General Election 2015 Who do you plan on voting for?

Who do you plan on voting for in the 2015 General Election?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 60 15.6%

  • Green

    Votes: 33 8.6%

  • Labour

    Votes: 178 46.2%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 16 4.2%

  • Respect

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 72 18.7%

  • SNP

    Votes: 7 1.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Alliance

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • DUP

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • SDLP

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • UUP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other - please state

    Votes: 14 3.6%
  • Total voters
    385
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Cockney Mackem said:
1 day to go. YouGov has Tories and Labour neck and neck, predicting Labour to win slightly more seats, but anyone wanting to form a government is likely to need the support of two other parties.
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Only Labour are going to be able to do that, as it's going to be impossible without the SNP, and the SNP are sworn to overturn the British people's choice (which will be the Tories by a narrow margin).

And if Miliband in any way involves them in preparing his legislative program / Queen's Speech then he's the biggest bullshitting, backstabbing kernt known to man.

Though at least one of his family already knows that.
 


Roger Senseless said:
Aye let's celebrate the death of one of the most important checks and balances of society, helping to keep the bastard honest.
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By making a front page about eating a bacon sarnie? They've written their own death sentence.

And nobody is arguing that the media should disappear...it's just the printed rags like this that nobody will shed a tear about when they are wound up.
 
Still can't believe the amount of times I hear someone say there is no difference between labour and Tories.

30 billion worth of cuts over a very short period of time is one massive difference. Double what we've just had
Can the country take these kind of cuts? There is no reason they have to be done so deep and so quick. They can be done over a longer period and more fairly.

As Nick cleegg said the Tories don't have to do this, they want too.
 
Roger Senseless said:
Only Labour are going to be able to do that, as it's going to be impossible without the SNP, and the SNP are sworn to overturn the British people's choice (which will be the Tories by a narrow margin).

And if Miliband in any way involves them in preparing his legislative program / Queen's Speech then he's the biggest bullshitting, backstabbing kernt known to man.

Though at least one of his family already knows that.
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Miliband's rebuke of the SNP was a calculated risk he needed to take. I imagine his spin doctors will already have a plan in place to allow him to backtack on his words somewhat if they get a sniff of No 10.
 
Chappers said:
Still can't believe the amount of times I hear someone say there is no difference between labour and Tories.

30 billion worth of cuts over a very short period of time is one massive difference. Double what we've just had
Can the country take these kind of cuts? There is no reason they have to be done so deep and so quick. They can be done over a longer period and more fairly.

As Nick cleegg said the Tories don't have to do this, they want too.
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And Clegg will happily help the Tories do it if they let him be Deputy Prime Minister again. The slippery little shit.
 
Labour just cannot be trusted.

If anyone thinks they can be given their track record when last in office then they seriously need their heads looking at.

Oh and yes I know, the Tories are just as worse yadda yadda.

Chappers said:
Still can't believe the amount of times I hear someone say there is no difference between labour and Tories.

30 billion worth of cuts over a very short period of time is one massive difference. Double what we've just had
Can the country take these kind of cuts? There is no reason they have to be done so deep and so quick. They can be done over a longer period and more fairly.

As Nick cleegg said the Tories don't have to do this, they want too.
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There is no difference between the two parties though, they both follow the same Thatcherite neoliberal bullshit ideology. Labour's last stint in office is testament to that and the party has not changed one bit. How much they are cutting and over how long is irrelevant, the fact is they are still cutting and still going to be subjecting people to unnecessary austerity. As for fairly? austerity is never fair, it always affects, hurts and punishes those at the bottom, never those at the top.
 
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Roger Senseless said:
Only Labour are going to be able to do that, as it's going to be impossible without the SNP, and the SNP are sworn to overturn the British people's choice (which will be the Tories by a narrow margin).

And if Miliband in any way involves them in preparing his legislative program / Queen's Speech then he's the biggest bullshitting, backstabbing kernt known to man.

Though at least one of his family already knows that.
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So the people's choice doesn't matter when a majority of people disagree with the policies of a minority government propped up by the Lib Dems that were harshly ideological, or if the electorate returns 50+ MPs that a new PM has to deal with somehow. It only matters if the Tories poll 0.3% of the vote than Labour. And you seem to be demanding a level of absolute purity that funnily enough is never demanded of the right. Basically Labour are cunts if they do anything to form a viable government.
 
Roger Senseless said:
Only Labour are going to be able to do that, as it's going to be impossible without the SNP, and the SNP are sworn to overturn the British people's choice (which will be the Tories by a narrow margin).

And if Miliband in any way involves them in preparing his legislative program / Queen's Speech then he's the biggest bullshitting, backstabbing kernt known to man.

Though at least one of his family already knows that.
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If there are more seats for Labour and SNP then the British people's majority choice, by very definition, will be those two parties

If you mean English people's choice then fair enough. But it's a UK election, not an English one.
 
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sonson said:
If there are more seats for Labour and SNP then the British people's majority choice, by very definition, will be those two parties

If you mean English people's choice then fair enough. But it's a UK election, not an English one.
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No it isn't. The UK's first choice is the one with the most seats.

Labour + SNP isn't a party you can vote for, so it can't possibly end up the first choice. Indeed, voters for one typically can't even abide the other.
 
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Roger Senseless said:
No it isn't. The UK's first choice is the one with the most seats.

Labour + SNP isn't a party you can vote for, so it can't possibly end up the first choice. Indeed, voters for one typically can't even abide the other.
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No, the UK's choice is the UK's choice.

It's basically impossible at present that there will be a majority UK party. Whatever the scenario none of the two biggest parties is going to represent the UK's first choice, as it has done in the past. The UK's "first choice" in that instance is an oxymoron. Either side in that scenario will have to from a minority government or coalition and face votes of no-confidence if this isn't robust. The election of say 10 more seats for the Tories is not a mandate to govern. First chance at forming a government yes, that's fair.

Although you could easily argue as well that a Prime minister who cannot persuade the majority of the country that he deserves a second term has failed to defend his position.

Or that if more people give seats to SNP and Labour then the UK has returned more anti Tory seats than it has Tory ones. Given that both parties have been very vocal about wanting to push them out.

It's not clear cut in any sense. But especially not in the one that you are proposing.
 
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Cockney Mackem said:
Media study of the campaign has shown that the supposedly liberal media has been massively biased in favour of the Tories this election. National newspapers have run 217 pro Tory lead articles as opposed to 87 for Labour.
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Isn't there only one pro-Labour paper, the Daily Mirror? I know the Guardian are left wing but to my knowledge haven't had a front page saying 'vote labour'
 
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