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.

There's also the blatant disregard of Civil Liberties. To agree to 28 days detention without trial totally disregards our tradition of Habeus Corpus in this country since 1215 and Magna Carta.

None of the Parties will sort schools, NHS etc they are unsolvable problems but at least the Conservative Party respects our consitution.

1. I always think I'll vote Lib Dem/Green as quite disillusioned with Labour for various reasons.

1. But when I get there I always put my cross by Labour anyway.

1. Also think I'm physically incapable of voting tory - I too remember the last time, and there is a chance my job could be affected as it's government funded and addresses unemployment/retraining (and not in teaching people to get on their bikes).

spelling gone to pot with the emotion of it all !- that should be constitution

1. definitely not Labour, not sure who
2. Labour
3. Labour are totally inept

1. Think LibDem
2. Labour
3. 10% tax, ID cards and Iraq. And I think David Cameron isn't up to the job of PM.

Labour
The thought of a tory goverment scares me..
The thatcher years left me scarred for life

HK _ ditto I can't wait to be rid of this shower. Unfortunately the alternatives are rubbish too. Would vot Conservative tomorrow if William Hague was still leader. DC is just a TB clone - smug, lightweight git just like the original.

malory - i know! if thats what labour have done, imagine what the tories would do - they'd be totally wiped out

MrsGuy - hold that thought, let's face it, the Conservatives are going to win, and I think William Hague will be unexpectedly prominent in the new administration (I've met him and he is the most lovely chap, and very very tall - most unexpected for some reason, had always visualised him at about five ten but he is more like six three).

Me Malory, it scared me. I could see the last 11 years coming on 2nd May 1997 and I was only 18. Best years of my life, that bastard Clair stole.

Clair? WTF is Clair?

Blair. Git.

GM - you are giving me hope!!!! (I always thought him a shorty too ) His wife really IS lovely too.

She is beautiful, mind you so is Samantha Cameron. And incredibly well dressed.

GM - you are a lot younger than me , but I remember that day - was a beautifully sunny morning and I was walking down to the station in floods of tears becasue it was obvious what would happen. My first DS was born shorly afterwards - excelent experience ( before th labour gvt had had a chance to ruinin the Health Service). Two years later with DS2 the rot had set in, hospital was a shambles - demoralised staff - all agency, (loads of bureacratic management consultants tho'), enorous wastages, completely worse experience after only 2 years of labout gvt.

I had an A level history exam that day and I told my mother there was no point in my getting out of bed, the civilised world was over. It wasn't so much that I thought the Conservatives should or deserved to have won (although I couldn't vote anything else, being economically as right wing as I am) but the thought of that grinning loon Blair with his itchy little fingers on the nuclear button terrified me.

She made me get out of bed, obviously.

GM - lol at your mother. Will take heed of that and get out of bed tomorrw, even tho' there will be dire news awaiting re markets plummeting...

Labour
Labour
Just because I can't bear the thought of those dark Tory days from before. Not too happy with Labour - ID cards, Iraq, etc, but they have done some good (minimum wage, child care, education spending etc.).

1. Lib Dem
2. Lib Dem
3. Never lived anywhere where a Labour candidate had a chance of doing much more than saving his/her deposit, so always vote tactically to try and defeat the Tories.

1 have no idea at all except it's not going to be slimy untrustworthy tories

2 a mixed bag of labour, lib dem and green depending on tactical votes and how I'm feeling

3 I can't decide how I feel about labour. they're so controlling. but at least they give a toss about helping out poorer off families, unlike smarmy pants cameron who talks the talk. then again, lib dem so useless atm. wish they'd never got rid of whatshisname sas bloke.

labour
labour
because the tories are just the same as they always were, despite the new packaging. they have never given a crap about public services or working families and never will. and they would have been into iraq like a shot.

This thread is very very interesting. One of three things is going on here:

1. The polls are delusional and the Conservatives are headed for another landslide defeat.

1. MNers are either lying, or not fessing (by not posting) up to the their support for the Tories.

1. MNers are as a whole just more left of centre than the average person.

Any one of those possibilities is fascinating. And I have no idea which it is.

By MaloryDontDiveItsShallow on Mon 29-Sep-08 20:18:59

"a pm that no one had a voice in shoosing"

Just like John Major then.