Poll: Who will you be voting for on May 5th?

Which political party will you vote for?

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 187 20.5%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 311 34.1%

  • Labour

    Votes: 161 17.6%

  • Regional Party (Plaid Cymru, SNP, etc.)

    Votes: 23 2.5%

  • Issues Party (BNP, Greens, UKIP)

    Votes: 45 4.9%

  • Independent candidate

    Votes: 5 0.5%

  • Abstaining from voting

    Votes: 107 11.7%

  • Not eligible for voting

    Votes: 74 8.1%
  • Total voters
    913
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Can we have a 'BNP' or 'far right' option, just out of interest please... I think a lot of people are going to vote far right and opinion polls have given them a good share of the vote
 
Visage said:
Maybe not the minute they get into power, but they *will* rise. The Tories seem set on pumping more money into consumers pockets. WHile on the surface this may seem like a good idea, it will lead to inflation. Britain is already growing at 3% a year. Any more would lead to an inflationary scenario, followed by rising interest rates, and recession.
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The government does not control interest rates, the Bank Of England' MPC does.

That is ignoring the fact that it was the Tories who made double digit inflation a memory. Inflation has been low and very stable since 1993. This has been continued (with the falling unemployment that results from low inflationary expectations) by the first ever sensible labour government.
 
Seft said:
The government does not control interest rates, the Bank Of England' MPC does.
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True, and their guidelines are to keep inflation in a narrow band (Between 1 and 4%, or something close to that). If inflation rises out of that band they are obliged to actr to reduce it. The only way they can do that is to raise interest rates to take money out of consumers pockets and slow down spending, and hence inflation.

For everty increase in money that the government give to us, it will eventually be taken away by interest rate rises.

Seft said:
That is ignoring the fact that it was the Tories who made double digit inflation a memory. Inflation has been low and very stable since 1993. This has been continued (with the falling unemployment that results from low inflationary expectations) by the first ever sensible labour government.
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It wouldnt even have been a memory had they not caused it to be necessary in the first place.
 
Inflation that was at least partly caused by the trade unions demanding wages higher than the profit the company could make on the good. The Labour goverment at the time allowed this to go on and cost push inflation occured. By taking away most of the unions powers the conservative government controlled inflation and brought it back to an acceptable level. I have not researched this period in much depth but I am totally aware at least at face value the problems the labour government caused before Margaret Thatcher took office.

On a different note I am quite frankly fed up of the constant 'i wont trust them again, they messed up in the 90's' tosh. It has been 8 years since the conservatives were in office and the world has changed a lot. Anything they did while in office all that time ago has been changed by labour. Some people are saying they do not trust Howard. Fair enough. But surely Mr Blair has done far more wrong, broken promises and just generally lied to everyone and that is without even mentioning the raided pensions fund, thankyou Mr Brown.

When Labour came to office in 2001 they said they would not raise national insurance contributions. They came to office and raised national insurance contributions. Without going into Iraq or any other pseudo sensationalist issue that is a simple obvious lie. And I am 100% certain they will lie again if re-elected.

On topic...I cannot vote this time around but the conservatives would be getting my vote if i could.

Its quite funny - all of the arguments going around about "we need a change" and "change those at the top" are exaclt the same ones around when the Tories last lost power. Just shows that nothing changes, the goverment always eventually lose an election.
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This has been true since before the first world war.
 
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Visage said:
A Tory government would be a disaster.

Britons are 1 TRILLION pounds in debt, at interest rates of 5% - we pay back 50 billion pounds a year in interest alone.

Under the tories last time, rates peaked at 15%.
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That'd be quite a nice outcome. Even nicer for those of us who don't owe a penny to anybody. There'll be an influx of cheap 'toys' when the finance agreements come crashing down and they're reposessed.
 
Is there many people here who will be voting for different to the parents?
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To this day I still don't know how my parents vote (and i'm 31 :o ) - they absolutely refused to tell me when I asked at 18, in case it affected my choice - very sensible attitude I reckon :)
 
According to the leaflet that came through the door today from the conservatives the lib dems:

Don't want first time burglars to go to prison
Oppose the automatic life sentance for murder
Don't think prison is effective

w-t-f? Fabricated by the tories to make them look better, or are the lib dems going after the criminal voters or what?
 
I can't stand negative advertising like that.
When I get an advertising leaflet from a political party, I don't want to know what another party doesn't do I want to know what this party does do.
 
Phil99 said:
According to the leaflet that came through the door today from the conservatives the lib dems:

Don't want first time burglars to go to prison
Oppose the automatic life sentance for murder
Don't think prison is effective

w-t-f? Fabricated by the tories to make them look better, or are the lib dems going after the criminal voters or what?
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I beleive the reasoning is that rehabilitation is always a better option than just slamming someone away for 20 years, then they get released and have no reason to re-engage with society, so they go back to crime....its a debateable point, but its certainly no worse than conventional thinking on crime and punishment which has hardly solved the problem.

Its true that countrys with more relaxed penal regimes tend to have lower crime rates, so there may be some truth in it, but its not a subject thats very well suited to 'soundbite' politics. The problem is that as soon as you raise the subject you get leaflets like that produced....not very condusive to debate really....
 
Phil99 said:
According to the leaflet that came through the door today from the conservatives the lib dems:

Don't want first time burglars to go to prison
Oppose the automatic life sentance for murder
Don't think prison is effective

w-t-f? Fabricated by the tories to make them look better, or are the lib dems going after the criminal voters or what?
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Fabricated implies it isn't true. Which all those things are from a certain point of view. And isn't telling you a reason not to vote for a party almost the same as one tell you why you should vote for someone else.
 
Although I am a Tory at heart, I will be reserving my democratic right not to vote, there is no-one worth voting for, at a push I may vote Lib-dem, Labour are a no-no for me, and would you actually vote for Howard?
 
sativa said:
Poor website. Dissatisified with the programming there.

I am fully aware of my currently chosen party's policies (Conservatives) and they appear third... No doubt a spin doctor has hacked the site :D
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Excellent idea behind the site though, if it were more accurate/covered more in a totally unbiased way it would be very useful :D
 
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