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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Dolph said:
Indeed, unfortuantely there is massive inertia to any alternative because of the mistaken belief people have that government funding is free services...
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No-one thinks that, that I've ever met.

Got any rational, evidence based arguments rather than jealousy, looks, and irrelevant comparisons given Brown's utter incompetence and poor performance on the international stage?
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This statement is presumably meant to be an ironic one - the second half of the sentence being an exact example of what the first half is complaining about? If so, I did enjoy it - very good, you do have a sense of humour after all!
 
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Dolph said:
No no no, you can't possibly do anything to change anything in the public service without reducing the amount of actual work done... Didn't you know?
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Sarcasm only works generally if you take the mickey out of something someone actually said. Still, this was quite a good try, I give it 4/10 which ain't as bad as it could be, keep working at it fella' you're getting there ..
 
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RDM said:
Other than yourself. In the post about "free" websites that people would happily pay for you mentioned the BBC website.
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Come on RDM -- do you really, really think I believe the BBC is free?

Little bit of intellectual dishonesty maybe creeping in here? There we go ..



(it's a question of the English language really. If a student says 'My tuition fees were free because of a government grant' only a numpty would say 'Aaaaha, got you on a technicality, it's wasn't free, some tax payer had to pay for that therefore by thinking it's 'free' you think the government invents money OMG you are so silly you know nothing'. Because TBH he'd look at you and say 'er .. no mate calm down .. you know what I meant' and then kind of avoid you and make different mates, and maybe 2 weeks later you'd see him pointing at you from across the student bar whilst talking to someone about your conversation and laughing.)
 
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RDM said:
You seemed to imply it in that post.



What are you on about?
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You know and I know and everyone knows that I do not think the BBC is magically free.

When you argue a point which even YOU don't believe, just to try and somehow 'win', it is called 'intellectual dishonesty'.

Its a surprisingly common debating style, but generally considered naff.

There you go -- you've learnt a new expression today ..
 
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britboy4321 said:
You know and I know and everyone knows that I do not think the BBC is magically free.

When you argue a point which even YOU don't believe, just to try and somehow 'win', it is called 'intellectual dishonesty'.

Its a surprisingly common debating style, but generally considered naff.

There you go -- you've learnt a new expression today ..
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Your patronising style really is quite dull.

The fact that you yourself mentioned the website was "free" even when you are aware that it is paid for via the licence fee shows the sort of diconnect that Dolph is alluding to. Yes, intellectually many are aware that services are paid for out of taxation but because the actual cost for the service is hidden from them they consider the services to be free or grossly underestimate their actual costs.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
As far as I am aware, it is. BBC World is funded mainly by Government grants, and the BBC website is not part of BBC World. You don't have to pay to visit the BBC website, so yes - it is free.
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I wrote to the BBC once asking them to charge people outside of the UK for accessing BBC News an saying basically 'why should they get it for free?'

They wrote back saying it was partially funded by the BBC World Service, so no charge for the same reasons as we chuck the World Service out to everyone for free.

Quite interesting really. All about global image and identity, and remaining as a 'key player' on the international scene and all that.
 
Dolph said:
Got any rational, evidence based arguments rather than jealousy, looks, and irrelevant comparisons given Brown's utter incompetence and poor performance on the international stage?
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Fantastically said Dolph.

Cameron is classically British, he would be loved by the yanks and the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, who the **** likes Brown? Go and poll 10,000 Americans. I bet almost all of them will know of Blair by name, but not one Brown.
 
indeed I am jealous of Cameron and wish I was him. How could you tell? :\


By the way, I haven't got time to poll 10,000 Americans. Sorry.
 
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britboy4321 said:
This statement is presumably meant to be an ironic one - the second half of the sentence being an exact example of what the first half is complaining about? If so, I did enjoy it - very good, you do have a sense of humour after all!
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Nice little dogde there, now answer the ****ing question
 
britboy4321 said:
indeed I am jealous of Cameron and wish I was him. How could you tell? :\
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Well if you're not jealous -- I think you should be a little. I certainly am.

(I don't mean this with malice, I just mean he's going to be the most powerful man in the UK, he's had a good education and a good life. All envious things.)

People need to abandon their preconceptions based on the past. And ignore their parents.

The number of my friends that slate Tories without knowing ANYTHING about their policies (instead listening to their parents - who also know nothing) is shocking. Popular votes are retarded.
 
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Well if you're not jealous -- I think you should be a little. I certainly am.

(I don't mean this with malice, I just mean he's going to be the most powerful man in the UK, he's had a good education and a good life. All envious things.)

People need to abandon their preconceptions based on the past. And ignore their parents.

The number of my friends that slate Tories without knowing ANYTHING about their policies (instead listening to their parents - who also know nothing) is shocking. Popular votes are retarded.
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I wouldn't want to be PM if you were obliged to help big business above small business, reduce the welfare state so the people struggling most suffered more, squash the 'small man', pay people money if they're lucky enough to get married, and be as disruptive as possible towards the EU.

I'd feel awful. Id' feel embarrassed with myself.
 
britboy4321 said:
I wouldn't want to be PM if you were obliged to help big business above small business, reduce the welfare state so the people struggling most suffered more, squash the 'small man', pay people money if they're lucky enough to get married, and be as disruptive as possible towards the EU.

I'd feel awful. Id' feel embarrassed with myself.
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I wouldn't want you to be PM, because your views have no correlation with reality...
 
I mean he tried harder than any other country. He was saying he's not attending the EU Summit in Portugal if Mugabe is there. Basically he did everything in his power to try and stop the rot.

OK it achieved little, but that's kind of by-the-by. He was the world leader in trying. The conservatives have remained dead silent about his Zimbabwae policy which is telling. What should he have done? Just not bothered? If he did that now YOU would be saying 'he was terrible on Zimbabwae'.

If you agree that Brown has done some stuff right, you'll be harder to debate against. Zimbabwae would be a good one for you to throw your sticks in with as everyone saw he did the best he could to end the regime, leading the world.
 
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