Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***

Who did you vote for?

  • Labour

    Votes: 137 13.9%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 378 38.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 304 30.9%

  • UK Independence Party

    Votes: 27 2.7%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 10 1.0%

  • British National Party

    Votes: 20 2.0%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • DUP

    Votes: 4 0.4%

  • UUP

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • SDLP

    Votes: 3 0.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 1.6%

  • Abstain

    Votes: 80 8.1%
  • Total voters
    985
  • Poll closed .
britboy4321 said:
If a lab/libdem coaltion forms, I win. The country has spoken. Looks like the 'nasty party' failed to win overall. Admittedly bad, for multi-millionaires.
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You should have studied hard at school when you had the chance. You might have been a multi-millionaire if you hadn't spent all you're time playing Halo on the X-Box.
 
britboy4321 said:
Labour bought us the biggest, longest economic boom EVER. EVER. It was friggin awesome!

If the businesses didn't leave after 13 years, they arn't going anywhere. obviously.

Gordon Brown made us avoid depression.

Can you remember when the tories were last in? Imagine if I told you your interest on your mortgage was 15%. 15% the price of your house, to be paid, per year. Would you be happy?

:)
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No more BOOM AND BUST GB's famous soundbite


ROLFLMAO
 
JamesU2005 said:
Anyone else think Clegg/Lib Dems will lose a lot of student/young voters if they form a coalition with the Tories?
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Not as many as they'll lose if they prop up the losers.

Propping up the clear losers in government would be the death knell for the lib dems, and for any chance of meaningful reform.
 
Let's face it, after the night Clegg's had he would side with whichever party would get him into government because if he doesn't take his chance he'll be out shortly.

The tories have a comfortable majority in England. It's these Scotland and Wales constituencies who would vote in a horse's bottom if someone stuck a red rosette on it.
 
A coalition government worked fine after the Glorious Revolution, it works fine in Germany. I don't see why a coalition would be such a bad thing.

If the only thing it manages is electoral reform it has done a good job.
 
SB118 said:
heh, wife commented on this a few days ago. Do deliveries to the dodgy estates and it's a see of red banners, drive back through the nicer areas and everything turns blue :D
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That's the problem I live in a constituency which is split between rich & poor quite dramatically so. I just don't understand how she got so many votes, it really is sickening. :(
 
platypus said:
Are you an economist for the Daily Mail or something?
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Well so far in his eyes Labour has done no wrong , they are perfect... Which smacks of him being a hard core labourite. Probably claps Gordon Brown and holds a banner up " vote labour ".

Me i was swinging between con and lib , i voted con because lib's asylum policy really turned me off
 
Neil79 said:
Well so far in his eyes Labour has done no wrong , they are perfect... Which smacks of him being a hard core labourite. Probably claps Gordon Brown and holds a banner up " vote labour ".
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agreed.

britboy4321 said:
Labour bought us the biggest, longest economic boom EVER. EVER. It was friggin awesome!

If the businesses didn't leave after 13 years, they arn't going anywhere. obviously.

Gordon Brown made us avoid depression. It was a GLOBAL recession. You think Britain could cause that under ANY PM? We're not that powerful ...

Can you remember when the tories were last in? Imagine if I told you your interest on your mortgage was 15%. 15% the price of your house, to be paid, per year. Would you be happy?

:)

Learn more ..
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no they didnt.
Gb didnt make us avoid depression at all, infact were about to enter it because of him.
not that powerful? 6th GDP in the world......

would you be happy with a greece style bail out and rioting? becuase thats the way were heading.
 
In some ways the result reflects how I actually felt at the end of my considerations of how to vote - that all of the parties had something to offer but fears about what might happened if any one party held sway for the next five years unchecked.

Basically the electorate has said, none of you are fit to govern on your own - try working together for a change (in more ways than one).
 
Dolph said:
What makes you think a fiscally and socially authoritarian society is 'nicer'?

I prefer social and economic freedom, personally.
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And you're entitled to your opinion and me mine.

I think a more authoritarian society is preferable. Now don't go to the extreme and start talking about Hitler and Stalin type societies as that's not what I'm saying.

But yes the cornerstone in my brain is people individually are selfish and greedy. We need something as awesome as government to get the best out of us, to force EVEN THE GREEDY PEOPLE to look after members of our society who require it.

The tories think 'Screw them, screw government'.

Governance is one of societies best ever inventions. The most progressive invention. To try and destroy/weaken it so that 'those without money and no other choice either work as prostitutes, thieve, or starve to death' isn't a society I personally want.

Even if I've got a cheaper tax bill

:/
 
Originally Posted by britboy4321
? Imagine if I told you your interest on your mortgage was 15%. 15% the price of your house, to be paid, per year. Would you be happy?



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What thats not how it works you fool? Maybe I want to earn 15% on the savings I have in my account? My mortgage is 30% the value of my house what are you on about?
 
sammo62 said:
No, the Liberals.

Read up on Gladstone, for example.
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The Liberal Party (the term was first used officially in 1868 but had been used colloquially for decades beforehand) arose from a coalition of Whigs, free trade Tory followers of Robert Peel, and free trade Radicals, first created, tenuously under the Peelite Lord Aberdeen in 1852, and put together more permanently under the former Canningite Tory Lord Palmerston in 1859. Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912. The Unionist support for (trade) protection in the early twentieth century under Joseph Chamberlain (probably the least Whiggish character in the party) further alienated the more orthodox Whigs, however, and by the early twentieth century Whiggery was largely irrelevant and without a natural political home.
 
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