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.

tory -
I too remember what Margaret Thatcher did to the country but after 11 years of a labour government I don't think that is a fair enough argument.. The labour party have evolved into some kind of middle of the road party who aren't firm on any of their beliefs.

pius, the contradiction is there right in your post. "vg" people don't actively pursue policies that represent Surrey bankers at the expense of the majority.

clearly I have got a more stringent requirement for calling someone "decent" or a "very good" person than you have. I have been very poor for most of my life, so I can't see these fat cats who actively encourage teh rich getting richer and teh poor getting poorer as "decent" or "good people." However nice their faces look. It's what they do that counts.

Thought I'd resurrect this thread, since world has imploded since we last did a poll. And government seems to have sunk into the mud - and yet are there any positive reasons to vote Tory? So...

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

Three points:

you may remember what Margaret Thatcher did to this country, but can you remember what it was like in the 1970s before she took power? Bloody awful!

By the time of the 1997 election (some years after Mrs Thatcher had resigned) the Tories had pretty much got things back on track again, at least as far as the economy was concerned. People were thorough sick of Tory sleaze by then though and wanted a change.

Tony Blair won the 1997 for New Labour by stealing the Tories most popular policies, thus appealing to the middle class vote (remember Mandy saying he was perfectly comfortable with people making obscene amounts of money? Look where that has got us!)

So:

1. Tory
2. Various
3. Gordon Brown's gross mismanagement of the economy and obscene waste of money in the public sector; lies, smears and spin, and scary erosion of civil liberties .

1. conservative
2. labour
3. can't bear gordon Brown, hate the way the gvmt wastes money, 1million people protested about the war in Iraq but nobody listened - and simply feel that a change is a good thing.

Ditto JeffVader on everything.

1. not labour
2. varies
3. gov waste, ID cards, Iraq, my labour mp's voting record, the lovely Cameron & Boris

Boris for Queen!

1. Lib Dem

1. Lib Dem, its between them and Labour in our ward, if the Conservatives stood a chance I'd vote for them just to try and get rid Gordon, but they don't stand a chance around here.

3.Erosion of civil liberties, Iraq, financial mismanagement.

1. Conservative
2. Green
3. Waste waste and more bloody waste, arrogant arses who don't listen to the electorate and as for Gorgon's hilarious You Tube stunt this week - you really could make it up. (And I do meen Gorgon!) However s**t really has happened and we are all going to hell in a handcart! Noone is going to look good fixing it. Thanks Mr Labour Party, who are supposed to represent normal people! And as for everyone who bleats on about the thatcher years, we have a pretty dodgy future ahead, I would rather concentrate on that and what is to be done to stop the rot.

1. Conservative
2. Conservative
3. Gordon Brown's handling of the recession and his part in creating it; the stupendous waste of money by this Government; erosion of civil liberties; 50% tax rate.

1. Conservative
2. not labour
3. anyone but labour

1. Lib Dem
2. Lib Dem
3. My family, friends and almost everyone I like votes Labour, I wish I could bring myself to do it . I would like to be a Bollinger Bolshevik, but I can't stretch beyond Prosecco, usually. I wish Ken would form a party...

I said Tory when I answered the thread in September, and the answer is still the same.

1. Lib-Dem
2. Green or Lib-Dem (Greens don't usually stand in my very safe Tory seat)
3. Environment, progressive taxation, general sanity. Really no point whatsoever voting Labour where I live. Would def. vote Labour in a Tory-Lab marginal.

1. libdem
2. labour
3. Never got over labour charging into iraq with the yanks rather than waiting to see what the UN did. The current financial situation would have been just the same whoever was in power. Vince Cable fab. hate hate hate the tories.

No way tories will lose seat where I live so the whole thing is a futile exercise really.