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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edge said:
Milliband going (not going to happen) would blast this apart if labour got the right leader, he really isnt doing himself any good the last few days, should say his health is going or something, otherwise 60 odd million people are going to be under tory rule , to much of a price to pay for his vanity/stubboness.
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You are probably right. Trouble for the Labour party is that the sort of leader a lot of their grassroots might want wouldnt stand a chance in a general election. Then again, nor would Milliband imo.
 

roydo said:
You are probably right. Trouble for the Labour party is that the sort of leader a lot of their grassroots might want wouldnt stand a chance in a general election. Then again, nor would Milliband imo.
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cant really think of a leader among them,Burnham, Chucka, whatever his name is, Ed Balls missus?
 
edge said:
cant really think of a leader among them,Burnham, Chucka, whatever his name is, Ed Balls missus?
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Burnham is the only one I think has a shred of traditional Labour about him, but also an air that could attract the middle England vote they would need. Yvette Cooper is Ball's missus. Not bad, but a bit meh.

And thats coming from a non-Labour supporter.
 
roydo said:
Burnham is the only one I think has a shred of traditional Labour about him, but also an air that could attract the middle England vote they would need. Yvette Cooper is Ball's missus. Not bad, but a bit meh.

And thats coming from a non-Labour supporter.
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Burnham it is then, always though Yvette Cooper speaks well could get the womans vote.
 
roydo said:
You are probably right. Trouble for the Labour party is that the sort of leader a lot of their grassroots might want wouldnt stand a chance in a general election.
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I heavily disagree with that, you can't know that unless it has been tried. Moreover, a grassroots Labour leader could easily fire up the base and bring out an unprecedented left wing turnout at the polls.
 

red1 said:
I heavily disagree with that, you can't know that unless it has been tried. Moreover, a grassroots Labour leader could easily fire up the base and bring out an unprecedented left wing turnout at the polls.
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Fair enough. But I dont think there is an appetite for a left wing turn out. Or indeed enough who have left wing views that might chime with the grassroots party.

The ideals, (and issues) that gave birth to the Trade Unions and the Labour Party in this country just do not apply any more. To the eternal credit of both. Blair, for all his faults, recognised that. Elections will never be won on left, (or right) wing rhetoric, you have to appeal to the conservative, (with a small c), rump of England.
 
rascal said:
Seriously:

Working class people voting for Farage is the definition of turkeys voting for Christmas. Obviously the situation that we, the working class, find ourselves in is far from ideal but our desires wouldn't be achieved under Farage. The only way it would be achieved is by another peasant's revolt and not a bunch of ultra-capitalist Tory's who believe that legalising gay marriage resulted in last year's floods, that climate change is a myth and that Maggie Thatcher was the saviour and that the poor and vagrant should be in workhouses.
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Spot on, hes an utter con man, playing on populist nonsense,i honestly dont think cares about the things he makes a big deal out of all that much, he is in this whole thing simply for himself
 
Walken said:
Spot on, hes an utter con man, playing on populist nonsense,i honestly dont think cares about the things he makes a big deal out of all that much, he is in this whole thing simply for himself
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He has been consistent on Europe. But imo he is dangerous. Or rather some of the loony-tunes he has attracted are.
 
roydo said:
He has been consistent on Europe. But imo he is dangerous. Or rather some of the loony-tunes he has attracted are.
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Immigration and the eu are the perfect go to policy for a man with no genuine beliefs. He's more dangerous to the people has more in common with so i'm not terribly worried about him, though seeing people claim he won debates where he essentially said nothing of any substance and just got facts wrong outright is concerning in general
 
Walken said:
Immigration and the eu are the perfect go to policy for a man with no genuine beliefs. He's more dangerous to the people has more in common with so i'm not terribly worried about him, though seeing people claim he won debates where he essentially said nothing of any substance and just got facts wrong outright is concerning in general
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Yep. Thing is, his sound bites do resonate with a lot of people. People who may not look too closely under the bonnet.
 

roydo said:
And the same can apply to the left side of politics. Thats why England, in particular, migrate to the woolly fluffy centre. By and large.
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Weve never really had much of an aptitude for change, wat tyler, cromwell i suppose and the labour movement when the tories where actually allowed to do what they really wanted to the working classes and things were drastic. In general id say the political attitude in britain has generally been a laisse faire one, from the majority of the public
 

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