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.

I'm seriously fascinated by how pro labour this thread is. Someone said earlier it's because they think Tory voters are too embarassed to come on and state their political persuasion - can that really be true, given this is an anonymous forum? And if they were convinced of their politics, what's to be embarassed of? Or, do we think that MN has just evolved a particular personality that has attracted more left leaning individuals?

Thoughts ladies?

it seems that most MNers are lefties

hoorah for MN
it gives me hope

1. Labour (without enthusiasm, similar to Sixspotburnet and Fio) or Green
2. Labour
3. Could never vote Tory, ever.

would quite likely vote labour despite disliking a lot of current Labour policy. (war policy, academies policy, faith schools policy are my 3 main gripes with new Labour). Because I don't believe the other main parties would be any better on those issues.

I. Tory for the first time ever!

1. Labour.
2. Everything that has already been said.

Personally we have suffered financially under a Labour government. Labour always used to be the party for the working family those days are long gone!

Was reading about the Tory lead in the polls this morning. Although it is still about 12 points, those who have moved over to Tories from Labour have done so because they are anti-Labour, not pro-Tory. ie it is a negative vote, not because people think the Tories are marvelous/have great policies/have changed.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/robert_colvile/blog/2008/09/29/tory_conference_how_solid_is_the_conservatives_ poll_lead

Also, this financial mayhem is crap for right-wing parties. Because they are the biggest advocates of unregulated capitalism in the first place. So when they slag off the City they look completely stupid.

1. Labour - although unhappy with the things that Fennel has already pointed out along with ID cards.

1. Labour

1. Wouldn't vote Conservative if my life depended on it. I remember them from the last time.

1. Dunno - I am really opposed to the government on lots of issues. But not sure I could bring myself to vote Tory - and I'm not convinced by the very few policy details they have announced. Letting millionaires off inheritance tax isn't really about social justice, is it?

1. Labour, with qualms.

1. ID cards, attacks on civil liberties, running the economy as though they are Thatcheries (widening the gap between rich and poor, privatising as much of the health services as they can get away with, PFI, in bed with the very big business that has spent the last ten years ripping us all off), tuition fees.. but then the Tories are hardly an alternative to all that, bar ID cards. Plan to copy Labour by getting lots of private sector 'providers' to run the health service.

Gosh we are a load of lefties, great.

At the party conference yesterday they were slagging of the city fat cats, their massive source of funds .

No matter the mistakes of the labour government, life for many of us has been far better than it ever could be under a tory government, lets not forget.

Yes their policies changed from 'the red flag flying' days but they had to move with the times.

1. Don't know
2. Main issue - postcode nhs treatment - why is this allowed to continue?

And that cold fish George Osborne was such a blatant opportunist with his "Let's freeze council tax" pledge. Rather than fix anything, I know, let's think of a really unpopular tax (last year it was hereditary tax) and promise everyone a nice little cheque. Let's pretend it will make councils cut "wastage" ie consultants etc. When in truth it will end up with cuts in spending/services/nursery places etc.

MN is very lefty - even when not discussing "hard" politics I do think the majority of posters seem quite lefty in their attitudes.

Labour

Labour

Hated Blair for joining the war in Iraq. However our area is so much better a place to live in because of Labour's social policies. If the Tories get in it will not take long for them to mess it all up again.

I really admire Brown for sending his DS to the local primary school. To me that demonstrates integrity, commitment and an investment in state education.

oh yes DullWitch-bit of a blatant vote-grabber that...
won't seem so great when councils have to start cutting services though eh? ho hum

Labour
Labour
Could never bring myself to vote tory and anything else seems like a wasted vote.

labour

the holiday thing said it all for me - Brown took his English holiday - Cameron took his publicised English holiday which looked more like a Boden shoot and then took his 'real' holiday abroad which he had conviently forgotton to mention to the press....

I think Gordon Brown is great. He's waited so long to get to me PM and he should be given a chance. He's a decent honest bloke who actually sends his kid to a state school. That's all I need to know really.

1.labour
2.labour

1. because i do not like David Cameron and his ilk. the dispatches programme last night for example

1. Lib Dem
2. Lib Dem
3. Early brainwashing and a liberal conscience! Oh and Vince Cable is fab.

My constituency is Tory through and through though, and I have a hunch they'll get in nationally which scares me (although not as much as Michael Howard used to scare me!). DC has done a great re-branding excercise and now looks eminently electable.

I actually like Gordon Brown, shame I can't say the same for the rest of the cabinet.

bramshott i like vince cable too...think they should have had him as leader! we are too hung up about age in this country. He did a great job when he was leading them temporarily.

I am labour through and through although I vote Libdem here because labour gets around 5% and the rest is a Tory-LibDem battleground.

I just don't GET why people vote Tory. I mean, I understand it if you are nice and rich and want lots of tax breaks and don't really NEED state education or the NHS etc... but for most low-income people, life is going to be much worse under a Tory government.

1. Lib Dem
2. Lib Dem, Green, Labour SNP
3. Iraq war and support of American policies

I always used to wonder how come we had a Tory gvt throughout my childhood and teenage years when every single person you ever met hated them.

It still pervades now - nobody wants to admit to being a Tory. I've never met anybody of my age who doesn't detest them, yet I'm quite sure that they have a very good chance of getting in next time.

I blame the Daily Mail readers, and I concur with the poster who said that PC has become an absolutely meaningless term used to describe anything annoying about modern life.

Labour.

I always vote Labour. With increasing misgivings. But really, there are limits and voting Tory is very definitely one of them.

1. Conservative
2. Lib Dem/Conservative
3. Because the Tories have a real chance of getting in and we will finally be rid of the Labour party (thank God)