If the election were tomorrow, how would people vote?

[LeftishBrit]

Poll question: If the election were tomorrow, how would people vote?

I would vote LibDem, because I like my own MP and the only alternative here is the Tories. If there were no good LibDem alternative here, I'd probably vote Green.

[Nihil]

1. Lib Dem (but for the person rather than the national party)

Again, our Lib Dem is very responsible and active in the community.

To be fair, the current Tory is also very much a representative of
the people (rather than the previous Tory who was just a twat) but
she has a lot of ground to make up to come close to this particular
Lib Dem.

If our Lib Dem candidate dropped out though (for whatever reason)
then I'd probably vote Green due to falling back to party lines.

[T_i_B]

2. I'll decide closer to the time

In the meantime, we have European and County Council elections this year and IMHO those are the elections to watch.

[Nihil]

8. i.e., on the day?

Remember, the OP question was "If the election were tomorrow ..."

:P

[non sociopath skin]

3. It depends who stands.

I like our local Labour MP who has a good anti-war and anti-NuLab voting record. The probable LibDem is currently making an appalling bollocks as County Council Education Spokesman so he's out and I wouldn't consider the local Tories, especially after Matt Ridley's Northern Rock debacle.

If the MP stands down and the usual Green guy stands, I'll be sorely tempted.

The Skin

[Albus]

4. Ah but you once said...

;)

[non sociopath skin]

5. Ah, yesterday ....

:evilgrin:

The Skin

[Albus]

6. ...all my troubles seemed so far away...

:silly:

[non sociopath skin]

9. Actually, I'm one of the few lucky buggers who isn't too badly off right now.

As the missus and I between us deal professionally with medicine, education and bereavement, our services are still in some demand.

Can't feel a lot of schadenfreude, though ...

The Skin

[Albus]

10. Glad to hear it

things are getting very tough for a lot of people now and, I fear, likely to be getting a lot tougher before they improve.

Awful, but sadly inevitable imo.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. I picked Green in this poll

even though they never stand in my constituency. It'll likely be between our local Labour MP who is OK but too middle-of-the-road for my liking, and whoever the Lib Dems choose to stand. If the Lib Dems offer a good candidate then I may be tempted.

I don't know who I'll vote for in the European elections. I may be swayed by the left-wing alliance.

[dipsydoodle]

11. I've got Claire Ward

who was an avid supporter of the war in Iraq, against a subsequent enquiry and currently being investigated for claiming £95000 in 2nd home expenses despite the fact she is in effect a local. Her majority in the last election diminished to c. 1100 votes. Lib Dem was 2nd having picked up a substantial number of votes from both Labour and the Cons. The local council has been Lib Dem for quite a while.

Labour are already canvasing locally by telephone - I've had a call within the past fortnight. I successfully conveyed to the guy that he should go away and procreate. I'm convinced that in the next election Labour will be taken to the cleaners.

[D-Notice]

12. I'm currently represented by

George Galloway (Bethnal Green & Bow).

I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for, but it won't be Labour or the Tories.

Any suggestions?

[LeftishBrit]

15. Not Galloway anyway, if I was voting; and not Labour unless someone anti-NewLab is standing

And obviously not Tory.

That leaves LibDem or Green - depending on your views and the nature of the candidates.

[Albus]

13. DON'T VOTE!

It only encourages them

[Ken Burch]

14. I I lived there, I might vote Respect, or for some independent socialist candidate

(In Scotland I'd probably vote for the Scottish Socialist Party candidate, even though I know that that candidate would have almost no chance of winning).

Labour needs to lose as badly as possible, to punish it for abandoning working people, disowning the poor, and, sickeningly, betraying innocent asylum seekers in a desperate and hopeless effort to "out-BNP the BNP" on immigration.

Labour was supposed to be an alternative to the Tories, not just Thatcherism with a humanoid face.

If I lived in a constituency that actually had a genuine Labour MP(like Jeremy Corbyn or Dennis Skinner), I'd vote for them out of tribute to their personal convictions, of course.

[T_i_B]

16. It's interesting to note...

...that not one of us has opted for Labour as yet!

[D-Notice]

17. That shows

how much Labour have alienated intelligent lefties over the past few years.

Out of interest, who did people vote for back in 05? I went for the Lib Dems.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Lib Dems the last time, and probably Lib Dems again next time

I like my existing Lib Dem MP; but there's been a boundary change, so I'm in a different constituency (Winchester) next election. That has Mark Oaten as the sitting MP, but he's not standing next time, after his escapades with a male prostitute. The constituency was Tory before 1997; I expect it'll be a marginal this time (with Labour nowhere). The new candidates seem pretty identikit for the Lib Dems and the Tories, so I'll go Lib Dem unless something out of the ordinary occurs - with a realistic chance of getting a Lib Dem in at the expense of a Tory, symbolic votes for other parties wouldn't be a good idea.

[LeftishBrit]

19. I voted LibDem (Evan Harris, Oxford West) and will do so again unless something very improbable

happens

[non sociopath skin]

21. Aforesaid sitting non-Blairite Labour Man ..

... largely on his anti-war stance.

Well to the left of the Lib Dem challenger.

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[LeftishBrit]

22. Out of interest, who is he?

[non sociopath skin]

20. Not strictly true.

I did say I'd go for the sitting non-Blairite Labour man if he stood. But not with any great enthusiasm ...

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[T_i_B]

23. At the present time...

...not one person has voted for Labour in the above poll.

[non sociopath skin]

24. So it looks like a walkover for the Bankers' and Stockbrokers' Party next time.

Funny old world.

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[Nihil]

25. Yeah, sounds like another dose of "Change" coming up ...

Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.

:hide:

[non sociopath skin]

26. Exactement.

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[Dutch]

27. It's just a question of which one of the Bankers' and Stockbrokers' Parties it will be...

[LeftishBrit]

28. That is pretty much of a given...

as ALL the three main parties could be called that.

The Tories, admittedly, are even more so than the others.

[non sociopath skin]

29. It appears that, as with the US Republicans, ....

... the Tories would - will? - see public spending cuts and lower taxes for the wealthy as the "solution" to the present crisis.

The Skin