How do you decide how to vote?

GrannyGravy13

greenlady102

GrannyGravy13

In an ideal world all political parties should be legally bound to implement their manifestos, cannot see that happening anytime soon.

That would be difficult because stuff happens...like covid.

Difficult yes impossible I don’t think so.

For instance this Government had no increase to taxes in their manifesto, they are raising NI next month.

but that is because of all the covid expenditure. Where did you think the money would come from?

Fannycornforth .Tried to do this political quiz. Found it almost impossible because of the constant adverts either side of the questions and answers. Did you have the same problem.

I did Seabreeze
I couldn't read the full questions.

greenlady102

GrannyGravy13

greenlady102

GrannyGravy13

In an ideal world all political parties should be legally bound to implement their manifestos, cannot see that happening anytime soon.

That would be difficult because stuff happens...like covid.

Difficult yes impossible I don’t think so.

For instance this Government had no increase to taxes in their manifesto, they are raising NI next month.

but that is because of all the covid expenditure. Where did you think the money would come from?

The covid expenditure came from money created by the Bank of England. It wasn't 'borrowed' from anyone. It doesn't have to be 'paid back' to anyone. We have what is known as a sovereign currency. We don't use any other country's currency for transactions in the UK. This means that our money is issued by our government on our behalf and the country can never run out of money.

The insistence that it has to be recouped by taxation is either a con trick or the economic illiteracy of those supposed to be in charge of our economy.

If voters weren't constrained by this mistaken belief they might make better choices when deciding who to vote for.

As few politicians of any party understand this basic fact of how money gets into the economy I have to go for whichever party proposes to spend our money in a way which benefits all sections of our society, not just put more into the hands of the already wealthy. And ignore the ignorant 'How are you going to pay for it?', or 'The country can't afford it' based objections.

Seabreeze and Callistemon
No problems (on my phone)
Just a slither of an ad at the bottom of the screen
Sorry about that

I got ads that cut the lefthand side of the questions off . So I didn't bother.

P.S. FannyC. With respect, I think you got a 'sliver' of an ad. Snakes slither..

Ha ha! Yes, of course …?
Perhaps try it without using my link

I’m a floating voter, I vote on national issues, “who I think is going to do the best for the UK as a whole”

Not that it makes any difference there is a massive Tory majority here that will never be overturned

It must surely depend to some extent on local realities. Does the party you’d prefer to support have a cat in hell’s chance? Here it’s invariably a toss up between LD/Tory (currently LD) - Labour and Green come nowhere.

I’d never not vote, but I can recall one distant occasion when I was so disillusioned with the lot of them that I voted for the Monster Raving Loony candidate, instead.

Anyone who watched "This is going to hurt" last night saw a very good reason for not voting Tory. For those that didn't, the character, Adam Kay was working in a private maternity hospital. The woman whose baby he was delivering was very sniffy about the NHS and what good treatment she had received in this hospital, costing £14k. After the birth something was wrong. Adam sprang into action calling for all the support that he needed - medicine, anaesthetist, etc.etc.

None was forthcoming and the woman was rushed to an NHS hospital as an emergency.

In real life this is not uncommon.