Voting Intentions since the Spending Review

careinthecommunity

woodbine wrote: »

for 30+years i was a liberal/lib dem member and voter,that ended when he walked into number 10 with son of thatcher,i am now a fully paid up member of the labour party and will do all i can to ensure their election, asap.
the lib dems face annialation in any polls for the next 20 years,many of the 3.5 million votes they will lose at the gen.election will go to labour,who after all will be the ONLY opposition party.

so a bit of the underdog spirit then, i agree with that the coallition is not ideal from a strong lib dem/liberal point of view but what did you expext, they was never going to get into power by themselves and they had the oppotunity to form with labour, the same labour you was obviously fighting against in the last election.

what has happened that all of a sudden labour (given the recent history) can make any difference, apart from the hate towards the tory's

btw initial labour and now lib dem and will continue with lib dem

N1AK

Mr.Harley_Quin wrote: »

I have never voted for anything. I have never voted in general elections. I have never voted in local nonsense. I fact I doubt I have ever been eligible to vote. I have simply avoided the entire process.

People who vote are giving their nod to corruption and stupidity of their elected morons! I doubt the sanity of anyone who votes!

I see you're someone who gets the governance they deserve.

Mr.Harley_Quin

N1AK wrote: »

I see you're someone who gets the governance they deserve.

And exactly what does anybody get? Americans had a massive rush of change, Obama was the new messiah, the world's ills were about to change, in the UK we were getting rid of the bent Labour machine and all was going to be well. Pah!

Still in Afghanistan. Still under the EU yoke. Still wallowing in Britain's got talent.

The little X stands for nothing. Those in control do not get voted in or out of office.

Disagree? Anybody voted for Mervyn Allister King, Keith Rupert Murdoch or Herman Van Rompuy recently?

careinthecommunity

Mr.Harley_Quin wrote: »

And exactly what does anybody get? Americans had a massive rush of change, Obama was the new messiah, the world's ills were about to change, in the UK we were getting rid of the bent Labour machine and all was going to be well. Pah!

Still in Afghanistan. Still under the EU yoke. Still wallowing in Britain's got talent.

The little X stands for nothing. Those in control do not get voted in or out of office.

Disagree? Anybody voted for Mervyn Allister King, Keith Rupert Murdoch or Herman Van Rompuy recently?

i agree with your stance but until we have worldwide change the current system is all we have to work with, sitting on the sidelines questioning the sanity of those who do actually vote is rather juvinile
as i said before, i presume with your stance you have turned down assitance of the state at any point in your life, or are your trying to fight it from within ...

lostinrates

I voted conservative and am so far not convinced it was the wrong decision,expected next few years to be more beer than champagne whoever was brought back in. I'm not 100% behind everything so far, but didn't expect to be and some things have pleased me. BUT, it just feels to early to say about whether its been ''successful'' or not. Far too soon.

ukcarper

lostinrates wrote: »

I voted conservative and am so far not convinced it was the wrong decision,expected next few years to be more beer than champagne whoever was brought back in. I'm not 100% behind everything so far, but didn't expect to be and some things have pleased me. BUT, it just feels to early to say about whether its been ''successful'' or not. Far too soon.

If I voted Conservative I wouldn’t be disappointed after all I would be getting what I had voted for but I voted LibDen and am not getting anything near what I voted for.

Sapphire

blueboy43 wrote: »

And no doubt both sets of grandparents worked as well.

The idea of the "stay at home mum" once kids had started school is largely a 1950's - 1960's middle class luxury.

I don't think it is 'middle class'. Traditionally 'lower' class (i.e. low-paid) as well as 'middle' class mothers stayed at home until comparatively recently.

Thrugelmir

ukcarper wrote: »

If I voted Conservative I wouldn’t be disappointed after all I would be getting what I had voted for but I voted LibDen and am not getting anything near what I voted for.

Maybe its because the run up to the election was phoney. As politicians of all parties realised that the real truth would make them unelectable. The spending review merely being one part. The real truth hasn't hit home yet to many. As the unsustainable debt levels (including personal) aren't going to disappear with a wave of a wand. But are going to require a major cultural change in attitude.

RJP33

I voted Tory after years of being a member of the Labour party and I've been suprirsingly impressed by the fact that they seem set to do the things that are unpopular but for the good of the country. We need smaller government rather than high taxes and wasting money.

Labour lost it in nearly every regard in that last term and needed to go - insane spending plans relying on a continued boom, benefits bill going through the roof and not just for the needy, appointing Brown as leader etc.

N1AK

Mr.Harley_Quin wrote: »

Still in Afghanistan. Still wallowing in Britain's got talent.

The little X stands for nothing. Those in control do not get voted in or out of office.

Disagree? Anybody voted for Mervyn Allister King, Keith Rupert Murdoch or Herman Van Rompuy recently?

It still interests me how three in four people supported the strikes against Afghanistan back in 2001, yet it's almost impossible to find them these days. I remember, because I was actively protesting against it and remember thinking the rest of the country seemed to think I was crazy.

In the exclusive MORI poll for ITV1's TONIGHT WITH TREVOR McDONALD programme this evening (Thursday) at 10.20pm, 72% of Britons approve of the way Tony Blair is handling the British response to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and 71% of adults believe that Britain was right to join America in the military strikes.

People like X factor. God only knows why, but they do.

So people get what they support.


Before the election everyone moaned that none of the political parties would be honest about what they'd cut. As a country of hypocrits we all ignored the truth: That we wouldn't vote for the party that did admit that they'd raise tax and cut spending.

If people really voted for the honest and moral candidates, we'd have honest and moral MPs. We vote for the people who tell us what we want to hear, so we get the best snake oil salesman.