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 .
Are you old and rich? - Vote Tory
Do you want to make old rich people pay more? Vote Labour
Are you old rich and xenophobic? Vote UKIP
Are you young and idealistic? Vote Green
Do you think it'd be funny to put Nick Clegg through five more years of coalition government? - Vote Lib Dem
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Are you old and rich? - Vote Tory
Do you want to make old rich people pay more? Vote Labour
Are you old rich and xenophobic? Vote UKIP
Are you young and idealistic? Vote Green
Do you think it'd be funny to put Nick Clegg through five more years of coalition government? - Vote Lib Dem
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I'm none of those things, my idealism left me when I protested the tuition fees only to get ripped off from then on, and then seeing the lunatics take over the asylum on both left and right, there's no hope! I can't believe I even registered.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Are you old and rich? - Vote Tory
Do you want to make old rich people pay more? Vote Labour
Are you old rich and xenophobic? Vote UKIP
Are you young and idealistic? Vote Green
Do you think it'd be funny to put Nick Clegg through five more years of coalition government? - Vote Lib Dem
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Labour :drool:
 
Please tell me someone's watching Newsnight? Section on young 'Kippers, every single one comes across as completely nuts. :lol: My favourite was the oddly sinister guy with the fringe talking about how people keep deleting him off Facebook.
 
ThierryHenry said:
Please tell me someone's watching Newsnight? Section on young 'Kippers, every single one comes across as completely nuts. :lol: My favourite was the oddly sinister guy with the fringe talking about how people keep deleting him off Facebook.
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I saw the 19 year old who had some form of Iraqi lineage. 'They were proper immigrants, they learnt the language...blah blah'. Who the feck would vote for them.
 
Just had a look at that. Maybe not one to do at work, looks like it'll take ages to do properly.
 
40% lib dem (Health, Crime)
40% green (Economy, Immigration)
20% UKIP (Education)
 
:lol: A few people seem to be getting UKIP on education, including me! Bit of a shock, then I realised I hadn't clicked the "reveal all policies" option that had managed to hide most of the UKIP-y bits.
 
The broadcasters have to empty chair Cameron. Would be completely unacceptable if they let him dictate to them like this.
 
The one he really seems to want to avoid is the one against Ed alone, which can't really be empty chaired/podiumed. Putting them on before the manifestos are published though would be utterly pointless.
 
Tories are massively paranoid about the debates, they've convinced themselves since 2010 that doing them was the sole reason they couldn't get a majority. It's quite possible they really do believe that not turning up would be preferable to doing them, and in the meantime they're doing everything they can to stop them happening at all. It's all a bit funny really, as their election strategy is to run it as a Presidential one, a straight choice between Miliband and Cameron, which you'd think the debates would be ideal for if they had conviction in themselves and Cameron as the leader.
 
esmufc07 said:
The way Cameron has handled all of this has been farcial, surely his resistance is now doing more damage than good?
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Cameron was always going to lose whatever happened(People's expectations of Miliband are slow low that however he performs at these debates he would have gained something). But I agree Cameron's played a massive gamble as all the tv stations have to say is '' We are putting on the debate you can come if you want to''. There's no way Cameron or the torries will leave a empty seat at the debates.
 
Sweet Square said:
Cameron was always going to lose whatever happened(People's expectations of Miliband are slow low that however he performs at these debates he would have gained something). But I agree Cameron's played a massive gamble as all the tv stations have to say is '' We are putting on the debate you can come if you want to''. There's no way Cameron or the torries will leave a empty seat at the debates.
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agreed - I actually like Cameron. Was a close call between UKIP and Tories for me, inching towards UKIP now.
 
esmufc07 said:
The way Cameron has handled all of this has been farcial, surely his resistance is now doing more damage than good?
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Especially when he seemed pretty confident pre-debates last time. He has to go back on his words recently and do it now, or he'd be fecked if he just didn't turn up. Big dent in the Tories hopes.
 
Ubik said:
Tories are massively paranoid about the debates, they've convinced themselves since 2010 that doing them was the sole reason they couldn't get a majority. It's quite possible they really do believe that not turning up would be preferable to doing them, and in the meantime they're doing everything they can to stop them happening at all. It's all a bit funny really, as their election strategy is to run it as a Presidential one, a straight choice between Miliband and Cameron, which you'd think the debates would be ideal for if they had conviction in themselves and Cameron as the leader.
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Think it might've been Portillo, on This Week, who said he thinks the theory is that Miliband would find it easier to appear 'Prime Ministerial' in a debate than he will doing more of the one on one interviews with difficult interviewers that he'll have to otherwise. Probably some truth in that.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
The broadcasters have to empty chair Cameron. Would be completely unacceptable if they let him dictate to them like this.
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If he doesn't want to take part he doesn't have to. Go ahead without him.
Sweet Square said:
Cameron was always going to lose whatever happened(People's expectations of Miliband are slow low that however he performs at these debates he would have gained something). But I agree Cameron's played a massive gamble as all the tv stations have to say is '' We are putting on the debate you can come if you want to''. There's no way Cameron or the torries will leave a empty seat at the debates.
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A couple of pundits have said this but I can't see it myself. Floating voters are hardly likely to make their minds up thinking 'oh, right, Milliband's only slightly shit, and not as completely shit as I thought he was'.

Cameron is generally a better debater than Milliband, he should have looked to press home that advantage with the largest audience.

I have wondered though if Cameron's spin doctors are worried about his 'bully' image, they might be trying to avoid that coming out, I suppose.
 
712 said:
If he doesn't want to take part he doesn't have to. Go ahead without him.
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He doesn't. I think the broadcasters should make it as obvious as they can that he was invited, though. They've stated before that any leader who chose not to show would be represented by an empty podium. I don't see any reason to back down from that.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Think it might've been Portillo, on This Week, who said he thinks the theory is that Miliband would find it easier to appear 'Prime Ministerial' in a debate than he will doing more of the one on one interviews with difficult interviewers that he'll have to otherwise. Probably some truth in that.
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He did indeed. The Clegg offer of taking over on the one-to-one would be interesting, they'd both essentially slag Cameron off for the whole thing amongst some pot-shots at each other.
 
Ubik said:
He did indeed. The Clegg offer of taking over on the one-to-one would be interesting, they'd both essentially slag Cameron off for the whole thing amongst some pot-shots at each other.
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Would be lovely. Hard for them to justify though. You get back in to the 'if Clegg's there, why not Farage, then why not Bennet/Sturgeon/Bez from Happy Mondays'.
 
Don't get why Cameron wants to avoid the head-to-head with Ed only. That seems like the easiest one for him, he usually gets the better of Ed.
 
He usually "wins" PMQs by having better written jokes and insults whilst having an innate talent for not answering questions directed at him. Debate's work differently, which is why he barely got the better of Brown in the last ones, and Ed's much better at it than Brown was.
 
Ubik said:
He usually "wins" PMQs by having better written jokes and insults whilst having an innate talent for not answering questions directed at him. Debate's work differently, which is why he barely got the better of Brown in the last ones, and Ed's much better at it than Brown was.
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Nah, Milliband sounds like he should still be eating at the children's table. Brown was alright, he was just unlucky he was in charge when the global economy went to shit.
 
Silva said:
Nah, Milliband sounds like he should still be eating at the children's table. Brown was alright, he was just unlucky he was in charge when the global economy went to shit.
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No, he just wasn't particularly good at being Prime Minister and spent far too much of his earlier career and energy scheming to get there. Miliband's perfectly fine at actual debating and engages with points well (better than David did during the leadership contest, certainly).
 
Ubik said:
No, he just wasn't particularly good at being Prime Minister and spent far too much of his earlier career and energy scheming to get there. Miliband's perfectly fine at actual debating and engages with points well (better than David did during the leadership contest, certainly).
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Is he? Because he only ever seems to pander the press, which, as someone who Labour could win over by actually being left wing, I find frustrating and off-putting. He's more likely to drive people to fringe parties than win them over IMO.
 
The theory is that incumbent PMs don't come out well in TV debates as they get blamed for everything that has recently gone tits up. I guess that is why Cameron is avoiding. I'd love to see the debate happen, I think Milliband wouldn't land well with most voters, the economic crisis is too recent in our memories, and he does nothing to assure me he would handle the economy well.
 
I'm a Labour voter at heart, but I'd vote Tory in the next election if I were going to vote because Milliband makes my skin crawl.

As it is, I won't be voting because I no longer live in the UK and it seems unfair of me to cast a vote on an issue that won't affect me.
 
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