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

poppy_f1

for me the real choice would be between labour and SNP =- i'll prob vote SNP however it will more than likely remain a labour seat

Generali

naughtybish wrote: »

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. )

This is quite an interesting piece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1976/oct/01/labour.uk

It's about Healey speaking to the party conference after the IMF loan.

jim83

I large part of me wants Gordon Brown to stay on through this crisis. He's the one who shat in the bed so he should have to sleep in it. No political change is going to stop this being an absolute catastrophe in my opinion.

I shall likely be voting for the UK Libertarian Party. I don't believe they can win (only been around for a couple of years) but it would be wrong for me to know of their good policies but not vote for them out of a sense of cynical inevitability.

The problems that are going to surface over the next 2 years will likely push votes to the more extreme ends of the political spectrum. I hope enough people see sense and vote for real liberty rather than authoritarianism because they're scared.

wintersunshine

Told ya this board was full of rabid Tories. Thus it doesn't really represent the opinions of the majority, just some Telegraph readers;)

kennyboy66_2

asandwhen wrote: »

Yes they do have short memories - they cant remember massive inflation caused by labour governments in the 70's.

Ah.

The old myth that Thatcher conquered inflation.

Inflation May 1979 was 10.1%.

In 11 years we managed 2 recessions, unemployment of 3 million, decimation of UK manufacturing, one house price boom & crash (remarkably similar to this one), the pound falling from $2.40 to $1.06 or from 3.45 DEM to 2.18 DEM

Inflation Nov 1990 was 9.7%

Genius.

Jennifer_Jane

I'll vote LibDem (if there is a LibDem candidate) - but that's partly/mostly an anti-vote against our current MP (Conservative). If that MP stepped down (not likely - gravy train!), I would vote for the best person for the job that was standing.

Nevertheless, it's time for Labour to go - just imagine how awful another 5 years would be. The point about having to have elections is to keep the parties on their toes.

Jen
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asandwhen

Are you joking me? The tory party is the biggest party in England and way ahead in any polls - This is the voice of the country not "telegraph readers"

asandwhen

Inflation Jan 1976 = 23.4% (Labour)
Inflation May 1983 = 3.7% (4 years after Maggie got in)

and it stayed under 10 ever since.

mizzbiz

I agree with the North East comments generally as I have also found this to be the case. However, I have found in the past few years that more and more people are 'renegade' voting - for BNP! Rather than vote labour or risk t'tories getting back in (which I advocate totally - i'm sorry but the public taxes should not be used to keep loss-making coal mines going (unlike labour), which is the main reason the tories have a bad press up here) this is what people are doing.

thegibdog

All these people saying the only choice is between Labour and Conservative reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where Kang and Kodos (the aliens) run for president. People still vote for them because voting for any candidate other than the main two is "wasting their vote".

I've said it before and I'll say it again - democracy doesn't work.