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If the Election was tomorrow, who would you vote for (if you could)

I don't vote but it would have to be the tories if I did.
I think labour are unelectable. No policies, just spin. Their talk about freezing energy prices was just a load of populist claptrap.
 
and badly timed because the energy companies would have (are actually but not directly due to that) just put their prices up before the law was passed.

Red Ed seems to be a total muppet and hence, Labour have shot themselves in the foot once again.
 
I dont vote for individuals in general elections, I vote for parties, based on principles and manifestos.
 
James06 - 25/10/2013 21:55

Maybe it's because even the most lefty liberal socialist labour voter has come to realise that the highest earners pay more in tax now than they ever did during Labours government and that incentives such as free school meals for kids and raising the tax free allowance on income is helping out the poorest in society more than Labour ever did.

Again, I'm not having a go at your political beliefs. I'm just trying to understand them.

Why do you think that the highest earners pay more tax now?
 
This is the benefit fraud vs tax avoidance graphic from February:

<img src=http://fullfact.org/sites/fullfact.org/files/taxesbenefitsgraph2.png>
 
I think coalitions will probably be here to stay, no one party has the power now,
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If the Scots vote yes for independence, then the Tories will have a huge majority and it could be for many years.
 
People hate the Tories because Thatcher wasn't sensible when it came to industry, even if she was right on the Unions.

Tories didn't cause this meltdown, it wasn't privatisation it was double dip mortgages and insurances and the rest of the like, which were allowed and unregulated because of Labours deregulation to boost the City.

Had Labour not done that, yes we'd have still ended up in a recession but it would've been no where near as bad as our banks by law would've been more protected from the risky trading that hit them. Remember the vast majority of the losses suffered by banks in that period where based on their overseas trading that they were allowed to offset against the company arms in this country.

Had their been a separation in place, had they not been able to gamble 'our' savings on foreign risk, yes we'd still have been up shit creek, but no where near as bad.

It did however boost the City fantastically, and banking revenue for the treasury is extreme which is why they are now so well protected and were bailed out. It was nothing to do with jobs, it was to do with maintaining the income stream - and as I've said before half of me wanted those who couldn't cope to go bust as it would've opened the market (and savers are protected by the Gov anyway up to 50K or something, which would've been the vast majority), and taught the a lesson, but the other half when you look at it on face value, at the end of the day we will be quid's in most if not all have paid back the precept now of the bail out from what I can tell. And we still have the share sell offs to deal with, which no doubt will be undersold but we should still be in profit because it's a different set up from Thoroughly Fucked and the Virgin buy out.

The other who took the loans but weren't bailed out, will be interest bearing anyway.

However, what's not forgiveable in the slightest is in the boom years being so naïve, so vote grabbingly whorish that we spent our reserves instead of building them up so when the inevitable dip came (end to boom and bust you cock, life doesn't work that way!) we would be in a much stronger position to ease ourselves through it.

As for the Liberals, I'd agree the coalition might be working if they didn't block everything useful just because they were having a hissy fit over not getting things their way.

Only sensible party to vote for if you are going to vote is the Tories, they are the best of a bad bunch, they are trying to do (very badly because they are vote watching more than focusing on the country's overall needs) the right thing and what we need to put right the mistakes of the liar and the penis, and they have to deal with Cleggie who wants to be some kind of saviour by hugging everybody and pretending a bin man has the same chances and life he does.

What a sorry state of affairs that shows our democracy to actually be. And they wonder why people don't take them seriously.

Make manifestos legally binding and then you'd get a lot more truth from them ahead of elections.
 
Interestingly, if the mini poll on here were to be reflected in a general election the Tories would get an overall majority. Obviously the sample is far too small to be statistically indicative but we are a very broad church here on Vital Villa so it really does look as if the LibDems have shot themselves in the foot and the assumption that coalitions is the way forward may well be erronious.