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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Green manifesto - just lost an entire cup of tea all over my screen.

Tidbits:

* minimum wage would rise to £8.10 per hour
* large companies would be obliged to ensure at least 40 per cent of board members to be female
* raising fuel duty on petrol
* introducing fuel duty and VAT on aviation and “eco-taxes” on pollution.
* scrapping nuclear warheads
* scrap road building programmes
* free insulation for all homes
* re-opening post offices that have shut down
* class sizes down to an average of 20 pupils
* a weekly state pension of £170 per week for all
* an end to student tuition fees, free school meals for all
* scrapping prescription charges
* redistribute wealth by anyone earning over £45,000 pay more income tax

And presumably plant loads of money trees.
 
meghatronic said:
Green manifesto - just lost an entire cup of tea all over my screen.

Tidbits:

* minimum wage would rise to £8.10 per hour
* large companies would be obliged to ensure at least 40 per cent of board members to be female
* raising fuel duty on petrol
* introducing fuel duty and VAT on aviation and “eco-taxes” on pollution.
* scrapping nuclear warheads
* scrap road building programmes
* free insulation for all homes
* re-opening post offices that have shut down
* class sizes down to an average of 20 pupils
* a weekly state pension of £170 per week for all
* an end to student tuition fees, free school meals for all
* scrapping prescription charges
* redistribute wealth by anyone earning over £45,000 pay more income tax

And presumably plant loads of money trees.
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Ach a truly left-wing party. Warms the cockles of your heart, doesn't it!! ;)
 
Wow, the Green party are lunatics! How do they intend on funding all of their crazy schemes? Surely their maths can't add up!
 
dbappa said:
Wow, the Green party are lunatics! How do they intend on funding all of their crazy schemes? Surely their maths can't add up!
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I assume a 90% tax bracket for the rich. And the scrapping of our military, road repairs and increasing road tax/other naughty emissions related things, by 1000%.
 
What year of uni are you at ahleckz?

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dbappa said:
Wow, the Green party are lunatics! How do they intend on funding all of their crazy schemes? Surely their maths can't add up!
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I don't think they really expect to be in power, or even to have a say in the Government in the event of a hung Parliament. I place the Green party just a notch ahead of the Monster Raving Loony Party in terms of policy silliness. :D
 
dbappa said:
Wow, the Green party are lunatics! How do they intend on funding all of their crazy schemes? Surely their maths can't add up!
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Indeed, and it just shows how out of touch with public opinion the BNP are that they are firmly behind the greens in elections :)
 
britboy4321 said:
Under Labour we had the biggest, longest boom in history. It was blimin' awesome. Decent paying, awesome jobs for anyone that wanted one enough. Everyone prepared to knuckle down made an absolulte mint. I repeat, it was just awesome.

Calling all those years some kind of 'fail' is ridiculous, especially considering the tories didn't manage half as much boom before their (MUCH WORSE) bust.
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All that boom was funded by debt though. And the Government didn't keep some aside for a rainy day unlike Australia, Canada etc.
 
krooton said:
I did the website were you select policies, and ended up being 55% UKIP! Weird, given I am originally an immigrant, haha.

I was originally on the fence between Tory and Lib Dem, but some of the Lib Dem policies have Toryville edging it.
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Do you have a link to that?
 
Duke said:
All that boom was funded by debt though. And the Government didn't keep some aside for a rainy day unlike Australia, Canada etc.
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Almost all investment is funded through debt though.

Australia and Canada have large mineral and/or oil reserves, the commodity price of which has sky rocketted, as a consequence this has helped them escape the global recession, not public spending or a lack of it.
 
scorza said:
Almost all investment is funded through debt though.
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Yes, but we have had a lot of non-investment spending funded by debt. We had a structural deficit due to excessive government spending, rather than cyclical deficit as a result of a loss in income, because even during the boom, we were spending more than we were bringing in.

It's like the difference between borrowing money to buy a new house and borrowing money to pay for your weekly shopping...

If we had fiscally responsible government, we would have surplus during the peak, and deficit during the boom, not deficit and bigger deficit.
 
Pretty standard rhetoric so far - although GB got a laugh off me for the joke about never being able to smile.

Thing is, a lot of what is being said is good "in theory" - but how much of it is workable and/or would actually be implemented?
 
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