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?

I'm with boschy

I really don't know. Tories vile, Lib-Dems hideous let down, Labour well what are their policies? And a vote for others wd split the vote allowing bigger Tory win I fear. Ugh.

I'd feel too guilty not to vote ...but don't WANT to choose any of them.

Labour. I couldnt bear to vote for any of the others. Even tho I feel Ed Milliband is an annoying automaton. He appears to have not much to say about anything/not exactly vocal in opposing Tory policies. I cant even say what his policies are. He's too bland comes across as having no integrity whatsoever & hope they get rid of him as Labour leader soon.

labour

Perhaps if everyone who wants to vote for "none of the above" voted Green (where available), a revolution could be achieved? I'll be voting "yes" next year too, and I was interested in the Sunday Times poll a while back that asked voters if their #indyref vote in 2014 would be influenced by what they thought would be the outcome of the 2015 General Election. Put it this way, if, by October next year, Scottish "undecideds" think there will be another Tory Government in Westminster, Yes have a fucking landslide.

I bloody hope so. And I would never have dreamed of voting SNP 10 years ago and thought they were delusional idiots

Dav Cam pushing the issue of the referendum really makes me think that he wants rid of Scotland pronto before we all vote against him in 2015.

I am a lost labour voter and will vote green.

Political parties are less popular than the unions and dost and up for the working person yet Labour is being stupid about this. The Tories are destructive - what positive have they done? It's all about beating people down and creating enemies. My local Tory MP candidate was such an arrogant man when he came knocking at the last general election.

I've read up on the greens. They get my vote as they have done before in local elections.

*stand up not dost and up

With the exception of BNP/other loony partisa I'd be happy to vote with whoever will a) keep the NHS safe and b) get rid of Michael Gove (who is an utter, utter moron)

Conservative

Labour. Am v surprised that people would still vote lib dem

ALso we really do have to get rid of Michael gove before he ruins our education system any more. If you care for your children's education, I'd urge people to reconsider voting conservative when it is our next general election.

I'd consider voting green, but they don't even stand in my constituency, so it isn't an option. It's a Tory/Labour marginal, so voting Labour is a bit of a no-brainer for me!

I think anyone who voted Lib Dem last time on the assumption they would never form a coalition with the Conservatives was either not listening to what they were saying or hopelessly naïve.

I stopped voting for them when they showed their true colours over Charles Kennedy's alcohol problems becoming public (which hadn't exactly been a secret before then). Undignified scrabble for power (ha!) and just as back-stabbing and selfish as anyone else.

Horry, most people who vote are naive about politics - it's really complicated. I have a high IQ (over 140 apparently though probably a lot lower now I am old) and still fail to understand most of what happens in political circles.

I never even realised a coalition was a possibility until it happened.
I just voted for the people who were standing locally because they are a good bunch.

You're right, I am naive but then the population as a whole tends to be a bit wonky on politics and maybe that's why a lot of them don't even bother voting.

That isn't really what I meant.

I've heard lots of people say "the LD betrayed me - I thought they'd only form a coalition with Labour; if I'd wanted a Con govt I'd have voted Con".

Voting for your actual MP is completely different. It's when people think they're voting tactically but without understanding how that works that makes me eye roll.

Monster Raving Loony Party.

I know Horry but no one knows how it works. I don't know how it works. I honestly don't understand the system - I have tried to.

It was never covered at school and frankly I think it'd need its own degree course. Everyone just relies on what their parents or friends vote for I think, or rumours they have heard about how to vote tactically etc.

Or is that just me

I would have to vote Labour but it would be with serious misgivings. I have always voted LD but never again.

Although, I do vote Labour in our local elections, in my area, the Labour Party have always done their best by the people who live here. I just don't entirely trust them on a national level. I hated Tony Blair with all his hand-wringing and 'trust me' smiles.

Sometimes I think that it might be better if vast swathes of people didn't vote. If people use emotion over intellect, if people are self interested, if people have been subject to deceit and propaganda, if people are ignorant of ideologies, the motivations of politicians of different stripes, ignorant of economics and if people really believe that a system of voting every 5 years really constitutes democracy, maybe they should just stay home.

A question to all those who said they would vote Labour;

I know the Tories are horrible and I disagree with most of their policies. However, I would be very worried that a re-elected Labour would just do exactly what they did for the 13 years before the 2010 election. It was during Labour's rule that the cost of housing increased so much, they didn't build any social housing and they allowed the private sector (landlords) to buy up all the properties and make a killing by renting them out to people who would have bought them. This doesn't seem very left wing or socialist to me.

I would only vote for a Labour party that has genuine left wing principles but the Labour party (or should I say "nu" Labour) seems to be more or less right wing these days, saving the bankers (as Gordon Brown did in 2008) and screwing the genuinely poor and middle classes. I just don't believe a Labour party with champagne socialist Miliband in charge actually cares or knows that much about what real people are going through and are as in thrall to the rich and corporations as the Tories are.

Because who else is there to vote for?

I'm an NHS worker so will never vote Tory. I used to vote Lib Dem but have lost all faith in them since the coalition.

Who else will get in? Is there any point voting Green?

Have Labour actually got any policies yet? I respect that they want to work out what's really going on and what's possible before committing themselves to new promises that they won't keep, same as any government but I have no idea what they stand for just now. I couldn't vote for them today because I don't know what I'd be voting for, and I vastly prefer voting for than voting against, which as I've mentioned rarely works anyway.

Conservative.

Conservative

Labour. I voted LD last time (tactical) but never would again.

I have run out of people to vote for.

I also can't work out what the point is. All the political parties come from an almost identical ideological stand point and it isn't anywhere near mine.