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

Who will you be voting for?

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robgmun said:
It's irrelevant either way. If people don't vote then they don't have there say. They don't count at all. If they wanted to be counted then they should vote, end of. UKIP got 27.5% of the vote, it's the only think you or anyone else here can be sure of and speculating on what the rest of the UK wants is a fools errand. If people wanted to stop UKIP then it's there own god damn fault for not turning out. The only thing that's for certain is for those that haven't voted just couldn't care enough to get themselves to the voting booth, so again, they are irrelevant.
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Well, if you read Pioneer's post, he says that it is 30% of the people in England that voted for UKIP. This is factually incorrect. 30% of voters (with some optimistic rounding), yes.
 
Well we average 60-70% in general elections, and that 30-40% is an unknown quantity to all. It's possible their vote share could end much higher than previously estimated. Whether this converts to seats is another matter.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
Well we average 60-70% in general elections, and that 30-40% is an unknown quantity to all. It's possible their vote share could end much higher than previously estimated. Whether this converts to seats is another matter.
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I think that a lot of the people who didn't vote are the disenfranchised of other parties, who don't feel that they have anyone to vote for, and for the most part wouldn't vote UKIP. As well as the 30-40% of people who never vote anyway.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
I think that a lot of the people who didn't vote are the disenfranchised of other parties, who don't feel that they have anyone to vote for, and for the most part wouldn't vote UKIP. As well as the 30-40% of people who never vote anyway.
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That's pretty much what everyone says who hasn't voted, they didn't feel like they wanted to vote for anyone.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
I think that a lot of the people who didn't vote are the disenfranchised of other parties, who don't feel that they have anyone to vote for, and for the most part wouldn't vote UKIP. As well as the 30-40% of people who never vote anyway.
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I know a lot of people who said they were going to vote for various parties (including UKIP) who never actually bothered to get off their behinds and go to the polling station. Not only disenfranchised, but lazy too. :p
 
Delvis said:
That's pretty much what everyone says who hasn't voted, they didn't feel like they wanted to vote for anyone.
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Yeah I spoke to loads of people like that, and told them to vote Green to prevent UKIP getting a majority.

Narj said:
I know a lot of people who said they were going to vote for various parties (including UKIP) who never actually bothered to get off their behinds and go to the polling station. Not only disenfranchised, but lazy too. :p
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Yeah, I think it's terrible how lazy people are! Fortunately, the polling station is literally opposite my house (although they irritated me by hammering in signs at about 6 am). I would still make the effort to vote though, even if it's just as a protest.
 
robgmun said:
It's irrelevant either way. If people don't vote then they don't have there say. They don't count at all. If they wanted to be counted then they should vote, end of. UKIP got 27.5% of the vote, it's the only think you or anyone else here can be sure of and speculating on what the rest of the UK wants is a fools errand. If people wanted to stop UKIP then it's there own god damn fault for not turning out. The only thing that's for certain is for those that haven't voted just couldn't care enough to get themselves to the voting booth, so again, they are irrelevant.
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Like I said, unfortunately some people are just not motivated or interested by politics, which is annoying because should the government alter something that may affect them negatively, they will soon make a song and dance about it all. If only the general public were as affected by government petitioning like the UKIP voters were. Also, if we're going to have serious debate can we please distinguish between the correct uses of there, their and they're!!!
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Yeah, I think it's terrible how lazy people are! Fortunately, the polling station is literally opposite my house (although they irritated me by hammering in signs at about 6 am). I would still make the effort to vote though, even if it's just as a protest.
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It's just so irritating and frustrating how lazy a lot of people are. Most people last Thursday where no further than a 5 min walk from their polling station. I don't care who you vote for, just vote for Christ sake.

That's why i take a hard line on people who don't, don't vote, you shouldn't have anything to say in politics

Captain Planet said:
Also, if we're going to have serious debate can we please distinguish between the correct uses of there, their and they're!!!
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I'm very consensus of it and do my best, but please bear with me as sometimes the wrong one slips out
 
Captain Planet said:
Like I said, unfortunately some people are just not motivated or interested by politics, which is annoying because should the government alter something that may affect them negatively, they will soon make a song and dance about it all. If only the general public were as affected by government petitioning like the UKIP voters were. Also, if we're going to have serious debate can we please distinguish between the correct uses of there, their and they're!!!
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Mandatory voting ;)

robgmun said:
It's just so irritating and frustrating how lazy a lot of people are. Most people last Thursday where no further than a 5 min walk from their polling station. I don't care who you vote for, just vote for Christ sake.

That's why i take a hard line on people who don't, don't vote, you shouldn't have anything to say in politics
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I only started voting in the last 4/5 years, prior I just wasn't bothered about it all. Personally it needs bigging up, most people get a random polling card through their door and then hear nothing else about it on the telly or anything. It pretty much just needs more advertising.
 
robgmun said:
I'm very consensus of it and do my best, but please bear with me as sometimes the wrong one slips out
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That was a refreshing response. Kudos.

Perhaps they should take more an X factor stance, with a TV show every week and the MPs jolsting for phone votes. Make an even more pantomime show than it already is. At least it might get some more interest that way. Cowell can abuse them and everything.
 
robgmun said:
Well that's just not true isn't it? It's on the BBC constantly. The only other thing i can think of is to put something during the ad breaks for X-Factor or BGT (How depressing is that!!!)
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That's my point. Unless you go out of your way to know about it, you won't hear about it.

I rarely have the news on for instance, so didn't hear a tinkle about it, neither do I buy a newspaper.
 
Delvis said:
I only started voting in the last 4/5 years, prior I just wasn't bothered about it all. Personally it needs bigging up, most people get a random polling card through their door and then hear nothing else about it on the telly or anything. It pretty much just needs more advertising.
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apart from it being all over the internet, billboards up for candidates all over the place prior to the election, endless political party leaflets being posted through your door and it being on the news pretty much 24/7. So unless you've been in a coma since your polling card came through ....
 
Captain Planet said:
Perhaps they should take more an X factor stance, with a TV show every week and the MPs jolsting for phone votes. Make an even more pantomime show than it already is. At least it might get some more interest that way. Cowell can abuse them and everything.
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"Clegg, that's possibly the worst cry-face i have ever seen."
 
robgmun said:
Never go to any news or newspaper websites?
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Nope. Rarely.

Cuchulain said:
apart from it being all over the internet, billboards up for candidates all over the place prior to the election, endless political party leaflets being posted through your door and it being on the news pretty much 24/7. So unless you've been in a coma since your polling card came through ....
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I had two leaflets through my door, one UKIP, the other Conservative.

I don't recall seeing a billboard.

As above, I don't frequent news sites, so no, it's not 'all over the internetz', other than in this thread obviously.
 
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