To ask if you would vote lib dem again?

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

I'm at a loss as to who to vote for next. They are all as bad as each other.

Probably. I have always lived in true blue Tory constituencies and quite frankly my vote is bit of a waste of time. However my late Grandmother drummed it into me that I must always vote because women died for that right, so I vote for whoever is most likely to beat the Tories locally, but of course it never happens.

....seriously starting to read up on the Greens as a contender.

Linerunner The Liberal Left sounds interesting... I'm an on the fence, middle of the road, prefers thinking on the left kind of person...

I voted Lib Dem at the GE for two main reasons. We live in a very very old school blue constituency, Labour have a nat's chance, BUT Lib Dems have had victories every so often... and our Lib Dem Candidate was someone who I respect (and like) enough and felt he best represented me. So I still think it was the right choice at the time.

I feel utterly butterly let down by the coalition, if it smells like Tory rule, and looks like Tory rule, then coalition or not, it is Tory rule.

I wouldn't rule out voting for Lib Dem again. I wouldn't rule out voting Green, or Red (though I just don't feel excited by labour at all these days). I cannot see me ever voting Conservative. Although I do not think all tories are evil, I could not vote for them because I believe in looking after those who can't look after themselves, or those who look after those who can't look after themselves, and the vunerable and their carers are utterly screwed by blue.

I have to say, I'm a bit MEH about politics these days, I don't hate the parties I don't like enough, and I don't get excited by the parties that fit my remit as much as I should... I don't think that's my fault.

The coalition sucks. It doesn't really work. But I can't see that preportional representation will be successful either, it would be like the gathering of Ents where nothing gets done!

Bah.

Come to Scotland and vote to get shot of the lot of them. For pragmatic reasons, not nationalist ones - cutting Westminster out is the only chance of being able to vote with your political inclination in the future that I can see.

I wouldn't. They totally went back on everything they stood for. At least the cons are honest about how bad they are.

Labour will get in where I live but I can't vote for them and I obviously can't vote for the cons and as our only other candidate is usually BNP that just leaves me with the option of drawing a cock and balls on my ballot paper.

Those people who think they have 'gone back on their principles' - what should they have done instead - forced another election? When? How do you think the economy would be doing then?? (not that the Torys are doing great but uncertainty is usually worse)

Voted Labour and will do again, although I dont have much faith in Milliband. I have absolutely no idea what the LDs stand for. Their politics is woolly as hell.

I don't know. But I don't know who else I would vote for. Tricky.

My area always has and always will be hugely Tory so it's not like I can make clever strategic votes.

Those who feel angry/betrayed - what do you think they should have done differently?

They couldn't have formed a coalition with Labour; firstly the votes weren't there, and secondly, Gordon Brown wanted to carry on, have you forgotten how hated he was at the time?

Let the Tories form a minority government? We were in the middle of a financial crisis (lucky that one got sorted out, eh? ) and needed a strong stable government.

So they were left with option C - coalition with the Tories. In which they are a minority. So most of the policies coming through are Conservative ones.

If we'd voted in a Lib Dem government that had tripled tuition fees, slashed support for the disabled and was trying to fuck up the NHS, then yes, we should be shocked and appalled and never vote for them again. But that's not what the Great British Public voted for, so... here we are.

I even canvassed for the lib dems at the last election.

I won't vote for them again.

I think I'll vote my MP again, who's a LibDem. Could never bring myself to vote Conservative and Labour here are a joke, They're not bothered about this part of the country and don't even bother to hide the fact.

Though I might vote for a Green MP....

Sorry...make that "Green candidate".

what mrs terry pratchett said!
i also might vote green maybe?

I'm not sure I could - Yes they have limited power as the minor part of the coalition, but I can't forgive them for fighting for electoral reform instead of fighting against tuition fees.

Education is imo the thing that makes the biggest social difference to people's lives, it has the biggest impact on social mobility.

I'm just :( about it - I'm ancient enough that I went to university when there were still grants, but with parental top-ups. Student loans came in during my 2nd year. I was a student who qualified for a full grant, coming from a large family surviving on a teacher's salary, so I didn't pay a penny to get my degree.

Not without a change at the helm of the party - the Liberals have a proud heritage and fuckwit Clegg has sold all that down the river. I almost hate him more than shiny Dave because with the Tories you know they are cunts from the off, the worse thing about the LibDem Clegg Party is that the pretended that they had some sort of social conscience and then sold out for power sharing.

I can't answer you. You'd have to rephrase the question to "Would you vote Lib-Dem ever?". The answer, btw, is not in a million goddamn years.

"they have limited power as the minor part of the coalition, but I can't forgive them for fighting for electoral reform instead of fighting against tuition fees. "

Thats what gets me. They cut such a bad deal.

I can barely tell Clegg and shiny Dave apart these days...

No, I couldn't. And I live in the Highlands where they had a huge amount of votes.
Charles Kennedy is a brilliant MP on local issues, but they chose power over their personal politics, and have destroyed any credibility they ever had.
I now vote SNP, sorry Charlie, you were one of the good guys (or so I thought),
but you've lost my vote.

Iam going to vote Green next time if they stand here. It's their party conference this weekend so we might hear more of what they have to offer.

I voted Lib-Dem in the last election and certainly won't again. They seemed to forget all their policies and history at the sniff of power.
Don't know who I'll vote for next time - moot point really though, labour stronghold here.

I will but with a very sad heart. They were just 2 seats behind tories in the last council election and there is no labour vote so I have to.

That said if it was a labour split I would just vote green or indi if they were ok.

I would because our local LD MP is so brilliant, this area would be poorer without him.

In fact is there still time to stand as a councillor for the local elections? I am thinking of standing as a none of the above candidate. I would only lose, what £200?