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

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ThatVikRinA22 · 16/07/2010 23:14

are you happy with how you voted?

i currently work in the nhs and am about to go into policing within the next month. 2 areas that are about to get axed massively.

are you happy with how you voted? i am the only one in my household and in my workplace who feels i was true to my beliefs and is still happy with how i voted.

are you still happy or do you think your were duped?

i voted labour and i would again.

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said · 17/07/2010 13:44

I voted Lib Dem as am in a Lib Dem/Tory marginal. So, yes in that it kept a Lib Dem MP but no, obviously, since didn't vote true to any beliefs and am horrified at how weak and weasily the Lib Dems now seem. They should have had the Tories over a barrel. I now feel I live in a Tory/Tory marginal.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 17/07/2010 13:39

i just cant help feeling that possibly my first instincts were spot on. that they are all a bunch of lying cheating bastards who are in politics to line their own (and their own companies) pockets and in the end it didnt matter if i voted at all. DH never votes because he says its a waste of time and it changes nothing, that they are all the same.

i didnt want a tory government. i didnt want a lib dem coalition. i didnt vote for that but thats what i got. they lied through their teeth on VAT and other policy issues that they have now only weeks in done massive U turns on. why? why betray the people who voted for them? im so glad i voted Labour because i feel at least i wasnt duped.

the guardian link - i read it. i dont see how any of the proposed cuts help anyone but individuals.

i fear for the NHS under a tory government. another british rail in the making. and policing i fear will get really really difficult. strained more than it is now. im at a loss to understand why people want this? what am i missing?

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sarah293 · 17/07/2010 13:26

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claig · 17/07/2010 13:23

not state pensions because they don't kick in until 65 or is it 66?

claig · 17/07/2010 13:19

I think you're right purepurple. It is a bad policy that will save very little, and it is punitive to people over 60 on low wages and low state pensions.

purepurple · 17/07/2010 13:18

bus fares to millionaires, what bollocks
The fact is free bus passes are claimed by those that need them. It doesn't cost the government anything if people don't use them, surely?

undercovamutha · 17/07/2010 13:12

Yes and no. I voted Libdem but labour still got in, which I knew they would. I live in a labour stronghold, which has been labour for many many decades. I voted libdem to make a point and ensure that the local labour MP didn't get such a huge majority as normal.

As for being happy having the libdems in power(ish) - I am not at all happy. I work in the public sector and feel sick about all the cuts and demonising of public services that is going on. Bloody tories!

claig · 17/07/2010 13:11

yes you're right, they are overcrowded in some areas. But the Tories are pretending that they will stop millionaires travelling on free bus passes. I don't know many millionaires who travel on buses, so who are they really targetting for these savings?

"A senior Government source said: ?In these times of budget pressures we simply cannot go on paying free bus fares to millionaires."

ReasonableDoubt · 17/07/2010 13:04

I voted Labour (as I have always voted) and I will be voting Labour again next time. I have joined the party as a result of the last election and am now more politically active than I have ever been. So yes, I am happy with how I voted. Not happy in general, though. These are not happy times.

sarah293 · 17/07/2010 13:04

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claig · 17/07/2010 13:02

in fact Philip Hammond will be on Any Questions starting in a minute on Radio 4. I think that is where I heard it last night

claig · 17/07/2010 12:59

well nationalise the bus companies then. The buses are running half empty off peak.

sarah293 · 17/07/2010 12:57

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claig · 17/07/2010 12:55

I don't believe that these free bus passes cost £1 billion a year, as someone says in the comments section, the pensioners only take up seats that would otherwise be empty off-peak. A rise in corporation tax of 0.1 % would easily pay for all of this and more.

Giddyup · 17/07/2010 12:55

I voted Lib Dem as Labour were a wasted vote here. Now wish I had voted Labour as usual, at least my conscience would be clear then

longfingernails · 17/07/2010 12:55

The Tories aren't getting rid of bus passes.

The current (Labour) plan is that from now until 2020 the age of eligibility for free bus passes will rise from 60 to 65. As part of the spending review process, the Department of Transport was examining the possibility of bringing the 2020 date a bit earlier - but has almost certainly decided against doing so.

sarah293 · 17/07/2010 12:54

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claig · 17/07/2010 12:47

Boris Johnson was on the news opposing it, but how far that will get is anyone's guess

claig · 17/07/2010 12:45

maybe it is not a done deal yet. I heard a Tory minister blaming the Daily Mail for scare stories last night on Any Questions

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295126/Millions-face-waiting-5-years-free-bus-pass.html

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claig · 17/07/2010 11:36

The Guardian made a decision to back the LibDems, saw the result that Labour was defeated and were pleased, evaluated that they better pretend that they were back on the people's side so that they could carry on fooling and changing Labour voters' minds.

Credit to them, it was intelligent, they acarried out their plan, but I think it was duplicitous

SanctiMoanyArse · 17/07/2010 11:27

No I don' think it is

You make a decision, see the results, evaulate and change your mind

That's intellifgent, not hypocritical

claig · 17/07/2010 11:22

I think flip-flopping so quickly is hypocrisy. Did these clever middle class Oxbridge educated Guardian journalists not see what was coming? The working class Labour voters knew what was coming. Someone somewhere in Guardian HQ is having a laugh.

SanctiMoanyArse · 17/07/2010 11:14

'The Guardian advocated getting rid of Labour and now it pretends it is back on the side of the people

changing your mind does not = hypocrisy

SanctiMoanyArse · 17/07/2010 11:13

Oh and I am diguysted by LD policies in teh colation Gov wrt to DLA modifications becuase they promised me they wouldn't go for it.

Had I voted for a national Gov, as opposed to local MOP< would be incredibly unhappy

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