Talk Photography election poll.

What will your choice be at the 2015 general election?

  • Conservative.

  • Greens.

  • Labour.

  • Liberal Democrats.

  • Plaid Cymru.

  • SNP.

  • UKIP.

  • Other.

  • Going to spoil the ballot paper.

  • Not going to vote.

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cambsno said:
Disagree, think that it's worked well, giving a nice balance, although I must be one of the few to think the lib dems and clegg have done very well. Although normally right wing, I would much rather see it continue than a Tory majority!

We have possibly the best performing economy in Europe, so something has worked well!
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cambsno said:
Disagree, think that it's worked well, giving a nice balance, although I must be one of the few to think the lib dems and clegg have done very well. Although normally right wing, I would much rather see it continue than a Tory majority!
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I think Clegg et al have not done at all badly with the hand they were dealt. He's been the Tory's whipping boy a little. Localy they've lost alot of respect (including mine) but I would like generally to see coallition (either formal or not) governements continue. They do seem to rein the worse policies in a little
 
cambsno said:
Saw the great man at a gig in godmanchester I'm 1992
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You are older that you look :D
I saw him at Wembley must have been early / mid 70's
He was quite a showman and as you say sadly missed.
 
Cobra said:
You are older that you look :D
I saw him at Wembley must have been early / mid 70's
He was quite a showman and as you say sadly missed.
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I also saw him and Heinz (Just like Eddie) back in the early 80s at Minehead both RGM artists of Joe Meek's label (the Telstar Man). What a legend, great film by the way and worth watching if you've never seen it.
 
Blank_Canvas said:
I also saw him and Heinz (Just like Eddie) back in the early 80s at Minehead both RGM artists of Joe Meek's label (the Telstar Man). What a legend, great film by the way and worth watching if you've never seen it.
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It is. Joe meek does not get the credit he deserves, a real shame his life finished the way it did.
 
One thing I can't stand is fabricated truths so on that basis I definitely won't be voting
 
Looking at the numbers above, taking the four 'major' parties standing UK wide they have a total of 69 votes. If you expand the SNP vote (just arbitrarily multiplied by 12) to what they'd expect if standing in all UK seats they's have 144 votes. Assuming their popularity was as high as it is in Scotland just now of course, that's more than double the TorLibLabKip parties combined.
 
mxfun said:
One thing I can't stand is fabricated truths so on that basis I definitely won't be voting
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You mean lies.

On that basis you'll never vote.
 
Steep said:
Looking at the numbers above, taking the four 'major' parties standing UK wide they have a total of 69 votes. If you expand the SNP vote (just arbitrarily multiplied by 12) to what they'd expect if standing in all UK seats they's have 144 votes. Assuming their popularity was as high as it is in Scotland just now of course, that's more than double the TorLibLabKip parties combined.
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Spoken like a true politician ;)
if you take the TP poll at face value, SNP have fractionally more than half the votes of UKIP.
 
Cobra said:
Spoken like a true politician ;)
if you take the TP poll at face value, SNP have fractionally more than half the votes of UKIP.
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Bearing in mind that they're only standing in Scottish seats so 95%(ish) of the population can't vote for them if they wanted to.
 
Who will get in? I don't know.
There have been many discussions in our coffee room at work. Most of my NHS colleagues, myself included, absolutely detest both the Tories and UKIP. And we are dreading the Tories getting back in. We've seen directly how the NHS has got worse over the last couple of years, and also seen the poverty and how this has affected peoples health. Whilst you can't 100% blame the Tories, 1 million people using food banks tells us a story.

My thoughts are that a lot of people support the Tories, but a lot of people also hate them with a lot of passion. A number of people who I know directly, or on social media, were Lab supported, but were disillusioned with Lab, and voted LD in the last general election. These people now feel betrayed by Nick Clegg, and are going back to Lab. Also, I know people who like the Green's policies and ideas, and would like to vote Green, but are united behind Lab to simply get the Tories out. I get the feeling that a lot of people on the left, who aren't exactly avid Labour supporters, will get behind Labour simply to get the Tories out.

Mind you, look at Thatch! She was detested but kept getting voted in.
 
The Tories have gone to too far to the left, labour have gone too the right. That's like to political worlds colliding and why the polls are are showing what they are. Personally I think The Lib Dems are on their way out and the result will be a ConLab split having the majority seats.
 
Blank_Canvas said:
The Tories have gone to too far to the left, labour have gone too the right. That's like to political worlds colliding and why the polls are are showing what they are. Personally I think The Lib Dems are on their way out and the result will be a ConLab split having the majority seats.
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I tend to feel the same.
Thing is though, the Lib Dems have said they'll fudge up to whoever has the most seats. :rolleyes:

Looking at the poll above, looks like the Cons could be a fair way in front of Labour. I am/was expecting a fairly equal split between them, maybe 25% & UKIP winning around 15%.
 
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The liberals are damned if they do and damned if they don't on this election - it is going to be a hung parliament either way, and the smaller parties with a good number of seats (ie not UKIP who'll probably have a Max of 3) will need to work with the largest party in order to provide a stable government so they country can actually work and get stuff done. Given both the Tory's and Labour have basically said no to every party bar the Lib Dems, they will have to at least consider working with either party in order to provide us with a stable, working government.

SNP will not be able to do this (they'll have the seats but they won't go Tory and Labour doesn't them) , DUP, UKIP, Greens and Cymru will not have enough seats to do this either.

I still would prefer the Lib Dems to go on there own, but I don't think this would help any of us as either party would be working in a minority and unworkable government.
 
What Miliband says now and what he'll do after the fact are two different things.
 
Steep said:
What Miliband says now and what he'll do after the fact are two different things.
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Reminds me exactly of what Sturgeon said last year:-

"tomorrow, get yourselves ready for a once in a lifetime vote that will change Scotland forever...."

It was only a couple of weeks ago we heard her saying

"We can't rule out another referendum within the next 5 years ! "

Shocking, duplicitous behaviour from a women who has more faces than Big Ben ( or the Elizabeth Tower to use its correct name) - and she says" I have no affinity with Westminster !"
 
Steep said:
What Miliband says now and what he'll do after the fact are two different things.
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Whilst I won't get pulled into disagreeing. It's an odd thing to say about someone who so far hasn't had the opportunity to prove he'll turn his back on his promises when the other 2 candidates have a proven track record. :thinking:

Just saying...

You could vote for Milliband - who might be a liaro_O
Or one of the other two who definitely are.:eek:
 
Blank_Canvas said:
It was only a couple of weeks ago we heard her saying

"We can't rule out another referendum within the next 5 years ! "
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I know I've heard her say repeatedly there will be no referendum unless the Scottish people want one.
I know she has given very specific scenarios (when asked) where another referendum might be on the cards, i.e. a Tory sponsored referendum on Europe that sees England choose to leave.
I know the only people continuously harping on about referendums are opposition politicians seeking to divert attention away from their total lack of any kind of credible reason to vote for them.
 
Phil V said:
Whilst I won't get pulled into disagreeing. It's an odd thing to say about someone who so far hasn't had the opportunity to prove he'll turn his back on his promises when the other 2 candidates have a proven track record. :thinking:

Just saying...

You could vote for Milliband - who might be a liaro_O
Or one of the other two who definitely are.:eek:
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Not a liar, a pragmatic politician, one who will not turn down the opportunity to form a government, even a minority one.
 
Steep said:
Not a liar, a pragmatic politician, one who will not turn down the opportunity to form a government, even a minority one.
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If you're alluding to an SNP Alliance, it's obvious if you ignore the papers and rely on counting that Labour would have no need to make any up front deals to form a minority govt. the press are following Tory propaganda on this.

SNP won't vote through a trident replacement, but do you think the Tories will vote against it? Likewise, there'll be enough centre left to left votes to carry most of their programme. OTOH the tory's need partners. because on each single issue they couldn't get the support without a formal agreement from
 
Phil V said:
If you're alluding to an SNP Alliance, it's obvious if you ignore the papers and rely on counting that Labour would have no need to make any up front deals to form a minority govt. the press are following Tory propaganda on this.

SNP won't vote through a trident replacement, but do you think the Tories will vote against it? Likewise, there'll be enough centre left to left votes to carry most of their programme. OTOH the tory's need partners. because on each single issue they couldn't get the support without a formal agreement from
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Labour could form a minority government but only if they succeed in a vote of no confidence over the Tories first. I don't think the SNP and Labour combined would be enough to do that, they'd need the other smaller parties as well to vote down a Tory government, after that, a vote by vote basis with Labour as a minority government would be a good option, no deals needed and no bad policies rammed through.

I wouldn't put it past the Lib Dems and UKIP siding with Conservatives either. UKIP would see it as a chance to hold the Tories to ransom over Europe and the Lib Dems would abandon their deepest held beliefs for another chance at the trough.
 
Serious question, having seen several news leaders to the effect of 'parties make last push for undecided voters' - is there really anyone that does intend to vote that hasn't actually made up their mind yet, really? I mean we are what, 31 hours from the poll booths opening, wouldn't you have to be particularly indecisive if you are still thinking about it now. Surely the main push now is to get people off their arses and actually to the stations, regardless of who they are going to vote for.
 
Yv said:
Serious question, having seen several news leaders to the effect of 'parties make last push for undecided voters' - is there really anyone that does intend to vote that hasn't actually made up their mind yet, really? I mean we are what, 31 hours from the poll booths opening, wouldn't you have to be particularly indecisive if you are still thinking about it now. Surely the main push now is to get people off their arses and actually to the stations, regardless of who they are going to vote for.
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Comsidering there are 5 million postal voters now it's definitely a bit late to influence them, we had our ballot papers last week.
 
Dave1 said:
Comsidering there are 5 million postal voters now it's definitely a bit late to influence them, we had our ballot papers last week.
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Aye, I just wish people would get off their back sides and make the effort, because whilst they might all be crap to some extent, they are our crap and we get to choose the crap, which is a darned sight better than many countries in the world where the crap is forced upon them whether they want it or not and their fate if they dare to object to that crap can be pretty bloody crap.
 
Yv said:
Aye, I just wish people would get off their back sides and make the effort, because whilst they might all be crap to some extent, they are our crap and we get to choose the crap, which is a darned sight better than many countries in the world where the crap is forced upon them whether they want it or not and their fate if they dare to object to that crap can be pretty bloody crap.
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Agreed, and postal voting even takes away the excuse of being too busy to go to a polling station or have to queue to vote.
 
Yv said:
Serious question, having seen several news leaders to the effect of 'parties make last push for undecided voters' - is there really anyone that does intend to vote that hasn't actually made up their mind yet, really? I mean we are what, 31 hours from the poll booths opening, wouldn't you have to be particularly indecisive if you are still thinking about it now. Surely the main push now is to get people off their arses and actually to the stations, regardless of who they are going to vote for.
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I've not made my mind up yet :)
 
Yv said:
50 lashes for you! :p
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:-) To answer your question properly in a very quick summary, I've typically been more left leaning but am more drawn to the conservatives as a whole and their leader this time. The NHS is a huge deal for me, and the tories concern me greatly in this regard, as they do re Europe and immigration, however I'm pretty sure I won't vote labour as I have no faith in the economy with them and still hold a grudge re the wars and Milliband does not inspire me in the slightest, lib dems I'm still annoyed with re tuition fees, which might leave the greens but having heard them whilst I agree in principle with some of their ideas, I don't think they stack up.

Good news, I will get a labour MP however I vote! Democracy in action as people around here would seemingly vote labour for life whatever they do and irrespective of our MP! There is widespread apathy in my constituency.
 
I hear you and it only spells out what has been, as far as I can see, the biggest problem with this election - the main parties all have some big bits you want and some big bits you don't, none have inspirational leaders and the ones that do are the smaller parties that either can't be voted for by a big chunk of the country [SNP, PC], or just don't sit well [UKIP, Farage is actually a great leader of small party, but not PM material and his party members are bonkers, they are the wrong people asking the right questions if that makes sense] or the well meaning but ultimately ineffective Green lot and less said about their leader, the better.

I will get a conservative MP however I vote, staunch conservative area round here. I have probably said it before, my head leans right and my heart left and sadly the lib dems don't quite fill the void, although I actually prefer NC over EM or DC, just not his party politics. My head wins this one, but I won't be at all surprised if we end up in another election situation within a year.
 
As Yv & others have said, each main party has some bits I like & some I don't, which is always the case I guess, but I just feel there isn't a huge difference between them at this election & whoever gets in/coalitions formed, we'll pretty much see more of the same.

I live in one of the marginal seats & a `tactical` vote would seem the way to go if I was that way inclined, but feel (as I always did) that it's important to vote for policies, rather than party loyalties, or personalities.

I actually feel the whole system needs a bit of a shake up, so will be voting **** this time.
 
Not sure if I'm living in an alternate universe, but I'm sure there were more replies on here earlier, including one from me! :confused:
 
or a chart :D
 
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