General Election

[El-Mariachi]

I'd probably end up spoiling my paper again. Because of this ludicrous 'first past the post' system a minority elects the Government, and the party for which I'd prefer to vote never has a candidate in my constituency anyway.

 

I would write 'none of the above' on my ballot paper.

 

Ditto

[AtticusFinch]

I'd probably vote Green, although I'd consider the Liberal Democrats.

 

I'd only consider voting Labour if John McDonnell won the leadership contest after Blair leaves (which he won't). Gordon Brown has been involved with New Labour since the start, so he's just as much to blame for Iraq, PFI, tuition fees and ID cards as Blair is. The same goes for all the other former cabinet ministers who are rumoured to stand (Reid, Miliband, Hewitt etc).

 

Even though Cameron talks liberal on issues like the environment and poverty etc, he's still a tory. I'm old enough to just about remember thatcherism. Saying that though, if Cameron pledged to eradicate ID cards I'd vote for him in a second. It'd have to be a complete repeal of the 2006 Identity Cards Act though, not just a promise that his Conservative government wouldn't implement ID cards.

 

I voted Liberal at the 2001 election, but I'm disappointed that they're getting rid of their higher tax rate on high earners. That was the main thing which made them different to the other two parties.

 

I'd vote Green because I believe in their policies, but also because I don't generally believe in large political parties. Politics is rotten, and much of this is down to the current first-past-the-post system. The end result is a house of parliament full of people who slavishly follow the party line on parliamentary bills and opposition MPs who automatically vote against the government on almost anything, as opposed to voting how their conscience tells them to. If you don't vote how you're supposed to then you'll never make a cabinet or shadow cabinet post, and most MPs are too scared to rock the boat.

 

If there were more independent or small party MPs then it would solve this problem, as people could vote with their conscience and you'd actually get politicians doing what's right for the country. Proportional representation would have the same effect, but that'll never happen. The two main parties would never vote for a scheme that'd give them less MPs in parliament.

[upholder]

I must admit Im surprised that the BNP is so far polling higher than the Liberal Democrats.

 

I'm not

[royjames]

Think I might vote yep BNP all the way.

[*Ryan*]

Cant be bothered to vote, waste of time..

[donuticus]

I'd probably end up spoiling my paper again. Because of this ludicrous 'first past the post' system a minority elects the Government, and the party for which I'd prefer to vote never has a candidate in my constituency anyway.

 

I would write 'none of the above' on my ballot paper.

 

 

Why not join the party concerned, and put yourself forward for election in your constituency ?

[plekhanov]

I must admit Im surprised that the BNP is so far polling higher than the Liberal Democrats.

I shouldn’t pay it any mind, the BNP activists on the board most likely pm’d & emailed each other to get them all to vote in the poll, when you belong to a tiny party going nowhere you have to content yourself with that kind of thing.

 

I'm not

Which would suggest that you really aren’t very bright, nationally the Lib Dems generally poll around the 20% mark whereas the BNP are around 1%. Locally the Labour and the Lib Dems (with the Lib Dems actually winning the popular vote here in the most recent local elections) are by far the dominant parties with the Tories and Greens on the map and the BNP scrapping it out with the likes of Respect and UKIP for 5th place. As such any reasonable person would be surprised to see the BNP doing well.

[English Glory]

Though it means nowt it's interesting that the Tories are polling so high, for Sheffield anyway and the Lib Dems so low.

 

Pretty sure in previous ones Labour and the Lib Dems would have run away with it.

 

If there was to be an election tomorrow, going on national polls, which people deride but the main pollsters weren't more than a couple of points out in 2005, those couple of points that they were out, as ever, went against the Tories. They always are higher than the national polls say for some reason.

 

So it would be a small Tory majority.

 

Problem is it's not good for the Tories to have a small majority and the fine line between that and a hung parliament is too terrifying to contemplate as it would in effect give the Lib Dems the balance of power.

 

No-one would wish that on their worst enemies - a party in which the current main players conspired in a long-running cover-up of a leaders alcholism. Pretending to the nation they had a leader fit for power. Mind you saying pretending isn't a strong enough word - lying to the population over such a supremely important matter is more like what they did.

 

That's not getting around the fact when there is an election and Blair is long-gone the Lib Dem vote will collapse. Whether it will reign in the Tories isn't clear-cut, depends on who Labour choose.

 

Brown "Mr NHS privatisation" as leader won't change a thing, if they go to the left the Tories will win in a canter. Milliband - Blair MKII and they have a chance.

[Tony]

At the time of posting this...

 

Labour 24.39%

Conservative 24.39%

Liberal Democrats 9.76%

[upholder]

I shouldn’t pay it any mind, the BNP activists on the board most likely pm’d & emailed each other to get them all to vote in the poll

Wrong.

 

Which would suggest that you really aren’t very bright

 

Thank you for that although one does get used to the petty insults, I have been called a lot worse but then again it's only the internet isn't it?

 

nationally the Lib Dems generally poll around the 20% mark whereas the BNP are around 1%. Locally the Labour and the Lib Dems (with the Lib Dems actually winning the popular vote here in the most recent local elections) are by far the dominant parties with the Tories and Greens on the map and the BNP scrapping it out with the likes of Respect and UKIP for 5th place. As such any reasonable person would be surprised to see the BNP doing well.

 

Quite true but this little poll would suggest otherwise, time for change maybe?

You know plekhanov the majority of people that I talk to in real life when asked who would they vote for in an election guess what the answer is?

Strange for such a small and insignificant party going nowhere, wouldn't you say?