Poll: General election voting poll round 3

Voting intentions in the General Election?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 286 40.5%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 56 7.9%

  • Labour

    Votes: 122 17.3%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 33 4.7%

  • Not voting/will spoil ballot

    Votes: 38 5.4%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 4 0.6%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 5 0.7%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 29 4.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 3 0.4%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 129 18.2%
  • Total voters
    707
  • Poll closed .
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D.P. said:
The same was said about the lib dems last time round.
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Except the Libs are a broader church. Clegg and Alexander, for example, could ideologically find a space in the Tory party. Others in the Libs would not. I think that if the Libs where in a position again they would go first with Labour as they have in the past.

I agree it is unlikely but it would give them a shot of power and the lib dems and greens would work together. UKIP and lib dems will absolutely not be part of the same coalition. The Greens have no traction with labour because for labour to win they need an agreement with the SNP, once that is there then there is no need for lib dems or greens. So the Greens best shot at power is a coalition with lib dems and Tories, and that would only work in the most unusual of circumstances. But I still think those are better odds than UKIP being part of a coalition.
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If you have noticed recently the Greens, the SNP and PC have all been very chummy and saying more or less the same thing talking of a rainbow coalition, if necessary.

The only interesting thing about the UKIP seats is if the Cons do extremely well then they might just be short of the number of seats the UKIP have, it a coalition is basically impossible to form between the 4 parties (DUP would to be there), so all it really means is UKIP are likely the ones preventing the Tories getting in to power. So if you really don't want labour in Government and you are thinking voting UKIP then you probably want to think if you want to vote tactically to help the Tories or go with your beliefs.
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The Tories are doing what they have done over the last five years. Targeting various groups, the unemployed, the sick, invalids etc, etc. Now it is the Scots. The trouble with always blaming someone is people get agitated and look for others to blame and easy targets are the Tory's rich backers.
 
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The biggest irony is, if you really want to stop a referendum to occurring then actively campaigning for UKIP in swing seats would help achieve exactly that.

The very existence of UKIP is highly likely to stop a referendum from ever seeing the light.
 
elmarko said:
The biggest irony is, if you really want to stop a referendum to occurring then actively campaigning for UKIP in swing seats would help achieve exactly that.

The very existence of UKIP is highly likely to stop a referendum from ever seeing the light.
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The election is indeed hilarious, at least the way its going. :D
 
ubersonic said:
http://thesovereigninvestor.com/economic-collapse-2/raise-minimum-wage-raise-cost-living/
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That's your source, a guy who says:

The results are quite interesting. They show that, contrary to the puffery I hear from lots of economists today, inflation does, in fact, correlate with minimum-wage increases – especially when wage hikes are large and occur after a long stretch of stagnant wages.​

but thinks...

Because it’s impossible to account for every potential factor in every year, the best you can do is look at two plot points and see how they correlate to one another – and then think: Does this make sense?​

Come on. This is not based on a deep analysis of a complex issue; it's based on a guy who doesn't know how to do a proper economic analysis supporting his own pre-existing biases. Despite claiming to have found trends in the data; he doesn't even present a single shred of analysis of this data beyond a vague assertion that he's found it.
 
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The thing is there are policies I like from most parties and polices I dislike from all parties. I agree with scrapping Trident but am pro nuclear power. The overall Green manifesto wouldn't be workable if they were the government but I'd like to see their influence within parliament to affect some change for the better of the country.

As Joey Tribbiani would say, it's a moo point (I know it's moot but that joke from Friends "a moo point?" "yes, like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter" makes me smile) as chances are the status quo will be maintained and continue to do so.
 
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As Joey Tribbiani would say, it's a moo point (I know it's moot but that joke from Friends "a moo point?" "yes, like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter" makes me smile) as chances are the status quo will be maintained and continue to do so.
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I always think of this when someone says moot :D
 
Lol result after quick run through:

Lab: 16
Green: 13
Libdem: -4
Con: -24

I will just look at the results in a mirror and we are all good..

(I have never voted for Labour and that won't likely change come this election). The less said about the Greens the better.
 
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