http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/

* Conservatives 50.00%
* UKIP 25.00%
* Labour 25.00%

I'm already voting Conservatives.

From that site it appears like you only like half their policies makes me wonder if this 1st past the post system is really representative.

Perhaps we should go to some sort of representation ie based on percentage of votes gained.
 
Mine suggests either UKIP or the Green party with nearly equal rating.

To be honest, that sounds pretty correct, as UKIP have some good economic liberalism and welfare policies (they propose benefit simplification, rolling up various benefits into single, non-means tested payments) which I support, vouchers for schooling and healthcare and so on. The greens are probably the most socially liberal party about if you ignore their authoritarian economic stance.

The problem is both of them are completely unvotable for me, because UKIP are far too socially authoritarian, and the Greens are far too fiscally authoritarian for me.

So it's back to the more realistic choice between the Liberal dems and the Tories, and the Lib dems have a couple of dealbreaking policies (Specifically trident replacement and nuclear power policies) that make them a no go zone.

I would love to see either a con/lib coalition (if worked right, it could make the conservatives more liberal and the lib dems more fiscally fair) or a conservative majority with a liberal opposition (with Labour as the third party) as the final result though. The big problem I see for Clegg is that half his party (the social democratic side) will never agree with a tory coalition, and the other half (the liberals for who civil liberties matter above all else) will never agree to siding with Labour. Rock and a hard place indeed.
 
I actually think the NuTories, at least the party that Cameron wants and professes them to be - remember the NHS, NHS, NHS, Green taxes, Gay-friendly Big Society - all the hard work he did dragging the Tory dinosaur party into the 21st century before they imploded - that party would be palatable to the LDs - apart from the big bugbear of voting reform of course.

I could see the LDs making concessions on their other policies to agree voting reform - the problem as I see it is that I don't think the Tories can offer enough concessions to 'not' agree to voting reform with the LDs.

Of course what is often forgotten is that the LDs aren't actually demanding an immediate change to PR or an alternative system, they are proposing a referendum on it. Which begs the question, what are the Tories so scared of - if FPP is so good, it will be voted for, no?
 
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• Conservatives 50.00%
• UKIP 25.00%
• Lib Dems 25.00%

I wonder about how many more of these "polls" we going to see before we go and do the real thing. ;)
 
* BNP 11.11%
* Lib Dems 33.33%
* UKIP 22.22%
* Labour 11.11%
* Green Party 11.11%
* Conservatives 11.11%
But some of them I like more than 1 set of policies.
 
If we had PR and people voted like they did on that site our government would be:

Green Party
25.30%
Labour
19.12%
Lib Dems
17.98%
Conservatives
15.96%
UKIP
11.52%
BNP
10.11%

Shocking :p
 
Maybe we should actually all be voting for policies rather than personalities. Could such a mechanism, albeit altered, actually be an improvement on our current democratic process. That being people vote for a broad policy vision to be implemented. But then that old Winston Churchill quote would no doubt come back to haunt us ...
 
Tories - 25%
Labour - 25%
Ukip - 25%
Green - 25%.........

surprised me, deffo thought I was tory! :D

No mention of the liberals though, so clegg is out!
tory voter through and through tbh.
 
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