Poll: Who Will You Be Voting For In The Next General Election?

amcluesent

Clown's Labour is now full-on socialist, stealing pensions, nationalising the means of exchange, planning to nationalise the means of production, full-on assault on private property-rights, making us all subservient to the State and the tin-pot council snoopers,etc. etc.

It could be rational to vote Labour if you are happy to stay on benefits in your LA house.

matthewcb

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

People remember the pain of the last Tory government. Despite all the problems, we have never had it so good as we have over the last 10/11 years.

The Tories will forever be associated with Margaret Thatcher. They say time is a great healer and it seems that adage is holding true for some. How we forget.
GG

Hopefully Labour will forever be associated with the lies of Blair/Brown and they'll be kept out of power for a hundred years.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

storminbalder wrote: »

Utter idiocy. Some people have such short memories. More fool them. Labour for me - not to get Labour in so much as to keep the Tories out.

which is why most people do vote labour because there's no alternatives.
I know a lot of people who vote lib dem but in a general election vote labour as to vote lib dem would be a waste of a vote to them.

storminbalder

mitchaa wrote: »

It will only be the benefits brigade that will vote for labour. I even think the genuine working classes who used to be majority labour voters will vote elsewhere. (Who is to blame for many of them losing their jobs?).

I am sure this isn't true. You are assuming that everyone is an evil money grabbing capitalist. I for one will be fine in any eventuality. I have a well paid recession proof job. But most people don't, and is they that will suffer under the Tories, as before.

As a Socialist I don't like Labour. But they are by far the lesser of two evils.

amcluesent

>But most people don't, and is they that will suffer under the Tories, as before.<

Nonsense. After the dead-hand of state planning, propping up lame-ducks and 98% marginal tax went in 1979, there was a renaissance of wealth-creation and new jobs. Of course, some people choose not to 'get no their bikes' and moped about t'pit-villages for decades.

Pobby

I put " other ". Not sure why. Just some misplaced hope that someone will come along and be different from all the bottom feeding trash that have formed governments for years. Tory and Labour both. Oh well, at my age you can still dream!

Generali

Pobby wrote: »

I put " other ". Not sure why. Just some misplaced hope that someone will come along and be different from all the bottom feeding trash that have formed governments for years. Tory and Labour both. Oh well, at my age you can still dream!

My choice is between Labor and Liberal. I guess I'll vote Liberal or spoil my paper. Voting is mandatory in Aus.

nickmason

Wutang wrote: »

dimwit,

I look forward to seeing the fox hunting toff boys come in to power and make things worse.

Honestly, those in glass houses. And yes, for clarity, I'm calling you a "dimwit".

michaels

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

People in the north east where I live will vote Labour.They would vote labour if you put a monkey up for election.

There are actually some very interesting effects here; some research has been done for black voters in the US who predominently vote Democrat. Because their votes are taken for granted there is no incentive for the politicians to do anything for this demographic - Democrats don't need to 'buy' their votes and Republicans might as well not try as they won't get the votes whatever they do. Compare this to 'swing' blue collar workers for whom the politicans fall over themselves to produce policies and promises that meet their needs and values.

naughtybish

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

People remember the pain of the last Tory government. Despite all the problems, we have never had it so good as we have over the last 10/11 years.

The Tories will forever be associated with Margaret Thatcher. They say time is a great healer and it seems that adage is holding true for some. How we forget.

GG

In 1976 the UK was like now on the point of going bust

The then Chancellor, Denis Healey, made an application to the IMF for a handout of £2.3 billion pounds to keep the country afloat.

Doesn't sound a lot these days but bear in mind this was 32 years ago.

The worst UK Government administration in history (Labour coincidentally) and, without a shadow of doubt, the worst Chancellor.

Criticise Thatcher all you like but she never reduced this country to it's knees with a begging bowl.......which is what it amounted to under Callaghan.

i was not born until 1983 and was brought up under the tory years ,
what i have seen of the labour jokers in the past 10 years

for me ONCE is enough ! ( thats if we ever come out of this recession with something that we can still call a country. )