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[Master C]

Hey everyone, as most UK citizens will know the election date has been set for the 6th of May. Make sure you are registered ASAP, I think you have to be within the next couple of weeks, otherwise no vote for you.

What most would call a 2 horse race, it is between the current Labour lead government under Gordon Brown, and their rivals the Conservatives lead by David Cameron. However the Liberal Democrats are still a force to be reckoned with: I heard that in the last election they recieved 1/4 of all the votes, despite the relatively few seats they received. Its no surprise they have always pushed for proportional representation: http://en.wikipedia...._representation

At the moment all polls point towards a Conservative victory, although all of them vary in such a way that no one is sure how strong a majority they will have. I thought I'd throw my own poll on here, just out of interest.

I'm probably voting for the Conservatives. I don't like David Cameron but the party is better prepared to make the cuts necessary to pay off our deficit and return the country to a economically powerful nation. Labour have had their go, and all they've done is made a mess of it. I do not agree with the economic position held by the Lib Dems. How about you?

Edited by Master C, 11 April 2010 - 08:59 AM.

[Rob`]

Last time in my area the lib dems got roughly 28000 votes, the conservatives 27000 and labour 5000 votes so for me it's going to have to be the lib dems. If I genuinely thought we'd be better of with the tories instead of labour I would probably vote for them but I really don't think we'd be better of and I'd rather have the lib dems than either so easy choice for me.

[Master C]

Last time in my area the lib dems got roughly 28000 votes, the conservatives 27000 and labour 5000 votes so for me it's going to have to be the lib dems. If I genuinely thought we'd be better of with the tories instead of labour I would probably vote for them but I really don't think we'd be better of and I'd rather have the lib dems than either so easy choice for me.

The one thing i will say for the Liberal Democrats, is they have actually announced their budgets and many of the cuts they have proposed to counter the deficit, while the other main parties remain very quiet. For example they are delaying the whole "no university fee's" indefinately, a big blow to the party image but a genuinely necessary step for whats ahead.

I just don't agree with them as a party though, lol.

Also I need to look up my previous local election results...

[Alexc26]

If I could vote, I would vote Conservatives, Labour has messed up and I think the Tories could start making things a bit better.

Stupid Gordon Brown.

[J2tehJ]

i dislike them all but to quote southpark " your always gonna have to pick between a douche and a turd"

[Alexc26]

Hmm, i was listening to my brothers dad (we are half brothers) talking about the elections coming up, and saying how we are still in a recession, and we need to stop letting immigrants coming into the UK, and saying that we should not be in the EU, he said "your either in, or your out, we are in, so we should have euros" and saying about the immigrants stealing jobs from English people for hardly any money, which makes many English people out of work, and many other stuff which i can't remember, but i agree with him for most of it.

Cant remember who he is gunna vote for, i think it might be Conservatives, hell, might even be the BNP.

[Master C]

Hmm, i was listening to my brothers dad (we are half brothers) talking about the elections coming up, and saying how we are still in a recession, and we need to stop letting immigrants coming into the UK, and saying that we should not be in the EU, he said "your either in, or your out, we are in, so we should have euros" and saying about the immigrants stealing jobs from English people for hardly any money, which makes many English people out of work, and many other stuff which i can't remember, but i agree with him for most of it.

Cant remember who he is gunna vote for, i think it might be Conservatives, hell, might even be the BNP.

Yeah those are the kinda ignorant opinions around these days. I blame the tabloids.

[Rob`]

Oh I'm an idiot. I had it in my head that despite living in the Cardiff University halls of residence I was still considered a constituent of whatever it is my part of Somerset is called but nope at the moment I'm a constituent of Cardiff (Etholaeth apparently). I'll still be voting Lib Dem though.

Edited by Rob`, 13 April 2010 - 05:20 AM.

[rugmonkey]

Oh I'm an idiot. I had it in my head that despite living in the Cardiff University halls of residence I was still considered a constituent of whatever it is my part of Somerset is called but nope at the moment I'm a constituent of Cardiff (Etholaeth apparently). I'll still be voting Lib Dem though.

You can change it to your uni if you want. I decided not to as well. Voting Lib Dem as well.

[Master C]

Dirty hippies.

Why are you guys voting Lib dem?

[Spowis]

Dirty hippies.

Why are you guys voting Lib dem?

Scrapping of tuition fees, at the very least by the time I start my third year, I'd save £3.5k+. Immigration doesn't bother me, big business is of zero interest to me, my job and finding work has not been a problem and the Afghan/Iraq purpose at current day are completely unclear to me. At the current point in time, I would benefit best from voting Lib Dem. There are pretty much no policies from the Conservatives that I could safely say would have an impact on my life (I'd rather vote Labour over them), it just seems to be a total roaring bitchfest between Labour and the tories and it's getting pretty fucking tiresome, so TLDR Lib Dem.

Edited by Spowis, 13 April 2010 - 09:08 AM.

[Master C]

They are delaying the scrappage of tuition fee's indefinately...

Are you not concerned that a party not focussed on benefitting businesses will affect your long term employment chances?

[Spowis]

They are delaying the scrappage of tuition fee's indefinately...

Are you not concerned that a party not focussed on benefitting businesses will affect your long term employment chances?

I'm more than aware of that, at present day, I am better off voting Lib Dem; and it's complete guess work; I haven't been affected by this 'recession' in the slightest, I'm not wealthy, I sure as hell am not earning big numbers from a part time job, and for the field of work that I want to be employed in, my current region is safe, business is unaffected. If you check out this old map, you can see how heavily dominated the UK for Conservatism, and yet Cambridge/Oxford West are Liberal, presumably due to the high level of young students and older people living here. If I go by previous voting records also, it's pretty much a Labour/Liberal city as it is.

[Master C]

The national insurance freeze proposed by conservatives will make it cheaper for firms to employ people, so it probably will have some affect on you when you look for a job. If it makes it easier than before the recession, all the better.



Personally I don't trust any party to govern, so if one proposes spending and taxs cuts, they have my vote. Pull power away from the politicians and leave it in the hands of the individual. It seems to me in Britain there is no sense of enterprise anymore, we would all rather take money from the government than earn it ourselves.

You might feel different when you have to pay taxes on what you earn (I assume you don't pay much in your part time work), but we'll see.

[rugmonkey]

They are delaying the scrappage of tuition fee's indefinately...

No they have a timetable for it. It is delayed but the date is just pushed back and there is a timetable of slowly reducing fees until they are fazed out completely.

Edited by rugmonkey, 13 April 2010 - 09:43 AM.

[Master C]

No they have a timetable for it. It is delayed but the date is just pushed back and there is a timetable of slowly reducing fees until they are fazed out completely.

Oh, have they revealed the timetable? Perhaps they will in the party manifesto.

Even so, it will probably not affect any of us. To be honest I don't want to pour billions more into universities: My experience of it has been that they are extremely inefficient with their spending. Thats not too bad when we are paying to use the service, but if someone else is paying them to be so wasteful then it becomes laughable. The current system is fine.

Edited by Master C, 13 April 2010 - 09:48 AM.

[lolmobile]

Conservative Party. Liabour has made a right hash at running this country and, quite frankly, they suck my balls.

I have always voted Tory though so this is no real change for me. There have been years that I haven't bothered to vote because you do sometimes get the feeling of 'same shit, different asshole'.

Bring back Thatcher.

[Ganonheart]

I will be voting Labour.

Reasons being, Lib Dems don't stand a healthy chance in my area, Lib Dems have alot that i would like, no bank chargers for few pound overdrawn? Yes please!

The Conservatives are homophobic and backwards, and would literally take things right back and have us in league with Zimbabwe, i for one, do not want to be working my bollocks off to make sure the head of my company enjoys and even more lavish life style. The Conservative Manifesto is all "appearance" and no "substance" they pretty ts much gave bullet points even 10 year olds would get "Will reduce deficit" - ok... How? "Cuts to waste in government spending" - ok... Where are the cuts going "In government spending" - Yeah... but where are you cutting... "in gover-"

Now Labour are pretty much the same, they are being foggy in areas witch matter, i aint exactly happy about the N.I or the cuts in to the "party booze offers" witch sort of affect me, but nothing to seriously cry over. But much with the Tories, can't really find out how they are going to deliver the promises.

Minor parties... I hope they do well, not so much BNP because they seriously would ground the country in to shiter.

In short, Lib Dems... if only they could have that "bazing" to get them going higher up and knock the tories out of the second largest spot would be an achievement, now is the time for them to do it, i do not know why they are holding back.

Conservatives, you can not trust them, once the camera is off, true colours are shown... and it ain't pretty.

Labour, fuck things up, but things aren't as bad as people make out, some duct tape and couple tubes of glue and some hard work should fix the problems up, i reckon they could do some good in the next term. If not, bring back some street protests and go all caveman outside number 10.

[Master C]

Ganon its batshit insane voters like you who put a war criminal like Tony Blaire in charge...Repeatedly.

homophobic and backwards? I assume you mean the ONE mp who made this statement:

"I personally always took the view that... if you look at the case of 'Should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from their hotel?'

"I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.

Its actually very reasonable. If someone wants to turn their home into a bed and breakfast, they should have the freedom to decide who stays there. Even if you disagree with him, it is ONE MP saying this not the party policy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8602371.stm

I mean fucking hell, Peter Mandelson is a high ranking Labour MP. He rammed through the terrible Digital economy bill, but only after a media mogul took him on a holiday to stay in his villa. That guy is fucking corrupt, and Gordon Browns right hand man. The Conservatives have nothing on that.

http://www.techdirt....111135888.shtml

And NO ONE has produced a realistic way to deal with the deficit. Even the Lib Dems, from what I saw on the news today, are producing nothing but fluff. They plan to hunt down tax evaders to pay it...An expensive and difficult process, they'll get nowhere. But at least the conservatives have a history of ruling efficiently, something that the last 13 years Labour have been incapable of.

Edited by Master C, 14 April 2010 - 12:28 PM.

[Rob`]

Ganon its batshit insane voters like you who put a war criminal like Tony Blaire in charge...Repeatedly.

Sorry I'm trying to remember, what was the Tories official stance on both wars again?