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To ask if you would vote lib dem again?

78 replies

EdnaClouds · 24/02/2012 16:28

I know my dh is very disillusioned. How about you?

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HoneyandHaycorns · 24/02/2012 16:43

I didn't vote lib dem in the last election but might have considered it if they had been the only viable alternatives to the conservatives in my constituency.

I would not consider it now.

LineRunner · 24/02/2012 16:50

I think it will depend on the Lib Dems' spring conference in March in Newcastle/Gateshead.

If the grass roots force Clegg to sort his shit out, and withdraw support for the NHS Bill, then they may seem credible again.

There is a new force called Liberal Left emerging from within the Liberal Democrats, opposing the coalition.

All is not lost.

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 24/02/2012 16:52

Never in a million years. That said, I think all three of the main parties are slowly merging into each other, with nothing to choose between them. They're all in it for what they can get, noses in the trough, and fuck the "little people" and anyone who can't stand up for themselves. They just have somewhat different ways of screwing people over.

PoultryInMotion · 24/02/2012 16:53

No absolutely not, gutted that my LibDem vote helped to get the government we have today.

nowittynamehere · 24/02/2012 16:53

Never ever ever again MR glegg let me down ,

MrsTerryPratchett · 24/02/2012 16:54

I wouldn't vote Labour again after Iraq 2 and ID cards and I won't vote for the Lib Dems after this crap. WHO CAN I VOTE FOR NOW?

flapperghasted · 24/02/2012 16:54

Sorry...didn't vote for them last time, cos I saw their betrayal of their grass roots coming from a country mile away. Any hint of credibility they had is now shot. Well done Mr Clegg...the only man who could make Labour, with all their ineptitude STILL look like a viable proposition when compared to the blardy tories.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 24/02/2012 16:55

Yes, I would.

I'm not happy with having a Tory government, but I don't think the Lib Dems had many choices the way the votes turned out.

I think they have helped buffer us from the more zealous excesses of an undiluted Conservative government.

And I support their general aims and principles and stuff; the only way to get those things to happen is if people vote for them. It would've been better if a majority of people had voted for them, but what can you do...?!

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 24/02/2012 16:55

Ooh, this ought to be in the politics section, people get all angered up when politics wanders out of its section!

MsGee · 24/02/2012 16:56

I did but never again.

nowittynamehere · 24/02/2012 16:57

I think the next election there will be voter apathy (is that the right word Confused ) because I think people will be stuck as to who to vote for m the libdems were so promising but now not so much ,

EDRefugee · 24/02/2012 16:57

Never again.

Quattrocento · 24/02/2012 16:57

I agree with you Boulevard

Who, with any sense of responsibility, could vote Labour? And who, with any sense of compassion, could vote Tory?

nowittynamehere · 24/02/2012 16:57

ssshhh dont tell them boulevard

Thistledew · 24/02/2012 16:59

Absolutely not. I think that the Lib Dems in coalition are either too weak to be effective or if they are being effective, have shown themselves in favour of policies I could never agree with.

I'm another one not knowing who to vote for- there was a reason (or rather several reasons) I decided not to vote Labour at the last election and those reasons have not gone away.

LittleWhiteWolf · 24/02/2012 17:06

Never say never. I am saddened and cross with the way the Lib Dems have behaved since I voted for them in the GE, but that isn't to say I shall give up on them forever. Next time around I may vote for Labour or I may vote Lib Dems again. However I am so disheatened by the way things are going that its more likely that I will vote Labour.

I really did believe that more people were going to vota LD last time. I was probably naive or a bit to hopeful of the government I imagined after the last election Sad

HoopDeDoo · 24/02/2012 17:10

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Trills · 24/02/2012 17:12

I would vote for my MP (who is a Lib Dem) again, yes.

chocoroo · 24/02/2012 17:14

I've always voted Lib Dem and am very disappointed. I would consider voting Labour next time but they'd have to work to convince me.

I would never vote Tory. I grew up in a pit village and the damage they caused there is still very evident several generations on.

LineRunner · 24/02/2012 17:16

Actually, Trills makes a bloody good point. If I had one the very good Lib Dem MPs, I would vote for them.

Trills · 24/02/2012 17:18

You might find this article interesting - asking which of the coalition parties is giving up the most.

jellybeans · 24/02/2012 17:27

No way, never. Can't stand Clegg.

LaurieFairyCake · 24/02/2012 17:29

The Lib Dems have stopped the conservatives being much more cunty - it would be much much worse without them.

There is nothing wrong with their policies and thankfully the Liberal Left group are emerging as they're massively unhappy with the compromises they're making.

There are so many difficulties with being a left wing liberal as the media are so two party about their journalism - having a simple left and right makes soundbites easier and people actually have to really look for info about alternatives.

Instead when they talk about the 'govt' on the news the Liberals are lumped in with the Tories as if they have an enormous part in the decision making.

How many people even know about the new Liberal Left group conference and the fact its being led by senior party people ?

vj32 · 24/02/2012 17:29

What did you expect the Lib Dems to do as the much smaller party in the coalition?? I personally think they bargained too hard for the referendum on voting reform - it was too soon and people didn't understand the Q.

They now have some experience in power - which will help them later. And is something they never expected to get!!

My local LD MP lost her seat. She was fab. Replaced by sex scandal pony lady. There is no Labour party in my constituency - they get about 3 votes. So yes, I will be voting LD.

There is also the point that I can't vote Conservative, and the Labour Leader is a wet puppy. So I can't vote Labour, even if it made tactical sense, which it doesn't.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 24/02/2012 17:31

Well I didn't vote for them last time so I don't have that on my conscience thank god.

But no I wouldn't, a man who once came across as a half decent individual has cut off his own penis at the whiff of power he's had ( fuck all really )

To top it all he's fucked his own party up....he of course is aware of this which is the reason he's clinging on and the coalition hasn't gone tits up yet !