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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marv said:
another thing that bugs me, yes the goverment have told us its illigal to drop litter i agree we shouldnt but what would happen to all the jobs that would be lost if there was no litter in the world. So it tends to make more sence saying drop litter to genarate more jobs.
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I think I have given up all faith in humanity.:(
 
marv said:
another thing that bugs me, yes the goverment have told us its illigal to drop litter i agree we shouldnt but what would happen to all the jobs that would be lost if there was no litter in the world. So it tends to make more sence saying drop litter to genarate more jobs.
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Quality, you could also smash windows randomly to keep glaziers in work, litter the road with sharp objects to keep tyre fitters in work, etc etc the list is endless.
 
scorza said:
Mr Cameron.. you've not only lost my vote, you've lost my respect

From the founder of the Conservatives largest gay rights group.
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Total non issue, she's overreacting to get into the press it seems to me.
The matter has been discussed at length on these forums as well.

She moans on and on how the Conservatives haven't done anything and Labour are the great and wonderful champions of gay rights but doesn't state a single thing that they are planning to do. But then again, the Mirror is about all the Labour have left in terms of newspaper support!

atpbx said:
She is twenty, she as yet has not been in a position where she can vote before
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What exactly has that got to do with anything though? Whilst I don't agree with her stance at all at least she is politically active which ought to be commended. Just because she hasn't had the opportunity to vote in a General Election (she may have used her vote in other elections) doesn't make her view any less valid. It's not valid because it's stupid, not because she hasn't voted.
 
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afraser2k said:
I'll probably be voting LibDem this time around. Voted SNP in the last couple of elections but won't be again after their dealings with the Lockerbie bomber. I don't trust New Labour or the Tories over their backroom deals on the digital bills or handling of the expenses/corruption as they're just as bad as each other.
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Just remember matey, with the Scottish Parliament being run by a minority, the SNP would not have been releasing al-Megrahi without the consent of the other parties. It just so happens that the other parties then rounded on the SNP for political point scoring and our newspapers (who are distinctly Labour rags) ignored the fact that the other parties where in on it too.

As for the Lib-Dems, they actually ran the council in my area before being ousted again by Labour. It was as if nothing had changed, same policies and political in-fighting which was not pretty. It was farcical watching both parties blaming each other for everything or claiming any good that had been done was by them. I've had coucillors from both parties accuse me of being 'stupid' or 'a fool' because I was honest with them in telling them they wouldn't be getting my vote. Not exactly the best way to change someone's mind is it?

Of all the other parties, the only one that offers me the thing that I want most, independence, is the SNP. I really don't understand why my fellow Scots don't opt for the same choice given that both the Tories and Labour have stated that the Scottish vote is irrelevant, a statement which shows a complete lack of respect to the Scottish voter.
 
Ahleckz said:
Total non issue, she's overreacting to get into the press it seems to me.
The matter has been discussed at length on these forums as well.

She moans on and on how the Conservatives haven't done anything and Labour are the great and wonderful champions of gay rights but doesn't state a single thing that they are planning to do. But then again, the Mirror is about all the Labour have left in terms of newspaper support!



What exactly has that got to do with anything though? Whilst I don't agree with her stance at all at least she is politically active which ought to be commended. Just because she hasn't had the opportunity to vote in a General Election (she may have used her vote in other elections) doesn't make her view any less valid. It's not valid because it's stupid, not because she hasn't voted.
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Quote the whole post, it doesnt matter really but the way the article is written is like this person is some highly powerful and influential member of a massive organisation who goes on like where ever she goes, others follow. Where what is actually the case is she is barely out of her teens, isnt old enough to of ever voted before, or even to be able to buy alchohol from most shops. She writes like she is some long time disenfranchised tory supporter who has been promised the moon on a stick and instead has been delivered a turd on a brick buy the conservative party.
When the truth is she has since she was seven years old lived in a country governed by the labour party, who are responsible for the conditions she finds herself living under, conditions which she feels are so bad she felt she had to form a campaign group to fight against. Yet here she is saying she will vote for the same people to stay in power based, not on the fact that they have the worst record on just about everything in history, but based on the fact they pander to her self important 'look at me i'm a bean flicker' attitude.
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Just remember matey, with the Scottish Parliament being run by a minority, the SNP would not have been releasing al-Megrahi without the consent of the other parties. It just so happens that the other parties then rounded on the SNP for political point scoring and our newspapers (who are distinctly Labour rags) ignored the fact that the other parties where in on it too.
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That isn't really the case though is it? There was no vote on the issue so no deals needed to be done. To say the other parties consented is disengenious as you have no idea if this is true or not.
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Just remember matey, with the Scottish Parliament being run by a minority, the SNP would not have been releasing al-Megrahi without the consent of the other parties. It just so happens that the other parties then rounded on the SNP for political point scoring and our newspapers (who are distinctly Labour rags) ignored the fact that the other parties where in on it too.
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More than likely he was released for "national interests" in Libya and the SNP were allowed to play at international politics. However, the way they handled the situation was a joke.

eddiemcgarrigle said:
As for the Lib-Dems, they actually ran the council in my area before being ousted again by Labour. It was as if nothing had changed, same policies and political in-fighting which was not pretty. It was farcical watching both parties blaming each other for everything or claiming any good that had been done was by them. I've had coucillors from both parties accuse me of being 'stupid' or 'a fool' because I was honest with them in telling them they wouldn't be getting my vote. Not exactly the best way to change someone's mind is it?
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My area has been a Labour stronghold since before I was born so it's more of a protest vote like in the last election when the LibDems had a strong showing due to anti-war protest votes. Although some decent work has been done for the local economy there hasn't been much improvement in local crime, mass immigration, transport and now due to education cutbacks my work has just announced 100+ redundancies so no doubt strikes coming up with the students about to start exams.

eddiemcgarrigle said:
Of all the other parties, the only one that offers me the thing that I want most, independence, is the SNP. I really don't understand why my fellow Scots don't opt for the same choice given that both the Tories and Labour have stated that the Scottish vote is irrelevant, a statement which shows a complete lack of respect to the Scottish voter.
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That's the main reason I voted for the SNP in the past. I think it's time that Scotland went its own way as there is no need for us to be part of the UK any more and it just seems there are too many Scots happy to blame England for their woes. It will probably mean higher tax but I think in the long run it will be better for our economy.
 
J. K. Rowling on why she'll never vote tory

I like this bit:

I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for a couple of reasons. The main one was that I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country, not free-floating ex-pats, living in the limbo of some tax haven and associating only with the children of similarly greedy tax exiles.

A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism. On the available evidence, I suspect that it is Lord Ashcroft’s idea of being a mug.
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Mr Jack said:
J. K. Rowling on why she'll never vote tory

I like this bit:
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Shame it has no resemblance to current Tory policies really... Still it seems to be a common tactic (or possibly defect in thought) among those who vote labour. Make up a position, declare it to belong to the Tories, then use it to justify why you wouldn't vote for them. It's almost like they can't bring themselves to vote for labour on merit so have to perform strange and bizarre mental gymnastics to convince themselves.
 
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I couldn't imagine much worse if Scotland goes independence, and I really don't envisage it happening - even if the SNP do well in this election and get a decent foothold in Westminster.
Many voters will just go ahead and vote the SNP because they think "Oh gee, Scotland! Woo! We're amazing, we can survive on our own no bother. The English are *****." This isn't the case, none of the constituent members of the Union could survive without the other. We are all mutually dependent on one-another.
An SNP vote should be treated as a protest vote against Labour as far as I'm aware. I'm of the opinion that Labour do not have a credible opposition up here, even if they aren't in power.
It's a shame, as my area is a massive Labour stronghold but I can see a very large swing happening towards SNP which will just inflate Big Eck's ego even more and sending him off on another independence rant when there are far bigger problems that need addressing, both in Scotland and the UK.
 
Ahleckz said:
This isn't the case, none of the constituent members of the Union could survive without the other. We are all mutually dependent on one-another.
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I disagree, I think all the home countries could survive quite well without each other. Probably not as well as together, but to say they couldn't survive is just wrong. If people want independance enough then I see no reason to stand in their way. Of course many may be put off voting for the SNP for other reasons and don't think independance is important enough to put up with the rest of their policies.
 
Gay, polling card just turned up. I have no idea how, because its arrived at my Uni accommodation so i've somehow become registered in Bristol :(. I wanted to use my vote in Swindon as its not a Lib Dem stronghold, my vote might actually make a difference in Swindon. Swindon is my permanent residence anyway, will I be able to change this late?

How can I re-register. And why can't I do all this online now, its 2010 for gods sake not 1980.
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...t-waiting-times-rise-under-labour-791334.html

NHS treatment waiting times rise under Labour

Patients are waiting longer on average for NHS treatment than they were in 1997, despite the billions of pounds poured into the health service since Labour came to power.

The NHS figures come as an embarrassing setback for the Government, which has claimed success in reducing very long waits for patients by pumping more money into the NHS and hiring more doctors and nurses.

The Government has succeeded in ending waiting times of 18 months, but overall the average time patients wait for an operation has risen from 41 days in 1997-98 to 49 days last year. Ministerial sources said the figures were misleading, but they threaten to undermine plans by Gordon Brown for a fresh summer offensive on the health service.
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http://itn.co.uk/95c8b5dc2f75a70114c1e896dd9fb589.html

Economists 'issue warning over Tory plans'

In their letter, the economists said that while the Tories described their proposed £6 billion cut as "efficiency savings", in economic terms it was "just a cut by another name".

They said: "It will lead directly to job losses and indirectly to further falls in spending through the standard multiplier process. At a time when recovery is delicate it could even affect confidence to the degree that we are tipped back into recession - with much larger job consequences."
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