Poll: The Last Leaders Debate – Live tonight at 2030 BST on BBC One

Who will you vote for?

  • Labour

    Votes: 67 11.8%

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 231 40.7%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 227 40.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 42 7.4%
  • Total voters
    567
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.
Nzyme said:
Don't the benefits of being in a free market like the EU far outway the costs of free migration across the community, maybe not at this time but generally ?
Click to expand...

It's probably not worth starting that argument. There are a myriad permutations to it (free trade areas as opposed to membership etc) and no clear answer that you'll get people to accept.
 
LOAM said:
I really don't agree with clegg on amnesty and it's the weird thing to consider tbh but how do you deal with a group of people you can't find, the cost of rounding them up would out weigh the cost of letting them stay and taxing them. It's a tricky one.

All in all I don't think I'll vote
Click to expand...

I know get them to do some community service.


ROFL
 
kibblerok said:
Shared equity is a ******* rip off. You pretty much pay the same as a mortgage but without building up the equity.

I've never understood how such a bad idea and poor deal has taken off.
Click to expand...

Because you're limited in how much you can borrow.

It would be nice to think that in a true and fair market, the price of property would go down to reflect people's borrowing limits. Unfortunately though the system is skewed in favour of the rich, e.g. buy to let or even worse, buying property as investments and leaving it empty. And so the price of an essential, scarce resource remains artificially high.
 
meghatronic said:
Nick Clegg has made three MASSIVE mistakes in this debate. The guy doesn't know his own manifesto. But your choice...
Click to expand...

Thanks for giving me a choice - most noble of you! :D

Sure maybe he wasn't 100% on this particular debate, but I don't vehemently disagree with what he's said, and taking all the other parts of the debates over the past few weeks I still feel more drawn towards LD. However, Conv are a happy 2nd for me - I just cannot stand Labour, never have. Always used to be Conv, but I find myself more in agreement with LD's policies. Whether or not I believe any one of them is another question! ;)
 
So the Lib Dems are going to reinstate the link between pensions and inflation right away.

Paid for with ? Brass buttons ? More lending ? Genius.
 
JamesU2005 said:
Exactly, it's probably better to let them think they are "winning" in this thread.
Click to expand...
You can understand their frustration though I guess, having to sit there and not only watch Cameron & Osbourne inexorably throw away their 15 point lead over the last 18 months, then just when things were looking up a little, the debates put the boot in by a crap Tory performance and the Lib Dems putting in a corker :p
 
Rich_L said:
You know Tory supporters are worried when they start demonising Lib Dem supporters and their policies, lulz :p
Click to expand...

Funnily enough thats spot on. Before the first of these debates neither the tories or labour gave a **** about the lib dems and now they are forced to accounting for them.
 
Freefaller said:
Thanks for giving me a choice - most noble of you! :D

Sure maybe he wasn't 100% on this particular debate... whether or not I believe any one of them is another question! ;)
Click to expand...
But what do you believe? The manifesto or the leader? Both are now massively conflicting on Immigrant amnesty, Euro joining and VAT on houses....
 
Do any of the three main parties favour reducing the number of people going to University ?

I'm a big believer of only the best 10-15% going to University
 
LabR@t said:
you can't trust them if they can't even remember their own manifesto.

I doubt they have the full facts so there ideas would go to put anyway
Click to expand...

Nobody (except Labour) do. But your first point it just being petty, it's being talked about in very simple terms here and each parties manifesto is very detailed and includes plenty of caveats. Based on what he said earlier people were saying 'he wants to get rid of eurofighter' whereas the detail is nothing of the sort, they're proposing not buying an additional hundred or so aircraft that the RAF don't really want. Most of this falls under the same situation (as do numerous parts of the labour and conservatives manifestos).

If I was being partisan I'd ask why the conservatives contradict themselves so obviously by demanding spending cuts now but not being prepared to delay their pet projects like inheritance tax cuts and married couples allowances.

But it maybe makes more sense to have a mature debate?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom