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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Tombstone said:
I dont think I could handle another 5 years of Labour. Would be the nail in the coffin for me here
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I don't think the country can take or afford another 5 years of Labour's massive investment (using borrowed money) without reforming anything. The money just gets squandered.

I might be sort of OK with it if we actually got good value for money, but we don't.

I wish people would inform themselves of the macro mistakes Labour makes: http://futurefairforall.org
 
mrbios said:
This might sound a bit daft, i know nothing and care little for politics but my manager has been filling my mind with worry that if the torries get into power we're ******, i work in a government funded school, apparently there plans would screw us over

What exactly does he mean by that? what are the torries plans for the education sector?

This poll does little to reassure me :(
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As others have said, there's nothing concrete you can say one way or the other. The reality is that we are in severe financial troubles as a nation, and we all have to make sacrifices to ensure the future stability and prosperity of our society. The private and public sector alike will have to find ways to minimise costs (though to some extent the private sector have a head start). If we don't do this, the mounting debt will just get bigger and more expensive to service, putting us in an even worse position than now.

I can imagine your manager is scared of the Conservatives because they are more likely, by ideology, to cut harder than Labour. My advice to you would be to read the party manifestos and make your own decision. Things will not be hunky dory for the next few years, so don't believe any spiel to the contrary. There is no magic fix. People will lose their jobs, but it's a simply unavoidable consequence of where we find ourselves today.

If it's any consolation, I work in the private sector and am currently going through redundancy procedures. Fortunately I have been offered alternative employment, but it's at a reduced rate of pay. This has been deemed necessary to ensure the future profitability of the company I work for, and the public sector finances are not and should not be immune from the same economic principles being applied.

As the true cost of the recession is yet to be paid, I would suggest to everyone that they really need to play close and detailed attention to their finances now, by minimising costs, paying off debt and cutting back on luxuries. There's the potential for things to become very difficult indeed, and those who prepare will weather the storm far better than those who carry on as they are.
 
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If you work in the public sector you have more likelihood of having a tough time financially if the conservatives get in, due to cuts in the public sector, than if Labour get in. As someone else said, it's basically ideological.
 
It's interesting that the Tories have decided to focus on the economy as their main 'theme', when the evidence over the last 18 months or so has shown that it's the one theme they have persistently failed miserably in convincing the public they are capable to govern.

Brown with Darling as Chancellor, or Cameron with Osborne as Chancellor?

I don't think it's massively surprising that the public are perhaps leaning towards the former pairing with the faith in Darling, despite Brown, rather than the untested and politically naive latter couple.

I imagine that say, Cameron with a 'heavyweight' like Ken Clarke as Chancellor would be a far, far more electable pairing which the public would have faith in.
 
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It feels like there is no choice at all at this election. Labour have all but destroyed the NHS. The history of the Conservatives makes me very nervous about them. The Lib Dems have done nothing to harvest the insecurity in the middle ground. All of the rest are just bit-players. Add to that, in Scotland the choice probably comes down to Labour vs SNP which is perhaps even worse than the UK choice.

I wish there was a box for conscientious abstainer. Or maybe I should just vote for Simon Cowell?
 
Hatter The Mad said:
It depends what part of the public sector you work in.
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Indeed, but at the time of writing I believe the Tories have only promised not to cut 'front line' NHS public sector roles.

Of course they don't actually define the word 'front line'.

The guy who asks the question works in public sector education. Hence I believe it's a fair bet that his and his families future will be more financially uncertain if the tories get in.
 
Conservative lead now down to 2 points. I am, for the first time, starting to think Labour might pull off the coup of the century
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Well it certainly would be, the most incompetant government we have had for an age and yet they are still repeatedly voted in. Who is voting for these people? :/
 
britboy4321 said:
The guy who asks the question works in public sector education. Hence I believe it's a fair bet that his and his families future will be more financially uncertain if the tories get in.
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In the short term, maybe.. in the long-term, who knows? If we don't take drastic action to curb our deficit and reduce public debt, the long-term consequences could be far, far worse than simply having to find work elsewhere. You can plan for being out of work for 6 months, but it's very difficult to plan for two decades of hindered macroeconomic prosperity. The reason being that you almost can't - you just have to tolerate the suppressed living standards and slowing of wealth generation.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Who do you think would replace him?

I don't agree with you btw.
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If Brown had his way at the reshuffle last year, Ed Balls would be the Chancellor right now. Fortunately for this country, Brown was too weak to force that through, and was blocked.

Yes - Ed Balls. With zero Chancellory experience. Just because he is Brown's closest ally.

Fortunately Brown is now too weak to have much say in many of Darling's affairs at all now.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6396042.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/21/alistair-darling-gordon-brown
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/public-accounts/2010/02/darling-brown-interview
 
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Hatter The Mad said:
Yes - Ed Balls. With zero Chancellory experience. Just because he is Brown's closest ally.
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There's something dodgy about Ed Balls. If, somehow, Labour pull off a win, I fear Ed Balls will get a promotion to any job he wants with him being a key Brownite. I just get the feeling he's a slimy, fishy character.

That's Ed Balls the ex-FT economic lead writer (1990-1994), the shadow chancellor's (Gordon Brown) economic advisor (1994-1997), the economic advisor to the chancellor (1997-1999) and then chief economic advisor to HM Treasury (1999-2004). So plenty of Chancellory experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_balls#Economist
 
Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began

http://futurefairforall.org/post/417979865/britain-under-gordon-brown-is-a-more-unequal-country

Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s, after the incomes of the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005 general election.
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2009

“It’s a moral disgrace that we still have one of the worst child poverty records in Europe,” said Kate Green, Child Poverty Action Group’s chief executive. “Other countries do better, so why should British children suffer? We can end our child poverty shame and we must.”
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2008

The UK has been accused of failing its children, as it comes bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries.
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2007
 
Strife212 said:
Well it certainly would be, the most incompetant government we have had for an age and yet they are still repeatedly voted in. Who is voting for these people? :/
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Perhaps people who understand that out of all three of the incompetent choices you can vote for that have a hope in hell of getting in Labour is the least so?
 
MarcLister said:
That's Ed Balls the ex-FT economic lead writer (1990-1994), the shadow chancellor's (Gordon Brown) economic advisor (1994-1997), the economic advisor to the chancellor (1997-1999) and then chief economic advisor to HM Treasury (1999-2004). So plenty of Chancellory experience.
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I do not count the advisory role he had as Chancellory experience to match that of Darling's.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
I do not count the advisory role he had as Chancellory experience to match that of Darling's.
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Yet you're constantly campaigning to see George Osborne become Chancellor... Double standards at their best/worst.

Also, for the record, the 'Chancellery' is the HQ of the Chancellor, 'Chancellory' isn't a word.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
I do not count the advisory role he had as Chancellory experience to match that of Darling's.
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From what I know, and can find out, Darling had little or no links to the HM Treasury before becoming Chancellor. Undoubtedly he now has more experience than Balls as Chancellor because he is the incumbent and Balls has never, yet, been the Chancellor. But if we're talking about Chancellory experience over their whole careers then it could be argued that Balls has more due to having worked at HM Treasury for a longer period of time, in the past.
 
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