Voting Intentions since the Spending Review

StevieJ

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

I've always voted Tory,which has been the best part of 40 years and I'm proud to admit that.
I did'nt vote for this lot though,I have no confidence in them and personally I feel they're going to fall flat on their smug little extreme right wing faces.
They've been too radical and people are going to suffer,and not just the benefit brigade.
When I read these boards I do just wonder who voted for Labour so may times in the previous elections as everyone seems to condemn them so much.

It is a Tory cabal

StevieJ

SingleSue wrote: »

I voted Conservative....and will vote Conservative again. I could never vote for Labour with their "make everyone equal" policy - hard work and enterprise should be rewarded not brought down to the lowest common denominator.

I say this as a benefit claimant, one who will probably be hit a fair amount...but I knew cuts needed to be made, savage cuts at that for this country to be able to rebuild their finances. If I had been still in a two income family, we would still have been hit as we would have been over the amount for child benefit (we had already worked our way out of tax credits). The utopia of forever increasing benefits available to everyone had to stop at some point..the country just cannot afford it and it impacted on everything around us (house prices included as tax credits were taken into account for a mortage by a fair few providers at peak)

My eldest son is another who will vote Conservative - he is a member of what used to be known as the young conservatives.

Here is a book you might like to read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Marquis-Sade-Vol/dp/B001E5P98S/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1287827069&sr=8-10

SingleSue

Just because I claim benefits, does not mean that I should change my political views, it is hardly the Conservative party fault that my husband decided the arms of my best friend were better than mine or that my children are disabled!

I am not a claimant through choice, my work ideals are still the same, my beliefs still the same...that viewpoint is still the same despite being on benefits and despite it possibly being to my detriment financially in the coming years.

Hard work and enterprise has to be rewarded, bringing everything down to the lowest denominator (the benefit claimant and their 'income') is not the way it should be done.

Aside from the financial side, I have never agreed with Labour on other policies, the same for the Lib Dems...Conservatives have always been closer to my thinking, even if I don't agree with ALL of their policies (does anyone?)

SingleSue

StevieJ wrote: »

Here is a book you might like to read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Marquis-Sade-Vol/dp/B001E5P98S/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1287827069&sr=8-10

Hehe.

I can't help what ideals I have, despite my status, possibly that is why my children are more inclined to work hard to avoid being on benefits than some other children of benefit claimants. They have had it 'discussed' into them over many years!

FTR, my parents don't vote Conservative.....dad is more of an independent.

All of the above, is probably why I have found being on benefits so hard...it goes against my views.

Malcolm.

I expect I'll continue to vote Liberal Democrat. I hope Tory ideology is somewhat tempered by their coalition with LD's.

I can't bring myself to vote for a political party which supported the invasion of Iraq.

Should the AV come in, I will likely vote for a non-affiliated local representative first, and a more mainstream party as my second choice.

StevieJ

Malcolm. wrote: »

I expect I'll continue to vote Liberal Democrat. I hope Tory ideology is somewhat tempered by their coalition with LD's.

I can't bring myself to vote for a political party which supported the invasion of Iraq.

Should the AV come in, I will likely vote for a non-affiliated local representative first, and a more mainstream party as my second choice.

I was hoping the same, now I doubt it.

Malcolm.

StevieJ wrote: »

I was hoping the same, now I doubt it.

Me too. I wonder if the coalition will hold post the electoral system vote - with public support waining, I can't see the rank and file LD MP's holding their leaders line for long.

markharding557

Singlesue in the eyes of the tories and many on here you are the lowest of the low in the scheme of things,cameron once referred benefit claimants as 'benefit scroungers' these are the people you support.

markharding557

I voted libdem at the election because i felt brown had to go.
The lebdems have moved to far to the right and so now that brown is gone it's back to labour for me.

kabayiri

markharding557 wrote: »

Singlesue in the eyes of the tories and many on here you are the lowest of the low in the scheme of things,cameron once referred benefit claimants as 'benefit scroungers' these are the people you support.

Simplistic to say the least.

All the modern parties are much closer in practise than their predecessors of the 70s and 80s.

When Labour hived off the fund management arm of the CDC (overseas aid), they made a few ex-civil servants very rich overnight. It's the kind of action a true blue Tory would have been proud of!

I doubt anyone here begrudges Sue what she gets. I'd like an economy which enables people in Sue's situation to obtain work which suits their work-life balance. Work is much more than just income.