I am a card carrying Labour Party member I even ran for them in a local election some years back. However, like many I have become disillusion with them as a progressive force for change. It is not all about Iraq the West does need to stand up for it values and Islamofacists & dictators the world around can't always be appeased.
The liberals have as many coats as they have candidates. They won't win. They have elected a doddering pensioner as a leader and look about as radical and forward looking as a Werthers Original.
Even if I could stomach voting Tory, how can you vote for a leader as totally vacuous as Cameron. Style over content and what lies behind his glossy leadership is still the reactionary, zenophobic, class driven Conservative Party isn't it?
Will Brown's Labour party be radically different to Blair's? Should I risk it one more time. Is that just blind optimism?
The Greens are wrong on post 16 education and Anti European.
2007-03-11 03:49:22 · 10 answers · asked by njforrouk 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
As a former Labour voter myself, the best advice I can give you is wait and see if Brown takes any steps to change the Labour party's ways before the next general election. If he takes a few steps in the right direction, I think he might be a lot more radical if he is given a popular mandate.
If he doesn't (as I fear), I would recommend voting Green despite your misgivings. The Green party are a broad church, and the only truly international party. I think you'll find the Green Party are not actually anti-European. They are against the European constitution for a number of economic and environmental reasons, but their officially stated policy is - "The Green Party wants the UK to play a full part in a fundamentally reformed European Union."
Not sure about their policy on post 16 education (I'll have to look that one up), but very few voters ever completely agree with every policy of the party they vote for. They simply choose the one who's policies they agree with most. So I will certainly be voting Green in the upcoming Scottish Parliamentary election (where the Greens are defending 7 seats and hoping for considerably more), and if Brown doesn't at least take steps towards changing the Labour party in the way I would like to see, I'll be inclined to vote Green in the next General Election as well.
2007-03-12 02:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by Spacephantom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good question, i've been wondering the same things. If there was an election tomorrow i don't know who i would vote for.
The Lib dems have nothing about them and are in for a wide awakening when the elections arise
I can't stand Gordon brown and can't see him being much different to Tony Blair, although i actually think Blair has done a pretty decent job over the past 10 years and we'll miss him when he's gone, but it is time for something different and i don't think Brown will bring that
As for the Conservatives, what does David Cameron stand for? He's been leader for nearly 2 years and i still have no idea of his policies, he tries to come across green but i'm not convinced and thats about all i know.
I personally wish there was a box you could tick opting to vote for no one, just so that we could show the politicians that we don't want any of them. I want someone different with the guts to make tough decisions and actually change this country for the better.
2007-03-11 04:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The judgement of a leader should be about ability not age. Your comment about a "doddering pensioner" is offensive to the many older people in our society.
Think the more radical and creative policies rest with either the greens or liberals. The Torys do not seem real thought hey now appear to be to the left of the labour party.
2007-03-12 00:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by kiloranbrae 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The questioner is very ageist, what difference does it make as to the age of the party leader. I do believe that the Liberals stand for nothing but popular opinion and they rarely take a stand on anything .I believe that Labour for all their faults are the best option.
2007-03-11 06:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by JOHN M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well if you're pro-Europe you've eliminated the nasty right wing parties BNP and UKIP and the not quite so nasty, but still pretty unpleasant Tory Party. And the head in sand Greens and the old Liberal Party which is still going in some places..
That leaves the Lib Dems - who are about as joined up as an unmade jigsaw, Plaid and the SNP - unless you live in England, and Labour.
2007-03-12 11:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could stand as an independent. I presume from your comments you are pro the EU?
Brown has been waving around his 'anti' EU integration position. If you want to get right into Europe then you have to vote Lib -Dem.
Not a chance for me as I want out here we are totally opposite. I can't see how anyone can justify the argument 'let's be in and reform it' anymore 30+ years and £300 Billion + later and we still haven't got justice for the farmers we sacrificed on Ted Heath's alter-ego
2007-03-12 12:57:01 · answer #6 · answered by noeusuperstate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liberal Democrats.
2007-03-13 04:20:45 · answer #7 · answered by Micheal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, it is looking like Labour is still the least worst option.
2007-03-11 04:30:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If the UK Independent Party is included, the best thing is to vote for it.
2007-03-11 04:12:22 · answer #9 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
labour
2007-03-11 03:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by q6656303 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋