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I'm voting Liberal Democrat. My constituency is safe Conservative and I'm not against a Conservative government, but my idea of a perfect government is 20 Vince Cable clones as all of the ministers. I agree with the Conservatives on most economic and social issues, but not on privatisation - I'd like to see a lot more utilities etc. nationalised. My main reason for LD is Proportional Representation; we need more than two options at a time and if 5% of the country want something it should get 5% representation in Parliament.

Labour has been a disaster for anyone not extremely rich or unemployed. Especially on education; their effective privatisation of schools and the proliferation of soft options and grade inflation is something I face daily at school.

The main problem facing our country is that politicians are influenced by business (even talking to them is too much, I despise lobbyists and think tanks). No party is willing to stand for that, unfortunately.