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I voted Lib Dem only to be told no one has got what they voted for?

I voted Lib Dem because I liked their manifesto, their view of government. I knew the only way the Lib Dems could get into government was to form coalition. My preference was with the Tories because I don't trust Labour and found nothing to support about either their manifesto or coalition agreement.

Now you hear to great cheers that no one has what they voted for. Well I do and everyone I know who voted Lib Dem do. The Lib Dems have more job security, more policies than I thought they could ever get into government without desperately imagining a majority. I have what I wanted the Lib Dems in coalition with the party I wanted the coalition formed with. Who has or hasn't got what they voted for?

Update:

Everyone who oposses the coalition, I would go into reclusion if the Lib Dems had sided with Labour; and I would have no friends in my area if I voted Labour, whom I don't support and who have no real pressence in Wessex.

Update 2:

Bob, read the question. I know you haven't. I said I voted Lib Dem and got exactly what I wanted in Government. I wanted to know who has got what they wanted and who has not got what they wanted.

Update 3:

Lady M Baby #2 due 14/09/10 - you misunderstand. I don't support the Tories, quite the opposite I support the Lib Dems but the economic (classical) and social liberal wings of the party. I don't support the social democratic wing of Hughes. And by the way I do not support Thatcher or what she stood for. I've never sang the Tories praises.

Update 4:

Mac the Knife: the rightwing Lib Dems had given ground to the leftwing Lib Dems, but the righwing (Laws and co) had said privately that the Market would not tolerate a delay to public cuts. Labour are the reason the country was so ill prepared for the recession. Your chosen party of your ultimatum choice had outlined £50 Billion to be cut but didn't say where the cuts would be. That behaviour, and I hope you agree, is disingenuous. Labour have done whatever they may to distance themselves from necessary cuts and have attempted to pass on their culpability to the coalition, especially to the Lib Dems. That behaviour, and I hope it is to you as well, is dishonest and in your words 'no better than [lying] whores'. I would have doubted someone such as yourself could be able to support Labour after their ill preparation for a possible recession. There is only one choice for you and people on the same boat and that will only ever be Labour. There's no leader on the boat and the plug's loose!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I voted Lib Dem and got a Tory PM.

    As long as we get SOME aspects of the Lib Dem manifesto (I beleive the removal of tax on earnings up to £10K is still going through) I won't feel too bad . . . at least its a coalition.

    I would have been worse if we'd got a 100% Conservative Government. Sorry, but after growing up in the Thatcher years and watching that witch callously destroy my hometown and the lives of people who lived in it, I no longer trust the Tories and DavCam is going to have to work bloody hard to win a lot of people's trust back for them!

    Picturesque Wessex might have a lot of Tory support but try singing their praises here in SE Wales or the Sout Wales Valleys industrial heartlands, which they virtually destroyed and turned into shiteholes full of unemployment, drug dependency and despair. You won't get such an enthusiastic response (in fact you'd probably have to run for your life).

    I get tired of Southern Englanders singing her praises, completely ignorant of what she did to other parts of the UK.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I obviously didn't get what I voted for as I voted Labour, as for yourself, the main priority of this election was the economy, and the Libdems took the same stance as Labour on this in saying that harsh cuts shouldn't be made this year, I therefore suspect that this policy was part of why you voted for them. The problem is that now they are supporting the Tory stance and their excuse is that things changed a day after the votes had been counted, what a load of hogwash. It appears to me that all the main decisions on the economy are being supported by the Libdems, they are the Tory lapdogs and are no better than whores. At the next election there will now be only two choices Tory or Labour.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I voted LibDem also, and I definitely didn't expect them to jump into bed with the Conservatives so readily. I suppose I should have suspected it though, as Nick Clegg is a poshboy and is a LDINO (Lib Dem In Name Only).

    I only hope the likes of Charlie Kennedy, Simon Hughes and Vince Cable keep the LibDems honest.

    I switched from Labour for this election, because I thought Gordon Brown's handling of the economy for the past 13 years was a disaster. Now that he is gone, I may vote Labour again.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The people who are facing losing their jobs I expect.

    I think you are generous in your opinion of lib dems to be honest - they have sold their soul and are now finished as a party.

    They are now known as political chameleons.

    If a party has no chance of forming a government as you put it, they should at least represent what they stand for. Going into government through the back door with a petty few seats is the furthest away from democracy I ever saw.

    I am not being obstinate for the sake of it, I am genuinely affected by the prospects of losing my home and not being able to afford to work that my health is suffering. And all this because the people now controlling my life cannot see an intelligent way of dealing with the problems that we face. They have told lies about the economy in order to manipulate a situation that they think will be accepted by the working class of this country.

    They can think again - this won't wash. When push comes to shove people are going to be forced to commit crime to make a living.

    The lib dems are nothing more than a key to the door for conservative elitism.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Haha I was just picturing the voting ballot with a check mark next to "Lib Dem."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm like you I voted Lib Dem and have got what I expected as Labour have ruined the country

  • djones
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Charlie Kennedy, Simon Hughes and Vince Cable have sold their souls and their party down the river.

    They will go back to 1966 when they were lucky to get 9 MP's.

  • John D
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I didn't get what I wanted, a Tory Government, but anything that got rid of the disastrous Brown and his treacherous "buddies" was a result.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I thought everyone knew that politicians tell lies in order to get into power. Liberal and conservatives are historically enemies with opposing views. That says it all

    You'll regret it more in another year

    Source(s): dukebawkes
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You should therefore be celebrating.....I hope you did remember to place a bet on such an outcome coming to fruition?

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