UK General Election 2010

It’s going to be no big surprise (assuming no big upsets) in 2010 when either MP Gordon Brown (Labour) or MP David Cameron (Conservative) remains or becomes Prime Minister for the next parliamentary session.

Prime Minister Polls

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Mr Speaker, today’s Pre-Budget Report takes place at a critical time for our economy and for our country.

Governments across the world have taken co-ordinated steps to deal with the biggest financial crisis for over half a century.

In the UK, our action has reduced the impact of this downturn on families and businesses.

But there is still uncertainty.

So the task today is to secure the recovery and promote long-term growth.

To promote growth, we need to invest in the dynamic sectors of the future – in digital, bio and low-carbon technology.

I will announce measures that will support these industries.

Found an interesting article on the BBC website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/7949104.stm from the Daily Politics show back in March 2009.

A poll was conducted with just over 1,000 eligible voters asking the following questions with the following answers.

1. The current economic crisis has made me more likely to support Britain joining the Euro
Agree- 31% : Disagree- 64%

2. Britain benefits overall from membership of the European Union in terms of jobs and trade
Agree- 44% : Disagree- 51%

3. Britain should leave the EU but maintain close trading links
Agree- 55% : Disagree- 41%

4. The British people should decide in a vote before Britain transfers any further power to the European Union
Agree- 84% : Disagree- 13%

A commenter on the UK General Election 2010 site gave me a good idea for a poll, the commenter suggested a good way to choose a political party to vote for in the next general election is list the 3 most important political issues to YOU, then go look at the various political parties polices and see which matches what you consider most important.

By doing this in theory you choose the political party to vote for that has the same political ideals as you.

I’ve compiled a list of 41 political issues based mostly on policies published by the Labour party, Conservative party and Liberal Democrat party. I added a few not listed as policies like Government Debt, MP Expenses and Government Corruption (I wonder why the three main parties have no policies on MP expenses!).

Below is a list of 50 Labour party achievements, the list used to be on the Labour party website, but has been deleted: there’s still links within the Labour party website to the article titled Labour’s top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997.

My best guess for the article being removed is because of the credit crunch and global recessions, some of the items in the list are no longer applicable! From a public relations perspective might have been a better idea to edit the list to make it accurate, rather than delete it. Still, I think the 50 Labour party achievements list is worthy of debate, it’s not the Labour parties fault per se for the global downturn.

I’ve removed the Political Parties News from this section of the UK General Election 2010 site, it was taking up valuable space (on the menus) and wasn’t generating much interest (just 11 comments). I moved the Political Parties News to another section UK General Election 2010 Party Political News for anyone wanting to read the main UK political parties news in one place.

Official Political News Sources

I’m a little concerned at the discrepancies between the amount of news published by the Labour Party relative to the Conservative and Liberal Democrats. Looking through their news sections I see these numbers of news articles:

I’ve read that a significant number of NHS nurses and other NHS health workers were not born in the UK. I couldn’t find an accurate statistic, but I’m sure it’s a significant number based on various news articles and reports I’ve read (if I find the statistics I’ll update this post).

What happens if we halt immigration today as the BNP and UKIP pledge in their recent election manifestos, the BNP even go one step further and want to ‘persuade’ foreigners (through financial reward) to leave?

We get a shortage of trained nurses and other health professionals in NHS hospitals and we all suffer.

This websites 2010 General Election Poll has received over 1,000 votes for the BNP (British National Party) and hundreds of supporting comments from BNP supporters who argue (amongst other things) that the BNP are no longer (or has never been) a racist political party.

That sort of discussion isn’t really what I created the general election poll page for, so hoping to bring that sort of debate to this page.

So open question to all, are the BNP Racists?

And what the hell, lets have a poll :-)

British National Party Racism Poll