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

asandwhen

mizzbiz wrote: »

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.

Totally agree - I was in Woolworth in St Albans on saturday and as I walked out I was handed a leaflet from a well known socialist newspaper (Think it was called socialist worker or something) saying that the government should be bailing out Woolworths! what a joke.

Mr_Falling_Star

Lets face it, both parties have their shortcomings and bad past records. The difference is that the Tories cr*p all over you and dub you a loser if you can't get a Job or are in some way disadvantaged whereas Labour all least try and help you in their muddled way.

I will be voting Labour (and for the record I grew up in West Sussex)

Pobby

Honestly, how could anyone vote for some old bird who in a plummy accent says on tv " We are a grandmother" beats me.

kennyboy66_2

asandwhen wrote: »

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

and it stayed under 10 ever since.

Obviously apart from Aug - Oct 1990 when it was above 10%.

Inflation June 1980 = 21.9% (conservative).

I can give credit to Thatchers reforms of unions, taxation and privatisation, but anyone who thinks that she had a good record on inflation is deluding themselves.

StevieJ

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.

I thought they hung monkeys up there

Broken_hearted

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.

True so very true

dannyboycey

BIGGER_THAN_THE_GAME wrote: »

Maggie Thatcher - our best prime minister.

This is why I would applaud the introduction of an eligibility test to determine whether one has the intellectual capacity to vote.

drbeat

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

The Tories will forever be associated with Margaret Thatcher.

Is this the same Margaret Thatcher that won 3 general elections in a row?

Tories were in for 18 years the last time round and despite the crap that went on it is still nothing in comparison to what we're seeing now. Yes people had it good for 10 years and now they're going to have it bad for the next ten years.

Besides, there is a significant majority that will not know the Thatcher years...just like the significant majority who in 1997 did not know the Wilson/Callaghan years!

drbeat

thegibdog wrote: »

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

Of course it doesn't - we have elected dictatorships!

asandwhen

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Obviously apart from Aug - Oct 1990 when it was above 10%.

Inflation June 1980 = 21.9% (conservative).

I can give credit to Thatchers reforms of unions, taxation and privatisation, but anyone who thinks that she had a good record on inflation is deluding themselves.

How can you use June 1980 Tories had been in for just 1 year and still trying to undo the labour mess that they left the country in.