UK people: what party will you be voting for in the next general election and why?

[MikeRox]

Cleary397 said:

MikeRox said:

Cleary397 said:
Labour.
My main concern is the NHS, and the Conservatives are currently in the process of privatising despite what the british media is reporting.

You dont' want to vote Labour if you're concerned about the NHS. They have done more damage to the NHS in the last decade than the Tories could ever dream of. Plus they'd fuck up the economy so much that we'd no longer be able to run an NHS in any shape or form.

Bring back the Monster Raving Looney Party, they were the only logical choice :(

As much as it goes against everything I should believe in, the Tories are the only option that won't utterly destroy what's left of our country at the moment.

Dont believe what mainstream UK media tells you about NHS.

Access to healthcare and speed of treatment improved significantly under the last labour government.

And is now crumbling under the burden of unaffordable PFI schemes which make Wonga loans look good value.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9640431/PFI-deals-crippling-the-NHS-with-1.5bn-of-handouts-needed-PAC-report.html

And I'm aware that the Conservatives also used PFI but Gordon Brown adored them because it didn't show as spending (which is how they make all those fancy charts showing spending looking more under control than it actually was), however it's the labour initiatives that are driving the Hospitals near me into the ground (we've lost services purely to keep another town's hospital viable and it's about to get a LOT worse for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS.

You want to see just how safe the NHS actually is in Labour's hands, look at the Welsh NHS which they have been fully in charge of throughout this parliament.

I'm sick of this constant rhetoric that Labour will save the NHS while the Tories are destroying it when it's an outright lie. We need a very serious national debate about what we're going to do to keep the NHS going and as long as the Teletubbies are going Laalaa with their heads in the sand about it, the worse it's going to be in the long term.

I don't believe what the mainstream media tells me. I know the simple economics that a contractual requirement that a £25.00 fee has to be paid directly to the owner of the hospital to replace every light bulb along with other ridiculous "service charges", on top of rent and interest charges is not good for the tax payer or the NHS. It was just a plain bad idea but they managed to keep things ticking over just long enough to be able to try and pin it all on the Tories.

I know 2010 was a long time ago. But I can't believe how quickly people have forgotten:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8688470.stm