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thetechguy2
October 1st, 2012, 03:22 PM
If You could vote at the 2015 UK General Election who would it be for? - IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY.

For example, if Paul Burstow (Lib Dem MP) was in your area, and Ed Miliband was too, which would you choose? THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY.

LABOUR
CONSERVATIVE
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
GREEN
UKIP
ETC.........

Gandalf
October 1st, 2012, 03:24 PM
Ok based on the votes so far labour will be in power. Shame vt doesn't constitute as an electoral ward ;)

thetechguy2
October 1st, 2012, 03:25 PM
:yes: it would be good if it did.

HowlingSnail
October 3rd, 2012, 12:30 PM
Well by then I'll be old enough to vote, but I honestly don't know yet. I'll have to decide closer to the time, if I vote at all.

james wolf
October 3rd, 2012, 03:22 PM
I don't know much, but Tories want austerity but Labour want the opposite where they spend to get us out of the crisis. I think it is better to create new jobs, even if the debt does increase. There will probably be another coalition this time.

thetechguy2
October 3rd, 2012, 03:37 PM
I don't know much, but Tories want austerity but Labour want the opposite where they spend to get us out of the crisis. I think it is better to create new jobs, even if the debt does increase. There will probably be another coalition this time.

I will quote from this year's Labour Conference:

I want to talk very directly to those who voted for David Cameron at the last general election. I understand why you voted for him. I understand why you turned away from the last Labour government. This Government took power in difficult economic times. It was a country still coming to terms with the financial crisis. A financial crisis that has afflicted every country round the world. I understand why you were willing to give David Cameron the benefit of the doubt.

But I think we’ve had long enough to make a judgement. Long enough to make a judgement because they turned a recovery into the longest double dip recession since the war. Because there are more people looking for work for longer than at any time since the last time there was a Conservative government.

And here is the other thing, what about borrowing? Borrowing. The thing they said was their number one priority. This year borrowing is rising not falling. Let me just say that again. Borrowing the thing they said was the most important priority, the reason they were elected. It is rising not falling.

So when David Cameron says to you: ‘Well let’s just carry on as we are and wait for something to turn up.’ Don’t believe him. Don’t believe him. If the medicine’s not working you change the medicine. And friends, I’ll tell you what else you change. You change the doctor too. And that is what this country needs to do.

But there are some things this Government can afford. The wrong things. What do they think at this most difficult economic time is going to get us out of our difficulties? What do they choose as their priority? A tax cut for millionaires. A tax cut for millionaires. Next April, David Cameron will be writing a cheque for £40,000 to each and every millionaire in Britain. Not just for one year. But each and every year. That is more than the average person earns in a whole year. At the same time as they’re imposing a tax on pensioners next April. Friends, we, the Labour Party, the country knows it is wrong. It is wrong what they’re doing. It shows their priorities.

And here’s the worse part. David Cameron isn’t just writing the cheques. He is receiving one. He’s going to be getting the millionaire’s tax cut. So next week maybe Mr Cameron can tell us how much is he awarding himself in a tax cut? How much is that tax cut he is awarding himself? For a job I guess he thinks is a job well done. How many of his other Cabinet colleagues have cheques in the post from the millionaire’s tax cut? And how can he justify this unfairness in Britain 2012.

And of course let’s not forget this tax cut wouldn’t be happening without Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Isn’t it shameful that the party that supported, that implemented the People’s Budget of 1909, Lloyd George’s budget, is supporting the millionaire’s budget of 2012.

So that’s the reality in Britain today. It is a rebate for the top. It’s rip-off for everybody else. It’s a recovery for the top. It’s a recession for everybody else. This Prime Minister said: ‘We are all in it together.’ Don’t let him ever tell us again we are all in this together.

Just quoting from the Labour Website.
This is what Ed Miliband said a few days ago.

xChrisVx
October 3rd, 2012, 04:32 PM
I'd be voting for Stewart Hosie of the SNP, assuming we don't have independence by then

West Coast Sheriff
October 3rd, 2012, 04:46 PM
I'm from the USA but if I was from the uk and was old enough I'd vote green. :D

Human
October 4th, 2012, 10:43 AM
UKIP or Labour maybe, to be honest, not much idea

james wolf
October 4th, 2012, 05:24 PM
I will quote from this year's Labour Conference:


Just quoting from the Labour Website.
This is what Ed Miliband said a few days ago.


Wooops, don't really have my facts straight :S but this speech is what I want to say :)

thetechguy2
October 7th, 2012, 03:06 PM
Wooops, don't really have my facts straight :S but this speech is what I want to say :)

Ah... but the Conservative website says • Over the last two years, this Government has cut the record budget deficit it inherited from Labour by a quarter.

So, your facts were not wrong, but it seems, according to Ed, that borrowing increased this quarter, or whatever, and the Con. says over two years they cut the deficit by a quarter.

Your facts, I don't think were wrong.

I think this govt. wants Austerity to get out of the debt too.