British 2015 general election poll

[Dejanic]

Id vote ukip disillusioned with labour too weak doesn't represent working class only rich environmentalists

Because UKIP represents the working class with it's support for harsher spending cuts than the Tories, NHS privatisation, cuts to the welfare state, tax cuts for the wealthiest in society, etc.

[Atlanticatia]

Id vote ukip disillusioned with labour too weak doesn't represent working class only rich environmentalists

Because:
(1) Cutting the top rate of tax for people on six-figure incomes from 45p to 40p
(2) Supporting private health insurance over the NHS
(3) Cutting child benefit and welfare
(4) Supporting austerity
(5) Having a leader who was educated at an elite independent school and worked in the City in finance
(6) Opposing trade unions and workers' rights

are all totally representing working-class people..

[Mad hatters in jeans]

Id vote ukip disillusioned with labour too weak doesn't represent working class only rich environmentalists

Because:
(1) Cutting the top rate of tax for people on six-figure incomes from 45p to 40p
(2) Supporting private health insurance over the NHS
(3) Cutting child benefit and welfare
(4) Supporting austerity
(5) Having a leader who was educated at an elite independent school and worked in the City in finance
(6) Opposing trade unions and workers' rights

are all totally representing working-class people..

Yaaah, I really don't get why people here would want UKIP in.

[Dejanic]

Because:
(1) Cutting the top rate of tax for people on six-figure incomes from 45p to 40p
(2) Supporting private health insurance over the NHS
(3) Cutting child benefit and welfare
(4) Supporting austerity
(5) Having a leader who was educated at an elite independent school and worked in the City in finance
(6) Opposing trade unions and workers' rights

are all totally representing working-class people..

Yaaah, I really don't get why people here would want UKIP in.

Well, I get why rich people would.

[Conscentia]

Because:
(1) Cutting the top rate of tax for people on six-figure incomes from 45p to 40p
(2) Supporting private health insurance over the NHS
(3) Cutting child benefit and welfare
(4) Supporting austerity
(5) Having a leader who was educated at an elite independent school and worked in the City in finance
(6) Opposing trade unions and workers' rights

are all totally representing working-class people..

Yaaah, I really don't get why people here would want UKIP in.

By "here" do you mean the UK, or NSG?

[British Home Counties]

Kiss my A in GCSE English and Literature then.

I have no idea what you're saying and at this point I don't really care. Can't see how Lithuania is relevant here.

A-level beats your GCSE.

I haven't even finished them yet.

[Olivaero]

Similarities between the Nazis and UKIP.

Both exploit left wing and right wing fears to gain support.
Both have oddly left/right wing quotes which seem to contradict each other (Hitler wanting Socialism, and then later on proudly supporting big business and Capitalism. Farage wanting to privatise the NHS, and then wanting to triple the funding and out left wing Labour)
Both support the militarisation of society. (40 percent increase in Military spending Mr Farage?)
Both movements are commonly found in Austrian Beer Halls/Kent Pubs.
Both hate the Poles.
Both movements attempt/attempted to strike fear into the hearts of their citizens, claiming there was/is going to be an impending Communist revolution/EU takeover/federalization attempt.
Both groups blame political correctness for all that is wrong with society.
Both groups find vunerable groups to blame societies problems on. (The Jews/Disabled/Muslims).

Anymore?

Both have a charismatic leader and both are/were basically tied to that leaders whims. UKIP is synonymous with Farage's (professed) views at this point, just ike NASDAP eventually became about the whims of Hitler. Caesarism is alive and well in the hearts of a lot of UKIP voters.

[Pesda]

How dare the Scots protect the interests of people in Scotland!

Yeah, by sabotaging UK wide legislation and changing it to specifically benefit the people of Scotland only, when most of the tax money that will fund this legislation will actually come from London. Because that won't lead to a Tory government for the next 500 years right?

If protecting the interest of Scotland is so harmul to the rest of the UK, then maybe they shouldn't be in the same state after all?
Of course in reality protecting the interest of Scotland, or as you call it, " sabotaging UK wide legislation" is actually a good thing for Wales and England too, since it would lead to increases in public spending not austerity, peace not expensive weapons of mass destruction, and devolution not Westminster rule.

[Dejanic]

Yeah, by sabotaging UK wide legislation and changing it to specifically benefit the people of Scotland only, when most of the tax money that will fund this legislation will actually come from London. Because that won't lead to a Tory government for the next 500 years right?

If protecting the interest of Scotland is so harmul to the rest of the UK, then maybe they shouldn't be in the same state after all?
Of course protecting the interest of Scotland, or as you call it, " sabotaging UK wide legislation" is actually a good thing for Wales and England too, since it would lead to increases in public spending not austerity, peace not expensive weapons of mass destruction, and devolution not Westminster rule.

Or in reality, electoral doom for the Labour party in England, as they're seen bending over backwards for a party that wants to break up Britain. And then 5 years of Cameron and 10+ of Boris once shiny retires to his comfy home in Witney.

I've already started applying for Croatian duel citizenship so I'll be able to flee to an EU nation once Britain votes YES in the referendum and Boris Farage leads this country to the gutters. Have fun.

[Pesda]

You say that, but I reckon we're going to end up with another conservative-led government come May.

Whether Cameron's "popularity" or lack thereof is responsible will be neither here nor there - he'll still be there.

It's looking more labour-SNP right now. The tories could join the lib dems, the DUP and UKIP and still be short of the 326.

Labour and SNP comes closer, but still not on the magic number.

If current polls actually happen in may then Labour + SNP + SDLP + Plaid Cymru + Green will definitely reach the magic number.

[Pesda]

If protecting the interest of Scotland is so harmul to the rest of the UK, then maybe they shouldn't be in the same state after all?
Of course protecting the interest of Scotland, or as you call it, " sabotaging UK wide legislation" is actually a good thing for Wales and England too, since it would lead to increases in public spending not austerity, peace not expensive weapons of mass destruction, and devolution not Westminster rule.

Or in reality, electoral doom for the Labour party in England, as they're seen bending over backwards for a party that wants to break up Britain. And then 5 years of Cameron and 10+ of Boris once shiny retires to his comfy home in Witney.

I've already started applying for Croatian duel citizenship so I'll be able to flee to an EU nation once Britain votes YES in the referendum and Boris Farage leads this country to the gutters. Have fun.

Interesting it seems that our version of "I'm moving to Canada if the other guy wins " is "I'm moving to Croatia."
But I am confused why adopting left wing policies will make people not vote Labour. After all aren't most labour voters hoping for more left wing policies than the tories offer? In fact they could gain a few voters from the greens who would no longer think that Labour was Blairite.

[Dejanic]

Or in reality, electoral doom for the Labour party in England, as they're seen bending over backwards for a party that wants to break up Britain. And then 5 years of Cameron and 10+ of Boris once shiny retires to his comfy home in Witney.

I've already started applying for Croatian duel citizenship so I'll be able to flee to an EU nation once Britain votes YES in the referendum and Boris Farage leads this country to the gutters. Have fun.

Interesting it seems that our version of "I'm moving to Canada if the other guy wins " is "I'm moving to Croatia."
But I am confused why adopting left wing policies will make people not vote Labour. After all aren't most labour voters hoping for more left wing policies than the tories offer? In fact they could gain a few voters from the greens who would no longer think that Labour was Blairite.

I wouldn't move to Croatia, I'd simply claim the duel citizenship I'm eligible, and use it to move to a sane European nation like Germany, or Denmark, since knowing how idiotic Britain is sometimes, we're going to leave the EU and isolate ourselves anyway. I'm lucky I have a way out, other poor sods are going to be stuck here.

It isn't the adoption of left wing policies that will make people not vote Labour, I'm fine with that, many would be fine with that. It's bending over backwards to a party (the SNP) which aren't exactly liked by the average English person, and are seen as the party that wants to break up Britain. Cameron is already playing up fears by claiming if you vote Labour, you'll get Salmond. And Miliband has been forced to play down such claims. If Labour went into a dodgy minority government with SNP support, it would harm Labours support base massively in England, which would basically make them unelectable.

A rainbow coalition of Labour + SNP + SDLP + Plaid Cymru + Green sounds cute in theory, but you gotta understand how much ammunition the Tories would get. If such a coaltion happened, it would be extremely unstable, and we'd get to a situation where the Tories would be the only party capable of achieving a majority.

Labour basically needs to get a majority (very unlikely) or go into a coalition with the Libs (less unlikely, but still questionable) a Labour minority with SNP support wouldn't last and wouldn't have the faith of the electorate.

[Pesda]

Interesting it seems that our version of "I'm moving to Canada if the other guy wins " is "I'm moving to Croatia."
But I am confused why adopting left wing policies will make people not vote Labour. After all aren't most labour voters hoping for more left wing policies than the tories offer? In fact they could gain a few voters from the greens who would no longer think that Labour was Blairite.

I wouldn't move to Croatia, I'd simply claim the duel citizenship I'm eligible, and use it to move to a sane European nation like Germany, or Denmark, since knowing how idiotic Britain is sometimes, we're going to leave the EU and isolate ourselves anyway. I'm lucky I have a way out, other poor sods are going to be stuck here.

It isn't the adoption of left wing policies that will make people not vote Labour, I'm fine with that, many would be fine with that. It's bending over backwards to a party (the SNP) which aren't exactly liked by the average English person, and are seen as the party that wants to break up Britain. Cameron is already playing up fears by claiming if you vote Labour, you'll get Salmond. And Miliband has been forced to play down such claims. If Labour went into a dodgy minority government with SNP support, it would harm Labours support base massively in England, which would basically make them unelectable.

A rainbow coalition of Labour + SNP + SDLP + Plaid Cymru + Green sounds cute in theory, but you gotta understand how much ammunition the Tories would get. If such a coaltion happened, it would be extremely unstable, and we'd get to a situation where the Tories would be the only party capable of achieving a majority.

Labour basically needs to get a majority (very unlikely) or go into a coalition with the Libs (less unlikely, but still questionable) a Labour minority with SNP support wouldn't last and wouldn't have the faith of the electorate.

Then the obvious solution for Labour is to make the left wing policies look like their policies that they would have anyway. Sadly I don't think that Ed Miliband has the balls (I'm trying to avoid an Ed Balls pun ) to do that cause he fears ending up like Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock. The truth is Labour will only implement good policies if we force them to. It is then up to Labour how they spin it -you can't blame the left wing parties that Labour can't play politics effectively.

[Salandriagado]

Kiss my A in GCSE English and Literature then.

jesus christ did you really just say that

It's particularly funny because there is no "GCSE English and Literature". There's an "GCSE English Literature". Just a hint: if you want to brag about your qualifications, at least get the titles right. It should also be noted that the English Literature GCSE is about literary analysis, not grammar/writing quality/etc. - you want the English Language GCSE for that, which BHC didn't provide his grade for, though I'm almost certain that he's taken it.

[Lunas Legion]

jesus christ did you really just say that

It's particularly funny because there is no "GCSE English and Literature". There's an "GCSE English Literature". Just a hint: if you want to brag about your qualifications, at least get the titles right. It should also be noted that the English Literature GCSE is about literary analysis, not grammar/writing quality/etc. - you want the English Language GCSE for that, which BHC didn't provide his grade for, though I'm almost certain that he's taken it.

And those can be utter bullcrap anyway, depends on exam boards and that year's boundaries. An A one year could be a B or C the next.

[British Home Counties]

jesus christ did you really just say that

It's particularly funny because there is no "GCSE English and Literature". There's an "GCSE English Literature". Just a hint: if you want to brag about your qualifications, at least get the titles right. It should also be noted that the English Literature GCSE is about literary analysis, not grammar/writing quality/etc. - you want the English Language GCSE for that, which BHC didn't provide his grade for, though I'm almost certain that he's taken it.

Edexcel English Language and Edexcel English Literature. Quit the pedantics. I'm not bragging, it was a reply to a heavily retarded post.

[Mesrane]

Coming on here for the first time . . . how is it that UKIP actually won the poll, on NS?

[Britanno]

Coming on here for the first time . . . how is it that UKIP actually won the poll, on NS?

Puppets.

[Conscentia]

Coming on here for the first time . . . how is it that UKIP actually won the poll, on NS?

Won? It's got less than a quarter of the votes. It's just the largest percentage of the votes.
None of the parties have won - we've got ourselves another coalition government on NS.

It has the largest percentage because a lot of people on NS are eurosceptics.

Coming on here for the first time . . . how is it that UKIP actually won the poll, on NS?

Puppets.

Perhaps also this.

[The Liberated Territories]

I am from the future.

UKIP England invades Poland in the year 2039.

[Liberty and Linguistics]

I am from the future.

UKIP England invades Poland in the year 2039.

UKIP England, eh? So, Scotland does finally become independent.

[The Nihilistic view]

I am from the future.

UKIP England invades Poland in the year 2039.

UKIP England, eh? So, Scotland does finally become independent.

No it's been absorbed and fully annexed into England.

[British Home Counties]

I am from the future.

UKIP England invades Poland in the year 2039.

Is that before or after Poland into space?

[Caltarania]

Similarities between the Nazis and UKIP.

Both exploit left wing and right wing fears to gain support.
Both have oddly left/right wing quotes which seem to contradict each other (Hitler wanting Socialism, and then later on proudly supporting big business and Capitalism. Farage wanting to privatise the NHS, and then wanting to triple the funding and out left wing Labour)
Both support the militarisation of society. (40 percent increase in Military spending Mr Farage?)
Both movements are commonly found in Austrian Beer Halls/Kent Pubs.
Both hate the Poles.
Both movements attempt/attempted to strike fear into the hearts of their citizens, claiming there was/is going to be an impending Communist revolution/EU takeover/federalization attempt.
Both groups blame political correctness for all that is wrong with society.
Both groups find vunerable groups to blame societies problems on. (The Jews/Disabled/Muslims).

Anymore?

We just need Farage to get arrested with a lax sentence and write a book called 'My Struggle'.

[Imperializt Russia]

I am from the future.

UKIP England invades Poland in the year 2039.

Is that before or after Poland into space?

Before.

UKIP's science funding probably won't leave us in a great position to follow.