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 .
ThierryHenry said:
Well said mate, well, until the last paragraph. :)

I still see Labour as my 'least worst' option in London, and not convinced by the line of thinking that defeat allows a party to 'cleanse' itself (look how long it took the Tories after '97). The Labour-SNP supply and confidence deal is about as good it can for the next five years I think, though there'll be an awful of shit written and said before that happens...
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Yeah, Tories over Labour is a bit over the top, but yeah, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to vote Labour up here at the moment.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
I don't think it's a story, really. There's nothing to stop him changing his mind, should he want to. It seems reasonably obvious that a guy who's had a tricky five years would feel any more than another five sounds an awful lot.
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I'm not surprised at Cameron's decision at all, for his own sake I'd have advised the same, I just suspect that from now on the leading tories will be like a bag full of cats.
 
712 said:
I'm not surprised at Cameron's decision at all, for his own sake I'd have advised the same, I just suspect that from now on the leading tories will be like a bag full of cats.
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Yeah, quite possibly. Which is Cameron's doing, of course. He's willfully split the party between traditional and modern, on social matters.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
I don't think it's a story, really. There's nothing to stop him changing his mind, should he want to. It seems reasonably obvious that a guy who's had a tricky five years would feel any more than another five sounds an awful lot.
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Announcing you'll step down at a certain date and then going back on it is electoral suicide. Plenty in the Tories already don't want him there, if he stays in Downing Street this May and in five years time says he'd actually like another term, knives would be out all over the House persuading him to keep to his word. Even Teddy Roosevelt didn't pull it off and he was a popular leader, something Cameron really isn't.

Cheesy said:
They genuinely seem to think we're all just mindless and stupid. The "Vote SNP get Tory" line is blatantly nonsense because it's currently looking like votes for the SNP are going to result in them holding the balance of power. Not to mention that even if we vote for Labour, their chances of getting an actual majority seem incredibly slim.

They've also been caught out blatantly lying on more than one occasion. There was the shameful line about the party with the most seats automatically getting to form the government, and the contradictions they've made about the NHS pre/post-referendum. It's getting to the stage where I'd genuinely rather see the Tories ahead of Labour. Labour policies would generally appeal to me more, but I have absolutely no faith in anything the party say to indicate they'd actually follow through on any of their promises, or actually manage to stick to them.
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Did they actually say that, or did they say the party with the most seats gets the first chance of forming it? Because the latter statement is, by and large, the case. On the current polls the Tories wouldn't have enough support around the Commons to pull it off of course, but if voters in England start getting worried about these "SNP will hold the balance of power" (what was Salmond thinking, by the way??) stories and the Tories' polls tick up then it stands a better chance of happening. England isn't used to coalitions and the outrage in the right-wing press, should Miliband head a Labour-SNP alliance without Labour having the most MPs of any single party, will be deafening. Obviously they're going to be doing everything they can to lower the SNP vote.
 
Ubik said:
Announcing you'll step down at a certain date and then going back on it is electoral suicide. Plenty in the Tories already don't want him there, if he stays in Downing Street this May and in five years time says he'd actually like another term, knives would be out all over the House persuading him to keep to his word. Even Teddy Roosevelt didn't pull it off and he was a popular leader, something Cameron really isn't.
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I think you can name any bloody reason you like and make a case upon it as to why it's imperative that you stay on.

The party would care. I don't think the public would.
 
sun_tzu said:
Flashman is based on the character in the books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Flashman
In Hughes' book, Flashman (a relatively minor character) is portrayed as a notorious bully at Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Fraser decided to write Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier" experiencing many 19th-century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the British Army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady."[1] Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who often runs from danger in the novels. Nevertheless, through a combination of luck and cunning, he usually ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.[2]
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Ah, ok. The reference completely passed me by.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Charming.
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Wait that was a 'joke'? The guardian is on thin ice banging on about 'hedge fund owners' -presume they mean managers- being at the Tory fundraiser given Ed's big new backer.
 
Jippy said:
Wait that was a 'joke'? The guardian is on thin ice banging on about 'hedge fund owners' -presume they mean managers- being at the Tory fundraiser given Ed's big new backer.
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Jokes are pretty unsavoury when they're about the poor and you're a party seen to represent the well off.

I'm on sickness benefits. I can afford to go out once a month, at most. Despite the fact my parents do their best to help (for legal reasons, this does not happen).
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Jokes are pretty unsavoury when they're about the poor and you're a party seen to represent the well off.

I'm on sickness benefits. I can afford to go out once a month, at most. Despite the fact my parents do their best to help (for legal reasons, this does not happen).
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Yeah of course it's crass and insensitive. I was on the dole for bit after finishing my undergrad. Was shit and I was always skint.
 
The BBC's incessant questioning of politicians as to who they would deal with after an election is becoming quite tedious, when the answer is always the same 'we want to win but in any case we will have to wait for the results'. Lazy questioning.

Yeah, I know Cameron probably started it as a tactic, but it's long past it's sell-by date.
 
Ubik said:
Did they actually say that, or did they say the party with the most seats gets the first chance of forming it? Because the latter statement is, by and large, the case. On the current polls the Tories wouldn't have enough support around the Commons to pull it off of course, but if voters in England start getting worried about these "SNP will hold the balance of power" (what was Salmond thinking, by the way??) stories and the Tories' polls tick up then it stands a better chance of happening. England isn't used to coalitions and the outrage in the right-wing press, should Miliband head a Labour-SNP alliance without Labour having the most MPs of any single party, will be deafening. Obviously they're going to be doing everything they can to lower the SNP vote.
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It's often correct, since you'd largely expect the party with the biggest number of seats to automatically form the government, but it's not a complete guarantee, which is what Labour were largely saying until people began to point out the fact that it's an incorrect assumption.

Not to mention that their continued (failing) pressure alone against Scotland is beginning to become tiresome. Scotland has remained part of the UK. Seat by seat, we command no more power than any other area of the UK: a failure of Labour to command a majority would not just be the fault of Scotland not voting Labour, but a failure from them to command a majority across the entirety of the UK. They're not going on at people voting Lib Dem or Greens to vote Labour to stop the Tories to the same extent, for example.
 
Acole9 said:
Cameron is already getting ahead of himself by stating he will not stand for a third term as prime minister, he's not even won this time yet! Already talking up his successors one being bloody Boris Johnson, the man is a complete buffoon.
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Not really.

He's stopped any Cameron v Boris infighting stories for the entire next parliament...and for this election by saying he wont go for a third term and by name dropping Boris
 
Watching this kind of thing reminds me of a part of Dylan Moran's show Monster



@ Around 7:10 in...
 
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