Why would you vote Labour?

Question

Honestly i can't see why anyone would vote for these people, twelve of so years they've had and in my opinion the Country is worse than when they took over, ongoing social problems, public finances are a mess, the transport system hasn't improved, the Health Service still isn't being run properly even after hundreds of billions being spent, Military mismanagement, an unresolved Environmental Policy, believe me, the list goes on and on and on. I'm going to be honest, in 97 i voted Labour, i was 22 and that was the first and only time i voted Labour (National and Local Elections), and i regretted that decision within the first 3 months of them being in office.
So..I've said my piece, you couldn't pay me to vote for them but if you are planning to vote Labour feel free to explain why?

Answer 1

Because the people who do don't care about the country and the people as a whole , they just care about themselves and the monumental chip they have on their shoulder! Anyone who votes Tory comes from Eton , is loaded , wants to get rid of the NHS , hates poor people , only cares about making themselves richer and goes out fox hunting every sunday! None of that resembles me or anyone i know who votes conservative , i'm skint most of the time as my kids eat me out of house and home!



Labour and their supporters constantly peddle vicious lies about Conservatives and what they stand for , it's the vile politics of envy most of the time , i don't begrudge anyone success and wealth if they have got off their ar se and worked for it!

Answer 2

Young people were taken in and that's fair enough.It takes time to find your feet and see people in the light of experience.

When I was 22 I had NO idea at all about people.

Over the years I have spoken to friends of mine,my age of 47-ish and older who have supported Blair and Brown.One voted for Blair and another group liked what Brown was doing with the economy back when he first came into the top job...so supported these two Prime Ministers....They were in my mind,taken in completely.

Some friends supported the wars we instigated in 2002/3

These friends of mine are quite foolish...well to do and successful but either uncaring or fools as far as understanding what we need as a country.

It amazes me how many people have been supporting the main parties over the last 13 years and what will occur at the next General Election,coming up in the next 2 months.

Brown is as despicable as Blair and he does seem to be getting away with it.

We need leaders who will support manufacturing growth and trade with other countries away from the EU.

We need leaders who will provide us with order and a peaceful foreign policy.

Answer 3

I think that Barack Obama a great person and respect whatever he does from the power and the world will trust that has good intentions even really tell what good works are devo admit that because you hate Americanized modern Nazis an earned the hatred of the world but caraba you love about the cartoons and the movies that make so much allusion to an alternate reality where America is above mankind in order I like Obama but I hate that its people want to trample on other peoples of the world

Answer 4

Like everyone that doesn't support Labour you put a one sided argument. Why do you think billions have been spent on the NHS? could it be the FACT that it was underfunded by the Tories for years, and if you think it hasn't improved dramatically then you are wrong. People were dying in the corridors or at home with the waiting times under the Tories. Why do you think so much has been spent on schools? Could it be that they to were underfunded by the Tories to the extent that many were unfit for purpose, Labour literally did fix the roof when it was raining. Labour set a target of getting 1000,000 people out of child poverty, they failed to meet the target, but did get 700,000 out of it, which was a damn site better than the Tories would have done. Real crime is down, even though the Tories tried to make out it was up because of the way crimes are now reported. It's strange that people like you don't look at the good that has been done, Minimum wage, Surestart, Pension credits etc. You all spout that the Tories can't be any worse, WHY CAN'T THEY, give me one good reason to vote for Cameron, Osbourne and the rest of the Tory crew. I happen to believe in Brown and Labours economic policy of waiting for the economy to stabilise before making any drastic cuts. I also believe Labour are the only party that will do anything to look after the most vulnerable among us in the recovery. Does my stance mean I don't care about my fellow countrymen or my country? NO IT DOESN'T. We all have a view, mine is that Cameron, Osbourne and the Conservatives didn't have a clue what to do when the recession hit, and their policies for the recovery would drag us back into a recession or a possible depression and put hundreds of thousands of people on the dole. You are welcome to disagree with me, and many of you will, but to think that I and others like me are dumb and only care for ourselves just shows you to be arrogant and ignorant.

Answer 5

This question comes up time and time again and the same pathetic answers keep coming up from Tory supporters who have the delusion that under a Tory government, everything will come up smelling of roses and that they will make everyone a lot better off. Well that is just a load of bull. Every Conservative government that has ever been in office has never made an ordinary working man a single penny better off. They created mass unemployment of over 3.5 million, sold off tens of thousands of council houses then put up interest rates to 15% and created negative equity, putting thousands of families on the streets when their mortgages were greater than the price of their homes. Manufacturing industry took a nosedive. Publicly owned utility companies were sold to foreign private investors and the price of gas, electricity and water went through the roof. VAT was increased, personal taxes were raised in the boom and bust economy by successive Tory chancellors. The rich got considerably richer as their top rate tax was reduced and the poor got increasingly poorer. Strikes were rampant due to wage restraint and the dreaded Poll Tax caused the worst riots ever known on Britain's streets. We did not have a minimum wage policy or a working time directive, meaning an employer could demand as many hours as he wished from an employee and pay them as little as £1 an hour. Do you seriously think that we want a return to that? And please don't patronise me by saying that today's Tories are a completely different bunch. The die hard Eton elite still hold the gun to Cameron's head and if elected they would soon revert to the old ways. The Tories have not offered any alternative policies to Labour and have not explained exactly what they would do to take us out of debt. I cannot understand how people could vote for an even bigger disaster than the one we have now. But I have no doubt that the ranting will continue because the Tories just want to be in power. They have no other interest except power and glory. That's the truth.

Answer 6

i individually do no longer elect to work out too few human beings to have too plenty power and that i did have those concerns under the previous Howard government. I purely did no longer like John Howard, i stumbled on him smug and abrasive making and breaking many non-center delivers. i think of the Libs grew to grow to be complacent in government, and their Workchoices legislations grow to be their very final nail interior the coffin. i grow to be extremely joyful while they lost the election, and desire they have learnt their lesson this time. Australians won't tolerate individual place of work agreements, the removing of penalty fees or unfair circumstances at artwork. I artwork interior the typical public sector in an important provider and that i'm a union member. i think of maximum persons associate (even at right here) that exertions is the party for the staff (decrease/center type) and Liberal is the party for employer proprietors, as a results of fact this has been their historic previous on account that they began. i'm in no way a employer proprietor, yet I do truly see the income of many Liberal regulations. I additionally can't make the relationship which you have that exertions = Unions = Communism. you will additionally argue that the Liberal party in basic terms looks after the massive end of city (bankers/mining executives and employer proprietors) and would not care approximately undemanding working Australians in any respect. I additionally refuse to make the exaggerated connection that many human beings have Tony Abbott = Catholic = Christian extremism. i'm a "center of the line" swinging voter now, I even have concerns that the Liberal party will shrink substantial public centers (or sell them off) and attempt to introduce unfair place of work rules in favour of employers yet i'm additionally in touch that the exertions party will tax me extra, introduce Emissions procuring and advertising (which i'm very against) and strengthen inhabitants to unsustainable ranges. Freedom of decision and freedom of speech is something that has been lost at a international point... the political party that Australians elect to vote for has little or no to do with those subject concerns.

Answer 7

I have only made that mistake once, many years ago when I was 21 and rather immature.

Now you know why Labour want to reduce the age from 18 to 16.

However if that fails to do the trick they probably have another million illegals lined up to join the 5 yearly fray.

Answer 8

No never or the other two main parties as they all have the interests of the EU dictators at heart and not the people who they are supposed to represent.



Vote for change, vote UKIP.

Answer 9

I wouldn't vote Labour if my testicles were on the line,or the other two centre parties.



@jdan9 were you delivered by spacecraft??The gap between rich and poor is greater now than at ANY time since records began!!!!!!

NU-LABOUR,sold half the countries Gold after announcing to the world first!!!FOR THE LOWEST PRICE EVER

NU LABOUR,raided PENSIONS TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS!!!!!Which may be OK to those that didn't work for 50YEARS and paying into it every week to end up with nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!

NU LABOUR,ILLEGALLY gave away sovereignty to AN ILLEGAL ORGANISATION RUN BY NAZIS!!!!

NU LABOUR,is paying this ILLEGAL ORGANISATION £40,000,000 or more PER DAY

NU LABOUR,for the past THIRTEEN years have SOCIALLY ENGINEERED the country through open door immigration to the DETRIMENT of working man and if you question it your a RACIST!!!

NU-LABOUR, will adopt the legislation that will make ANYBODY who protests against Government a TERRORIST!!!!

NU-LABOUR,fund the UAF which in it self may appear OK,until you realise the MARXIST ideology is a FASCIST ideology?!?!?!?!

NU-LABOUR,have dumbed down EDUCATION to the most disgusting level since America learnt to read!!!!

NU-LABOUR,are privatising the NHS,and the damage can be seen every day.

NU-LABOUR,want all children to be owned by the STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NU-LABOUR,came to power in 1997 the country was SOLVENT due to the PREVIOUS TORY GOVERNMENTS, today the country is in debt £1.2TRILLION.

A TAX BILL FOR EVERYONES GRANDCHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ask you all to look at the case of Holly Grieg,anyone voting for any of the centre parties are voting for more of the same.The only way is to take power away from these TYRANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

i never would vote labour. the people that do are often stuck in a rut. they dont look at why they are voting. they say they always vote labour so why change. or they say conservatives favour the rich whithout any evidence to support it. when labours faults are pointed out to them they will often say, well, look at the alternative, when they dont ever actually look. or they will spout off about mrs thatcher of 30 years ago. labour voters are pathetic.

Answer 11

Because the alternative is the Conservatives, basically. The Conservatives will drag us down into a second dip of the recession by cutting spending too early. This is the single worst thing that could happen in the UK right now.



On top of this, they will reduce tax for the rich, while the poor suffer from spending cuts and higher taxes. They will actively discriminate against single parents, one of the most vulnerable groups in the 'poor' category.



It's very telling that, despite the fact that most of the country is sick to death of the Labour administration, we're STILL on course for a hung Parliament. People recognise how dangerous the Conservatives would be for us. Look at what Boris has done to London since he was elected. He's cancelled pedestrianisation of Parliament Square, he's cancelled an order for hydrogen fuelled buses, he's getting rid of bendy buses, he's spent billions on designing a 'new' Routemaster, and he's now closing ticket offices at 278 tube stations despite signing a petition in 2007 against Ken's plans to close 40.

Answer 12

I will only vote Labour if they cut me in for a slice of the action.

Answer 13

Being a fool?



I was in 97 and 'god' I regret it.

Answer 14

I Completely agree with you!