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  • View Poll Results: If there were an general election held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?
    Conservative
    24 22.64%
    Labour
    30 28.30%
    Lib Dem
    8 7.55%
    UKIP
    15 14.15%
    Green
    15 14.15%
    BNP
    2 1.89%
    SNP
    3 2.83%
    Plaid Cymru
    4 3.77%
    Other
    5 4.72%

  1. ukip72's Avatar
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    Who would you vote for?
    In response to another poll which didn't list other parties.
  2. Aj12's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Conservative. Though if there was an election tomorrow I would be tempted to tear up my ballet and hand in the bits. The Conservatives are fast losing my confidence with their constant u turns and general screw ups. Ed Miliband and Labour look barely fit to run a market stall let a lone a country. As for the Lib Dems they seem a completely spent political force.
  3. Spaz Man's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    At the moment I can't really think of anyone that deserves my vote.

    2015 will be a different matter though.
  4. justanotherposter's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    They are all as useless as each other.

    I'd probably just vote conservative because as bad as they are, I would have no confidence in seeing Ed Milliband run the country.
  5. muddywaters51's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    I feel like its UKIP or nothing and I dont want to not vote so I guess it will have to be UKIP for me

    I feel like they are atleast a step in the right direction.

    Everyone else is actually beyond terrible in my eyes.
  6. Bobifier's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    I find myself seeing UKIP as the most credible party right now, which is more a statement about the quality of the other parties really.
  7. ApresAlkan's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Hurrah, it looks like anti-EU propaganda is more widespread than I thought. EU regulation is useful. The Financial Transactions tax is desirable, as it will strike at an industry which takes up intellectuals but contributes nothing to society, forcing them indirectly to aid their society. Also:
    http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/05/u...eu-membership/
    http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/w...sts-of-the-eu/
    http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/w...e-from-the-eu/
    http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/12/w...-a-good-thing/
    http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/t...the-eu-debate/

    I can get more from other sources, but that one is particularly good, in my view. Enjoy reading.

    Oh, I voted for the Green Party.


    Read the links before rating this negatively, please.
    Last edited by ApresAlkan; 08-06-2012 at 18:40.
  8. Manual Action's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    none of the parties in this country have enough of the policies i would like to justify my vote so i chose 'other' just in case one came along.
  9. RedDevilThing's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    I think at this rate I may well end up voting tactically, so in my constituency that would mean voting Lib Dem.
  10. LETSJaM's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Seeing as I live in one the safest 'blue' seats in the country, I'd say UKIP.
    If I lived in a marginal however; I go for Cons if they had a chance of winning, but UKIP if they didn't.

    <3 x
  11. Morgsie's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Lib Dem
  12. meenu89's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    On the basis that my MP is such a brilliant representative; Tory.
  13. Tedaus's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Labour. Conservatives have created a recession, supported the rich guys and ****ed the yobs.
  14. FDR's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    (Original post by ukip72)
    In response to another poll which didn't list other parties.
    You haven't mentioned the Raving Monster Loony party. How rude. I should make a poll in response to this poll that didn't list other parties.
  15. YahRah's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    (Original post by Aj12)
    Conservative. Though if there was an election tomorrow I would be tempted to tear up my ballet and hand in the bits. The Conservatives are fast losing my confidence with their constant u turns and general screw ups. Ed Miliband and Labour look barely fit to run a market stall let a lone a country. As for the Lib Dems they seem a completely spent political force.
    In all the newspapers, internet articles, and episodes of question time in the last 12 months I have never seen such a brilliant round up of the UK party situation as this.
  16. languagelover's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    (Original post by Aj12)
    Conservative. Though if there was an election tomorrow I would be tempted to tear up my ballet and hand in the bits. The Conservatives are fast losing my confidence with their constant u turns and general screw ups. Ed Miliband and Labour look barely fit to run a market stall let a lone a country. As for the Lib Dems they seem a completely spent political force.
    I completely agree! We seem to be in a sea of ineptitude!
  17. sland's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Probably Green.


    In my constituency currently it is a two horse race between labour and lib dem.


    Do I trust either? No. Do I particularly like the Tories? No.


    So while I'm not all that left wing I'd give it to the Greens as I can't stand the nationalist bull**** of the BNP and to a lesser extent UKIP.
  18. Balfour999's Avatar
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    Purely because I believe they are the only party that stands for fairness (of the main 3) I would vote labour. Anyone that votes UKIP or further right is just an idiot and ye conservatives have yet to do good for the country. They arent even socially conservative, the only reason I may vote or them.

    I think people underestimate Ed Miliband because he looks and sounds like a spaz. His results in the few elections we've had however have shown a rise in support and they have often done a good job scrutinising Cameron.


    This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App
  19. derangedyoshi's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    I voted Labour in the poll; in reality it would depend on the manifestos, issues being debated etc, plus the makeup of the constituency - I don't really know how safe a Labour seat my constituency is. If it were very safe then I might vote Green.

    On the other hand, I'm 17.
  20. prog2djent's Avatar
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    Re: Who would you vote for?
    Non of them.

    No libertarian party on there.

    And right now, or ever, in the main political spectrum, there isn't a right wing party that isn't austerity crazy, and there isn't a socially liberal party that isn't left wing.

    If only the Lib Dems had stook to this philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ora...ing_Liberalism
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