In addition to my posts earlier, as a willing swing voter, I voted Clegg in the "I agree with Nick" era. He personally cost me over £20k with his lies. So Lib Dems are out completely for me and many of my friends, I'd suggest probably for life.
Please Labour, come good.
I'd love to vote Labour. What I want is a centrist government. A common sense, fair government. Tories are too far right, Labour's core is too far left. I've voted Labour before and would do so again, if they put together a campaign which has a hope in hell of winning.
I did both of those things and yes, I listened to the speech. What I heard did not make me even consider voting Labour for the reasons I've stated.
I'm also hopeful going forward, as this country needs a proper opposition to hold the government responsible for some of their dreadful policies.
They are in bits. They aren't a tour-de-force party like Blair in '97, full of new ideas and positivity. They are a party at war with itself, beholden to the unions. I don't want a socialist government any more than I want the Tories.
Their entire "campaign" seems to be "we don't like the...