[Matth]

Under "survival of the least unfit", New Labour's underachievement and stealth taxation will probably be rated less harshly than the Tories incoherent mumblings - the Lib Dems are NO alternative whatsoever.

The Conservatives got in when people were sick of Labour's mismanagement. Labour got back when they went into meltdown.

I'd like to vote UKIP, as I belive the EU is going down a road we should not follow, but the area was lost from Conservative to Labour in the meltdown (from being a "safe" seat), but recovered by them in the last election, so I'd have to back them instead - under PR, I'd vote UKIP - or any alternative that would be pressuring for the EU to be a co-operation of nation states, rather than a surrender to a superstate. To actually leave the EU would be a last resort, but its an option which must be on the table, which means staying out of EMU - basically, take no step in that cannot be reversed.