The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a centrist political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. The two parties had formed the electoral SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years before then. The party’s leader is Nick Clegg. The Lib Dems […]
Continue Reading Reasons to Vote Liberal Democrat 2010 General Election
im not going to say the lib dems will give us everything we want, and i dont agree with all their policies, theyre basically the best of a bad lot but theyre getting my vote next year, lets be realstic, they are the only party, outside the usual boring old waste of time red and blue that has a hope of being voted in,
This country needs something different, complete change its been labour or conservative for years
lets try something different, it might not work, i thought labour would but they just turned out to be tories in red, but you never know, vote lib dems and we just might be pleasently surprised.
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Mark, you said –
`they are the only party, outside the usual boring old waste of time red and blue that has a hope of being voted in’
If you look at the top of this page, you will see they are a little over 2% BEHIND the BNP in this poll so I can’t agree. The GE may throw up some surprises.
But for the existence of The British National party, I would agree with you but all three main parties `P!$$ in the same Pot’ regarding the EU, (and as a result)continued immigration, continued wars in foreign lands (that have nothing to do with us), racism (against Whites),etc, and have not got the balls to fight impending Islamification, together with full Sharia law.
As a nation fighting for survival we need STRONG, truthful leadership for once.
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Mark, if you are British just look at which party is the ONLY one to stand up for the BRITISH,
VOTE BNP !!
Oh yeah because Nick Griffin is obviously a very truthful leader. He does readily admit to being friends with all sorts of, ahem, colourful people and doesnt try to hide his policies at all. One must remember that no politician is ever truly honest come election time. They are selling themselves and will give answers that we all want to hear. I suggest supporters of all parties do a little research into the people they are supporting. Ignorant racists are not welcome in this country.
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The Liberal Democrats are the only real option to voters which have had enough of Labour and Conservative governments which have been in power for over 100yrs and damage democracy in the process.
It’s time for a change and the Liberal Democrats are the only party with enough support to put up a fight with David Cameron’s think of them-self first Tories and Gordon Brown’s out of touch not so new Labour.
All the smaller party supporters need to vote Liberal Democrat to bring in proportional representation, it’s our only hope of ever gaining the power our parties deserve. The Green party, over 1 million votes and no MPS, it’s not democratic.
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Whilst I agree that the LibDems are the only real party with any mass support (currently 62 MPs) that can challenge the main two parties, I feel that they LibDems are a little to weak on policy, not as in they don’t have many meaning the policies they do have are not strong enough to deal with the current problems in the country.
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I do think more people should vote Lib Dem instead of BNP or UKIP.
From what I’ve heard so far the Lib Dem’s policies are impressive, including their plans to tax the profits of banks in order to try and counter the obscene government deficit, and their impressive and transparent history of expenses claims (for anyone who still cares).
And for all the people that say “they’ll never get in” please vote for them anyway because x amount of “they’ll never get in”s amount to a significant voting percentage.
And if they dont get in then you can change it to “I told you so” but at least when you say that the figures should be a lot more impressive.
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I dont know who to vote for yet, but i will vote
as a 27 year old i have only experienced a labour government should i let older voters pressure me to not vote conservative
The Lib Dems oppose the nanny state and are pro personal freedom, and by logical extension are inclusive of differing creeds, sexualities, races etc. They’re against the war in Iraq (along with most of the British public, it would seem) and for reform political reform, and the reform of the House Of Lords.
I oppose the nanny state and am pro personal freedom and inclusion. I’m a pacifist and am therefore against all war, certainly the war in Iraq. I’m not comfortable with an absolute vote, rather than being able to express degrees of preference and having those preferences taken into account nor with the higher house being populated by people who are only there because their ancestors were pally with former monarchs.
Voting Lib Dem is a no-brainer for me.
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I’ve always liked the best of both approach the lib dems represent in my opinion and even though its a wasted vote where I live (maybe not so much after the pwnage of Nick Clegg last night) Ive always put an x for them.
One key issue that effects me and my partner is our situation as a low income (and unmarried) couple. While the tax credits system helps us out hugely its also a trap in many respects as I cant earn more, or bizarely do less hours either and my partner can’t get a job now our daughter is at school. Ironically we would actually be better off financially being on benefits.
I was a little disappointed when imbalances were mentioned in the debate it focused on fat cats and ignored this other end of the spectrum which is also very broken at the moment and also contributes hugely to the current state we are in.
I have to say I havent been following things closely and the lib dems may actually have some proactive measures regarding all this but I certainly havent heard anything much about it.
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