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 .
Anyway - £6B cuts coming soon.

Not going to be pretty for those of us working in industries linked to the public sector.
 
englishpremier said:
I imagine that now the Lib dems are in the spot light more will have some proven leadership experience that they might fair much better at the next election.
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Incredibly unlikely, Clegg has held both Labour and Tory to ransom, making demands his results simply don't justify, he held up the naming of a PM by what, almost 5 days as he kept going back and forth asking for more. He's rather sold out his party and the people who voted for him, JUST to get in power and make a name for himself. We've probably got a lot of squabling and infighting to come and for the next election I can see a lot of Lib Dem voters turning their back after the way he's acted.

Especially if he is just made to look like Camerons lap dog for the next 1-4years(depending on if an early election is called).

Nix said:
Which will be a very good thing. The two-party arrangement we have at present is killing politics in this country.
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Yeah, a hung parliament, voters deciding which party and political agenda to back, then having people rip their agenda apart to secure enough votes. This election I'm all for a Tory leadership, but no one, not a single person voted for a Tory/Lib Dem coalition and that worries me. A proper 3 party election, in which the "winner" doesn't win but HAS to get a majority, and therefore can't get much done is a truly awful idea. Coalition/PR governments around the world, almost all suck, very very badly. Its basically a certain hung parliament every single election. Horrible for our country.

FoxEye said:
That's an extremely selfish version of "fair". There are those in society who have nothing better to spend their millions on than new Porsches, and those who struggle to put food on the table.

And you'd like them to be equal bearers of the tax burden?
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This is where people who hate toffs, manage to completely lose their argument.

Said person who can afford to waste money on a Porche, will also pay, on a lets say £150k porche, £30k tax......... thats more than the tax contribution of about 4 "average uk workers". On that car alone, they will also pay more tax on the bigger house they buy, and more council tax, and more tax on the more expensive clothes they buy, and more tax on the extra fuel the Porche takes to run, and by buying a Porche, helps keep the people who work for Porche in jobs, helps keep the larger team of builders in work as they build his big mansion and pays their salarys.

People who think rich people don't pay enough tax are barking mad.
 
Uriel said:
Anyway - £6B cuts coming soon.

Not going to be pretty for those of us working in industries linked to the public sector.
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Yup, clearly the government should keep wasting money it doesn't need to, to prop up our economy. But while doing so, gets into massive massive debt.

We cut now, or wait a decade, and cut 10 times more, and lose 10 times as many jobs, while taxing the living hell out of people in an attempt to pay off our debt that we didn't bother trying to reduce now.

The country needs REAL industry, not a propped up economy on public sector spending funded by selling the country piece by piece to China. The sooner we at least attempt to get some real business back in the UK the better.
 
Trouble is - we're living beyond our means as a country.

Cuts and / or tax rises are absolutely necessary.

It's really not going to be pretty.
 
There are people on Facebook and Twitter complaining that the BBC shown Cameron and they didn't put Eastenders on! :mad:
 
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