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The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

Who will you be voting for?

  • Tory

    Votes: 38 9.9%

  • Diet Tory (Labour)

    Votes: 132 34.3%

  • Tory Zero (Greens)

    Votes: 44 11.4%

  • Extra Tory with lemon (UKIP)

    Votes: 40 10.4%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 9 2.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 31 8.1%

  • Cheese on toast

    Votes: 91 23.6%
  • Total voters
    385
  • Poll closed .
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roydo said:
I mean he cant help what he looks like!
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You're not making this sound any better mate. Politicians are driven by perception and stuff like this won't help him yeah i agree, but his laughable manifestos are more comical than a startled looking paparazzi shot. I don't take much notice of stuff like this, its low hanging fruit in terms of trying to make them look daft.

I want to use the data available to nail these beauts to the wall.
 
Bryan said:
You're not making this sound any better mate. Politicians are driven by perception and stuff like this won't help him yeah i agree, but his laughable manifestos are more comical than a startled looking paparazzi shot. I don't take much notice of stuff like this, its low hanging fruit in terms of trying to make them look daft.

I want to use the data available to nail these beauts to the wall.
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Oh sure, me too. But is doesnt help in these media obsessed days.
 
It's a shame that something so important so often seems to get boiled down to how someone comes across or how likeable they appear to be. Suffice to say, I'm not sure Milliband or Labours policies are up to much either, but he's being killed in the image stakes at the moment too.

I'm not sure he is at all, but you sense that a major reason why Farage is as popular as he is is because voters can at least relate to him in some way. Neither Milliband, Cameron or Clegg represent the average person whatsoever. They're all part of a very small niche of society.
 
"Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce improvements in the charter sector. We study quality changes among Texas charter schools between 2001 and 2011. Our results suggest that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less effective than traditional public schools. However, exits from the sector, improvement of existing charter schools, and positive selection of charter management organizations that open additional schools raised average charter school effectiveness over time relative to traditional public schools. Moreover, the evidence is consistent with the belief that a reduction in student turnover as the sector matures, expansion of the share of charters that adhere to a No Excuses philosophy, and increasingly positive student selection at the times of both entry and reenrollment all contribute to the improvement of the charter sector. "

Some un-gated copies of the paper here https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=The+Evolution+of+Charter+School+Quality
 

Bruce Wayne said:
It's a shame that something so important so often seems to get boiled down to how someone comes across or how likeable they appear to be. Suffice to say, I'm not sure Milliband or Labours policies are up to much either, but he's being killed in the image stakes at the moment too.
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It's hard to vote for someone who looks like a reptilian cross-breed.
 
Jxg said:
It's hard to vote for someone who looks like a reptilian cross-breed.
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Or a dog:

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Blue 1 said:
They really don't give a flying one, do they?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-after-paperwork-destroyed-by-Parliament.html
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they are taking the p***.
just been reading about the FIrst Great Western fanchise stitch up, they gave it back to avoid paying £826.6 million, then got an extension which added to the £133 million extra from the goverment in 2010 means they have screwed the uk out of over a billion pounds.
give a quess who has got a five year deal uncontested , by the way
This country wants to wake up to this shower.
 

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