Are people still undecided on who to vote for today?

Newark Advertiser

Ahead of today’s General Election, the Advertiser took to the streets to found out if people are still undecided on who to vote for.

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00:00I'm undecided because a lot of things that they've said is going to happen has not happened.

00:14I don't have much faith in any of my local ones at all. What would make it right? At

00:21my age with no children still at work, I don't know what would make it right. NHS for me.

00:27They promised there's support for children. My son and daughter-in-law's just had another

00:33baby and can't get her in. It's making it difficult for my daughter-in-law to go because

00:37it's alright saying they can have childcare, there's not enough nurseries. So they're promising

00:42things and not carrying on. So yeah, I'm undecided. I don't particularly agree with what any of

00:47them are saying because it's not happened when they've said it.

00:50Made my mind up, so I'll be voting tomorrow. I just feel that the country needs a different

00:57what can I say, a different perspective and you know, now things just need to change.

01:05Well the way I'm voting tomorrow is purely and simply on my base life experience of where

01:12we need to be going for the future. So I'm using my past as an indicator of the future.

01:17The policies that they put forward, they can change by events as they happen, as they go

01:23along. There's no guarantee that anything they say today will be applicable in two years'

01:28time because it could be a nuclear bomb explosion and it'll be all different again. So it is

01:34what it is and you deal with everything as it happens.

01:37What helped make this in my mind that I wanted, we're looking for someone that is actually

01:42going to help the people of this country. We're very happy for people to come in but

01:48at the moment we've got a lot of people our own who don't have anywhere to live, aren't

01:53getting any help that way around, so that was one of the main things for me. Can't

01:58think of anything else at the moment, there's probably loads of other ones but that was

02:01one of the biggest things. I was tired of no straight answers. I wanted somebody that's

02:07you know, stand by what you believe in. You might not like it but at least have a view.

02:13I've made up my mind by default. I feel that most parties are the same so it was a case

02:18of process of elimination. The candidate that currently is in charge of the constituency

02:27where I live has done nothing for us. The next party, I didn't agree with their education

02:33policy so they were off, which only left me one or two other parties to vote for and I

02:39chose the one that I seemed to align with mostly and their policy with immigration.

02:44So it was a process of elimination and that's the way I chose it. By getting rid of the

02:50ones that weren't doing anything or weren't agreeing with things that were specific to

02:54what I was, that affects me. Obviously I'm single and they don't do anything for us.

03:00They don't do anything for us. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had children and they've

03:05flown the nest but we don't get nothing but us to help us support where obviously families

03:10do which is great but what about us lot out there? I'm doing, what, mostly between 56-70

03:16hours every week to survive, to pay my bills and everything else and I shouldn't have to.

03:23So I'm doing two people's hours basically a week and there's just no incentive. Everything's

03:29getting dearer and there's just, I look at it with no disrespect, the politicians are

03:36on a second wage, why should they be on a second wage? Why should they have a second

03:39house? That money could go somewhere else and I believe that when you get to a certain

03:43age in life, because I'm in the care industry, they shouldn't have to sell their homes either

03:48to go into care industry, that they need that care. They've worked their lives as well,

03:52what they've done for us. So no, I am very undecided because I'm a big believer that

03:58they all say that they're going to do this, this, this and when they get in, when we believe

04:02it, we don't get what they say they're going to give us.

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