What's your General Election voting history?

robfosters said:
Protest vote against our current relationship with the EU.
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This doesn't make sense. A conservative majority is more likely then a UKIP majority and we know we are getting a referendum if the conservatives get in.


Anyway the candidates haven't been announced yet. Are you all just going to vote for the party with absolutely zero consideration for they chose to represent your area?
 
1997 lib dem
2001 lib dem
2005 lib dem
2010 lib dem

2015? I really don't know now. I'm currently feeling like spoiling ballot paper. The party that I felt most closely fitted my views have shown themselves to be gutless and no different than the others.
 
2010: UKIP
2015: I would vote UKIP again but I'm in a new constituency and the candidate looks useless, so am undecided.

I've voted for other parties in council elections.
 
Uther said:
After 30 years of voting, I'm more than a little jaded with all of them, so I probably won't bother.
Its not as if they represent the people is it...
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I was lucky enough to figure that out before I became eligible to vote and therefore have never voted in my life.

A big patriotic rah-rah is made of it all before people spend the next 4 years moaning about politicians and ****ging them off.

Notice how Cameron is making a big deal about the EU and immigration now just a few months before elections. Gordon Brown done exactly the same thing just before the previous general election. Cameron done the same thing at that time too, as he's doing now. They hop on popular issues, they suddenly share the same concerns as the common man and every moron from Southampton all the way to Aberdeen is fooled once again. They're voted back in and the cycle repeats itself.

No thanks.
 
As a student, I find them all terrible, Labour are the best of worst, but that's about it.

As for the Tories , they did nothing but corrupt this country and peel the skin off the middle class, they can kiss my ass.
 
2001 - Didn't Vote
2005 - Was going to vote Labour but didn't bother at the last minute due to a dirty and negative campaign by both Labour and Lib Dem in a very marginal seat
2010 - Lib Dem

2015 - Labour probably. Lib Dem wont get my vote until it swings back to the left
 
Conservative since 1997 and will vote for them again next year.

They are all utterly imperfect and while the tories have not removed the deficit I doubt very much that Labour would have got anywhere near how much its been cut thus far. I find labour a little too socialist in their ideals and, to me, socialism is great while theres someone to pay for it.
 
2010 - Conservatives
2015 - likely Conservatives, perhaps Lib Dem.

Wouldn't let Ed Balls look after my ISA let alone the treasury. I am not keen on the relationship between Labour and unions either. I can't see myself voting for Labour for some time/ever. A healthy, growing economy is going to provide much better for people than a weezing, debt-ridden one saddled with unsustainable spending commitments (Labour's spending spree over the last decade really didn't bother me).

Edit: Completely agree with Luneycom above.
 
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MrMoonX said:
Really? Vote left forever now turn extreme right:confused:
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A significant number of labour supporters are switching to UKIP...

2005 - Conservative (preferred to vote Lib Dem but chose Conservatives because there was more chance of removing the labour MP that way)
2010 - Conservative - as above
2015 - Probably Lib Dem as I'm now in such a safe Conservative seat it won't make any difference anyway...
 
2005 - LD.
2010 - Conservative.
2015 - undecided. Whoever has the best chance of defeating my MP - Ed Balls and hence Labour. Possibly Conservative again or UKIP.
 
I unfortunately...must agree with Tony Blair on this.

Although his underlying context appears rather corporate friendly (honestly government doesn't change much in this respect)...I truly am bored of this cyclical masochistic system and would we just live in the corporate world we all despise, but cant stop.

Not even sarcasm, it will happen.
 
Starting to think UKIP might actually have a chance :S going by the general mood at work and socially most people I encounter seem to be of the mindset "we'll we've tried everything else" and either voting UKIP or not at all. Only 1 guy at work is voting Lib Dem - huge swing from last election where probably 30-40% were voting and mostly split between Conservatives and Labour.
 
JohnnyG said:
It's nothing unusual as students do it all the time once they start paying tax.
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Any evidence to back that up?

students vote left for many reasons, typically they are more educated, more intelligent and are liberal. Paying taxes doesn't change that.

What yo do find is older people are more likely to vote and older people are more likely to be conservative, but that has nothing to do with paying taxes.
 
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