General Election Year 2010- Who will you vote for

[Paul Mc]

Its General Election Year 2010

Who will you vote for?

SNP for me

[CropleyWasGod]

Secret ballot. None of your business. :devil:

[Hainan Hibs]

SNP for me also.

[Woody1985]

None of the slavering ****s.

I recall reading a debate a few months back where Labour attacked excess spending by the SNP on one thing or another. Upon looking at the stats from when Labour were in charge the SNP had actually reduced the amount by around 70% IIRC.

The hypocrisy of each of almost all of them is outstanding.

[CentreLine]

How about a campaign for Independence for England

[Hibbyradge]

I'll be voting Liberal again.

To keep the Tories out.

[Pete]

I honestly feel like forming my own party.

[camthebam]

At a push SNP, maybe.

But more likely, no-one.

The cons will win. SNP will get close but no cigar.

My heart says Labour but that's based on what they were supposed to be, not what they are.

I can't see it making much of a difference to me TBH.

I will, however, come out and vote if there's a chance that f#ckin disgusting c#nts from the BNP could get in. I don't see anything worth voting for. But some things I will certainly vote against.

[GlesgaeHibby]

At a push SNP, maybe.

But more likely, no-one.

The cons will win. SNP will get close but no cigar.

My heart says Labour but that's based on what they were supposed to be, not what they are.

I can't see it making much of a difference to me TBH.

I will, however, come out and vote if there's a chance that f#ckin disgusting c#nts from the BNP could get in. I don't see anything worth voting for. But some things I will certainly vote against.

:agree: They are so far removed from the true values a labour party should stand for.

Tories are only in it for the rich and privileged.

Voting SNP at a westminster election is a wasted vote, and given their piss poor record on education North of the Border, they don't deserve a vote. Alex Salmond has got to be the most petty politician, lobbying to cancel the televised debates between GB, DC and NC because they won't let him on.
He needs to grow up.

Labour have messed up this country big time. Rich poor divide is bigger than ever, they have got us into pointless wars, made an arse of the bailout of the banks etc etc. Voting Labour would be rewarding failure.

Lib Dems- I love the fact that the strongest argument against the Lib Dems is that they haven't been in power, so they wouldn't know what to do. Oh right, because Labour are doing a great job just now?

Lib Dem candidate is most likely to gain my vote in my constituency as they are the only party that can come close to challenging labour in my constituency.

[steakbake]

I'll possibly end up reluctantly voting LibDem in order to do my bit to overthrow the sitting Labour MP in my constituency. It's a bit of a difficult call. See the sitting Labour guy turfed out and replaced by some wooly LibDem fence-sitter, or see the sitting Labour guy win and listen to folk like Jim *** Murphy describe it as people actively supporting Brown and Labour.

This election is poisoned, but I can't wait for Labour to be out of power. What a shower they have become.

[tony higgins]

Would like to hear a politician say they would help football clubs by putting serious money into ground improvements, doing away with policing costs, money owed to local councils etc.
If i heard that i,d vote for them.

:blah::blah::blah:

[NOLA]

grew up under maggie the milk snatcher, also my mum was in the EIS, and i remember getting dragged along to support the miners in a big march which ended up at the queens park! always Labour for me but lets be honest whoever gets in have a thankless job ahead of them, why would you want to be prime minister?

[gringojoe]

[QUOTE=Lupo;2296346, why would you want to be prime minister?[/QUOTE]

Free house, big swanky car and tea with the Queen.

[hibiedude]

Tories everytime :whistle:

[NOLA]

Free house, big swanky car and tea with the Queen.

Free house - constant stream of unwanted visitors, never a moments peace!

Swanky car - that your not allowed to drive for yourself, no fun there.

Tea with the queen - no thanks.

[ancient hibee]

Would like to hear a politician say they would help football clubs by putting serious money into ground improvements, doing away with policing costs, money owed to local councils etc.
If i heard that i,d vote for them.

:blah::blah::blah:
Unfortunately the Monster Raving Loony Party are extinct.

[The_Todd]

Would like to hear a politician say they would help football clubs by putting serious money into ground improvements, doing away with policing costs, money owed to local councils etc.
If i heard that i,d vote for them.

:blah::blah::blah:

Enjoy your wait for that and good luck with getting the Police to turn up at football matches for free.

[HibeeUnderwood]

By the time the election comes I'll be old enough to vote :thumbsup:

Considering I don't like any of the above's policies, and I seriously doubt "Others" will make office, I am tempted just to vote Labour so the Gordon Brown jokes can continue for a bit longer :devil:

[Betty Boop]

Looks like Labour are in disarray, with Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon calling for a secret ballot on Brown's leadership. They have surely handed the momentum to the Tories! :bitchy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8443461.stm

[Tinyclothes]

Looks like Labour are in disarray, with Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon calling for a secret ballot on Brown's leadership. They have surely handed the momentum to the Tories! :bitchy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8443461.stm

If he finally gets a vote of confidence then it could galvanise them though.

[steakbake]

If he finally gets a vote of confidence then it could galvanise them though.

Whistling in the dark.

If he gets a vote of confidence, I doubt it'll do much. He's damaged goods. This is the 3rd attempt to get rid of him. If sections of his own party cannot stand him, it's hardly as if Labour MPs can expect their constituents to back him for PM.

[Beefster]

If he finally gets a vote of confidence then it could galvanise them though.

Apparently Darling may have told him yesterday that it was time to go for the good of the party.

http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2010/01/07/did-darling-tell-brown-to-go/

Brown's a dead man walking.

[Mibbes Aye]

Whistling in the dark.

If he gets a vote of confidence, I doubt it'll do much. He's damaged goods. This is the 3rd attempt to get rid of him. If sections of his own party cannot stand him, it's hardly as if Labour MPs can expect their constituents to back him for PM.

I doubt there's been a PM in history who hasn't been detested by sections of their own party. There have been well-documented accounts of division, factionalism and intriguing that afflicted leaders since the office came into being.

I'm not particularly enamoured of Brown's leadership but there's something especially repellent about the likes of Geoff Hoon and Charles Clarke that would lead me to consider voting for a Nazi crack-dealing paedophile, were they to slimily suggest he was the wrong man for the job....

[Dashing Bob S]

Labour just lost their last chance of winning the election by not ditching GB. Tbh, I see next to difference between them and the Tories, so I can't really say i'm bothered. I very much doubt i'll bother to vote as my expectations of British politics are at an all-time low and I genuinely believe none of them deserve it.

[Woody1985]

Labour just lost their last chance of winning the election by not ditching GB. Tbh, I see next to difference between them and the Tories, so I can't really say i'm bothered. I very much doubt i'll bother to vote as my expectations of British politics are at an all-time low and I genuinely believe none of them deserve it.

Was there not a rumour that HH might be in the running if he was out if the way. Looking at her scrawny little face makes me want to boak.

[Mikey_1875]

I think ill spoil mine unless anyone inspires me otherwise in the run up.

[Rory89]

My first chance to vote, I'm so excited. I know who I'll be voting for, nobody.

The fact that turnout is often so poor is usually spun to suggest it's the people's fault for not having an interest, well maybe they should look at themselves and start asking themselves why so many people like nothing about any of them enough to get themselves down to the booth's and vote for them.

[Woody1985]

My first chance to vote, I'm so excited. I know who I'll be voting for, nobody.

The fact that turnout is often so poor is usually spun to suggest it's the people's fault for not having an interest, well maybe they should look at themselves and start asking themselves why so many people like nothing about any of them enough to get themselves down to the booth's and vote for them.

Exactly, my interest is there, it just doesn't sit with any of the mainstream. There may be an independant out there I'd like but there's no chance they're ever going to get anywhere.

Someone mentioned on a previous thread that a lot of people tend to vote for whomever their mum and dad voted for and that makes it difficult to change things.

[Leicester Fan]

My first chance to vote, I'm so excited. I know who I'll be voting for, nobody.

The fact that turnout is often so poor is usually spun to suggest it's the people's fault for not having an interest, well maybe they should look at themselves and start asking themselves why so many people like nothing about any of them enough to get themselves down to the booth's and vote for them.

Politics is the art of the possible, too many people expect the impossible.

Life will never be perfect. If you improve one persons life, chances are you will make another persons life worse.

You have accept the limitations and not expect the world to revolve around you.

(I'm not having a go at you personally, just this' nobody does what I want' attitude in general.)

[Rory89]

Exactly, my interest is there, it just doesn't sit with any of the mainstream. There may be an independant out there I'd like but there's no chance they're ever going to get anywhere.

Someone mentioned on a previous thread that a lot of people tend to vote for whomever their mum and dad voted for and that makes it difficult to change things.

If you actually turn up and submit a paper with no cross on it, does it actually count as an abstain or will you just be put down as one of the people who didn't bother?


Politics is the art of the possible, too many people expect the impossible.

Life will never be perfect. If you improve one persons life, chances are you will make another persons life worse.

You have accept the limitations and not expect the world to revolve around you.

(I'm not having a go at you personally, just this' nobody does what I want' attitude in general.)

I'm not expecting a perfect party that fits all my needs, I was just too young last time and I would have definitely voted SNP, in fact I felt strongly about it then. I'll tell you why I can't/won't vote:

Labour - Not voting for a party with the recent foreign policy of Labour.

Tories - No matter who is in charge and what they're saying, I will never vote Conservative. It doesn't need going in to, I'm not a conservative.

SNP - Would've voted for them last time round but now I've seen how badly the tartan tories have organised the country since being in charge, I wouldn't trust them to organise a piss up in a brewery. Purely from an ideological level Independence appeals to me but Scotland being totally under the rule of the SNP sounds a disaster.

Lib Dems - They actually send more left-wing messages out to working class areas and more right-wing messages to middle class areas. Voting for them would be a waste of ink.

None of the smaller parties like Greens, BNP etc appeal to me obviously so I'm not voting, simple as that.

[Dashing Bob S]

If you actually turn up and submit a paper with no cross on it, does it actually count as an abstain or will you just be put down as one of the people who didn't bother?



I'm not expecting a perfect party that fits all my needs, I was just too young last time and I would have definitely voted SNP, in fact I felt strongly about it then. I'll tell you why I can't/won't vote:

Labour - Not voting for a party with the recent foreign policy of Labour.

Tories - No matter who is in charge and what they're saying, I will never vote Conservative. It doesn't need going in to, I'm not a conservative.

SNP - Would've voted for them last time round but now I've seen how badly the tartan tories have organised the country since being in charge, I wouldn't trust them to organise a piss up in a brewery. Purely from an ideological level Independence appeals to me but Scotland being totally under the rule of the SNP sounds a disaster.

Lib Dems - They actually send more left-wing messages out to working class areas and more right-wing messages to middle class areas. Voting for them would be a waste of ink.

None of the smaller parties like Greens, BNP etc appeal to me obviously so I'm not voting, simple as that.

Pretty much how I feel about it. Would vote SNP at pinch, just basically as a device to break up the union and generate a bit of excitement, but no real enthusiasm for them as a political party.

[steakbake]

Pretty much how I feel about it. Would vote SNP at pinch, just basically as a device to break up the union and generate a bit of excitement, but no real enthusiasm for them as a political party.

Sums up my view. I'll vote tactically this time round because I want Labour out far more than I want the Tories in. I'd rather cope with a Tory government than endure a Labour one which has outstayed their purpose.

SNP generally because the basic tenet of independence appeals to me. Hopefully post independence, they'd split and there might be a centre right party willing to stand for election who I would probably vote for.

[Ed De Gramo]

Lib Dems....

Not a Tory Toff or a Labour Looney :greengrin

Wouldn't give SNP my vote even if it saved me...No for Independence and the more that Billy Bunter harps on about it the more i'm staying with No...

[Beefster]

Lib Dems....

Not a Tory Toff or a Labour Looney :greengrin

Wouldn't give SNP my vote even if it saved me...No for Independence and the more that Billy Bunter harps on about it the more i'm staying with No...

Does Nick Clegg not qualify as a 'toff'? Upper class family history, prestigious private education, Cambridge?

[steakbake]

Does Nick Clegg not qualify as a 'toff'? Upper class family history, prestigious private education, Cambridge?

Many politicians could be considered as coming from priviledged backgrounds. Many of them are university graduates. Most of both the Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet attended either Oxford or Cambridge. The Labour front bench are no more or less priviledged than the Tory one.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

[Ed De Gramo]

Does Nick Clegg not qualify as a 'toff'? Upper class family history, prestigious private education, Cambridge?

To be honest, he's a twat as well....but if i'm allowed my vote...it's going to the Lib Dems...:thumbsup:

[suavegav]

everybody knows that the tories are going to win the general election, thanks to the votes they will receive down south. The only way to stop the tories getting anyway near power in Scotland is to vote for Independance and the SNP. Let me ask you all a Question, do you think the tories would ever win power in an Independant Scotland.
Vote SNP, make sure this never happens. :agree:

[Ed De Gramo]

everybody knows that the tories are going to win the general election, thanks to the votes they will receive down south. The only way to stop the tories getting anyway near power in Scotland is to vote for Independance and the SNP. Let me ask you all a Question, do you think the tories would ever win power in an Independant Scotland.
Vote SNP, make sure this never happens. :agree:

Vote SNP? Nah....ran by a bumbling fat clown and they'll soon be found out :agree:

[Hainan Hibs]

everybody knows that the tories are going to win the general election, thanks to the votes they will receive down south. The only way to stop the tories getting anyway near power in Scotland is to vote for Independance and the SNP. Let me ask you all a Question, do you think the tories would ever win power in an Independant Scotland.
Vote SNP, make sure this never happens. :agree:

:top marks

Independence is the only way out of the mess we find ourselves in.

[joe breezy]

Not sure, probably nobody as I live in Essex but have the vote in West Edinburgh

Where I live will be Tory, West Edinburgh is usually Lib Dem

[heretoday]

I don't think I've ever known a general Election with such lacklustre candidates for party leaders.

I think Brown will do a lot better than many people think because when it comes to the bit a lot of people will "go for nurse for fear of something worse".

The Tories have a very chinless leader and few identifiable policies. And nobody knows who Clegg is.

If the Libs had that economic bloke in charge they'd have a chance. I'll probably end up voting for them anyway because they are fairly anti-war and the local MP in Corstorphine is a nice chap. He's actually retiring at the election but so what?

You can see I'm a deep political thinker.