and what it is now? All I seem to hear is white noise regarding the opposition and offence regarding the government, substance people, substance.
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The Conservatives wouldn't hinder economic recovery by implementing futile populist tax policies on the financial sector which is the key sector in promoting economic growth and recovery.

Besides that I suppose you have a point. Although once again it was Labour who built up all the public sector debt with their reckless spending spree. It was Labour who have created a situation where not only do we have a recession to beat, we also have a mountain of debt to pay off, a pretty lethal combination.

Whichever party gets into power will have an absolute mission, but it must not be forgotten that whichever party gets into power is also inheriting Labour, or specifically Gordon Brown's, economic mess.
 
scott212 said:
The Conservatives wouldn't hinder economic recovery by implementing futile populist tax policies on the financial sector which is the key sector in promoting economic growth and recovery.
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Quite right, instead, they'll offer a tax break to the richest estates in the country, a tax break for married couples (oh no he won't! Oh yes he will! Oh no he won't!), regardless of what they say, the 50% band will disappear as well...

For the record, I'm very much in favour of the windfall tax on bankers bonuses (along with Vince Cable, David Branchflower and Martin Wolf, just in case you think I'm being fickle. You can also have a read of this (a summary of a whole article) http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/martin-wolf-tax-windfall-bonuses/).
 
Labour have had twelve years and have succeeded yet again to cause the country to be in financial chaos, which they have done at least 3 times before. When the Tories left power in 1997 this country was in a pretty good way financially, over the 18yrs they had their ups and downs but you have to remember what they inherited in 1979 (chaos). I think it is time for a change, the Tories may not be the best option but they are the only realistic option to get us out of this borrowing mess of Gordon Browns Labour party. (Blair certainly knew when to jump ship did'nt he?).
 
The country was in good shape in 1997, but you have to remember that we'd just come out of recession (Black Wednesday). One of the most ridiculous mistakes made by the previous government was signing the UK up to the ERM in 1990 when we had massive inflation, interest at ~15% and the economy was on the brink of recession.

Every government makes mistakes, recessions happen... It's all rubbish and it's just a case of trying to find the least poor choice. Please don't make the mistake of thinking the Tories will be able to do any better, or would have done any better.
 
They can't do much worse, at least they want to reign in spending, Labour always spend what they hav'nt got. Why is he still borrowing? it still has to be paid back and thanks to GORD's financial ineptitude well be plagued by this for years.
 
naffa said:
Wow... Unbelievable. Comments such as 'they wouldn't have spent the last year digging us into this' mean absolutely nothing. Please tell me what the Tory spending policy was over the course of the recession, and what it is now? All I seem to hear is white noise regarding the opposition and offence regarding the government, substance people, substance.
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what substance do you want? they were not in power. However they would not of run up national debt like labour, they would not of made a big fat government even fatter and they would not of introduced draconian laws.

naffa said:
Quite right, instead, they'll offer a tax break to the richest estates in the country, a tax break for married couples (oh no he won't! Oh yes he will! Oh no he won't!), regardless of what they say, the 50% band will disappear as well...

For the record, I'm very much in favour of the windfall tax on bankers bonuses
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getting rid of the 50% bracket is a good think, it achieves nothing and actually undermines

As for the windfall on bankers that is just retarded and shows how jealous you are. Lets retrospectively change the law to punish a certain group of people. yet again another stupid law labour at looking at.
 
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It's quite horrific seeing that ~18% aren't going to vote. They'll be the first to complain when the BNP get more seats.

If you don't like the way our country is being, or could be being run, then do something about it.
 
I must admit, Nick Clegg's pledge to actually gain some fiscal responsibility makes the Lib Dems somewhat more tempting.

If they could promise that they won't form a coalition with Labour, I would consider voting for them again...
 
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