Last week we asked Left Foot Forward readers what outcome they'd most like to see at the General Election. We had 471 responses, and here's what we found out
34.4 per cent of you said you’d like an outright Labour majority, compared to 10.6 per cent who’d like a Conservative majority. Only 13 of you (2.8 per cent) would like things to stay as they are with another Conservative/Lib Dem coalition.
Seven per cent would like to see a Labour-led coalition with the Lib Dems, but 10.8 would like Labour to lead a coalition with the SNP, and 19.3 per cent (91 of you) would like to see Labour lead a coalition with the Greens.
The second most popular choice after a Labour majority was a three-party coalition with Labour, the Greens and the SNP, which 27.6 per cent of you are hoping for. The least popular choice was a Tory/SNP coalition, which only two of you would like to see.
25 of you would like a Tory/UKIP coalition – half the number who are hoping for an outright Tory majority. Adding the Lib Dems into that coalition sees popularity fall to 1.06 per cent.
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60 Responses to “Left Foot Forward poll: 34 per cent want a Labour majority”
ForeignRedTory
BS. The kind of nonsense you spout is the kind of nonsense spouted by the extremists to the left of Fischer.
ForeignRedTory
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Political_Compass
Twaddle from those who suffer from an irrational animus against “neoliberal orthodoxy,”.
Those who flout that orthodoxy end up just like Syriza – waving big white flags and offering apologies.
JustAnotherNumber
I wholly disagree. I’m a moderate centre-left liberalist, not some far-out communist, but I couldn’t with good conscience vote Labour currently. They are on the other side of that mythical dividing line. There is a survey you can take on that website to see where you personally fall on that chart, and I’d encourage you to have a go at it, to see if your own personal views about the things in your life that you care about, are actually up in that top right corner with Labour and the Tories.
Incidentally, I don’t disagree entirely with RationalWiki’s criticism of the PoliticalCompass project, they do raise some fairly solid points, but at the same time their points are fairly close in detail, and don’t really undermine the overall nature of the project as a bellweather for political shifts.
Rory
Labour is a right-of centre party economically (it believes strongly in a free market system with little regulation). This puts it to the left of the Tories, Lib Dems and UKIP (who each believe in a model with less regulation or in the Tories’ case the active transfer of wealth from the many to the few), not least because it also hopes to trick the market into allowing the poor a tiny amount of money. But it’s hardly Left, is it? Don’t get me wrong – a Labour government would be better than a Tory one, but a Left-wing government would be better than a Labour one…
JustAnotherNumber
The biggest boost to the SNP was Scottish Labour being seen to side so closely with the Tories over the referendum lasy September, a trend that continues with the vice chairman of the East Lothian Constituency Labour Party encouraging people to vote for the Tories in a number of Scottish constituencies in May in efforts to keep the SNP out.
Is this really the path we want our democracy to continue upon?