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How will you vote if there is a general election?

177 replies

nospeak · 02/10/2007 18:22

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.

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policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:26

There's a typo there 100x. I'm going to have to beat you with this stick.

ahundredtimes · 02/10/2007 22:28

It was cynical wasn't it?

How good I have messed up over such a word? I can't imagine.

I must go to bed. I fully expect you to have sorted us out a bus by tomorrow. (Can I sit up the front near the driver please?)

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:28

Yes, I think we are rather getting underfoot here. Some people seem to wish to discuss the OP.

ahundredtimes · 02/10/2007 22:28

How COULD I.

I have to resign.

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:29

Mate, you are the driver.

Nightynight · 02/10/2007 22:30

lol hundred

but can she reverse the 30 year trend of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:30

Arse.

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:30

Arse.

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:30

Arse.

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:31

And THRICE arse, I say!

Nightynight · 02/10/2007 22:31

well! she insults me and expects me to vote for her

policywonk · 02/10/2007 22:33

I am most awfully sorry, Ms Nighty. My ex-Campaign Manager had terrible issues with susbstance abuse. I can only apologise.

NadineBaggott · 02/10/2007 22:36

I've always voted Conservative and feel passionately that everyone with the right to vote should do so ..... BUT this time around I feel like not bothering!

I can't abide Gordon Brown, don't have much faith in Jacqui Smith, Yvette and Ed? no thanks.

Don't like Cameron one little bit, he's no statesman. He's going to have to work really hard to get me to the polling station. Scrapping stamp duty for property up to £250k is a good start.

at hunker (and ll come to that!)

Nightynight · 02/10/2007 22:41

nah, I still wont vote for you though. A very nice young man came round from the Bank National de Paris the other day, and I promised to vote for him. It would be so nice to see the economy in good hands.

hunkermunker · 02/10/2007 23:29

LOL NB

I can't bear the thought of ID cards. Don't see them as anything other than a waste of money that will cause ordinary people MORE hassle and not stop anything criminal happening.

themildmanneredaxemurderer · 02/10/2007 23:31

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Caroline1852 · 02/10/2007 23:43

Conservative. In spite of Cameron looking like a guilty sixth former who has been caught masturbating in his room, again. Hague is looking like he is over his 15 pints claims and sounding rather statesmanlike. I have been to a couple of counts and it really is remarkable seeing democracy in action.

hatwoman · 02/10/2007 23:45

probably Lib Dem - Tories are second in our seat and Labour don;t stand a chance. As a lefty I find this quite handy - certainly last election I couldn;t have brought myself to vote labour and if our seat had been a labour-tory type seat I would have been in a major quandary. as it is the lib dems provided me with an easy answer. I'd consider voting labour now if they stood a chance - but they don;t (in our seat, I mean)

NadineBaggott · 02/10/2007 23:46

oh yes if only Willy Hague were back at the helm

Marina · 03/10/2007 08:49

Nadine, you are gonna love Mr Sarkozy
But make sure you've got good health insurance before you go!

UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 09:28

nighty - did he have a nice short haircut and some interesting tattoos to reinforce his Euro-based fiscal plans? And a baseball bat to underline the sensible nature of his prudent policies for economic stability?... Thought so!

I think Hague peaked too soon - he'd the the ideal candidate now if he had never been leader, but think of the message it would send out now if they got someone back in charge who had headed the Tories' most disastrous election campaign ever. "Keep the pound" and baseball caps is about all I can remember... was 2001 the dampest of damp squib elections in the whole history of post-war politics?

Nightynight · 03/10/2007 10:27

lol uqd...agree about Hague, maybe. "Save the Pound" But could any potentially great leader have produced anything so naff?

Nightynight · 03/10/2007 10:29

rofl at Caroline's description of Cameron...perfect. I was looking at a photo of him on the bbc website earlier, trying to work out just what Ive got against him

serenity · 03/10/2007 10:56

Well, the Lib Dem councillors here managed to irritate me immensely with their pseudoconservative 'look after number one' posturing during our recent ALMO vote, so I think they can bugger off.

Conservatives - er, no. I just could not do it. I can't see any time where my principles (battered and feeble as they are) would allow me to even consider them.

It'll have to be Labour, although it's pretty irrelevant anyway as I live in a Labour stronghold. I know people are boycotting them because of Iraq, but honestly does anyone really believe that any of the other parties would have done any different?

skidaddle · 03/10/2007 10:57

Gordon all the way