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:
Of course, the public is often wrong. The public want public executions. And the public do not understand the pitfalls of always having weak government, and having 32 parties represented in the commons will turn it even more into a monkey's tea party .... :(
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That's a glib example. PR is not the same. Anyone with half a brain understands the problems with PR, but it is the fairest system and that's why we should have it. If it means the MPs have to negotiate more and work together properly, then boo ******* hoo for them - that's what they get paid for.
 
platypus said:
How is it anecdotal? It's evidence that PR can work. Whether you choose to look at that evidence or not is up to you, and evidence to everyone else just how little you actually know.
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Anecdotal as he gave 1 example and cited it as proof. Do you know what anecdotal evidence is? Let me explain ..


'Last night I saw a man down the pub getting punched THEREFORE it is a rough pub' = anecdotal evidence.

'People drive too fast as last night a BMW passed me at 103mph' =anecdotal evidence.

'Australia runs PR and does perfectly fine therefore PR is fine' = anecdotal evidence.


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Then you say I do not know what I am on about? You should have GOOGLED 'anecdotal' first .. especially if you're gonna try and call someone on something you don't know .. :)
 
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robgmun said:
Clegg is hanging on for the Tories but they haven't even phone him yet!

Meanwhile Labour is desperate to woo him
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Dave told you this did he?

They would be mad if they weren't talking in great detail right now. Everybody will be talking to everbody else.

As people have said, the tories have actually shown themselves to be pretty unpopular considering how bad Brown has been.
 
297 now, cons crawling towards the phycological 300 mark.

Slam62 said:
Dave told you this did he?

They would be mad if they weren't talking in great detail right now. Everybody will be talking to everbody else.

As people have said, the tories have actually shown themselves to be pretty unpopular considering how bad Brown has been.
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It's been confirmed by Lib-dem inside sources that they haven't even started talks with the Tories yet.
 
lucasade1 said:
Haha Labour have just suffered their worst defeat for the best part of 80 years and this is all the fanboy's keep saying. The public don't want labour, deal with it.
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Labour has been in power for over 13 years...been to war(twice!!), been an economic recession, been in an expenses scandal, cash for honours scandal, have a PM there that wasnt elected......and conservatives still cant get a majority. The public don't want Conservative.
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It's a shame that the Tories are so unpopular based on what Thatcher did 30 years ago.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the last 13 years of Labour atrocities would have been enough to push people away from them, but apparantly not. Are people really that short sighted in their belief that massive, unsustainable public spending is a good thing?
 
Green Party Euro MP Jean Lambert says: "It's highly unlikely that we're going to be supporting the programme from the British Conservatives… unless they're really going to be listening to people like Zac Goldsmith and doing something very exceptional on the environment, not least on climate change."
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If wonder if anyone would bother inviting her to join a government. ;)
 
avec said:
Are people really that short sighted in their belief that massive, unsustainable public spending is a good thing?
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I think you are overestimating the intelligence of the average Labour voter. I bet most of them don't even read policies, they're only interested in the size of their benefit cheque.
 
avec said:
It's a shame that the Tories are so unpopular based on what Thatcher did 30 years ago.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the last 13 years of Labour atrocities would have been enough to push people away from them, but apparantly not. Are people really that short sighted in their belief that massive, unsustainable public spending is a good thing?
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I think you had to be there to realise just how bad it got under Thatcher.

15% inflation. 15% interest. Millions upon millions unemployed. Nightmare stuff. Poll tax (everyone pays the same local tax REGARDLESS of earnings!!!). Economic disaster. It was a strange time all in all, and took a lot of voters away from the tories forever ...
 
avec said:
It's a shame that the Tories are so unpopular based on what Thatcher did 30 years ago.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the last 13 years of Labour atrocities would have been enough to push people away from them, but apparantly not. Are people really that short sighted in their belief that massive, unsustainable public spending is a good thing?
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Of course not but they might also be wary of a party who promises to 'cut further and deeper' than Thatcher just as the country is recovering from a recession.
 
It was 65% or so turn out, my worry is that people look at what's come out of it and decide not to bother next time. Without some form of PR soon I can't see turn outs for elections going up, as it stands if you're not firmly in the labour or tory camps then there's little point of voting.
 
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