Poll: which party are you going to vote in up coming elections?
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haha constantly... and the apologies of how we have let you down. and WE are all in this together.. Tough times tough measures etc etc lol
Labour are doing good here too.
I've always held the opinion that a Conservative government with Labour controlled counsels where the best efficient way to spend the money.
I feel sorry for the no overall control places. I guess UKIP will hold them to ransom if they have seats.
Nothing will change here, same old apologetic tune and then straight back to a Con or Labour government. Maybe even a coalition?? Again... Which is basically a Conservative one anyway.
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I'm going with "continuously". Of course, the big 3 will do absolutely nothing differently as it's ideologically impossible for them to understand the will of the common people.
I'd like to just point out as well that when voting in the Euro elections, it was nice to be able to vote freely for who I wanted rather than having to worry about tactical voting in a First-Past-The-Post style election. If only the idiotic population hadn't voted No in the referendum on AV /sigh.
But at the expense of not being able to do any research on the candidate so having to vote along party lines.
I'm guessing Pat Reid wasn't liked very much?
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The AV referendum here wasn't the same though. If the change was "shall we get rid of constituency seats and just say whoever gets the most votes wins" (like the EU elections) there may have been a different result.
You would have still have had 'strongholds' under AV, all it would have done was change the results in a handful of swing constituencies. A vote for UKIP in a libe dem stronghold would still be a wasted vote under AV.
Labour were bloody awful in my borough, although it's always going to depend on the individuals involved and the work they do. To be honest, even if the current lot were Labour, I'd vote for them despite the fact that I can't stand their party because on the whole they do a reasonable job of it. To be fair to some of the councillors in the borough, they've turned up at the doorsteps of me and my neighbours after we've written letters.
Lessons will be learned, blah blah blah. I do like that analogy of politicians being like nappies. They need changing regularly and for the same reasons.
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I totally get the appeal of UKIP in the euro elections, but why are people voting to have UKIP councilors? Farage is OK but let's be honest, there are quite a lot of loons in UKIP and I for one wouldn't want them running my local services as I think they're rather important.
You can say that about any political party candidates in local elections, there's no reason to highlight UKIP. However I can't see a party free local system being accepted by the establishment.
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The quality of councillors is orders of magnitude lower than MPs. People tend not to pay a huge amount of notice to who their councillors are and what they get up to. Looking at them in detail while being familiar with Westminster politics is like watching a Skrill Premier game as a Man Utd fan.
Why are people saying Labour are doing good? They are doing much worse than expected. They were talking of expecting to gain 400+ seats last night. Looks like UKIP have taken a lot of them in the north.
UKIP apparently doing worse in London than everywhere else. Funny that, the place with the most immigrants and they are doing worse
UKIP apparently doing worse in London than everywhere else. Funny that, the place with the most immigrants and they are doing worse
Labour themselves were talking 150+ and being mocked by commentators. They're on course to gain around 300, which is pretty poor, however, if you look at how they did in the key marginals the picture is pretty positive for them.
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UKIP apparently doing worse in London than everywhere else. Funny that, the place with the most immigrants and they are doing worse
Not really, given immigrants (who are eligible) are unlikely to vote UKIP then there more of them there are the less likely UKIP will win their seat.
White, British born people (UKIP's cores support) are a minority in London so of course it's unlikely UKIP will win many seats there.
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The reigning government always loses out in elections like this, because the government is always doing a bad job in the eyes of most voters, if anything I would say the big winners here were the Torys as they only lose two councils to Labour and another 6 to what will most likely be Tory heavy coalitions.
The difference in support in London will most likely be a result of a number of different factors.
In the difference in average age (much lower in London than the rest of the UK & UKIP's support is from the 50+ age band) & difference income levels (UKIP support is higher in the CDE economic categories), difference in average education levels (most are not degree educated compared to London which has a higher population) & finally - the difference in ethnic & cultural make-up.
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