I'm really not sure who to vote for, even though I don't want David Cameron in for a second spell I hate the thought of Labour joining up with the SNP and having a load of sweaty socks dictating what we do.

I'm voting for the Green party - more left wing than the others - who are all pretty much the same.

Some might call it a wasted vote, others a protest vote, but if they can gather momentum in the next few years they may finally help unseat the usual crew from Downing street. Those guys are all privately educated and set policies on looking after their own, rather than the population on the whole.

Ronny Moore

Any SNP sweaty socks that turn up in Westminster will have won their seats from Labour sweaty socks. A sweaty sock is a sweaty sock, including the Liberal sweaty socks.
And anyway Westminster has been dictating to sweaty sock land for hundreds of years, so maybe it's their turn.
You never know they might just do a decent job.
I think I would like to see something different to the current establishment and maybe get rid of the stranglehold of Eton, Oxford, and Bullendon Club arseholes.
Just a thought like.
Having said that, there's none of them wake up on a morning thinking " what can I do for Hartlepool today", and I include Mr Wright in that.

As long as we can get rid of Iain shite I'm not to bothered who wins.

I have moved from one area of country Hartlepool to another in Huntingdon where it matters not a jot who I vote for the same idiots get in irrespective of their policies or what they can do for the town. Both incidentally have been shafted by the government on the hospital. I was lucky my daughter was born prior to the collapse of the private funded organisation running Huntingdon Hospital where all none essential procedures have been scrapped. Labour will get in at Hartlepool and Cons in Huntingdon as long as I have a hole in my arse. However there probably will be a big increase in UKIP votes round here as they won a lot in the council but thats the daft toffs for you. I cant see what people in Cambridgeshire moan about really their mates are in leadership and this stupid retoric from UKIP about immigrants and that shite about EU and 75% of votes dictated by Brussels doesnt affect them. The only immigrants I see here are working at the hotel chocolate factory. Its really odd that both Hartlepool / Huntingdon are both safe seats but yet UKIP is gaining momentum when to the life of me I cant see why from their policies.

As long as neither the Conservatives or UKIP get in then I am happy. Glad to see Labour are now ahead in the opinion polls too -haven't decided whether to vote Labour or Green Party.
Shame Lib Dem fucked up so badly by joining the coalition but I wouldn't say no to voting for them just yet; Need to review their policies.

I think that's a great choice. Tell your friends and family and any other labour voters to do the same. GREEN ARMY.

None of them are any good. Corrupt city boys, bent fake socialists, loonies and racists. What a choice.

Am tempted to 'spoil' my vote.Will no doubt write a short enough rant that should make the counter (of said vote) smile.

It's difficult to know which liar to vote for!

Sick to death of the General Election already tbh - the media love all of this hype - especially the Beeb who absolutely thrive on the GE shite and will consequently ram it down our throats for the next 6 weeks or whatever it is until its thankfully all over. Its been said that this GE will see the greatest percentage of populace apathy than any other election in British history - but that wont stop the Beeb and others from bombarding us with non-news. Personally I don't give a shit which set of corrupt, self-centered, greasy, propaganda-spouting liars ultimately takes control - hopefully none of them lol. It would however please me immensely to see the obnoxiously arrogant Cameron turfed out of No.10 having never actually 'won' a GE.

They're all brilliant at talking shite but deliver very little. Most of them hardly know that the North East exists & Hartlepool has to be pointed out to them on a map.

Half the battle with this government malarkey is that they're all in it for themselves and us population are just a problem for them!

Everyone can run the country better than those in charge. You can please some of people most of time but not all people all of time. Problem is we working folk want cheap fuel, large minimum wage, low mortgage repayments and money pumped into NHS and education. However the 5% which "run" the country work in banks and sorry but this is true run the world want the exact opposite. Recession and osterity are the be all and end all. These two conflicting opinions will never agree and therefore it's who can get most and as it's the Tories at the moment and the world is in shit financially it's the latter.

On another note I actually heard a women say "wog" today in general conversation talking to a barman in a pub while I was having my dinner. They then went on to talk about "them folk" being now in the village of Babraham! I thought I stepped back into 1975 and they where going to sing send the buggers back and swop golly badges.

Jesus Christ could become an M.P. get voted in and I still wouldn,t trust the bastard!

Working in the public sector and seeing the direct effects of what this condem coalition has inflicted on the most needy in society is depressing and down right scandolous. God forbid the tories get back in as the next round of cuts will hit already desperate people hard. Of course Labour will keep hold of Hartlepool, but their current weakness in Scotland might seriously damage their chances of gaining the most seats and being the head of any coalition. I wonder if this time round it might take 3 parties to achieve the majority of seats needed to gain a majority?

a number of huge construction projects have been basically put on hold because of this election.

If the tories win full power, without the need for a coalition, 5 New nuclear power stations will be started, creating over 50,000 jobs, and HS2 will start creating another 10,000.

Both of these will be scrapped under Labour.

If the tories win but only with a coalition, say the SNP, then they will demand both are scrapped.

I suppose it all depends on what you want.

I have never voted tory, but I need these projects to go ahead.

Its that simple.

I hope it gets scrapped, old hat idea by old hat 'thinkers'. Money would be put to better use investing in a fit for purpose broad band network that would help spread prosperity around the country, I.T infrastructure needs improving for this country to move with the times, it's really not about whether some fucker can get to Manchester 1/2 hour quicker on the bastard train

whether you like it or not, no party is going to create industry in our region. Neither are they going to make sure the wealth is fairly distributed.

What is the point in a government improving the local rail network in the NE? For who's benefit?

At least these major works create jobs that a good number of people from this region get. Even though it means working away.

By the way, Hartlepool Power Station is one of the five.

If I still lived in the town I wouldn't know who to vote for the power station is a big draw and the fact that labour has treated its voters like a dog. Beaten them to a pulp but always known they will come loyally wimpering back. I realise why in my grandfathers day working class people voted for labour but now they are all much of a muchness.

And that, everybody, is why anybody who can vote in Hartlepool and gives the remotest fuck about the creation of local jobs should get their heads together and all vote for whoever has the best chance of beating Iain Wright.

Labour are absolutely anti Nuclear.

The new Power station will create tens of thousands of jobs during construction.

People really need to connect the dots before voting.

Labour would rather put windmills up and tell you that you can only have a cup of tea when it's windy. Fruitcakes the lot of them.

Exactly a party actively giving the town jobs or one pissing on their loyalty. I recon though UKIP and Tories will share the opposition vote in the town leading the pie faced dwarf to be MP again. The point is the area is crying out for jobs it's like when them Eco idiot lesser spotted warbler fanciers stopped the decommissioning of the ghost ships which posed about as much threat to the river Tees as me pissing in it or all the heavy industry already around the dry dock.

that was about ghosts though

Hartlepool desperately needs a different colour of MP then the town will be taken seriously in terms of money. The investment always, absolutely always goes to marginals.

All I hope is that quite a large amount of labour voters end up voting green to lower the chances of labour and ian Wright further destroying this town (so please, feel free) What have they done for us? What has HE done for us? Nothing. Not a thing. And yet like sheep, most of you will be voting labour. Its the cowards way out. You're too afraid to stand up and put your neck on the line, and too naive in thinking that labour represent the working man.

I'll be voting for which ever party has the slightest chance of seizing power from the hands of those bastards.

End of story.

If Hartlepool has declined in recent years then you need look no further than the ridiculous council.

I dont doubt that the cuts have hurt but other more reputable municipal have managed their finances without looking like so silly and allowing their town to sink like the Lucitania in choppy waters. Honestly they are indefensible.

This ^ PHF

As me dad used to say.......when you get rid of a politician all you do is replace that politician with another politician.

What I don't understand is how the idea that the Tories know how to run the economy for the good of all has still got legs. There is plenty of proof that anything they do will be designed to benefit their mates. Nuclear power and new train lines might well create some jobs but as long as the main priority of any scheme is helping the rich to get richer there won't be any wider or long term benefits of the sort you should get from massive public works like that. You'd create jobs by injecting cash on that scale anywhere in the economy but if it was spent on new hospitals and affordable housing shareholders wouldn't benefit so the plan is to spend in areas that will allow the private owners of the once public transport and power networks to cream off some big dividends.

After Blair I can't say that I've got any faith in Labour to make any meaningful change but anybody who votes Tory because of some mythical economic expertise that creates a trickle down improvement for everybody has to be taking powerful acid with little pictures of Margaret Thatcher on it.

THIS...WITH BELLS ON!!!

...Locally, Labour is a joke, and has been for years.

Nationally, it's a different story, and this area has been let go by Westminster quite deliberately. There is fuck all left of the town, and its prospects are bleak thanks to the local powers doing their damnedest to do the Tories dirty work for them. We have no companies of any size left in the town, and could not be any further away from being a 'Northern fucking Powerhouse if we tried...

China has bought Britain and their money is behind the Conservatives.

Get used to it. I've been watching this for eight years.

Can I vote SNP?

Why would China buy Britain? They have enough money themselves or all the tea in China so to speak.

I work in Liverpool and around 25% of our clients are from Hong Kong, which has only happened in the last twelve months. They are buying up buildings as fast as possible to turn into apartments. Of our local clients, around 50% are using money from China. We're working on buildings in Oldham, Chester, Birmingham and Bristol, all with Chinese funding. The times, they are a changing.

I can't comment on their attitude to VAT though.

My thoughts after tonight.

All I realised tonight was how distraught I am that the jocks voted no.

I missed the debate as was travelling with work what happened?

Wood doesn't deserve that!

I think she did well for her party. They'll do much better this election. Maybe.

I found the whole thing very fooking odd.

Cameron appears to be scared all the time - five years as PM and he still hasn't got any of the authority or gloss that always makes American presidents hard to beat. Clearly can't function without minute by minute advice from his people.

Milliband kept doing a strange hypnotic thing where he stared deep into the camera and started addressing you directly while saying "Look Harry..." It was like Rasputin had been brought up in Islington.

Clegg kept attacking the coalition as if he wasn't involved - I reckon people will have noticed that he was part of it.

Farage just blamed everything on immigration and kept gurning a lot. Odd neck and eyes too far apart mean that he looks like a lizard in pain when he does that.

Welsh Nat just went on about Wales.

Green was to the left of everybody else and made loads of good points but will be ignored because she sometimes pauses to think and doesn't look like a model.

Sturgeon was calm, measured and put her points simply which was enough to make her the best TV performer by along chalk. If she didn't have helmet like hair that makes her look like a scrubbed up extra from Rab C Nesbitt she would take over the UK and establish a tartan dictatorship.

Also presenter was shit and let Cameron talk over her but told the Welsh Nat to shut up.

Haven't got Sky but with hindsight an early night or just sitting in a quiet room would have been better options.

Successive governments of both persuasions have got this country into a financial mess, repeatedly ducking the issues & simply kicking the can further down the road to delay the day of reckoning. Future generations eventually are going to have to pick up the bill if nobody grasps the nettle - & there's little sign of that happening. Unpopular decisions are required, & nobody will take them

Mind you, we aren't the only country in that state, but that's no consolation

The Welsh bird had the best tits.

Lol

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