Wanted: your views on the general election
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As part of our general election coverage Inside Housing is looking to recruit a panel of readers to tell us what you think.
The group will be emailed each week, asking them to give their opinion on the latest key issues, and which party they’d vote for.
The results of these polls will be published in the magazine and online.
All responses will be treated as anonymous, and any details supplied will only be used to contact you in relation to the election polls.
If you’d like to be added to the panel please email gene.robertson@insidehousing.co.uk.
We want to use the same panel throughout the run up to the election, so no new members will be added after 19 March.
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Readers' comments (8)
jimmy b | 10/03/2010 9:33 am
I am now 72 have always voted Labour, but I must admit I am very disapointed at what has gone on, re expences, the war in Iraqe, Afganistan, and the bank bonuses scandle. The way I feel I will never vote Labour again, and would never vote Conservative so what have I got left. The Green Party?. The Liberals?. The Raving Loony Party?. not to mention a few more
As a commited Christian I do not have any trust in a none Christian Politicians.
We need totaly honest and upright people. these seem to be few and far between.
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Harry Lime | 10/03/2010 9:46 am
Personally I'm hoping this election results in a hung parliment that will give the Lib Dems the chance to get Proportional Representation higher up the political agenda. The first past the post system is irrelevant when the Tories and Labour are only marginally different shades of purple at the moment. Although I've never voted for them (!) The Lib Dems are often the only ones with truly transparent policies, and I also would love to see Vince Cable as Chancellor, which could happen in a hung parliment. He's the only one to seem to have made sense of the recent financial meltdown(s)
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karen | 10/03/2010 10:30 am
I agree with Harry - and the fact proportional representation isn't realised is wrong in my mind.
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ancient Greek | 10/03/2010 10:37 am
Little confidence in either Labour of Conservative, principle over the war lies and the MP's corruption although the Torries have no street cred with their 'sleeze-from-Belize' and the Honduran $ buying spree of marginal parliamntary seats.
Which leaves us if only tactically with the Liberals and Simon Hughes who has had an impecable record on Planning and related issues; at least they did not vote for the Bushites' war.
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Kev Dupree | 10/03/2010 11:06 am
Tories or Labour, it really is a case of the lesser evil.
Its unfortunate that without the liberals being a credible "third party" ie: very unlikley to get in power, a vote for them is often considered "wasted". I would vote for them except for the fear that the tories may get in, and for that reason alone labour has my vote.
I keep having nightmares of waking up and having David Cameron as our primeminister. Would you seriously want this man representing Britain on the world stage?
Harry - i agree about Vince - he does seem like a genuine politician with a grasp on the realities of our current situation and its not often you can say that about a politician.
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martin laval | 10/03/2010 11:30 am
As a council house tenant I won't be voting Labour due to their policy of trying to con tenants into transfer to housing associations with promises of improvements. This is privatisation and only benefits the banks, consultants and the HA's fat cat executives.
I'll be voting for anyone but the anti-council housing Labour and Tories.
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Nadine Nylander | 10/03/2010 11:52 am
I am a social housing tenant and between 2003-2008 worked as an Electoral Services Canvasser for two London local authorities (London Borough of Southwark (2003/5) and the City of Westminster (2007/8) working with diverse communities in my allocated areas of between 700-1500 properties - and getting an insight into the UK/British electorate's thinking on voting and participation in the democratic process.
I am a little surprised that the Ministry of Justice's public consultation from December 2009 - to early 2010 on proposed changes to the Edited Register has not attracted more public attention (the Edited Register might be scrapped altogether, amended or jiggled about with) but the end result will have impact on funding/financing implications for both the charity/commercial sectors and access to information under the Freedom of Information on personal details of the electorate.
I took part in the consultation because I had some things to feedback due to my experiences as a canvasser - and I was actually offered an interview as a Temporary Election Services Assistant with the London Borough of Haringey in December 2009; where they acknowledge that any major changes to the Edited Register will or might have some impact on voting behaviour.
I'd be interested to know how the housing/voluntary sector anticipate changes to the Electoral Register/s affecting their annual budgets which are 'funding-led' and the subsequent impact this might have on social housing tenants voting behaviour.
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affeared! | 12/03/2010 4:41 pm
I look at the record of the present incumbent of No 10 and think 'No Way'.
Then I look at the alternatives....!!
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