What single issue will most influence who you vote for in May?

What single issue will most influence who you vote for in the May General Election?

the current American admin for so many reasons. My single issue, and I know I'm in the wrong forum, is I am trying to find my faith in America. I want you and everyone to know that I think George Bush is the Worst. President. Ever., in my life, for forever. Just looked, I'm in GB, no problems.

and you included :hi:

as I am one with the British. Yep, I bought 3 bracelets saying, I am one of 57 MiLLION AMERICANS (who didn't vote for the blivet) Whatever, but that's a lot of damn people! And thanks, A.S.!

:) :pals:

and I'm not quite sure of the balance myself!

Partly it will be social issues such as individual rights, the environment etc.
Partly it will be the economy - which is, unarguably, doing rather well under Labour.
Mainly though, it will be trust....

I feel completely betrayed by "New" Labour, who have headed off into an illegal war, continued privatisation, jumped into bed with big business etc., all in complete contrast with what Labour has always been about.

Moreover, after the WMD fiasco and countless other examples of spin and outright lies, I just could never bring myself to trust Blair on anything. I genuinely believe that he regards himself as the strict Headmaster to a school of ungrateful children - he's always right and will never consider any other option than him being right, and anyone who says he isn't just doesn't appreciate the hard decisions and sacrifices he has to make.......MY ARSE!

I'd seriously consider voting Labour to give them a chance again if Gordon was PM, but while Blair and his cronies still sit at the top of the tree, talking utter crap and acting like Conservatives, there is NO WAY that I'm going to vote for them.

The Tories are pitiful, racist and insane, so I guess it has to be the Lib Dems or a minority party......

I wasn't allowed to vote because the thread started before I registered but, for me, Iraq is the single big issue. In the election my vote will go AGAINST the Tories for their breach of trust in not raising opposition concerns about the war in Parliament.

The Attorney General's {wrong) advice that the invasion would be lawful was given to the government and was not in any sense binding on the opposition.

keymaker

:toast:

oh wrong forum.:evilgrin:

It can happen :P

:kick:

But the issue that originally turned me against Blair was his mean and petty policies toward people with disabilities, e.g. cutting benefits to disabled people who are in work, and then demanding regular checks on whether people who are out of work are still disabled. If he'd done just one or the other it might not have been so bad.

Then so many other things: half-baked education policies; turning Britain into a managerocracy; lack of attention to British industry, culminating in what's just happened to Rover; general right-wing attitudes and being Bush's poodle.

I will NEVER vote for Michael Howard. If I'd ever had any intention of doing so (which I didn't!!), his use of the race card in the election would have put an end to that.

So I will vote Lib Dem, as we do in fact have a reasonable Lib Dem MP in my consituency, whose predecessor was one of the worse Tories under Thatcher and Major. If Lib Dems didn't have a chance in my constituency, I would probably vote Green.

.... being:

1) To halt the rightward drift of UK politics.
2) Iraq
3) Healthcare

I think we can take the Party of the Night out of the shortlist on all three counts.

As I've commented elsewhere, the LibDems have no chance of forming a government and my experience of them over the years leads me to assume that in a hung parliament, they would enter a coalition with the Tories.

To vote for the Greens or Respect at this time would be tantamount to spoiling my ballot paper.

I am therefore left with the Bliarite ChristDems, faux de mieux.

The Skin