so now youve had chance to think about it....

[ThatVikRinA22]

are you happy with how you voted?

i currently work in the nhs and am about to go into policing within the next month. 2 areas that are about to get axed massively.

are you happy with how you voted? i am the only one in my household and in my workplace who feels i was true to my beliefs and is still happy with how i voted.

are you still happy or do you think your were duped?

i voted labour and i would again.

I don't believe that these free bus passes cost £1 billion a year, as someone says in the comments section, the pensioners only take up seats that would otherwise be empty off-peak. A rise in corporation tax of 0.1 % would easily pay for all of this and more.

well nationalise the bus companies then. The buses are running half empty off peak.

in fact Philip Hammond will be on Any Questions starting in a minute on Radio 4. I think that is where I heard it last night

I voted Labour (as I have always voted) and I will be voting Labour again next time. I have joined the party as a result of the last election and am now more politically active than I have ever been. So yes, I am happy with how I voted. Not happy in general, though. These are not happy times.

yes you're right, they are overcrowded in some areas. But the Tories are pretending that they will stop millionaires travelling on free bus passes. I don't know many millionaires who travel on buses, so who are they really targetting for these savings?

"A senior Government source said: ?In these times of budget pressures we simply cannot go on paying free bus fares to millionaires."

Yes and no. I voted Libdem but labour still got in, which I knew they would. I live in a labour stronghold, which has been labour for many many decades. I voted libdem to make a point and ensure that the local labour MP didn't get such a huge majority as normal.

As for being happy having the libdems in power(ish) - I am not at all happy. I work in the public sector and feel sick about all the cuts and demonising of public services that is going on. Bloody tories!

bus fares to millionaires, what bollocks
The fact is free bus passes are claimed by those that need them. It doesn't cost the government anything if people don't use them, surely?

I think you're right purepurple. It is a bad policy that will save very little, and it is punitive to people over 60 on low wages and low state pensions.

not state pensions because they don't kick in until 65 or is it 66?

i just cant help feeling that possibly my first instincts were spot on. that they are all a bunch of lying cheating bastards who are in politics to line their own (and their own companies) pockets and in the end it didnt matter if i voted at all. DH never votes because he says its a waste of time and it changes nothing, that they are all the same.

i didnt want a tory government. i didnt want a lib dem coalition. i didnt vote for that but thats what i got. they lied through their teeth on VAT and other policy issues that they have now only weeks in done massive U turns on. why? why betray the people who voted for them? im so glad i voted Labour because i feel at least i wasnt duped.

the guardian link - i read it. i dont see how any of the proposed cuts help anyone but individuals.

i fear for the NHS under a tory government. another british rail in the making. and policing i fear will get really really difficult. strained more than it is now. im at a loss to understand why people want this? what am i missing?

I voted Lib Dem as am in a Lib Dem/Tory marginal. So, yes in that it kept a Lib Dem MP but no, obviously, since didn't vote true to any beliefs and am horrified at how weak and weasily the Lib Dems now seem. They should have had the Tories over a barrel. I now feel I live in a Tory/Tory marginal.

To clarify, I only voted Lib Dem since felt had to vote tactically. I does piss me off hearing the Lib Dems bleating about their share of the vote etc. They must realise their share is only x amount since so many vote for them tactically.

I voted Tory and am still happy with that. Yes it meant some cuts/rises that affect us personally but cuts needed to be made to get us out of the debt the country is in. The VAT rise was fair as it affects everybody not just raising taxes on those that work.

The benefits reform is a start, not as harsh as I would have liked but nevertheless a good start.

Labour had too many voting gimmicks that simply spent money that was not there - all aimed at certain voters. They made benefits a lifestyle choice rather than a last resort safety net and hopefully the Tories will be strong enough to reverse this.

I earn under 10k and in the next three years am having a pay cut along with my 5 colleges of 4.7 %

I feel like i am paying for the bankers bonus as my enhanced pay has been cut for working evenings

i didn't vote for the tory party and don't trust them either

i do wonder if things would be far worse if it wasn't for the fact of the libdems being there - it suppose could be worse.

But when the goverment is going to take away a large % of my pay and still give in to the bankers i feel resentment that a banker will get a bonus larger than my 5 colleges wages put together..

It is a weak and greedy goverment that lets this happen

Oh they will give me a tax break and they will rasie my wages by 3250 but they have already taken all that away with the subtraction - so worse off as inflation isn't standing still

the VAT rise is not fair - it hits the poorest hardest because proportionally it will take more of their income.

who gives a shit about paying 20% on the basics if you income is 150,000 per annum? 20% is a lot more if you earn 6k per annum instead. why didnt they up the VAT on luxury items like yachts and jets and helicopters and racing cars?

VAT will hit hard for those on low incomes. and it will end up forcing food prices up because somehow the cost of VAT will have to be recouped by the growers, the producers, the couriers.

the VAT rise is shit and hits the poorest hardest.

the benefits as a lifestyle choice - to some extent i agree - but why not just target those people? some people NEED benefits to live.

I voted Labour. Never crossed my mind to vote Tories and glad I did not go for Lib Dem now.

I voted Libdem in an attempt at tactical voting (Labour stand no chance round here.) Tories still got in.

Had I known what would happen I would have voted Labour - would not have made any difference to the result but when I saw the actual numbers of votes polled being used as to promote the Liberal Party at the expense of Labour I realised my grave mistake. Sorry Gordon! Tried me best; thought I was doing the right thing.

happymum - will you be happy to see pensioners pay another 2.5% of their pension on heating and lighting?

I voted Tory, and an happy, although I may be less so after the SDSR in the autumn.

Wish they were more Eurosceptic as Longfingernails said, as there is an awful lot of money wasted here in Brussels by the EU. We need to cut down what we pay.

Am also not pleased that they have stopped Cornwall using the convergence funding (not a waste of EU money for once) as we need it.

On balance though - action being taken to tackle the deficit - a spending review coming up and legislation which will hopefully make plain what is going to happen rather than all the press speculation; I am happy.

I voted Lib Dem as Labour has absolutely no chance here - Theresa May has been our MP for years with another Tory before her.

I voted Labour (for the 1st time ever) and am glad I did. Anything else other than green would have made me feel sick, I think.

Ivy, I dont think gas and electric are on full vat anyway - seem to recall its only 5% or something low like that.