AIBU to not understand why anyone can vote Labour?

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Never mind the fact that they destroyed the economy, never mind the fact that they are joining up with the SNP & never mind the fact that their only policy is to make whatever promises will get them into power...if they do get into power we get Ed Miliband as Prime Minister!

This is the man who failed to eat a bacon sandwich, who sniffs peoples hair on TV, who has 2 kitchens in a £3 million house and talks about poverty! This is the man who redid his fathers will to reduce inheritance tax yet bangs on, endlessly, about tax avoidance. This is the man who though talking to Russell Brand was the way to help him appeal to the 'yoof'. This is the man who stabbed his brother in the back to become leader of the Labour Party.

Okay there are other reasons I fail to understand why anyone would vote Labour, North Staffordshire NHS, Rotherham Council and so one. But realistically its the embarrassment I'm going to feel on May 8th when he's gurning outside 10 Downing Street!

I'm voting Labour because I'm a grown-up, and I base my vote on policies rather than how someone looks eating a bacon sandwich.

And you think Cameron is any better? Or Farage?!

YABVU if you are basing your vote on your personal dislike of someone's appearance rather than policies.

Are you a journalist for the Daily Mail? This sounds like the sort of uninformed reasoning that will go down well with your readers!

Labour have lost their way and have not convinced me they understand how they shat on the country and the youth of this country last time and the working man.

I quite like him really...especially when you look at the alternative option...

I don't understand how anyone can vote UKIPS but thankfully they can as its a free country.

I like Ed and I hate the roasting he gets in the press, who cares how he was a bloody bacon sandwich, it's not a popularity contest.

When there's a politician living in poverty who subsequently presents policies on helping others experiencing it, you let me know strawberry. Or should no politician tackle poverty simply because they have no first hand experience of it?

EATS!!!

I'm guessing the OP is from Tory central office - in the past few days they have resorted to increasingly desperate efforts to win votes. Pretty pathetic.

Do you seriously think the UK would have been totally unaffected by a global financial crisis is anyone had been in power at the time?

I didn't vote labour (postal vote) and really really hope they don't get into power. But I really hate the references to Ed being unable to eat a bacon sandwich and gurning.

I think I'll vote Labour now just to fuck you off, OP, for that ridiculous, patronising rant. or is that your cunning plan, Malcolm Tucker?

Oh and Yvette Cooper won the MN political webchats hands-down.

They didnt crash the economy. That was the us subprime lending or whatever its called.

It frightens me that people like you have the vote. YABU

It's quite simple really.

You take your writing implement of choice, I personally favour the Uniball fine liner in black, and using a diagonal movement make your mark in the box next to the Labour candidate's name.

Repeat this in the opposite direction to complete the X required then put into the ballot box/post.

So because he's well off, he can't talk about helping the poor?
What a horrible way to think, no wonder there is such inequality in this country.

YABU

I live in a staunch and i mean staunch Labour area but will be voting conservative. The money the council have wasted on vanity project's is ridiculous not to mention the expense claims which you can look up online, i really was shocked. I have council houses going up near me, i have seen so many people find work, people who have never worked since we left school, i see them on facebook and so many are now in job's and i have seen friend's who were overcrowded eventually getting a bigger house's. It's a typical 'my dad voted labour so i will' area.

His dad fled the Nazi's in Poland to come to the UK so it's not like he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth .....

AIBU not to understand some people's thought processes (and I use the term loosely) ?

I am totes confused by the eating, or not, of a bacon sandwich's place in the pantheon of misdemeanours listed by the OP.

I don't like the way there seems to be an attitude of legislating and taxing anything that moves.

They want to be a fair party, but that involves having to make value judgements and decide who is and isn't in the club.

I just don't trust the whole bunch of them - they haven't done a day's work between them, behave to impress and think they are above the rules ...

SingingHinnies, I've read that twice and I am struggling to follow what you are saying. Could you explain a bit more? Thanks.