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UK Government Elections 2015

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Laptop65, Apr 2, 2015.

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Who are you voting for?

Poll closed May 10, 2015.
  1. Conservatives

    7 vote(s)
    53.8%
  2. Labour

    1 vote(s)
    7.7%
  3. Liberal Democrats

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. UKIP (UK Independence Party)

    1 vote(s)
    7.7%
  5. SNP (Scottish National Party)

    1 vote(s)
    7.7%
  6. Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales)

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  7. Green Party

    3 vote(s)
    23.1%
  8. Other (state below)

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Laptop65

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    For those in the UK (and who are able + choosing to vote), who are you planning on voting for, and why?


     
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    Conservative for me. Watching the debate last night was painful.

    Green party live in an idealistic world where they say they want to build houses, invest in the NHS, invest in education but don't know where they will get the money from.

    Labour I can't take seriously due to Ed Miliband having a punchable face.

    Conservative are the closest thing to a good, all-round government we have.

    Lib dems are full of false promises.

    UKIP have okay ideas on immigration but will exit the EU without a referendum if they could, they also have no other decent policies. There NHS policy is a joke.

    Cyrum and SNP just care about their own country so they're not even worth talking about.
     
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    Probably Labour. Fuck the Tories, and fuck the lib dems. Nigel Farage is a cunt, so UKIP can suck my schlong.
     
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    Anyone want to give me a rundown of the major points and how the parties aline along them?
     
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    Can probably watch it on a UK proxy
    https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/the-leaders-debate/series-1/episode-1-the-leaders-debate

    Labour, Democrats and Conservatives are all the same damn thing. They take turns time and time again and nothing changes for the people. Fuck those guys.

    UKIP are just racist. Whether they claim they're not or otherwise. Everything is immigrations fault in their minds and when they try their methods and the problems aren't fixed, but we're left without the EU.. yeah I don't want to be around for that.

    SNP have the right ideals but they aren't a UK party, I don't want to vote for them because they don't want the UK to remain together, so how can they possibly make decisions for the UK to benefit the UK.

    Plaid Cymru.. don't know why anyone who's not Welsh would vote for a Welsh party so I wont be.

    I suppose that leaves me the Greens. They haven't had a shot at it and I don't see why they shouldn't have one.
    Let's start with banker bonuses and taxing corporations that don't pay any tax in this country despite operating here. These investments, in theory, generate wealth along the way.
     
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    I haven't voted on the poll because I'm simply not sure. Everyone can say whatever they want and then change it after they get elected.
     
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    I don't usually vote because I don't think it makes a whole lot of difference. In America at least its

    Republicans = Relative economic freedom with fascist social policy.
    Democrats = Relative social freedom with fascist economic policy.

    Funded by the same groups, and having huge overlaps on policy. There is really only disagreement in rhetoric, as they do the same things in office.

    That being said if I went to vote I'd pull the lever on whoever I was most confident would attempt to block the rapid expansion of state power.
     
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    General election is tomorrow, who we all voting for?

    Bit of a stretch between Labour and Conservative for me, no point in bothering with anyone else.
     
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    Ukip!
     
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    Ukip is too focused on immigrants not people in the citizens in the UK

    Labour - Ed is a retard

    David cameron - only decent one..

    Lim dem are alright but not strong enough
     
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    Went with Labour in the end. Came very close to Conservative though.
     
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    Conservative victory.

    650 seats -

    331 - Conservative
    232 - Labour

    56 - Scottish National Party
    8 - Liberal Democrats
    8 - Democratic Unionist Party
    Other - 15 (not going to list all the smaller ones, you can view below)

    Full results can be seen here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

    I think we're better off with the Conservatives, Labour just wanted to go back to square 1 with everything. SNPs seem to have taken over Scotland and the Liberals... well.


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    I am disappointed Conservatives won
     
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    I was going to vote, then I ended up going on a date. Oh well!
     
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    I voted conservative, though I'm surprised they actually managed to get 50% this time. Regardless, it seemed like they would get into power as the Lib Dems were offering to do another term with them if that was a deciding factor.

    I mainly voted conservatives because we haven't had anything bad happen since they came into power.

    I'm not going to vote labour (at least not until we get back to the boom cycle of the economy) since their principle of borrowing to invest seems too risky to me. Especially given their track record over the past 15 years or so. If they're not doing that, then they are fundamentally accepting that their policy won't work, and then they'd have to do something they're not experienced in doing, right?

    UKIP I find focus only on immigration. If they actually showed an interest in other areas of the economy I would have considered them.

    Lib Dems are too small to have much of an impact. Especially where I live.

    Green party see above.

    SNP & PC don't really apply to me because I don't live there. They weren't an option where I live anyway.

    NB. I'm not into the anti-thatcher standpoint. Economically it was a smart, but rough decision.
     
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