[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by GrahamGarside

Unfortunately this is a view held by many so they will all vote labour out of fear of a tory government. But surely if everyone who is fed up with "labour" voted for lib dems (or who ever they wish) then there wouldn't be this problem

This is exactly what landed us with Tony Torquemada in the first place. In '97, people were bored with John Major's government, the press were raking it over hot coals all the time, internal rifts in the Tory party basically prevented them from doing anything useful and people were frankly bored. It wasn't that they were doing anything particularly wrong - there was little difference between Tory policy and New Labour policy (then as now) but that people perceived that everything the Tories did was wrong. So they voted "for the other guy" thus giving Bliar such a massive majority that he was able to bolt through legislation as though it was going out of fashion.

"Tactical" voting will always come back to haunt us. Better just to vote on policy, or if no party is suitable, write "reopen nominations" across the ballot paper and submit that.