I'll be voting Tories.

I'm already bored with the whole shebang. Hate NuLabour, but still wouldn't vote Tory even if you put a gun to my head.

Today I have announced the creation of the Woffle Party. Members can join with the one provisio that they must woffle on incessantly and that what ever they say will be gibberish.

Our policies are very simple - there is one and that is you can say whatever you want (as long as it is legal).

I feel the same Demantoid.

I've never voted Tory before (before 1997 I used to be staunch Labour), but I am going to this time. Would vote Lib Dem, but I live in what is now effectively a marginal, so........

I'd never vote Tory is  that auld bag Thatcher not deid yet?

What are your party colours?

I get quite excited, not with the run up so much but election day itself. I desperately want to see a hung parliament.

me too Demantoid, I feel we're going to go from bad to bloody awful in one fell swoop.

The media seem to think they have to provide blanket, wall-to-wall, endless coverage.
So far there is little to say, yet the television news has said the same few things repeatedly. Most of what we hear are variations on the same thing, and it is already very very monotonous.

My son's excited! He's 18 on Thursday and so will be eligible to vote for the first time.

I have a feeling he may just "cancel" out my vote though.

Sky blue pink with yellow spots.

Sounds a bit too 'Mr Blobby'
Why not a suitably vague beige?

I had an image of those old fashioned jumpers, every row a different colour. You've just confirmed that.

When I mean sky blue pink I'm not talking about Mr Blobby!

I mean the dramatic pink that you sometimes see in the sky as per this photo from the San Francisco Citizen - the yellow spots are my addition.

I'm afraid I'm still seeing

I sympathise with your predicament - continual visions of Mr Blobby are very troublesome, but it is a well known psychiatric disorder. However there is a cure. Just imagine Mr Blobby being covered in a varirty of different coloured gunges. That way you'll soon forget his pink with yellow spots image, and you will be able to regain a full and active life.

I do apologise for any ill effect my posting has had on you. Unfortunately I have already ordered the coloured promotional material and I don't have enough money to pay for them, let alone to replace them.

And that brings me to another thing. I need a number of people to back me as prospective candidate for my Woffle Party.  Is there anyone out there prepared to back me?

into a corner?

That was a reference to an earlier post so I have amended my post to make that clearer.

You are obsessed with the Nuremburg trials  


Much as though I hate what has been going on since 1979 I will still vote Labour. There is always a chance that they may jump a little to the left. (Another feedline for you musical freaks)

 I wish I could vote GJ, it would have to be labour for me too, although I feel like you about the changes, in particular the loss of making decisions and all that nonsense about making people into criminals for taking their bins out too early or dropping a bit of banana. If they'd promise us to get rid of the jobworths, I'd be much happier.

For the first time in my life I wont be voting FOR Labour,..............I WILL, be voting AGAINST the Tories,

Lib Dems?

I am voting Lib Dems.  I know they wont win in this safe seat but at least the curret Tory MP will have a reduced majority.

i cant vote stick cameron, so noway will i vote tories. doubt i'll vote at all, they all mess it up anyway.

I'm really shocked (well not really it always happens) but .............i think newspapers should be banned from putting their spin on things. The bias in the printed media is abysmal and IMO shouldn't be allowed. From now until polling day I think there should be a ban on newspapers reporting anything in relation to the election at all. SHOCKING!!!!!!!

I won't be voting - i never vote.
I don't trust any of them - they are politically motivated and thats not in the best interest of the country or the economy.

Interesting thought!

Politicians are politically motivated?!  How did that happen?!  
I'm politically motivated... does that make me a politician? Is there an ointment?

Just been reading the celebrity roll call in The Guardian.
It's going to be a struggle.
We have Lily Allen, they have Cilla Black.
We have Eddie Izzard, they have Jim Davidson.
We have David Tennant, they have Jimmy Greaves....................etc.

Strange - ours are interesting and talented, theirs are a load of old dinosaurs scared of paying income tax..
I'll paraphrase what Noel Gallagher said when Phil Collins threatened promised to come back from tax exile in Switzerland if the Tories got into power at the last election.

"What more reason do you need not to vote for them?"

I just mean they don't make decisions that are for our good - its for their own purposes. Perhaps the country shud be ran by economists, financiers and experts?

Some might say we already are.
And considering what the financial industry considers to be moral behaviour, and what interests it puts first, do you really think it's a good idea?

In theory - sadly not in practice

It is! There are plenty of the above three represented in HMG. However it's not that straightforward. MP's also have a duty to listen to their own party's philosophy, they have to not upset the bankers, and in a global arena must do what the Americans tell them to. It's difficult to keep all those balls in the air.

Global arena is the key there

Exactly the rich will get richer  they dont give a damn about  helping the working class they never did and never will, it wont affect me so much as it will others if the tories get in, I am retired with good pensions and have paid off my morgage and live alone I would never vote tories thinking I'm alright jack,I will still vote labour they are still the best of a bad bunch

Not only did we steal the very clothes away from Thatcher, it now seems (according to the Daily Mule) that we have nicked Class War's Ian Bone's trousers.

Whatever decision people make about the party they are going to vote for, I think the most important thing of all is to actually bother to go to the polling station, even if it is just to spoil your ballot paper as a protest.  People died to help to give everyone the right to vote, and if people choose not to vote, then they really have no right to complain about the government that gets elected.  I really think that voting should be a legal requirement for every adult, as it is in some other countries.