Thread: Election Straw Poll

Originally Posted by shagnasty

FRIDGE MAGNET,
I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE ONE OF BROONS GOONS. YOU HAVE NO MORAL COMPASS AND YOU ARE SIMPLY A MOUTHPIECE FOR THE 10 MACHINE. DO ME AND THE COUNTRY AND A FAVOUR AND DIE!

First you start an ambiguous poll that is already running somewhere else on arrse, but with a misleading title. Then you say it's not a poll about who's going to win but who you're going to vote for. Ok, fine. Are there only 3 parties in the country then? No need to chuck your teddy because your poll is sh1te.

Originally Posted by fridge_magnet

Originally Posted by shagnasty

FRIDGE MAGNET,
I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE ONE OF BROONS GOONS. YOU HAVE NO MORAL COMPASS AND YOU ARE SIMPLY A MOUTHPIECE FOR THE 10 MACHINE. DO ME AND THE COUNTRY AND A FAVOUR AND DIE!

First you start an ambiguous poll that is already running somewhere else on arrse, but with a misleading title. Then you say it's not a poll about who's going to win but who you're going to vote for. Ok, fine. Are there only 3 parties in the country then? No need to chuck your teddy because your poll is sh1te.

OK! Smart Arse! who do YOU think should be included? UKIP? SNP? Plaid Cumry? Sein Feinn?

If most people actually read the title and voted who they THINK is going to win, as was the questioned asked, and other people voted for who they WANT to win the results are meaningless.


Clearly whoever voted Lib Dem was answering the latter.

[quote="Kingbingo"]If most people actually read the title and voted who they THINK is going to win, as was the questioned asked, and other people voted for who they WANT to win the results are meaningless.


Clearly whoever voted Lib Dem was answering the latter.[/quote

.....and as the Lib Dems have said...."We will support the majority party".
What does that say about the Lib Dems?

Do they have a policy other than we will "go with the flow.......?"

Originally Posted by shagnasty

.....and as the Lib Dems have said...."We will support the majority party".
What does that say about the Lib Dems?

Do they have a policy other than we will "go with the flow.......?"

The Lib Dem's in marginal Labour seats sound like Socialists, the Lib Dems in Tory marginals sound like Tories. The party is merely a not the other guy party.

That said I can't help but like the Comet guy who was nailing one of those pop starlets.

Stolen from the Telegraph.

Whatever you think of Gordon Brown , you have to admire his resilience, and his brass neck. Here is a leader who has faced down at least three serious attempts from within his own party to turf him from office, who has presided over the most serious recession since the Second World War, and whose personal ratings in the polls are historically poor (though improving); he should be dead and buried, yet he remains in the game. Yesterday's announcement that the Budget will be held on March 24, presaging an election almost certainly on May 6, has quickened the electoral pulse. The likelihood of a Conservative victory remains strong; but the prospect of a tight race and a hung parliament is a real one.

In a speech in the City yesterday, trailed as one of great import but largely devoid of any credible recovery policy, Mr Brown invited the country to trust him to see it through the economic storms. He wished to be judged on his character. While his stamina and determination to remain in office cannot be faulted, his greatest flaw is an unwillingness to accept any responsibility when things go wrong, whether they be economic, social or military.

He tried to convince his audience that he was not someone who told people what they wanted to hear, but what they needed to know; and yet for many months, when it was apparent that the country was getting deeper into debt, he refused to acknowledge that cuts in spending were inevitable. This past week he has failed to concede what soldiers and military chiefs have said to be true: that the Army was not properly equipped to fight the war in Afghanistan, even if it now is.

The fact is that after 13 years in power, Labour has forfeited the right to say that things can only get better. Mr Brown is anxious to avoid an election based on his record because it is hard to defend. In particular, he blames global events for Britain's economic woes, when his own failures as Chancellor to keep some of the revenues from the good times to help us through the bad reflect his hubristic belief that boom and bust had been abolished, a claim he is no longer in a position to make. Of course voters need to consider which party has the best programme for the next five years and beyond; but they are also entitled to ask whether the party that has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy deserves yet another chance.

Errrrrmmm. Vote Labour in Tyneside or Scotland ? Stick a rosette on a donkey and call it Labour....that should do it!!!

[quote="shagnasty"]

Originally Posted by Kingbingo

If most people actually read the title and voted who they THINK is going to win, as was the questioned asked, and other people voted for who they WANT to win the results are meaningless.


Clearly whoever voted Lib Dem was answering the latter.[/quote

.....and as the Lib Dems have said...."We will support the majority party".
What does that say about the Lib Dems?

Do they have a policy other than we will "go with the flow.......?"

Not quite true. Nick Clegg has indicated that he may support either Labour or the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament, subject to a number of conditions, not least of which is electoral reform. Because they have been the third party for so long, the Lib Dems have been able to paper over the massive divide between the different factions in the party. This could well shatter in the event of a sniff of real power and influence. The pragmatic realities of seriously challenging for power have forced Labour and the Tories to reach consensus between their left- and right-wings (or to effectively suppress one or the other). Ever since the merger of the SDP with the Liberals, the Lib Dems have faced no such situation.

This thread is so boring it makes me want to scratch my eyes out with a dull spoon. Hole?

Originally Posted by surfer2169

This thread is so boring it makes me want to scratch my eyes out with a dull spoon. Hole?

I'm getting to that point too. I wish I was a badger and could die on the A6; hit by an drunken Slovak trukkie! ......Goodnight.

+1 for voting Labour on this because I do think they'll get back in. Most people know what needs to be done but fear the journey to get there and will bottle it at the ballot box.

Obviously I don't want Labout to win but there would be some justice in Brown having to face the consequences of his own mess and maybe the ensuing national heart attack that would follow his election needs to happen in order to wake people up and bring about radical change.

GE take two by Christmas 2010 according to my chrystal ball, but having looked at all of the options I've voted with my feet and bugged out.

Crap thread with the wrong question and not enough voting options.

Locked so we can start again.