How will you vote if there is a general election?

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Just being nosey... Don't answer if you don't want to. From some of the comments that I have read on threads it seems that even the vomit-inducing BNP are more popular than the tories.

Me first, I will probably not vote. Live in a tory stronghold and it just doesn't seem worth it.

No, Sue ... you're eerily pleased

'Yah?'

I'm still a Labour voter - no point voting Lib Dem in this constituency and I can't ever vote Tory - it is just wrong

(Also - my Mum is a Labour councillor and would cut me out of the will if I ever did )

yeah, I know, I'm quite relieved I've got cookies that remember it, I'd never be able to type it out...

lib dem, it does 'count' her, but still would if it didn't! Not a big menzies fan though, have to say!

In fairness Milk, only a couple of women died. I realize I haven't googled this, I'm just going on my depleting memory bank, but whilst the Cat 'n' Mouse thing was all rather ignoble, I don't think many women laid down their lives. They just lost a great deal of weight.

One of them threw herself in front of the King's horse at the Derby, but I guess she'd have fallen in front of a tram for lesser reason.

But I agree with the premise. We should all vote.

I'm not sure whether the Tories would have gone into Iraq. For sure, they backed the government at the time ... if only for the moral of the forces and the information they were given by Labour ... but the Tories are more likely to pick their battles more carefully, imo.

... morale

Oh pobble to the suffragettes, I meant the men and women who died in the second world war. In reality, it absolutely kills me to feel so stuck that I'm cornered into sitting on my hands.

Tory, as always.

Ah, I see.

Well, it certainly seems that the country is in need of an entirely new party, doesn't it?

We've been stuck with the same three (Lib dem's having altered a bit) for over a hundred years.

I think we need two new parties: one for the way-out lefties like me, and one for the populist righties. And possibly a third one for thinking people of faith. Then general elections would really be fun again.

If I was going to vote, I would vote for Tory (also for the first time). Glad to know I am not alone, I was beginning to wonder if I had lost part of my brain somewhere!

Well exactly. It's the lack of clear water between them that makes it such a fudge. What's blue and red and yellow mixed? Muddy brown, isn't it? Well that sort of how they all appear to me.

Apart from Cameron who is just laughably oily. Announcing that this week the Tories were going to 'fight back'. It's like saying "I'm going to hit you, I am. It'll be really hard, it will!"

I half expect Gordon to make a speech that starts with 'Ner ner ner ner ner'.

Whig

I hear the things you want Policywonk, but does that mean you won't vote or engage in the political process because there isn't a Policywonk Party?

Labour. But pretty pointless as am in Tory stronghold. But feel very strongly that must vote regardless. Should be compuslory IMO. Compulsory to at least turn up and spoil your vote if you don't want to vote for any candidate, I mean.

Oh no, I vote - I like voting. I also get childishly excited about general elections, and stay up until 3am watching Dimbers. But I only vote LibDem because I can do so with a reasonable degree of conviction. If I didn't have that option, I don't know that I would vote. I'd hate to vote for a party that I really had no faith in at all.

Who's not engaging with it? Spoiling a ballot paper is one choice, voting for the losers is another, voting for the winners is another. Unless you're actually involved with the politics actively, no-one is ever more engaged than that anyway.

Harrumphs for proportional rep.

Someone tell me to go to bed, I'm ill.

Proportional Representation strikes me as a very silly way to go.

Could someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the person who gets the most votes winning?

I mean, it really is that simple ..

Well, for one Desi, votes do not have equal values under first-past-the-post. A vote for Labour in a swing seat in the Midlands, say, has several times more 'worth' than a vote for a Tory in a safe Tory seat in Surrey (to choose an example that is most likely to arouse your sympathy and concern ). PR assigns more equal values to votes.

Yes, I see that, but it has a tendency to lead to fudge, which is why it hasn't been adopted.

I also think that, left to settle, PR would result in even more politicians than we already have ... and as an old-fashioned Conservative, that makes me literally shudder.

Ooo, Marina, can we do that Keep the Tories Out vote-swapping thing? Not sure how it works in realty...

policywonk - can i be a member of your party please? i too am fed up that the left is under-represented.
i would vote LD as usual. best of a lame bunch.

Tory this time - hate hate hate what Blair/Brown stand for. Up here in Scotland, though, voting for anything other than the Nats (spit) or Labour is a waste of time, sadly..