MSE News: Hung parliament - how will it affect your finances?

abaxas

Huge debts and cant be bothered - frecked
Normal human being - should do well in the medium term.

Everyone is frecked in the short term.

JonnyBravo

carolt wrote: »

No I most certainly did not vote Labour! Never even considered it.

Why on earth would you make such an assumption?

Oops, thought I'd read you were still undecided and assumed you were wavering between Lab and Lib.
Had in my mind Pobby was similar. Just wondered if you'd been partly responsible for Cleggy's bubble bursting! Sorry.

carolt

No, I wavered between Lib Dem and Greens.

Rather conveniently, so did my OH - we were both torn as to which to vote for.

He voted first and told me who he'd voted for; made my decision (which I'd already largely made) easier, as he'd gone for the other one. So between both of us, we voted for both the parties we liked; bit like giving half a vote to one and half a vote to the other.

Out of interest, does everyone else go for spouses/partners who share their political views too?

Gieven how much it reflects one's values, I would have thought it was pretty common. But are there any mse'ers out there who bicker over politics with their OH?

I know I could never, ever go for a Tory. :eek:

silvercar

Out of interest, does everyone else go for spouses/partners who share their political views too?

More likely that they choose someone with similar outlook on life and therefore are likely to share political opinions rather than going out looking for someone who has their political views.

Though I do remember reading years ago that the Young Conservatives produced more pairings than any dating agency.

I know I could never, ever go for a Tory.

So when do you ask the question? First date? second?

carolt

I think you just know.

Plus the navy blazer/AliceBand/daddy in the City are all a bit of a giveaway...

JonnyBravo

carolt wrote: »

Out of interest, does everyone else go for spouses/partners who share their political views too?

Gieven how much it reflects one's values, I would have thought it was pretty common. But are there any mse'ers out there who bicker over politics with their OH?

I know I could never, ever go for a Tory. :eek:

I voted Tory this time and the Mrs voted Lab.
I didn't vote last time and voted Lab two times before that. Before then Tory. Not sure about the Mrs, think its Lab all the way except Lib once.

Neither of us give a monkey's how the other votes. Ultimately there really isn't that much of a difference.

carolt

Maybe you're right - Labour are just the Tories under another name these days.

PhylPho

carolt wrote: »

Out of interest, does everyone else go for spouses/partners who share their political views too?
:eek:

Good question. I guess the situation is going to be conditioned by the nature of the relationship. In our case, we invested our savings in a business which employed lots of people and did well thanks to our and their efforts until the disaster of Lawson's economic policy and everything that followed. Our business went down in the recession of 1990 and we lost almost everything. As did our employees. Every employer has a social responsibility; when you fail to meet that responsibility, be it your own fault or not, you really don't sleep at nights.

So we took two jobs each to work night and day to meet a bank-loan !!! mortgage that grew higher ever month as interest rates climbed remorselessly and as the equity value of our property diminished with the house price collapse.

Conditioned by that -- as entrepreneurs, as employers, as job creators -- we knew we'd never, ever, trust the Tories to run the economy again.

We were ecstatic in 1997 when the Labour Government we desperately wished to see took office. (Apart from anything else, both our families have deep and extensive Labour Party connections.) Things really could only get better.

We continued to slog to pay off our debts -- no, we never took the easy route of filing for bankruptcy -- and a marriage that was already strong became even stronger. As, inevitably, did our shared view of politics. (The experience isn't unique: we know many couples who survived a recession the like of which today's Britain has but little inkling, and who seem to think we've just had one now. Yeah. Right.)

And now, for this GE, we took the view that Brown's £multi-billion creation of a Socialist Client State, Blair's £multi-billion resort to illegal and unnecessary war, and the final confirmation of how politics has been so assiduously corrupted (MPs expenses: all parties, not merely Labour) meant that it really was time for us as electors to vote in such a way that absolute power was denied absolutely to the elected.

Today, we're happy bunnies -- though still old enough, experienced enough, and bright enough to know that happiness isn't guaranteed. It ain't. For the moment though, voting LibDem in pursuit of a hung Parliament was as good as it gets. We're celebrating tonight.

de1amo

i tried to explain it all to my foreign wife and she suggested that the cons and lab team up!!
i can remember ther ted heath and harold wilson minority govs and the powercuts and civil disorder the last time we had a hung parliamenti t was my first stress period and left a scar--i was 10!--i hope who ever gets in acts decisively on this deficite -if there is another election and nothing has been done about it i will vote against the non action taking party!!

Pobby

PhylPho wrote: »

Good question. I guess the situation is going to be conditioned by the nature of the relationship. In our case, we invested our savings in a business which employed lots of people and did well thanks to our and their efforts until the disaster of Lawson's economic policy and everything that followed. Our business went down in the recession of 1990 and we lost almost everything. As did our employees. Every employer has a social responsibility; when you fail to meet that responsibility, be it your own fault or not, you really don't sleep at nights.

So we took two jobs each to work night and day to meet a bank-loan !!! mortgage that grew higher ever month as interest rates climbed remorselessly and as the equity value of our property diminished with the house price collapse.

Conditioned by that -- as entrepreneurs, as employers, as job creators -- we knew we'd never, ever, trust the Tories to run the economy again.

We were ecstatic in 1997 when the Labour Government we desperately wished to see took office. (Apart from anything else, both our families have deep and extensive Labour Party connections.) Things really could only get better.

We continued to slog to pay off our debts -- no, we never took the easy route of filing for bankruptcy -- and a marriage that was already strong became even stronger. As, inevitably, did our shared view of politics. (The experience isn't unique: we know many couples who survived a recession the like of which today's Britain has but little inkling, and who seem to think we've just had one now. Yeah. Right.)

And now, for this GE, we took the view that Brown's £multi-billion creation of a Socialist Client State, Blair's £multi-billion resort to illegal and unnecessary war, and the final confirmation of how politics has been so assiduously corrupted (MPs expenses: all parties, not merely Labour) meant that it really was time for us as electors to vote in such a way that absolute power was denied absolutely to the elected.

Today, we're happy bunnies -- though still old enough, experienced enough, and bright enough to know that happiness isn't guaranteed. It ain't. For the moment though, voting LibDem in pursuit of a hung Parliament was as good as it gets. We're celebrating tonight.

You are so right. I thought it not short of wicked how the Tories responded to the last recession. I agree that there was a lot of inflation then but they tried to tackle that at the same time as sorting out the recession. So, as much as I do not care for Labour these days, we did vote for them.