Richard Hawley wrote:
nah its not apathy its just a lack of faith,i will vote of course
Am in a similar position to you. Have been a Labour voter all my life, as have my whole family. But I just can't vote for a party that took us into this war or who give bankers all our money but don't seem to have any control over what they do with it.
I had Labour knock on our door last week and I ended up getting the real hump with the middle-class university boy on the doorstep. He had the fucking cheek to start giving me the "if you don't vote Labour, you'll let the Tories in" shite. Like it's my fucking fault that they screwed up the biggest vote for Labour since 1945, like if I vote for someone else, I'm betraying myself somehow.
I'm really angry with them because it's them that have changed, not me. And they've left me with little or no alternative – I could never vote Tory and I don't buy the Lib Dems – I live in an area where they've actually been in charge of the council and they behaved like opportunist racists, opening the door for the country's first BNP councillor.
I am going to look at the Greens cos at least them seem to have leftist leanings. And I discovered
http://www.tusc.org.uk/ which seems to be a trade union/socialist coalition but I don't think they're standing in many places.
And, sadly, whatever happens, whoever is elected, for those of us who work in the public sector, dark days are coming.