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”
littleoddsandpieces
The public vote blind to policy, the few that bother to come out and vote.
Fewer people vote in Labour held areas, and fewer bother to keep registered to vote.
People still think Labour is the same party their parents and grandparents voted for, and so vote out of habit.
But there is no election in 2015.
Fewer voters will turn out than even 2010, which appears to have had only 7 million voters.
In 2014, 7 million voters were not registered to vote.
The English and Celts will not try anything new, but nothing new is offered by all current parties in power or opposition to the suffering to tens of millions of people in the UK today.
This is indeed the Vote or Starve election.
But the victims threatened to their wellbeing will not vote, of all ages, able bodied or disabled / chronic sick, employed or unemployed.
If the little socialist parties got the same media coverage as the tiny Greens, with 1 MP, and UKIP, with just 2 (second hand Tory MPs), then the polls would be very different.
The small socialist parties, not bothering to say the words,
vote, elect, socialist, politics, parties,
but saying:
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No Forms – Automatic – Citizen Disability and Sick
End All Welfare Admin Today – Get Money in your hand
Everyone Fed – Families and Grannies – Free Cafes – Today
Kick out House of Lords – More Money NHS
Free Social Housing in Cities, Towns and Villages
No Homeless – Roof Over Your Head
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and put the logos of the parties for instant recognition on such ads.
Come on, you know those parties would get a landslide victory as big as SYRIZA’s
or that coming for PODEMOS.
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
Now if John Prescott took on such policies and ran as Prime Minister for the England Labour party.
Is that a cunning plan also?
Leon Wolfeson
Says “Green”, but I can’t agree with their completely anti-science stances or energy policy, so it’s not even in the right ballpark for me.
So..
AlanGiles
I notice there has been no reference to Rifkind and old man Straw being at it again – both of course have done nothing wrong or against the rules, and if they are found to have done so, it will, of course, be a mere “misunderstanding”.
Neither party has learned anything from the 2009 scandal, and despite a few sanctimonious words from Miliband, nothing will be done.
You can’t blame people for leaving the major parties, and I felt on Sunday, with the news that Prescott is to rise from his political cofffin, that Hapless Ed has had his greatest show of panic akin to when in desperation in 2009 Brown resurrected the hideous Mandelson. Both are has-beens
RoyB
The Rules certainly have changed! The Fixed Term Parliament Act makes it very difficult to dissolve a Parliament during its 5 year term, so I guess we’ll be stuck with whatever Parliament we elect in May. Yet another fine old mess that Cameron and Co created by failing to look beyond the ends of their noses with a short term fix to make sure their coalition held together for the duration. This wouldn’t matter so much if we elected Government separately from Parliament, preferably under a PR system, as Government would have then to negotiate its way forward rather than rely on its payroll vote and whipped Party hacks. But our arthritic, archaic, system of Government by Elective Dictatorship is rarely challenged.
ForeignRedTory
That’s bollocks. As you know full well, and sputter against pleading the low profit margins of speculators ( those poor darlings ), I propose taxing casino capitalism. And use that to pay for renationalising the energy sector, getting rid of the bedroom tax – in short, letting he rich shoulder the burden of asuterity, and not the poor.
Instead, you propose silly pseudo-monetarist prescriptions, which in reality are of more benefit to the haves than the haves-not, if they dont simply cause Venezolean disasters.