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?

Labour.

Someone actually said BNP?

Living in a pretty safe Tory seat there isn't much point in voting for anybody - our MP isn't that bad but he holds some beliefs I'm not comfortable with (fundamentalist Christian).

Green in the locals, Mayorals and European elections. Probably Lib Dem in a GE as they're a distant second usually.

It all depends on whether Osbourne's artificial boom has run out of steam by 2015

I probably wouldnt vote as am hoping we get Scottish Independence next year when we can be rid of the lot of them.

Sadly I doubt it will happen-I despair of all of them

I don't know how anyone could countenance voting Conservative (or Lib Deb)

You've got Michael Gove destroying the education system, blustering on with his mad ideas about the history curriculum and free schools, when there are real problems to be addressed, like a shortfall in primary school places since the Tories have been in power.

You've got IDS and his rickety universal credit scheme which is not only questionable in terms of the actual changes it will make to people's lives - but in the bureaucracy and waste involved in implementing these (fuzzy) changes - even the National Audit Office thinks he's done an appalling job of managing the project, £34 million "written off" on failed IT changes alone.

And as for housing? Coco87 I completely agree that Labour didn't build anything like enough social housing and they should (in my opinion) have done more to restrict the rampant buy to let market (though that would have been unpopular with many voters, I think it is necessary in the long term). But the Tories are extremely unlikely to build any new social housing either (especially given that they still think one of the party's greatest successes was flogging it all off). And Osborne's 'help to buy' scheme clearly shows that he has no interest in tackling the cost of housing - just pumping up the mortgage market and house prices once again, by subsidising what are, essentially, subprime loans.

Let alone the fact that they've put in place the 'bedroom tax' - a housing policy so badly thought through and destructive that even the UN think it should be scrapped immediately. Of course they have also made housing benefit unavailable to people under 25, so what happens to someone under 25 who loses their job? Then there's the housing benefit cap, and the threat of dislocation and homelessness this causes. All in all, homelessness has risen since the Coalition came to power. Just like homelessness rose under the Tories in the 80s.

There's lots that the last Labour government didn't take strong enough action on. But there's something to be said for voting for the lesser of two evils. You get less evil.

Susanne, the only way to get Independence is to talk to people about it.
People at my work, partners work etc who were never SNP supporters or fans of Independence are now voting YES, they are wanting to talk about it etc.
As soon as people actually look into it themselves then that's how it will be won.
There really is no other option for Scotland now.

Labour! Anything to get these Tory bastards out.

SNP (and a yes next year)

Everything is getting so fecked up down south by the Westminster government. We are partly protected from some of the worst excesses by devolution, but fingers crossed for independence....

labour. I could never as a NHS worker vote for the conservatives. Ever.

SNP and one massive YES for next year also!

Susanne look at it this way, SNP won with a landslide majority, people voted knowing there would be a referendum. Have faith, keep talking, keep questioning, if a viable reason comes up for saying NO, check it out find the answer and its probably made up rubbish anyway. Glasgow needs more work with its labour grassroots. but hopefully people will start to realise its the labour government and labour councils that have done nothing for Glasgow for decades and that is why there are the problems there is now.

This thread is a useful indicator of who is mad.

I would vote Labour because I don't believe people who are not well-off should be treated with contempt and made to exist purely to support the rich. I don't believe those people should be stamped even further into the ground to ensure they can't better themselves. I don't believe our NHS should be destroyed. I don't believe women are ultimately second class citizens and just need to find themselves a nice husband. I don't believe poor people shouldn't be allowed to have children, or buy a TV. And a whole host of other reasons.

MangoTiramisu

Funny, because David Cameron seems pretty keen on doing both of these.

blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/cameron-busted-on-debt-claims/12556

Labour told everyone that times were good - less unemployment, controllable migration, great education and an NHS to be proud of. All the while, they were selling off our gold and letting us think times really were good.

We were all well and truly hoodwinked.

I'll never forgive Blair for getting us into the war with Iraq and I hope he fucking regrets it every single day of his charmed life. Sorry would never be enough.

Susanne, the only way to get Independence is to talk to people about it.
People at my work, partners work etc who were never SNP supporters or fans of Independence are now voting YES, they are wanting to talk about it etc.
As soon as people actually look into it themselves then that's how it will be won.
There really is no other option for Scotland now.

I completely agree-I am talking about it, and I plan to go and help with the Yes campaign.I will also be on the March for Independence in Edinburgh .

Still a year to go-so that fills me with hope.

I actually feel sorry for my friends south of the border that don't have this alternative

www.tusc.org.uk/

leftunity.org/

This crisis was caused by US bankers, not by employing too many teaching assistants

I am surprised that people seem to think a worldwide financial crisis was caused by Labour

Maybe we need a "Mumsnet for Independence" group at the rally :-) I'll be there too...

I have absolutely no fucking idea.

Not Labour, I can't stand what Blair did to this country.

Not Lib Dem, not after they sold themselves down the ricer.

And absolutely no fucking way will I ever vote Tory again. And that's coming from someone who's been brought up that they were the only party possible. But I will NEVER vote for them again.

If anyone wishes to educate me on a viable alternative, I will be more than happy to listen. I want to vote, I want this government sent packing. I just don't know who to vote for, as the best tactical vote

My mum is going and I would love to go too. but its my son's 3rd birthday party. His birthday is actually the 18th, maybe a sign who knows lol.

I will go to the next one

Traditionally a Tory girl from a tory family but they've come up with so many plans that go against my beliefs (hs2, planning law changes, squeezing the middle families) I'd vote labour.

ABC - Anything But Conservative.

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can vote Conservative. What they are doing right now to the NHS is horrific.

NHS, ATOS, the Welfare System. I'm ashamed that I ever voted Conservative.

Probably Labour. I voted Lib Dem last time and wish that I hadn't now. They've not delivered any of the promises they made.