Poll: which party are you going to vote in up coming elections?

Who will you be voting for?

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Burnsy2023 said:
Source? I'd be interested to see the stats.
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A couple here.

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/03/05/analysis-ukip-voters/

"Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young)."

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/p...UKIPCandidatesandSupportersworkingpaper-1.pdf

"Turning to UKIP’s support at the individual level, Table 8 compares the social characteristics of
UKIP voters and others, using data from the YouGov 2010 post-election survey. UKIP voters are
slightly older, more likely to be male, white and drawn from social classes C2, D and E, but less
likely to have a degree, compared with voters for other parties. They are more likely to be in the East
of England, South East and South West than other voters, but less likely to be in Scotland or London.
This fits with research on UKIP’s support at the 2009 European elections.30"

I'm trying to find one which is far more comprehensive I've read before, which was based off the last election (showing huge difference on all kinds of social attitudes by political party on race, sexuality, economics & immigration).

But you can see highlighted - it even mentions expected less support in London.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
The more people try to denigrate the views oft hose who back UKIP, the stronger UKIP's support will become.
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You only have to read the Guardian to see how those on the very left-leaning part of the political spectrum have some sort of superiority complex. It has made for very entertaining reading today; their columnists are having kittens. :D

Glad my council hasn't changed, but the whole situation has raised a smile. :)
 
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Tute said:
It all really depends how UKIP are defining "educated".

Also, calling Croydon a dump (no matter how true it is) is probably not the best idea.
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I've lived in the borough of Croydon for my whole life. Most of it is a dump. It's quite easy to see which parts are the crap areas on this map:

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The red areas are the crap parts. It always amazes me how crap areas where most people wouldn't want to live vote labour.

Anyway they should have added that although a lot of it is a dump that they want to try and improve it, rather than just the negative.
 
elmarko said:
A couple here.

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/03/05/analysis-ukip-voters/

"Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young)."

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/p...UKIPCandidatesandSupportersworkingpaper-1.pdf

"Turning to UKIP’s support at the individual level, Table 8 compares the social characteristics of
UKIP voters and others, using data from the YouGov 2010 post-election survey. UKIP voters are
slightly older, more likely to be male, white and drawn from social classes C2, D and E, but less
likely to have a degree, compared with voters for other parties. They are more likely to be in the East
of England, South East and South West than other voters, but less likely to be in Scotland or London.
This fits with research on UKIP’s support at the 2009 European elections.30"

I'm trying to find one which is far more comprehensive I've read before, which was based off the last election (showing huge difference on all kinds of social attitudes by political party on race, sexuality, economics & immigration).

But you can see highlighted - it even mentions expected less support in London.
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This all begs the question: Why are the supposedly more educated voters backing the wrong parties? Clearly being more educated, does not make one more intelligent ;) I mean some people even voted Greens for gods sake!
 
XeNoN89 said:
I've lived in the borough of Croydon for my whole life. Most of it is a dump. It's quite easy to see which parts are the crap areas on this map:

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The red areas are the crap parts. It always amazes me how crap areas where most people wouldn't want to live vote labour.

Anyway they should have added that although a lot of it is a dump that they want to try and improve it, rather than just the negative.
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And there's the bit where my partner's family all live, right in the middle of Labour lands.

Fornton 'Eef.

Her family are all lovely but I utterly hate going up there.
 
Tute said:
And there's the bit where my partner's family all live, right in the middle of Labour lands.

Fornton 'Eef.

Her family are all lovely but I utterly hate going up there.
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Yeah that a horrible part. I've gone from the worst to one of the best. My movements have been: Norbury > New Addington > Waddon > Coulsdon

Slight improvement each time :p
 
XeNoN89 said:
The red areas are the crap parts. It always amazes me how crap areas where most people wouldn't want to live vote labour.

Anyway they should have added that although a lot of it is a dump that they want to try and improve it, rather than just the negative.
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Rich people voting conservative is nothing new, conservative have always been the party to support the few wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country, the vast majority.

I'm wealthy but I don't believe in improving my own situation at the expense of others, greed does nothing for me. I believe in earning my wealth, paying my dues and not being propped up and treated special just because I was lucky enough that my hard work paid off.

Unfortunately the Tory scum have once again gotten in around here, bunch of *******s, maybe someone will chuck a few petrol bombs on the smarmy masonic bumloving twits.
 
pitchfork said:
Rich people voting conservative is nothing new, conservative have always been the party to support the few wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country, the vast majority.

I'm wealthy but I don't believe in improving my own situation at the expense of others, greed does nothing for me. I believe in earning my wealth, paying my dues and not being propped up and treated special just because I was lucky enough that my hard work paid off.

Unfortunately the Tory scum have once again gotten in around here, bunch of *******s, maybe someone will chuck a few petrol bombs on the smarmy masonic bumloving twits.
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Someone has never heard of one-nation conservatism.
 
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