To ask who you're voting for next May?

[NickiFury]

Me, Labour.

Definitely Tory.

I think there is a MNer standing for the NHA party.

I am a lefty liberal at heart but after Blairs ruination of the country I won't be voting for them ever again, they have shat on the very very people they are supposed to represent. Never ever again.

So it will be Tory or maybe even UKIP

I'd rather not vote at all than vote for UKIP.

I dread to think what they would do to the poor and sick

After what Labour has done to the poor and sick, nothing would ever ever be as bad.

Id rather not vote at all than vote for Labour! They have sold the bottom rung of society down the swannie river.

rollonthesummer You asked what Tory voters like about the policies. For me probably the clincher is an EU referendum. I'm not going to argue the toss with people on this thread but believe the EU is a 20th century political structure that is proving utterly incompetent at addressing 21st century problems. I think it's making all of us poorer and less free and I think we should get out, so even if I don't entirely trust Shiny Dave on renegotiation I think it's the best hope we have of forcing the issue.

More generally, I'm probably philosophically more on the side of having a smaller state and lower taxes. I don't agree that the Government always knows better than I do how to spend my money, and equally I don't think it is either possible or appropriate for governments to try and enforce the good life from the top down, via huge bureaucracies, which is what I see being the practical consequence of big-state leftish governments. So it's partly about the worldview I feel most comfortable within.

Where I disagree with the Tory received opinion (at least on the free-market end of the Tory spectrum) is on the doctrinal belief that private ownership is always better than public. I commute every day on privatised railways and really don't see anything going on there that couldn't be delivered better, in a more transparent and integrated way, by a publicly owned not-for-profit organisation. While I don't really get the panic about private providers delivering some services within the NHS, as long as the services are of good quality and the system transparent, I don't think major public infrastructure is well-suited to being privately run. I think there is a serious conversation to be had about the doctrine of privatisation and where it does and doesn't work.

Not a clue. I need to vote as the thought of BNP or UKIP gaining ground is terrifying.

The mainstream parties don't seem to represent my family at all though.

I am a lefty liberal at heart but after Blairs ruination of the country I won't be voting for them ever again

But that was Blairs fault and he's not the Labour leader anymore.

I would vote Lib Dem if it wasn't for Clegg. He needs to go after what he's done.

People needing food banks in this day and age is obscene, and the way they've treated disabled people is shameful.

Also agreeing with this. It's dreadful

that people admit to voting UKIP

Heart says Green, Head says Labour. Tory stronghold here but I'm worried that UKIP could sneak in. Voted LibDem last time - never again.

The Tory policies I like is taking lower paid people out of tax altogether. I mean why should a working person earning say £14,000 a year pay tax and yet people can be entitled to benefit of up to £26K tax free and that's with a reduction. Seems a mad system to me.

Labour all the way (although in a Tory stronghold).

The damage the Tories have done/are doing to the NHS and schools is really scaring me.

The fact that the Tories chose to give a tax cut to the richest while ordinary people are having to use food banks says all you need to know about who will benefit under future Tory rule.

Tory.

Pal our came close to bankrupting the UK last time, I don't want them to have a second chance.

Oops, that should be Labour, not Pal our. Please try harder autocorrect....

Labour, for what I wish they were, rather than for what they actually are (though given the choice of the two Millibands, I think they actually have the right one. I don't trust t'other one).

I'm in one of the safest labour seats in the country, anyhow.

Viviennemary Yep, that's another one I like - and bumping the HRT threshold up to £50K. Nurses and policemen and teachers shouldn't be paying higher rate tax.

I'm also in favour of leaving the ECHR. Not because I don't believe in human rights, but because I think unelected activist judges have no business making decisions which then effectively become law and can't be repealed by our democratically elected government.

I've recently joined the Labour party, and have attended some local meetings. Not one person I've met supports a "Blairite" approach. They're all keen to go back to the left, with particular concern for protecting the NHS.

Basically, I don't think the Labour leadership are giving a good impression of how we feel at grass-roots level. Maybe they're scared to, it's a shame.

But I think they're far and away the best of the lot.

I'd rather not vote at all than vote for UKIP.

Same here. I've deleted a couple of friends from Facebook (and effectively don't talk to them anymore since I don't see them IRL due to distance) after they started posting in support of UKIP. :(

SNP

Both DH and I will vote Labour.

Tory in our house but it's a heavily labour area.

Labour. Would never vote Tory or UKIP, Lib Dem got my vote last time but I'm not making that mistake again!

If there is a party who will nationalise power supply in the UK or turn it into not for profit (profit used for innovation and future repair/upgrade), take it back out of foreign ownership as its a national security issue. I don't like the idea of Chinese companies who are extensions of the state being able to flick the switch on our generators in the future when we have a problem over i.e Tibet/Taiwan/Hong Kong. Private sector isn't always the best, I read that America has 15% more inflated admin costs than Canada due to the inefficiency of having multiple heath providers.

Who will tear up the Tory tax break to the rich, I mean what was the point of that exactly?

Raise alcohol and cigarette duties, it wasn't that long ago you would save money for booze for xmas. People today don't want to drink responsibly so they will be spoiling it for the rest of society. All the associated binge drinking problems we have costing the NHS and police forces. Invest more in mental health interventions which can be the reason for a lot of these problems.

Draconian penalties for drug supply to people under 18 due to the damage it does to unformed brains over that age it can be as it is.

Subsidised STEM vocational and university courses. Business needs to step up, it cant bemoan of lack of skills yet refuse to train people and use it as a lame excuse to import labour from elsewhere.

Take a leaf of the American Visa system where only highly skilled people can come to the UK to make us competitive not cheaper versions.

Child care needs some innovation in terms of funding

Also it doesn't seem fair where someone has got themselves out of council housing and bought their own place to then lose it all to pay for care where they are elderly when people get that care free. The rich will always have ways and means to protect their wealth but the man on the street doesn't.

No party has my vote at the moment, labour and tories have had decade each and failed, lib dems and greens well they can help governments conscience but not lead, UKIP well lol.

Labour or Green, depending on the individual candidates.