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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To be honest, none of the leaders have a combination of charisma, integrity, intelligence & dedication.

A leader with these who also advocated a true dedication to data, facts & studies would be a refreshing change. Half the TED speakers could wipe the floor with any of our potential leaders at making salient points, constructing arguments & keeping it on point.
 
elmarko said:
To be honest, none of the leaders have a combination of charisma, integrity, intelligence & dedication.

A leader with these who also advocated a true dedication to data, facts & studies would be a refreshing change.
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Those are generally the traits of a good scientist, and it is very rare that we get anyone with a scientific background in high-level politics these days unfortunately.

One thing is for sure though, Ed Miliband just isn't leadership material.
 
As Ed Miliband was getting interviewed by Jeremy Paxman he was nearly crying and was like a stammering child he was squirming. It was utterly painful to watch, yet afterwards on Sky News I hear comments he did well.
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
One thing is for sure though, Ed Miliband just isn't leadership material.
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None of the potential candidate are leadership material is the problem.

The real question is, who do you think will cause the most damage & to whom.

Personally, I don't support punitive changes to the poorest (a common theme of this government & there will be more to come in if they get re-elected) so I'll be voting against my own financial interests for change.
 
Miliband is like that taxi driver who was accidentally put in a BBC interview on an Apple court case.

Paxman does ask some stupid questions, though.
 
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I'm guessing the media have made their minds up on who will be PM come May hence the easy ride Dave got
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I'm not convinced. It seems more like most media outlets want Cameron to win, rather than expecting him to. It should be noted that if it wasn't for the SNP surge, we'd be looking at an almost certain Labour government now. I wonder why that fact isn't often mentioned?

All this bluster about Alex Salmond the 'kingmaker' is designed to scare the English voter in to voting Tory, for the only way to 'protect' the UK from the SNP is to return a Tory Majority (or at least reduce Labour's seats to the point where Labour with SNP support isn't enough). In reality, I don't think the SNP would be particularly unreasonable. For the most part, what's good for the UK is good for Scotland, and what's bad for the UK is bad for Scotland. They'd just be a pain in the butt over stuff like devolution and Trident.
 
I thought Miliband presented himself and his bid for government far better especially considering the amount of time allotted to character assassination and trying to undermine him, which the media has been doing for years already anyway. Cameron looked far less comfortable talking to Paxman and yet Miliband is the weak one?
 
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Paxman was so busy being confrontational to Cameron & Miliband he forgot to ask any meaningful & intelligent questions.

Not good for politics, just dramatised nonsense.
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He has a tendency to ask questions to which there is no good answer. For example, asking Cameron about he could live on a zero-hours contract or Miliband on exactly how many people could squeeze into the UK before we could say was 'full.' Stupid questions, so the interviewee has to either skirt around the question or give a stupid answer. And when they do avoid the stupid question they look like typical slimy politicians and Paxman looks like a tough interviewer.
 
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rIcK said:
As Ed Miliband was getting interviewed by Jeremy Paxman he was nearly crying and was like a stammering child he was squirming. It was utterly painful to watch, yet afterwards on Sky News I hear comments he did well.
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Was quite funny at the start mind - Paxman was expecting a politician's answer to the early bit of the immigration question and I believe Ed was speaking from the heart which caught Paxman out, unfortunately it went all downhill for Ed from there though - Paxman just back peddled like crazy til he had enough distance to press home cheap and easy attacks one after another. Intellectually it was scraping the gutter.
 
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Well, that's the election sorted then.
 
Just finished watching. Paxman over-reached with the last point - "People look at you and think 'I wish it was his brother.'" The audience turned and Miliband's response made him look like a plucky underdog rather than the usual clueless, bumbling idiot.
 
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