Poll: General election voting poll round 3

[thep02]

The UKIP is BNP in disguise? The measure of a good PM is if he went to private school or not?

Great measures for voting there.

Yup I don't trust public school types massively vested in the status quo, old school tie, house societies and family trusts. Miliband is clearly the better man.

 

[Tummy]

The UKIP is BNP in disguise?

Flippant comment, however I think certain aspects of the party lend themselves similarly to key aspects of previously more 'radical' or 'extreme' parties. UKIP are an awful political party in my opinion.

The measure of a good PM is if he went to private school or not?

I certainly did not say that the measure of a good Prime Minister is if he went to private school or not. No.

I said I have time for him, I like him. I like that he attended a comprehensive school too.

 

[dl8860]

Being chiefly or only concerned with ones own interests sounds pretty much exaclty the same as being selfish to me. What would you say being selfish was?

There's degrees of selfishness though. Why don't I go and give my lunch to a hungry pigeon outside instead of eating it myself? Is that selfish to look after my own interest by eating my own lunch?

 

[D.P.]

But what sort of coalition are you hoping for? I think the Lib Dems have been utterly steamrolled. I can't see them forming government with the Tories again.



Just sharing my opinion, like everyone else.

If labour can push to 300 seats, which is possible given they are currently predicted around 275 seats and around 20 or so Tory seats are very close to a swing to Labour, then Labour could possibly form a coalition with the lib dems. Unlikely but at this stage t looks slightly more likely than the Tories and Lib dems having enough seats.

 

[Mr Jack]

So it's wrong to vote for one's own interests?

There's nothing wrong with voting for your own interests; it's quite wrong to vote without consideration of other people's interests. It's also quite short termist; we individually benefit from living in a country which provides well for its people.

 

[ubersonic]

Did Captain Planet just become RoboCod?

I have a lot of time for Miliband and it's nice that he's not been to private school .

Yeah, he's a lot easier to relate too, having been to Oxford University like all of us...

 

[dl8860]

There's nothing wrong with voting for your own interests; it's quite wrong to vote without consideration of other people's interests. It's also quite short termist; we individually benefit from living in a country which provides well for its people.

Well put. I guess everyone decides with a certain amount of consideration for oneself and a certain amount for other people.

 

[Mr Jack]

Well put. I guess everyone decides with a certain amount of consideration for oneself and a certain amount for other people.

Yeah, I think that's fair. I think everyone would agree that it's morally and ethically okay to place a higher priority on yourself and your loved one than you place on other people but I think most people would agree that a total disregard for the wellbeing of others is morally and ethically repugnant. Where exactly that balance comes is a difficult question on which I suspect we'd find relatively little agreement.

 

[D.P.]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-jockeying-leadership-panic-slump-polls.html

So unskilled workers will be allowed after all, and the 50K cap is back.


UKIP digging their own graves in this election I think

 

[robgmun]

Did Captain Planet just become RoboCod?

I just wondered that!!

 

[dl8860]

Yeah, I think that's fair. I think everyone would agree that it's morally and ethically okay to place a higher priority on yourself and your loved one than you place on other people but I think most people would agree that a total disregard for the wellbeing of others is morally and ethically repugnant. Where exactly that balance comes is a difficult question on which I suspect we'd find relatively little agreement.

What's your basis for this? That I don't share my lunch with pigeons?

 

[Mr Jack]

What's your basis for this? That I don't share my lunch with pigeons?

By 'we' I meant people in general; not you and I. I think that there's a fairly broad spectrum of where on the altruistic/selfish spectrum different people think it is morally acceptable to be.

 

[dl8860]

By 'we' I meant people in general; not you and I. I think that there's a fairly broad spectrum of where on the altruistic/selfish spectrum different people think it is morally acceptable to be.

Oh haha sorry. Yeh absolutely. Would be interesting if you could assign an objective measure for where you are on the spectrum, and see how voting patterns correlate. Or maybe that would be very obvious?

 

[MrMoonX]

So much for UKIPs manifesto it's still the "dem took our jerbs" rhetoric, so glad the polls point to them gaining all of one MP and farage is getting out played by the Tories in Thanet. Just shows the electorate aren't total morons

 

[Tom_ed1987]

I really like what UKIP & Farage in particular have done for UK politics over the last 2 years, and will definitely be voting for them in the upcoming election.

 

[Schlong&Stable]

So much for UKIPs manifesto it's still the "dem took our jerbs" rhetoric, so glad the polls point to them gaining all of one MP and farage is getting out played by the Tories in Thanet. Just shows the electorate aren't total morons

Yes, it's almost as bad as the anti-UKIP rhetoric

 

[D.P.]

So much for UKIPs manifesto it's still the "dem took our jerbs" rhetoric, so glad the polls point to them gaining all of one MP and farage is getting out played by the Tories in Thanet. Just shows the electorate aren't total morons

i think that they have realized that they have failed to get wide spread support and so instead are just trying to focus on their core supports in a few seats.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490




This is why their manifesto is back to limiting immigrants to 50K, despite Farage being adamant that it is a stupid idea.

 

[platypus]

We haven't even gotten to the election yet, and UKIP have backtracked on a pre-manifesto pledge, and Farage was so adamant that a 50k cap was ludicrous.

Oddly quiet from the UKIP supporters on this..

 

[D.P.]

Rememember when UKIP said they would go for 100 seats?
https://video.search.yahoo.com/vide...8&sigb=130jr6hh7&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001


Now they are going for 10 and will be lucky to get more than 3.

 

[Monkeynut]

That was one of the MOST cringeworthy moments in British politics.