If there was an election (UK) tomorrow which party would you vote for?

[Freddie]

There is a good chance we may have a snap general election this year If Gordon Brown is elected as the new labour leader and new Prime Minister. However recent polls have found the Conservatives who have been in the political wilderness for the past 8 years slowly begin to crawl back in favour ahead of Labour.

Cameron Pull ahead of Brown

Gordon Brown is failing to persuade the public that he would make a better prime minister than David Cameron, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today which suggests the Conservatives could win a working majority at the next general election.
Voters give the Tories a clear 13-point lead when asked which party they would back in a likely contest between Mr Brown, Mr Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell.
The result would give the party 42% of the vote against Labour on 29%, similar to its performance under Michael Foot in 1983. The Liberal Democrats would drop to 17%. The result is the highest that the Conservatives have scored in any ICM poll since July 1992, just after their last general election victory.

If you’re reading this and you’re from outside the UK and you are wondering about where the British Liberals are in all of this, you can pretty much forget about them. They are lead by a frail old man (who quite frankly was an embarrassment at today’s Prime Ministers questions session) who can’t get his party to rally behind him. The Liberals have been out of office for nearly 100 years now and there no sign of them ever returning, so it’s a two horse race between conservatives or labour.

[the Black Prince]

tory all the way!!!

[Freddie]

tory all the way!!!

Damm you’re quick, I’ve only just finished doing the poll.

[hunter260859]

Conservatives

though i prefer true Conservatives

[Big War Bird]

I would vote for the party that pledged to steal the least amount of money from me.

[Freddie]

The conservatives would get my vote, I must admit I was a bit suspicious of Cameron at first and thought fro a while he might have been a liberal spy or something, because a lot of issues he liked to talk about were very leftish to say the least. How ever I can now say I am now a convert to Cameronism, I support his green ideals and plans to improve the environment, despite his hug a hoody tag his recent statements on crime have been a lot more hard line and he will also keep us out the Euro.

It’s not just Cameron either, around him he has a Tory dream team on the front bench, you have David Cameron, Davis, Osborne (future PM), Hague and Johnson (don’t laugh his good for P.R).

[Felix]

David Cameron is what Tony Blair was ten years ago. He's an insidious, insipid empty suit masquerading as the fresh new face of change. Do Not Trust.

[Cassy]

Labour. The Conservatives have no serious policies, their leadership is incredibly weak compared to Brown and Blair.

[Libertine]

Conservative. I just think Cameron would be a better PM than Brown.

[hunter260859]

Who has been destroying the country for the past decade or two

[the Black Prince]

why announce future policy now? anything they announce will be taken up by new labour who are just dying to implement yet more right wing tory policy. i mean lets face it, they've already taken the tories law and order policy and run with it to breaking point and beyond, why give them the chance to steal any of our new stuff?

As for weak leadership, a party with Hague, Davis, Osborne, Fox and Cameron on its front bench is looking very strong to me...

[Cassy]

why announce future policy now? anything they announce will be taken up by new labour who are just dying to implement yet more right wing tory policy. i mean lets face it, they've already taken the tories law and order policy and run with it to breaking point and beyond, why give them the chance to steal any of our new stuff?

As for weak leadership, a party with Hague, Davis, Osborne, Fox and Cameron on its front bench is looking very strong to me...

Why is it such a bad idea for the Labour Party to embrace Conservative ideas? A good idea is a good idea, surely? Would be terrible government to do the wrong thing just out of partisanship.

[Markas]

I'm a life long non-voter and I ain't about to change that. Any political party would sell their own grandmother and make any paper-thin promises to get into power. And before anyone starts the 'My grandfather fought for people like you to have the power to vote blah blah' I prefer to think many of our grandparents also fought for our privelege not to vote if I did not trust any of the candidates, which I don't.

[the Black Prince]

well, if there's no difference between the two parties, then just vote, coz labour have spent the last 10 years making screw up after screw up...

[Cassy]

well, if there's no difference between the two parties, then just vote, coz labour have spent the last 10 years making screw up after screw up...

Compared to Major's Black Wednesday, right?

[Erik]

I'm not British, but if I were I think I would vote Conservatives.
I don't see any real differences between the two parties, but I think it would be good for New Labour to loose.

[Lord Kal]

There's no point 'cause they're both exactly the same. Fortunately I think people are seeing that rather in America where you have incredible partisanship for two identical sides.

[ThiudareiksGunthigg]

There's no point 'cause they're both exactly the same.

Back in 1997 we had a very similar situation here in Australia to the current political environment in the UK. Our Labor Party, the one Blair drew inspiration from when he first got elected, had been in power for 13 years and were on the nose with the electorate. The Conservatives ran a low-key campaign, knowing that the feeling that the Labor Government was old and tired would get them over the line. The general feeling was they were "both exactly the same", that not much would change and that changing the Government would not be a big deal.

The Labor Prime Minister of the time, Paul Keating, warned us during that fateful election campaign that the Conservatives were merely playing possum and that, once elected, they would change things a lot. "When you change the Government, you change the nation." he warned.

And he was right.

He lost that election, John Howard got into power and everything changed. Largely for the worse. We've been lumbered with him ever since and it's only now, ten years later, that we may be on the brink of getting rid of the vile, lying little rodent.

So be warned, if you change the Government, don't complain if your nation then changes in some ways many of you simply wanting to punish Blair may find distinctly unpalatable.

[Stalins Ghost]

No idea who I'm voting for. Both the main parties have sold us out. Democracy in our country is a farce in all honesty. The Liberals have slipped off the radar completely now, and frankly don't ever stand a chance again.

I won't vote for New Labour, because their current term of office has been a farce, and I won't vote Conservative because they have no policies. Whats the point voting for them if they won't change a damn thing? And Cameron isn't a Prime Minister he's a tool to the masses. I'd probably be more inclined to vote NL if there was no choice, since at least I've heard Brown talking policy. Cameron's just stood around practicing rhetoric.

[Erik]

Whats the point voting for them if they won't change a damn thing?

The point is to punish New Labour as much as possible, because that's the only way they will get incentive to do a better job in the future.