I've just had my local Conservative Rep at my door!!!!  

i'll definitely vote but it will certainly not be for either labour or the tories.

A lot of people say they hate the whole "door to door" canvasing..but statics shows it works. People are more likely to vote for someone they have actually met and gotten to talk to.

I'm not from the UK, but if I were, I'd be voting. I might not know who I was going to vote for until I actually got to the voting booth, but I'd vote. It's the only voice you really have in government, so why not use it?

I always vote no matter how small the issue. I think it is your right to vote or not to vote. However, if you do not vote, then you shouldnt complain about your representation!

I left the UK some years ago (the high unemployment in the North of England under the Tories in the 1980s was one of the major reasons that I left, incidentally), and I am no longer eligible to vote there. I am also not eligible to vote here yet, so I have become almost completely disenfranchised.

My advice would be to ignore personalities (whether it is the people coming door-to-door, or the soothing voices made by party spokesman) and carefully examine the policies being offered. Ask yourself whether they will work. Ask yourself also will they make things better in the long-term (a short-term fix might be OK for six months, but things could then get a lot worse as a result).

I am glad actually that I cannot vote in this election, as it is without doubt the worst choice there has been since 1983. If I lived in Scotland, I would vote SNP, and start looking for an independent future. For people in England the choice is far more difficult.

Can't comment much on what's happening in the UK but I'd urge you to vote because it's the ultimate poll in both of our countries. I just don't hold with throwing a vote away and I find personally that I always prefer one candidate when I really look at the issues.

As for those bothersome people who come to the door, we get plenty of them here also. We have one very good congressman who visits every home in his district once a year and we like him as does everybody else. Unfortunately, he was a dark horse candidate when he first won office over 15 years ago. After his surprise victory and growth in popularity over the years, they all started campaigning door to door during elections and re-elections. Mostly they are a real nuisance and we don't see them at all until it's re-election time so we just have to lay low in the weeks leading up to elections.