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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lovelyhead said:
Wow.

Please explain in what way are the SNP like the Tories?

As for SNP backers, that would be normal Scottish people. The SNP have the third largest membership in the UK with over 100,000 members. A political party in England would need to have 1 million members to have the same member to population ratio.
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Aye but how much do these ordinary members contribute compared to the 100 or so rich supporters? When it comes to it, in an independent Scotland what are the SNP going to do? Support the Social Justice that 99,000 of their members want or give tax breaks to millionaires that their 1,000 super-rich members demand?
 
scorza said:
Aye but how much do these ordinary members contribute compared to the 100 or so rich supporters? When it comes to it, in an independent Scotland what are the SNP going to do? Support the Social Justice that 99,000 of their members want or give tax breaks to millionaires that their 1,000 super-rich members demand?
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With 100,000 members the very least the SNP will be bringing in is £1.2 million per year. Say the average member pays £50 a year, that figure jumps to £5 million a year.

80% of the funding for the YES campaign last year was from one ordinary couple who won the Euromillions. They donated that money because they wanted independence not for any other reason.

I put it to you that the 100 donations from super rich millionaires looking for concessions don't exist.
 
lovelyhead said:
With 100,000 members the very least the SNP will be bringing in is £1.2 million per year. Say the average member pays £50 a year, that figure jumps to £5 million a year.

80% of the funding for the YES campaign last year was from one ordinary couple who won the Euromillions. They donated that money because they wanted independence not for any other reason.

I put it to you that the 100 donations from super rich millionaires looking for concessions don't exist.
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Time will tell, but you're being extraordinarily naive if you think wealthy people donate large sums of money to political parties and don't expect anything in return.
 
AndyCroft1982 said:
If you work you are better off under a tory government. If you live a life on benefits you will be better under labour
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I work and am worse off, due to their failure to control the housing market and rents going up at a stupid level meaning I'm trapped, can't afford to buy and barely afford to rent, the Tory dream! We need rent control and only labour promise that, but will believe it when I see it, we need Europe type letting and control

Also worse off due to them screwing public sector pensions and stopping pay rises
 
AndyCroft1982 said:
If you work ( and are not on minimum wage or a zero hour contract) you are better off under a tory government, providing you earn enough to avoid the povity trap. If you live a life on benefits (Disabled people who can't work for example are worse off under the Tory jackboot) you will be better under labour
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Fixed that for you. ;)
 
MrMoonX said:
I work and am worse off, due to their failure to control the housing market and rents going up at a stupid level meaning I'm trapped, can't afford to buy and barely afford to rent, the Tory dream! We need rent control and only labour promise that, but will believe it when I see it, we need Europe type letting and control

Also worse off due to them screwing public sector pensions and stopping pay rises
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You realise labour created the current housing bubble right? Pre 1998 prices were absolutely fine. Its the 1998-2008 where prices shot up 2-4x or more.

Not sure why you are trying to blame the Torys for this. Also you must mean adjusting public sector pensions to a more realistic level, no one has been getting pay rises either.

Is this a troll post? :P
 
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People got used to living on hand outs whilst labour were in power, spending the countries funds willy nilly and now we are feeling the pinch. It is not the conservatives fault that they have had to balance the books.
 
AndyCroft1982 said:
labour had 13 years to destroy the economy, it will take some time to right their wrongs
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It wasn't that Labour destroyed the economy. That's simply hyperbole. It was the financial crisis which began in America that triggered the world wide recession. Labour's blame in this was it's de-regulation of the banks, which exacerbated the global financial crisis for us in the UK, but didn't cause it.
 
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AndyCroft1982 said:
labour had 13 years to destroy the economy, it will take some time to right their wrongs
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Yeah, Wilson destroyed it, Callahan destroyed it, Maggie destroyed it, Brown destroyed it, Cameron couldn't fix it.

Oh yeah, Heath also destroyed it and so did the unions,
 
Sliver said:
It wasn't that Labour destroyed the economy. That's simply hyperbole. It was the financial crisis which began in America that triggered the world wide recession. Labour's blame in this was it's de-regulation of the banks, which exacerbated the global financial crisis for us in the UK, but didn't cause it.
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They also squandered the countries savings and gold
 
It's always funny when people rant about Labour. Most people don't seem to understand why they should be annoyed with Brown. As a result, many fail to understand that they should also be annoyed with Cameron and Osborne.
 
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