AIBU To ask what party do you vote for?

[Goldchilled7up]

I feel that a high percentage of mumneters vote labour. I do, what about you?

[niceguy2]

Actually I think the Tories are probably more aligned with Obama than with Romney.

Personally I think Romney is further right than even our most right wing Tories.

The SNP have done well over the disillusionment over Labour and the Scots are generally more left leaning and given the Thatcher years I doubt Scotland would ever have a Tory majority. But the SNP have also been very clever to pin the blame onto London for all problems and push the idea that without London holding Scotland back that it would be jam today. Personally I don't believe that.

[SufferingLampreys]

Agree nice guy
Always thought Obama was Rightwing and Romney was even more Rightwing but that's how the two big parties are in the US

[claig]

I have no party allegiance and have voted for all 3 parties in the past. I base my vote on which party offers the best policies for the country and the public. Invariably this usually means that I vote Tory.

[claig]

That also explains why I never have, never want to and never will vote Green.

[VirtuallyHere]

Tory. Not that I'd rave about them at the moment but I just can't help thinking the country would have been bankrupt if Labour had continued their reign. The excessive spending in the year prior to election to try to win votes when the country was in such a state truly disgusts me.

[claig]

VirtuallyHere, it is virtually certain that you are not alone.

[chipstick10]

Im a Tory scumbag.

[LucieMay]

Member of the Labour party, die hard. I'd die before I voted Tory.

[FromEsme]

Labour, am a member.

When in Scotland, I might give other votes to others, like the SSP.

Obama. I think he's amazing, we need someone like that.

[Tazmosis]

Labour and Obama - am a (new) member of the Labour Party as so disillusioned with what is going on.

However I do read manifestos and would consider changing if I disagreed with Labours policies.

[laughtergoodmedicine]

I would have voted for Obama. Tony Blair was only good for winning elections. Which does matter. I voted Labour/Independent in the recent police poll. The Independent won. (And is already flexing his muscles)

[Shinyshoes1]

Another in the minority.

I'm a TORY voter

[mrsbugsywugsy]

Green

I have voted for other parties for tactical reasons (ie to keep the Tories out) in the past, depending on who had the best chance of beating them.

[Cozy9]

Tory or UKIP depending on what election it is, I would never vote Labour.

[losingtrust]

I voted Tory in the last election but have been disappointed with their back turns. Would not vote for a party that had any involvement with tony Blair. Not a fan of red Ed either but then I am not a big fan of any party leader backed by unions as I have found a lot of inaccuracies in the union propaganda on pensions for instance. My bet for next credible pm would be a David miliband type mp independent of purely the union vote. Unions should do what they are good at - supporting their workers at a te of crisis and not persuading people to go on strike with inaccurate and limited information to try and score political points.

[ironman]

I would vote Tory if Cameron was one. Voted UKIP. I would never vote Labour.

[Abitwobblynow]

None of them they are all useless spineless and deceitful

The last politician who was prepared to tell the hard, difficult truth was Margaret Thatcher.

[therugratref]

Another Tory here.

[Abitwobblynow]

I hate all politicians, but I flipping hate Labour with an unrelenting passion. They bring their lovely fluffy caring theories about making the world a better place and then they stuff everything up - because they are nowhere in touch with reality. The last lot should in in jail IMO, from their military moronics, spiteful uncontrolled immigration that has seriously hurt the working classes, to their idiot bankrupting of this nation.

From Thomas Pascoe (far more measured!):

Balls has been more irresponsible than any other Labour frontbencher.
It is the record of both man and party that must be placed before the electorate in 2015. The Conservatives need to force voters to confront the idiocy of Labour?s economic strategy, particularly the belief that economic stimulus can return Britain to growth. The country is forecast to run a net deficit of 6.9 per cent of GDP this financial year (excluding the Royal Mail pension transfer). That is one of the largest stimulus spending programmes in the world. What has it delivered? In all probability, a triple-dip recession.
Even more damagingly, Balls represents two immensely harmful ideas, both of which must be discredited if Britain is to return from the brink financially.
The first is the idea that economics is an immeasurably complex subject that submits only to the finest minds. At present, actions and ideas are presented in a way that deliberately obscures their purpose and effect. Finance thus becomes less of a discipline and more of an alchemist?s trick. Balls has a track record in this nonsense-speak which ranges from the introduction of ?neo-classical endogenous growth theory? in a speech he wrote for Gordon Brown, to last year?s talk of ?predistribution?. The effect and the intention are identical: these phrases make the nation?s finances more remote, forcing us to acknowledge Balls?s role as an expert and concede our own. From these seeds grew the debt binge that left us with a 10.1 per cent annual budget deficit in 2010/11, masked with inane words about ?smoothing out? over the cycle.
Of all the disciplines of state, economics is the most easily mastered. Every individual, household and corporation familiarises themselves with the basic rules early in their life -[what did Mrs Thatcher say? Was anyone listening?]. In the quest to maintain that governments are not bound to the law of balance that catches up with every other economic entity, the system itself has been debased. Money has been created from thin air to the extent that the next crash will itself be a result of attempting to stave off this present crash. What might have been a three-year cleansing process could now be a 20-year stagnation, largely thanks to men too clever to admit their mistakes.
Moreover, it is the attitude that Labour brought to public finances under Gordon ?n? Ed that continues to poison the well. Labour has deliberately created a client state in this country, which recognises only the right to draw on the resources of others. With rhetoric about the rich, and a dozen years of rising payments to those who would not work, Balls has helped engender in this country a spiteful, petty-minded entitlement culture. Again, the connection between money and production has been severed. Again, the damage to our prospects as a nation is incalculable.

• Have I ever told you how much I loathe and despise the mindset of the Labour Party...? [fade rant...]

[MiniTheMinx]

The very same Mr Pasco who with his chums from the city have a vested interest is laying the blame squarely where it doesn't reside, Mr Pasco who worked for Lloyds in corporate finance. He is hardly likely to point the finger towards banking practices and corporate tax dodging is he?

[Sparrowp]

I read the Tory policies for the last election and thought, bloody hell that's a recipe for recession.

Lib Dem ones looked good though.... sigh

[Sparrowp]

The Tories just aren't very good. That's why they put on all the "confidence" and bravado to cover up their incompetence. Sad really.

[Abitwobblynow]

Mini. Who cares. A tiny tiny piece of economic fact: money doesn't grow on trees. Printing it is forgery still a con by the BoE. You have to MAKE money.

This is a hard and never-to-be-forgotten fact that socialists mysteriously just gloss over. I don't think this vital construct ever enters your tiny little minds.

The fact is, that British politics is decided by 50 'marginal' seats. Therefore, the overpaid social workers that constitute the majority of our MPs, do not listen to the constituents, they do the party's bidding.

A pox on the lot of them

[MiniTheMinx]

I know exactly how money is created, every time money is printed a corresponding amount of debt is created.

Tiny little mind, that's right wing thinking for you. Always shut down any discussion by insults.

I agree that MPs do the party's bidding , they in no way represent the people who elect them. We do not live in a democracy. One of the ways in which we now exercise our democratic power is through consumerism, we levy pressure directly on companies through the media and internet, we stop shopping with companies and we reward what we believe to be ethical business through consumer loyalty. Main stream politics is becoming sidelined because people know the three major parties are puppets to corporations, why vote when you can make a real difference through direct consumer action.

I agree, the lot are a pox.

[thesnootyfox]

First vote (aged 19) Liberal Democrat.

Second vote Labour

Third vote Labour

Fourth vote Labour

Fifth vote Labour.

I used to vote Liberal Democrat in the local elections as we don't have a Labour candidate. I would never vote Lib Dem again. I haven't bothered voting in the last couple of local elections as the choice between Lib Dem, UKIP and Tory isn't really a choice.

I live in a Tory stronghold therefore my vote in the General Election isn't really worth anything either.