UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority

How did you vote in the 2015 General Election?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 67 20.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 152 45.4%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 15 4.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 23 6.9%

  • SNP

    Votes: 9 2.7%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • Independent

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Did not vote

    Votes: 43 12.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 9 2.7%
  • Total voters
    335
  • Poll closed .
Redlambs said:
I'm talking on a town to town scale. The East end of London is a particular hot point right now, especially where my mum lives. Again I'll clarify my point later and explain my feelings on it, but the basic point is whether they are right or wrong there are fears and as Bury is saying Ukip have jumped all over them, whilst everyone else seems to dismiss them out of hand.

But they are there and they arent just because of Ukip, in fact it's the other way around.
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In the construction industry and industry as a whole we've allowed ourselves to fall into this situation that plays right into the hands of UKIP and the fear mongers. We insist upon a minimum wage and due to the lack of a cogent Union voice end up with a pitiful excuse of a wage that is no better than the level of benefits and in reality may see people worse off when you consider most minimum wage jobs come with zero hour contracts. Why are we then surprised that those jobs are filled by migrants who are, while not happy, willing to live in cramped conditions and save those wages up for a few years to get them ahead of the pack at home. In construction, rather than lobbying for the house building and infrastructure work the country desperately needs to burst the housing bubble, get people moving again and boost employment we sit back and take it as scheme after scheme is shelved for some petty bureaucracy and do nothing when training budgets are axed so we can't even get qualified tradesman to do the work if it ever arrives. Only last month, the London based apprenticeship charity that relied on CITB grants for part of its funding was thrown under the bus due to cutbacks and bugger all will be done about it.

UKIP aren't the answer, they prey on the problems and lie about the cause to stoke peoples fears. The main problem is that many of the communities and industries that UKIP prey upon are still so fractured from the pasting they took in the late 70s and early 80s that there is no way back in for the unions that should be there campaigning for a living, rather than minimum, wage and no industry cohesion pushing the government to back them with the needed investments in housing, education, health and infrastructure to get the areas back on their feet.

I'm part of the problem too, after 10 years in UK construction I was sick of seeing how much money we wastede bidding on work that was then shelved, of the constant downward price spiral and the poor salaries and prospects so emigrated myself for better opportunities and money. Even now I'm back, I spend the bulk of my time dealing with overseas contracts as there simply isn't the work here for me.
 
PlayerOne said:
It's so sad, I just found 2 of my friends voted for them and they know nothing about their policies.
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This is the problem. My girfriends work colleagues have done the same, blind voted for the Torys without even taking a look at the bigger picture.

Got me so mad when I found out.
 
JoaquinJoaquin said:
This is the problem. My girfriends work colleagues have done the same, blind voted for the Torys without even taking a look at the bigger picture.

Got me so mad when I found out.
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There seems to be a lot of that from people I've spoken too.
 
JoaquinJoaquin said:
This is the problem. My girfriends work colleagues have done the same, blind voted for the Torys without even taking a look at the bigger picture.

Got me so mad when I found out.
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I know what you mean. One of mates was influenced by all the headlines about Ed, I mean the whole bacon sandwich thing was so silly, but some people cared about it.
 
MoneyMay said:


Worth a watch.

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This is one of the main reasons why the SNP have a lot of support in Scotland - their politicians don't bullshit the electorate with non-answers like some other parties tend to do (unless they're talking about oil or fracking, obviously, but every party has an Achilles heel).
 
George Osbourne's face really should be banned from tv.
 
Man, where the hell do the Lib Dems go from here? They're not even needed for a coalition now.

Truly they paid the price for getting into bed with Cameron.
 
Maybe it won't be so bad guys. Who knows, could be a good 5 years..
 
What's worrying is that Cameron is now going to have to increasingly appease the eurosceptic right of his party.

5 years of this shit because Ed cant eat a bacon sandwich and the SNP created a threat that scared off English voters.
 
This election seems so surreal, even the pictures:lol:

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Smores said:
What's worrying is that Cameron is now going to have to increasingly appease the eurosceptic right of his party.

5 years of this shit because Ed cant eat a bacon sandwich and the SNP created a threat that scared off English voters.
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Make that 10. Unless the Tories get hit by a bolt from the blue (like a war or another global recession) they're almost certain to preside over a return to economic normality and win the next term. The only fly in the ointment is the EU referendum we're going to have, which will divide the party, temporarily at least.
 
redindian1987 said:
What is amazing for me is the complete lack of choice across major democracies. Almost every major democracy, the US, UK, India, there is a shocking lack of choice. This lack of choice proved fatal for us in India which saw that despicable thug becoming PM, but there's a complete lack of faith in mainstream social democratic parties across the major democracies. You would think that those on the left would vote or mainstream social democratic parties but it's not happening.
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What an odd statement to make. What 'different' type of policies/candidates do you want then?
There are tons of different parties/candidates but the general population choose what they want, why is it so hard for people like you to accept that?!
 
Annihilate Now! said:
3.7million people have voted UKIP so far... that's kinda depressing.
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Farage saying UKIP will become a young party centering on Political Reform. I may vote UKIP next time then.

But they may as well merge with the Lib Dems then though? UK Liberal Democrats anyone?
 
JoaquinJoaquin said:
This is the problem. My girfriends work colleagues have done the same, blind voted for the Torys without even taking a look at the bigger picture.

Got me so mad when I found out.
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If we're being honest, a lot of the young Tory (under 50) vote comes from people who vote for them because their Mum and Dad do so.
 
2016 - Cameron secures EU reform in the form of migration numbers
2017 - Cameron leads "IN" party to victory at the EU Referendum
2018 - England win World Cup. Cameron brings in new Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act
2019 - Cameron stands down. Boris Johnson takes his place.
2020 - Conservatives win 400 seats.
 
I look at the way the result has gone, and how votes have moved, and I just don't see how the Labour Party can take a position that regains their lost voters in the North of England, Scotland, and in the Con-Lab marginals. They've been demolished from all sides, and on completely different issues.

Next leader has a fecking challenge and a half.
 
rcoobc said:
2016 - Cameron secures EU reform in the form of migration numbers
2017 - Cameron leads "IN" party to victory at the EU Referendum
2018 - England win World Cup. Cameron brings in new Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act
2019 - Cameron stands down. Boris Johnson takes his place.
2020 - Conservatives win 400 seats.
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As if.

England won't win the world cup.
 
rcoobc said:
2016 - Cameron secures EU reform in the form of migration numbers
2017 - Cameron leads "IN" party to victory at the EU Referendum
2018 - England win World Cup. Cameron brings in new Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act
2019 - Cameron stands down. Boris Johnson takes his place.
2020 - Conservatives win 400 seats.
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2019: England declared one giant food bank.
 
rcoobc said:
2016 - Cameron secures EU reform in the form of migration numbers
2017 - Cameron leads "IN" party to victory at the EU Referendum
2018 - England win World Cup. Cameron brings in new Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act
2019 - Cameron stands down. Boris Johnson takes his place.
2020 - Conservatives win 400 seats.
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1 out of those 5 things is probable. I'll let you decide which one...
 
rcoobc said:
2016 - Cameron secures EU reform in the form of migration numbers
2017 - Cameron leads "IN" party to victory at the EU Referendum
2018 - England win World Cup. Cameron brings in new Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act
2019 - Cameron stands down. Boris Johnson takes his place.
2020 - Conservatives win 400 seats.
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2016 - European leaders laugh at Cameron for trying to reform stuff from the fringes
2017 - Cameron has a Referendum campaigning for us to leave and we decide to stay in
2018 - Cameron quits and Boris takes over
2019 - People realise actually Boris is a bit of a joke and nobody voted for him to be PM anyway
2020 - Another election with the scots wanting out, people worried to vote for Boris, Labour zigzagging between left and right with no real clue what to so - the libs still seen as a joke, UKIP redundant as a party after the refferendum, The welsh and Greens nowhere close to having more than a handful of MP's and Northern Ireland just doing what they always do... and general apathy with all the voters disillusioned by a fptp system fielding no viable alternatives

well thats my guess anyway
 
SqueakyWeasel said:
Is that right? Depressing news if true but how come they only have one seat if 5% of the population of the UK have voted for them?
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Because of how the voting system/seats work - they may have had 5% of the population (and 12% of the vote total) - but in every seat bar one, someone other candidate has had more votes, so they haven't one that seat.

Same reason how Labour have took a hammering - yet in actual votes, they're less than 2 million votes behind the Tories.

rcoobc said:
Farage saying UKIP will become a young party centering on Political Reform. I may vote UKIP next time then.

But they may as well merge with the Lib Dems then though? UK Liberal Democrats anyone?
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Really? I can't see that... most young people these days are left-wing aren't they?
 
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