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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That's pretty old, saw it on You tube over a week ago. he didn't say anything wrong just didn'y seem prepared for the interview, which is unusal
 
robgmun said:
That's pretty old, saw it on You tube over a week ago. he didn't say anything wrong just didn'y seem prepared for the interview, which is unusal
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I know but C4 are reporting about it fully tonight

Mr Jack said:
How exactly did he slip up on gay equality there, exactly? Seems like he just didn't know about the vote.
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It is when the opposition latch onto something trivial like this. The whole thing seems a bit fishy. I didn't think gay rights were really that pressing in the lead up to the election. Especially the position Cameron is in; trying to appease some of the old guard and bring certain elements of the party into line
 
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I think the problem is that of policies not being totally independent of each other

1) Policy of not voting on other countries interests from the EU (they can't complain about legislation coming in from Brussels if they are joining in on the making of legislation that only affects other member-states as that would make them hippocritical)

2) Policy of always voting non-homophobia under all circumstances.


So it was a vote on homophobia in another member state. In other words a catch 22. One or the other tory policy had to be broken.

He didn't know (immediately) how to answer the question - as in, which policy should have been broken in this situation. In fairness, it was a lose/lose situation for the tories. If he'd screamed 'We definately should vote anti-homophobia' the journo just writes 'Cameron goes pro-EU, agrees with Brussels screwing with other countries business'. If he screams 'We don't screw with countries that are none of our business' journo writes 'Tories are homophobic/don't vote against homophobia - what nasty dudes'!
 
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stockhausen said:
There is some truth in that; the modern Conservative party is led by a bunch of independently wealthy, public school and Oxford educated professional politicians who have never done a days real work in their lives - oh yes, and a proven liar and good friend on non-dom multi-millionaires although he also read Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford :rolleyes:
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So what, I'd rather have educated people running the country regardless of whether they were state educated or privately educated.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/31/immigration-control-gordon-brown

Brown: Immigration is under control.

Only problem is Brown, no-one believes you - they can see with their own eyes the adverse impact your open house immigration policies have had on the country outside of the big cities. Don't think you can avoid criticism in this area by using tainted statistics either Brown, it won't wash. The Labour government since 1997 is guilty of betraying the British working class, and for what? "to rub the right's nose in diversity" - the people won't forget that.
 
There is some truth in that; the modern Conservative party is led by a bunch of independently wealthy, public school and Oxford educated professional politicians who have never done a days real work in their lives
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I am essentially paraphrasing this from an Economist article but it rightly mentions that Tony Blair was publicly educated aswell, he was just better able to identify with the demographic of the country. The Conservative lineup [according to the article] is esentially full of people with both an 'I scratch your back' mentality towards their wealthy peers and a noblisse oblige towards the disadvantaged, yet who are out of touch with the needs of the middle class.
 
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scorza said:
The Labour government since 1997 is guilty of betraying the British working class, and for what? "to rub the right's nose in diversity" - the people won't forget that.
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Looking through this thread, I actually think that yes, the people will forget it and continue voting Labour.
 
My 2 cents are that I have zero faith in Gordon Brown who overstayed his welcome already but at the same time I don't see the conservatives and Mr Cameron as a viable alternative that I would vote for. Dare I say that I'm swaying towards voting Lib Dem.

EDIT: Oh dear at how many voted BNP!
 
neoboy said:
My 2 cents are that I have zero faith in Gordon Brown who overstayed his welcome already but at the same time I don't see the conservatives and Mr Cameron as a viable alternative that I would vote for. Dare I say that I'm swaying towards voting Lib Dem.
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If it does go hung parliament those lib dems are going to have SO MUCH POWER! Basically more than the 'second past the post' party who doesn't get them on their side.

It's kind of a wierd bad side effect of democracy going a little wrong .. the perfect system would have the second past the post always having more power than the third past the post ..

oh well, let's see.
 
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They all reckon its gonna be a hung parliament now.
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They all reckoned Labour would win in 1992 as well, up to and including the day of the election, and Major won the largest number of popular votes for a single party recorded in any election (although he lost a lot of seats due to the FPTP system).

Given that we've got six weeks of campaigning yet, I'm far from convinced we can predict the result with any reliability.
 
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They all reckoned Labour would win in 1992 as well, up to and including the day of the election, and Major won the largest number of popular votes for a single party recorded in any election (although he lost a lot of seats due to the FPTP system).

Given that we've got six weeks of campaigning yet, I'm far from convinced we can predict the result with any reliability.
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Agreed.

I think the all-new American style TV debates will swing the polls 5 points either way. I just hope they talk facts rather than sound-bites (unfortunately people tend to vote for sound bites like 'Unlike x, I think education is important' or 'our soldiers are bloody heroes every last one' (and everyone claps and likes the guy although he hasn't actually said anything) :(.
 
Dolph said:
They all reckoned Labour would win in 1992 as well, up to and including the day of the election, and Major won the largest number of popular votes for a single party recorded in any election (although he lost a lot of seats due to the FPTP system).
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That's not actually true, I've got an article in an issue of the New Statesman that shows why it's not the case. It also makes the case for why a Labour victory in 2010 is a lot more unlikely than a Conservative victory in 1992. I'll try and find it to either scan, or paraphrase.

EDIT: Found it.

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/02/labour-tories-polls-election
 
Well, the polls would suggest otherwise. I'm not really in a position to judge what the social opinion was, as I was only two at the time. :p

I know that polls can easily be massively misleading, but it's pretty much all I can go on.
 
I'm voting Labour when they finally announce the election. They have done a fantastic job with the economy, made us all richer and Gordon Brown is actually quite sexy.
 
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