To ask who you're voting for next May?

[NickiFury]

Me, Labour.

I think it's a bit off to complain about right-wing sneering on MN, as though MN is rife with frothing Tories all waiting to pounce on and bully the few beleaguered lefties.

I wasn't referring to MN in particular apart from a couple of posters, but point taken.

SNP

My Dh, parents, siblings and in-laws will all also be voting SNP.

Wondering if all the SNP voters were also Yes voters?

Fanny, I know of a fair few No voters who are now blithely planning to vote SNP, seeing no contradiction in their actions (as in, they've not actually changed to Yes or anything). Fucks me right off.

All Yes here FannyFifer (not all Scottish though).

I, too would be interested to learn if any no voters will be voting SNP.

It doesn't seem odd to me that they like the way the SNP governs and their values in general, but didn't want to split from the UK.

I voted yes in the referendum, but have every sympathy for those that voted no on the empty promises cobbled together by the better together campaign in the last few days before the vote.

Labour. In a key marginal here and the current MP is standing down in May. He's been great. Very straight, great voting record. If we weren't so marginal I would consider Plaid Cymru.

I'm glad you're able to have sympathy for those No voters, bigblue. I think they were hopelessly naive to think even for a moment that the so-called "Vow" - a creation of the Daily Record - would be honoured.

Don't waste any sympathy on me - like many people I know I was a definite No long before people started restating promises made earlier in the year.

Labour - not because I'm very keen on Ed Milliband, but because I really do believe in our particular Labour MP (SW London).

are people really so stupid as to think that the conservatives are "fixing the deficit"?

I can't wait for Alex salmond and his 50 odd SNP MPs to ride into government with labour and greens.

I voted yes in the referendum, but have every sympathy for those that voted no on the empty promises cobbled together by the better together campaign in the last few days before the vote

Oh please don't fret. I've yet to meet any No voter who changed their mind because of that. I certainly didn't.

I do know several people who voted SNP last time and bitterly regretted it.

It'll be an interesting election. I'll be voting for whichever candidate has the best chance of making sure the SNP candidate loses. Any of the 3 major parties is infinitely preferable.

*ginghamcricketbox

Bored waiting for a delivery so had a quick count up to where the thread got derailed by the lefties

Labour 53
Conservative 36
SNP 30
Green 22
Lib Dem 8
UKIP 8
Other 4*

How did you count my "anyone apart from the SNP" vote? I'm not undecided as such , it will depend on what he opinion polls showing.

Dawndonnaagain... nobody voted for this government, it is a cobbled together mishmash of crappy compromise due to people voting to get Labour out, and not to get anyone in particularly....

deeedeee the EU certainly seems to think so ...

phaedra, how many times, the plural of anecdote is not data. just because you and your pals don't believe everything you read in the daily record, doesn't mean it's huge readership dinnae. or even people like my father in law, who doesn't read the daily record but said the day before the referendum "I'm voting no because I've got what I wanted now, devo max" . Many people were conned. Many weren't of course. But stop speaking for scotland.

I think lots of people should stop claiming to speak for Scotland. Lots of statements are made (not just here, in the press and on twitter etc) about 'what Scotland thinks' when we have just conclusively proved that as a country we are pretty divided.

I will concede that all the publicity around 'the Vow' have left us in a very difficult situation - what was actually in the signed statement is very different to some of the discussions around it and what message people took from it. I genuinely don't know (although I don't spend lots of time speaking to people about it, so possibly some people I know think it and haven't said) anyone who changed their mind because of it. I know a couple of people who have said they voted yes but think no was the right outcome.

The problem we now have is that lots of people have their own interpretation of what was promised, and the various opinion polls are being put about as an illustration of what people want (when, as with all polls, they are about what a small number of people want). There are some No voters online (don't know anyone who has said it to my face) angry about the vow because they want Holyrood closed down (I think they are a small minority), there are some Yes voters online who don't look like they will be happy with anything other than virtual independence.

The whole situation looks like a mess, and the timetable doesn't help - it all feels very rushed, and I'm not sure what consensus will be found in the time. I hope that it will be the start of a UK-wide discussion involving ordinary people and community groups. The current piecemeal approach to devolution (parliament, assembly, elected mayors) should be reviewed.

Dawndonnaagain... nobody voted for this government, it is a cobbled together mishmash of crappy compromise due to people voting to get Labour out, and not to get anyone in particularly....
Have to say, I'm rather inclined to agree with this!

*PhaedraIsMyName
Undecided I only counted definite choices, any maybes or anyone buts was undecided, not exactly electoral commision but thre you go

Dawndonnaagain... nobody voted for this government, it is a cobbled together mishmash of crappy compromise due to people voting to get Labour out, and not to get anyone in particularly....
Have to say, I'm rather inclined to agree with this

But far more people voted for a Conservative government than voted for anything else. People with left of centre views make the above statement, and there seems to be a subtext which is that the Tories somehow managed to cheat the system to get into power.

I vote Tory, I'm not ashamed that I do. I also care hugely about this country and the people in it, and believe that the way to ensure that there is enough money to support those in need is to have as small a government with as low taxes as possible, meaning that most people never need look to the state for support, because they are allowed to create their own wealth and opportunities without red tape and a punitive tax bill.

On the Scotland issue, I know some No voters who would still vote No, and a lot who wish they had voted Yes. I think it changes from person to person, although I've been reading lately that most people would now vote Yes. But polls/surveys can never be definite.

DP and I, along with both our families (apart from one family member on my side) are voting SNP as we have no other option apart from the Greens, really. We chose SNP as they have a much better chance of gaining a pretty big majority in Holyrood as well as a large presence in Westminster. I've never voted SNP before but am now a member of the party and regret not voting for them previously.

Nobody ever votes for any particular government. Daft remark.

We can only vote for our constituency MP with a vague eye on the national picture. Your vote can't be "LD unless they decide to make a coalition with Con in which case Lab".

FWIW I have enjoyed * the coalition because it does restrict the most extreme policies from getting through, and each party tempers the other. Admittedly not as much gets done, but I think it's not going to be our last coalition.

• to qualify "enjoyed" I mean "found interesting and of value"

Alibaba.. I made the statement and I vote Tory.

I am under no illusion for the reasons they got the major poll result - it was not a clear mandate FOR them, because a lot of voters just wanted Labour to go.

Far, far more people chose not to vote at all than chose to vote Tory. and far more people who DID vote did not vote for the Tory party. Statistics can be played any way you choose.