Poll: General election voting intentions poll

[semi-pro waster]

Does the forum software alphabetize the options or was that done manually?

Ticks my OCD box that does, a right turn on.


Phwoaaaar.

Glad to be of service, the forum software doesn't do it sadly.

Thank S-PW, I think he was trying to make it look more like a ballot sheet.

Incidentally, Small Data: How alphabetical ballots skew democracy

I didn't think about making it intentionally look like a ballot sheet, it was just the simplest way to set it out without getting accusations of bias in the ordering. Then again as you've shown it can still skew the results - I think/hope it's less of an issue when information about the various merits of the parties is fairly easily available though but that does still rely on people informing themselves.

I'd say the difference between this poll and properly conducted opinion polls suggests that you're wrong there.

I'd definitely not take the results from here as being equivalent to a proper opinion poll, this is just meant to be a bit of fun and it's hardly conducted in the most rigorous of circumstances.

 

[V F]

I quite like this government tbh.

Personally I'm quite right-wing when it comes to the economy, a firm believer in the free-market. However I'm quite liberal when it comes to social issues.

Leave the door open for people to become super mega rich, but support those at the bottom of the ladder who have no hope of making it in life on their own.

Is that why so many places are flooded with food banks? Trickle down doesn't work. Even a lot of middle class is hurting.

 

[RoboCod]

really?? that seems hugely dangerous


"what are all these torn up uncounted ballots?"


"oh just the spoiled ones.....and half the ones for the party i don't like..."

surely all the ballots should be counted then all the individual totals added up at the end to make sure it tallies.

I don't know? All I know is that they don't count for anything if spoiled. If anyone does count them then it's there at the polling station, by someone who couldn't care less and is just there for the over time. The bottom line is, if you think you're giving the middle finger to the establishment by spoiling your ballot then you're not.

 

[RoboCod]

You are forgetting the tendency for people to vote against their own interests out of ignorance. I recall seeing a study which also showed that the more ignorant a person is regarding politics (no research) the more likely they are to vote for the extreme parties.

Hell even most 'informed voters' can't describe their chosen parties stance on most of the key areas (crime & punishment, the environment, the economy, welfare, defence).

This isn't a less intelligent person making an effort & selecting a good party which represents them, it's idiocy leading stupidity into the voting booth.

The turkeys voting for Christmas comes to mind.

The green party would be classed as an extreme party.

 

[V F]

The bottom line is, if you think you're giving the middle finger to the establishment by spoiling your ballot then you're not.

It's why the Government chases the grey vote. It's unreal how Russell Brand has brainwashed so many people.

I really don't understand most people in their twenties/late teens that have no care about politics. Yet it is the same lot that bitch about issues at the same time as well as too many aren't taking the time to research. Yet their soaps/reality/contest shows or social updates are more important.

Young votes are no threat to Government currently. At least not in Britain.

 

[v0n]

If it takes money away from the EU and the money is used for UKIP to fight the election here then i have absolutely no problem with this at all.

It takes money out of taxpayers pocket.

At some point the handful of UKIP MEPs costed taxpayer nearly £800,000 a year - £370,000 for office costs and nearly £420,000 subsistence allowances for meals and hotels. Farage and Helmer even put their wives on the payroll. Farage also faces an expenses investigation into "missing" European Union funds paid into his personal bank account and £205,000 he claimed over the years for an office that was provided to them free of charge by a UKIP supporter. Farage refers to those claims as "smear campaign".

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Rob, we don't see eye to eye on anything. I think you're a terrible hypocrite and you think I'm a useless waste of space (hey, we do agree on something ) but here's a genuine question: when you use the hyperbole you do when talking about UKIP and, more importantly, parties who are not UKIP, do you use that language to sway people to your way of thinking (as in, gain voters for your chosen party) or to more clearly state the divides you see between your chosen party and the other, less desirable, parties?

 

[StriderX]

More people are going into HE under the new system. And what were the Lib Dems meant to do? Let there be a second election soon after the 2010 one, leading to a Conservative majority?

None of the parties are going to be reversing Gove's changes. The fact is he did the unpopular stuff all of the main parties thought needed doing anyway.

So remind everyone where the differences in parties are?

 

[One]

Is that why so many places are flooded with food banks? Trickle down doesn't work. Even a lot of middle class is hurting.

No that's for the state to sort out. The rich pay their taxes, those taxes are the 'trickle down'.

Not my fault the government like to spend all their money on the defence budget even though the biggest threat to society is home grown terrorism.

 

[Westyfield2]

Lol as if a student would vote lib dem after the lies they told students.

Most students would just give you their vote no question asked as-long as you promised "free beer".

 

[MrMoonX]

If it takes money away from the EU and the money is used for UKIP to fight the election here then i have absolutely no problem with this at all.

This use of funding is not allowed, they cannot use eu expenses for election campaigning, they will be in big trouble if they do

 

[MrMoonX]

No that's for the state to sort out. The rich pay their taxes, those taxes are the 'trickle down'.

You don't read the news do you

The only people in this country that appear to be paying their taxes are middle earners on PAYE, the rich are avoiding taxes left right and centre

 

[Dolph]

You don't read the news do you

The only people in this country that appear to be paying their taxes are middle earners on PAYE, the rich are avoiding taxes left right and centre

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ners-pay-a-quarter-of-nations-income-tax.html

The top 300k earners pay 25% of income tax...

You are either only reading the news that suits, or just deliberately being misleading again.

 

[platypus]

No that's for the state to sort out. The rich pay their taxes, those taxes are the 'trickle down'.

I think it's been quite evident that trickle down economics are, at best, flawed.

 

[Dolph]

I think it's been quite evident that trickle down economics are, at best, flawed.

But not as flawed as command economies or enforced wealth redistribution...

 

[elmarko]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ners-pay-a-quarter-of-nations-income-tax.html

The top 300k earners pay 25% of income tax...

You are either only reading the news that suits, or just deliberately being misleading again.

This is indicative of a grossly unbalanced wealth distribution nothing more, 'more tax' is usually meant proportionally - which in many cases is correct.

 

[Tunney]

UKIP continue hoovering up all of the nutty candidates.

 

[robgmun]

It takes money out of taxpayers pocket.

The money is already out of the taxpayers pocket regardless, and if mine and UKIP's stance on Europe are aliened then the money in my eyes is going to a good cause, you don't see it like that as you like the EU, so we'll never agree on this. You see it as a waste/taken away from the people, i see it the opposite way and making the money work to give the people of the UK a say in what they want.

This use of funding is not allowed, they cannot use eu expenses for election campaigning, they will be in big trouble if they do

Been doing it for years and completely open about it. And the EU hasn't said a thing, Also the EU is doing the same thing, pumping schools and uni's full of money to make teachers brainwash kids into thinking the EU is the survivor of the planet. so no, not really.

enforced wealth redistribution...

Ugh, that phrase should send shivers down anyone's spine, yet so many here would love it

 

[RDM]

Also the EU is doing the same thing, pumping schools and uni's full of money to make teachers brainwash kids into thinking the EU is the survivor of the planet. so no, not really.

So far I haven't seen nor attempted to brainwash a child into thinking the EU is the (I assume) saviour of the planet. Where can I apply to get EU funding to do this?

 

[Caged]

The money is already out of the taxpayers pocket regardless, and if mine and UKIP's stance on Europe are aliened then the money in my eyes is going to a good cause, you don't see it like that as you like the EU, so we'll never agree on this. You see it as a waste/taken away from the people, i see it the opposite way and making the money work to give the people of the UK a say in what they want.

So would it be fair to say that you see causing deliberate harm to the UK in the short term as a price worth paying if it means that by the time an EU referendum rolls around, enough people believe that the cause of our issues is the EU (and a solution to those problems is an exit) that we leave?