PH poll of polls - General Election 2015

[McWigglebum4th]

mcgandalf said:

frank hovis said:

Cons for me
Although think with me a waste of a vote here in Gordon with that utter G#t Salmond looking like a shoe in

You really should vote Lib Dem/Christine Jardine. No matter what you think of her - and, speaking as a die-hard Conservative, she is pretty decent as far as the Libs go - she really is our only hope of preventing that utter G#t Salmond being elected to Westminster.

THIS

as your best chance of seeing the tories in power is to vote lib dem

[Hub]

Surprised at 34% actually intending to vote UKIP (or not on this forum I suppose!) - Vote UKIP, get Labour?

[croyde]

If you want UKIP vote Tory. UKIP will get it's chance in 10 years and hopefully Labour will have gone by then

Seriously, giving parties only 5 years to try and get things right is not long enough and to keep changing parties just messes everything up. Labour had it's long stretch and didn't do well so time to give the current mob another go especially as I think they have managed to start turning things around.

Unless that was just luck and the economy just goes up and down regardless of what our leaders do.

[trashbat]

Guam said:

There is a school of thought in economic circles that the best thing a government can do for an economy is nothing and let markets sort themselves out.

How do you feel that would have worked with regard to the banking crisis? And I don't just mean in reaction - I would argue that doing nothing initiated it in the first place.

[trashbat]

Guam said:

Completely the other way around intervention in the US housing market by US government was the root cause, the need to rescue the banks can be argued resulted from governments changing regulations allowing Banks to increase their exposure

That's a beautiful bit of doublethink - it was intervention that allowed them to do whatever they liked! Haha!

Guam said:

once again some would argue Banks like any business should be allowed to fail and that consumers need to be aware of that.
Emergency legislation to prevent a run due to lack of liquidity of banks (long term debt positions) is acceptable to even the economists that suggest governments should adopt a hands off approach as you are responding to control panic (the same as putting out a fire in essence).

You can be nuanced about it, but you can't have both. You either have a 'let it burn naturally' approach, which might mean idly watching your own house go up, or you're an interventionist.

[Digga]

Guam said:

There is a school of thought in economic circles that the best thing a government can do for an economy is nothing and let markets sort themselves out.

There is also (highly apt for government interference and legislation) the law of unintended consequences.

Here's one classic example:
Chase vehicle CO2 emissions down by taxation; increase diesel particulate pollution.

[frank hovis]

I may have do the tatical vote and go lib dum just to batter slimy salmond as much as possible

[Digga]

frank hovis said:

batter slimy salmond as much as possible

Never a bad thing. A relative has had dealings with the man and he sounds positively unctuous.

O/T it's not a very nice thing to do a poo in someone's taxi.

[DMN]

I live in a Lib Dem - Tory marginal, so I'll be voting as I did in 2010 for the Lib-Dem in a hope of getting the homophobic sitting Tory ousted.

[Nick Grant]

No idea where this is going to end up... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_(UK_Parliame...

[frank hovis]

Digga said:

ever a bad thing. A relative has had dealings with the man and he sounds positively unctuous.

O/T it's not a very nice thing to do a poo in someone's taxi.

Indeed but he did get a good tip 😀

[Digga]

frank hovis said:

Digga said:

ever a bad thing. A relative has had dealings with the man and he sounds positively unctuous.

O/T it's not a very nice thing to do a poo in someone's taxi.

Indeed but he did get a good tip ??

An all time favourite.

[Magog]

Digga said:

frank hovis said:

batter slimy salmond as much as possible

Never a bad thing. A relative has had dealings with the man and he sounds positively unctuous.

O/T it's not a very nice thing to do a poo in someone's taxi.

Your relative had the SNP's number two in their taxi?

[HoHoHo]

Hub said:

Surprised at 34% actually intending to vote UKIP (or not on this forum I suppose!) - Vote UKIP, get Labour?

I thought that - protest votes?

[BlackLabel]

HoHoHo said:

Hub said:

Surprised at 34% actually intending to vote UKIP (or not on this forum I suppose!) - Vote UKIP, get Labour?

I thought that - protest votes?

Things haven't changed much on here this year but they have changed significantly from last year.

Here are some previous PH polls:

In 2009:



April 2014:



Feb 2015:



4 weeks ago:

[trashbat]

5% BNP, joyful.

Hopefully they've all since died of horrible manglement.

[dandarez]

I'm going to vote Tory.

I'm a fibber.


















nah, I'm a kipper.

VOTE UKIP

[HoHoHo]

Bump to get some up-to-date votes

[Fort Jefferson]

My best case result would be Conservative UKIP coalition.

My worst, would be Labour and the Scottish Racist Party.

[MarkRSi]

McWigglebum4th said:

Rick_1138 said:

Marginal Scottish seat, so Lib Dem as closest challenge to SNP\Salmond. Actually quite saddened to see the polls up here so massively in favour of the SNP, when all they want to do is make money for themselves, put us deeper in debt and give the feckless some free money.

I am voting tory just to try and defeat those utter s in the SNP

look here and see who is your best bet to beat those un-democratic pieces of putrid dog vomit

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2015/03/aberdeenshire...

Me and Rick are in the Gordon area, and as Rick says the polls suggest only the lib dems can outvote the SNP/Salmond

TBH I don't mind the lib dems but (a) all their propaganda/spam I've received is all about beating/slagging off the SNP/other parties rather than saying what they'll do for local area and (b) I'd rather vote Tory/UKIP