so now youve had chance to think about it....

BaggedandTagged - I actually think the LibDEms have lost credibility. They threw their principles away as soon as they had a sniff of power.

VAT - 'the Tory VAT bombshell' said Nick Clegg. But then, they changed their minds. What a surprise.

Uni fees - Clegg, along with most of his party, signed a pledge to OPPOSE any rise in student fees. But the terms of the coalition that they have agreed to mean they can not do this, they may only abstain from any vote.

What is worse is that they have signed up to a budget that targets women and the poor. This is not the LibDem party that campaigned prior to the election. It is an offshoot of the tory party.

No, I voted LibDem, because I stupidly believed that they first of all had principles that they would stick to, and second of all, was told BY OUR LIBDEM CANDIDATE that the only way to 'keep out the Tories' was to vote LibDem.

I will never vote for them again. I will always vote Labour.

I voted lib dem in safe tory seat. Am not happy with proposed cuts in education or free schools. It would appear the education policy being followed is purely tory.

The idea of a graduate tax is wrong and will lead to a brain drain from the UK. There should be fewer people going to university and then tuition fees wouldn't be necessary or at least would be lower.

I don't like the sound of 2 yr courses and everyone going to their local uni either. This is the type of system in France and having spent a year at a french uni I would say the standard was not as good. There was also no university life as everyone lived at home.

I don't think labour did the right thing either..far too many people going to university devaluing qualifications.

University/higher education was much better in the 70s and 80s.

I'm not particularly happy with current govt policy but there is no way I'd consider voting labour. They did not manage the economy well and chanelled most of the money to schools and hospitals in labour heartlands leaving hospitals in other (tory areas) to fall apart. The new hospitals/schools they built were funded through PFI which will end up being very costly.

The current gov seems not to want to tax the baby boomers any more or means test their benefits but is happy to squeeze whatever they can from middle class families. If labour had got back in they would have probably done the same.

I might do a green protest vote next time.

Venetianred - I think you meant "imply", not "infer". "Infer" is what YOU did...i.e. it is passive. "Imply" is active.

Voted Green, ended up with a right little tw*t of a Lib Dem, seat went to LibDems after many years of Labour.
Sitting Labour MP was unappealing as a person but at least was a LABOUR MP.
Feel like my vote was a bit self indulgent and can't wait for Labour to get back in round here. Susect many others round here have come to that conclusion. Predict the Lib Dem will be out on his arse as soon as we all get the chance to vote (Labour) again
Of course, it will be too late for our jobs and services by then....

I would still vote Labour. I am not happy with the CONDEMS. ALL IN IT TOGETHER? Give over,
impossible in a country as unequal as ours.
People at the bottom willget bashed. Middle classes, reduced incomes.Toppeople ? Hardly
touched at all. The government are as trustworthy as my dodgy computer. Be patient,
please with me.And thump HMG(That rhymes)

Good luck with the struggle

niceguy - they do have a choice though and to make people on low earnings pay for the bankser bonus is not a "we don't have a choice thing" the troy goverment could get tought on the bankers - they could change there contracts within three months to say no bonus - they say that iof they do this the bankers will get other jobs - i would like to know where the other jobs are - as there aren't any in this country or others for bankers.

So I say to this goverment stop and look at the people pulling money out of public business - as that is what bankers are in sa lot of cases - and stop them getting rewards for failing

the tory goverment choice is to let the bankers get away with it and make other lower earner pay.

it is like saying to a naughty child who has not worked and failed his exams - that sok we will give you a hugh bonus and those people that past there exams will have to take a pay cut and have vat rises so we can pay for all the things that the last useless teacher did (disclamer I don't thing teachers are useless )

I voted labour in a conservative stronghold so I knew my vote wouldn't count but simply couldn't vote any other way.

the day after the coalition was announced I joined the labour party.

I voted Labor glad I voted Labor gutted Tories got in and I will vote labor again. I think we were due a recession they come around every so often and I don't think any party would have avoided it. I also really don't like the areas Tory have chosen to take money from.

Hopefully the changes to constituency sizes (so that they are more equal in size) and the 10% reduction in the number of MPs will screw Labour for a fair while.

Going further and making Scotland independent would ensure they never have a chance to ruin this country again.

vicarinatutu - are you inferring that you think the current govt are all right muppets?

I do wonder about some of their recent decisions. For instance, taking away free travel for the elderly will save such a miniscule amount of money, and really impact on the lives of so many who need to stay as connected as possible as a classically 'lonely' time of their lives.

I was on a plane and arrived into Heathrow the morning following the election, which might be a good thing as I was really struggling to know who to vote for.

I voted labour, even in a tory safe as houses seat - this election has encouraged me to get more involved in politics and make sure that its not only my vote that counts.

I am already fed up with the CON a lition. As a labour voter I can understand liberal and conservative idealogies, but feel we have got neither. We have a load of policies that don't match manafestos.

What is the point of this thread?
We have five year(ish) Governments so any Prime Minister only has a certain length of time in which to achieve anything. You do the nasty-but-necessary stuff when you are newly elected and leave the popularist stuff until just before an election. Dave is doing whatever he can now to get the economy humming in four years' time.
It's the way the world works.

Lib Dem - not happy next time i will make a tactical vote and go Labour.

Lib Dem - not happy next time i will make a tactical vote and go Labour.

Labour ruined this country and those moaning about the Tory cuts are forgetting they have no choice. We spent too much under Labour and now is the time we have to pay it back.

It's like having an ex-h who left you with a mountain of debts after buying all the latest gadgets and now you have to pay it back, the kids blaming you because when dad was around, they could buy a new xbox game every week whilst you had to sell the xbox to pay the interest on the loans!

LAbour socialised are idealists who find it easy to spend someone else's money. Only someone else now wants his cash back.

As our previous libdem MP stepped down before the election (I believe as a result of his increasing disillusionment with parliament)I voted green rather than lib dem when Nick Clegg said proportional representation was not a condition of working with the Tories. Still have a libdem MP but am very glad I didn't help to elect him as having been broadly libdem since '97 will vote labour next time as this is a three way marginal and I cannot believe just how bad the tories actually are. I'd forgotten how much I really hated them. OK there are financial issues but they should be taxing higher earners more (I am one and would much rather pay more tax than pay for my mil to actually meet her living costs on a basic pension - her costs are only food, heating, phone etc but the numbers just don't add up). I fear we are also heading for double dip recession if the cuts proposed go ahead. it's madness.

I voted labour & absolutely would again. Don't regret my vote for a second.

For those who voted Lib Dem and regret it now, do you at least think it's a good thing that your vote helped the Lib Dems get into government and so gain them credibility? For many voters the issue with the Lib Dems was always "no track record in government" which now shouldn't be so much of an issue. I suppose there is probably a difference between "true" and "tactical" Lib Dem voters on this though.

I think how the parties reposition themselves over this parliament will be interesting. I personally expect the Lib Dems to re-take their traditional middle ground and for Labour to push out further to the left.

I voted LibDem to try to stop the Tory candidate getting in, and he did anyway. Even had the LibDem candidate got in, I wouldn't have felt that my vote had counted. This seems like a Tory government rather than a coalition and although I acknowledge huge cuts needed to be made in public spending, I am shocked at the choices that have been made as to where and how to make those cuts, not least in education and the NHS.

If I were to do it again I would vote Green.

We owe it all to that "bigot" Mrs. Duffy of Rochdale, she spared us all.