Poll: General election voting round 4

[Monkeynut]

It would amuse me greatly if Labour and the Cons went into a grand coalition and shut Farage, Sturgeon, Bennett and Wood out of the picture.

 

[D.P.]

Greens and I'm not a fan of Miliband though the Tories personal attacks make me want him to win as a **** you to Cameron and his cronies.

This, but as long UKIP gets demolished I don't really care.

 

[D.P.]

The other forum I post on is very 'left' and has a much younger demographic.

From my years of reading and posting, I have always found Overclockers to be very much on the right.

OCUK has a very vocal far right, always has done.

 

[Mynight]

Idk the far right are rather vocal but they're normally shot down quite quickly. What's left is the middle right and left (occasional far left).

 

[D.P.]

Idk the far right are rather vocal but they're normally shot down quite quickly. What's left is the middle right and left (occasional far left).

OCUK also has far more middle right and far less middle left than normal, they should be approximately balanced goin by recent polls, mkrvoer tech forums should much more left leaning, just shows how skewed OCUK is.

 

[Mynight]

That's a fair point. However may I ask why would tech forums tend to lean left?

I'm unsure what brings such a right wing audience here other than presumably people of similar thoughts group together.

 

[Freddie1980]

Don't get this, why the big support for the Tories? All other forums I frequent the Tories are hated with a vengeance. Also I would guess this forum has a quite youthful clientele so would assume that would make it even more anti Tory.

Demographics. OCUK forums members are typically male, early 20's to mid 40's who share a common interest in a relatively expensive hhobby that requires a certain level of disposable income.

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

Don't get this, why the big support for the Tories? All other forums I frequent the Tories are hated with a vengeance. Also I would guess this forum has a quite youthful clientele so would assume that would make it even more anti Tory.

Cause I earn excessive amount and want to be taxed as little as possible?

 

[Arthur Hucksake]

Demographics. OCUK forums members are typically male, early 20's to mid 40's who share a common interest in a relatively expensive hhobby that requires a certain level of disposable income.

People who aren't opposed to work and have actually had to pay bills in their lifetime then.

 

[Arthur Hucksake]

That's a fair point. However may I ask why would tech forums tend to lean left?

I'm unsure what brings such a right wing audience here other than presumably people of similar thoughts group together.

Other tech enthusiast forums are mainly full of students tbh, from what I can tell. They will always be more to the left. They spend more time around a "hippy" demographic and people who want something for nothing.

Everyone who has been working for years should pay for their right to go to University and support them, because they are the future. That is the common mentality I come across.

 

[Efour]

Dont you now have to pay to go to University in the UK now? Either via loans or the bank of mummy and daddy ?

 

[UTmaniac]

People who aren't opposed to work and have actually had to pay bills in their lifetime then.

Yes, everyone is rolling in it, on their ~£13k gross wage per annum (~39 hour week, minimum wage).

 

[Cosimo]

Don't get this, why the big support for the Tories? All other forums I frequent the Tories are hated with a vengeance. Also I would guess this forum has a quite youthful clientele so would assume that would make it even more anti Tory.

Forum members know which side of the loaf the butter is spread on and want to keep it that way.

 

[Uther]

The poll on this forum is an anomaly and in no way represents what the results on the day will be. And thank **** for that.

 

[scorza]

http://news.sky.com/story/1469598/shapps-denies-editing-rivals-wikipedia-pages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32407991

A source close to the politician told the BBC's Newsnight they could prove that on four occasions he could not have made the changes in question, providing details of Mr Shapps' whereabouts.

"A simple look in my diary shows I was elsewhere," Mr Shapps told the BBC.

Where could Mr Shapps have been?

 

[robgmun]

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

Winston Churchill

 

[Freefaller]

Winston Churchill

He moved from Liberal to Conservative so at least he's consistent

 

[Freefaller]

The poll on this forum is an anomaly and in no way represents what the results on the day will be. And thank **** for that.

Indeed - one of the polls had a UKIP in 3rd or 4th place!

 

[Tunney]

Demographics. OCUK forums members are typically male, early 20's to mid 40's who share a common interest in a relatively expensive hhobby that requires a certain level of disposable income.

I don't think it's anything to do with income. I frequent the forums of other, equally expensive hobbies and they're significantly more to the left.

Maybe it's the type of hobby? I'd imagine that car and body-building forums are equally right-wing.

 

[scorza]

Indeed - one of the polls had a UKIP in 3rd or 4th place!

I'd expect UKIP to come 3rd or 4th in terms of popular vote at this election - they finished 4th in 2010 and since then have become more popular while 3rd placed LibDems will have seen their support drop off a cliff.