Dont know who to vote for?

[kevbaz]

If your not sure who to vote for or dont really know whats what then this is for you, even if you do i still reccomend this

General Election 2010: Who Should I Vote For Guide To the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Policies

you might be surprised!

for me it confirmed of who i had planned on voting for

give it a go

[creese]

for me it confirmed of who i had planned on voting for

Me too

[BatchFile]

For me it didn't, but what it doesn't take into consideration your individual MP. The main reason I vote the way I do is for HIM not for his party as he's an absolute star! that is the main reason I'm against PR - I like being able to choose WHO I want to represent me and not just which party they come from as the two don't always tally.

[kevbaz]

so your voting for a nice bloke but whos parties manifestos you dont agree with?

[tmcd35]

that is the main reason I'm against PR - I like being able to choose WHO I want to represent me and not just which party they come from as the two don't always tally.

Have I missunderstood PR?

I thought that yes constiuencies would be bigger, but they would also be made up of multiple seats. You still vote for your candidate, nice man that he is, and if he remains as popular as he must be now he gets one of those seats. So you can still have nice chats with him and he can still work hard for you. It's just that other peoples favourite candiates, you know the ones that don't like your guy, might get one of the other seats so they can go and talk to them instead of wasting their time with your guy.

Of course your guy might be so super popular that the extra seats get given to some of his chums rather than any opposition, because that's what the people in your area like.


PR doesn't do your MP out of a job or completely break the constuancy link - it just does a better of job of taking everybodies view into account. I mean the last Labour Government got voted in with less than 40% of the popular vote - hows that democratic? 60% of the population doesn't agree with you but hey not a problem you can still dictate your will on the masses - crazy!

[CHR1S]

Wow that made things even worse, seems I cherry picked the best policies from every party.... hey now theres an idea

[SteveBentley]

so your voting for a nice bloke but whos parties manifestos you dont agree with?

This is the problem I've got - I think the Tory candidate would get things done locally, but I have issues with the Tory policies nationally. Conversely I think a lot of what the Lib Dem manifesto has to offer is good, but the more I find out about the local candidate the more I dislike.

Particularly the fact that she's also up for re-election to the council and plans to be both an MP and a councillor. She was on a webchat earlier today on the local paper's website and revealled, having been asked awkward questions, that she intends to take the salary/allowances for both jobs, despite the fact she openly admits she can't fully do both and will have to make compromises if council meetings and events clash with debates and votes at the Commons.

As such, I'm now a floating voter again.

[srochford]

There are multiple forms of PR.

I think that the Lib Dems are supporting Single Transferable vote which means you attach a preference to a candidate. I think their idea is for multiple MPs per constituency so you put (say) 10 candidates in rank order. If there are going to be 2 MPs and 2 people get more than some percentage of the vote as first preference then they get in. If not, you eliminate the people with the lowest number of votes but you then look at the papers and see who was the second choice for each voter. You then take into account the second choice votes and see who now comes top and you keep doing this until you've got enough votes.

The idea is that the person who wins may not have the support of everyone but at least they will have been second or third choice for many people unlike now when (say) you want Lib Dem but you end up with Conservative and only 30% of voters actually voted Conservative but that's more than voted for any other candidate.

[timzim]

And you all think this site, kindly provided by Sky (prop. R.Murdoch), is non-partisan....??? Do me a favour.

[tech_guy]

I think we should all scribble out all the names on the ballot papers and draw a box next to "Bill Bailey" and put a cross in it - he'd make a brilliant PM!

[glennda]

Dont know who to vote for?

Pedro?

Sorry couldn't resist!