Tell me why you are voting conservative this time

[Lilovoter]

Some of my reasons are:

• I want a smaller state
• I want a society that encourages aspiration
• Gordon Brown is odious and he and his team lack credibility and real backbone. They are frighteningly good at spin though!!!
• I want Labout out of government and a fresh start for Britain. I do not want a Liberal/Labour coalition.

The idea that the Tories will somehow improve our education system by 'raising aspiration' is so far off the mark I don't know whether to laugh or cry. You will find very few people who work in the state school sector - or public sector, for that matter - who agree.

When DC started talking about 'values over policy' in last night's debate it just confirmed for me what an insubstantial, flimsy thing the Tory manifesto is, and how, at the back of it, all that is really there is the same old right wing agenda which I promise you, will not benefit our children.

I think they'll improve our education system in all sorts of ways

Is there something you object to in "raising aspiration"? Perhaps we should all lower our aspirations so that other people don't feel left out?

Why choose? The choice is wholly false.

Labour and the Conservatives are just a boardroom, competing executives around a table.

Many of them could comfortably switch sides and you couldn't tell the difference. "Economically we are all Thatcherites now," Peter Mandelson.

Where were the Tories complaining about Labour's neo-liberal economic programme? They were not. When did they complain against the huge war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq, they didn't.

We elect Tory after Labour after Tory and what do we get? An oligarchy with a system of representative government tacked on, a nation of powerless consumers, not citizens.

Shall we elect the Medellin cartel or the Cali cartel? Hmm, well Pablo Escobar says he's going to improve choice...better plump for them...

JK's view

Well your #3 is just a personal swipe. You'll not find me making personal comments about Cameron, but you will find me crushing his policies.

• I want a smaller state

The "Big Society" is not small state. It is simply handing the state over to private suppliers, Let me giove you an example. In his manifesto speach Andrew Lansley said that he wanted "co-ops of doctors" to take over NHS services. Let me tell you about a "co-op of doctors". There is a private company called Circle Healthcare who are a co-op, but they do private work and make a profit. The profit goes to buy them the shiny new Mercedes that they will not be able to afford under Cameron because he will freeze doctors pay. So a ready made co-op is already there.

Now let me tell you about Circle. Two years ago they applied for planning permission in my area to build a hospital. The Chief Executive of the NHS hospital said that if the Circle hosp bid for NHS work then it would threaten the financial viability of our local NHS hospital. Circle agreed to only do private work, the Chief exec withdrew his objection and the planning permission was granted. The hospital has not been built. But you can guarantee that if cameron gets into Number 10 then on May 7th Circle will start building. Lansley has already said that he will hand them services, and as the Chief Exec has said, the NHS hospital will no longer be financially viable. That will mean real cuts, longer waiting lists and a return to the late 90s when NHS hospitals were often wor out and tired and patients could only get treatment in time if they went private. Those are my fears.

• I want Labout out of government and a fresh start for Britain.

Sorry but if you look at their plans for the NHS the involvement of the private sector was first introduced as the patients' Passport in 2004 and the electorate rejected it in 2005, and the Conservatives want to re-introduce GP Fundholding that Major introduced in 1991 and Blair abolished in 1997.

Cameron is not a fresh start, he is taking us back to the 90s.

Re the personal swipe - well Gordon Brown has had to weather scandal after scandal

• Damien McBride spinning nasty stories about various people including personal health details regarding wives of conservative MP's
• allegations of bullying
• longstanding bitter feuding with Tony Blair

He is an unpleasant man, he is ill liked by his own party and has weathered no less than 4 attempts by his own party to get rid of him.

The country now has the opportunity to get him out. So vote him out!

I won't be voting blue.
They represent the opposite of everything I stand for.
Each to their own though.
But unlike Kafka I won't be telling anybody else how they should vote.

'You will find very few people who work in the state school sector - or public sector, for that matter - who agree.'

Well, I know people in the public sector who want Brown out. I taught in the state sector for 5 years and I wanted Labour out then, and I want them out now.

Because Labour tried to smear the reputation of a Paddington railcrash widow just because she asked for an enquiry.

A good day to release bad news

WMD and lying about 45 minutes

The whole Iraq war

Databases

Using antiterror legislation to prosecute people for dog fouling and school registrations.

Massive deterioration in education standards

Removing banking regulations and the inevitable results

The sheer idiocy of "no more boom and bust". We've had a decade of boom and the idiot in the treasury didn't think to save any of it for a rainy day.

Denying cancer treatment to desparate people who dare to buy extra drugs

Basically the arrogance, dishonestly and contempt with which this government treats the voters. I voted for TB. I was stupid.

I like DC, he has strong family ethics and a good strong work ethic. I also believe, in time, he will overhaul the current benefit system - hopefully he will take it back to being a welfare state rather than a lifestyle choice.

All GB seems to have done is create a society that relies heavily on state financial support in order to keep voters. People can now actually choose a life on benefits or work the bare minimum whilst tax payers top-up their income. Marriage is no longer seen as the norm and the country has little work ethic.

However, its going to be a hard slog for DC if he wins given the state of the country at present.

If I had to vote for any of the three I would vote for Cameron as he would curb the power of the State, and having met him personaly some months ago, I felt he came across as very genuine and wanted to change things for the better. Mind you I may be naive, as Blair came across in the same way. I put my trust in God and hope he is the genuine article.

This thread has made my mind up for me,i have always been a Labour voter & i was unsure this time round,i thought i was certain i was going to vote Tory this time but now i am definitly going to be voting Tory.

I feel sick to my stomach to think we could have GB & his cronies for another 4 yrs,please i hope not.

And i also dont want a hung parliment.

Because DC is honest and not trying th 'scare' the general public about tax credits, cancer and schools like GB is. I despise GB for trying to frighten the vulnerable members of the electorate into voting for him
What good is it seeing a cancer specialist within two weeks if you have to wait months for treatement, our cancer outcomes are dreadful.
We need to make major cuts, we will be hit by the 50K and above no tax credits rule. That is fine by me! But people who really need the money will still get the credits. At least we will not have the bonkers increasse on National Insurance which will hit everybody