UK Election Today

[liberty]

So if there was a General Election in the UK today, not that there would be, who would you vote for.

[Ananke II]

I'm not British, but from here it seems like you've mostly got two pretty bad choices, the Conservatives or Labour. No other party are able to get enough MPs to form a government right? And you don't have traditions for governments made up by more than one party.

I wouldn't want to vote conservative and controlling government for so long seem to have gone to Labour's heads, not to mention that they've moved too far to the right for my taste. Suppose that leaves the LibDems, but it's not like they have a shot at getting the power at this point, so they're free to say what they want + I'm not really familiar with their party program, although they seem to be more or less centrist, while being to the left of Labour on a couple of issues?

[Relalix]

well im going conservative. david cameron knows what hes doing - in the expenses scandal, he was the first to say 'give the money back or you're fired'. They're definitely gonna win. Oh, and ananke? we have one bad choice and one good choice - unfortunately, the bad choice is in power. only cos gordon brown waited all his life for this job then found out he cant do it. Look at america, its the same thing - except the good choice is in power.

[New Dracora]

I believe this would be one of those instances where a 'none of the above' option on the ballot would be a good thing.

[Chronopolice]

Looks like power might go back to the Conservatives on this one. It is like on the other side of the pond with the Reps and the Demos.

Why is there no well-known instance of a coalition government being formed in the UK?

[liberty]

I always have found that there seems to be a case of the impatient die young, this really is for all things, though politics is the best, although I think this is a callaborative list of political and non political of the impatient...

Gordon Brown
Alan Shearer
Me (I was the first in the shool at primary to get the "formmidable" pack which I then sold looking for some other carda and it failed, yeah I am even including Yugioh"

But all of those, exluding the last, were both impatient and both failed.

David Cameron is the youth of the Conservative party, firstly you now rarely hear the word Tory and much less, if any, then in the early century or 1990s and seriously it was a bomb shell. He has changed the party mass opinion on Europe, grudgingly, and to say the least we must say that it is at least different to Thacther

[Shelter from the Storm]

I'm afraid my true colours are about to show. I am not especially enamoured with Mr Brown, but I am a lifelong Labour supporter. I worked for Neil Kinnock, who was the last Labour leader I truly admired, and I will vote Labour until the day I die.

IMHO, the worst Labour government is still better than the best Conservative government.

[liberty]

OK

So you liked a man who lost, what should have been, the easiest election vtcory in the last three decades? There is no way Kinnock was a good leader, he got all the luck a leader could have wanted and he failed.

As to wanting to vote for a man who admitted he knew nothing about a job he was doing by saying "I will get rid of boom and bust" and then let the banks loan money till it would most certainly collapse. he has been the worst chanceller in the last twenty years, even the chancellor of Black Wednesday did better by telling Major to stop, and the worst leader since Maggie went crazy.


Not to sound rude but are you Scottish or have you come from a mining background because that is the only way I could see someone not supporting Margeret Thatcher in her prime, I mean in the last years it went down hill for her as she tried to reform something that needed no reform, she could have ridden it but she was best at reforming a nation, not taking it further.

[Shelter from the Storm]

Why on earth would I be offended by your asking if I am a Scot and then implying that this would explain my bad judgment?

Maggie Thatcher was the most divisive prime minister of the 20th century. Her practice of two nation politics divided the country along with her pursuit of irrational privatisation, regressive taxes and overall dismantling of the social safety nets. Once again, the worst Labour government is better than the best Tory government.

[liberty]

No I was meaning that because it is often Scots who hate Tories.

She was a reformist, and in her prime, her reforms changed the nation, but when there was nothing to reform she still went for it which was a major mistake.

[New Dracora]

Jun 27, 2009 11:50:04 GMT -5 Liberty987 said:

Not to sound rude but are you Scottish or have you come from a mining background because that is the only way I could see someone not supporting Margeret Thatcher in her prime, I mean in the last years it went down hill for her as she tried to reform something that needed no reform, she could have ridden it but she was best at reforming a nation, not taking it further.

As a man with a minutely small Welsh hertitage living as far away from Swansea as humanly possible - I take offense to that statement.

I mean... suggesting the UK's worst PM in history is even of the slightest bit deserving of any special interest by us... wash your mouth out young man this instant.

[SovietPrussia]

Lib Dem.

In my constituancy, Edinburgh South, they won the recent Scottish Parliament Election and with Labour most likely do lose their Westmnister seat, it shouldn't be too hard for the Liberals to win. And being a Scottish Unionist, the SNP are a big no-no for me. The Cons may pick up some votes, but I'm sceptical about their chances of actually winning the election here. Wouldn't mind it of they did though. As for the other parties, no hope in hell.

[Omnaria]

Probably Lib Dem. I'm pretty liberal by nature, but totally fed up with our government's current incompetence. I think that the current government is so utterly inept that even a Conservative government would be vastly preferable to five more years of Brown and Mandelson (particularly as Cameron seems pretty competent). In an ideal world, I'd vote Green, but there are no Green candidates in my constituency and they stand an infinitesimal chance of winning anyway.
By the way, does anyone else think that Vince Cable should have been leader of the Lib Dems?

[Walabamba]

I would say Liberal democrat I'm pretty liberal and even though one of the bigger parties like the conservatives or labour are probably going to win, I don't like either of those choices.