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How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
On the other hand, Survey Monkey, who got 2015 final margin almost bang on, have it down to +4.
 
Labour strategists expecting a bad day.
Going to be an early night tomorrow. Not staying up for this crap.
 
Thats print only, its 2017 ;)

The suns actual readership, including online is just under 27 million.

The metro is 17 million.


Per month that is.
Yes, I meant print. I'm not sure the online stuff is all that relevant to their persuasive power, given a huge chunk of them are just people clicking on links because they hate the Sun and are offended by some headline linked on Facebook.
 
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Sometimes visual polls are just as good, only one campaign here has the groundswell and energy. If you're voting labour tomorrow remain positive and try and bring someone along with you.
 
You know what, if the Tories get a small majority and May is ousted (not for one of their meatheads) then I'd come away feeling okay.

Not sure how likely that would be, but I'll find out Friday morning when I wake up for work. Not gonna bring myself misery in the early morning like at the last GE or Brexit ref.
 
You know what, if the Tories get a small majority and May is ousted (not for one of their meatheads) then I'd come away feeling okay.

Not sure how likely that would be, but I'll find out Friday morning when I wake up for work. Not gonna bring myself misery in the early morning like at the last GE or Brexit ref.
im personally predicting a slightly larger tory majority then we have now, but not quite at the scale we where predicting when the election was called.... i suppose thats somthing!
 
Sometimes visual polls are just as good, only one campaign here has the groundswell and energy. If you're voting labour tomorrow remain positive and try and bring someone along with you.

That's all well and good, but for every ardent campaigner there's plenty of people who are either voting Tory or haven't noticed it and don't care at all.
 
It seems the whole of social media is voting Labour. Just like they were all voting to remain.

Indeed it does seem so, and most will be true to their word. Social Media will increasingly be a more accurate reflection of voting intentions. The problem is currently that loads of voters won't pin their colours to the mast, not just a generational thing, but also down to the extreme amount of abuse that many receive when not conforming with the 'norm. on social media. See brexit vote as an example.
 
Anecdotal obviously, but spoke to a couple of people today up here who are voting tomorrow, and know they're not voting SNP, but aren't sure which way they'll go. Can imagine there's a decent number of people in that position, will be interesting to see how it swings.
 
Everyone in my social media networks, work, friends, family etc are voting labour. I've seen so much buzz around them but conservatives are favorites... How does this work?
 
It seems the whole of social media is voting Labour. Just like they were all voting to remain.

Yup. Probably worth remembering that there's going to be a lot of young voters who can't vote, people with no relation to the UK and then you have the shy Tory factor.
 
Indeed it does seem so, and most will be true to their word. Social Media will increasingly be a more accurate reflection of voting intentions. The problem is currently that loads of voters won't pin their colours to the mast, not just a generational thing, but also down to the extreme amount of abuse that many receive when not conforming with the 'norm. on social media. See brexit vote as an example.

For sure. You'd have to be a very brave person to admit to voting Conservative amongst the groups I run in. You'd genuinely lose friends.
 
Everyone in my social media networks, work, friends, family etc are voting labour. I've seen so much buzz around them but conservatives are favorites... How does this work?

Because Tories are in general older...they're probably not posting on social media, they're not going to be out campaigning actively, and additionally if you live in an urban area you're nowhere near all the rural constituencies voting Tory.
 
Everyone in my social media networks, work, friends, family etc are voting labour. I've seen so much buzz around them but conservatives are favorites... How does this work?

You're in a bubble and this country has 35 million other voters?
 
Everyone in my social media networks, work, friends, family etc are voting labour. I've seen so much buzz around them but conservatives are favorites... How does this work?
You live in a social bubble both physically and online (and so do I)
 
You know what, if the Tories get a small majority and May is ousted (not for one of their meatheads) then I'd come away feeling okay.

Not sure how likely that would be, but I'll find out Friday morning when I wake up for work. Not gonna bring myself misery in the early morning like at the last GE or Brexit ref.

That's the best case scenario for me. I won't let myself even think about getting my hopes up beyond that.

A reduced majority, May out on her arse and a younger generation starting to take an interest in politics and understand what the left and right stand for.
 
Well if we're talking fairness...


Good schools for everyone.
Free school meals.
Free job training and further education.
A well funded, free health and social care system that not only offers top level service, but which works on prevention and early treatment of problems.
Availability of affordable housing for all.

These things are more important than whether someone receives an inheritance, imho.

Tinkering at the edges of tax rates is what both main parties have been doing for too long. It's time for a new approach. If that means we 'lose' some billionaires and big businesses then fine. There are plenty of budding entrepreneurs and small businesses that would happily fill the void, when not stiffled by mega corporations who have little regard for their customers or employees.
If only those were the topics i quoted


Nevertheless, i agree on most points
 
Can see this turning into a meme thread come Thursday night. I'm all for it.
 
How many points do Conservative need to be ahead by to avoid hung parliament?
Depends how efficient their vote is in the marginals, but I reckon they could probably do it with about a 4-5 point lead.
 
Indeed it does seem so, and most will be true to their word. Social Media will increasingly be a more accurate reflection of voting intentions. The problem is currently that loads of voters won't pin their colours to the mast, not just a generational thing, but also down to the extreme amount of abuse that many receive when not conforming with the 'norm. on social media. See brexit vote as an example.

Even then it'll still largely be limited. Over 60% of people tend to vote in General Elections. Nowhere near that figure are actively engaged and post about/discuss politics online. Plenty either keep their views to themselves or have limited knowledge of politics and plop for whatever choice seems best.
 
How many points do Conservative need to be ahead by to avoid hung parliament?

325 I believe. It's linked to Norn Iron though I think and that's assuming Sinn Fein gets 7 seats. If they got none they could have a majority with 318.