How will you vote on May 5th?

[victoriapeckham]

Just wondered. A little bit political...
a) how did you vote last time (if at all?)
b) how will you vote this time (if at all)?
c) what to you is the deciding issue of this election?
d) if you had to make love (not war) with one politician (past, present, senior or backbench?) who would it be?

a) Labour
b) Labour - staunchly Lab constituency anyway
c) Keeping Tories out but academic here
d) THROW UP EMOTICON to whoever suggested OLIVER LETWIN* looks like he miht rip your knickers of >

Have admitted to dreaming when ill about sleeping with Michael Portillo. Always quite had a thing about Tony Banks though

a. labour
b. conservative
c. can't vote blair again after iraq, can't stand gordon brown and he'll probably be pm half way through, labour have destroyed pensions, blair and his cock up of mmr.
d. none

ps victoria peckham, errr tories said they would support invasion of iraq on information given to them by labour which turned out to whole heap of bollocks. labour knew it to be a whole heap of bollocks so are to blame totally.

I'm sorry, you can't seriously expect anyone to believe that the Tories wouldn't have been right up Bush's arse (sorry, vile image I know)

alas - we'll never know

good friends probably - lapdog - never!

a) labour
b ) lib dems probably
c) the lib dems are the only party to come out openly in favour of taxing the rich - too bloody right!!!!
d) I reckon old Tone's got a bit of life left in him.....!David Milliband isn't bad either, but have you noticed how ALL Tories are physically ( as well as morally) repulsive?!

BTW fsmail, not trying to be argumentative but you seem unaware that everyone else would also love to be able to afford to save for their kids' futures, run two cars.....but can't.You may not have a lot more disposable income but look at what you are able to spend it on and compare that with what lower earners are able to spend theirs on!I disagree with every single point you make in your post but will not hijack any further.

I agree council tax is iniquitous - my pensioner uncle has a pension of £25K pa, no mortgage and no children to support. I have 2 children and an income of £9K. He pays less council tax than me. When I first moved here, my income was £42K. I pay more (because it's risen) now than I did then!

But then, any tax which isn't related to ability to pay is unfair. Including indirect taxation such as VAT. When VAT first was introduced, it was supposed to be for luxuries - fur, booze, jewellery - stuff that could be justified as being unnecessary and you didn't need to pay it if you didn't buy the goods.

Now that it's on everything (including household fuel, clothes etc.) it is an extremely regressive tax, meaning that people on lower incomes pay a much higher percentage of their income on it than rich people.

and John Prescott, Charles Clarke, Robin Cook, Jack Straw, Ian McCartney - all hot to trot?

I still haven't made my mind up who I will vote for but I will definitely vote.

I can't help looking at the parties' manifestos and thinking "but how do I know you are actually follow through on these promises - since Labour have gone back on several of the promises they made in their last or previous to that manifesto.

As for the Conservatives - I think they needed to reinvent themselves - perhaps like old labour did. Too many people are fearful of a repeat of the Thatcher years. I wonder how long this party will go on to be judged on their past performance and which generation might give them a second chance. I can't see it happening with Michael Howard as the leader.

I too will probably vote labour simply because of the stable economy.

Apparently, the "Are you thinking whatI'm thinking" nonsense is from Bananas in Pyjamas

I could never understand how Robin Cook could actually have an affair. Mind you, same goes for David Blunkett.

Some women really do have extremely strong stomachs.

But wait - David Mellor wins hands down in the repulsive unlikely sex symbol stakes, surely?

The Tories argument that they only voted for the Iraqi invasion due to being misled by Labour is a major copout. As far as an anti-Iraq protest vote goes, the Lib Dems are the only party choose.

hmmm, David Mellor...not quite as vile as Neil Hamilton though! although that harpie wife of his Christine would beg to differ. Doesn't D.Mellor now have a weekend slot on Classic FM radio? because being an ex-MP makes for excellent DJ skills, allegedly!Robin Cook does resemble a weasle but John Prescott at least has a bit of life about him, as well as a smart left hook.I've always been partial to boxers....

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how about Michael Foot? (when he was alive of course!)

David Mellor certainly has an - er - interesting face

John Prescott could double for Jabba the Hutt - no make up required

Its a pity none of the men have come on here and answered question d from a male perspective.
My Grandma used to fancy Michael Heseltine.

I think the 'are you thinking what we're thinking' slogan is quite good as I bet a lot of people are but feel it's perhaps un-pc to say so.

Letwin and Howard are Bananas in Pyjamas!

agree about tory copout on being misled by Labour evidence on Iraq. I thought it was weird at the time that the first dossier didn't match what Hans Blix was saying, and the second dodgy dossier was discredited before they all trotted off to vote for war. Surely alarm bells should have rung - Kenneth Clarke argued well enough, but no, they wanted war for the same reasons as Tony did (whatever that was, but not WMD).

Oh dear Bozza, I almost said the young Michael Heseltine

Yes that's a good quetsion m-in-l, what was the reason Labour took us to war with Iraq?

Re: Bananas in Pyjamas comment: does anyone else not think that Alan Milburn sounds exactly like Mr Bently (the Mayor's sidekick) in Bob the Builder?
Maybe they're all really kids TV characters... In which case, I'd probably vote for Scoop. (Unless, of course, Blue Cow from the Storymakers was standing. )

I've always thought there was some weird deal by which the British army was secretly being funded by American companies, like a PFI. Who knows what American army bases do in this country anyway?

Otherwise I just scratch my head about why Tone wanted to get into bed with Bush.

OOh no Frieda not Scoop. He brownnoses to Bob in just the same way as Blair does to Bush.