Poll: Exit Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Results discussion and OcUK Exit Poll - Closing 8th July

Exit poll: Who did you vote for?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 302 27.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 577 52.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 104 9.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 13 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 19 1.7%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 30 2.7%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 4.2%
  • Total voters
    1,097
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stewski said:
By the "rest of us" in the private sector I can only assume you mean more the many zero hour contract workers and lower mid level earners as it appears the high end earners (including entirely failed leaders in the banking sector) have done rather better than that...
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Wouldn't know. I'm not a top end earner There are very few people like you suggest. I just know how rough it has been for the average worker.
 
StriderX said:
Does the private sector have to witness the effects translating to children or sick people?
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Quit pretending the JC and new new Marxist/Socialist Labour will be any better than the Tories in the long run. Marxism and socialism consistently ends up with mass starvation, poverty and tyranny as it destroys the very economy it seeks to pillage to fund its grandiose 'wealth redistribution' plans.
 
Hades said:
Wouldn't know. I'm not a top end earner There are very few people like you suggest. I just know how rough it has been for the average worker.
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During the period of Austerity I've worked in both private and public sectors, I'm not arguing that rank and file have taken massive hits, I'm arguing that Austerity itself has been ideologically imposed and failed every target, I believe it's the main thrust of the Labour argument to reinvest in the many not the few!
 
Caracus2k said:
Quit pretending the JC and new new Marxist Labour will be any better than the Tories in the long run. Marxism consistently ends up with mass starvation, poverty and tyranny as it destroys the very economy it seeks to pillage to fund its grandiose 'wealth redistribution' plans.
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Does that include the post war governments that rebuilt the UK?
 
Caracus2k said:
Quit pretending the JC and new new Marxist/Socialist Labour will be any better than the Tories in the long run. Marxism and socialism consistently ends up with mass starvation, poverty and tyranny as it destroys the very economy it seeks to pillage to fund its grandiose 'wealth redistribution' plans.
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Lol.
 
glen8 said:
Well, as someone who has never voted Labour before.....I did tonight

My personal reasons

May wants to control the Internet which is the most idiotic thing I have heard in a long time
After the recent London attacks she said enough is enough, which is again beyond ridiculous (the first time was enough)
She's spent more time telling us why we shouldn't vote for corbyn over why we should vote for her
Cuts to the Police, NHS and Education have been far too drastic
The gap between the rich and poor is just insane, it really is
Fox Hunting......hello......it's 2017 FFS
Private sector is not the holy grail, some things are better in the public sector (and this is coming from someone who never thought much of the public sector before)
Diane Abbot has stepped down lol

I'm not 100% labour, far from it.....but I do think, at this moment in time, they are better than the tories (christ, has it really come to this)
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Bob on, couldn't agree more. Except I swapped votes with my brother as his Lib Dem vote would do more in our constituency, and my Labour vote would do more in his. Never voted Labour before, couldn't see myself ever supporting them but they're the best hope we've got of losing Mushroom-Head-May so this time around raise taxes, get rid of Trident and call me a socialist if it means seeing the back of her.
 
Caracus2k said:
Marxism and socialism consistently ends up with mass starvation, poverty and tyranny as it destroys the very economy it seeks to pillage to fund its grandiose 'wealth redistribution' plans.
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There's nothing Marxist about the current incarnation of the Labour Party. Marxism and socialism have only ever ended up as failed dictatorships when their principles were abandoned. Meanwhile, the capitalist USA—richest country in the world—has the highest poverty rate, and the largest gap between rich and poor, in the entire post-industrial West.

I'm no socialist, and I despise Marxism, but we need to get real about the facts here.
 
Greebo said:
The Tories want to get rid of pesky environmental,protection post brexit as it gets in the way of making money........
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That's an entirely different matter however. The current regulatory regime thatvis in place now (and wasnin place rprior) would not allow many of the things that go on in the US to go on now.

The fight to keep environmental standards high is a different matter and you can be for that, while not being against fracking.

(Note I'm not arguing for or against a particular party, just the crap that has been put out about the UK O&G regime.
 
Voted and I went red this time, the mere fact of having May as PM is loathsome and makes me want to cut my wrists lol.

Look I think all politicians are pretty much the same, last time I voted tories due to Blair and his war mongering ways with his bumchum Bush.

I like Corbyn, not sure he has enough to win but for me he's not as scary as May is. Meh even under Labour, will things change?? Not sure but at least I'd like to see what they have in store for us. Labours manifesto seemed pretty good from why I understood of it. Not sure if it's workable though.

Will be interesting to see what the final results will be.
 
voted lib dem in a hilariously safe labour seat.

Still think it will be a conservative majority with 23 seats, with May quite possibly being ousted for god knows who, while corbyn hangs on
 
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