general election 2015?

sourcrates

SailorSam wrote: »

And please please please don't vote for Cameron.

Lol, i`m actually unsure which way i`m going to vote this time.

I cant stand milliband, he would not make a good prime minister, Lets not forget who got us into this financial mess in the first place !!!!

My head says Cameron, as the lesser of two evils, but my heart wants to vote for ukip, Farage makes a good argument in my book, however, he has little chance of taking power, so its a quandary for me !!

Red-Squirrel_2

sourcrates wrote: »

I cant stand milliband, he would not make a good prime minister, Lets not forget who got us into this financial mess in the first place !!!!

Well it wasn't Miliband or even Labour. They didn't call it the global financial crisis for nothing!

OP, I believe the two main parties can be compared very simply, but not everybody will like it! Labour are for people who care about what happens to everybody, the Tories are for people who only care what happens to themselves.

Labour aren't perfect by a long stretch, but there is no perfect option and they're by far the lesser of two evils if you're an ordinary person and not a wealthy banker or own a business that can make money out of privatising everything.

Oh dear, maybe I should have stayed away from this thread! Politics on DFW probably not a great idea!

monz

No tories for me... I wont say who I am voting for.. mainly cos I dont like political debates and its our vote who we believe to be better for us x

poppasmurf_bewdley

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Well it wasn't Miliband or even Labour. They didn't call it the global financial crisis for nothing!

OP, I believe the two main parties can be compared very simply, but not everybody will like it! Labour are for people who care about what happens to everybody, the Tories are for people who only care what happens to themselves.

Labour aren't perfect by a long stretch, but there is no perfect option and they're by far the lesser of two evils if you're an ordinary person and not a wealthy banker or own a business that can make money out of privatising everything.

Oh dear, maybe I should have stayed away from this thread! Politics on DFW probably not a great idea!

So you're a Labour supporter then. Why don't you just say so?

buglawton

I was going to arrange a postal vote for an incapacitated relative. It involves some faffing about. Went to check their postcode against this:
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/
...it's a site that basically tells you if there's any point in voting at all
Well that postcode showed it was a totally safe seat so no point in actually making an effort vote for any party, the result for this seat will be the same. I won't bother sorting out that postal vote.

Then I did the same exercise on my own postcode and got a near identical result. Very little point in voting, doing so only encourages politicians to assume from a high turnout that our voting system isn't kaput.

Anyway the voterpower site is a good tool to find out if you are in a marginal seat and have exaggerated voting POWER!!

DorsetGirl_2

But if every person who didn't think there was any point in voting voted, then there may actually be a point to it.

Don't vote, don't moan!

Meatloaf1981

Personally I think everyone has a duty to vote because people died to earn us the right to.

The first past the post system is not representative, which is an entirely different matter but I, for one, would support proportional representation. The only reason the Tories and Labour don't support it is because they know the number of Tory and Labour MP's in the House of Commons would dramatically reduce!

I'm not voting for either of the two big'uns. I'm setting my sights on making sure I vote for who I think makes sense, whether they have a chance of getting in or not.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Meatloaf1981 wrote: »

Personally I think everyone has a duty to vote because people died to earn us the right to.

The first past the post system is not representative, which is an entirely different matter but I, for one, would support proportional representation. The only reason the Tories and Labour don't support it is because they know the number of Tory and Labour MP's in the House of Commons would dramatically reduce!

I'm not voting for either of the two big'uns. I'm setting my sights on making sure I vote for who I think makes sense, whether they have a chance of getting in or not.

Well, we did have a referendum on proportional representation in 2011 as a result of a Lib-Con agreement. The result was:
Yes 6,152,607 32.1%
No 13,013,123 67.9%

So it appears that for once, the big two parties are in tune with the will of the electorate.

buglawton

Someone will shortly be along to bore you with the fact that it was not PR but a transferable vote scheme.

JasX

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Labour are for people who care about what happens to everybody, the Tories are for people who only care what happens to themselves.

Not quite true now is that now squirrel, Labour have something of a track record screwing everyone over by systematically bankrupting the country:

Yup, there was a crisis, some countries were prudent during the 'good times'... others were more "wahey, good times... lets see how much national debt we can run up... "

The current government has definitely been less fun with cutbacks and the like, but things are going to be less fun when belt tightening and needing to pay off debt as a pretty standard rule.... worrying thing is their current announced plans scream they've not learned a thing..