Who Are You Planning To Vote For Next Week:

[DexterTCN]

My previous MP was Jim thieving Devine. The current Labour candidate has not been seen in the area but has people posting his fliers through the doors...his email address is hotmail. Fucking hotmail.

The SNP woman lives 2 minutes from me and has lived here for decades. She gets my vote.

 

[danny la rouge]

Vote Lib Dem, get Tory.

 

[DexterTCN]

So that's me and a guy who hasn't posted for over a year going for SNP...looking good.

 

[100% masahiko]

Labour.

Not much of a choice but they're better than the Tories.

And Libs would have got my vote - if Kennedy was in.

 

[danny la rouge]

So that's me and a guy who hasn't posted for over a year going for SNP...looking good.

Get yourself over to the thread in the Alba forum about the leadership debate being shown in Scotland! I'm in a position of defending a party I don't like.

 

[the button]

I'm planning on voting for the Lewisham People Before Profit candidate for mayor (Spymaster didn't specify which elections the thread is about ), since he' s standing on a "vote for me and I'll give you a referendum on whether or not Lewisham should have a mayor, and I'll campaign for a 'No' vote while I'm about it," ticket.

Might put a few more crosses in boxes while I'm there.

 

[belboid]

lucky barsteward - stuck with the three wise monkies and the bnp trying to ape them here. Green was the only alternative so I've voted for them

and yet you've chosen 'other' in the above poll

 

[g force]

Labour.

Not much of a choice but they're better than the Tories.

And Libs would have got my vote - if Kennedy was in.

Yep with a country in dire trouble, struggling to come out of a recession the best recourse is definitely hand power over to an alcoholic

 

[Proper Tidy]

lucky barsteward - stuck with the three wise monkies and the bnp trying to ape them here. Green was the only alternative so I've voted for them

I haven't even got that - big three, Ukip, BNP and Plaid. Went for Plaid.

 

[William of Walworth]

Vote Lib Dem, get Tory.

Vote tory, get lib dem. Vote labour, get lib dem. Might as well vote lib dem and get it over with

100% dependent on what seat you're in.

 

[William of Walworth]

In a wider sense I completely see what danny's getting at as well, but I'm glad I'm not in a marginal seat put it that way ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Lab 46.7
LD 28.3
Con 17.8
Green 5.5

Fair enough .... cheers for that.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Labour.

Simon Darby is standing in my area, and the usually safe Labour seat has seen its vote split. The sitting Labour MP has stood down due to health issues, and the person voted in to replace him hasn't pleased a fair few traditional Labour voters. So Labour's vote is split, and while the BNP's vote is also split, it makes it a bit of an unknown quantity. At this point, I think Labour will get in here, but I couldn't bear it if I didn't vote and the BNP slipped past the post. It's unlikely, but nonetheless ...

I likely won't vote in the council election the same day. There isn't a BNP candidate standing in my ward. In fact, they've only managed to field 6 across the whole city.

Edit: that makes it sound like I'd vote BNP if they were standing for council I wouldn't! I'd vote tactically against them though.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Labour.

Simon Darby is standing in my area, and the usually safe Labour seat has seen its vote split. The sitting Labour MP has stood down due to health issues, and the person voted in to replace him hasn't pleased a fair few traditional Labour voters. So Labour's vote is split, and while the BNP's vote is also split, it makes it a bit of an unknown quantity. At this point, I think Labour will get in here, but I couldn't bear it if I didn't vote and the BNP slipped past the post. It's unlikely, but nonetheless ...

I likely won't vote in the council election the same day. There isn't a BNP candidate standing in my ward. In fact, they've only managed to field 6 across the whole city.

Stoke Central - interesting seat. The LP completely fucked themselves there - to say that the person 'voted in to replace him hasn't pleased a fair few traditional Labour voters' is a bit of an understatement!

The selection process for the LP candidate was completely rigged - there is a backstory anyway with a big split between the local CLP and the LP full-timers. Not one local candidate endorsed by the CLP made it to the three person short-list, and they ended up with Mandy's mate Tristum Hunt being parachuted in.

The local CLP were understandably fucked off at this tops-down anti-democratic skullduggery, and the secretary of the CLP is now standing as Independent Labour.

On the plus side, the far right vote is split isn't it? You had a similar situation to above with the BNP, with Darby being parachuted in over the leader of the BNP group on the council Alby Walker, who spat his dummy out, quit the BNP, called them all Nazi's and holocaust deniers and is now standing as an indie.

Aren't the England First Party (BNP split) and the NF also standing? So three or four far right candidates.

Labour should still take it.

 

[William of Walworth]

Vintage, any local vibe/impression going round about the current state of the parties in Stoke Central, since the election started?

 

[trevhagl]

Green.

Although my postal vote hasn't arrived yet, and there's a good chance the volcano stopped my registration arriving on time. In which case I will, for the fourth GE running, not be voting.

i woulda done but there's none up here

 

[trevhagl]

Stoke Central - interesting seat. The LP completely fucked themselves there - to say that the person 'voted in to replace him hasn't pleased a fair few traditional Labour voters' is a bit of an understatement!

The selection process for the LP candidate was completely rigged - there is a backstory anyway with a big split between the local CLP and the LP full-timers. Not one local candidate endorsed by the CLP made it to the three person short-list, and they ended up with Mandy's mate Tristum Hunt being parachuted in.

The local CLP were understandably fucked off at this tops-down anti-democratic skullduggery, and the secretary of the CLP is now standing as Independent Labour.

On the plus side, the far right vote is split isn't it? You had a similar situation to above with the BNP, with Darby being parachuted in over the leader of the BNP group on the council Alby Walker, who spat his dummy out, quit the BNP, called them all Nazi's and holocaust deniers and is now standing as an indie.

Aren't the England First Party (BNP split) and the NF also standing? So three or four far right candidates.

Labour should still take it.

it's a disgrace the way Labour run things - the same happened in South Shields so that arsehole Milliband could get a safe seat.

 

[trevhagl]

I haven't even got that - big three, Ukip, BNP and Plaid. Went for Plaid.

you're lucky, all i have is the big 3, UKIP and the nazis, worst choice i can ever remember

 

[girasol]

Almost the same thread, but with private poll here:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=323185

 

[Geri]

I dunno yet, I was going to vote for the Socialist Party candidate, when I thought the seat was safe and my vote wouldn't count, because I would like her to get more votes than the BNP.

Now I am worrying that the seat may not be safe and might go Lib Dem or even Tory, so I'm tending towards voting Labour.

 

[Proper Tidy]

it's a disgrace the way Labour run things - the same happened in South Shields so that arsehole Milliband could get a safe seat.

Yet whenever they get a left of Labour challenge they systematically role out the 'anti-democratic un-representative stuck-in-a-time-warp' blah blah.

Always makes me laugh when Labourites take the pish out of the Left and bang on about all that People's Front of Judea crap - I know a fair few in the LP and the stuff that I hear about is ridiculous. It's all back-biting, screwing each other over, careerism, slagging people off - very little politics involved.

They don't know the meaning of comradely.

 

[strung out]

I dunno yet, I was going to vote for the Socialist Party candidate, when I thought the seat was safe and my vote wouldn't count, because I would like her to get more votes than the BNP.

Now I am worrying that the seat may not be safe and might go Lib Dem or even Tory, so I'm tending towards voting Labour.

you in bristol east?

 

[Geri]

you in bristol east?

Yep.

 

[claphamboy]

Green.

 

[100% masahiko]

Yep with a country in dire trouble, struggling to come out of a recession the best recourse is definitely hand power over to an alcoholic

Pissed or not, he came across as a decent bloke - better than Clegg.

And when he was well pissed, he still makes more sense than Cameron.

 

[trevhagl]

I dunno yet, I was going to vote for the Socialist Party candidate, when I thought the seat was safe and my vote wouldn't count, because I would like her to get more votes than the BNP.

Now I am worrying that the seat may not be safe and might go Lib Dem or even Tory, so I'm tending towards voting Labour.

i would go socialist, very little difference between the big 3...

 

[trevhagl]

Green.

you do realise that would make us have something in common IF there were greens standing where i live!!!

 

[agricola]

As I am lucky enough to have a decent MP (Kate Hoey), I will be voting Labour. However if this was a party-based election only it would be Plaid getting my vote.

 

[claphamboy]

you're lucky, all i have is the big 3, UKIP and the nazis, worst choice i can ever remember

What choices have you had before?

 

[ernestolynch]

Dunno how people dare admit voting Green.