Can anybody explain

[anonymous-user]

How the Feck did Winky get so many votes after his track record??

I was expecting more gains from the Libs at Labours expense.

[FourWheelDrift]

Look where the votes are, the Labour heartlands of inner cities and the band of red across the North. They would vote for a steaming turd if it was the Labour leader (that is another steaming turd, not the current one). They have been brainwashed by their parents/grandparents and will always vote Labour.

[Asterix]

Public sector workers, Workshy and a whole bunch of the electorate that have grown up in a properous Britain and honestly believe that it was down to Blair & Brown and that the recession was purely 'Global'.

[V8mate]

Just about everyone on any kind of benefit plus just about everyone who works in the public sector is quite a chunk of the electorate!

[anonymous-user]

Asterix said:

Public sector workers, Workshy and a whole bunch of the electorate that have grown up in a properous Britain and honestly believe that it was down to Blair & Brown and that the recession was purely 'Global'.

Exactly, the daft s. This country deserves to fail & fail big. Maybe then they will pull their heads out of their arses and maybe, just mabe, get a job.

[JB!]

if you look at the England-only map on the beeb, Conservatives are 100 seats up on Labour...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/result...

Edited by JB! on Friday 7th May 14:33

[mattviatura]

I've just copied my own response from another thread into this one....

There are as far as I can make out three main types of Labour voter.

1) The genuinely thick, "I've always voted Labour because my dad did and his dad before him and they are the party for the working man and Thatcher took our school milk".

2) The benefit scum and public sector.

3) The West London wkers (not geographically confined to West London, I was talking to one last night). Guardian reading aholes who formed their opinions in sixth form and can afford to have principles because they have largely been unaffected by the havoc wreaked over the last thirteen years.

The Conservatives need to learn to market themselves properly to group (1) above.

Edited by mattviatura on Friday 7th May 14:34

[Scooby72]

I don't think Clegg did anything fundamentally wrong, it just proves that the TV debates wer just alot of hot air and didn't really affect the result.

I think once people actually got in the booths, they realised a vote for Lib Dems was a wasted vote, and jumped to one side or the other, either Lab to keep Cons out, or Con to get Lab out.

What I'm amazed about is the accuracy of the exit polls, released such a short time after the polling stations closed & before ANY real results had come in !!

[anonymous-user]

Asterix said:

Public sector workers, Workshy and a whole bunch of the electorate that have grown up in a properous Britain and honestly believe that it was down to Blair & Brown and that the recession was purely 'Global'.

Agreed a few i've talked held this view, when questioned on Europe, stealth taxes, immigration, and the general deceipt and theiving by Labour, i was met with a vacuous gaze

[Sheets Tabuer]

Not wanting to get too deep into the ethnic vote but we have had a few friends around with huge houses and their own businesses who voted labour because they said the cons hate immigrants.

I got fed up arguing with them.

[Robatr0n]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Not wanting to get too deep into the ethnic vote but we have had a few friends around with huge houses and their own businesses who voted labour because they said the cons hate immigrants.

I got fed up arguing with them.

No offense but they sound like fecking retards.

I'm fairly certain that most business owners, especially small ones, have been trying to get rid of this Labour mob for the past 2 elections so for them to vote based purely on a very clouded view, that makes them special.

[TEKNOPUG]

JB! said:

if you look at the England-only map on the beeb, Conservatives are 100 seats up on Labour...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/result...

Edited by JB! on Friday 7th May 14:33

The sooner we dump the colonies, the better!

[Oakey]

mattviatura said:

I've just copied my own response from another thread into this one....

There are as far as I can make out three main types of Labour voter.

1) The genuinely thick, "I've always voted Labour because my dad did and his dad before him and they are the party for the working man and Thatcher took our school milk".

2) The benefit scum and public sector.

3) The West London wkers (not geographically confined to West London, I was talking to one last night). Guardian reading aholes who formed their opinions in sixth form and can afford to have principles because they have largely been unaffected by the havoc wreaked over the last thirteen years.

The Conservatives need to learn to market themselves properly to group (1) above.

Edited by mattviatura on Friday 7th May 14:34

God I'm fed up of hearing that.

If you wanted proof they're not the party for the working man you only need to watch C4's Tower Block of Commons where the Labour MP, Autin Mitchell, refused to stay at the homes of any of the people featured, insisted on being provided with his own flat and would only do it if his wife tagged along.

[curlie467]

I am from cheshire, where we have a conservative stronghold but i was truly surprised by the amount who were continuing to vote labour. Like people have said, its like having a dispute with a brick wall, their parents voted labour so they must etc etc
For so long now, all i have heard is how we must get this government out as they have ruined everything.
Now when we get the chance, so many people must have bottled out, particularly i think many stubborn old buggers and young ones who honestly havent got a sodding clue.