"judging by your comments, you'll fall for it"

What else do we have to go by other than a manifesto when deciding whom to vote for? The problem is that non-voters get accused of apathy rather than indifference. 

I'm toying with the idea of just writing an obscenity over my ballot paper, they have to count void votes - I won't be labelled as apathetic then. 

"Labour nearly ruinined online trade and sent  huge companies to Jersey to explot a now closed vat loophole"

Only if you want to re-write history. The UK is in the European Union and obliged therefore to add VAT to certain goods and services, the Channel Islands is not. The VAT free threshold on goods under £18 from outside the EU was introduced in...... 1984. When our government was.....

Removing the LVCR from goods imported from the Channel Islands but keeping it for goods coming from the rest of the world (what the government has done) will just result in consumers importing products from other non-EU countries. It protects the CD, DVD and Computer game industry (where regions are implemented) but all three are going digital now anyway. This only serves to push more customers to buy directly from China, from places like eBay, where there remains no VAT applied to low value goods. 

The ultimate result in less revenue for Royal Mail and more revenue for China Post. The Labour government in 2006 concluded that they wouldn't abolish LVCR for the Channel Islands (which I reiterate, was a Tory introduction) because of the damage it would do to Royal Mail. In 2012 the Tory party abolished LVCR for the Channel Islands because they don't give a damn about the revenues or profits of a company that they have now sold off. 

Only fair that I point out the reality. 

"Labour opened the borders for European worker to come and work on the cheap" 

Errmm..... nope. It was a Conservative government which initially led us into this second coming of the USSR in 1973, it was a Conservative government that signed the Maastricht treaty in 1992, and the current Conservative government is about as Europhile as any of them. When we joined the EEC the promiment opposition to the free trade and free movement of labour area were Labour politicians - particularly Michael Foot and Tony Benn. Their opposition was largely based on the fact that British workers would be undercut, and they were right. The public ignored them. Real socialists, the people who have nothing to do with this new neo-liberal centre ground Labour Party (people like Bob Crow) are still against the European Union on this basis. If you are a conservative mate then you have a very socialist viewpoint there (Arthur Scargills party is Eurosceptic for this reason too), the 'free market' ideology sees high unemployment as a good thing - because it drives down the cost of labour. 

"So anything the Labour party have to stay positively on the subject, I would take with a very large gain of salt"

You seem to have it in your mind that I am a Labour voter / member, I am neither. I will probably be drawing a large **bleep** on my ballot paper - but that doesn't mean I want to see you rewrite history about the European Union or the LVCR.