General Election 2015

[PowerButchi]

With 73 days to go, the General Election is nearing on the horizon, and I thought it'd be interesting to see which way the UKFF will vote and why. I'm voting Labour, I always have as the socialists don't run around here and I'm very Clause IV. I appreciate my policies probably mesh more with the Greens as regards things like economics and that, but I can't be fucked with environmentalist guff and so can't bring myself to vote for them. Around here is a a safe Labour seat and I expect that to continue.

[Undefeated Steak]

There's no way I can vote for Miliband. As things stand, I'll be voting conservatives. I've got a feeling labour will win this one though.

[Boycie]

I'll be voting Conservative. My local MP Ben Gummer has done a really good job since being elected in the last GE, so would be great if he got another term.

 

It's going to be a close one I reckon but I'm hopeful that the Tories manage to pull through.

[Stunner]

Labour in the general, probably Green in the locals. Andy Burnham did promise on Twitter that they'll immediately repeal anything the coalition have done with the NHS, and with my mother very, very poor and very, very ill that's about good enough for me.

 

ETA: I totally get that Ed Miliband doesn't have it, though. I met him in 2010 during the Labour leadership election. I have mild AS and used to be shy as hell, and he was more awkward and anxious than I was. Not convinced he's Prime Minister material and that's from personal experience.

[Ron&Hermione]

I have done a load of those 'who should you vote for' polls and usually end up getting the Tories, which is about right.

Whilst I don't agree with all their policies, I do usually agree with them on some key points.

 

However I've never been one to defiantly defend a party just because I vote with them, which is what I hate about politics (and talking politics). So please don't think just because I vote that way I automatically stand behind all the party views.

 

Ultimately I've never been one to really care who is in charge, personally I don't tend to think it makes much difference. So no matter who ends up in charge I won't be losing any sleep.

 

I do find Ed Miliband to be the closest thing to a Trade Union puppet as you can get, it genuinely seems like the guy has no thoughts of his own. Yet I still wouldn't care if he got in.

 

Question for people, is there a limit for you to be a friend with someone? For instance could you be friends with someone who votes BNP, even if besides their politics they are a nice person?

I tend to find people on the far left and far right have problems with being friends or even associating with those who don't subscribe to their way of thinking.

For me it's easy, I don't care if you're green or UKIP. Providing you're not actively hurting others then it doesn't actually bother me who you support. Though BNP would probably be pushing it.

[Linus]

I'll be voting Labour, even though it's wasted in a 95% Conservative constituency. My advice to everyone who asks, and there's been a few, is that whatever you think of Miliband, if you think he's even 1% better than five more years of this shit, then vote Labour. It's really the only choice you can make.

[Glass Smash]

whatever you think of Miliband, if you think he's even 1% better than five more years of this shit, then vote Labour.

 

That's it, you can't really judge someone by the way they eat a bacon sandwich.

[PowerButchi]

I think too much is made of Milliband being wet to be honest, perhaps more proof of public perception of politics being a more presidential than a party political one.

[stumobir]

I'll be voting SNP, ideally would want to vote Green but the voting system being the way it is, it would be a wasted vote. Labour seem to have lost their ideals, especially up here, a party once seen to be socialist are really now just Conservative-lite. The SNPs pledge to end austerity, protect frontline public services, continue to provide free higher education and get rid of pointless nuclear weapons from our waters are all policies that appeal to me. And as far as basing your vote on perceptions of party leaders go, Nicola Sturgeon is the only one I look at as not being either an impotent (Miliband & Clegg) or malevolent (Cameron & Farage) cunt.

[PunkStep]

I really don't know. I've always been Lib Dem but the last few years have soured my opinion on them massively. They're done as a party, kaput. Green could take more seats than them, UKIP obviously will, so they'll be going from a party that performed so well as the third party in recent elections to obscurity. They might as well resurrect Lord Sutch and he'll collect more votes than them. Such a sad sight to see.

 

Like Butch, the Greens' policies are more akin to mine but sod the environment focus. Can't bring myself to vote for Labour or Milliband and I'll be dead before considering voting Tory or UKIP.

 

I'm going to leave it late before choosing. Have a look at their manifests, watch their debates on tv (are they having any this time around? They were great before) and then decide.

 

I'll be voting SNP, ideally would want to vote Green but the voting system being the way it is, it would be a wasted vote.

No such thing as a wasted vote, if you want to vote for them then do it. If everyone who felt like that voted for a wasted vote party, we might see a huge swing towards actual positive change. A change starts with YOU!

[SpursRiot2012]

It would be Green, if I was voting (which I'm not, because once I'm on the electoral register it'll be endless knocks at the door from a parade of debt collectors). Any of the "main" parties are just different sides of the same shitty coin, as far as I'm concerned. 

 

Funnily enough, it was actually a Telegraph article that really got me thinking about the Greens.

[Arch Stanton]

Like a few others here, I would go for Green if I was to vote for whoever I actually felt most passionately about supporting. The problem is, this election boils down to Conservative vs Labour and voting Green suggests you don't really have a horse in that race, which isn't true of my feelings. I feel like I want the Tories out, so I'll vote Labour this time round, despite my total disdain for Milliband. He's a man I have almost no belief in, but it comes down to the argument Linus put forward- even if you think a Labour government will be 1% better than the alternative, then that's where my vote will have to go. Last time I went with the Lib Dems and felt shafted by what happened there, as did virtually all of their supporters. I vowed never to vote for them again, which may change over time but for now I will stand by my feelings on that one. I will be interested to see how badly they get on this time.

[Nexus]

I think I'm voting Tory, because I live in Boston&Skegness, which is where UKIP are most likely to win a seat.

 

Normally would vote Greens, but in this constituency it'd be a completely wasted vote.

[SpursRiot2012]

 

Funnily enough, it was actually a Telegraph article that really got me thinking about the Greens.

Was it the "look at all the crazy stuff the Greens would do" article? Then you read it and go, actually that doesn't seem all that bad at all.

 

 

Yep, that was the one. Telegraph's been having a mare recently.

[King Pitcos]

Ideologically, I'd vote Tory. But selfishly, I'd actually vote Labour because I would personally likely be better off. An online test told me I should be a Lib Dem voter, but I'd be as well to just stay in bed as vote them. And staying in bed is what I'll actually do anyway. I've no idea where my voting card even gets sent.