Voting Advice (NLC)

[Gareth]

Anyone got a simple website link to party policies?
No idea who to vote for.

TIA

[tut]

Yep, they are all a waste of time, but I suppose somebody has to run the Country. Went in this morning with no idea who to go for, so added Robin on to the ballot paper and voted for him.

Anybody staying up tonight to watch the results?

tut

[steve_weegie]

The only politician worth listening to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfcgds8h0Xs

[hendeg]

Anybody staying up tonight to watch the results?

If it goes with the polls then there's probably not much point since it won't be decided for a few days.

Having said that, I think there are quite a few folk in the same boat that don't know who they're voting for. Could be worth a watch for a bit to see how it starts off.

[neil]

bbc news has got a decent enough guide with links to all the parties manifestos. either that or just toss a coin.

[Lazydonkey]

If you are undecided this is a good site

http://www.votematch.org.uk/

[BiggestNizzy]

Not sure who will get my vote, it would be the height of lazyness not to do it (polling station is next door) The local MP's party will not getmy vote because they refused to answer any of my questions on the digital economy bill, gave a snidy answer when I asked about a bridge they where building and their local road safety initiatives (speed bumps, traffic lights etc) only then to ignore me when I replied using there own data proved they had made Kilmarnock more dangerous.

I digress

And the only other option (with a chance of getting in comes across as a bit of a d***) so it will probably be a protest vote for me

[Gooldie]

If you are undecided this is a good site

http://www.votematch.org.uk/

Phew i voted for the right party for me.

[Gareth]

Well I'll be voting for Scuffers.....

Actually, I've worked it out:

If you like people - vote Labour.
If you like money more - vote Conservative.
If you just like Scots people - vote SNP.
If you're undecided - vote Lib Dem.

Peasy!

[r055]

ive apparently voted for the wrong party according to that website

[r055]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/ ... 005062705/

BRITAIN TO MAKE HORRIFYINGLY ILL-INFORMED CHOICE
06-05-10

BRITAIN will today once again cast its vote guided by a series of worthless opinions with no basis in fact.

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Ed Balls. Prime minister. It's important.
As the polling stations open, stunningly ill-informed voters across the country are preparing to support a party manifesto that bears little or no relation to the fantasy world that exists inside their brains.

Helen Archer, from York, said: "I'm voting Lib Dem because I hate black people and after all these wasted years of the two old parties we finally have the chance to hate black people differently. Nick Clegg has a nice chin."

Roy Hobbs, from Darlington, said: "I'm voting Labour because of the gypsies. There's gypsies everywhere these days. Adrian Chiles is a gypsy. So is that Michael Caine. I'm standing on some gypsies right now."

And Julian Cook, from Stevenage, added: "I'm voting Tory because I do not want this country to become Greece. Or is it Grease? On second thoughts, I do not want this country to become Saturday Night Fever."

Meanwhile, in what is expected to be tightest election result in years, the Queen has warned Gordon Brown that if he turns up 9am tomorrow morning expecting to be made prime minister, a Grenadier Gaurdsman will drop him like a sack of carrots.

The Daily Mash guide to the post-election landscape:

1. The Conservatives win a majority. The TV is filled with lots pissed people called 'Ollie' who work for George Osborne looking incredibly red faced and pleased with themselves. By 2am Britain is already beginning to regret this. At 4am a gang of champagne-soaked Ollies charge out of party HQ and give a Clockwork-Orange style kicking to the nearest binman.

2. The Conservatives are the largest party with the most votes but just short of an overall majority. David Cameron becomes prime minister after doing a deal with Peter Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party. The UK government is now held in place by a fundamentalist Christian who makes Jerry Falwell look like Graham Norton. Oops!

3. The Conservatives are well short of an overall majority and forced to do a deal with the Lib Dems. Nick Clegg will be on telly a lot. You will eventually realise what an unmitigated charlatan he is. Meanwhile Vince Cable gives half your money to a Chinaman and uses the rest to buy a series of tiny chocolate windfarms.

4. A Labour-Lib Dem coalition, but Nick Clegg demands Gordon Brown's resignation. Ed Balls will be prime minister. Ed Balls will be prime minister. ED BALLS WILL BE PRIME MINISTER. ED BALLS WILL BE PRIME MINISTER.
ED BALLS WILL BE PRIME MINISTER.

5. Labour wins an overall majority because Gordon Brown is a good man who just gets angry somtimes, but you tell all your friends that this time it's going to be different and they nod and smile and touch your arm, but eventually they stop inviting you for coffee and one day they pick-up the paper and just shake their heads when they read how your body was found under a patio.

[ROSSGR]

Was looking on Paddy Power website there and they have betting markets on the Election.

The thing that stuck out was the

WHO WILL GET THE MOST SEATS?

Conser 1/20
Labut 7/1
Libs 40/1

I though Labour/cons would get a similar amount of seats give or take. Are teh COns looking at winning a lot of new seats forecast??
Was thinking ot might be worth a small wager on Labour......

[kenny]

Seriously, I am utterly gobsmacked at the number people I know who are either, not voting because they can't be arsed, or have no clue whatsoever about the basic policies of the various parties. No wonder we are in such a crap state right now.

Secondly I am also gobsmacked that anyone who isn't one of the emerging benefits class scum can possibly consider the current shower of sh1t are in any way doing a good job.

Fingers crossed for it not being a hung parliament and Call me Dave getting in. Unfortunately CMD gets my vote not because his policies are particularly great but because he is the best of a bad lot.

Sad state of affairs.

[neil]

Will your vote actually count? Looking at the last results for here you've only got 2 choices - Labour or Lib Dems. Anything else is likely to be a wasted vote. http://www.voterpower.org.uk is worth a look if youre interested in how powerful a vote youve got in your area

[cla5h]

Kenny, isn't the issue less that people have no clue about the parties' policies, and more that there really isn't any difference between them.

Sure, one party will cut spending by a few million here, and throw money at a new initiative there, whereas the other party will do it the other way about, but overall I don't think the majority of the working population will notice one jot of a difference whoever gets in.

Now if you've had a recent experience of crime/health service/education/benefits system, then you're likely to tend toward the party whose manifesto says they'll right the wrong you experienced, but whoever gets in, things are going to be tight over the coming years for many - no party can avoid that.

To paraphrase Mr Galloway: Labour or Conservative? Two cheeks of the same arse.

VOTE NONE OF THE ABOVE.