The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Allezfan]

I'm not ultimately bothered about people voting Tory if they're honest about it.

You can vote for whoever you want. If we disagree, we disagree

It's the possibility of people acting in public like they're anti-Tory (Because let's face it The Tories are horrible) but then doing something else in the polling booth that's winding me up

If you're going to support The Tories, at least have the minerals to be honest about it. That's all

The urban north is mostly anti tory, the tories have huge open support. Just in places you don't go.

 

[Mrk]

I think that it's becoming clear that online polling (as popularized by YouGov) has very big problems when it comes to reading the mood of the electorate. Easy for people to protest their quibbles on an online poll, but doesn't mean that they think the opposition is not a total shambles.

I agree, but even the phone polls were showing a swing to Labour yesterday - it doesn't add up.

 

[glorydaze]

Damn, just remembered the tories have promised an eu referendum, that's my job gone, then.

Think the vote will keep us in mate.

 

[orly]

Clegg is toast if they lose 47 seats.

And Labour's Trade Union backing will leave them too

Who on earth thought Milliband was the right person to lead the party, jesus f'in wept

 

[davek]

Which party ' Backing paramilitaries ' are we talking about Dave, that is VERY inflammatory language which I would like you to justify.

The DUP.

 

[sageyefc]

Hope Cameron gets hit by a bus

 

[evilwebby]

I don't know how the Tories have done this other than people actually lying about their political stance

I think I know one person, ONE, who is openly pro Tory. Still though, they could possibly have nailed 300 seats

People simply have to be saying one thing in public but then doing something else in private

I'm openly Tory... IF anyone bothers to ask me.
If not, I keep it to myself. It's about having the gumption to vote according to your principles rather than shouting about the perceived injustices in life. You make out of it what you will.

A friend of mine wrote this, and I couldn't agree with him more, despite that we don't always see eye to eye.

I try not to be political but I will say this: the U.K. isn't a naturally socialist country, it's one based on aspiration. Not everyone likes this concept. Any party that claims they're "for the people" is trying to sell the kind of Utopian ideology that Karl Marx identified. Ethno-Centric parties talk about benefits for their region and then in the next breath say they're for 'all of the U.K.' while never mentioning the social concerns of areas such as Northern Ireland, or anywhere that isn't even in their backyard, and infer that anywhere in the South of England is 'wealthy'.
Beware that if anything is "for the people" that usually means someone else and not you.
Vote wisely.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Hope Cameron gets hit by a bus

A privatised firm.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Goodnight

 

[Connor]

 

[peteblue]

I'm not ultimately bothered about people voting Tory if they're honest about it.

You can vote for whoever you want. If we disagree, we disagree

It's the possibility of people acting in public like they're anti-Tory (Because let's face it The Tories are horrible) but then doing something else in the polling booth that's winding me up

If you're going to support The Tories, at least have the minerals to be honest about it. That's all

You having a go at Davek and Esk here.........

 

[Allezfan]

I've seen some weird stuff posted about politics but someone claiming there's no link between the political parties in northern ireland and the paramilitaries that used to operate there is right up there with the weirdest.

 

[davek]

Unreal.

Scotland need to get out of this nation state ASAP. There's some seriously twisted people voting in these nazis again.

 

[Allezfan]

I'm openly Tory... IF anyone bothers to ask me.
If not, I keep it to myself. It's about having the gumption to vote according to your principles rather than shouting about the perceived injustices in life. You make out of it what you will.

A friend of mine wrote this, and I couldn't agree with him more, despite that we don't always see eye to eye.

I'm willing to bet that the "I try not to be political" there is a huge lie.

 

[Woolly Blue]

The margin of error on the exit poll is enough to move the BBC's number of seats for Tories, Labour and Lib Dem by quite a few seats. Best guess ? Tory and Labour seats +/- 15 seats so it's by no means a certainity that the Tories are, more or less, there in coalition with DUP or Lib Dems.

End of the day, the electorate vote and make their choice. If that doesn't fit with your political viewpoint ( and a Tory led government wouldn't be my choice ) , that's tough, it's called democracy.

If it bothers folk that much, then, if you're not already and real life permits it, then become more politically active and spend less time discussing politics on a footie forum.