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

drbeat

SGE1 wrote: »

The credit boom caused by sub-prime lending, ie easy lending, not cheap lending.

And the Bank of England, and independent entity, sets rates anyway, not the Government.

Yawn, yawn and yawn...

drbeat

SGE1 wrote: »

The credit boom caused by sub-prime lending, ie easy lending, not cheap lending.

And the Bank of England, and independent entity, sets rates anyway, not the Government.

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Out of touch?

treliac

SGE1 wrote: »

And the Bank of England, an independent entity, sets rates anyway, not the Government.

Does anyone still believe that's true?

MWAUGH1983

I would always vote conservative as we need a change; and this is always a vote against labour. But as history always dictates people always vote labour for what ever reason and these tend to be the same people who voice concerns over labour!!!!

drbeat

treliac wrote: »

Does anyone still believe that's true?

Yes, SGE1.

neverdespairgirl

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill

breadlinebetty

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?)

The ''old and bold'' mindsets however may not vote in a tory government:rolleyes:

These results are exactly the same as the results from the previous polls that have been on here the last few months, tories way out on top.

I would actually vote lib dems, but see it as a wasted vote as i believe its between the big 2.

I will be voting Conservative. No way am I going to be dictated to by this bunch of muppets who want to lib their own pockets.

Labour steals from the poor and makes us suffer

Rochdale_Pioneers

drbeat wrote: »

Yes like handing over regulation of the finance industry to a wet blanket called the FSA was indeed a Global Decision. Reducing interest rates to create a credit boom was a global decision?

Well thank God we have the Conservatives to tell us what they would have done differently! For as we all know they would have regulated things much more tightly. As John Redwood told us last Autumn in his role heading the Tory policy forum, a Conservative government would deregulate a mortgage market already strangled by regulation.

chris_spackman

With all that is going on we have to look at a few things.

Brown said no more boom and bust. Blair started a spending spree on troops and ammo for a war which very few wanted apart from a redneck in America.

Labour took on good books from the tories and have just ripped all the pages out and replaced it with dribble, debt and numbers people can not work out.

Trade unions have once again caused problems and the membership of these are going up so it won't be the credit crunch thats going to do us, it will be stikes when people are asked to take a pay cut, the same people who will go on strike are the same people who voted these waste of space in.

We pay too much to Scotland in health and education, fact. This needs to be stopped NOW. A drop in VAT is a joke. The council tax needs to be dropped to a fair price, councils need to save money and stop spending on complete !!!!. My council in Bournemouth spent £2m on adverts, £80k on an outside firm to help them save money when they pay someone £100k in house to do the same bloody thing. This is where money can be saved so we can not pay too much thus we have money to spend. What is going to happen to those who can not afford to pay things such as the TV License, another bloody tax or the council tax in full each month. MP's and those fat !!!!!! in town halls should have their (OUR BLOODY MONEY AGAIN)expenses stopped, i mean poor souls having to travel to and from work, what about me and the train fare increase etc? This country needs a radical sort out, declare it bankrupt, kick out all the waste and start again.

Rochdale_Pioneers

chris_spackman wrote: »

Labour took on good books from the tories and have just ripped all the pages out and replaced it with dribble, debt and numbers people can not work out.

With respect the Tories only managed a steady ship in their last few years. Interest rates were above 10% for the whole of the 80s. Lawson's boom fuelled runaway inflation and house prices which caused rates to hit 15% in 1989 just before it quickly turned to bust. There seems to be this myth that things were fine pre-97 - Clarke finally managed to steady a ship that had been screwed for years, but even then had to do a lot of unpalatable things. People got exercised about VAT possibly going up 1% next year. remember it going up 2.5% in 1991? Remember it going 0% to 8% on fuel? Remember the attempt to increase it still further to 17.5% scuppered only by the "whipless wonders"?