There's no-one worth voting for.

[0iD]

With the General Election due in the coming months, I just can't see that any party are worth voting for tbh.

Labour: proven uselessness
Conservative: almost guaranteed uselessness
Lib-Dem: Faceless & more-or-less anonymous, weak and useless
UKIP: about as much use as blocked portaloo at a festival, and just as repugnant
BNP: I'd take a row of portaloos at the end of Glastonbury over this lot because they'd still be less full of... well you know what.
The Green Party: Weed smoking know-it-all self righteous hippies that have never had a real job in their life.
Monster Raving Loony Party: Actually looking less mad than some of the others, but ultimately their existence is pointless.
Communist Party of Britain (+Respect - The Unity Coalition, Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Labour Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Party of Great Britain, Socialist Workers Party): Workshy idealistic uni dropouts & militant shouty types with no clue as to the fundamentals of a real democratic society.
Pensioners Party: Bunch of geriatric forgetful, incontinent curmudgeons wanting to take us back to how it was when they were young, like when beating women and children was legal, them good old days eh grandad.
Plus all the others too pointless for me to mention.

Trouble is, if you don't vote, I don't believe you can have cause to complain about the eventual outcome.

What to do...

[matty-hodgson]

This really is the worst election to be my "first".

This time around though, it's not about who you want to be in, it's who you don't want to be in.

[SiM]

Well only the top two are real contenders.
I say its better to have the uselessness that you know than the one you don't.

I'm going to vote Labour. I was going to vote tory, but they have said some damn stupid things in the past year - I think they wouldn't have handled the crisis anywhere as well as Brown and Darling.

[Saracen]

Matty has pretty much nailed it there, as indeed has OiD.

In the absence of finding anything to vote for, I shall just vote against who I don't want. I'm a bit heartened in that the Labour incumbent round here is one of those Ministers mentioned fairly prominently the expenses farce, so just maybe there will be sufficient backlash to get an alternative candidate in.

I still suspect that if a properly funded "none of the above" party had stood nationwide, this time it just might have got elected, such the level of public distaste for the current crop of politicians seems to be. I sure as hell would have been tempted.

[alsenior]

if you live in worcester or bury north you can vote pirate party

[99Flake]

I think I might just vote Lib-Dem this time round, just because they aren't Labour or Tory, as OID says, keep out who you don't want.

I know they may seem weak etc etc but maybe it is just time for a change, I doubt they will get in anyway but at least I will have made my stand.

[oolon]

Trouble is, if you don't vote, I don't believe you can have cause to complain about the eventual outcome.

What to do...

Vote as I did last time time then..Spoit Ballot paper... I draw a bit cross over the lot of them. I voted as is my right,and my responsibility but refused to pick any of them.

[0iD]

Vote as I did last time time then..Spoit Ballot paper... I draw a bit cross over the lot of them. I voted as is my right,and my responsibility but refused to pick any of them.

Might as well wipe my arse with it, for all the good it'll do.

Hold on... idea forming...

[usxhe190]

Remember the episode from South Park.

It's always a decision between Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich.

[Tumble]

Add another line on the ballot paper - "Autobots"

Just imagine - Optimus Prime Minister

[Fraz]

Yeah it's a crying shame. It's like having to choose between a smug, posh kick in the nuts, or just a plain old kick in the nuts.

No-doubt we'll prob have one of the worst voter turnouts ever recorded. I expect I'm going to vote Lib Dem. Definitely will not vote Tory. I can't see myself voting Labour, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

[Dingo]

I'm going to vote Labour. I was going to vote tory, but they have said some damn stupid things in the past year - I think they wouldn't have handled the crisis anywhere as well as Brown and Darling.

Are you talking about the crisis, that was in part caused by the current Government, removing safeguards that were there to prevent such an occurrence ever happening?. The same Government that deluded a Nation with Weapons of Mass Delusion, that have record levels of spending and borrowing and that happily lose millions of people's private data and waste Billions on IT projects that are never completed and then lie about Armed Forces spending and the need for massive cuts.

Yeah, seems like the right party to vote for!!:

[Saracen]

Well only the top two are real contenders.
I say its better to have the uselessness that you know than the one you don't.

I'm going to vote Labour. I was going to vote tory, but they have said some damn stupid things in the past year - I think they wouldn't have handled the crisis anywhere as well as Brown and Darling.

The problem with the way Brown/Darling have handled the crisis is that so far we've had the measures, and we've had some level of successful result, or at least that may well be as a result. What we haven't yet had is the bill for their measures arrive.

Essentially, they put the "fiscal stimulus" measures on the country's credit card. They've spent the money and incurred the borrowing to pay for it. But now we have to pay back the loans, and will be doing it for years.

Unfortunately, we can never know whether things would have been better or worse if the Tories had been running things. What we do now know, because Darling admitted it today, is that the cuts that are coming after the election will be "tougher and deeper" than those implemented by the Thatcher administration on the 80s. That's awfully cheering.

So even if they have handled the crisis better than the Tories would have, and I think that is an assertion that is questionable, I'd suggest that you also take into account that Brown was the Chancellor that got us into this in the first place. Darling doesn't take much blame for that, but Brown sure does.


It also makes me wonder quite what Darling is up to.

First, we had the "worst recession in 60 years" remark that resulted in the "forces of hell" being unleashed on him by Brown's attack dogs.

Then we got the "forces of hell" remark itself, pointing the blame at Brown and his attack dogs.

Now, ONE DAY after a pretty nondescript budget that was far longer on political manoeuvring than economic measures, we get a quote like that which is absolutely guaranteed to be used by the Tories to ridicule Brown's "Labour investment versus Tory cuts" mantra. I can only imagine Cameron and his top team have wet their pants with glee over that remark.

So either Darling is terminally inept at keeping his gob shut, or each of these "slips" has been quite deliberate. And I doubt he's that politically inept that these snuck out accidentally. Which makes me wonder what game he's playing. I wonder if he's calculated that he's toast if Brown wins, and out of a job anyway if Brown doesn't, and has decided to stick the knife onto Brown and try to take him down too. Maybe he knows he's got weeks left as Chancellor either way, and sees his position in Labour as stronger in a defeated Labour that will probably then ditch Brown, than in political Coventry if Brown pulls of a miracle and wins? Better Labour shadow Chancellor than a backbencher on Brown's poop list if Brown wins?

Either way, it's a gift for the Tories and just might be the start of a lot more honesty from both sides about the scale of the pain that's coming post-election. And if they want any shred of credibility at all with the public, they can't keep up the current FUD about spending cuts, because
even if the public is politically stoopid, surely it can't be that stoopid. Can it?

[Saracen]

Yeah it's a crying shame. It's like having to choose between a smug, posh kick in the nuts, or just a plain old kick in the nuts.

I wonder if an elitist and aristocratic kick in the nuts might be a little more restrained that a good old Socialist, 'working man' kick in the nuts? It sounds like it ought to be more .... effete?

.....

No-doubt we'll prob have one of the worst voter turnouts ever recorded. .....

Maybe, but maybe not. It depends if indignation over expenses and "cab for hire" lobbyists outpaces boredom and the "pox on all your houses" factor or not.

[usxhe190]

Don't worry guys. The people who usually fixes issues aren't the people you usually see on TV anyway.

[Terbinator]

The reason I won't be voting Tory is that for lack of a better term, or quote in this case:

[He is already]Measuring the drapes for the Oval Office.

- John McCain.