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

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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?

Although have just finished Riders and Rivals and I would vote for Rupert C-B even though he was a Tory.

picnic I am neither very rich, nor very old

Conservative. Can't stand them, but Labour and Lib Dems are even worse and Ed Miliband is a wet blanket.

crescentmoon, you read further than me then! Had a quick glance through, but I learned the story from my father, as a child (in broad outline, not fine detail) so I knew what I was looking for. Glencoe still has a "broody" feel to it.

Will end derail here.

What do you all suggest the Tories do at the moment? Labour spent their way into extreme debt and didn't do much to get the country out of the recession apart from throw money they didn't have at things. No matter what the Tories do now its not going to be popular.

Money has to be saved from somewhere.

Should say, wouldn't vote Tory even with a gun to my head. Why vote for a party who are happy to demonise me and people like me?

SNP.
I would really struggle to vote if I lived in England, would vote Plaid in Wales.
Would prob have to be Green if i lived down south.

What do you all suggest the Tories do at the moment? Labour spent their way into extreme debt and didn't do much to get the country out of the recession apart from throw money they didn't have at things. No matter what the Tories do now its not going to be popular.

I would suggest that they don't take it from the poorest in society when it is the richest that made the mess.

re. Ed Milliband. Just an aside, doesn't anyone think its strange that he took on his brother in a Labour leadership contest? I mean really very peculiar. And even more odd that the Labour Party old guard/politicos did not advise them strongly against it? Overall I found it very strange ...

I do compare Milliband and his predecessor Blair, unfavourably with the old "real" Labour of trade union bastions and municipal socialism/social reform. Though the LP had their major faults, at least they had some sense of reality about them, and they once had to graft for a living, at least most of them.

The Labour Party is trying to change yet again to appeal to voters. I guess it could work if everyone could forget Blair's legacy. But I doubt I ever will.

Sorry for ramble ...

I too would suggest the same as Primal, I'd also suggest they stop sending their nasty, malicious little narrative to the papers. Benefits scroungers are very few and Disabled people are not all benefits scroungers. I'd stop the divisions that are being drawn between the deserving and undeserving poor and point to real issues of equity, the rich are getting richer, the poor more so, fairly typical under a tory government. The real narrative is that Osbourne et al have an I'm alright Jack attitude but by sleight of hand and misdirection, only the few are picking up on this.

Labour, although my local Labour MP would make a far better prime minister than Ed Miliband, she's fab.

Absolutely agree, Primal.

And it's got nothing to do with me or anyone else wanting 'handouts', taking benefits away from disabled people who rely on them is despicable, as is creating a society when families can become reliant on food banks to feed their children. Don't imply that I'm a scrounger just because I disagree with you.

Is anyone doing a tally?

Actually OP that should be your job

I always vote, even though that means that I register a protest vote more often than not.

I don't like any of them at the moment.

I'd vote Monster Raving Loony if I got the opportunity. Good as any. Failing that then maybe UKIP?

Personally, I do wonder why we don't have a section on the ballot paper labelled "none of the above", to give people who want it a proper chance of kicking all main parties up the arse.

I'll know I've gone fucking insane the day I vote Tory. Pathetic excuse for Labour for me. If only John Smith hadn't died. Sigh.

BNP

I have no idea.
can't find anyone I would want to vote for at all!

Monster Raving Looney party. Failing that, Labour.

Conservative. I want another 4 years of left wing whining.

I voted LibDem last time to try to keep out the Tories. Never again, so it looks like Labour next time. They need to dump Ed though.

He won the leader election due to union block votes. I assume that all the conservative voting union members who automatically get Labour membership voted for Ed because he's so useless.

Labour, with the same reservations voiced by dozens of PPs.

Even financially, the current lot are beyond a disaster. Their half baked and malicious benefits policies are going to end up costing a lot more than they save. Labour may have got us further into debt (even if you disagree that it was mostly the fault of the worldwide credit crunch), but at least we had improved hospitals and schools and Sure Start centres to show for it. This lot are still getting us further into debt....for what?

They're all a bunch of screwed up tossers out for their own gain. I don't trust any of them.

Why do you ask op? Are you keeping notes?

Labour. Always unless a viable socialist alternative came up. My seats quite swingy and I'd vote anything to get Tories off it.