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

SGE1

pickledpink wrote: »

So it appears Labour will be OUT in the next election!!

What a surprise!!!!:rotfl:

Indeed, looks that way, if we think that the sample of people who responded is representative :rotfl:

mark5

Will vote conservative but labour will win in this area!

pandamonia

78 people on this forum need shooting in the face for voting labour, i bet they are the ones who put him in power and cant face accepting they were wrong

SGE1

pandamonia wrote: »

78 people on this forum need shooting in the face for voting labour, i bet they are the ones who put him in power and cant face accepting they were wrong

You're a nice person aren't you

wintersunshine

I think I might vote conservative. !!!!!!? has persuaded me that this is a good thing. He spends his day telling us how rubbish the government are and what a mess they have made of the economy. There was me thinking that the government just want to keep people in their jobs, particularly those in the public sector. And what do they get - slagged off by someone who works for a council. Hey, you couldn't make it up!

So maybe I'll vote conservative. They'll have the balls to take the axe to get rid of all those folks who think they can sit round drinking coffee, surfing the net and contributing nothing to society all day long and who give the government no thanks to boot.

Yup, let's get rid off the fat. They've been living of the rest of us for far too long.;) I'll have a tax cut, thanks.

Rochdale_Pioneers

Don't get too excited yet. 17 months to go until the election. In the last 17 months we've seen double digit labour lead then neck and neck, then 24% Tory lead, then 1-4% ory lead, now its back out into double digits.

Voters are floating massively and have been changing their minds wildly ever since the 2005 election. Whilst a Tory win is very likely its hardly a foregone conclusion nor is the size of any majority. Far far too much uncertainty to get through before anything becomes clear. Does anyone know what next month will look like politically never mind next year?

Personally I am waiting for the Obama factor to hit. Both party leaders fell opver themselves to bask in Obama's glow when he won the election. Now he is in office and starting to act we will have to see what impact this has. If as would appear he starts to build a new global financial system that has tight regulation, vast injections of state funding, huge state debts and state-run banks at its heart, its impact on british politics will be interesting. How will the Tories react to this new world order and what will it do to their poll ratings?

As yet the Tories haven't closed the deal with the electorate. They have no alternative programme for government or for the economy aside from a small number of reactive measures setting themselves against various things. They are winning votes from Labour by virtue of not being Labour. What they need to do is to firm up a support that doesn't swing wildly every few months - the Obama factor provides both that opportunity and the risk that their current transient support may float elsewhere.

matthewcb

All this talk of the Tories not proving themselves is quite right.

However, people rarely vote for change because they like the sound of the opposition. It usually happens because they want to remove the incumbents. In '97 things were fairly stable remember, people had just had enough of the Conservatives.

FWIW, I think we're looking at an electoral bloodbath in 2010. Even if the recovery is under way (not certain by any means), the feeling that a change is needed will be prevalent and the memories of this recession will be very painful.

wintersunshine

pandamonia wrote: »

78 people on this forum need shooting in the face for voting labour, i bet they are the ones who put him in power and cant face accepting they were wrong

So I assume you have a job in the private sector with an employer that:-

1) Will pay a nice fat subscription to BUPA
2) A very generous amount into your pension scheme
3) A big fat salary to pay for a private school for your kids
4) Live in a private, gated community to keep out the disaffected youth & burglars

Because if the conservatives get in that's the minimum you are going to need.

Maybe the 78 people who voted Labour don't have access to the above?

By the way, your "turn of phrase" needs a bit of brushing up......

Wookster

It pains me to say it but I will probably vote Tory.

The labour government is hell bent on bankrupting us all. Though I might disagree with almost everything else in the Tory party, doing rather less is better than doing the wrong thing, which is exactly what Labour is doing.

wintersunshine

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Don't get too excited yet. 17 months to go until the election. In the last 17 months we've seen double digit labour lead then neck and neck, then 24% Tory lead, then 1-4% ory lead, now its back out into double digits.

Voters are floating massively and have been changing their minds wildly ever since the 2005 election. Whilst a Tory win is very likely its hardly a foregone conclusion nor is the size of any majority. Far far too much uncertainty to get through before anything becomes clear. Does anyone know what next month will look like politically never mind next year?

Personally I am waiting for the Obama factor to hit. Both party leaders fell opver themselves to bask in Obama's glow when he won the election. Now he is in office and starting to act we will have to see what impact this has. If as would appear he starts to build a new global financial system that has tight regulation, vast injections of state funding, huge state debts and state-run banks at its heart, its impact on british politics will be interesting. How will the Tories react to this new world order and what will it do to their poll ratings?

As yet the Tories haven't closed the deal with the electorate. They have no alternative programme for government or for the economy aside from a small number of reactive measures setting themselves against various things. They are winning votes from Labour by virtue of not being Labour. What they need to do is to firm up a support that doesn't swing wildly every few months - the Obama factor provides both that opportunity and the risk that their current transient support may float elsewhere.

There is no way the Tories can bask in the glow of Obama. Their whole raison d'etre is to protect the interests of a narrow band of society - the rich. They could never deliver a speech like Obama's inauguration speech - or they could, but it wouldn't be believable.

Given that a third of people now work in the public sector, for the Tories to win an awful lot of voters would have to be prepared to shoot themselves in the foot. Given the posts I read on here, this seems entirely possible. In which case, the people will get the government they voted for...

Personally, I'm glad I work in the private sector. I wouldn't want such a big axe hanging over my job.