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to ask who you will be voting for tomorrow?

591 replies

lollyloll · 06/05/2015 11:33

Ex Lib-Dem voter and I will probably be voting Green even though they haven't a hope in hell of getting in where I live. There are no parties that represent me 100% and I feel like the Greens are offering a lot of fresh polices (as well as quite a few crazy ones) but I am ready for change.

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Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 21:17

Sabrinna - you see, I see strong economy and low unemployment as the way to help the vulnerable - by getting them off benefits ( which really is no life) and into work.

I guess we all want a decent society it's how we get there that is different.

LotusLight · 06/05/2015 21:17

Conservative.

Do watch out for voting fraud tomorrow - people going into booths together, people co-ercing others and do report anything awry which you see.

ethelb · 06/05/2015 21:19

I've vote swapped. I'm voting labour in my labour marginal and acquaintance is voting green in their labour stronghold.

Aermingers · 06/05/2015 21:19

Yeah, because not going to Syria has worked out so well with those lovely ISIS lads in charge.

UnoPan · 06/05/2015 21:19

Voting fraud - true. People voting Tory after believing it'll be good for the economy. Thanks for the hint.

slightlyconfused85 · 06/05/2015 21:20

Dh and I are both voting green. I almost went for labour but locally green is worth it. I could never vote conservative ; their right to buy policy and their unnecessary and endless changes to education make me quiver with rage

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 06/05/2015 21:21

Aer no young men and women being sent to fight in a war the public don't want and coming home in body bag... You're right, how awful that is.

DementedSwan · 06/05/2015 21:23

Labour.

I hope the conservatives don't get in. Never before have the vulnerable been treated so badly. If I have to pay a bit more tax so people don't have to rely on food banks etc then so be it.

Also I believe the current government has done nothing for the economy. In my town which used to be a lovely place to live, shops are standing empty, buildings are abandoned half finished as money has ran out. It's turned into a ghost town. A sign of things to come under a conservative government? I don't know but something needs to change.

smudger4 · 06/05/2015 21:23

Fanny. I've said the party but the party only goes on through votes. I would question my conscience if I were Toru voter. To think that people want live on social security is utter lunacy. Most want to work. You cannot live on SS, you survive.

Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 21:23

Aer no young men and women being sent to fight in a war the public don't want and coming home in body bag... You're right, how awful that is.

I'm not sure anything could possibly be worse that what we have and will face from ISIS Sad

bakingtins · 06/05/2015 21:23

I'm still not sure. I'm in a safe Tory seat and our MP is a pillock. The only party that has a cat in hell's chance of ousting him is Labour, but I can't get over Milliband refusing to admit in the leader's debate that labour got us into debt by overspending in their last period in power. I like the local Green candidate and their policies but with 7% of the vote locally she'll never get in.

Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 21:26

I understand that smudger.

I would question evry fibre of my brain and being if I were to vote Labour. Viva la difference.

UnoPan · 06/05/2015 21:28

if it helps, there are numerous sources to show that GO states he would copy Labour spending leading up to 2010. Labour didn't over-spend, and the Tories know this - it was a crash that both parties would have responded to in exactly the same way.

Mrsbird311 · 06/05/2015 21:32

Ok about the food banks , I volunteer in one and it is a fantastic charity I think there should be one in every town , there has always been poverty in society and it's wonderful that local people are looking out for and providing for their communities however it has now become big business and policitised with the trussel trust charging £1500 a year to be a part of it and they have all the supermarket collection drives sewn up and the volunteers spend most of their time collating info for the trust instead of the simple act of helping people, also many of the food banks are actually closing down due to having several in one area and not enough clients so don't believe that there is a queue of people snaking round the block for food it's simply not true, I live in an area of roughly 100,000 and we do about three parcels a day mostly young single people who have got themselves in a pickle and need support, easy to blame torys for what is actually a lovely caring local charity

SusannahD · 06/05/2015 21:34

Labour, where I live labour are always in so won't make much difference but I always vote anyway.

muminhants · 06/05/2015 21:34

I live in a safe Tory seat but quite apart from stuff like the bedroom tax and attacks on disability benefits, I do not want to leave the EU (and don't want to take a chance on any more referendums) and I strongly disagree with all the changes they've made to employment law. So I won't be voting Tory.

Our UKIP candidate is the one who has been suspending for threatening to shoot the Asian Tory candidate if he ever gets to be PM.

Otherwise we have Labour, Libdem, Green and Monster Raving Loony. All six candidates are male, by the way :(

On the local election - we have an independent community group but sadly they favour a new village of 5000 houses on a greenfield site which I cannot agree with, given they've not considered all the brownfield sites in the district, of which there are many. So I will hold my nose and vote for my Tory candidate who is pro-brown field site as he's the only one likely to oust the community candidate.

Going back to the national elections:

Our Libdem MP candidate has been pretty invisible and has also voted in favour of the said green field development as he is on the local council currently. He won't win anyway though.

The Labour candidate is about 12.

The Monster Raving Loony candidate - well it would be wasted vote.

So I might well vote Green in the national election. Still undecided!

needmorespace · 06/05/2015 21:36

Mrsbird311 Confused
I actually can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
There should be NO need to use a food bank EVER
What a disgusting society we have become

MargoReadbetter · 06/05/2015 21:36

That's a bit Rugged Trousered Philantropist scenario you're describing there. Only that was 100 years ago, FFS.

blowinahoolie · 06/05/2015 21:36

DH and myself both voting SNP as are many friends and family.

Aermingers · 06/05/2015 21:36

I think a lot of people would support going in and dealing with ISIS and if we'd had boots on the ground it might have prevented the extremist elements of ISIS getting a foot hold.

Not all wars are wrong. WW2 sent young men home in body bags but I don't think anybody would argue we shouldn't have fought that.

Afghanistan and Iraq were dreadful wars we could never win fought for dubious reasons. But I think the wrong call might have been made on Syria.

ScrambedEggAndToast · 06/05/2015 21:37

Conservative.

It has taken me ages to decide, only made my final decision today.

SabrinnaOfDystopia · 06/05/2015 21:39

Sorry Fannyannie, but with the greatest respect that is bollocks. You do not help sufferers of terminal cancer/parents of disabled children etc by insisting they are fit for work and stopping their benefits. You don't make things better by introducing a bedroom tax whilst letting corporate tax dodgers get away with it. That is not a decent society. A decent society (which is 6th richest in the world or something) doesn't have 1m+ needing foodbanks while IDS sniggers away in Parliament.

If you want Murdoch to run this country - vote Tory.

I'm voting for Ed.

ElectraCute · 06/05/2015 21:40

it is a fantastic charity I think there should be one in every town , there has always been poverty in society and it's wonderful that local people are looking out for and providing for their communities

I have actually read it all now.

Yay! foodbanks! Woooooooo!

Fuck me.

UnoPan · 06/05/2015 21:40

Food Banks. I work in a public service. Or client group is a poor one. We refer now to food banks.

No-one prior to 2010 really knew what a food bank was, or where to find one.

Now, with a low wage economy they are public knowledge. Public shame that in the 6th richest nation on earth we have hundreds of thousands of food banks.

That is how good the Tories are at managing the economy.

smudger4 · 06/05/2015 21:41

Thank you for being a decent person Fanny. A decent debate need not be dramatic and spiteful. You have my respect.