Poll: Which party will get your vote in the General Election?

Which party will get your vote in the General Election?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 704 38.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 221 12.1%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 297 16.2%

  • British National Party

    Votes: 144 7.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 36 2.0%

  • UK Independence Party

    Votes: 46 2.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 48 2.6%

  • Don't care I have no intension of voting.

    Votes: 334 18.3%
  • Total voters
    1,830
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mollymoo said:
You can't honestly agree with any of the major parties though, if a good percentage of the country actually voted for radical parties then the major parties would have to take note of this and adjust their policies accordingly and then maybe you would find that one of them would create an all encompassing set of policies. Which would be nice.
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As much as I may disagree with the major parties, I disagree with the irrational fringe parties much more, so why would I vote for them?

This is a serious question, you appear to be advocating that because I disagree with position A, I should vote for position B which I disagree with more than I disagree with position A, just to send a message to those who advocate A?

That would just result in more politicians moving towards B, it would be a total own goal...
 
Rich_L said:
Great efforts chaps at trying to explain the cause of the credit crisis, but bear in mind you are trying to explain it to a BNP supporter...something along the lines of:

Americans. Stupid. Borrowed Too Much. Couldn't Pay.

UK banks relied on US money. America money bad. UK money bad too.

Is about the right level you're aiming for.
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Edit: Actually, that was harsh, even for me :)
 
Dolph said:
As much as I may disagree with the major parties, I disagree with the irrational fringe parties much more, so why would I vote for them?

This is a serious question, you appear to be advocating that because I disagree with position A, I should vote for position B which I disagree with more than I disagree with position A, just to send a message to those who advocate A?

That would just result in more politicians moving towards B, it would be a total own goal...
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Well to be honest actually encompassing part of B is not such a bad idea, the idea being that you actually as a government try to satisfy all the people without actually sucking them off ;)
 
I am concerned at the dominance of Conservative voters on this poll.

If you are a working class individual, I find it shocking some may consider a Tory vote against their own interests. Fair enough if you are late teens, early twenties, but living through the Thatcher years, I know otherwise to the 'Best PM since..." rubbish pedalled by some media outlets.
 
I like the way the bar colours for conservative and labour are the wrong way around and BNP are in pink! :D
To be fair, it seems to be the case of choosing the least bad one of the bunch, and right now conservative may get my vote...
 
Floogie said:
I am concerned at the dominance of Conservative voters on this poll.

If you are a working class individual, I find it shocking some may consider a Tory vote against their own interests. Fair enough if you are late teens, early twenties, but living through the Thatcher years, I know otherwise to the 'Best PM since..." rubbish pedalled by some media outlets.
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hear, hear...I spent most of my teenage years under the Tories, and would say that the 80s was the most bitter and divisive decade largely through the policies of that odious old hag...:)

oh, and I usually vote Communist btw :D
 
wozencl said:
I would say it's because most people here work for a living. Also, I'm guessing the average OCUK'er doesn't rely on the government to tell them what to think, say and do. :p
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You've pretty much described me there, but I will be a Labour voter in the coming election anyway. If I can do it, the average OCUK'er can do it. :-P
 
Floogie said:
I am concerned at the dominance of Conservative voters on this poll.
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I wouldn't be too concerned just yet, so far in pretty much every political poll on OcUK I've ever seen the Conservatives have had a sizeable majority which has not been replicated in actual voting. Maybe this is the time that the rest of the voting public matches the expressed views of OcUK voters but I wouldn't bet the house on it.
 
semi-pro waster said:
I wouldn't be too concerned just yet, so far in pretty much every political poll on OcUK I've ever seen the Conservatives have had a sizeable majority which has not been replicated in actual voting. Maybe this is the time that the rest of the voting public matches the expressed views of OcUK voters but I wouldn't bet the house on it.
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Isn't about 40% give or take pretty much what the Conservatives have been polling in general across the country? 40 Con, 30 Lab, 20 Lib Dem has been it more or less since Cameron got the leadership.
 
wozencl said:
It's also the amount of the popular vote that the party going into government tends to get in a general election.
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Actually, it's a fair bit more than the ruling party has frequently got.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/constituencies/default.stm

see the 'share of the electorate' graph. 40% is more than Blair managed in 1997, more than thatcher recieved in any of her victories and so on.

Of course, the constituency issue makes things much more complicated, indeed is it is theoretically possible that the party with the highest popular vote could have no seats at all if the constituencies are right...
 
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