Poll: General election voting intentions poll

[PlacidCasual]

We overspend every year since 2008 by more than the one off cost of the bail out. Also we're unwinding our bank holdings. The outcome of which will be a small loss not a huge one. The ongoing commitments built up before 2008 remain with us.

 

[xs2man]

No, not a REAL hung parliment. More of the same would be another ConDem coalition. Not a parliament with individual deals with different parties on every policy. Or a Labour/SNP coalition. Or any other coalition.

Sure, benefits aren't the whole story, but they are a big part of it, however you slice it all up.

Pensions being around 45-50%



But then the rest of the welfare pie, a lot is taken up through benefits for low incomes and the unemployed. Still around 30%. Hardly tiny.

 

[scorza]

No, not a REAL hung parliment. More of the same would be another ConDem coalition. Not a parliament with individual deals with different parties on every policy. Or a Labour/SNP coalition. Or any other coalition.

You mean a minority government in the first instance at least. So basically you just want a Tory government and for the pain of pointless austerity to continue.

 

[Destination]

No, not a REAL hung parliment. More of the same would be another ConDem coalition. Not a parliament with individual deals with different parties on every policy. Or a Labour/SNP coalition. Or any other coalition.

Sure, benefits aren't the whole story, but they are a big part of it, however you slice it all up.

Pensions being around 45-50%

[PICTURE]
But then the rest of the welfare pie, a lot is taken up through benefits for low incomes and the unemployed. Still around 30%. Hardly tiny.

Within that overall total, how many billions are we talking about?
Additionally how many billions are expended on working families tax credits and the like?
Just pondering.

 

[No1newts]

Looking at the polls and all the smack talk of leaders I can see this government being a complete ******* farce of huge coalitions.

Labour look firmly in bed with the SNP and look like selling the union down the river for power, which is a disgrace IMO, can see the Cons countering with a messy UKIP/Green coalition then Liberals jumping one way or the other to tip the power.

Not looking forward to the next government at all.

 

[Belly]

No change in my voting intentions since the last poll. The thought of Milliband and Balls in power makes me feel sick.

Yes as well as making me feel sick Milliband makes me feel quite uncomfortable too.

Why does he feel that he has to make such false smiles/smirks, as if we the voters will be encouraged to vote for him because he smiles at us? It reminds me of Cliff Richard's (don't like him either) curled upper lip in the 1960s.

I certainly wouldn't want to be alone in his presence for any length of time.

Ed BALLS well the answer's in his name - Gawd help us!

 

[scorza]

You tell me - you're the one who made the assertion we're building enough. Currently on my iPad so it'd be awkward to do so. I'll be very surprised if you can prove yourself right, though .

The problem with your figures is that the end right at the point Osborne abandoned his plan A and started investing in the economy - in particular with various investments designed to promote house building. I'll be honest, I'm not going to try and find the figures, they may not even be available yet, however you'd be foolish to deny that there'd been boom in housebuilding over the last couple of years.

 

[robgmun]

Nice to see that the UKIP vote is higher at this point than it was in the last poll

 

[Uther]

Nice to see that the UKIP vote is higher at this point than it was in the last poll

Maybe because more people can see the writing on the wall re Lab/SNP...

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Only the insane far right could believe a Britain in the middle of slashing benefits, targeting the poorest and most vulnerable for cuts, whilst introducing tax cuts aimed at the richest (50% rate) and upper-to-middle income households (the rise in personal allowance) alongside re-privatising a profitable railway and introducing new levels of privatisation to the NHS and slashing council budgets to the bone and beyond placing care services and intervention services on life support is "lurching to the left".

The fact is that we've currently got the most right wing government in a hundred years in power; and the chief opposition is the most right wing "left wing party" in UK history.

For how many years of the last labour government did they have a 50% rate?

Do you not believe that they may have implemented said rate as they expected to lose the election?

Why 50%, would it not be better at 99% as previous labour government once did?

 

[scorza]

I haven't denied there has been, nor have I said there has been - I've asked you to substantiate your claim. Wouldn't you be foolish to assert there have been, if you don't know the figures and won't look them up?

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I've now done it for you.

In terms of completions, 2014,

Jan - March = 27 670
April - June = 29 540
July - September = 31 190
October - December = 30 760

Sum = 119 160

In terms of starts, 2014,

Jan - March = 36 450
April - June = 36 230
July - September = 32 890
October - December = 29 800

Sum = 135 370



(Figures will differ because they're from reports throughout the year, but then the ones in the quotation are from the last quarter's report).

All from here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/house-building-statistics

Last time I checked, 137 010 and 118 760 are both significantly lower than 240 000...

But does represent a significant increase since the previous year. What's the significants of the 240,000 figure?

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I cannot see how the housing crisis can be divorced from the uncontrolled net migration into the UK since the 2000's. Ran at approx 150k a year which is higher than the rate of building without demographic trends increasing demands too.
For asylum seekers this will include housing benefit which helps underpin rental prices. Also given how poor we are at infrastructure planning must have some impact on services.

As to comments about the economic crisis, personally I do not blame Labour for that anymore than the Conservatives it was a truly global phenomenom. The fiscal crisis that followed was an entirely Labour problem. They didn't mend the finances during the good times in preparation or the bad times instead they spent heavily thinking the good times would never end. All the measures required to bring the deficit under control can be laid at Gordon Brown's door in my opinion.

Spot on on both counts

 

[scorza]

Because, as my first post on this matter said,



Or 300 000 = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...curb-housing-crisis-urges-report-8227467.html

Or 250 000, according to the Barker Review = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30776306

You won't find many people who think sub 200 000 is at all sufficient - maybe UKIPers who'll 'send them back' to solve the problem .

Not at current levels of demand no, when we're adding an extra 350,000 people to the population every year. I say the solution is to reduce demand.

 

[xs2man]

For how many years of the last labour government did they have a 50% rate?

Yes, this was a ploy by a loosing Labour government to give them something for the next 5 years.

I think you can count it in days, the length of time the 50% rate was in place. Something like 32 days or something.

As for the rest of their 13 years in office, it was 40% compared to the current 45%. So in REAL terms, it's an extra 5% taken from the rich from the coalition, compared to the previous Labour government.

 

[Caged]

As above, if utilities, housing and public services can't keep up with a growing population then that is entirely the fault of successive governments inability to plan properly. You don't blame other shoppers when Tesco run out of something you needed.

 

[scorza]

So we're not building enough houses, as you said, but instead are building enough if we slash immigration?

Why not still build and deflate the bubble slowly? Why go hard on immigrants when they provide a net contribution to the UK, instead of building homes? How much can we reduce immigration, given our EU commitments aren't going to meaningfully change, and immigration from outside the EU can often be desirable and not something you'd want to block (if a responsible legislator)? How much do you want to cut immigration by, and how much of a reduction in housing need would that result in?

We are building enough houses, I don't particularly want to see the countryside built on with identikit Barratt estates. The problem is our demand for housing is rising at an unsustainable rate - controlling immigration is just one of my three suggestions for reducing demand remember.

 

[scorza]

As above, if utilities, housing and public services can't keep up with a growing population then that is entirely the fault of successive governments inability to plan properly. You don't blame other shoppers when Tesco run out of something you needed.

This is why we need to control immigration - you can't plan unless you have some idea how many people are going to enter the country, where they're going to go and what sort of people they are. Failure to plan = plan to fail.

 

[arknor]

whys cameron missus in the dailymail

David Cameron’s tearful wife Samantha has revealed how their ‘terrifying and heartbreaking’ struggle to cope with disabled son Ivan brought the couple close to ‘breaking point.’

They were physically and mentally ‘shattered’ by the strain of looking after Ivan – who died aged six in 2009

Those disabled people they have no trouble demonising and forcing them in front of ATOS?!?!?!?!?!!?!?? how many suicides were there again from worried disabled people? about half a dozen that made the papers?


breaking point? is that with the live in chefs, live in nannies and everything else making your life extremely easily

She should try living on minimum wage and looking after a disabled child these people have no ******* idea how the real world is it makes me sick.


they probably wouldn't know breaking point if it whacked them in the face because to them breaking point is when they have enough and the live in staff take over

breaking point is struggling to feed and put clothes on your disabled child whilst fighting with the NHS to get them diagnosed in the first place whilst worrying about keeping a roof over your head and being able to pay the bills

 

[Caged]

This is why we need to control immigration - you can't plan unless you have some idea how many people are going to enter the country, where they're going to go and what sort of people they are. Failure to plan = plan to fail.

Politicians don't seem to struggle to throw out numbers of immigrants that are going to come here when they are trying to grab headlines, maybe they should share those numbers with other departments?

 

[koolpc]

Obviously way too many immigrants in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!