Election 2010 - Who will you vote for and why?
 

Who will you be voting for?
This poll is private but feel free to say why you're voting for who you're voting for and if you're not voting, please explain why too,

Cheers.

It will either be Labour or Lib. Dem. Most likely Lib. Dem.

Lib Dem.. But only by default.

I'm not voting because I just don't know enough about politics, I barely take any interest in the news as a whole because I find it unnecessarily negative.

*gasps*

But voting is so important :/

I know that everyone has the right not to vote, but I really think that it can prevent other less democratic parties from getting a measure of power.

This link might be helpful (made things clearer for me anyways) Basically you can compare their standpoints on various issues and make your choice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...ur&col3=libdem

I think I'm going to vote Lib Dem. I watched the Chancellors debate a few weeks ago and Vince Cable was really the only one who seemed to make any sense to me. He just seemed honest and his answers to the questions just seemed so down to earth and realistic. Alistair Darling and Tory guy were just bickering at each other :doze:

That is the only debate I've watched though, the others might have been different. Their policies seem pretty good to me at the moment. I might change my mind the more I look into it all - I feel at the moment anything could sway me as I've never been loyal to any one party - but for the most part, I think Liberal Democrat is the way I'd go.

I'll be voting Lib Dem, not by default or anything, but because I have always been a supporter and I really think that they provide a viable alternative. I do, however, live in a Tory stronghold, which makes me kind of sad. I have a postal vote and everything. It all feels very real.

Regardless, it's likely to be a hung parliament, and that will mean another election within a couple of years. I think it's necessary for the political system to have a big shake up. I'm not convinced that Lib-Lab would be a good thing, and who would go into coalition with the Torys?

I dunno. Even if I wasn't such a Lib Dem supporter I know I couldn't vote Conservative, because they're, at the moment all style and no substance. And I couldn't vote Labour, because all of their reforms have seemingly been designed to screw my family over.

I know there are loads of smaller parties and independents, but in my view it will always be one of the big three, simply because of the electoral system we have, and therefore I will place my vote with the one of the three I feel to be the most appropriate.

out of curiosity, if voting is so important then why will you be voting by default?

Ideologically I don't believe that any current party encompasses my beliefs.

Don't get me wrong. I've thought about this a lot. I think that twenty years ago I would have voted for Labour, when it still had its socialist tendancies. This is not the case now, but I still want my vote to count.
Out of all the options, I agree with what the Lib Dems are doing the most, but not entirely. At the moment they represent enough of what I believe in to vote.

I also think that its important to vote, in order to prevent parties like the BNP from getting seats.

So yes it is default, because I would never say that I was a die hard Lib Dem. But i've done my homework and have made an imformed choice.

Well, that seems fair enough :blush: Although I wouldn't say that was a default decision, I'd say that was a decision lol (if that makes sense)

I don't think many people are "die hard" to their parties. My boyfriend is a "die hard" Conservative but my parents always just went with who they believed in at the time. Personally I think that is the best way to vote. I can't imagine anyone likes ALL the decisions any party makes, so long as you like most of what they're saying...or at least like what they say more than any other party...then that's the way you should go. It's not default, it's just the decision you made :-p

I know! As soon as you asked I was like.. Maybe I just should have omitted default... :-p

Im pretty sure I wont be voting this year.

If i could vote id vote green party.

Their the only group that interests me with there views :P

Even if you don't know who to vote for or think no one is worth it, then still vote! Just go and spoil your ballot. That way you are making your 'protest' known, rather than being lost in the swathes of the apathetic.

As for who I'll vote for, I'm going to need to look at everyone in my area and see who is most compatible with me, with their party values being secondary. My local MP is more important to me than the party leader. However, I am in such a Labour heartland that the chances of that changing are slim to none.

Probably Labour, not that it will matter. I've got a good feeling the conservatives will win. & hoping for a hung parliment.
I don't even want Labour to win, I'd be happy for the lib dems to be in but that is never going to happen, it's always a two horse race.

You should always go and vote though. Even if you go and spoil your paper. It's better to do that than to do nothing at all.

We also have Local elections in my area, I feel a shake up coming a long there. I usually vote Cons for the local elections, they just seem to do a better job, but this last term they have made our town a complete joke. Mickey mouse council & that definitely needs to be changed

Probably conservatives.

I feel the country needs a shake up, its gone stale under labour leadership, and that if they stay in power, there wont be any major changes anytime soon. Being long-term unemployed, labour have really f*cked up the oppoturnites we have to get back into work. There's all this talk about "guaranteeing jobs for the young", but they havent backed it up.

I'm not old enough to vote yet...

Conservatives are freezing NHS pay to cut down tax.
Im soon to be in the NHS.
Guess who Im not voting for?

^ Well, if you had increased pay, you'd also be paying more tax. It probably balances out at the end of the day.

The conservatives will put us back in recession (not that I believe we are out)
I've been long term unemployed aswell & I don't believe this "guaranteed jobs for under 25s" Not that It will really help me (I'm not registered unemployed cause I suck) but, all the conservatives are focused on are raising tax for the working class & keeping rich peoples tax the same or making it lower..& making cuts to services.