To ask who you're voting for next May?

[NickiFury]

Me, Labour.

Probably Lib Dems. And god help me that it's come to this.

I honestly don't know. I've always voted Lib Dem before (was even a party member for a while), but like many, am feeling a bit disillusioned now. Maybe Green; possibly Labour; more than likely Lib Dem again. It depends on the individual candidates (we won't have the same Lib Dem candidate as previously as he's now become a Tory councillor ). But its a safe Tory seat here, so it will make little difference what I do from a representation perspective.

I genuinely don't know. I have voted labour most of my life apart from the last election where I voted Tory (for the excellent and hardworking MP rather than the party) which I bitterly regret. Now moved to a Tory stronghold, so whatever I do won't make a difference. Maybe Green.

I don't know yet.

I'm a lefty liberal/pro-European in a tory stronghold (although UKIP is gaining ground here) so whatever I vote will have no real impact, but I will vote nonetheless.

It's a distinct possibility that I might vote green, I need to read the manifestos

well, to quote my brother "I will not vote tory while there is still a hole in my arse"

so that's them out. Lib dem seem to me to have ignored everything they promised once they got into bed with the tories, so that's them out. Labour seem to be nearly as bad as the tories with no plans to fix the mess the tories have made, so they're out.

If I was back home in Wales it'd be Plaid Cymru, but I'm not so that's them out.

I refuse to even consider certain other right wing groups who claim to "speak for the people" and also to be "keeping thatcherism alive" (ugh!) - I will not vote fascist.

looks like it's either green or monster raving loony. Hope I have a candidate from one or the other this time.

Probably Labour but will wait and see what bullshit they all come out with before making a final decision. This has been a Labour seat since time began so doubt anything will change there.

I would actually like to see UKIP win a few seats off the Tories and get a few MP's in parliament just to shake things up a bit.

SNP

UKIP

I'll be voting Tory, and I live in Scotland.

Conservative

I think it'll be fascinating. I don't think anyone has a clue how it'll go with so much disenchantment with the main parties and the rise of UKIP.

I'm really torn. We have a good Tory MP who opposes a lot do David Cameron's more idiotic policies. Plus, he is an excellent MP fir the constituency.

However, I just do not think that I can vote for the Conservatives and have tacit approval to their ghastly and unfair policies. Unfortunately, I'm in a Tory stronghold so a vote for Labour would be wasted.

I'm really struggling with this

I do wonder if the people (in real life) who say "I'd like UKIP to do well to shake things up" actually give any thought to what a Tory-UKIP coalition would be like? Really right wing, lock people up without charge, spy on everyone, cut maternity pay right down, pull out of the human rights conventions and once that's done who knows? They could scrap the sexual and racial equality laws or do anything they like, and whooops we're back to the 1970s.

Locally Tory, the Labour Party have a stranglehold in this borough though and have made an absolute hash of it. I think they're in for a shock in May though, ukip are very much in the rise, I know so many people who are disillusioned with labour and talking about voting ukip. It'll certainly be interesting.

Nationally probably Tory too this time. Labour have an idiot at the helm, no coherent policies and the answer to everything is to tax the bankers with no actual firm grasp on money or policies.

I've not decided yet. But am absolutely not voting Labour. I did at the last General Election. I might vote Green, UKIP or Conservative. Most likely UKIP unless people make me so guilty I won't. Then it will probably be Green.

Labour. I don't think it should matter that Ed Miliband is not considered attractive or charismatic; that didn't end up going so well for Blair.

I do think they've lost their way a bit but wild horses wouldn't induce me to vote Tory or UKIP, and unfortunately a Green or other smaller party vote would be a waste. And I think the Lib Dems have done nothing but betray their voters.

The Tories have just got to go. The way things are going, we're going to wake up one morning soon and find that we've left the EU. Thatcher must be spinning in her grave and/or haunting Cameron.

Yes, I find the 'vote UKIP to shake things up' bizarre as well Elephants. I'm hoping that their EU election success was a protest vote, because looking at what I've seen of their proposals for policies (do they not still have to decide what they actually stand for other than anti-EU, anti-immigration?) scares me. I get that a lot of people don't like being in the EU, but even if you don't think carefully before you inflict other UKIP policies on the nation.

It would be interesting to see what the satisfaction rating is for the UKIP councillors that have been elected.

Green.

SNP without a doubt. The main ones all seem to be varying degrees of Tory now and Labour is well and truly dead in Scotland.

The thought of UKIP getting any sort of power is one of the big reasons that I voted yes for independence!

Greens, or maybe even Labour.

I don't think it should matter that Ed Miliband is not considered attractive or charismatic; that didn't end up going so well for Blair. I don't dislike him because of a lack of attractiveness or charisma - that isn't what I look for in politicians. I look for someone with convictions (that I agree with) who can argue and debate convincingly. I don't think Miliband has that. I will still vote Labour though, not just as I rather glibly said upp-thread because of the SNP threat in Scotland, but as you say Only to get the Tories out.

I think both Tories and Labour need to re-focus, and state clearly what they believe in. The Tories should weed out the UKIP sympathisers - I'm nearly 42 and the Tories have been fighting internally over Europe for all my adult life.

Labour, am in an area where it looks like a safe UKIP/Tory seat but looking likely that the Tory vote may be split so am hopeful for a Labour win here, tbh if I wasn't in a split area I would be voting Green as I would usually do.

Labour. I've known the candidate for 15 years (she's hoping to beat an incumbent Lib Dem) and she would make a fantastic MP.

When I'm considering if a party leader would make a good PM, one of the things I have always taken for granted is that if he or she (let's live in hope) makes a speech that lasts over an hour, and if s/he has thought 'Hey, it's really fiddly sticking to a script, I'd prefer not to have any bits of paper or cue cards and not to get muddled up trying to look at the autocue. Let's see if I can deliver it from memory!' - that s/he will actually be capable of memorising and delivering the whole speech without forgetting the single most important part.

Just imagine how that would go down during important talks at the EU. 'I thought it went pretty well.' 'Did you get the rebate?' 'Rebate? Oh damn, I knew there was something I'd forgotten. We had a good chat about what to do about Ukraine, though.'

I don't know enough about politics to decide yet but I'm going to be going for whoever has the best chance of keeping UKIP out.