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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lucasade1 said:
:confused: Riiiiiiight. Still, beats posting irrelevant youtube clips from 1990's tv shows eh?
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Like it or not, a lot of the public mistrust of the current Conservative party is because people remember the last Conservative government of the '80s and '90s. I for one grew up in a northern manufacturing town and remember the day the biggest factory closed down in the mid '90s. Suddenly my friends were looking at being made homeless, their Dads who had worked in manufacturing since they left school had no help from the government for retraining etc and so ended up shelf stacking in supermarkets for <£2.50 an hour (The Conservative made sure there was no minimum wage). As far as I'm concerned there was no hope in that town until 1997. This was a Conservative constituency since the constituency was formed in '83, and has been Labour ever since 1997.
 
scorza said:
Like it or not, a lot of the public mistrust of the current Conservative party is because people remember the last Conservative government of the '80s and '90s. I for one grew up in a northern manufacturing town and remember the day the biggest factory closed down in the mid '90s. Suddenly my friends were looking at being made homeless .
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And an alternative would have been...?
 
meghatronic said:
And an alternative would have been...?
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- Not keeping interest rates high and allowing the pound to devalue.
- Encourage investment into the area, like Labour have done - the town has grown in size and wealth rapidly throughout the noughties.
- Provide help and support in retraining those who were made redundant
 
scorza said:
- Not keeping interest rates high and allowing the pound to devalue.
- Encourage investment into the area, like Labour have done - the town has grown in size and wealth rapidly throughout the noughties.
- Provide help and support in retraining those who were made redundant
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Paid for by whom?

What's the point in propping up failing businesses/industries/areas?

(devil's advocate)

naffa said:
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That video makes me dislike the LibDem's even less, hardly balance.
 
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Tee hee hee. BBC thing is fun!
 
scorza said:
Like it or not, a lot of the public mistrust of the current Conservative party is because people remember the last Conservative government of the '80s and '90s. I for one grew up in a northern manufacturing town and remember the day the biggest factory closed down in the mid '90s. Suddenly my friends were looking at being made homeless, their Dads who had worked in manufacturing since they left school had no help from the government for retraining etc and so ended up shelf stacking in supermarkets for <£2.50 an hour (The Conservative made sure there was no minimum wage). As far as I'm concerned there was no hope in that town until 1997. This was a Conservative constituency since the constituency was formed in '83, and has been Labour ever since 1997.
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Yes but, in MY town, the towns largest manufacturer has closed down, as well as the largest food production factory, as well as factories in the area having massive lay offs to boot.
This hasnt happened under a tory government, this has happened under a labour government, hundreds and hundreds of people in the town out of work in the space of two months last year.

So in my respect even though I would never EVER vote labour anyway, if I was a floating voter, their talk of crime going down, better public services (our A and E is closing down, our maternity ward was threatened with closure last year, our bin collections are now fortnightly, we dont see police on the streets, you cant go into the town center at night, on any night, roads are a pot holed minefield............... it goes on and on and on) is just bare faced nonsense.

To top is all off, I am paying 125% more council tax than I was doing before labour came into power, I'm earning less, taxed more, and house prices are three times higher than they were before 1997.

So, what have the Romans done for me?
 
why don't english people vote for independance? Perhaps because they haven't seen mass slaughter and poverty on their doorstep due to dominance of another nation?

The tories care about upper middle class families and those earning over 60K per year if you are one of them vote tory if you aren't then you are an idiot and a fool...
 
Well, I've had a reply from my current MP, and it (in my mind) confirms the big problem with labour...

I asked 9 questions, mainly about civil rights. In return, I recieved:

2 spotlight fallacies.

3 appeals to popularity.

A statement of belief that the opinion of ministers is more important in lawmaking than the evidence of scientists.

2 statements that the illusion of safety is a valid reason to make laws, even if there is no evidence of actual safety.

A statement that Section 44 stop and search solves crime (despite citing the figures for stop and search vs arrest history in the original letter).

A statement that there is no benefits trap.

A statement that passing a law where there is no evidence of usefulness is acceptable.

As you may guess, I'm not very convinced.
 
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