How would you vote in a General Election?
 

Since we're probably mid-term now, before there's another General Election, if one was called tomorrow, how would you vote?

Or would you vote?

Just think it might be interesting to know, seeing as there's a little disagreement in a thread, about who's leading who in the latest polls.

Hopefully I'll be able to offer as many voting options, that might mirror the choices we'll actually have.

This, like a real election, will be a secret poll.

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iv gone UKIP but was pretty torn between UKIP and TORY

i like UKIP because they want out of the EU and wouldnt back down on it

i thought tory because in reality its always been between tory and labour and a vote for tory helps get rid of our current fella and if 5 years max of a tory mp is teh price that has to be paid then so be it.

i would consider my vote if cast for the tory's a deal with the devil rather than them having my support:)

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If they pinned a Labour rosette on a donkey, I'd vote for it. I am that man.

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well they pinned a labour rosette on an ass and we now have a labour MP so your not alone on that ;)

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I thought that was what they had done.

I cannot see anyone in any political party with any real credentials to lead this country.

I think the penny is beginning to drop with the three main parties - they are 'considering' a referendum on the membership of the EU. Whatever that might mean. Considering doesn't cut it with me I want a cast iron guarantee to have a say in democracy.......until then I will draw and write stuff on my ballot paper....I will go to the polls though - manily to show that I can be 'assed'.......and that my decision is not based on apathy, but pure lack of real choice.

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U.K.I.P. as a protest, one trick pony - probably, but am that annoyed at the gutless 3 mains.

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Exactly the same as you chuck! ;)

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seeing as there is no local Tory "candidate" to consider against Graham how can anyone really say? If you are asking at a National level of peoples feelings for the current government then that is a different question. it would also beg to bring up the fact the world is in a bad state right now would a Labour or Lib Dem gov really be able to do any different that the Tory's are?

I think more and more people are looking for a way to isolate ourselves against Europe and the crisis thats about to engulf Greece/Spain/Portugal etc. ( I work with colleagues in the last 2 countries and a good number they are looking to come to work in the UK as they can see how strong the UK is as opposed to their own countries. ) As such UKIP etc will if they play a strong card do well that is unless the Tories give us the referendum. would people vote for Labour on a "promise" after all we've had Labour promises before.

In all personal honesty I'm still very much in the "none of the above are worthy" camp but that doesn't get us anywhere.. sometimes you have to choose the best of a bad lot.

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Best of a bad lot may be acceptable to some, not to me.

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Well My vote would be UKIP, anybody who can vote for the current incumbent is bonkers

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I endorse that too......second best is never the right choice.

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Thing is i if went into a shop to purchase n they didn't have what was suitable......Then i'd look elsewhere! Different thing=Yes, Different Principle..........No.;)

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When you choose something that is second best, you are never truly satisfied with it....and none of the current mob are fit for purpose.

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Not much difference in any, UKIP

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Takes a while to organise a postal vote so I wouldn't make it in time to vote tomorrow.:D

Theoretically I would normally vote Labour -don't feel able to vote for the present rather spineless formation so would rather abstain.

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I have never followed the ideology of one single party.......personally I think it is flawed to vote for the same party, regardless of what they are proposing to do....saying that, their manifesto's are like reading 'Billy's Weekly Liar'.
Labour used to be socialist, but not any more, and not for a long time either.

I don't know about NEW labour...it should be BLUE labour...or perhaps a fetching shade of Lavender.

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I'll be voting for the party with honesty and integrity............ oops that will be no vote then

If they had a 'Do Not Buy White Elephants' party they would get my vote:D

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You could always start one yourself lancsdave...at least we could have someone to vote for then.

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Once again I have to agree with you - what is the world coming to?
However I will probably finish up voting for the Tories - the thought of someone who is so fickle being our representative fills me with horror.
On a national scale I would certainly not support the LibDems - that is the same as a spoilt vote and can only result in them being Kingmakers and wield more power than they deserve. As for Labour, well, the thought of the Millibands or someone else making a Balls of it all just doesn't bear thinking about.:eek:

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dont know ...

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Monster Raving Loony Party...if there's a candidate. If not, I'm tempted to vote UKIP purely as a protest vote, but they're pretty right wing for my tastes.

I'm a classic floating voter, switched between the two main parties on a regular basis over the last 42 years. However, wouldn't give the time of day to either of 'em now, after they've both refused to give us a say in an EU referendum.

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Well Barrie, I have always voted Tory, until the last election, when I spoiled my vote on a matter of principal and resigned my party membership, if I'm still around at the next I will be voting UKIP, as they are the only party promising to pull us out of that shambolic money wasting organisation the EU

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You did not spoil your vote, you spelt the X wrong :p:D

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No I didn't I just wrote across the ballot paper, no x what-so-ever:p:p:p

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I ticked "other" but does voting change anything - I don't think so really - less than 70% of the population vote in UK!;)

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I agree it will never change much unless people get off the pot n even then unless the 3 main parties are rattled enough by the voting trend, sod all will change much.;)

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Its a few more at general elections, think in 2010 it was around 64%, in 1987 it was 82% here in Hyndburn, but the overall trend is in a downward spiral and politicians have only themselves to blame

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polititions dont care about poor turn out at elections unless of course they are the ones that lost then they have somethng to blame.Most of them would rather do away with voting its just an inconvinience that has to happen every 5 years so it appears we have a say in anything.Lets face it once elected they do as they please and are answerable to no one with teh vast majority in the knowledge that peoples refusal to vote anything else other than what they were brought up to vote will keep them their seat unless they do something extreemly bad and distastefull.

a politition is more likely to loose hardcore voters if he or she bad mouths a x-factor contestant than if he or she was caught with a bag of cocaine and 5 hookers.

i for one dont recall any conservitive saying they wanted to read our emails,facebook accounts and anything personal we use our computers for when trying to get elected but they are trying to do it now but so did labour.

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Why would you ever want an MP for Accrington ....who lives in Blackpool....didnt she?

Place has got to be better now especially as Britcliffe has gone...even though he is still trying to get his pic in the observer...his record was about 8 times one week.

If you look on Google...the word TORY actually means, and I quote "to keep doing U turns".....LOL

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He might be from Accrington but he only thinks about his own political ambitions, he might as well come from outer Mongolia

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Like many blind followers, you're living in the past.

Accrington hasn't had a M.P. since 1983.

Silly Kinnock.

As to the next General Election, it's reported this weekend that the Conservatives, and Labour, because they'd have no other choice, are considering making election promises of an in/out E.U. referendum, following polls showing growing support for UKIP.

Personally I'd need those pre-election promises to be written in the blood of those party leader's first born children...and even then I'd remain sceptical, until I'd actually dropped my completed refendum paper in the ballot box.

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Yes, the promises of a politician are about as useful as an icebucket in hell.

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isnt a u-turn when you say you will do one thing then do the complete opposite.Bit like graham jones did :rolleyes:

seems this u-turn thing goes from party to party.

Oh and i said he was our MP i didnt say he was accringtons alone we sadly are lumbered with him like the rest of his constituants

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:eek:.Ooeerr.. easy does it mate.. don't go upsetting the natives so soon ;)

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Yes, nice to warn him.

Wouldn't want him sent to the Tower, for using the 'c-word', would we?

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I'm still for spoiling my paper, though Osbourne has now intimated that he would support a vote on our continued membership of the doomed European Union. Whilst I would support the latter, it would take a lot more than Osbourne's lip-service to rising demand for us to escape the crippling strictures of Brussels to make me think otherwise.

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Personally I think a protest vote is more effective, than spoiling your paper.

Especially as the mainstream parties are only now toying with the idea of an E.U. referendum promise, because they're fearful of the support they're losing to U.K.I.P.

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I doubt any potential MP would be much bothered about spoilt ballot papers..they are likely just whizzed in the bin after the count.

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Did your own Liberal Democrat homosexual M.P. tell you that?

He sounds a right one, but on this occasion he's probably right.

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Mr Hughes has been pretty well absent from these parts since the vote on the NHS reforms bill that was sadly lost because of him and his ilk..far more important than any vote on an EU referendum:rolleyes:

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Perhaps in London, where the streets are paved with gold, apparently.

Not according to the ordinary man, and woman up here.

If you listen to the word, on these potholed, cobbled backstreets.

It's very important.

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Well fair enough but it's hard to imagine the most pressing subject talked about in the pubs down Union Road is regarding a vote on the EU...then again perhaps you spend a lot of your time down the "backstreets" :rolleyes:

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UKIP seem to be well involved..just out of interest who is the UKIP candidate?

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Er...we don't even know, until next year, whether we'll still be a designated constituency, thanks to the changes that the boundaries commission have to make to reduce the number of M.P.s.

So we certainly don't know which candidates will be standing in Hyndburn, if we survive, or who the candidates will be if we're split up, and tagged on to Burnley, and Darwen.

All candidates will presumably have to do through the due selection processes.

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The streets of London paved with gold, well you'd think so, one council in London are putting a family in a mansion (after a full refurbishment) costing millions, seems money's no object really. I'll try and find a link it was mentioned in a number of the Sundays

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Just found this link,
Grade II listed, £1.8m, 5-bed town house in Granville Square, Clerkenwell worth £2k a week spruced up for family on benefits | The Sun |News

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Unrelated, but listen to this woman.

She's the new Princess of Wales.

BBC News - The housing benefit drain from central London begins

Despite the grumbles of the P.O.W., about social cleansing...

The 'final solution'? Don’t believe the hype about the housing benefit cap - Telegraph

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I just don't care any more. As I have said so many timers before, Europe will see to it that the UK is dead in the water - in or out of the German run Eurozone.

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I totally understand where you're coming from.

But if we want future generations to have the freedom, and benefits we've enjoyed by being British, we should care, and fight just as hard as our forefathers did, so this country remains free, and independent.

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The trend on heres seems to be more or less intentions of voting labour with UKIP being an alternative or maybe a protest vote (taking into account local politics)..Labour are ahead in National polls but that is usual in a half term government.. to me the Tories will get the hardcore 35-37% they always have.. Lib-Dems no more than 14% and UKIP could get around 9%..but that does not give UKIP many seats in a General Election.

Once again it will be a two horse race.. Mr Ed Milliband will not win that race.. if labour go into the next Election with Ed at the helm they will not gain a majority.

In case there's any interest here's a site updated regular by the latest national polls

UK Polling Report

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So what party do the boundaries commission follow or are they impartial er! like Jeremy Hunt?

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The way Cameron, Osborne and their posh boys are going there wont be a bloody conservative party ....they should be called the UTA party

Oh and by the way I accidentally pressed conservative by mistake in the poll...darn

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Sorry -funny sort of evening -strange that in this poll: Conservative is in Red and Labour is BLue UKIP are the Pinkos!!?
"If we want future generations to have the freedom, and benefits we've enjoyed by being British, we should care, and fight just as hard as our forefathers did, so this country remains free, and independent".
Couldn't agree more with what Garinda says here...
Your vote is important - whichever party it is for...let your voice be heard.
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The boundary commision are supposedly independent.

Though Labour will more likely suffer, because of the changes that will take place.

Still, if three consecutive Labour governments hadn't allowed the expense abuses to carry on unimpaired, until details were actually leaked to the public via the press, we'd still have 650 MPs, and we wouldn't be losing 50, because of the ensuing public outrage.

So some would say they only have themselves to blame.

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Oh you are a silly sausage, aren't you?

You could just as easily have pressed Labour, if you'd wanted to vote for a party with a high-ranking Lord's niece who acts as stand-in Leader, and a shadow cabinet filled with public school educated politicans, most of whom also send their children to selective, or private schools.

An elite band of Oxbridge educated careerist politicans, who haven't the foggiest idea about what a real day's hard graft is like, or the struggles faced by millions of ordinary men, and women in this country.

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Ya long gone are the days of Bessie Braddock and beer and sandwiches at number 10 for the Unions, its Champers and caviar in west end restaurants now

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A usual, you speak with insight and wisdom, Garinda. But, like you, having seen so many elected governments promise us everything and give us nothing, then line their own pockets whilst the populace founder in the mess they have created (Kinnocks and Blairs, in particular), it is becoming increasingly difficult to form a creditable choice given the chance at any forthcoming election.

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Errr... don't recall Neil Kinnock ever being Prime Minister.

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Thank the lord for that. I never said he was. He was still part of a lamentable labour adinistration though. Whatever, the obnoxious, ginger headed loudmouth and his kin have still profited from his time in politics,

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And are still doing it too Stumped

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:fire::fire::fire:If they're not enough to put honest people off politics, with the Blairs a close second, I don't know who is!!!

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I can only hope that those who voted Labour (with the exception of the usual suspects), in this poll, can take heart in Mr Jones latest outburst on rural broadband where he has totally got his facts wrong.

Mr Jones assumes incorrectly (as usual), that all people living in the countryside (i.e. Ribble valley) are millionaires, (obviously spent too much time in the Ashington Arms and Swan With Two Necks looking for votes from the socialist pool/dart players). Totally ignoring the wealth creators of the region, like farmers, labourers and small businesses.

Then he claims that Hyndburn is poorer because £32 million is being spent on, and I quote from his twitter 'the wealthy'

Got a question for you Mr. Jones..£32 million countrywide or £32 million in Hyndburn?....

Anyone...I repeat anyone (especially you 13 in this poll), who votes for this idiot next time is either......

a) sucking up
b) an idiot
c) a and b

The internet is a great Mnemonic Mr. Jones..you reap what you sow

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changing my vote to labour now:tongueoutand be one of the idiots who kick the tories out:)

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There's the problem....a typical pro party argument from a pleb regardless of manifesto!. (no malice intended).

Definition of a manifestio...

a) something we tell the populist plebs we'll do once we are in power
b) something we tell the plebs, now we are in power, there are greater ramifications, so we'll ignore our manifesto
c) stuff you plebs, we know best
d) we'll lower pleb taxes just before the next election

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And put Mr Ed in charge, the blind leading the blind

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As is those in power now also, A damn good reason to ignore the main parties n hopefully give em a scare, But that tactic seems to be a bit deep fer some simple souls.:rolleyes:

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Wasn't Mr Ed a talking horse?

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Ya and a much better speaker than Millipede:rolleyes:

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Mr. Ed wasn't really a talking horse.

Turns out it was all television trickery.

Still, better to see words come from a horse's mouth, than have to listen to them farted out of a politican, from the other end.

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watch the parliament channel,general election 1987

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Why, I was totally involved at the sharp end with no need to brush up on what happend:rolleyes:

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it was intersting how it was reported and now i know that these days there is a problem with lazy journalism.today they dont ask the right questions and cosy up.dimbelby and co these days look like they are just running the course.alot different from what they were like in them days lol.

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another prediction i will be right. no way is this saving taxpayers money How firms with eye on welfare budget promised to get jobless back to work | Politics | The Observer

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You never get anything right you only quote newspaper headlines;)