Poll: New poll on who you will vote for?

Who?

  • Labour

    Votes: 76 10.0%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 286 37.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 324 42.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 75 9.9%
  • Total voters
    761
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I haven't seen the whole of the Chancellor's debate yet, I only caught the end. I didn't think Cable was getting shredded, although Alistair was clearly coming out top. The thing that really struck me was Osbourne basically going "look, look, Ken was so much better a chancellor than I'll be! Listen to him, you can trust him! Don't look at me" - not sure that's a great strategy.
 
Mr Jack said:
I haven't seen the whole of the Chancellor's debate yet, I only caught the end. I didn't think Cable was getting shredded, although Alistair was clearly coming out top. The thing that really struck me was Osbourne basically going "look, look, Ken was so much better a chancellor than I'll be! Listen to him, you can trust him! Don't look at me" - not sure that's a great strategy.
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Didn't he say [Clarke] was a better Chancellor than [Darling]?
 
meghatronic said:
I thought Labour and Con beat LibDem to a pulp here as well
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Can't say I agree. I thought Rammell came across very badly, especially in his opening section. Liam Fox managed okay, mostly by not saying very much but that was about it - hardly a knockout performance. David Laws did look a bit shaky when they started talking numbers though.
 
naffa said:
I have to see this, Vince is by far and away the most qualified out of the three potential Chancellors. It must have been the policy that knocked him down, it can't have been anything else (and in all fairness, that's quite a big 'thing').

I agree with the Alistair Darling comments as well. This maybe naive, but he's one of the only politicians that I actually trust now, and seemingly, one of only a handful that are honest. :o
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The problem is that the lib dem's policy is a bizarre mix of the two sides of the party without much in the way of real substance to it. It tries to both embrace growth and punish growth-makers at the same time.

I'd also agree on Darling, I would (based on his decisions) note that the country would be in a much better place if he'd been in number 11 instead of Brown during the Blair years.
 
Mr Jack said:
I haven't seen the whole of the Chancellor's debate yet, I only caught the end. I didn't think Cable was getting shredded, although Alistair was clearly coming out top. The thing that really struck me was Osbourne basically going "look, look, Ken was so much better a chancellor than I'll be! Listen to him, you can trust him! Don't look at me" - not sure that's a great strategy.
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It was toned down by the end but the damage was done, but mid-way through he was taking a beating from everyone, and it effected the rest of his performace.

Or course you'll see what you want to see, but a vast majorty of people here agree with me with what they saw.

I suggest you watch the whole thing before you make more comments

I thought overall that Darling and Osbroune tied first place and vince a poor second

(got to love the quote that Osbroune trust Ken's comments far more than darlings, hehe, burn!!)



EDIT - don't forget guys

Dermot Meets ... David Camron and Nick Clegg tonight from 8pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s8wb6
 
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Mr Jack said:
Can't say I agree. I thought Rammell came across very badly, especially in his opening section. Liam Fox managed okay, mostly by not saying very much but that was about it - hardly a knockout performance. David Laws did look a bit shaky when they started talking numbers though.
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I watched it again as it was only short. You're right - I dislike his 4 vs 3 comments as well.
 
robgmun said:
It was toned down by the end but the damage was done, but mid-way through he was taking a beating from everyone, and it effected the rest of his performace.
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Quite possibly, I'll hopefully watch it later anyway :)

Or course you'll see what you want to see, but a vast majorty of people here agree with me with what they saw.
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I don't think it's true that we see what we want to see, but it's very true that our opinions colour how we percieve a debate. What seems like a killer blow to someone who agrees with a policy will seem like waving about a foolish notion to someone who disagrees with it.
 
lucasade1 said:
And a darn good decision it was too. This new poll makes it much more interesting without skewing the votes by giving the "not bothered" a voice.
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But it also makes the comparisons between the polls less meaningful. It'd be interesting to know how of the new Lib Dem voters had switched from "won't vote" for example.
 
groen said:
You removed the "will not vote", vote

Not voting is still a vote. remember that.
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You don't half spout some drivel pretending to be some form of fact...

not voting is not a vote in any shape, manner or form. At best it's a viewpoint on the options available, but it is not a vote.
 
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But it also makes the comparisons between the polls less meaningful. It'd be interesting to know how of the new Lib Dem voters had switched from "won't vote" for example.
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True, but I would say comparison with the previous OCUK poll is less interesting than being able to compare to the likes of YouGov etc which was much harder when the vote percentages were distorted by allowing a not voting option.
 
So we're looking at a hung parliament basically, ideally everyone would either vote conservative or lib-dem to push back labour as much as possible, but that's not going to happen.

So the only thing we're really voting for is who is going to live in #10. Which makes party policies less relevant.

Your choice: A moron who'll keep us out of Europe, claims to want to impose sensible changes to immigration and is probably the better candidate to look after the economy. Or someone who is substantially less moronic who stands a good chance of passing whatever Euro bills he fancies, is an unknown for the economy and probably won't change immigration.

I love democracy. :( It's the election after this which will count.



Edit: Oh, and with the polls we've seen being carried out heavily on-line; I suspect there's a bias towards the liberals and a hidden mass of conservative voters. The real opinion is probably 50:50 between the 2, if not the other side.
 
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What on earth does that tit from the Daily Mirror in a chicken suit think he's doing? I've always hated that paper but that's finally confirmed that they really are a bunch of cocks (literally).
 
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