Poll: General election voting round 5 (final one)

Voting intentions in the General Election?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 3 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 403 42.2%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 59 6.2%

  • Labour

    Votes: 176 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 67 7.0%

  • Not voting/will spoil ballot

    Votes: 42 4.4%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 8 0.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 37 3.9%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 154 16.1%
  • Total voters
    956
  • Poll closed .
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platypus said:
Why should you have your pension protected, and be guaranteed a pay rise, simply because you work in the public sector?
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Because evil capitalists soak the rich salt of the earth public sector workers!

Or more Succulently, because they believe they are more entitled to the money other people earn than those other people.
 
platypus said:
Why should you have your pension protected, and be guaranteed a pay rise, simply because you work in the public sector?
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The terms to the scheme I signed up to shouldn't have been changed to pay more get the same

My contract guarantees me a pay rise, annually, so why wouldn't I demand it ?
 
MrMoonX said:
The terms to the scheme I signed up to shouldn't have been changed to pay more get the same

My contract guarantees me a pay rise, annually, so why wouldn't I demand it ?
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It isn't just about you. The costs have to come from somewhere.
 
MrMoonX said:
The terms to the scheme I signed up to shouldn't have been changed to pay more get the same

My contract guarantees me a pay rise, annually, so why wouldn't I demand it ?
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The value of your investment can go up as well as down. If the pension scheme had somehow managed to run a surplus would you be complaining that you would retire with a larger pension despite not making increased contributions?

You seem more than happy for the taxpayer at large to meet the increased costs of your retirement - would you be happy if you had to contribute more to my pension? Of course you wouldn't so why are you happy to bleed the taxpayer?

I think you missed my point about the payrise, but let me put it more simply: why should public sector employees have a contractually agreed payrise?
 
Glaucus said:
Disgusting.
I think it was Richard Dawkins or someone similar who wouldn't start a conference until the segregation was terminated. It was pretty fun. Bit how it should be, the organisers should be reported to the police for breaking discrimination laws.
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Was their a video of that? I would love to see Richard Dawkins stand up to such a misogynist culture
 
I'm not sure.
I can't remember if it was him or someone similar, it could have easily been the other guy, who wrote universe from nothing. But it was one of those type of conferences.
 
Sliver said:
It wasn't that Labour destroyed the economy. That's simply hyperbole. It was the financial crisis which began in America that triggered the world wide recession. Labour's blame in this was it's de-regulation of the banks, which exacerbated the global financial crisis for us in the UK, but didn't cause it.
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That's a bit mean considering the Conservatives started it :p
 
scorza said:
More proof that the SNP and the Tories are two sides of the same coin.

One thought I had last night was "cui bono" - who wins from the SNP triumphant? Well that's quite easy to answer as you can just follow the money, who are the main backers of the SNP? A quick Google would suggest that they are the same sort of people - executives, business people, entrepreneurs etc - who would back the Tories in England. Now I can believe they're supporting the SNP because they genuinely want Scotland independent from the UK, but I can't help thinking that they aren't the sort of people who want the sort of socialist paradise the SNP are selling for this election. They might tolerate that now because that's the path of least resistance to independence, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the SNP revert to their Tory personalities later.
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Oh dear, Oh dear. Using 80's style rhetoric. You obviously have not noticed in the past 15+ years the SNP had moved from centre right to centre left.

Shock, horror.... rich people backing political parties. Well I have never heard of that before.

You seem to forget that the SNP have led a minority Govt. in Scotland which was popular enough for them to win a majority at the next election and unless something goes really badly wrong they will win another term in 2016. Are you saying the people of Scotland cannot tell the difference?

The independence canard yet again. Did you perchance notice that the UK population did not give either of the two main parties a majority the last time?
The British public are sick of the two party system that does not represent them. This is the reason for the rise of UKIP and the SNP. Labour and especially the Tories have pushed this referendum nonsense because it is an attack on their cosy relationship. The British public are again saying 'we don't trust any of the two parties'.

People with short memories seem to forget that the Labour party had clause 4.Did every Labour Govt spend all their time trying to nationalise everything in the past 50 years? Similarly the SNP will not be bothered about another referendum until there is a demand from the Scottish people. This nonsense suits the Tories and Labour, whipping up nationalistic feelings for short term gain forgetting that by doing so they may be creating the situation they profess to want to avoid.
 
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