Who are you voting for in the next election?

[Guest MattP]

There should be a box with spoilt paper and no confidence in any of them.

 

And a special box where anyone with an IQ of below 40 puts a voting form in that we can burn on the quiet.

[lavrentis]

UKIP. Time for a change.

[Voll Blau]

If there was a NO vote box that's where my x would be going , but there isn't so i don't even vote .

 

Spoil your ballot then? Sends more of a message than sitting on your arse.

[purpleronnie]

I think I'm more open now to various parties than I have ever been before, apart from UKIP of course.

[lavrentis]

I think I'm more open now to various parties than I have ever been before, apart from UKIP of course.

 

Always had you down as BNP

[Guest MattP]

Always had you down as BNP

 

 

Like it

[MooseBreath]

I know we live in an age where blaming someone or something else for your own failures is considered acceptable by a lot of people, but I still dont really understand what anyone can have against the tories at present. All meaningful indicators and personal experience suggest the country is booming and amazing opportunities are available for any normal person with a normal level of ambition.

So a serious question to anyone not voting tory:

- what exactly have they done wrong, or what haven't they done that you think they should have done?

[yorkie1999]

I know we live in an age where blaming someone or something else for your own failures is considered acceptable by a lot of people, but I still dont really understand what anyone can have against the tories at present. All meaningful indicators and personal experience suggest the country is booming and amazing opportunities are available for any normal person with a normal level of ambition.

So a serious question to anyone not voting tory:

- what exactly have they done wrong, or what haven't they done that you think they should have done?

Well for a start, they've ravaged and oppressed the working man since henry sixth, in fact if it wasn't for the russian revolution and the fear of a peoples uprising in this country we wouldn't have been so humbly allowed  to vote.

[Charl91]

I know we live in an age where blaming someone or something else for your own failures is considered acceptable by a lot of people, but I still dont really understand what anyone can have against the tories at present. All meaningful indicators and personal experience suggest the country is booming and amazing opportunities are available for any normal person with a normal level of ambition.

So a serious question to anyone not voting tory:

- what exactly have they done wrong, or what haven't they done that you think they should have done?

 

Michael Gove.

[z-layrex]

Whichever benefits the NHS the most I guess. Don't like any politician however.

[Rincewind]

You takes your pen and you makes your choice.

 

http://www.inkyworld.co.uk/#post452

[MooseBreath]

Well for a start, they've ravaged and oppressed the working man since henry sixth, in fact if it wasn't for the russian revolution and the fear of a peoples uprising in this country we wouldn't have been so humbly allowed to vote.

Anything specific from the last few years? I've seen the working man benefitting from vastly improved economic conditions, as well as low to mid earners all benefitting directly from an increase in the tax free allowance, essentially a working man's tax cut.

[Rincewind]

From the Mail so it must be true

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544514/Government-workers-pursue-mentally-ill-woman-COMA-fit-work.html

[Webbo]

You takes your pen and you makes your choice.

 

http://www.inkyworld.co.uk/#post452

It makes me laugh how you keep telling us you're too clever to believe anything in the Daily Mail and yet you'll swallow any half baked bullsh1t from any anonymous dipsh1t with a grudge on the net.

[FuriousFox46]

UKIP. Time for a change.

 

Not when the proposed change is UKIP... 

[cambridgefox]

From the Mail so it must be true

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544514/Government-workers-pursue-mentally-ill-woman-COMA-fit-work.html

I have been reading your posts of late and you have definitely persuaded me to vote Conservative Ken.

[Alf Bentley]

And why?

 

Trying to work out who to vote for next time round, but I can't make up my mind for the life of me.

 

I voted Conservative last time, but I'm not sure I could vote for them again, unless they get rid of Gove. Similarly, I don't want to vote Lib Dem, because Nick Clegg. On the other hand, I don't want to vote for Labour, since I don't agree with their benefits policies (which seems to be 'give them to everyone'). 

 

Someone give me some good reasons for voting for one of them. 'Cus I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to politics (except Gove-related politics).

 

Which constituency will you be voting in, Charl91? That's important, because in most places your vote won't matter, due to our ridiculous first-past-the-post voting system. It is clear which party will win in most seats, so you might as well express yourself. In a minority of constituencies, 2 or more parties might win and your vote really does count....these are mainly medium-sized towns or suburbs of major cities. With a few exceptions, votes in larger cities or rural areas don't really matter.

 

In Leicestershire, unless Cameron or Milliband is caught paying Romanian benefits fraudsters for sexual access to goats, then Labour will win the 3 Leicester seats and the Tories will win the rest (Blaby, Harborough, Melton, Hinckley/Bosworth etc.) with the exception of Loughborough, which could go either way....and an outside chance on NW Leicestershire (Coalville/Ashby), but that will vote Tory, too, unless the Tories are doing much worse than looks likely just now. The Lib Dems will not win any seats in Leicestershire. Happy to take bets on those results! 

 

I'll almost certainly vote Green because, despite their failings (humourless gits who've got it wrong about nuclear power)...

- Unlike other parties, they view climate change as important (UK's a bit damp recently, isn't it?)

- Unlike other parties, they are prepared to challenge the idea that infinite economic growth, work, production, consumption, big business profits & destruction of the world is the only way for humans to live....quality of life matters more than standard of living

- They are also a proper left-wing party who believe in active, participatory democracy, devolving power, distributing wealth, building communities, supporting small businesses, helping those without wealth create opportunities etc, rather than servicing the needs of big business and kicking those without wealth (Tories), servicing the needs of big business and chucking a safety net to those without wealth (Labour) or servicing the needs of big business, vacillating and making a few concessions to help the right-on middle-classes feel good about themselves (Lib Dems)

 

I meant to vote Green in 2010 but changed my mind to vote tactically for Labour 2 days before the election as I thought (wrongly) that the Lib Dems "no tuition fees" policy ( ) (which I opposed) might help them win Leicester South, and thought (rightly) that the Lib Dems would support an ideological right-wing Tory government when the chips were down.

 

Unless Jon Ashton or Ed Milliband are caught paying Romanian benefits fraudsters / asylum seekers / gypsies / people traffickers / White Dee for sexual access to goats, then Jon Ashton will win Leicester South for Labour, so I'll vote Green   

[Alf Bentley]

I feel really disappointed that I ruined an impressive voting record in 2010.

 

Before then, I'd always voted for a losing candidate, mainly - and unusually - in constituencies that were marginal, so mattered:

- 1983: Voted Lab in Norwich South; Lab MP unseated, Tories took seat;

- 1987: Voted Lab in Lewisham West; Lab failed to take target seat from Tories;

- 1992: Voted Lab in Plymouth Drake: Lab failed to take target seat from Tories;

- 1997: Voted Lab in Hinckley/Bosworth: Even in a landslide, Lab narrowly failed to unseat the shyster Tredinnick

- 2001: Voted Lib Dem in Coventry: Protest vote against Blair's Tory spending plans & failure to introduce PR; safe Lab seat

- 2006: Voted Lib Dem in Oadby/Harborough: Tactical vote for LDs, who had an outside chance but failed

- 2010: Misguidedly voted Lab in Leicester South, when I could have enjoyed voting as I wanted (Green)

 

Time for another pint of Burton Bridge's Stairway to Heaven, I think...

[Mike the Metal Ed]

My MP has a majority of 11,050, so I'm certainly free to vote for whomever, knowing that it won't make one blind bit of difference. I'll decide once I know which minor parties are fielding candidates.

[Rincewind]

It makes me laugh how you keep telling us you're too clever to believe anything in the Daily Mail and yet you'll swallow any half baked bullsh1t from any anonymous dipsh1t with a grudge on the net.

check it out

[Rincewind]

It makes me laugh how you keep telling us you're too clever to believe anything in the Daily Mail and yet you'll swallow any half baked bullsh1t from any anonymous dipsh1t with a grudge on the net.

and you believe everything the government comes out with

[Rincewind]

Respect?

 

sort of joking. I hate to say this but I quite like Michael Portillo. He is on This Week now and a lot of the things are quite moderate for a Tory. might be because he is retired.

So it is the individual I am concerned with and it just happens that there are less individuals that I like than the other parties.

[Webbo]

and you believe everything the government comes out with

Can you tell me the name of the person who wrote that blog you posted?

[Rincewind]

Some blogs go under a group name. I contribute to a facebook page and do not add my name but if I get the story from somewhere else via a link I acknowledge the source. If there is a writer to be credited it will be mentioned otherwise it will be plagiarism.

Also if there is a story we check the source so as not to be in danger of libel suite.

[Bert]

Politics isn't my thing at all and I could easily abstain and it not have any bearing on me, or the final outcome. But then I'd lose my right to have a moan about the government whenever the opportunity arises.

They're all lieing toe-rags who say the right things at the right time but very rarely deliver.

My brother and his young family have been screwed over by the Tories with their bedroom tax etc amongst other things, which could have a bearing on things as I don't like seeing them in the situation that they are.