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Which party will you be supporting?

Conservatives 49 21.21%
 
Labour 50 21.65%
 
Liberal Democrats 18 7.79%
 
UKIP 66 28.57%
 
Other 48 20.78%
 
Total:231
phinch1 said:
Ukip, I want change in this country, all the others have been in power and are only out for themselves, there all theifs


You want to change this country by voting for UKIP?

We will be turned in to a racist nation who will have no trade benefits with the EU, thus leading to a rapidly declining economy while Farage sits in the pub and drinks his troubles away.



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MikeRox said:
Cleary397 said:
Labour.
My main concern is the NHS, and the Conservatives are currently in the process of privatising despite what the british media is reporting.


You dont' want to vote Labour if you're concerned about the NHS. They have done more damage to the NHS in the last decade than the Tories could ever dream of. Plus they'd fuck up the economy so much that we'd no longer be able to run an NHS in any shape or form.

Bring back the Monster Raving Looney Party, they were the only logical choice :(

As much as it goes against everything I should believe in, the Tories are the only option that won't utterly destroy what's left of our country at the moment.

Really?! The Tories have only made things worse. Debt has almost doubled, the immigration policy, the health care policy, education policy etc all failed big time. They don't know what they want to do with the EU. 

Poverty has massively increased. I mean i don't remember seeing so many food banks or homeless people before 2010. 

Thanks to these tossers, i might not ever be able to pay off my university fees. The same with many others. 

The rich got a 5% tax cut while everyone else struggles on with austerity. Increasing tax free income to £10,000 a year was good but because of austerity it wasn't as beneficial as it should of been

The Olympics might have been the only good thing out of this government and that was by chance. 

I could go on but you should get the point. The Tories aren't as great as the media says they are. And Labour are no better. I would abstain if these were the only choices. 

Anyway, whoever the next government is. They need to be very careful with the NHS. Otherwise it might not exist. 70% of its already privately contracted. 



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I find the rise of UKIP to be quite remarkable.

Love him or hate him, you have to respect him. Nigel Farage is the John Cena of British Politics, without the backing of Vince McMahon (Murdoch, in this case).



                            

It's scary to see so many people vote UKIP



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Carl2291 said:
I find the rise of UKIP to be quite remarkable.

Love him or hate him, you have to respect him. Nigel Farage is the John Cena of British Politics, without the backing of Vince McMahon (Murdoch, in this case).

I can't believe you just (somewhat successfully) compared British politics to the WWE.

It shows how much of a jokeour politicians are at the moment.



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I actually have no clue other than NOT UKIP. The public seem to be looking at them as an alternative not realising they're just as useless as the idiots in power but with a bit of racism to boot.

But really, I don't have faith in any of them. They're all well on their way to ruining the country.



I am not British, and I cannot vote for the election. I think UKIP would be the lesser of evils if only they didn't have the racist stigma.

Sadly they do, so I am curious which is the next lesser evil?

See my knowledge I would focus on three key things.

Views on the EU (Has to be a negative view in my book, never been a fan of UK in the EU).
View on Northern England (Not Scotland), I hear Northern England can be rough. Largely ignored from what I hear, government rather focus on Scotland.
Views on Social-Economic policies. (Economically they can be conservative, but socially they have to be liberal.)



 

Cleary397 said:
MikeRox said:
Cleary397 said:
Labour.
My main concern is the NHS, and the Conservatives are currently in the process of privatising despite what the british media is reporting.


You dont' want to vote Labour if you're concerned about the NHS. They have done more damage to the NHS in the last decade than the Tories could ever dream of. Plus they'd fuck up the economy so much that we'd no longer be able to run an NHS in any shape or form.

Bring back the Monster Raving Looney Party, they were the only logical choice :(

As much as it goes against everything I should believe in, the Tories are the only option that won't utterly destroy what's left of our country at the moment.

Dont believe what mainstream UK media tells you about NHS.

Access to healthcare and speed of treatment improved significantly under the last labour government.


And is now crumbling under the burden of unaffordable PFI schemes which make Wonga loans look good value.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9640431/PFI-deals-crippling-the-NHS-with-1.5bn-of-handouts-needed-PAC-report.html

And I'm aware that the Conservatives also used PFI but Gordon Brown adored them because it didn't show as spending (which is how they make all those fancy charts showing spending looking more under control than it actually was), however it's the labour initiatives that are driving the Hospitals near me into the ground (we've lost services purely to keep another town's hospital viable and it's about to get a LOT worse for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS.

You want to see just how safe the NHS actually is in Labour's hands, look at the Welsh NHS which they have been fully in charge of throughout this parliament.

I'm sick of this constant rhetoric that Labour will save the NHS while the Tories are destroying it when it's an outright lie. We need a very serious national debate about what we're going to do to keep the NHS going and as long as the Teletubbies are going Laalaa with their heads in the sand about it, the worse it's going to be in the long term.

I don't believe what the mainstream media tells me. I know the simple economics that a contractual requirement that a £25.00 fee has to be paid directly to the owner of the hospital to replace every light bulb along with other ridiculous "service charges", on top of rent and interest charges is not good for the tax payer or the NHS. It was just a plain bad idea but they managed to keep things ticking over just long enough to be able to try and pin it all on the Tories.

I know 2010 was a long time ago. But I can't believe how quickly people have forgotten:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8688470.stm



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About racism in politics...

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Scoobes said:
I actually have no clue other than NOT UKIP. The public seem to be looking at them as an alternative not realising they're just as useless as the idiots in power but with a bit of racism to boot.

But really, I don't have faith in any of them. They're all well on their way to ruining the country.

UKIP have no policies beside immigration and people are falling for it. EU is far more beneficial than hurtful for our economy and most of our immgration issues come from outside the EU. Simple changes like having to pay into the ecomony for 2 years before you get any benefits or NHS cover would sort most of it. Not leaving the EU.



Hmm, pie.