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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!).
With there being 41 political issues below, made sense to choose the top 5, rather than top 3 issues.
Please choose up to 5 (you can choose less) of the most important political issues to YOU. These should be the reasons you’d vote for a political party at the next general election.
Loading ...You can find the main political parties policies including the option to comment and debate on them on this website under:
BNP Policies : Conservative Policies : Green Policies : Labour Policies : Liberal Democrats Policies : UKIP Policies
Feel free to discuss your main political issues and others choices below.
David
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If anyone thinks I’ve missed a serious issue let me know, I think I’ve covered most of the important issues.
David
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The threat of Political Islamism/ Islamification of Britain and the West?
Could come under religious issues, though I think that a little too broad, it could relate to Ulster, abortion, gay weddings and so on.
I personally don’t care about any of these “religious issues”, but I do care about and oppose the growing strength of political Islamism in the UK and the West in general.
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Fair enough, Islamification of Britain added.
The poll plugin doesn’t allow resorting of answers, so new poll items are added at the bottom not alphabetically like the rest.
David
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About 60% of the electorate today have a top
concern for the economy.
30% (remote 2nd) top concerned about is unemployment.
Immigration policy seems to be dropping
with about 25% of the people saying it is their top
concern. (this fact I have taken into account for my BNP predictions here)
Based on my current analysis of the trends and several opinion polls, if a general election were held now the approximate results in seats would be:
CON…. 375
LAB…. 180
LIB…. 50
SNP/PC..11
others..30
(less the deputy speaker and Sinn Fein)
giving a conservative majority of 167 seats
It’s hard to fathom the BNP result because I don’t
know yet how many candidates they can muster to
contest the seats.
But my best guess is about 200 of which we are likely to win 2 seats in the North West.
The real election Day targets are of course vulnerable to interim events en route and
subject to the dynamics within an ultimate Election Campaign.
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I know the “top concerns” percentages look odd
at 115% (this is a mistake on my math, but the top
3 fluctuate plus or minus 20% weekly!
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Yippee…..so BNP voters will remain the brain deads who blame other people for their shortcomings?
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Another stereotypical comment, tarring us all with the same brush.
Now if I was coloured that would be racist…
The fact you assume this and even question it proves you have little evidence or facts to build on…
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You do know that fewer people voted for the BNP in the North West in 2009 than in 2004? The BNP’s is actually dropping. The MEP seat only came about because fewer people actually voted for the other parties, not because more people voted BNP.
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So what your saying people are happy with the mess the country is in they are happy in the E/U happy to be £30.000 in debt and climbing wait till the bailiffs call! any one who votes for any other Party (other than the bnp )after the mess they have made over the last 60 years lib/lab/con liers cheats thieves other than the one opposition party who speaks the truth must be brain dead! BNP 4 me god bless them
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One worry I would like to see mentioned is political correctness. This pervading anti-human propaganda has killed Freedom of Speech. How can there be debate when people are frightened of saying what they think? “You can’t say that, someone will get offended and sue”. Or when objecting to government bureaucracy is now “abusing” the staff. The situation has become so crazy that defending yourself and your family from burglars is now ‘taking the law into your own hands’.
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I generally agree with you, Political Correctness added to the poll.
I hope no one ever breaks into out home, I have the philosophy if someone attacks my family physically (or seriously threatens them) they forfeit their right to life and it’s my choice (depending on the situation) what I do with it. If someone broke into my home and indicated using violence I would not take the risk of only trying to subdue them, it’s not worth the risk of hoping a person who is degenerate enough to break into your home while you are in it to not use violence against you and your family!
About 20 years ago one of my younger brothers who though not an awful person had criminal tendencies (minor criminal activities) and said if he got caught doing something wrong he’d use violence to get away!!! I was shocked and I wasn’t exactly an upstanding member of society back then, but that’s one BIG step over the line.
David
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I wont be voting Labour ever again. I have two major issues with Gordon Brown, 1. He is a coward, and 2. He puts his own personal welfare and power before his party. I say he is a coward because had he decided to call an election when he took charge of the Labour party, he would have won, there is no doubt in my mind. He is obsessed with holding onto power (personally) we have witnessed this many times, he has been ruthless with sackings and u turns, when he thought he would be ousted. I also personally think he will lose the general election, mainly because he is a flawed insecure individual, and has not learnt any lessons from those around him that try to advise him, Dont get me wrong, I have grave concerns about voting for Cameron, but I am prepared to give him a go, I dont care how wealthy he is or where he was educated, quite frankly, I would rather have someone who had a good education, and has a knowledge of wealth and wealth creation in charge, than some son of a Labour peer, who has never worked a day in their life.
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Good for you Howard, you forgot, mr bliar and mandy, they are all after their own ends, i have never known such apathy in the country, having travelled around the world a lot our standing in the world is not as our unelected prime minister says, we are just in front the african nations, brown says he saved the world from disaster, did he, in fact he and his henchmen are responsible for the situation we are in, we need someone with some backbone to get us out of the mess we are in, there is certainly not one in the labour party . graduates going straight into government, even to the front bench as can be seen by mr bean and his brother do not know what the wide world is like. i feel that whoever gets in as long as its not a unite controlled parliament as they cant do any worse,
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I am tired of being a statistic rather than a human being with needs. I cannot get help to go back to work because my situation would damage the statistics of the government agency put there to help me. Schools fail pupils because they are given impossible stats to reach, making it difficult to provide artistic and athletic activities which means kids aren’t getting a well rounded education. I have no idea who to vote for. Really no idea.
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Here is a small polemic engendered by a desire to remind myself of some of the events of recent times that have infuriated me in time to help me cast my vote on 6th May.
I am a natural Labour Party supporter and was once a member but I now declare that I will never again vote Labour until all Blairite entryists have been purged and the party returned to its proper purpose, that of being the political representatives of the organized working class. I would also be much happier if the Conservative Party came clean about who it represents and if either of them says we want to represent everybody I will go and get a gun.
In the beginning, when we were pulling out of the belt tightening and public sector cuts imposed by John Major and Kenneth Clarke after their artificial financial crisis, Gordon Brown announced that the new Labour government would maintain the Tory spending limits for two years. So, after eighteen years of Thatcherism the new Labour government was going to follow exactly the same policies. In fact they went on to maintain those policies right up to the present day. When we had the fastest growth in Europe, when banks and industry were making enormous profits from 1996 till 2008 I had pay rises amounting to 1.5% per year. Now, after the latest crash, I can expect no pay rises and reduced public service support for the foreseeable future.
While I was employed in the fire service, the Labour government promoted a procession of second rate political opportunists to ministerial rank with the mission of breaking the union with threats, spin and dirty tricks to pave the way for the same restructuring and downsizing policies that they had inflicted upon less well organized workforces. This was an eye-opener for many fire service staff including management, often people who had supported and worked for the Labour Party. Even without doing research I am certain that they are using all those tricks today against the rail workers and BA cabin crews.
Later, I was employed in the security industry where it was just being realised that around five hundred thousand people were being employed on low wages and with few regulations to protect key installations and properties that probably should be looked after by police or soldiers. Labour had a quick remedy of course, they handed the Licensing Authority contract to the lowest bidder who then paid themselves huge salaries, lost hundreds of vital personal documents like passports and birth certificates, gave badges to illegal immigrants and terrorists and, brilliantly, got every individual security employee to pay for the whole fiasco to the tune of £390 each just so they could go to work.
I cannot forget the lies and obfuscations that were employed to involve Britain in military posturing in Afghanistan and Iraq in which all the main parties were complicit. I remember being promised an ethical foreign policy. I cannot take it on trust that the sacrifice of lives and the enormous percentage of my taxes that have been diverted to offensive military capability is for my benefit. Looks to me like I am paying for someone else’s seat at the top table.
It has cost me over £30,000 to keep my daughter in higher education not including the student loans that she will have to repay. We will have paid to make the Labour Party look good for increasing the number of mickey mouse degrees offered by second rate colleges posing as universities, and we will have paid to delay her appearance on the labour market by five years. This has always been normal behaviour for the elite classes but the Labour Party have frightened the working class into pauperising themselves in an attempt to give their children an edge over the foreign workers enabled and encouraged to come here by both the Labour and Conservative parties to serve the prime directive of the bosses i.e. to keep down wages.
I remember a slogan – joined up thinking. The new third way would deliver policies based on expert advice. Then against expert advice, draconian laws involving far reaching changes to civil liberties were enacted against smokers, drivers, recreational drug takers and people sharing their music collections. The only advice the government listened to regarding the Digital Economy Bill came from Lord Mandelson after being entertained by a millionaire lobbyist for the recording industry.
One of the reasons that stories like these are not considered particularly outrageous is that they happen to small, separated communities and at different times. Anyone who has ever been close to actual events is always dismayed at the apparently deliberate failure of the media to convey the truth and meaning of those events to a wider audience so, inevitably, it takes a long time to identify the patterns of ineptitude and corruption that are in fact routine. When, finally, we arrive at that realization and we cast around for alternatives we are faced with career politicians on a gravy train who could fit into any of the main parties with no loss of ideals. This has caused widespread cynicism about the political process and it is obvious to many that mainstream politics is unprincipled, corrupt and, perhaps most seriously, incompetent, and that our democracy is incapable of curing these problems.
When I look down the long list of candidates in the polling booth will I see any salvation? In what way would voting for any of them make a difference?
I see no salvation but I do see an opportunity to shock the shoddy consensus of the main parties and I think this time I will take it. You know what I mean. Think Weimar and be scared.
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