Who do you think will win the 2015 General Election ?!?
By the next UK general election on 7 May 2015 I think Labour will win because people will have had too much austerity from the coalition. This is the normal cycle. Labour spends too much, ruins the economy, and then the Tories get in but make themselves too unpopular putting it right again.
Who will you vote for in the 2015 General election?
UKIP, because they will cut the deficit immediately by £14 billion a year with no cuts by leaving the EU, they will cut the deficit by another £10 billion with no cuts by stopping the wheeze of EU Tax Avoidance by the likes of Amazon, Google, PayPal, Starbucks etc. They will relieve the pressures and demands on the state by introducing Work Visas and the same settlement rules as Spain, France and Australia - if you haven't got a job, you don't have the finances to pay your way, you don't have Health Insurance or Health Credits from you home nation that you can transfer, then you cannot enter to live, and if you do have a job you don't get a settlement Visa but a Work Visa, if you break their Laws then you are repatriated and if you want a family life, your family is free to go with you. They will re-introduce meritocracy rather than the Kleptocracy, who you know rather than what you know and the deepest pockets wins that are the standards of life today. They are the only party that is ready to legislate itself out of existence. They main three talk about 'cutting the deficit' and 'cutting the debt' but will not address the main drains on the economy, and the main reasons they have to borrow and cut, the EU and Foreign Aid, borrow to give away and cuts at home. Osborne supports the Banks and Big Business and faffs around with the supply side of the economy with no attention to the demand side (that is you and me and every taxpayer being able to spend money to create jobs, rather than propping up crooked banks and giving loans to businesses that have no customers). Balls-Cooper is so economically illiterate that it embarrassing to listen to him. In one breath he is damning the Govt for borrowing more, and the next saying that he will borrow even more! It beggars belief. The LebDims are, as usual, praying at the EU altar and have no idea if today is Saturday, Selfridges or Suduko. Mind you, looking at some answers, I see the 'I'd vote for a pig if it had the right coloured rosette on' are still alive and well in the UK. So, the tribal ju-ju men will probably get most of the failed mobs back into their seats. Still I will vote for UKIP, even if I am the only one to do so, because they are the one hope left, better than not voting or spoiling the ballot
Who will you be voting for in the General Election 2015 UK?
I'll vote Labour, they may not be perfect, but they did do a lot in the 13yrs that they were in that benefited the many and not just the wealthy. I can understand people who think we ought to pull out of the EU and therefore deciding on UKIP, but there should be some large debates on just what we gain and lose by being in the EU and what we would lose if we pulled out. Things for instance on what companies will pull out of the UK, how many people will lose their jobs, how much will the price of goods go up. People seem to think that pulling out the EU will solve all our problems, it won't. We will still have to abide by any EU rulings on goods that we want to sell to EU countries, that's even if they will bother to by them from someone outside the EU. There will definitely be some companies that pull out of the UK to locate in an EU country. As for other things, we may well have millions of EU immigrants having to leave the UK, but millions of UK citizens in other countries will be sent back here. As for anything else UKIP has got to say, I haven't got a clue. We never seem to hear any economic growth policies or anything about about creating employment. It should be remembered that NIgel Farage was once in the Tory party and is more right wing that David Cameron. So it would still be the poor that suffered and the wealthy that prospered if he ever got into power.
Can I vote in the General Election if I don't vote in the Primaries?
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Can you vote in the general election if you don't vote in the primary?
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What party (UK) will you be voting for in the 2015 general election?
Labour. The Tories got into power by saying they would cut the deficit in one term, but here we are 3yrs later and our debt hasn't gone down at all, worse still, because of this Tory led coalitions policies, we are unlikely to clear the dept by 2020. Labour had the right idea in the run up to the election which was to cut the debt over two parliaments while investing in growth. They warned before the election that making harsh cuts without a growth plan for the economy would be disastrous and it has been. People also need to look at the Tories creeping privatisation of the NHS. Ed Milliband has said today that he will overturn what they are doing if Labour get in. Labour policies will become clearer nearer the election, but whatever happens, they can't be as bad as this vindictive Tory led government who are determined to stamp the poor into the ground as revenge for keeping them out of office. The Tories have proven once again that the only people they care about are the wealthy.
Why where the polls at the UK general election 2015 so wrong?
One answer our voting system which does not allow other smaller parties to be respresented. Like 3.4 million people in the UK voted for Nigel Farage and UKIP and what did we get? One returned UKIP MP, the Greens would have done better too had we have had a more representative voting system.According to pollsters UKIP would have had 80 MPs and the Greens 20 under a different voting system. Plus the Tories kept repeating the mantra of Labour going into government with the SNP and Labour being in hoc to the SNP probably scared alot of English voters into voting for the Conservatives.
Who did you vote for in the UK general election 2017 and why?
I voted Labour by post.Before leaving the UK in 2008, I rented a house in Maidenhead. By postal-vote rules, your vote counts where you were last resident. This meant my vote wouldn’t make a difference because Maidenhead is a Tory safe seat: Theresa May’s own seat in fact. She won with a huge 37,000 votes. [1]I voted anyway; it’s important. I voted for the same reason I went out on the streets as a Labour Party member and canvassed in Maidenhead while I lived there.We canvassed; not because we thought we would win, but because politics is more about pressure than votes. Every vote we took from May applies pressure on her to either represent the issues we stand on; or expect to lose votes when she does not. Getting the opposition to follow something in your platform is also a win.If those opposition parties, independents, and comedy candidates didn’t stand, some people don’t get a voice.So when a few people on Twitter started sharing a joke about Tim Farron being so weak he could be beaten by a fish finger, one man decided to stand as a candidate and give them a voice. He crowdfunded his deposit. That’s how Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrat party, came to be campaigning against a man dressed as a soggy looking fish product. [2]In the UK 2017 election… fuck it… I’m going to say it… in the first UK 2017 election, 32% of people did not vote. Called lazy and undemocratic maybe they are just waiting for their own fish finger man?Now look at those who did vote for fringe candidates, shown as “Others” in the results. This represents 185,000 votes. [3]Nearly 200,000 people voted for fish fingers, bucketheads, celebrities, and independents who stood no chance of winning.I voted for Labour in Maidenhead with the spirit of the 309 [4] people who would rather be represented by a fish finger than Tim Farron.Footnotes[1] Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia[2] Lord Buckethead, Elmo and Mr Fishfinger: a very British election[3] Results of the 2017 General Election - BBC News[4] Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia
Why did you vote Conservative in the 2015 UK general election?
Well I actually DID vote Conservative, although I nearly didn't. In the end I did because the popular vote looked close and I didn't want Labour to win that, had the Conservatives had a 5 point lead I probably wouldn't have voted for them (at least not for the local candidate who I wasn't keen on). I didn't want the UK to go back to economic failure under Labour, especially if Labour were going to change a course that the country had already been set on. I think that would have been disasterous. Labour weren't a credible opposition with a good front bench, they also have a recent legacy of economic disaster and I didn't want to risk that coming back into government. I believed that country was on a better course with the Conservatives so I supported them.