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[Carrots Gladstone]

Can someone who knows about politics enlighten me with the pros and cons of each party, and their leaders etc?

I'm at a complete loss as to who I'd rather vote for at the moment. I haven't read any party policies for ages, but have been following the news and Gordon Brown's seemingly catastrophic run as PM. About a month ago it seemed certain David Cameron would be PM next year, and I couldn't decide whether Gordon Brown was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, or whether he is actually a rubbish PM. I've a feeling he's going to turn it around come election time and be the man to turn the country around.

That said, I heard snippets (not the whole speech unfortunately) of Cameron's rally call a couple of weeks ago, and he sounded like he was talking sense a lot of the time.

What about the other parties? I've voted Lib Dems once before, but to be honest, haven't heard much from them recently - the media seems to be focussing on a 2 horse (or more recently 1 horse) race. When I was 18, there was a lot being written about the Lib Dems establishing themselves as a contender but it's never materialised.

[Adam Easy Wishes]

About My Vote, produced by The Electoral Commission

Unsure if there's anything of interest there.

[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by Adam Easy Wishes

About My Vote, produced by The Electoral Commission

Unsure if there's anything of interest there.

For a moment there I hoped it would tell me which ward I'm in for the general election. The lady who came round to register me couldn't tell me. I think I'm either Harbour or Central. Anyone know where I can find this out?

[Alkaline]

Labour all the way for me. Lib Dems are a wasted vote and Conservatives are all talk no action. Cameron is a clown as well.

Gordon Brown has drawn a rather shitty hand but he is a solid leader and if anyone is going to get the UK out of its current financial pickle i truly believe he is the right man. We currently have the best man for the job in the current climate. I don't think switching to Conservative will offer anything that won't put us further in the shitter in the long run.

[Carrots Gladstone]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

Labour all the way for me. Lib Dems are a wasted vote and Conservatives are all talk no action. Cameron is a clown as well.

Gordon Brown has drawn a rather shitty hand but he is a solid leader and if anyone is going to get the UK out of its current financial pickle i truly believe he is the right man. We currently have the best man for the job in the current climate. I don't think switching to Conservative will offer anything that won't put us further in the shitter in the long run.

Hmmm, yeah, I've been swaying more to this kind of thinking lately. Whenever I look at Cameron, I think Tony Blair Wannabe... But some of the things he's said lately, sound very sensible. I guess talking a good game is one thing though. Whether he can deliver is something else entirely.

I've always thought that Gordon Brown should be the man to bring us out of the financial crisis, but his term so far has just gone from bad to worse. But things appear to be gradually looking up.

I think the fact that Cameron was shouting for an election not long after Brown got into power tells its own story. Come Election time, Brown will have had a decent amount of rebuilding time, whereas an election in any time in the past few months would surely have seen Cameron being elected. Just because the country was in the shit, and it's easy to point the finger at the man in charge of the country.

Brown lacks the charisma and charm that Blair had and now Cameron seems to have, but I've always felt that he'd be a more steady leader, and isn't about being cool or young or hip or any of that nonsense. He wants to run the country, and that's it. We suffer a lot from "Americanisation" in this country as we all know. Our culture becomes more like America everyday. The massive show that is made of the elections in their country and the money spent (/wasted) on their ridiculous campaigns should be put to far better use. I'm more for less gimmicky politicians who can get the job done.

I struggle to take David Cameron seriously sometimes because he looks like a waxwork. Gordon Brown looks like a grumpy old cynical bastard, which is much more appealing for a PM.

[Le Stu]

"No return to boom and bust" - Gordon Brown

Guess that rules him out, for me. Unfortunately, at the time, Cameron was attempting to market his party with a green image rather than criticise the things Brown did as Chancellor which produced Britain's 'economic miracle' which was nothing more than debt driven Keynesian stimulus and house flipping. So, I would say that Cameron has not proven himself to have any sort of conviction as a fiscal conservative.

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

NOOOOOoooooooooooooo....
...way too soon. That said...
I have been disenfranchised by the Increasingly Inexorable Social Authoritarianism of the Labour party, and nothing they have said makes me think this will be reversed, so, for many many reasons I don't feel that Labour, my natural party, deserve to win. That said, I do think that in terms of Public Spending, the Tories will be mad enough to cut cut cut spending before the economy is ready, on fully ideological grounds, thus dooming us further, and threatening my public sector job, bastids. So I'd say grit yer teeth, tighten yer belt, hell shoot some smack if you need to, hold your nose and vote for the leastWorst Party, probably the class traitor L....L....L..., make yer own choice, L....them.

[Le Stu]

I'm wavering between supporting the SNP to give Scotland a little more (non Labour) clout in the next term of parliament or supporting a fringe party like UKIP who realistically have no chance of gaining a seat in Scotland but could benefit from grassroots support.

I have no faith in the so-called eurosceptic Cameron delivering us a referendum on EU membership, so that we can finally get off that particular fence. You need a flowchart to understand his stance on the issue.

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

Aww dude, UKIP are loonies, Europe is where we are, bar some futuristic island moving tech being invented. I like the fact we're signed up to the Human Rights thing that sends the blues mental.

So then y'all, Europe; in or oot?

[Le Stu]

Election Maps

Answering my own question, but this site has ward maps for all elections.