Re- the Coalition: To all Lib-Dems and "Traditional" Labour supporters

Chil1234 · 28/01/2011 16:47

This is AIBU... you probably want 'Politics'

strandedpolarbear · 28/01/2011 16:53

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HecateQueenOfWitches · 28/01/2011 16:57

I used to vote labour but became very unhappy with them.

I switched to lib dems as I preferred their vision as they described it.

I don't regret it because I am glad that labour lost. They needed that kick up the arse.

I wish the tories had not got in, but let's be honest, the way this country's system is set up, lib dems never stand a chance.

I think the lib dems saw a chance to get some power and took it and I think they abandoned too much for that chance.

It simply was just another confirmation for me of something I have always known - power is all that matters to politicians.

Are you writing an article or something?

nickelbabysnatcher · 28/01/2011 17:01

I've always voted Libdem.
i don't regret it.
I do wish that not so many people thought the tories would be an answer to their problems.
and I wish that the Libdems had more power in the coalition than they do.
they're being screwed over, and they really can't say anything.

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ivanhoe · 28/01/2011 17:07

/////I am a traditional labour voter. However voted lib-dem because I agreed with their policies re university funding and education. Regret it massively now though, and will never be voting for them in the future.///////

You wont be voting for who in the future ?

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MilaMae · 28/01/2011 17:24

God yes.

I was always a lib dem voter.I will never,ever vote for them again.My kids I suspect won't either. They're only 7,7 and 6 but they totally understand why.

I think the lib dems are f**d to be frank.Most of my friends were lib dem voters and without exception they all
feel the same.

The lib dems have a voice they're perfectly able to disagree with the Tories they just choose not to which is why as the months go by I hate them even more. They're supposed to be part of a coalition not Tory lapdogs.

Totally utterly spineless and power hungry. Hope they enjoy their moment of glory as they'll never,ever get it again.

ccpccp · 28/01/2011 18:21

You'll all be voting LibDem again if the cuts work.

manicbmc · 28/01/2011 18:25

Voted libdem once in a local election. But they really are not cut out for government. Their policies may have sounded good but the maths really didn't work out which is why they are having to backtrack so much now, partly. And the fact that they are just Cameron's puppets ofc.

gordyslovesheep · 28/01/2011 18:30

no as a card carrying member of the Labour Party I voted Labour - I know some people who voted Lib Dem to 'keep the tories out' they are not very happy!

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 17:15

///////manicbmc Fri 28-Jan-11 18:25:34
Voted libdem once in a local election. But they really are not cut out for government. Their policies may have sounded good but the maths really didn't work out which is why they are having to backtrack so much now, partly. And the fact that they are just Cameron's puppets ofc.//////

What has "maths" got to do with it" ?, Britain is a wealth of money, but much of it goes "out" of the country.

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 17:17

//////ccpccp Fri 28-Jan-11 18:21:07
You'll all be voting LibDem again if the cuts work.///////

The cuts will put more people on the dole than the Thatcher era did.

Why oh why are we British like sheep when it comes to believing and parrating everything we are told ?

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 17:22

""MilaMae Fri 28-Jan-11 17:24:05
God yes.

I was always a lib dem voter.I will never,ever vote for them again.My kids I suspect won't either. They're only 7,7 and 6 but they totally understand why.

I think the lib dems are f**d to be frank.Most of my friends were lib dem voters and without exception they all
feel the same.

The lib dems have a voice they're perfectly able to disagree with the Tories they just choose not to which is why as the months go by I hate them even more. They're supposed to be part of a coalition not Tory lapdogs.

Totally utterly spineless and power hungry. Hope they enjoy their moment of glory as they'll never,ever get it again""

Brilliant. But sadly we have to just over 4 years now for another general election.

Your 6 and 7 years certainly put the mindsets of Tory supporters here in the shade.

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GrendelsMum · 29/01/2011 18:07

I voted LibDem and don't regret it, but then I didn't think that a Lib-Con coalition was an unlikely result, and I thought it was better than the likely alternative, which was a Conservative government. Nick Clegg had said here on Mumsnet he would go for a coalition if he had the option, so I think it would be pretty daft of me to pretend to be surprised that that's what we've ended up with. And I'm not surprised that, with a coalition, there's a lot of compromises that need to be made. Student Fees v Graduate Tax = difficult issue, and I did have queries about how the Graduate Tax was going to work. I suspect that some at least of the LibDems proably realised, not least based on the past experience of the Liberal Party, that their popularity would drop massively in a coalition and that it would be a very challenging time.

ccpccp · 29/01/2011 18:10

"Why oh why are we British like sheep when it comes to believing and parrating everything we are told" - ivanhoe

Yeah that much is apparent

4 years to the next GE. And you know what - it'll be 100% Tories next time.

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 18:41

//////ccpccp Sat 29-Jan-11 18:10:22
"Why oh why are we British like sheep when it comes to believing and parrating everything we are told" - ivanhoe

Yeah that much is apparent

4 years to the next GE. And you know what - it'll be 100% Tories next time./////

Then you dont care about the old, the young, the sick,the disbabled,the worke, o the unemployed ?

In short you just care about yourself, right or wrong ?

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lowercase · 29/01/2011 19:10

no ccpccp, you are not 100% of the vote.

thank the Lord!

clevercloggs · 29/01/2011 19:22

a lot of those who voted lib dem did so on the back of Nick Clegg looking smarmy in an hour's television programme and were daft enough to fall for his lies. It was as plain as the smirk on his face that he was just saying what he knew people wanted to hear

if you are daft enough to base your vote on an hours telly programme, you deserve what you end up with

clevercloggs · 29/01/2011 19:23

it'll be 100% Tories next time.

fingers crossed and hopefully some of the terrible debt will be paid off by then

lowercase · 29/01/2011 20:01

whatever

Newgolddream · 29/01/2011 20:40

it'll be 100% Tories next time. - not here in Scotland it wont thank god, they are lucky to have 1 single seat presently, hopefully that will be wiped out at the next g election. Not that it matters I suppose if they win overall in Britain, we will all be doomed. Certainly the NHS will be.

And yes I voted Lib Dem because I didnt want to vote Labour or SNP, and theres no way in hell I would ever vote Tory. And yes I regret it.

JaneS · 29/01/2011 22:19

I voted Lib Dem. I am still gutted that our local MP (Evan Harris) was voted out - he seemed like a good person and much better than the woman who replaced him.

We do vote for the MP, not the government.

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ivanhoe · 30/01/2011 23:59

""it'll be 100% Tories next time. - not here in Scotland it wont thank god, they are lucky to have 1 single seat presently, hopefully that will be wiped out at the next g election. Not that it matters I suppose if they win overall in Britain, we will all be doomed. Certainly the NHS will be.

And yes I voted Lib Dem because I didnt want to vote Labour or SNP, and theres no way in hell I would ever vote Tory. And yes I regret it.""

The Torys dont care about our vital services.

If Cameron didnt have the Deficit to use as an excuse for cutting jobs and vital services, he would find some other reason to do do.

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magicmummy1 · 31/01/2011 00:16

I didn't vote lib dem in the last election, though I might have done had I lived in a different constituency - anything to keep the tories out. But I'm in a lab-con marginal, so no point!

As things have turned out, I'm glad I didn't, and wouldn't ever consider them again. They appear to be totally spineless & lacking in principles .

woollyideas · 31/01/2011 05:47

I've always voted Labour in the past but had lost faith in them because they turned into a party that I couldn't recognise as socialist.

(a) they consistently put the needs (well, not sure if 'needs' is the right word - wishes?) of big business first
(b) sucked up to George Bush too much
(c) tried to introduce ID cards
(d) went so far with so-called anti-terrorism measures that they interfered with civil liberties (CCTV, increased police powers of arrest, etc.)
I didn't vote for them this time because of the above and also because it was obvious they couldn't win. My constituency is a safe Tory seat and their only viable opposition is LibDem. Labour doesn't stand a chance where I live, unfortunately.
I voted LibDem on the stength of their manifesto, not because I thought they could win, but in the hope of a coalition, which I thought would be 'less bad' than majority Tory rule.
However, they've all lied, haven't they (surprise!) and are busy pushing through measures that the public didn't vote for and which weren't in their manifestos.
I am bitterly disappointed in the way this government has conducted itself so far: trying to sell off forests, closing libraries and childrens' services, withdrawing university funding and increasing tuition fees threefold, putting up VAT, creating more unemployment, etc. It is very obvious to me that they really don't give a damn about anyone but the wealthy and big businesses.

5DollarShake · 31/01/2011 06:09

Ivanhoe - stop acting as if your opinion is the only right and correct one. How would you have got the country out of the mess it's in?