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Originally Posted by arista
"I voted Lib Dem in 2010, after being promised all sorts from near being stalked by their candidates and party canvassers as a student, I will be unlikely to vote for them again for at least decades."
But Everyone knew LibDem could Never Get Full Power.
so you wasted your Vote.
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I know that and agree they couldn't have.
It was my first vote in a General election, I could have never voted for Labour in 2010,no way.
I liked the Conservatives plan for the reduction of the deficit but was deeply suspicious as to them on the NHS, knowing a good few people who really relied on the NHS.
I was totally against the raising by at least doubling tuition fees so I couldn't bring myself to vote Conservative either.
The Lib Dems hounded students where I was, stating if the Conservatives got an overall majority,they would at least double tuition fees, that they would increase VAT, also make damaging cuts in the first year that would threaten any economic recovery and maybe take the UK back into recession.
Those 3 issues coupled with the promise and even signed pledge on one of them, that in no circumstances would Lib Dem MP's ever support those measures in Parliament won them my vote.
It was clear all through the election campaign from the polls that no party was likely to get any kind of working overall majority so I put my trust and faith in the Lib Dems to deliver those gurantees and promises.
I and some other students even had a face to face meeting with a Lib Dem MP who re-inforced those promises, yet that MP supported when the polices came to the the vote in Parliament,the cuts in the first year,the raising of tuition fees, not by doubling them but by trebling them and also the VAT increase.
The coalition has had it's chance for me,I really have no idea where politics goes from here, over 30 years we had firstly strong,(in the sense of good overall majorities),Conservative Govt for 18 years, we then had 13 unbroken years of strong Labour Govt. Both made massive errors and failed to set up the stability of good and fair Govt for all the Nation.
We now come to and have had a Coalition Govt that is failing on near all it set out to do.
Too many costly reforms, virtually no compassion to the weakest in society,pushing policies out, then having to re-think as to them again and further modifying them as opposition looms against them.
We are in a double dip recession that could last longer than the original one,yet all we get from the 2 parties in the Coalition is no change needed.
This is all likely going to see a Labour Govt with a majority win the next elction again, the Conservatives in my view, have no way of getting more than 36% of the votes in an election, the Lib Dems will be lucky to get 15%.they have certainly lost for a good while, at least 8% of the people who voted for them in 2010.
Students won't trust the Conservatives after the trebling of the fees, neither will they trust the Lib Dems for their long list of broken promises.
You are right though, I did waste my vote in 2010 on the Lib Dems, I know absolutely loads of others who feel the same.
Obviously,I will wait until the next election to see what are the results of these policies and reforms,the one for sure I will not do is vote for the Lib Dems again.
I am not a party political person, I see the good and bad in all parties,I believe in consensus politics and there are MPs in all parties that are consensus politicians,that is what I hoped for from this Coalition but they have been worse than the previous Conservative then Labour Govts of the last 30+ years put together,in my opinion anyway.
Oh gosh, just seen the length of this post, I better stop now.