spot on...life has got worse under labour and the tories are not much better..as for the rest they have`nt got a cat in hells chance of getting in...going out to vote is 10 minutes of my life i wont get back

The rights and wrongs of politics will be largely irrelevant in the election. The simple fact is Labour should be retained to maintain what little economic growth is occurring. Should we have a change of government, there will be an immediate moratorium on spending whilst they take stock, bringing about an immediate end to whatever momentum we have gained.

I.D cards are a good thing especially for people whom want to holiday in the Euro zone ,rather than spend £100 on a passport they can get an I.D card and use it as a passport so it saves people money .
The only people whom don't want these cards are people who have something to hide, end of the day the application is no different than a passport application and I bet you have one of those !
Every government controls every aspect of everyone's life it's called taxation and security !

The 3 people who voted BNP..........you going to own up?

For the first time definitely and probably for the only time – you have actually posted something sensible that is grounded on the same planet that the rest of us live on.

I agree with Padders and I need a lie-down.

Make that 4 - Are these idiots advocating our black players being kicked out of the country?

40% for Labour. Interesting.

You could have a monkey with a pledge of spending all our tax pounds on a rocket to the moon to cultivate cheese plants, stick a red ribbon on it and he'd still win. A few people i know vote the way they do only because that's who their parents vote for ? Just seems odd to me ?

ID cards. Now theres money Labour have thrown away. ID cards are all well and good, but when people in Manchester have spent £30 on a bit of plastic that won't get them out of the country then its a waste of time. It seems we forgot to tell foreign travel companies about them as well as our own.

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I'm 33 and I have never voted in my life...In the past its been because i had no interest in politics whatsoever... However, over the last few years i have developed an interest in politics.

I try to keep abreast of the issues and where the parties stand on them.... I have even found myself sky+ing question time

After much deliberation I have come to the conclusion that none of the parties are worth voting for.

parties like UKIP & Green can say whatever the hell they like... they are not going to become elected (although interestingly enough a friend of mine, who is heavily into politics believes that Green party will get in power one day. This is on the basis of the fact that he believes the Green issue will one day become the biggest vote swayer.. and they own the issue).. so back to UKIP & Green - a vote for them is about as meaningful as their 'agendas'.

BNP - You wouldn't have thought that there was much scope for Racist Nazi's in todays society... but there appears to be... I'm pretty sure that 9/10 people that vote for these are doing so because of a misguided understanding of what the BNP party actually is. I think most want to make a stand against the immigration problem (voting BNP is NOT the way to do this).

LibDem - When you listen to them, a lot of what they say makes sense.... but then you realise that they are pretty much safe in the knowledge that they will never have to implement their policies... LibDems are like the creepy kid at school that tells everyone what they want to hear just to make friends.

and finally labour and the tories... 'new labour' simply carried on from the 'old conservatives'.... its appearing that the conservatives could win this general election.. and if they do, no one will notice any difference... it will just be a different liar in a sy suit spinning us the same old evasive durge... yes there will be a few small token changes.. but the main infrastructure will remain the same... tories/labour - red tomato/blue tomato.

So for those reasons... I'm out.

having said that I am looking forward to this head to head live debate between Cameron & Brown... politics both interests & disgusts me at the same time... Bit like rugby union in that respect.

Too many people fall for the big myth of the political elites (eg the big 2 parties), that you have to either vote for them, or not vote at all, because any vote for an alternative is a "wasted vote". No wonder Thatcher and Blair kept getting re-elected, on a small turn out, with little enthusiasm from the public, but got huge parliamentary majorities. It's like saying you have to support Leeds and Saints this year because anybody supporting someone else is wasting their time.

Look how much publicity the BNP get on the back of winning a few more votes, they aren't going to get in power but they've succeeded in one of their aims, which is to push race politics up the political agenda, and have the other main parties trying to outdo each other for who will be "toughest on immigration".

Obviously the SLP, Respect party etc aren't going to win power but if parties like that started to get a bigger share of the vote, then it would start getting Labour to think about their heritage and move back to the left. There's loads of people in the country who support that type of politics but these days they just don't vote, because they don't like individuals like Scargill and Galloway.

I bet you Labour don't win Warrington South. And I'd be surprised if they get 40% of the vote in Warrington North too.

I agree with all this.

I'm bemused by the original poster being torn between a party that's more Tory than the Tories and a party that is naturally socialist though.

For the record I voted Green in the European elections and would rather chop my hands off than put my X in Ukip's box. The General Election though is a straight choice between Labour and Conservative and there's only one option for me.

got to be labour they are the best of a bad bunch, and Cameron is a cocky arrogant joke

Is this debt conveniently ignoring the inevitable return on the investments made in propping up the banks? ASuch as the impending sale of the RBS investment arm, Sempra?