Poll: General election voting round 5 (final one)

Voting intentions in the General Election?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 3 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 403 42.2%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 59 6.2%

  • Labour

    Votes: 176 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 67 7.0%

  • Not voting/will spoil ballot

    Votes: 42 4.4%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 8 0.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 37 3.9%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 154 16.1%
  • Total voters
    956
  • Poll closed .
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Sliver said:
I disagree. The current 'coalition', and I use that term loosely, is almost entirely dominated by the Tory party. The Lib Dems are simply window dressing with little power to effect any policies that the Tory party want to implement. So if Labour got in bed with the SNP, the same would be true for that marriage of inequality.
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The Lib Dems are basically Tories and have much the same policies so they were never going to make the Tories life difficult.

The SNP on the other hand hate the Labour party only a little bit less than the Tories. The SNP will try and get as much as possible from them for Scotland. If that means threatening to vote against Labour policy proposals in order to get concessions for Scotland, so be it.

The SNP have nothing to lose from doing so.
 
Dolph said:
If we end up with a coalition of losers, I predict another election within 18 months, and a severely damaged labour party if they sell out England to get power via the SNP.
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That won't happen unless 66% of MP's vote against the government in a no confidence vote.

That would require all the Tories, the SNP, smaller parties and maybe even some Labour MP's to vote against the government.

Not going to happen.

Labour are going to be in power for the next 5 years with the SNP pulling the strings! Lovely Jubbly!
 
lovelyhead said:
The SNP will try and get as much as possible from them for Scotland. If that means threatening to vote against Labour policy proposals in order to get concessions for Scotland, so be it.
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For that scenario to be effective, every SNP member will need to vote against every Labour policy they don't agree with along with every Tory. Never going to happen. Yes it would be hard for Labour on some policies and they would be defeated on occasion, but back bench rebels can always swing a vote against their own party, we see it all the time. I'm sure Labour with or without the SNP's help, could get some policies through easily.
 
Sliver said:
For that scenario to be effective, every SNP member will need to vote against every Labour policy they don't agree with along with every Tory. Never going to happen. Yes it would be hard for Labour on some policies and they would be defeated on occasion, but back bench rebels can always swing a vote against their own party, we see it all the time. I'm sure Labour with or without the SNP's help, could get some policies through easily.
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Some but not all.

If Labour want to get all their policies through, concessions will need to be made.
 
robgmun said:
Membership means nothing and you know it. If we're going to follows DP's logic then the polls show they've been slipping for quite some time
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They have slipped less than UKIP.
UKIP have slipped from 18% to 12.5%, greens from around 7% to 5%. The Greens a polling higher now than this time last year, the UKIP is polling lower than this time last year.
 
scorza said:
It wouldn't surprise me if the SNP voted against a Labour Queen's Speech and abstained on a Tory QS.
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It would surprise me because that will force a re-election and the SNP can't possibly do any better Than they will do next week, they risk ending up loosing seats or ending up with a Tory government.

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Labour will form either a minority government and the SNP will not vote against their queen's speech or Labour and LibDem's will form a coalition, still minority, with the SNP not voting against their queen's speech.

Unless the Tory's can pick up enough seats to form a majority coalition with the LibDem's, I'd be surprised to see them as the next government.
 
ElliorR said:
Labour will form either a minority government and the SNP will not vote against their queen's speech or Labour and LibDem's will form a coalition, still minority, with the SNP not voting against their queen's speech.

Unless the Tory's can pick up enough seats to form a majority coalition with the LibDem's, I'd be surprised to see them as the next government.
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Pretty this except Conservative can be 12-15 short and still form a minority government as DUP, UUP and UKIP won't vote against.
 
ElliorR said:
Labour will form either a minority government and the SNP will not vote against their queen's speech or Labour and LibDem's will form a coalition, still minority, with the SNP not voting against their queen's speech.

Unless the Tory's can pick up enough seats to form a majority coalition with the LibDem's, I'd be surprised to see them as the next government.
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The Lib Dems won't have a enough seats for them to matter.
 
lovelyhead said:
The Lib Dems won't have a enough seats for them to matter.
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They don't need many in that scenario. All they need is enough to help Labour have a minority government that the SNP won't vote against, or abstain, or they risk letting the Tories in or forcing another election. That would not be good for the SNP. Miliband does not need to form a coalition with them or broker deals. He knows their MP's will do everything they can, along with the Greens and Plaid Cymru's, to stop the Tories at every turn.
 
lovelyhead said:
The SNP will though so unless Labour votes Tory, the Tories won't be able to pass a queens speech.
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It is unlikely SNP and Lab will have enough for majority. It will come down to a few seats and basically who gets the most. Con, Lib, DUP, UUP and UKIP will vote together if they have 322 between them. If not then Lab, Lib, SNP will get the chance. The default will be the former and if that is not possible then the latter.
 
lovelyhead said:
The SNP will though so unless Labour votes Tory, the Tories won't be able to pass a queens speech.
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Con and lib will have similar number of seats as lab and SNP. So doesn't matter if lab and SNP don't support. They will need to outnumber Con, Lib, DUP, UUP and UKIP which is literally a hairline of difference in total seats.
 
The Lib Dems and Labour alone wouldn't have enough seats to outvote the Tories. Going by the latest polls the SNP and Labour would.

Labour will need the SNP support 100% of the time that the Tories vote against Labour policy. Labour and the Lib Dems alone wouldn't be enough.

End result, concessions coming to Scotland.
 
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