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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seems like almost everyone who is saying they would vote labour tags on "because of what happened in the 80s" or words to that effect
so that would be the mess that labour left us in then?
 
I'm hoping for a hung parliament; with the Tories forging ahead with minority government rather than a formal pact.
 
VeNT said:
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seems like almost everyone who is saying they would vote labour tags on "because of what happened in the 80s" or words to that effect
so that would be the mess that labour left us in then?
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A more common trait is "IT IS IN THE GUARDIAN IT MUST BE TRUE".

Biggest joke is the recent 'breaking story' about 'Conservatives breaking manifesto pledge' re Crossrail.

MINOR-SHADOWING-MINISTER-IN-NOT-BEING-ABLE-TO-GIVE-GUARANTEES-ABOUT-SOMETHING-OUTSIDE-HER-REMIT-AND-SOMETHING-WHICH-SHE-HAS-NOTHING-TO-DO-WITH SHOCKER!!!!!11111111111111
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Protest vote my ass. I lived in North Glasgow for 30 years, the area is staunchly Labour and has been for over 75 years. During that time, the area went from good to bad to worse and the idiots still vote Labour. The area was traditionally one of metal and rail manufacturing and the Tories destroyed it as they did in every other area of Scotland.

What did Labour do to help the area? Sod all. High unemployment, high drug use, lack of local infrastructure, lack of local amenities and poor social housing. Labour decided to house the immigrants here and blamed the locals when the whole thing went wrong, ignoring the fact that the immigrants competed with the locals for the drug trade and burglary reports went crazy where there was little before.

Labour have failed Scotland and vote for the SNP is a vote for change.
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The SNP do not have a decent policy on anything. There push towards independence is the only thing that they care about and this is a foolish way to go.

Don't consider me to be a Labour supporter though, I could never vote for them in today's world.

People in Scotland refuse to back the Tories after the poll tax issue, it's about time people moved on from this and started living in today's world. We don't need to keep harking back to the Tories did x y and z twenty years ago. We need to give them the platform to change things for the better and put right the wrongs that Labour forced upon our community.

I'll be putting my X beside the Conservatives and proud to do so.
 
Ahleckz said:
The SNP do not have a decent policy on anything. There push towards independence is the only thing that they care about and this is a foolish way to go.

Don't consider me to be a Labour supporter though, I could never vote for them in today's world.

People in Scotland refuse to back the Tories after the poll tax issue, it's about time people moved on from this and started living in today's world. We don't need to keep harking back to the Tories did x y and z twenty years ago. We need to give them the platform to change things for the better and put right the wrongs that Labour forced upon our community.

I'll be putting my X beside the Conservatives and proud to do so.
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Hasn't poll tax since been shown to be the best/fairest in retrospect? Plus we pay so much more tax under a Labour government.

Nice post :).
 
Ahleckz said:
I'll be putting my X beside the Conservatives and proud to do so.
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Lots of people say 'We shouldn't vote against tory because of what they did when most recently they were in power' and then 'we should vote against Labour because of what when most recently they were in power'!

All very bizarre. Really we should be voting for who can best move us forwards from here. Voting because of some kind of vindictive, revenge fuelled hate-vote due to something that happened in the past all seems a little daft to me.
 
britboy4321 said:
Lots of people say 'We shouldn't vote against tory because of what they did when most recently they were in power' and 'we should vote against Labour because of what when most recently they were in power' in the same post!

All very bizarre. Really we should be voting for who can best move us forwards from here. Some kind of vindictive, revenge fuelled hate-vote because of something that happened in the past all seems a little daft to me.
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No, this a false comparison. Apples to oranges. One government messed up decades ago. One government ROYALLY screwed up mere years ago, ending only last week.

This isn't a question of revenge voting.

It is a question of giving the guy who delivered incompetence, waste and failure only yesterday a mandate for a further 5 years, or not giving him a mandate.

That is the question, that is the decision.
 
britboy4321 said:
Lots of people say 'We shouldn't vote against tory because of what they did when most recently they were in power' and then 'we should vote against Labour because of what when most recently they were in power'!

All very bizarre. Really we should be voting for who can best move us forwards from here. Voting because of some kind of vindictive, revenge fuelled hate-vote due to something that happened in the past all seems a little daft to me.
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As already said, that doesnt hold true, the conservative PARTY was last in power 13 years ago, with almost an entirely different cabinet and certainly a different leader.

Where as Labour are the the same personell who have a proven 13 year track record of abject failure and are asking you to vote for them again.

You would have to ask why you would do so?
Would you vote for them because you believe they were only pretending to be useless, corrupt liars for the past 13 years?
Or you will be voting for them because for some reason, with no previous signs or evidence or it happening that they will suddenly improve dramatically?

Would you go to the same restaurant if every time you went there it gave you food poisoning?
Or would you go to a restaurant that once gave you food poisoning nearly 14 years ago but now has completely different staff and is under completely different management and has been for years with no more evidence of food poisoning?
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
Same here mate.

I Live in a staunchly Labour stronghold in the north east of England and things have got worse under Labour with an unemployment rate way above the national average and one of the worst in the country.

Coal and shipbuilding was decimated inder the Tories and things have got worse under Labour with youth unemployment at a stratospheric level but people still vote for them.

It is usually a case of I've always voted for them and their parents did as well. All well and good but it has got you where exactly ?
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The thing is, there is a strong argument that Labour is part of the problem in the first place. Coal mining and shipbuilding were both protected and propped up, meaning that instead of the area changing naturally as one industry wanes and others grow in its place (as would normally happen in a correctly functioning market economy), they carried on without the chance for natural reform until the propping up was stopped.

The successful areas are those that are self-reliant and self-managing, rather than dependent on the state.
 
robgmun said:
Oh and by the way, who was the total honey at the Tory Manifesto launch sitting next to osborune!?!!

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I cannot believe no one has even commented on this so far! What is this - speakers corner? Name needed tbh.

Does anyone else think osbourne looks a bit like medvedev?
 
I don't know if any of those comments about big letters were directed at me, but just in case, I hope nobody on here is stupid enough to think I did it for any reason other than the fact they were headlines.
 
Not personally keen on Cameron, and I'd prefer Ken Clarke to be the prospective chancellor, but I'll be voting Conservative because I want this bunch of clowns out before they do even more damage to our country, the economy, and the fabric of our society. I'm fed up with the constant erosion of our civil liberties, to begin with.

Lib Dems are a no-go as they have some plain ridiculous policies. I also scratched my head at the £2500 bonus payment cap idea. I can never forget the Jon Culshaw line, "because he's a namby pamby liberal, who would let rapists live in womens' changing rooms! :D

Get the Tories in - see if they can sort it out, if not, then at least we've got rid of a stagnant government, and next time round, it could be the death of "mainstream" politics, and one/some of the "fringe" parties can have a go.
 
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