To ask who you're voting for next May?

[NickiFury]

Me, Labour.

SNP

unreasonable to decide at this stage with no published manifestos. Of course they are no guarantee but they are a start.

I thought the retailmas stuff was premature but this is a whole new level.

Labour.

In the 2 horse race that it inevitably always is it just has to be.

Got to get the Cons out.

I'd vote Green but doubt they'll stand a candidate in my area. If they don't I think I shall spoil my ballot.

I strongly support the addition of none of the above to the ballot papers.

Is anybody making a tally here, out of interest? Who's winning?

Finding this thread really interesting, even the posts with just the party and no explanation. I'm genuinely undecided but leaning towards Labour as I feel the NHS will be safer in their hands. I think Milliband seems like a decent man but he does come across as a bit hopeless at times.

Looks like Labour are in the lead on here-in England anyway.

Viviennemary, I think the policy of taking low earners out of tax altogether is a Lib Dem one.

Slightly off topic, but I can't understand the Lib Dem voters saying they feel betrayed by the Lib Dems, when, by definition, being a lib Dem voter meant you believe in power sharing and coalition. There has to be compromise, and it seems to me that the Lib Dems have successfully pushed through a lot of their policies despite being the minority party in the coalition. Thank god they've been there to counter the extremism of the Tories.

Anyway, my local MP is labour and a good MP, so I will be voting for him. And am in Scotland where labour is 'supposedly' dead (don't believe everything you read in the papers people). I couldn't vote SNP after the utter nonsense they spouted in the referendum campaign.

I agree with whoever said that their heart said Green, and their head said Labour. We live in a key 3 - way marginal, won by the Tories by 67 (!!) votes last time, so fingers crossed....

Plus, the Labour candidate is the only one who's bothered to do any canvassing around here, and he seems like a thoroughly decent chap. I think there are still a lot of grassroots activists and backbenchers fighting the good fight in the Labour party, notwithstanding all the Millbank spin. *

*Labour HQ is still at Millbank, right?

fluffyraggles A quick CTRL+F shows 128 mentions of Labour to 74 Tory, plus another 12 'conservative'. Allowing for maybe 5% negative mentions (as in 'I'd rather die than vote for x') that makes it about twice as many Labour as Conservative voters posting on this thread.

That tallies with my experience on MN - which I've always found quite lefty - if not with the rest of the country.

Tory.

I'm a small state, economically right wing socially left wing (so libertarian,really) type. I liked UKIP when they were all about a flat tax and grammar schools but the heavy anti immigration rhetoric put me off.

UKIP, not because I necessarily agree with all their policies, but because they are the only ones with the guts to take the stand and not hide behind typical political non-sense. I don;t trust the others as far as I cud throw them.

17 SNP votes so far.

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

www.theguardian.com/society/2009/may/08/poverty-equality-britain-incomes-poor

Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s, after the incomes of the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005 general election.

yes Labour really championed the poor.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labours-record-on-poverty-in-tatters-1681047.html

The full scale of Labour's failure to help the poorest in Britain was laid bare yesterday with revelations that hundreds of thousands of people were being plunged into deprivation even before the recession hit, and that the Government had been unable to make any impression on the numbers of children and pensioners in poverty.

not the pile of shite we have now, never UKIP , them getting in scares me, god help people like my disabled daughter.
so don't really know.

This thread is very interesting. Much more Tory support than on an MN thread normally.

I'm quite right wing in my views, but the thought of UKIP terrifies me. I often wonder whether the people who are planning to vote for them really realise what their rhetoric would add up to in terms of policies. MPs who are openly homophobic - really??

Coffeethrowtrampbitch -we must live in the same constituency :). I know the 17 year old boy in question as he is a friend of my DD.
And I cannot stand the man, so it will be SNP for me.

What MP?

OOAOML- I am an SNP party member, Nicola Sturgeon has stated that there wont be a referendum, unless the majority of people want it.

The lovely Michael McCann

Green. All the main parties are just too stuffed with career politicians who've never had a normal job in their lives.

Thanks Susanne - but a lot of people still seem to be agitating, so I'm not relaxing any time soon. I wouldn't vote SNP even if it was off the agenda though - last time was a protest vote, and I've regretted it for a long time.

Those talking about Labour politicians being charged following the referendum - any comments on the Glasgow SNP deputy leader suspended pending an enquiry? or the Fife SNP councillor fined for breach of the peace?

Ah of course. Such a charmer.

Do you think SNP have done a bad job governing Scotland?