Election? I am new, so I will say something about male/Female voting patterns.

[GabbyLoggon]

England/Britain voting patterns.

Male stroke female (please yourself)

The 1960/70s research suggested women Tories outvoted men by 2 to 1.in England.

Things will have changed now. The Blair babe attracted some women to Labour.

I have not seen the current research. I suspect a lot of women went backto Tories and liberals in the recent general election.

The Coalitions seems to have left Liberal activists very unhappy. You can see why.

Its a funny old game, politics.

The 'Blair Babes' tag was insulting and empty-headed and I don't see how it could be proved to have attracted women to Labour, or to have alienated women from Labour for that matter.

You don't half write a load of meaningless rubbish GabbyLoggon. What's your point?

I like how they write like a crap newspaper columnist.

You are very rude and angry, calm down

Blair himself attracted a lot of female votes in 97. all the evidence shows that.

Cameron and nick attracted a lot of votes in the recent election.

Many of them from the ladies (who are said
to like smart £2000 suits. ) I think issues matter more.
If you are a Coalition supporter say so.
Its not illegal.

Serious research is well worth reading, it gets b eneath the facade of life.

The problem most Liberal voters have is that they did not vote for a Tory led Coalition (and deserve our sympathies.
Now deep breaths, anger is seldom logical
cheers.

Labour were punished for the war etc, and Brown held on when he should of steped aside.Clegg was fixed on the last TV debate by his expenses and looked sweaty because of it.

There is no difference between the way women voted this time,
we were all had,
we just endured being patronized more then the men.

No-one's angry or illogical, just fed up that none of your many peculiarly-written posts make a point. Throwing out a few random facts or making odd statements about 'the facade of life' (?) is not a conversation, it's a monologue. And a rather dull one at that. To start an intelligent conversation on a message board it helps if you express an opinion or ask others to express their's based on some information you are referring to.

Example... 'more women voted for the coalition in 2010 than voted for the Blair government in 1997. I think this is interesting and my opinion is xxxxx.... What do you think?'

Given the vote in the UK was, last time I checked, still secret, what actual evidence is there that Cameron and Nick attracted female voters?

The idea that women have their heads turned by a man in an expensive suit is very, very patronising.

Some people who voted lib dem wanted a tory/lib dem coalition anyway.
The things that have made me cross so far are:

1. The idea of a graduate tax which no party mentioned in their manifesto as far as I'm aware.
2. The fact that the tax threshold has been raised for basic rate tax payers only whereas lib dem manifesto said it would be raised for those earning up to around 100k, so that the majority of people would benefit from paying less tax for the first part of their earnings.
3. That we have to waste money having a voting referedum. The system should just be changed so that everyone's vote counts and people do not have to vote tactically.
4. Free schools - not necessary or affordable - will probably mean less for other schools.

There have been some positive things such as scrapping of Hips, ID cards, reducing Quangos.

Exactly, slug.
And what's all that crap about £2000 suits? FFS. It is the media who go on about appearance, most of us don't expect politicians to be attractive or particularly well-dressed...

Miffy

Would AV be all that big a change, even if they won the vote on it.

I think the main thing for the Tories is changing boundaries.

Miffy

Would AV be all that big a change, even if they won the vote on it.

I think the main thing for the Tories is changing boundaries.

Honestly I do find your posts impenetrable.

Shall return after wine o'clock to see if that helps.

I think it was wine o'clock some hours ago for Gabs

Nope. Still makes no sense.

maybe more wine will help?

Gabby - Who is rude or angry? You are certainly tardy. And patronising.