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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I wasn't aware of such a thing is a hung government, I thought 1 vote more was enough to win, however I did not want labour back in power. I have since done some research, watched Nick Clegg on question time, and he seems very reasonable and forthcoming. (I do not believe that they will win, but even if they did I would be happy)
I thought the Lib Dem party were very right wing hippy, (through hearsay and lack of investing time in learning anything about politics) As a leader Clegg appeals to me with his grasp of common sense, and honesty.
I don't admit to having enough information or education in the field (can most) to say whether they're policies are possible or perfect, but I have decided that their key policies seem more reasonable and based around common sense. (my only worry being the phasing out of nuclear power)
A vote for a 3rd party will also mean that the first 2 parties will have a shallower chance of a majority.
 
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ChroniC said:
I wasn't aware of such a thing is a hung government, I thought 1 vote more was enough to win, however I did not want labour back in power. I have since done some research, watched Nick Clegg on question time, and he seems very reasonable and forthcoming. (I do not believe that they will win, but even if they did I would be happy)
I thought the Lib Dem party were very right wing hippy, (through hearsay and lack of investing time in learning anything about politics) As a leader Clegg appeals to me with his grasp of common sense, and honesty.
I don't admit to having enough information or education in the field (can most) to say whether they're policies are possible or perfect, but I have decided that their key policies seem more reasonable and based around common sense. (my only worry being the phasing out of nuclear power)
A vote for a 3rd party will also mean that the first 2 parties will have a shallower chance of a majority.
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Seems fair enough logic.

Hung parliament ..
Lets say party A gain 60 seats, party B gain 50 seats and party C gain 12 seats and no-one else gets any seats.. This is a hung parliament. It means if party B and C get in bed together, they can beat the 'government' at ANY vote!! hence effectively a 'coalition government' takes power .. and the government, that got most votes, ends up unable to do anything!!
 
britboy4321 said:
Seems fair enough logic.

Hung parliament ..
Lets say party A gain 60 seats, party B gain 50 seats and party C gain 12 seats and no-one else gets any seats.. This is a hung parliament. It means if party B and C get in bed together, they can beat the 'government' at ANY vote!! hence effectively a 'coalition government' takes power .. and the government, that got most votes, ends up unable to do anything!!
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If we're being technically accurate here, a hung parliament would be if two parties have exactly the same amount of seats in the Commons. Essentially, all a party has to do is gain a majority to win the general election, and this would mean winning the most seats in the Commons. An overall majority (a party having more seats than all the other parties combined) is obviously desirable, but not necessary.
 
I've had a few people say to me recently they weren't voting. Now, fair enough if you have read the main policies of the main parties, and don't find anything you like. Though for me that isn't a good excuse, as there must be a party you are 'most' agreeable too, and so by default is superior than the others. But most of these people haven't even looked, they are just 'not bothered'!

I'm pretty open minded, but I just can't get my head around someone not wanting to spend 20 minutes researching for what is one of the key elections in recent decades.
 
Admittedly I'm not going to look back through the whole thread tonight, but...

Is there a nice source for what each party is offering? A simple break down comparison maybe?
 
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Conservative here
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I'm leaning towards conservative but still can't make up my mind.

I won't vote for labour cause they ned some time out of power to get their heads straight and i don't fancy the lib dems cause they just seem to say anything to get themselves elected and are anti-nuclear.

I'm not convinced by the conservatives economic policy though and this is the biggest factor for me
 
UKIP have just lost what little chance they had of me voting for them - they're going to double prison places (how? it'll take decades to build the prisons), increase defence spending by 40% and cut taxes....

I'm not sure how they expect to do those 3 without massive cuts elsewhere.
 
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UKIP have just lost what little chance they had of me voting for them - they're going to double prison places (how? it'll take decades to build the prisons), increase defence spending by 40% and cut taxes....

I'm not sure how they expect to do those 3 without massive cuts elsewhere.
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Can't you just stack the prisoners? Have them sleeping in eight hour shifts thereby meaning that you can fit three times as many prisoners to a cell as we do now - damn UKIP just not not being efficient and taking things to their logical conclusion.

The above is obviously not serious, the three options are to a certain extent all conflicting with each other although I suspect they'll say a big proportion of the savings to enable the first two will come from withdrawal from the EU - looking only at the headline figures spent on EU membership and ignoring that the benefits are not necessarily as easily quantifiable in purely monetary terms.
 
Werewolf said:
UKIP have just lost what little chance they had of me voting for them - they're going to double prison places (how? it'll take decades to build the prisons), increase defence spending by 40% and cut taxes....

I'm not sure how they expect to do those 3 without massive cuts elsewhere.
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Believe it was just quoted there would be £50 Billion worth of cuts in Public Services in Year 1.

They are ambitious that's for sure, but seeing how I believe the Eurosceptic Conservative has a higher chance here my vote is decided, I'm not even sure if UKIP will stand in my constituency for that reason.
 
One thing I am not certain of and if someone can help me work this out in my mind.

Labour are in Government, however my local council is run by the conservatives.

Now in the propaganda I go tthis morning they say how Labour have ruined Stratford, but Conservatives will turn it around. Do they not have the power to do this anyway? And is it them not actually Labour that have ruined Stratford?

They bleat on about how cost of parking/commercial rent etc has ruined it, but they are in power here.

Maybe I'm missing something that someone can explain?
 
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