Vote for who you think is best for our country, just spare a thougt for us water gypsies who have to live with your mistake lol

pay your taxes and shut up

Think we could do with this Labour run Kirklees council out. Let way too much housing be built on green belt land.

suppose if you want out of Europe you vote UKIP... but then they are not going to get a majority... saying that no party will !

Labour want to put up taxes on the working people and give it more to the benefits brigade.

Lib dems will say anything just to be part of the coalition again!

Conservatives prob best bet seeing as they have improved the economy after it was in turmoil.

30/40% of people wont even bother to vote or show no interest.

waits for barrage of arguments....

Conservative for me. Best bet they seem to have the economy going up, the deficit down, unemployment down, understand that being part of Europe is important while it's important although not being a slave to Europe!
Think ukip will get a a fair few votes, nothing close to what would be needed but enough to show that the next government needs to do something with more with immigration while not being as blunt as ukip!
Labour well milliband put nicely is a bit of a wally!
Lib dems damage came from a coalition from which they got little out of and have lost there voters!

The conservatives Will never get my vote given what they have done to education. Good teachers are leaving in droves, recruitment and retention figures are terrible. And the education system is totally failing young people and the country by not supplying Young people with any skills. But hey they can all cram for an exam and memorise and regurgitate useless information that they promptly a) forget anyway when they've left the exam room b) don't need to know because information is available 24/7 via the internet.
these young people are what we are relying on to pay our pensions......

Did my GCSEs and A levels under labour....memory tests just like now! least apprenticeships are back, would have suited me a hell of a lot more but there was nothing like that going! Cost me a fair few thousand to go through different gym and nutrition courses and find my own gym to trade and train in

Are the Monster Raving loony party still going ??? these days they would pi$$ the elections !!!

Oh and let's not forget green who want to forget the deficit and borrow and extra 80 billion.......

You're more likely to catch me in a Leeds Rhino's shirt than you are putting my cross next to the Tory Party on a ballot paper.

not all qualifications under labour were memory tests- plenty of vocational skills based qualifications- if you did A-levels then your school didn't send you down that route. probably not for you. The current government have done away with vocational courses. Apprenticeships aren't working because those offering them expect the youngsters to have certain skills they don't havs. So if you can't memorise useless stuff you fail. Great for those wanting to be lawyers, accountants, teachers - Where does the country get its other skilled workers from then? It's construction workers? Tradesmen? Service sector workers? Social care workers? ....... Poland, Eastern europe,.....
Then will come those moaning about immigration....

At 16 I was sat down made to apply for colleges, not much other option out my way just an expectation to do it and being clueless at that point in my life to what I wanted to do or be took some generic a levels and ended up using none of them for the career I am in now!

I suppose it's doing to experience and perspective. All the people I stayed in touch with either went to college or took entry level jobs at factory's, supermarkets ect maybe a couple of exceptions of a few working for family businesses in there

Out of interest, why do you care about the government deficit? Why do you think it matters?

It's massive for the future of any country, business or household. If what's coming in is less than going out you cannot run forever! My take on it is if the country is reducing its borrowing and spending to try help balance the books it's a good thing in the long run. A difficult task as so many things needed to be cut but as long as sensible things are also cut ie the millions that was being sent to India to help there poorest while the top develop space programs and increase there military spending then it's surely a good thing

Nice to know the ignorant and ill informed are still spouting rubbish.

I am currently working in Norfolk.

Working with the most disadvantaged . Working with loads of immigrants mainly Poles, Lithiuanians and Rumanians.

This includes approximately 20 Rumanians all living in one house. 14 adults and 6 children.

The funny thing is that all the adults are working. Everyone and they share the childcare out between them.

Unfortunately they are all likely to be made homeless soon as the accommodation is overcrowded. The dodgy landlord was forced to take action because the house is unfit for human habitation.

They all have limited funds because they all earn either the minimum wage ( or less) they are all on Zero hours contracts.
Many working on the land picking the fruit and veg that you eat because no one else will work in those conditions for so little money.

The others work for the largest poultry producer in the country. I will give you a clue the fat who makes your turkey twizzlers.

They actually earn enough to keep them off the bread line. None of them are eligible for ANY public funds ie tax breaks housing benefit etc BECAUSE Zero hours contracts dont count as official work to allow you to claim any benefits.

The thing i find funny about it is that in the fields where they all work their are loads of political posters up. |They are all Blue and purple.

Guess what?
the people benefitting from exploiting them and making profits from them are all UKIP and Conservative party candidates/ supporters.

Amazing isnt it that those who argue to get thick anti immigrant voters to vote for them are the same ones who bring the immigrants in give them jobs and make money out of employing them.

Ukip and the Tories slogan should be , "immigrants out except for those we can exploit and make money out of so we can keep or land and support tax cuts for the rich"

=#0000FFFunny that AdamHuddsGiant and Brearley so easily fall for the anti immigration, wave the union jack , im alright jack approach of UKIP and the Tories.

I could understand it if they worked in the city of London and were loaded ( maybe they could give Ken a hand with the Giants)

A reason why some of my friends and many local lads who work in factories cant get wage rises is because the companies just employ foreign workers who will come and work for peanuts, so when they ask for a rise they get told to get lost and leave if you dont like it as they can employ someone else cheaper.

i dont blame the foreign workers for coming looking for work though cant blame them.

the fat cat companies must love it paying out wages on the cheap, minimum wage needs to be raised?

all the parties just tell us what we want to hear i suppose.

Ok Durham fair nice to know I am ignorant, easy to be informed if your probably working in a situation like you are but I am not. I am 27 year old manufacturer with a partner two kids and a house. My views are based on what I read, hear and see!
Zero hours should be scrapped with out a doubt.
But the problem is that the belief that Britain has a gold opportunity for loads of immigrants as you say isn't there. I don't know the individual story's of each family that comes but there must be a belief that things are better here than where they are. And that isn't the case because the opportunitys are not there the infrastructure isn't there and the more people that are allowed to come over the more stretched the system becomes?
Immigration is an issue in Britain because it can't cope, which is leading to a poor life quality for some of those that come over!

safe to say you will be voting Labour then durham.. at least i will be voting not like most people my age who just arent interested and dont have a clue whats going on.

I will second that! I only have 15 years to go on when I was aware of what was going on in politicos the start labour was in and things went wrong, conservatives in and things appear to be getting better?

But the Tories plans are to create a very cheap poorly educated workforce based on zero hours contracts, no employment rights and low wages ( they often refer to it as flexible workforce or flexible working conditions) They want to do that for ALL british workers what they are doing now is blaming foreigners so that people like you vote for them and then they will shaft you after they win.

Simple problem for voters! Are things like! Google education the top one is pro conservative states 18 billion to be spent on schools!
Second one anti conservative 10 percent cut in education as it will not be spared from inflation.
It's crazy to say but it obvious why ten million are expected not to vote! Every camp has pros and cons and exploits the others failings or lacking areas!
Problem is cuts will be made and more money is needed in because we have over spent and borrowed leaving a massive national debt!
I want it simple a good work market so I can get a job and keep it and if I lose it find another, if I fall and break my leg the Nhs will fix it, and know in old age I will be looked after! Simple things!

What so many fail to realise is if immigrants are stopped coming into the country to work those many are going to be worse off. If businesses have to pay workers more they will not be able to compete in the global market, and if they sell domestically it impacts on the pockets of those who live here. Prices go up!
Not to mention the fact that unemployment will increase as companies who can't compete slash their workforce or go out of business. Those that can still continue in business may decide not to pay more- so wages go down.

Since WWII, of the trophies that really matter, we have won the Challenge Cup in 1953, the Championship in 1962 and the [icoup de grâce[/i - the 1993 European Cup - under the Conservatives and the League Leaders Shield in 2013 under the Coalition. The only major trophy - unless we are including the 2002 Buddies Cup - we have won under Labour in that time is the 1949 Championship.

So for me the choice is obvious. Vote Fartown. Vote Tory.

How do you define an idiot.

Someone who quotes Ronald Reagan and thinks that makes some sort of convincing arguement