If there was a General Election tomorrow

[andrew1707]

If there was a General Election tomorrow........

1) Which party would you vote for?

2) Which party did you vote for in the last election?

Andrew

[Baldric]

critiCise, even!

[rowanwitch]

1. Conservative
2.Conservative

Unless we have a loony cat lady candidate in which case I will swing to the furballs

[jno]

ludwig: the question is rather hypothetical given the teensy weensy number of MPs who change parties; but the answer is yes.

Ed: I think the correct option is as Davethedog said: spoil the ballot paper (by ticking none of the boxes, scribbling "lying pond scum!" over it or something). Not just refusing to vote at all.

[vulcan]

If you have don't trust any party and have no confidence in them, why would you vote ? Would you continue to take your car to a garage you don't trust or have no confidence in ?

[rowanwitch]

We really need a box marked... none of the above or is that all you can offer?

[AB Editor]

Yes, sorry, I may have misunderstood when he said you "MUST" vote; to me a spoilt ballot would not be a "vote". Sorry Dave!

[bravejordy]

1) Labour

2) Labour

[ludwig]

// ludwig: the question is rather hypothetical given the teensy weensy number of MPs who change parties; but the answer is yes. //

Of course it's hypothetical. It was a deliberately hypothetical question. I began it with an 'If'.
..and I'm not saying I don't believe you, but it's easy to say yes when you know it isn't going to happen.

[rowanwitch]

Have to confess have a very good local MP where I live who is labour...and it is very tempting to vote for her but its the people she hangs about with that scare me....

[jno]

I have no more powers of reading the future than anyone else, so I don't *know* it isn't going to happen. But if a question is hypothetical you have to be prepared for a hypothetical answer. Why ask it if you think you know what I'll say and aren't sure you'll believe it anyway?

[mike11111]

Surely hand in hand with the right to vote comes the right not to vote.

[ludwig]

No need to get touchy jno. I just believe that people vote for parties except in a tiny minority of cases like Markrae's mum.

This individual you vote for - are they aligned with a party whose principles you tend to support by a happy coincidence?

[Gromit]

1) Green - if there is one

2) Lib Dem - That was a mistake wasn't it

[jno]

hard to say. I'm somewhere in the centre and so are the three main parties. But I voted for her because I was happy with her work as a constituency MP (I don't know her personally) and thought she'd earned the chance to keep the job.

But I'd still like to know why you asked a hypothetical question about something that wasn't going to happen, yet greeted the answer with "it's easy to say yes when you know it isn't going to happen." What answer did you want or expect?

[ludwig]

I expected you to say 'yes' whether it was true or not, because to say no would have been to contradict your original assertion that you voted for an MP not a party.

// But I'd still like to know why you asked a hypothetical question about something that wasn't going to happen, yet greeted the answer with "it's easy to say yes when you know it isn't going to happen //

I'd answer this but I don't understand what it means.

[cathfromsaron]

lib dem
cons

[redman41]

Always voted Labour and will do so again at next GE.
The Tories have always favoured the wealthy in our Society so would not vote for them under any circumstances.None of them really understand how the majority of us have to manage with limited resources on a weekly basis.
A Loaf of Bread could cost £5 for all they care !

[MissCommando]

Never voted before but prob would have voted Lib-Dems last time and Labour this year (if I vote).

[youngmafbog]

1) Unsure at present
2) Conservative

Redman, I see where you are coming from but do you honestly believe Labour, or lib dems, understand any better? On all sides the politicans are very comfortable and tend to forget their humble start especially once they get their hands on their expenses. Lets not forget many of the last labour cabinet were privately educated, hardly normal.

[Kromovaracun]

1. Spoiled Ballot
2. Spoiled Ballot