Poll: General election voting intentions poll

Voting intentions in the General Election - only use the poll if you intend to vote

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 287 42.0%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 67 9.8%

  • Labour

    Votes: 108 15.8%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 25 3.7%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 15 2.2%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 36 5.3%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 0.6%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 137 20.0%
  • Total voters
    684
  • Poll closed .
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Paxman is a troll, I get he's there to get answers and make sure they don't dodge the questions but he really is just trolling and it's poor TV
 
maccapacca said:
Milliband sounds like a blithering idiot
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Was like watching a puppet dance :| Paxman was just winding him up and off he'd go. Your not really going to vote for someone like that for PM :S even if I do think he honestly still believes in his ideals - unlike Cameron who is just a politician through and through.
 
I'm sick of hearing about that joker Alex Salmond? How is he even relevant? Who would actually vote for this **** to get into Westminster?

Was so desperate for independence, yet now wants in on the action? Winds me right up it does.
 
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Paxman isn't suitable for this kind of debate anyway, excessive confrontation get's in the way of asking pertinent questions.

Asking overly-simplistic questions to complex issues then demanding a singular reply just yearns for populist answers, which for many social issues are inadequate at the task at hand.

For example, on the point regarding population.

Growth is natural, the problem is population growth without adequate infrastructure to handle the increase, that's when problems arise. There isn't some set maximum population of the UK which we must not reach, there is on the other hand a maximum population for the existing capacity of public services.

Assuming all the additional new comers to the UK pay in more than they take out (which most immigrants do, as many leave before reaching old age & we don't pay for their education) it actually funds expansion in services. Shame really, I can answer the questions better than Miliband :D.
 
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elmarko said:
Paxman isn't suitable for this kind of debate anyway, excessive confrontation get's in the way of asking pertinent questions.
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Yeah nothing of value came out of the final 20 minutes or so - Paxman was just sitting back sniping for a reaction and Ed was giving it to him in spades.
 
robgmun said:
Makes a nice change for once from the BBC

Or maybe, just maybe Milliband was just worse?
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Not quite Ed wasn't given an easy ride asking questioning about his brother then being asked about the short comings of New Labour (the previous incarnation)

Not much in terms of what he would be doing to fix the economy or the NHS the real key issues
 
Rroff said:
even if I do think he honestly still believes in his ideals - unlike Cameron who is just a politician through and through.
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That's a pretty fair assessment IMO. Ed seems like he means we'll (which is both a good thing, and a totally inadequate thing in equal measure).
 
If Milliband is our next PM after that performance, God help us!

Cameron wasn't much better tbh but he's a cut above Milliband, sums up what's wrong with politics today, lightweight non conviction media appeasement.
 
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