to ask how you would vote if there was a General Election tomorrow?

[coco87]

Ok, now I don't like any of the parties at the moment and they seem to be very similar (red Tories/blue Labour etc).

However, if there was a GE tomorrow I would vote Lib Dems because my local MP is Lib Dem and is really good, listens to voters and has done a lot of good work for the area. I don't rate them at a national level and don't agree with most of their policies but locally my MP (who just happens to be Lib Dem) is definitely the best choice.

Who would you vote for if there was a GE tomorrow?

[TeddyBare]

Green or Labour. I agree with the Green policies more but I'm concerned the Conservatives might get back in then and I'd still rather have Labour than Conservatives.

[Kamchatka]

I think there are a lot of people who will weep at the loss of the NHS when they are old enough to need it on a regular basis. I'm 41 and well aware that I'm in the generation which is seeing our retired parents live well and has not totally woken up to the fact that without thinking hard about organising finances for the future (which my parents did not need to do), there is every chance we will live out our years in poverty.

It's utter madness to let socialised healthcare go, if nothing else we should be thinking selfishly about this!
(So I will vote Labour, with a heavy heart.)

[grovel]

Conservative.

[Retropear]

Yes mango very happy as only a few children having an unfair disadvantage would be worth it in the long run.

[Brittabot]

Labour.

The Conservatives are destroying our NHS and welfare system under the auspices of this national austerity budget, while silmultaneously decreasing tax for the very wealthy. It's insane!

[CaptainUndercrackers]

Ex-ex labour voter, switched to lib dems at last election, now feel like they're all a bunch of wasters. Probably would vote green. I'd really like the opportunity to vote for senior central government civil servants though. Have recently done a lot of work with various govt departments and have been shocked at how similar it all seems to 'yes, minister' episodes. They are the real ones running the show.

[GrrArgh]

Yes if ever we needed the protest vote, this is the time. I doubt Labour want to get in, though. Imagine restructuring the welfare state after this shower had thirteen years to plan its dismantling.

[loopyloou]

Yes, I'd be tempted to spoil my ballot paper too, but would be too worried the Tories would stay in power then

[GrrArgh]

Quite surprised at how many yes votes the Lib Dems are getting.
They have proved themselves to be duplicitous milksops.

I will never vote Conservative. So it'll have to be Labour. I don't want to, but I feel a non-vote or a spoiled paper would increase by 1 vote the chances of a Tory government or another coalition, and I can't be part of that even by omission.

[PresidentServalan]

Conservative - they are trying to sort out the shite that Labour left behind and are trying to reformthe benefits system.

[MiniTheMinx]

ihategeorgeosborne yes I agree, BTL landlords need to be taxed so heavily that it becomes almost impossible. A house should have a use value first and foremost and not be seen as either investment or means to take on more credit.

Beepoff Its amazing that governments use the UN to lobby for the human rights of Syrians as a way of gaining the consensus so we can bomb the crap out of somewhere. But the same UN is derided when its the UK government in breach of human rights. Double standard much?

[Bramshott]

Lib Dem

But with a heavier heart than last time.

Not that it makes much difference round here (dyed in the wool Tory heartland)...

[IceBeing]

Lots of people on here have noone left to vote for...

Time for the MN party I think...

[Dawndonnaagain]

Because dreaming that's not the way it's working. If you only require one bedroom, but cannot find one bedroomed accommodation, then you are expected to pay the bedroom tax. If you are disabled and your dialysis equipment is stored in another room, you are expected to pay, despite what Cameron et al promised, the disabled are expected to pay. If you need an extra room for a carer, you are expected to pay.
facts and figures within article
(Not Mail article).

[dreamingofsun]

beepoff - i really don't see why its inhumane to provide people with the number of bedrooms they require.

[beepoff]

But beepoff (and I'm not suggesting you're wrong, btw), spending as it was under Labour could not possibly continue. It couldn't. You cannot continue spending money you don't have! Whilst I'm not saying I agree with all their policies, whoever got in power this time round, was going to have to make deeply unpopular cuts.

Perhaps Ziggy but when the UN describes the bedroom tax as "inhumane" you know it's gone too far!

[beepoff]

Anyone who says the Tories are only "cleaning up the mess the last lot left us in" could do with a few lessons in politics, history and economics.

You'll have no.10's spin doctors, speech writers and PR people high fiving with glee.

[Trills]

LibDem for the same reasons you list in your OP

[Capitola]

Conservative - after the mess Labour made of this country.

[Hugglepuff]

Can't vote Labour anymore - they took us into Iraq .
Can't vote Lib Dem anymore - they took us into coalition government.
Can't bring myself to vote Conservative.
Green it is then

[ihategeorgeosborne]

We definitely need more social housing and rent caps mini. I also think multiple property owners should be taxed heavily. This would discourage houses being used as "investments". Perhaps more people could then afford to buy their own and they could become "homes" again. Property greed has sapped the life out of this country.

[MiniTheMinx]

The tax bandings would need to be reassessed, sure. We need more social housing and rent caps.

[ihategeorgeosborne]

Mini, You do realise that a higher rate tax payer earns just over 40k a year? After tax, that equates to less than 30k a year. That is only 4k more than the benefit cap. Why should they pay to send their kids to school in addition to the tax they already pay? I would be much happier to work less hard and earn less money, but house prices would have to fall considerably to enable us to do that, which would be no bad thing.