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Who will you be voting for in 2015?

  • Green

    Votes: 1 3.8%
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    Votes: 7 26.9%
  • LibDem

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tory

    Votes: 10 38.5%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 2 7.7%
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    Votes: 6 23.1%

The 2015 General Election

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3K views 55 replies 24 participants last post by  AlfaDrivingFan 
#1 ·
It's just a few months away now.....and already the game is afoot. In the first of a series of deeply maddening polls.......I invite you to indicate your intent, and your reasons.
 
#2 ·
Because I could never vote for a party whose aims and ideals are so far from my own as the tories. Libdems can never be forgiven for their pact with satan. Ukip - see tory comment. Greens- what exactly are their policies on issues with **** all to do with trees?
 
#4 ·
Anyone but labour.

Labour are the ones that want to introduce satellite tracking/pay per mile driving, they are the reason Motoring costs are so high.

Under the tories we have had:

Re-introduction of the rolling tax exemption of classic cars
Almost every planned fuel duty rise scrapped
Only a tiny increase in fuel prices compared to the massive rises under the last few years of labour
I don't recall an increase in VED.

Of course there is more to politics than motoring costs. As this is a car forum my responce is based on that.

The conservatives have had the hardest term ever, with the cuts that were needed they were guarenteed to **** everyone off. now that things are finally looking up are we going to kick them out and give Labour the credit?
 
#6 ·
Unfortunately I think what they have done in the past (for those who have a track record) may well be an indicator of what they will do - or how effectively they will do it, in the future.

As I said in the "UKIP" thread - I think we need to see what the prospecti say, however, if only to attempt to read between the lines.

In reality, living where I do, where a Lib Dem scraped in last time because of Labour's Kitty Ussher's expenses scandal, I guess its a two horse race.......certainly in the local elections they were the only two parties standing.

I'm not likely to vote Labour.

But its way too early.........we are over 10 months away.
 
#8 ·
My Conservative MP has a greater majority than Red Ed and its been a safe Tory seat since the 50s. Not sure whether to bother or not? I don't really feel at home supporting any of the existing UK political parties, but would rather another 5 years of blue/yellow Coalition than anything else that seems possible.
 
#13 ·
Part of the reason I posted this up so early in the process (and we are on a media conveyor belt) is because I wondered if people might, over time, volunteer the analysis that leads them up to a decision on polling day. Putting it another way - will people weigh it up over time and gradually find themselves gravitating to one political party? Alternatively, will they mull it over, seeing points (and weakness) in several parties arguments, and find themselves unable to fix their voting intentions until late on (possibly until the moment they are in the booth, staring at names)? Could it be that they are fixed in their intent already? If that is the case, what would sway them (if anything)?

I've been interested in politics since my early teens (born in '67 so I achieved some shallow political awareness during Thatcher's first term of office - which surely was influential). I've always considered the Liberal option, but being pragmatic - once I achieved voting age, it was clear to me that (living in a historical marginal) my vote would be wasted in that context. If I want my vote to count I have two options: 1) vote tory or labour; or 2) try to reshape the local politics. I've only ever voted Labour (apart from a euro election once when I voted green). My intent is more nuanced and pragmatic than "indoctrinated from birth" but there is definitely an element of that, I'm sure.

Personalities at a national level never come into it. Locally I'm not sure they would either. Having said that, when I started voting our local MP was Michael Fallon and if ever there was a little twerp who might be well-placed to reinforce anti-Tory feeling, he was it.
 
#15 ·
Could it be that they are fixed in their intent already? If that is the case, what would sway them (if anything)?
I tend to believe that a high proportion of regular voters are fixed already - and probably always have been. Floating voters by definition are swayable, but party electoral "bribes" can be dangerous, with a tendency to backfire ;)

I've always considered the Liberal option, but being pragmatic - once I achieved voting age, it was clear to me that (living in a historical marginal) my vote would be wasted in that context.
This is an argument I've always been irritated with.....how many other voters (who voted red or blue) felt the same way? You either vote for the party who closest meet your views, or accept that what you are doing is voting tactically - against the party you don't want. The number of people I've met over the years who've told me - "I'd vote Liberal but it'd be a wasted vote" ......

Personalities at a national level never come into it. Locally I'm not sure they would either. Having said that, when I started voting our local MP was Michael Fallon and if ever there was a little twerp who might be well-placed to reinforce anti-Tory feeling, he was it.
I think you are unusual if not influenced by national personalities - after all, if your chosen party are elected you know who's going to be Prime Minister......I'm sure that most people vote for a party rather than whoever is standing locally - probably sensibly, since most MPs toe the party line when it comes to voting in the House, although I would be much happier voting for an MP who was active in promoting constituency issues rather than one pursuing their own political promotion interests.
 
#14 ·
I will be voting for the encumbant MP for my area, not because I like his party leader or policies, but because the guy is a damn good MP. He has a good twitter account and does loads for charity, is in a band and has just been promoted within his party to a high up position. I'm lucky he is the MP for my area I suppose, as this is a safe seat and a chimp with no head would be elected if it stood for that party in this area.
 
#21 ·
Heavens - I thought you earned infraction points on here if you voted Tory.......;)

I see the papers today have been trying to splash UKIP policy - but in the small print had to point out that the manifesto won't be published until September at least. I still expect that it will be light on a whole range of topics.........

Whether that is better than being deceitful as most manifestos are is another matter, of course :)
 
#22 ·
I rather suspect conservative (small "c") voters are in the majority, Richard, and there are more of (a subsection of) them not dying all the time....

This may become an increasingly influential factor. We'll never know from a statistical perspective, just opinion polls. People are arguably liable to develop conservative behaviours and outlooks in later life.
 
#25 ·
Hmmmm, let me see;

Expenses, Ilegal war, slow sell off of the NHS, Paedophilia, Trident replacement, 2x over budget Aircraft carriers that need a refit before the are put in service and will have no aircraft on them before 2020, 1 in 6 children born in to poverty......

You guys won't mind if I chose a different path?
 
#29 ·
<Start rant> I'd like to vote for a proper alternative to the big parties. I put Green in the poll, and I'm really not sure about that (as a car driver, lol). But I can't bear to vote for any of the normal parties, mendacious, self-serving, hypocritical, souless, corporate-sellouts that they are. And don't get me started on Farage and his party - look under that false bonhomie - that man is not your friend :mad:! <End rant :eek:> (Mods - feel free to repost this to the Rant thread -:))

As some background for Steveisfrowning's research into our choices and thoughts in going forward to the election, I always used to vote Labour (and further left if the option was available), but after Blair and the Iraq war, I just can't. I once voted Libdem, but will never vote for that bunch of Quislings again after what they have enabled the Conservatives to get away with.

I'd be surprised if any of the main parties can promise anything that would change my mind and even more surprised if they did, then actually enacted it in office! I'm more likely to change from a green vote and just go spoil my ballot paper. Still, quite some time to go, and my revulsion at the Tories (and Osbourne in particular) may just make me vote for "not remotely red Ed" as some sort of damage limitation.

I seem to be a bit of an exception to the supposed rule that you get more small "C" conservative as you get older...I seem to get angrier and more disillusioned with the whole of our political establishment. The expenses scandals, secret trials legislation, super-injunctions, gratuitous use of D notices, outsourcing of services, creeping privatisation of the NHS, lack of accountability on grounds of "commercial confidence", and the ever increasingly intrusive "security" legislation all of the principal parties are pushing are some of the many reasons why I have no trust in them any more.

I've always gone to the polling booth and voted (well, once I spoilt my paper) and consider it my duty as a citizen to do so, but ideally, I'd like to see a "none of the above" option on the ballot paper, and to have that number counted and listed at each election.
 
#30 ·
<Start rant> I'd like to vote for a proper alternative to the big parties. I put Green in the poll, and I'm really not sure about that (as a car driver, lol). But I can't bear to vote for any of the normal parties, mendacious, self-serving, hypocritical, souless, corporate-sellouts that they are. And don't get me started on Farage and his party - look under that false bonhomie - that man is not your friend :mad:! <End rant :eek:> (Mods - feel free to repost this to the Rant thread -:))

As some background for Steveisfrowning's research into our choices and thoughts in going forward to the election, I always used to vote Labour (and further left if the option was available), but after Blair and the Iraq war, I just can't. I once voted Libdem, but will never vote for that bunch of Quislings again after what they have enabled the Conservatives to get away with.

I'd be surprised if any of the main parties can promise anything that would change my mind and even more surprised if they did, then actually enacted it in office! I'm more likely to change from a green vote and just go spoil my ballot paper. Still, quite some time to go, and my revulsion at the Tories (and Osbourne in particular) may just make me vote for "not remotely red Ed" as some sort of damage limitation.

I seem to be a bit of an exception to the supposed rule that you get more small "C" conservative as you get older...I seem to get angrier and more disillusioned with the whole of our political establishment. The expenses scandals, secret trials legislation, super-injunctions, gratuitous use of D notices, outsourcing of services, creeping privatisation of the NHS, lack of accountability on grounds of "commercial confidence", and the ever increasingly intrusive "security" legislation all of the principal parties are pushing are some of the many reasons why I have no trust in them any more.

I've always gone to the polling booth and voted (well, once I spoilt my paper) and consider it my duty as a citizen to do so, but ideally, I'd like to see a "none of the above" option on the ballot paper, and to have that number counted and listed at each election.
But what would you want to happen when none of the above win?

Mick.

Oh, tory by the way.
 
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