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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Conservatives now want to cut benefits. I don't like the idea of the poorest people having even less just so the rich can have a bit more. This means less money for someone on an average income in this country.

Voting Green.
 
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I'm not against working child benefits in principle but how much of a factor is it that working parents get stuck in their ways and are unwilling to sacrifice their lifestyle choices at the expense of the taxpayer?
 
covenantuk said:
This is true. But they also didn't call for us to spend billions bailing out banks and to not prosecute a single CEO over it all.

Quite apart from the fact that public spending was way short of "prudent" at the time because they were trying to "buy" the next election, making things worse.
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The decision to prosecute isn't the government's to make. Bailing out the banks, though unpleasant is regarded as the best course of action. Public spending before the crash was tiny in comparison to what we had to spend during the crash - the simple fact is that no amount of "prudent" spending prior to the crash would have made a blind bit of difference. It was the speed of change - in GDP and in public spending that caused a shock to the system, not the actual levels of either.
 
cheesyboy said:
Do you have children? Whether you do or not: would you take time to read to them, help them experience new things, teach them your skills, help with homework?
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Of course I would. But then this comes back to my debate about whether people are (or are not) in a position to have children ;)
 
AGD said:
Remember, no one saw the financial crisis coming, and the Tories were in fact calling for less banking regulation at the time.
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Correction, *lots* of people saw the financial crisis coming. No-one was prepared to do anything about it though. All parties are as bad as each on that front, they'll never do the responsible thing and raise interest rates to reign in the property market, better to let everyone run up debt and feel wealthy, act surprised at the crash, and then have an easy ride on the opposition bench for a few years before the other party screws things up and it's your go again.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
The thing that needs to be clear is that votes don't necessarily give you MPs. Popular votes don't count much in a FPTP system.
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This is very true, in 1997 UKIPs predecessors the UK Referendum party got 2.6% of the vote (over 800k) but not a single MP (they did however cost the tories a number of MPs, just like UKIP are expected to).
 
mid_gen said:
Correction, *lots* of people saw the financial crisis coming. No-one was prepared to do anything about it though. All parties are as bad as each on that front, they'll never do the responsible thing and raise interest rates to reign in the property market, better to let everyone run up debt and feel wealthy, act surprised at the crash, and then have an easy ride on the opposition bench for a few years before the other party screws things up and it's your go again.
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That's not what caused the financial crisis though :confused:
 
v0n said:
Because every vote for Nigel counts as a step closer to Downing Street for Ed?

Plus you know - the whole xenophobia and trollism in second decade of 21st century...
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Wanting to have control of your borders is xenophobia? :rolleyes:

UKIP policies are far from xenophobic; they want closer relationships with Commonwealth nations. I think what you mean to say is anti-immigrant, but they are not even that. They are fine with limited immigration.

So maybe, what you should actually have said is:

Plus you know - the whole wanting a sensible and controlled immigration policy in second decade of 21st century...
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I can understand why that would panic some people, sure. Common sense is the enemy of your average lefty.
 
scorza said:
That's not what caused the financial crisis though :confused:
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The US sub-prime collapse was just the trigger that brought all the UK irresponsible lending chickens home to roost. When I was a student I was getting given 5 figure limit credit cards like candy, totally ridiculous, along with interest rates being too low for too long, 100%+ mortgages and other insanity. All the no-questions-asked credit went away and people couldn't rely on their house appreciating 10%+ a year..etc.etc.
 
Conservative.

I'm dreading the idea of anything SNP related, which is what voting for Labour is basically doing.

Should have got rid of Scotland as they sway the vote too much!
 
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