Poll: General election voting intentions poll

[mid_gen]

My point was one of freedom. It was stated that regulatory frameworks make trade easier, it is my claim they dictate to businesses what they can and can't do so in fact do the opposite.

One regulatory framework covering 28 countries.
28 regulatory frameworks covering 28 countries.

Which is easier to do business with?

Exporting to different countries is a massive pain in the arse. Any kind of shared regulation that can take the administrative burden off companies is a good thing for them.

 

[footman]

Last night I had a look at the candidates in my constituency.
The UKIP candidate has a blog, on looking at this I saw the headline:

Forget the science for a minute and judge with your heart

This was followed by the line:

There is absolutely no correlation between CO2 levels and global temperatures.

I'd love to meet this character and have a little chat about this but apart from me hanging around Camberley town centre there's fat chance of this happening, there'll be no doorstepping here.

There's no chance of the slimy Gove getting unseated so I'll enjoy myself and vote according to my conscience.

 

[D.P.]

Last night I had a look at the candidates in my constituency.
The UKIP candidate has a blog, on looking at this I saw the headline:

This was followed by the line:

I'd love to meet this character and have a little chat about this but apart from me hanging around Camberley town centre there's fat chance of this happening, there'll be no doorstepping here.

There's no chance of the slimy Gove getting unseated so I'll enjoy myself and vote according to my conscience.

Classic!

If you ivory ore the scncthen you can believe in whatever you want!

 

[something daft already!!]

114 morons voting UKIP. Urgh.

 

[ElliorR]

114 morons voting UKIP. Urgh.

Firstly I would never dream of voting for a right of center party, they do not share my overall views on how I believe ALL people should be treated. Hell it's hard to vote Labour in this day and age because they don't share enough of my views.

I don't necessarily see them as morons, more to the point politicians from the mainstream parties either don't listen to them or, and more likely, people have lost trust in politicians and either they don't put across the reality well enough or people just don't believe them.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Curious

I want to write 'non of the above' on my voting paper - I can do this right? Let me know people.

 

[platypus]

Nope. It's an option that has been mooted by a few groups, but doesn't exist (yet).

 

[Munimentum]

I've honestly never understood how anyone can see a party like UKIP and think they'd be anything other than a disaster. I just don't understand at all. Then again I can't understand why anyone would vote for an idiot like Cameron but here we are.

 

[McGray]

Farage on the campaign trail with Joey Essex this morning.

Maybe those radicals have a point about Western civilisation after all.

 

[Delvis]

No idea who I'll be voting. Online survey says I should vote for Conservative, closely followed by Lib Dems I think it was, then Labour.

In all honesty though I have no idea, they'll all a bunch of false promising people.

The only reason getting UKIP even remotely close to winning and it being a good idea is if everyone else actually bucks their ideas up. I watched the debate the other day and found it hilarious how one minute everyones going 'Hey, you can't say that about immigrants, you can't do this' then the next minute they're going 'we will introduce stricter border crossing systems, limit immigration etc etc'....Essentially they say the same thing as Farage did just not as bluntly.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Nope. It's an option that has been mooted by a few groups, but doesn't exist (yet).

Yeah but I can write it on the paper anyway? what happens if I do write none of the above?

 

[ubersonic]

Curious

I want to write 'non of the above' on my voting paper - I can do this right? Let me know people.

For the purpose of this poll that would be the "Not voting/will spoil ballot" option.

In reality it is the same as not voting (assuming you are registered to do so).

 

[scorza]

Curious

I want to write 'non of the above' on my voting paper - I can do this right? Let me know people.

You can do it - though I suggest you spell 'none' correctly. You vote will count as a spoiled ballot.

 

[Dark Light]

Create a "who did you vote for in 2010 poll".

 

[Mr Jack]

I want to write 'non of the above' on my voting paper - I can do this right? Let me know people.

Yes. I've done similar in the past; however, there is no formal counting of these votes so it's not worth a great deal. But if you genuinely feel you can't support anyone it's (narrowly) better than not voting at all.

 

[ubersonic]

114 morons voting UKIP. Urgh.

It perplexes me too, I mean from a standpoint of logic UKIP only have one real policy and that's hold an EU referendum (Okay they have other racist/sexist/classist policies but they don't really count because if your voting because of them your not a moron you're a ****).

The Tories are already promising an EU referendum, and the only way it's happening is if they get a majority, which looks unlikely because UKIP are stealing their votes just like their predecessors UKRP did in 1997 to make Blair's win a landslide. Thus a vote for UKIP is straight up voting for Ed Miliband and no EU referendum, not only that but UKIP are a pretty nasty party.

It's like wanting a cheese sandwich and being presented with the option of beef (Labour), cheese and onion (Tory) and cheese and poo (UKIP). Then saying "I want cheese for sure, but I'm not keen on onion at the moment, so I'll have the poo".

Moronic is being nice about it.

 

[ubersonic]

But if you genuinely feel you can't support anyone it's (narrowly) better than not voting at all.

Not really because if you're registered to vote but don't that implies to the parties that you didn't feel engaged or motivated enough by them to vote for them, if you spoil a ballot it implies to them that another peasant is incapable of drawing an X inside a box.

 

[Mr Jack]

Not really because if you're registered to vote but don't that implies to the parties that you didn't feel engaged or motivated enough by them to vote for them, if you spoil a ballot it implies to them that another peasant is incapable of drawing an X inside a box.

Most spoiled ballot papers are deliberately spoiled. And the candidates - or their representatives, I can't remember what the rule is - do get a chance to inspect them (and often do) so there is some communication of the 'None of the above' sentiment. In my view there should be a formal option on all ballot papers.

 

[D.P.]

I've honestly never understood how anyone can see a party like UKIP and think they'd be anything other than a disaster. I just don't understand at all. Then again I can't understand why anyone would vote for an idiot like Cameron but here we are.

A majority of people didn't vote for the Conservatives, FWIW.

 

[squerble]

Most of the people who vote for UKIP don't seem to grasp the fact that if we leave the EU, the likelihood is that you have to start applying for visas even if you want a quick weekend trip to Amsterdam.