Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

Who did you vote for?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 518 39.5%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 65 5.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 241 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 99 7.5%

  • Didn't vote / spoiled ballot

    Votes: 136 10.4%

  • Other party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • SNP

    Votes: 67 5.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 158 12.0%
  • Total voters
    1,313
Today is a victory for only one man: Rupert Murdoch. He got his revenge on the only leader willing to stand up to him at the expense of the British public, and now politicians will be even more scared to challenge his empire. Well done to him and his slimy, droopy face. Let's see if it lasts another five years.
 
scorza said:
Tells you who really won today doesn't it? Wealthy shareholders, big business and senior executives.
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Do you or anyone close to you have pension? ISA? This benefits a lot of people not just a few city traders. I have a few thousand put into individual shares but I wouldn’t consider myself to be wealthy (what is wealthy anyway?).
 
Going to be interesting how the English Votes for English Law will be introduced into parliament now, always seemed to be a sensible idea.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I think anyone going anywhere on holiday this summer won also.
The pound won't crash to Gordon brown levels in the next couple of months all things being equal.
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Won what? an extra tenner to spend in Benidorm? Please. The pound "crash" under Brown probably kept a lot of these people in their jobs.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
I doubt Cameron would approve anything that threatened wholesale privatisation of the NHS. That would put Labour in power for a generation.
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In what way has it not already been privatised? All services must be offered to private companies, and responsibility for the health of citizens is no longer the responsibility of the Secretary of State (it's nobody's responsibility!).

Moses said:
Have they decided that they'll be allowed here under the terms of the agreement, then? Link to that.
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No, all TTIP negotiations are secret. I'm not even joking, so far the only info in the public domain is from a leaked draft.

TTIP: Transatlantic trade deal text leaked to BBC

Obviously people should assume the worst based on the precedents already set in other agreements. For example, the North American version (NAFTA) resulted in Canada being sued for $250m because it legislated a moratorium on fracking for environmental reasons.

Ottawa sued over Quebec fracking ban

It's the very essence of corporations holding the power over countries. And the worst part is disputes can happen in secret.

A senior UN official has called for controversial trade talks between the European Union and the US to be suspended over fears that a mooted system of secret courts used by major corporations would undermine human rights.

Alfred de Zayas, a UN human rights campaigner, said there should be a moratorium on negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are on course to turn the EU and US blocs into the largest free-trade area in the world.

Speaking to the Guardian, the Cuban-born US lawyer warned that the lesson from other trade agreements around the world was that major corporations had succeeded in blocking government policies with the support of secret arbitration tribunals that operated outside the jurisdiction of domestic courts.
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http://www.theguardian.com/global/2...ions-human-right-secret-courts-multinationals
 
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scorza said:
Tells you who really won today doesn't it? Wealthy shareholders, big business and senior executives.
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If that is the case then the UK must be absolutely full of wealthy shareholders, big business and senior executives. So no one has anything to worry about...

Seriously if the "poor" and all the things that people side with Labour, UKIP or whoever actually bothered so much and voted then results may be different. But until that happens. The majority over-ruled and as it so happens Tories got that vote.

Can't blame the Tories for doing what they do. Blame yourself and the other people who share your views that did not vote and yet still expect to get your way.
 
PermaBanned said:
Today is a victory for only one man: Rupert Murdoch. He got his revenge on the only leader willing to stand up to him at the expense of the British public, and now politicians will be even more scared to challenge his empire. Well done to him and his slimy, droopy face. Let's see if it lasts another five years.
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His only redeeming feature is his age.

The sooner he's gone from politics the better.
 
George Hincapie said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...rners-pay-more-tax-than-bottom-9-million.html
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The figures show that the very highest earners - amounting to just under 3,000 people with a declared income above £2.7 million - will contribute 4.2 per cent of the total Government revenue from income tax in the current financial year.
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Good, I think they should be taxed far higher than 45% on that. Honestly, £2.7 million per year? That's 108+ times the national median. Does anyone think they worked 108 times harder to get there than the median person? We need way, way higher taxation in this era of super-rich.
 
scorza said:
Won what? an extra tenner to spend in Benidorm? Please. The pound "crash" under Brown probably kept a lot of these people in their jobs.
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Yes certainly, and since they still have jobs under a conservative government, the money they now earn is worth more abroad, nice.
It's about 33% higher against most currencies, the dollar is the exception.
Tiss more than a tenner.
 
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