General Election 2010

[tigersaw]

I'll probably vote for a change, give the party that ruined the country in the 90's a chance to blame the current party for ruining the country before taxing the hell out of us and ruining it all aver again.

[L3nny]

I have never voted before as I have very little interest in polotics, well not politics as such but the politicians themselves. They are all as bad as each other and only in it to line their greedy piggy fat pockets.

Based on their current record the current lot deserve to be booted out but whoever gets in will be just as bad.

Vote for change - Yer right.

The party getting my vote will be:

The one promising to curb the number of freeloaders entering the country.

The one promising to overhaul the benefits system so that nobody is better of on benefits that someone who works for a living.

The one who says the people on state benefit will do three days of work per week for the state, (still having two days for job hunting).

The one promising to look hard at lowering taxation.

The one who says "Charity begins at home".

Feckit i think i want to vote for Robin Hood & not the usual Robin sod!

[Drew Carey]

My issue is that currently I feel none of the parties actually provide the British public with ideas and policies that we agree on, will help us move forward, will control our borders and make the UK a better place to live again.

However, I am also a realist, and at this current moment in time there are only really two options. So, you look at the Labour & Conservative pledges, weigh them up and vote for the lesser of the two evils. Currently and for the forseable future neither party will drastically change the amount of money I pay, the amount of assistance we get, the quality etc of the services we pay for.

However, one thing IS for certain, people just want change, even if it is a bigger bunch of cowboys. So my vote unfortunately goes to Conservatives, as I would rather "give someone else a go", rather than let labout re-introduce all the changes that have been put on hold until after the election. I can't see the conservatives making things any worse, at least not for those of us who work etc, but I cling to the thin thin naieve hope that maybe they may get some things right where Labour haven't!!!!

Any party that does something about this http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=149881 would have me interested...

I think El Gordo and Labour have had their day but I imagine we are going to end with a hung parliment, giving the Lib Dems the power. TBH, the country is in such a mess it is going to take a LONG time before we see any difference.

[keith_d]

Sadly, neither party is willing to tell us what their post election plans really are. You could argue that one party doesn't have the real figures and the other is obsessed with spin but I don't think that's the whole story. Early on in the campaign the Tories tried a dash of honesty about the future of public spending and it hit their ratings so badly that they went back to the same old bull**** as before.

Personally, I'm tired of spin, tired of stealth taxes, and tired of deceitful government. Today I read that Labour would commit that they won't increase income tax, but I remember last time they promised that. We got an uncapped 1% increase in National Insurance instead. Income tax in all but name.

I'd love to vote Labour back in and make them clean up their own mess. But they would just see it as a mandate to screw us around some more, so I definitely won't be voting for them.

I live in a borough that's very solidly Tory, so I think I might indulge in some protest voting and try to save the deposit for one of the minority candidates.

"Democracy" is a farce as long as you have the whip system.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

I'd really like to be able to read what it is each party is actually going to do rather than listen or read about them slinging mud at each other...

Labour manifesto published yesterday, Tories today, Lib Dems tomorrow.

Originally Posted by keithd

Any party that does something about this http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=149881 would have me interested...

what, holding the media to account for inflamatory journalism?

[keith_d]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

"Democracy" is a farce as long as you have the whip system.

No, it's local representation which is broken in the current system where MPs are virtually compelled to toe the party line. It means that rather than voting for someone to represent your needs in parliament you are choosing between two groups of backroom policy makers based on what they claim they will do.

However, as the present incumbents have demonstrated, it is far to easy to promise one thing and deliver something completely different. I'm old enough to remember decades of Labour banging on about civil liberties, but once they were in power it was CCTV on every street corner.

In the end at least we still have the option to vote. So change is still possible, if you can convince enough people to vote for you.

Keith.