A general election may be soon - how will you vote?

[Robby]

The media are feeling pretty certain the a general election is pending. If it happens, how will you vote?

I've included the main parties and BNP, seeing as some people on the forum seem to like them.

[thegubner]

[Shay HTFC]

For the first time ever I think I would vote Conservatives.

I have finally snapped with regards to Labour. I consider myself liberal and I support the welfare state and taxes etc, but Labour just seem to go too far with it.

They are liberal and socialist, but I don't seem to be seeing any of the benefits it should bring.
Look at Sweden. They have high taxes, but they seem to have a lot of the benefits that it brings. i.e. free uni tuition and just read in another thread about free school dinners for kids.

Labours 'socialist' is not for the benefit of the whole, but for the benefit of those who abuse the system it seems.

I was brought up on the welfare state. My mother was a housewife looking after us (4 kids) and my father worked as a town planner bringing in the dough. He died when I was 11 though and we have been living off his pension and child support etc since, but in criticism of my mother, I think she could have worked, especially when we got older and more self dependent.

Tories seem to have the right idea. I just heard this morning that they would only give benefits to those people who couldn't get a job. Anyone offered a job that they could fulfil would have their benefits stopped if they didn't take it up. That is how it should be and would stop the 'lazy Brit' culture where we leave all the unpaid jobs to immigrants.


The problem is though that we can't return to an 'elite' system, whereby people born working class have pretty much no chance of working their way out. Yes, we hear stories of how some kid from a council estate made a fortune, but they are rare exceptions to the rule.

Everyone needs the opportunity to progress, so university should be free (or maybe free if you complete the course - If you doss about and then drop out, then you pay for what you've done?)

It seems from where I'm sitting that the UK has gone to pot. Something needs to be done and in my eyes the tories are the best people to bring back the values we need, rather than what is quickly becoming a country full of lay about wasters.
Make the UK somewhere people want to remain, rather than having everyone dreaming of getting out for example.

Someone please convince me I'm wrong though, because voting for tories? EURGH

[Harold_Shand]

I'm voting Conservative. We need a tory government and I was impressed with David Cameron and his speech.

[Kickstart]

Hi

It is a difficult one. Although I don't want labour to win, I also don't want any of the others to win either. The 3 major parties are just competing to be the most extreme on the same policies. They all support taxing the private road user to death using CO2 as an excuse. They all support petty macro management of everyones activities. They all support a hideous amount of bureaucracy.

And the alternative minor parties seem even worse.

Personally I will 99% likely vote conservative. However I am not doing that to vote for them, more to vote against labour.

Best case scenario is we land up with a hung parliament with enough animosity between the parties to prevent them dumping any more half baked laws on us for a few years.

All the best

Keith
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[pa_broon74]

I haven't voted for a number of years, but after listening to both speeches it'd have to be the tories purely because they say they'll scrap ID cards.

Gordon Brown probably has better leadership/statesmanship skills, but he and his gov just can't be trusted. David Cameron and his lot seem to have better ideas but no gravitas or standing.

I don't think there will be an election anytime soon. Labour have nothing to gain and everything to loose from doing it. If they lost one or two seats it would be a massive blow to GB's power and standing.

Even if they did have an election, everyone that votes will do so for the status quo (no, not the band...) Better the devil you know etc etc etc.
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[Itchy]

Tory,

I know they are a bunch of crooks , but at least they are more honest about it rather than Labour pretending to be whiter than white.

Also tories say no ID cards, No to congestion charging, and seem to be alot less authoritarian than Labour who are starting to make the Nazis look left wing.

In the 90s they had an ID card review , turned out to be ineffective and they canned it, NL had a similar review they ignored it.

mildly pointless thugh living in a rock solid labour seat, affectionately called dole city.
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[instigator]

Won't vote.

I don't trust any of them anyway.

[Mudskipper]

I'm torn at the moment.

I don't want Labour to stay in, I'm too stubborn to bring myself to go Tory. I grew up under a Tory gumbint and vowed never to give them my X.

So that leaves the Liberals, who are a bit useless but come closest to matching the majority of my political beliefs (well, the ones most important to me).

All politicians are lying, self-serving, cheating scumbags who DO NOT care about the public and will lie, lie and lie again. So it's the lesser of the evils when it comes to voting.

Cameron is a buffoon who is bandwaggoning policies that seem popular. What he may promise and what he will deliver are entirely different. But that is the same for all politicians, I guess - but I just find him a mongy toff without a clue.

I'm in a pretty strong labour area with Tories & Liberals taking half of the rest each - so I reckon my vote could count, therefore I'll make the effort to go to the polling station.

The only sticking point with libs is their 'greenyness' - i'm concerned about petrol prices/road tax etc, although on the flip side if they improve public transport enought this could offset some of it.

Campbell is a bit old, though.

Perhaps I'll wait for manifestos. I think this government definitely needs a change though - hopefully it could shake the Labour party up, make them have a good look at themselves and what they should stand for at the core.

Old Labour FTW
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[veeeffarr]

Where's the "MARTIAL FUCKING LAW" box?

[TheShaggyDA]

LibDems are the only ones in a good enough position to get Labour out where I am, but I'm going to have to have another looksee at all of the policies before making a decision. And then spoiling the paper.
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[D O G]

Never voted before, due to apathy, this time I think I shall go and spoil my paper with some abusive message.

Fuck em all, bunch of cunts.

Glad I'm getting out of this shithole of a country.

[veeeffarr]

[Hetzer]

[D O G]

[mark83]

I am definately voting Tory.

Their inheritance tax policy is a gem: Only pay inheritance tax if your house is worth over £1m
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[Fisty]

At the end of the day any political party are going to screw you in the ass.
Just pick the one you would most like to be screwed by, then bend over and hand over your earnings.
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[JonB]

My first ever chance to vote in a general election and i'd rather vote for Ian Huntley to be released from prison.

Our country sucks for different opinions, you either go for one of the top 3 and get the same regardless of what party to go for.

Or you go BNP and then go the full hog of extremity.

We need some middle ground.

Will probably vote Conservative, just because I am fed up of Labour. As Brown looks unlikely to offer a referendum on the European Constitution, it goes against democracy as a whole on such an important step in our country's direction.
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[gmanxiii]

[Itchy]

[Nufkamp]

I will vote with my arse and leave it firmly wedged on my sofa. There is not one party who I believe will deliver anything they promise except the further raping of my wallet. They can all go fuck themselves.

[Shay HTFC]

[hellkat]

Perhaps a campaign of "biting back" by spoiling ballot papers by the method of stapling your own personal tax claim against the government?

Along the lines of :

"I hereby claim back the £9,999,999,999.99 which you make me pay in pointless VAT* but which I cannot claim back as I am not a VAT registered business"


*how does tax have "added value"?
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