If there was a general election tomorrow, who gets your vote?

[andrewb]

Another forum I visit did this and it gave interesting results.

[g jones]

Despite New Labour not always ticking the things I would want to see, I would always want to see the Conservatives as far a way from power as possible. Thatcher wrecked places like Hyndburn and my friends and myself included, still look back with hatred at that woman and her ilk.

And as one of my friends summed up. Even if he believed in David Cameron, there are a lot of hardliners coat tailing him ready for mre of the same. Power would shift to the South. Funding for the North would HAVE to dry up to support tax cuts for the South.

And even if Cameron softened them and could present a decent government for all, he would still not vote Tory because he would not like to be associated with a Party that attracts the kind of voters/people (the selfish sort)which the Tory Party attracts.

Life is about tolerance and progress so my vote in preference would be;
Labour
Liberal
Green

and NEVER for UKIP BNP RESPECT TORIES

[Doug]

I don’t know at this time none of them know what there doing. I wouldn’t want to live in a world under Brown or that T*** from the Con’s “and Cons is the right word” I just don’t know, Lib Dem most likely in protest, at least by voting people would have earned the right to criticise, I don’t understand why anyone would abstain and be content to let other chose their leaders.

[shakermaker]

Originally Posted by Doug

I don’t understand why anyone would abstain and be content to let other chose their leaders.

For me, it's because I will only ever vote if there's a party I think will do good for the country. I wouldn't ever just vote for the lesser of the evils.

[Neil]

I would have voted but you made it a publicly viewable vote. I thought elections were done by secret ballot.

[andrewb]

I thought it would be interesting to see which members have which views, if theres lots of people that share your opinion it might be worth opening up a new anonymous poll

[garinda]

Labour for me.

[Acrylic-bob]

With a Chancellor, who expects to become Prime Minister, who can do this......

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle1593939.ece

I would not vote Labour if my life depended upon it.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I could not choose.......they are ALL a shower of doo-doo.

[SamF]

Lib Dem... remember them saying something about students Also the guy is old so should have some life experience.

Weak reasoning I know, but hell they are weak parties.

[Eric]

I voted even though I won't be voting in a British election. Canada has a minority govt. now and the odds are we wil go to the polls this spring or summer. I'm voting Green. The Greens here do not have a seat, but their support is growing. In fact, our current govt. may fall on the issue of the environment. The young are flocking to the greens. The Greens are running a close fourth behind the NDP (Canada's labor party). Remember, the only good Tory is a supposiTORY.

[claytonender]

For me there is only one party I would vote for and that is Labour.

I agree with Graham Jones's post. I have lived through too many Tory governments to ever want to see another one. It is very important to remember what Thatcher did to this country, she set out to break the industrial infrastructure and succeeded. Remember this was the woman who said 'There is no such thing as society' - like all Tories she was only interested in helping people with money, and I doubt she knew that Britain existed north of Watford.

When people of Graham's age left school there was no work for them unless they were prepared to work on a YTS course, for a pittance. Also they knew that after 12 months they would be discarded by their employers because another fresh batch of cheap labour would be available. It is a tribute to the generation, now in there mid 30's and early 40's, that so many of them have managed to succeed despite Thachter.

[shillelagh]

Labour for me mind you cant be anything else really - my mum & dad were tory and my sisters labour and i was the youngest. Was typing labour party minutes when i was 14 practicing my typing!!!

Im one of those who went on the YTS scheme and when i finished it they kept me on and put me on the YOPs scheme and then after i'd finished that they waited till a month before my 21st birthday (when they would have had to pay me a full wage) - then made me redundant. Oh and they made me train up a new yts trainee before that!

[Mancie]

I've disliked (hated) the Tories since I was a teen and so for me I will vote against them untill I die... this is not based on fanatical loyalty to Labour, I simply do not trust the Tories, they are the oldest of the parties and apart from a few exeptions thier history is disgraceful:

opposed: the right of votes for all
opposed: free education for all
opposed: welfare benefits
opposed: introduction of the NHS
opposed: the minimum wage
refused to adopt sanctions against South African apartheid
As recently as 1988 issued laws of discrimination against homo sexuals

Any "real" Tory who reads this will probably be thinking YES!... the,"I'm alright jack" "get off my land" "survival of the fittest" (or wealthiest) is a fundemental inbred gene of Conservatism... it's in their DNA!

Then you get the "cap tippin" working class Tory.. the Alf Garnet types who like to think they are upholding British values by being loyal Tory supporters.. these are likely to be farm hands who rent their houses from landowners or decendants of cooks,butlers and pantry maids from Victorian times who had to support the Tory party or would have been sacked.. even though the Tories made sure they had no voting rights


I have been impressed by Cameron..I've never heard a Tory leader talk sense before now... but the real Tories are still lurking in the background and that worries me.

[grannyclaret]

The Tory,s are for for the Toffs I would never vote for them,,,Margaret Thatcher was the origonal bitch .....I hate their posh voices and their holier than thou manner,,,
But i would make exceptions for Winstan Churchill ....pity he was a tory...