Who do we vote for in the May general election and who do we not vote for?

[SueEllen]

Saying they are appalling is an easy thing to do, so maybe you could explain why and then suggest what else they could do and how someone else could do it any better.

Apart from some of the smaller parties virtually everything that comes out of party leaders' mouths and the more prominent MPs mouths is a lie. Former spin doctors openly admit they are taught to lie without lying, or to put it plainly they give the impression of telling the truth.

This is why when the Tories state we must cut the deficit a lot of the electorate don't believe them. When the government (of any colour) states that foreign aid needs to be increased again lots of the voting population doesn't believing them due to foreign aid going to countries like India.

[SueEllen]

I'll be voting Labour 'cos I'm as thick as pig tulip.

I hope you are in a constituency where all the main parties and a few minor parties have candidates standing.

I remember voting as a student and finding there was no Tory or Lib Dem candidate on the ballot paper. Then once as a working adult there was no Labour candidate. I felt cheated both times

Some times the parties pull stunts to stop other parties e.g. the BNP from getting in but in these cases it was because the area was solid Labour or solid Tory.

[Zero Liability]

Unfortunately both PJ and BB are correct: the expansion of "Universal Credit" into a non-means tested system is a great idea. There would need to be a system in place to ensure that any claims were legitimate, but this are already there (e.g. NI Number). The unfortunate part is that BB is correct when he says that the savings would not be realised because the current bureaucracy would not be dismantled.

A minimum payment coupled with flate rate taxes = Utopia

Yes, agree on that entirely, plus constraining govt borrowing to a low multiple of its tax revenues and inhibiting money "printing" thereby inhibiting spending to (relatively more) sustainable levels, but all this would be faced with huge uphill resistance sadly.

[scooterscot]

Think I'll be voting SNP ;O)

[lilelvis2000]

Think I'll be voting SNP ;O)

I wish I could.