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How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
71% Lib Dem, 67% Labour. Somehow managed to get 48% UKIP???
 
So, have any of you taken the uk.isidewith.com election quiz?

Any surprising results, like Labour with the highest percentage...:nervous:
89% Labour
82% LibDem
77% Green
44% Tory
34% UKIP

Pretty accurate for me although where the UKIP percentage came from I don't know and I think the Tory amount was bolstered by my supporting HS2 and a few other business items.
 
May: "He wants to get the worst deal for Britain at the highest possible price."

Who the f*ck would believe that rubbish?
 
Does it actually bother people when politicians can't remember off hand the exact cost of a policy? I've never understood the furore around when it happens. They're not machines.

Agreed. When Paxman asked Corbyn last night how much money he was going to give Brussels he eventually said, I can't answer that question, nobody could at this point in time. It's a perfectly reasonable response in those circumstances.

If the figures are known but withheld or distorted it's another matter but I can forgive someone for not being able to remember every number perfectly.
 
May: "He wants to get the worst deal for Britain at the highest possible price."

Who the f*ck would believe that rubbish?


We're in the same territory as the Trump campaign now, it's not about who will actually believe it (although a small percentage of idiots actually will) it's about flinging as much shit at the other candidate as possible and knowing full well that sections of the media (most of the media in this case) and her supporters will latch onto it and repeat it ad infinitum and it doesn't matter how small the quantity that actually sticks, it's just important that some of it does.
 
May: "He wants to get the worst deal for Britain at the highest possible price."

Who the f*ck would believe that rubbish?

It was to a really good question about no deal realities as well. Fecking state of politics seriously.

I think its so ridiculous it might bite her, if i was Labour id pay to repeat that footage over and over.
 
We are well and truly in the era of fake news, for as long as the UK media is heavily right-wing establishment biased we might as well shut up shop and leave.
 
That quiz was interesting, I realized quite late that if you click on *other* you get extended options, maybe it would've been different if I did it from the beginning.
Plaid Cymru, SNP and Greens were the top group for me with 90%,89% and 88% followed by LibDems and Labour both with 80% which I found surprising as I thought Labour would be higher for me. Conservatives slightly behind UKIP with 32% to 33%, says all about them really...
 
Typical Tory, too tight to even share the link. ;)

86% Lib Dem
81% Labour
73% Green
46% UKIP
45% Tory

No surprises on the Lib Dem/Labour stuff. It beggars belief that we're all getting higher UKIP totals than Tory though. Says a lot about how fecking extremist these cnuts have become.

Enacting a Best of 5 rule, my results are:

Labour 63%
Conservative 61%
Liberal Democrat 57%
UKIP 55%
Green 54%

Libertarian is notable in some of the individual policy categories though, not that i know anything about the UK party.
 
76% labour
75% green
70% Lib dem

Sounds about right.

I too got a higher UKIP than Tory result by 1% :nervous:
 
80% SNP
78% Labour
75% Lib Dem
72% Green
42% Tory
 
Looking back over the quiz, it occurs to me that there isn't a question for future NHS spending and how we'll fund such. A glaring omission IMO. Two policy examples being the Lib Dems income tax rise, and UKIP's GP appointments charge.
 
People fall for anything these days. Who'd believe that an extreme left IRA/Hamas/Munich terrorist supporter could even get this far. And if that wasn't insane enough, an economic plan that makes no sense to anybody with ten fingers.
You have ten fingers?
 
People fall for anything these days. Who'd believe that an extreme left IRA/Hamas/Munich terrorist supporter could even get this far. And if that wasn't insane enough, an economic plan that makes no sense to anybody with ten fingers.
 
People fall for anything these days. Who'd believe that an extreme left IRA/Hamas/Munich terrorist supporter could even get this far. And if that wasn't insane enough, an economic plan that makes no sense to anybody with ten fingers.


Fearless sounds like fear has got the better of him.
 
81% Lib Dem
80% Labour
72% Green
56% Conservative
52% UKIP
 
With some of you returning approval figures in the 80% range, feeling comfortable about your eventual choice must be fairly easy.
 
78% Lib Dems
76% Lab
72% Green
41% Tory
34% UKIP
 
With some of you returning approval figures in the 80% range, feeling comfortable about your eventual choice must be fairly easy.
I reckon nearly everyone will get at least 75 with one party.

You're a bit of a mongrel when it comes to views, Nick.
 
With some of you returning approval figures in the 80% range, feeling comfortable about your eventual choice must be fairly easy.
Its a bit silly though isnt it, how can I have 81% Lib Dem, 80% Labour. They aren't similar
 
With some of you returning approval figures in the 80% range, feeling comfortable about your eventual choice must be fairly easy.
It also helps when you have a great leader - a la Sturgeon
Its a bit silly though isnt it, how can I have 81% Lib Dem, 80% Labour. They aren't similar
Will be different policies though - and of course they have broadly common ground for a few things.
 
Emma Barnett was very clever (and underhand) in using the opportunity, when Corbyn was trying to find the costings, to stick in the barbed reference to Gordon Brown.

Corbyn: "Can I give you the exact figure in a moment?"
Barnett: "Is this not exactly the issue with people and the Labour Party which came up under Gordon Brown that we cannot trust you with our money?"

That's a cheap shot right there. The guy hadn't memorised the figure, which she had already been given earlier by Angela Rayner. The issue, as Emma well knew, was that Corbyn hadn't memorised the figure. That was it. Nothing about the rights or wrongs of the policy and how it would effect the lives of the Womens Hour audience. She made it an issue about memory to throw Corbyn off balance and took the opportunity to get into the audience's mind, almost subliminally, her own message - that Labour are not to be trusted with our money.



Well, they aren't, that has always been quite clear.
 
Well... that her father is a much, much bigger cnut. It's a shame the emails between him and Emma weren't published.
Lots of our dads are and I doubt we'd come out too well if our emails were published.

It has nothing to do with her career.