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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thep02 said:
People of your ilk see the poor as stereotypes, sad that baseless right wing memes influence so many.
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Of my ilk? I come from a working class background and my mother ended up a single parent working full time with 4 children. I see the LAZY as stereotypes. The fact that I now earn above the national average wage has nothing to do with how I see the poor, because I know exactly what it's like thank you.
 
thep02 said:
I'm guessing it wont be based upon xbox type.
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It might as well be. The officially defined measure of poverty is actually nothing at all to do with poverty but is a measure of inequality. That is why people are no better off when their income becomes poverty plus a pound instead
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
Seems the statistics for foodbanks are wildy exaggerated, 1.1 million people using them, however that statistic does not take into consideration people use them multiple times. So the real number of "people" is far less.

Also on the Trusseltrust website it seems most people use them because of "benefit delays". Says it all really.
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Those statistics are for the banks run by Trussell Trust alone,so far from the whole picture.

No most people don't visit because of benefit delays. Benefit delays are the most common cause, and that's largely because Universal Credit has been a failure.
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
Seems the statistics for foodbanks are wildy exaggerated, 1.1 million people using them, however that statistic does not take into consideration people use them multiple times. So the real number of "people" is far less.

Also on the Trusseltrust website it seems most people use them because of "benefit delays". Says it all really.
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Yes, it sas it all about the state the Tpries have got the country into.

Someone looses their job through no fault of their own, and now cannot properly feed their children because JSA is too slow to initiate.

And we dare call Britain first world.
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
Of my ilk? I come from a working class background and my mother ended up a single parent working full time with 4 children. I see the LAZY as stereotypes. The fact that I now earn above the national average wage has nothing to do with how I see the poor, because I know exactly what it's like thank you.
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Yup you confirmed my thoughts, by your ilk I meant right wing thinkers, you see them as lazy that is exactly what I thought, we had discipline, we worked hard, never smoked or drank and horses were for pulling carts not betting on, well not everybody is as worthy or make the right choices or are as lucky in their parenting or home life.
 
D.P. said:
Yes, it sas it all about the state the Tpries have got the country into.

Someone looses their job through no fault of their own, and now cannot properly feed their children because JSA is too slow to initiate.

And we dare call Britain first world.
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Hence why we need a citizens income instead. But citizens income policies aren't popular with people who think they are entitled to other peoples money.
 
D.P. said:
Yes, it sas it all about the state the Tpries have got the country into.

Someone looses their job through no fault of their own, and now cannot properly feed their children because JSA is too slow to initiate.

And we dare call Britain first world.
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Hasn't unemployment come down during the last 5 years?
 
thep02 said:
Yup you confirmed my thoughts, by your ilk I meant right wing thinkers, you see them as lazy that is exactly what I thought, we had discipline, we worked hard, never smoked or drank and horses were for pulling carts not betting on, well not everybody is as worthy or make the right choices or are as lucky in their parenting or home life.
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You couldn't be more wrong, I am all for Social housing, NHS, Job Seekers and all the help people could need to get back on their feet.
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
The ridiculous rental increases and house prices happened under labour's watch (late 90s and the 00's).

The lack of housing is the fault of everyone who has been in power since the 70s.
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Yes.

Now what are we going to do about it?

Finger pointing is possibly the worst thing about Politics. Blame doesn't help anyone. Solutions do. If the parties put as much energy in to finding solutions as they do in coming up with elaborate ways to blame each other for the issues, we'd be in a much better place. TBH the Tory Party are the worst for this, though the rest aren't much better.
 
D.P. said:
Yes, it sas it all about the state the Tpries have got the country into.

Someone looses their job through no fault of their own, and now cannot properly feed their children because JSA is too slow to initiate.

And we dare call Britain first world.
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It is nothing to do with which government is in power. The dole office has always been slow.
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
People who refuse to work, or falsely claim sickness shouldn't be enabled by the system to be a drain on society.
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I was referring back to your previous post where you admitted seeing them as stereotypes because they were lazy there was a great dichotomy in the two posts.
 
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