The Labour Party won the 2005 UK general election with 35.3% of the popular British vote. The Conservative Party was just a few points behind with points behind at 32.3% of the popular vote, but because of the first past the post voting system, the Labour Party had a significant majority with 356 parliamentary seats […]
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After a general conversation with pals in my local, I wondered that if someone was to change their name by deed poll to “No of the above”; there is quite a good chance that they be the next PM?
joe
Hi all, I’m 33 and for the first time I’m taking an active interest in our government. I dont know who to vote for – my initial feelings are that they all make promises that they dont go on to deliver. If i’ve read it right, i’m amazed by the stats, i’m sure i read on one post that only 38% voted in the last election??? I’ve started reading around the manifestos but not really seeing much that I like at the moment. I’ve worked full time since i was 17, never claimed any benefits, studied part time (and paid for it myself) and gained a professional qualification in an attempt to better myself. Would love to have a family but it’s looking less and less likely to happen with the ridiculous cost of housing, fuel, general living, childcare etc etc. I dont believe in sponging off the state, despite the fact I, and many other others like myself have paid into it predominantly for the benefit of others. I’m looking for a party who will look after hard working people-and who will be fair. I’m already afraid that I’m living in a dream world. I took part in the vote above – I voted None of the above.
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A vote is a privilege and should be used but I can see why people are undecided given all the false promises and sleaze about our members of parliament.
Saying that your vote is your time to say what you think and it is time that MPs started to realise that it is ‘the voters’ who put them there in the first place.
I will be using mine and hoping for a hung parliament.
One thing that is really bugging me is the number of representatives in this Government who are from the House of Lords (a non-elected institution) which means we didn’t have any say in putting them there!
One man/woman one vote :-)
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I voted “Other Political Party”, that meaning the BNP in my case. It would be nice to have that choice, but I guess thats down to who’s running the shows here on this site.
You really would have thought considering the way things are going in the UK, with all that has happened recently, and you know what I’m talking about, that the BNP choice would be there. I mean we are now looking at the first BNP MPs ever in the UK this year, and it will happen, don’t fool yourselves it wont!
The web-master here might have give people that option just to see where it would go you know, even out of idle curiosity, but oh no. We get Plaid Cymru, Green Party and UKIP, LOL!
See you on the other-side.
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The poll used to have the BNP as an option, unfortunately there was active online campaigning (as if the BNP could have over 15% of the vote in the real world) and some cheating on the part of BNP supporters, (over 800 votes cheated) so removed the option and pushed the BNP votes to Other Political Parties.
I remove BNP discussions from this page as in the past they have taken over without actually discussing anything! If a commenter starts a discussion just about the BNP here it gets deleted. If you want to discuss the BNP please keep it on the BNP pages, there’s plenty of them under https://general-election-2010.co.uk/votes/bnp-policies/ with one of the pages almost at 1,500 comments! So BNP discussion is allowed here, but not on this one page, this is for general discussion and every so often I move a lot of comments off this page as will (so if anyone talks about Labour and the NHS will move it to the relevant page eventually).
Before making comments on the rights and wrongs of removing the BNP as a voting option see and keep the discussion on that page or one of the BNP pages (if you don’t it will be deleted):
If you start calling me a traitor or some other retarded BNP conspiracy, you’ll might have your comment deleted as this site is not about the BNP and me.
I expect the BNP to be below 5% of the popular vote and gain no MPs again. If it turns out after the general election the BNP do gain half a dozen or more MPs and have 15% of the popular vote I’ll accept I was wrong.
David
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i would’nt worry david i dont suppose the views of the bnp written here will make people vote for them, most people have already decided the way they will vote, but its nice to have a discussion about the way we feel, thats more than we are allowed to do regarding the running of our country as soon it may be run from brussels.
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I don’t have a problem with BNP policies being discussed here, but when I didn’t moderate BNP commenter’s it completely took over the site with what can only be described as BNP trash the Lib/Lab/Con propaganda!
There was no real discussion, if you’ve been reading this site for a awhile you may have noticed I’ve started probably over a dozen comment threads on the BNP policy to link military national service to the right to vote (no military service = no right to vote under the BNP!!!) and so far no BNP commenter has taken up the challenge to discuss that BNP pledge: it’s a pledge from the 2005 BNP general election manifesto since the BNP haven’t published a 2010 manifest yet. Closest to a debate is one commenter said he thinks the pledge was removed in 2005, but provided no evidence to support that view. Even BNP candidates and organisers who have commented here refuse to discuss BNP policy!!
The vast majority of BNP commenter’s concentrate on trashing Britain as it is today and not discussing the rights and wrongs of BNP policy and where they would take the country.
I don’t disagree with everything the BNP wants to do, there’s a few good ideas, but they tend to take everything to the extreme rather than a moderate response. Take BNP immigration policy, a moderate policy would be to control immigration, make immigration work for Britain (we do have skills shortages). The BNP response to the immigration problems (and there are problems) is completely stop immigration with no date to reinstate controlled immigration, it’s throwing the baby out with the bath water.
UKIP’s immigration policy is more moderate, it’s still more strict than I like with a 5 year stop to immigration, but at least it’s realistic. I can understand if a new party came into power completely stopping immigration while that party got it’s new immigration legislation etc… through parliament (I could understand stopping immigration for 2 years, 5 years is too long).
On immigration I like where Labour are going, Australian points based system that makes immigration works for Britain, it’s a real shame they didn’t bring it in much sooner. Labour has made some big mistakes on immigration, but it’s getting better.
There are 18 pages on BNP policy under https://general-election-2010.co.uk/votes/bnp-policies/ and they are some of the most commented pages on the site, so the BNP supporters certainly get the opportunity to have their say on this website. It’s this ONE general election poll page I don’t want filled with BNP propaganda.
To prove my point that the BNP is openly discussed here paste this line into a Google search:
site:https://general-election-2010.co.uk/ BNP
This will list every page that the BNP is mentioned on this website.
BNP 2440 pages found.
Now replace BNP with Labour etc…
Labour 2390 pages found.
Conservative 2590 pages found.
Liberal Democrat 1240 pages found.
UKIP 1630 pages found.
Green 1800 pages found.
Gordon Brown 1440 pages found.
David Cameron 2090 pages found.
Nick Clegg 1030 pages found.
Pearson 45 pages found.
Caroline Lucas 65 pages found.
Nick Griffin 359 pages found.
To put it into perspective a search for other words:
Cannabis 54 pages found.
Hung Parliament 427 pages found.
Poll 1930 pages found.
Islamification 453 pages found.
Immigration 1110 pages found.
This search:
site:https://general-election-2010.co.uk/
Tells us how many pages (in total) are indexed by Google and it’s currently 2,820 pages.
Only 380 pages on this site don’t mention the BNP! Only the Conservatives as a party are mentioned more than the BNP on my site.
David
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I will be voting for UKIP. They have a range of extremely sensible policies to deal with the terrible problems we have in this country after 13 years of destructive and divisive New Labour rule. They stand for individual liberty and the restoration of national democracy. But above all, they have the honesty to say that we cannot begin to sort our problems out until we get back control of our own affairs from the unaccountable and undemocratic EU tyranny. No other decent party has a clear policy to leave the EU, so no other party will get my vote.
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I VOTED CONSERVATIVE. AS THE POSTERS SAY WE CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.STRIKES WILL BE RIFE AND EVERYTHING WILL JUST GRIND TO A HALT AS IT DID PREVIOUSLY-HISTORY HAS A HABIT OF REPEATING ITSELF. I ALSO FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD BE MADE TO VOTE(AS IN AUSTRALIA)EVEN IF IT IS NONE OF THE ABOVE.
VOTING UKIP OR BNP, IS A WASTED VOTE AS NEITHER OF THESE TWO, HAVE ANY REAL POLICIES ON NORMAL MATTERS.
HUNG PARLIAMENTS NEVER WORK FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME EXCEPT IN TIMES OF WAR. THE CONSENTING PARTIES WILL ONLY WORK TOGETHER AS LONG AS IT SUITS THEM.
SO IF THERE IS A HUNG PARLIAMENT, NOTHING WILL BE DONE TO SORT OUT THE MESS WE ARE IN,WITHIN 6 MONTHS THERE WILL HAVE TO BE ANOTHER ELECTION, AND ONLY WHEN THERE IS A CLEAR MANDATE BY THE ELECTORATE WILL ACTION BE ABLE TO BE TAKEN.
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Well its conservative for me because of two main reasons.
The economy. The Tories have the full backing of the business community which has been shown recently. At the same time, the business community has nothing but contempt for Labour who prefer an over bloated public sector.
The Keynesian economics that both Labour & the Lib Dems run, has been shown to be nothing but a total car crash. This country deserves alot more than limping along at a snails pace.
The other issue though is defence, more importantly armed forces currently engaged in armed conflict. I cannot possibly vote for a party like Labour, who is responsible for a good friend of mine now having a prosthetic limb, just because the government would not provide either helicopter’s or armoured vehicle’s in a place that they are vitally needed
As far as I am concerned, on that alone, anyone who votes for Labour now or previously in 2005 should be totally and utterly ashamed of themselves.
That party and Gordon Brown make me feel sick.
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