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General Election 2015 - Poll & Discussion Thread


Voting Intentions  

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  1. 1. How will you vote in the 2015 General Election?

    • Alliance Party of NI
      1
    • BNP
      1
    • Conservative
      19
    • DUP
      0
    • English Democrats
      0
    • Green
      8
    • Labour
      24
    • Liberal Democrat
      5
    • Plaid Cymru
      0
    • Respect
      0
    • SDLP
      0
    • Sinn Féin
      1
    • SNP
      2
    • UKIP
      6
    • Other
      1
    • Not eligible to vote
      0
    • Eligible but not registered to vote
      2
    • Choose not to vote
      2
    • Can't be bothered to vote
      3
  2. 2. How did you vote in the 2010 General Election?

    • Alliance Party of NI
      1
    • BNP
      1
    • Conservative
      17
    • DUP
      0
    • English Democrats
      0
    • Green
      2
    • Labour
      23
    • Liberal Democrat
      18
    • Plaid Cymru
      0
    • Respect
      0
    • SDLP
      0
    • Sinn Féin
      1
    • SNP
      0
    • UKIP
      3
    • Other
      0
    • Not eligible to vote
      0
    • Eligible but not registered to vote
      3
    • Choose not to vote
      4
    • Can't be bothered to vote
      2
  3. 3. Who would you prefer to see as Prime Minister after the General Election?

    • David Cameron
      33
    • Ed Miliband
      42


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I'm voting Labour but if I lived in Scotland I'd vote SNP.  In fact, if the SNP decided to run a candidate here in deepest Suffolk then I'd still vote for them.

 

Also, asking for a preference between Miliband and Cameron is a bit like asking whether you'd like one punt to the nuts or two.  You have to choose the one punt but you know you're still not going to like it.  At least they'd be better than Cleggie or Farage though.

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I'm voting Labour but if I lived in Scotland I'd vote SNP.  In fact, if the SNP decided to run a candidate here in deepest Suffolk then I'd still vote for them.

 

Also, asking for a preference between Miliband and Cameron is a bit like asking whether you'd like one punt to the nuts or two.  You have to choose the one punt but you know you're still not going to like it.  At least they'd be better than Cleggie or Farage though.

Perhaps they should.  They could say it stood for Suffolk and Norfolk Party.

“Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee.

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I'm voting Labour for a number of reasons, primarily because the previous Labour incumbent has proved, in my opinion, to be a very good constituency MP. I did consider Green but, to me, they still lack political maturity and still retain too much of their single issue roots. Single issue parties are far too limited in their outlook for my liking. Besides, not voting Labour risks splitting the non Tory vote and therefore the danger of allowing the Tories back in.

 

The current Labour party are far from perfect (an understatement), but I just can't envisage a scenario where I would ever contemplate voting Tory. From Gove's attempts to turn back time to some wistful vision of a 1950s, black and white utopia to IDS's total "I've been promoted way beyond my level of competence" running of the DWP via Grant, "what's my name today" Shapps they just aren't for me. 

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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I'm voting Labour but if I lived in Scotland I'd vote SNP.  In fact, if the SNP decided to run a candidate here in deepest Suffolk then I'd still vote for them.

 

Also, asking for a preference between Miliband and Cameron is a bit like asking whether you'd like one punt to the nuts or two.  You have to choose the one punt but you know you're still not going to like it.  At least they'd be better than Cleggie or Farage though.

 

I can and will vote for the SNP which is nice.

 

I live in Scotland which is is not.

 

Swings and roundabouts.

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I will probably be voting Labour because they are putting up a local candidate and whilst I don't particularly dislike the incumbent I don't think she's grasped enough what needs to be done locally - and has voted strongly in favour of policies that have impacted badly on some of the very deprived areas down here. I would like to vote Green but think that overall they are too woolly and have a kneejerk anti-science streak and are over-statist; I still have a lot in common with the stated policies of the Lib Dems but, fundamentally, they stand no chance here and whilst I believe the last five years would have been a lot worse without the LDs in government I'm not prepared to put my vote to their name as any kind of mandate.

 

It's a reluctant vote.  I'm not suddenly a Labour supporter and I hope they don't get an outright victory nationwide - I hope none of them do.  I hope attention is paid to the fact that it seems almost guaranteed that more people will not vote at all than will vote for the party that gets the biggest vote in parliament.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

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There's no "don't know" option.

 

Cue outrage!

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I shall be voting against increases in taxes, increases in borrowings, increases in unemployment and increases in state employment.

 

I shall be voting for a numerate, literate government that is generating an increase in GDP and increasing the tax take by chasing down tax evasion and outlawing tax avoidance schemes.

 

I'l also be voting for a continued increase in University attendance   from students from a poorer backgrounds and across the board.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jan/31/university-applications-record-high-ucas

 

I can, though imagine that there are people on here who will vote Green (and has been mentioned SNP if only there were SNP candidates in England) because the Labour Party is not socialist enough for them.

 

As for UKIP, well, never, never, never......though they may get a few more votes because the Mayor of Calais..."repeated previous claims that Britain’s generous benefits system is a magnet for illegal immigrants “They want to go to England because they can expect better conditions on arrival there than anywhere else in Europe or even internationally,” the mayor said.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11504061/Britain-to-blame-for-illegal-immigrant-crisis-says-Calais-mayor.html

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I shall be voting against increases in taxes, increases in borrowings, increases in unemployment and increases in state employment.

 

Does this mean you won't be voting Tory?  After all VAT is a tax.  Zero hours contracts are a form of unemployment, just not on the books as such.  As is are very low paid jobs.  The decrease in unemployment and it's replacement by low paid underemployment is nothing but Tory spin.  Honestly John, do you really want another five years of the dreadful, dishonest gang of Cameron, Osborne and IDS?

“Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee.

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Still not sure who I'm going to vote for (but we have 5 ballots so will find someone!).

 

We are a genuine swing seat so have already had visits from all the 'big' guns.  The tory guy seems nice enough and has managed not to do anything stupid in 5 years.  The Labour chap previous held the seat from 1997 to 2010, which is where my problem with him stems from.  He's had his go, he was OK but again didn't exactly inspire. 

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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I'll be voting Conservative and for my local MP (Rory Stewart) to retain his seat as in my short time living up here in the North Pennines and his actions as Chairman of the Defence Committee, he is doing an excellent job.

On a national perspective, whilst I am worried about what will come out of the next Defence Review and the impact it will have on my job, under Cameron, the UK has made a huge step in the right direction in developing a pan-government approach to security. It isn't perfect but it is a massive improvement. I am also a firm believer in operating within your means and I think economically we are moving in that direction under Cameron; I do not trust a Labour government to achieve this.

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Looking forward to the look on Miliband's face at 1am as the results are coming in. He has rock bottom popularity  with the electorate and much of the working class perceives his ruling cabal as a bunch of glib middle class careerists. Irrespective of its policies, this image will sink Labour's  vote in the crucial marginal seats

He'll be trying not to cry on camera because he'll know it is all over for him.

 

Unfortunately, it will mean another five years of Tory rule ... which the majority of the electorate will think to be not much cop, but the least-worst option.

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Could not vote Labour at all even though they'll get in round here,dont want my grown up offspring and my grandchildren paying back what they will borrow.

Constantly borrowing cripples the nation

You are aware that the Tories have out borrowed in 5 years what the previous Labour government borrowed in 13?

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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The thoughts of Balls and Milliband scares the ###### out of me

Also thought the budget deficit had reduced

But not the debt unfortunately.  The recession's effects during 2010 to 2013 were worsened by this government's policies. Most of the cuts to the deficit came out of capital spending, throwing thousands of construction workers into worse paid jobs.

“Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee.

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Also thought the budget deficit had reduced

I tend to take comments by politicians with a pinch of salt as their primary focus is to get re-elected. Civil servants I find are a lot more foreright and truthful. I was briefed by the Treasury recently. Deficit is reducing and National debt predicting to start to fall around 2017-2019 period if they have their predictions right of course. :)

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I don't want to bore people about Bradford West, but this article shows just how Labour has lost the plot in a key target seat. I bet a similar  situation is ocurring in many rustbucket town constituencies.

 

http://urban-echo.co.uk/bradford-west-candidate-accused-of-lying-and-bending-the-truth/

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