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General Election 2017
- Thread starter Giraffe
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Victor Chandler
Active member
Well said. Excellent post. I agree with every word. In Mid Sussex we have a wider choice of candidates. I’m tempted to vote for Baron Von Thunderclap (Monster Raving Loony Party) but will probably just spoil the paper. I’ve met the Baron. He’s a nice bloke.
So I've found a party that says it's going to spend more on absolutely everything, but they have no idea where all the money is going to come from. Is it still ok to vote for them?
HantsSeagull
Well-known member
thanks for the heads up - its why i normally stay away from these threads. more trouble than they are worth. I agree constituency voting is what it should be BUT my problem with Kyle is that he is so far removed from the party he is representing (by his own admission) that he is misrepresenting himself and should be standing as an independent. I expect him to win Hove however.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
- 10,568
Could be a bit of a "shy Corbyn" effect this time ?
They get round that by saying their voting for the team not the manager or tactical voting.
It's a sad state of affairs, but if we don't sell them arms, someone else will. Of course it's morally crap, but do we want money in our economy or not? Sure, we could change, we could all be hippies - in with hate, out with love - but you won't like the poor country we end up with.
GT49er
Well-known member
If that's the way you feel, I would strongly advocate voting for Baron Von Thunderclap - if enough people feel like you it will save his deposit. Saving him his deposit would at least in a small way be a positive outcome.
I'd like to write my reasons for not voting for the candidates on my ballot paper.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
I shall be going to WWE at the Brighton Centre this evening first, then buy a MASSIVE kebab on the way home and hopefully in front of the BBC coverage before the first result comes in
I trust the exit polls, so I expect we'll have a good idea of the result quite quickly. Wifey is planning on staying up fairly late though, so I guess I won't be sleeping until late.
darkwolf666
Well-known member
As long as the many doesn't include anyone who might get ill, might suffer from dementia, might need to find a house to rent, might fall upon hard times... you get the drift!
Yes I get the drift, and I disagree. There are Tory policies I don't like, they cut too much IMO, but like most other people, I trust them more with the economy than I do Labour. And it's always about the economy (stupid).
Machiavelli
Well-known member
They do address this indirectly, and indicate that voters are forthcoming when coming out of polling booths.
You don't think there's a (human and financial) cost further down the road, to pay, for (indirectly) arming people that want to kill us?
Machiavelli
Well-known member
I'm not at all surprised by what you're pointing to. First, anything more than 20k would make logistics increasingly difficult, especially as they're pointing to a certain quality in those prising information out of those that had voted; this is also 10x the size of the largest opinion polls. Second, and perhaps more importantly, they explain that the key is the information provided from prior elections, which is their base data.
Here's a(n extremely tentative) prediction: their model won't be as successful in this election as the last two. They've obviously refined it, improving its accuracy with the last two elections, but -- and here's my problem with the statistical/positivist approach to politics -- it can't take account changing factors sufficiently well. Brexit being one which, for me, is part of a wider dissatisfaction with neoliberalism (which also may well feed into this election), but also an increased younger vote will also appear with this election.
swindonseagull
Well-known member
Of course they rely on people telling the truth when asked.
GOM
living vicariously
Usually stay up but forgot to book tomorrow off ! I am gonna be tired at work tomorrow
I would never vote Labour, after the Conservative campaign locally, I was planning not to vote, however this morning I have decided to vote for Kristy Adams reluctantly!
Where were you in 2015 then?