If there was a general election this week, how would you vote?

[TheDullWitch]

OK, quick poll inspired by David Willetts thread. Answer...

1. How you would vote
2. Who you usually vote for
3. Main issue/personality/event which has made your decision.

1. Tory
2. Labour
3. The complete balls up since 1997, only thing they ever did well at imo was creating Tax Credits,which is a great scheme but then they managed to balls it up all the way.

Be a long time before I vote Labour again, and a Liberal vote is a wasted vote, so Tory it is. I prefer their family values anyway ( ie they have some!)

1. Labour
2. Labour (but with a very weak heart)
3. Just know under the smooth Cameron surface lurk loads of Tebbit types. Con Party hasn t been reformed just rebranded. But aghast at GOrdon on the 10 per cent tax thing and much else.

1. Labour
2. SNP
3. I am very scared of a Tory government (I remember what it was like before). As a public sector worker I'm scared that they'll freeze my wages/make me redundant in order to fund tax cuts. As a couple with children on a lowish income dh & I feel we've done much better under Labour than we would under the Conservatives. We're not the sort of people they're interested in.

Thing is though, I do wonder what will happen in Scotland when Middle England votes in the Tories. The Labour vote is going to the SNP up here. Will they just chuck us out of the Union? It'll be a rocky road but maybe we'll be better off in the end. Interesting times .

1. Lib Dem, on a purely tactical basis, we are in a marginal constituency and I fear the Tories getting in.

1. Labour

1. I have not been happy with a lot of things that Labour has done since 1997 (Iraq, university fees, NHS drugs rationing) but I think they have done a far better job than the Tories were then, or are now, capable of doing. (Also our local Tory candidate is a complete slimeball).

1. Labour
2. Labour
3. I started earlier thread so I answered the question about the Tories then, but I can't say I'm too happy about the choices. I think it's the lesser of the two evils, which is a pretty depressing comment on democracy.

1. Green

1. Labour

1. Agree more with Green policies but usually take the pragmatic approach and vote Lab as in a lab constituency.

However, vowed after the Iraq debacle never to vote Labour again and have had this reinforced by their various anti-terror legislations, anti-human rights approach, 10p tax band issue. Feel they have totally abused their power and have let down many people.

Would die rather than vote Tory so that's not an issue. I would have possibly voted Lib Dem but so disgusted that they are talking about tax cuts that I wouldn't do now.

1.Labour
2.Labour
3.My sociology teacher, he was a miner.

Do you know what, I've scared myself recently because I have been flirting with the idea of voting Conservative. And I've been a Labour supporter all my life. Mainly because of id cards and because I have more faith in Cameron than in Gordon.

at that admission actually.

1. Green
2. Green
3. Enthusiastic Labour voter in 1997 but have become progresively more disillusioned, voted LD in 2001, Green in 2005 and am now active Green Party member.

1. Green
2. Labour
3. Lost faith in labour but can't face voting conservative. Green issues seem most important in this day and age.

Despite being very disillusioned by it all, I'd never not vote at all. I feel very strongly that we should all vote, especically women. We're lucky to live in a democracy, and our ancestors went through hell to secure the vote for us.

labour
labour
can't bear the thought of a conservative government
i don't believe they are any different to how they used to be

Labour
Liberal last time

I am very worried conservatives will get in so will vote Labour. Do not trust conservatives as some relatives are involved in the Party and they are all racist loons. Cameron and his ilk are NOT representative of the party at large.

1- labour

2- labour

3 would not trust conservatives

1. Labour

1. Labour

1. No matter how disalusioned I become by Labour the thought of a tory government scares me to death.....

1. dunno if i would...
2. labour
3. labour have turned into the tories anyway so seems pointless differentiating... might vote for independent party or something random like that.

1. LibDem
2. Green, or LibDem if Green not available
3. Don't much care for New Labour (particularly privitisation fetish) and couldn't bring myself to vote Tory unless they changed most of their major policy stances.

Oh, and I quite liked Nick Clegg's speech - agreed with a lot of the proposed LibDem policies, esp. redistributive taxation (blow me down!)

1. Labour (albeit somewhat reluctantly)

1. Labour

1. I have not seen or heard anything from the Tories that convinces me that they would not, ultimately, cut essential services to fund middle-class tax cuts.

I find it fascinating that only one person, out of the 19 who have posted so far, says they would vote Tory. Clearly this is a very different sample than used in all the current polls. Is that MN/mothers in general/women???

!) Labour
2) Labour
3) I have a fear of Tory government, after the last time. I do not see the Lib Dems, however positive they are, as a party capable of beating either the tories or labour.

think it's mnetters artichokes
Plus this is a self selecting poll, you're being asked to step up and 'fess up and I think a lot of people are still too embarrassed to admit to Tory leanings
I have voted for everyone at some point or another and have no idea how I'll vote next time, I'll see on the day
It won't be for Labour, I refuse to give them another chance, anyway they stand no chance at all where I live
But I think the Tories are all surface, not satisfied they have the experience to govern in very tough times
But they'll win anyway, oh sod it - it'll probably be Lib Dem

Tory, Tory, the economy (stupid) and wreckless public spending by this govt.

1. labour
2. Labour
3. labour

I am scared of Tories.

artichoke lots of women Tory voters where I live