Generally I’m a floating voter. I’ve voted Labour, UKIP and Liberal Dem

Comment on Liberal Democrats to Win The General Election! by Ian W.

Generally I’m a floating voter. I’ve voted Labour, UKIP and Liberal Dem in the past. I’m interested in politics but not a political geek.

My only known voting intention is not to vote Conservative…the reason? because I was one of Maggie’s unemployed in the 80s, the Conservatives let me down then and I haven’t trusted them since. Their ‘no such thing as society’ views at the time are the basis of the lack of respect in society which we see today in my opinion.

Although it’s easy to kick Labour going into this election, I personally think Gordon Brown has been dealt the ‘mother of all hands’ since he came in and it’s actually great credit to him that he’s battled through it and we are technically out of recession again. I generally get the feeling that Labour do things in dubious ways but generally for the right reasons so although not comfortable with that, I’ll give them the benefit.

Before the live debate I was increasingly thinking that Liberal Democrat policies most suited my view of life and my beliefs, as they are generally ‘common sense’ policies rather than policies dreamt up just to win votes. However I wondered whether voting for Lib Dems would be a wasted vote for the reasons in one of the posts above.

Post debate I think I’m going to vote Lib Dem because I like their policies, I like what I saw of Nick Clegg and Vince Cable under pressure and I can’t see the point in returning either of the other two again.

What I think is a winner is that if the parties returned numbers of seats that meant that we truly could say next time that any of the 3 parties could win, then the quality of debate has to be more positive than the negative party-bashing that we’ve seen over the years to date… politics is then engaging.
I think the Conservatives really need to think again if they plan to go dirty as their vote could truly collapse…no one likes a bully.