Arbtalk 2015 General Election Poll

[Capetown]

A proverb from the bible is very apt for many rich people. ''A camel has more chance of passing through the eye of a needle, than a rich man has of passing through the gates of the kingdom of heaven''

 

I like so many have nothing against wealth, my gripe is how you accumulate it. The ultra rich have legislation and loopholes in place to aid them, they have friends in government that lobby for them or sit on the board.

 

Have you ever wondered who bought Gordon Browns gold bullion cock up? Friends in high places thats who! I personally know one who bought 20 million worth.

 

I'll say it again! Anyone who votes Liblabcon is like a turkey voting for Christmas, I'd vote for a three legged dog before I ever voted the main three!

How do you find Oz politics?

[eggsarascal]

Amazes me people take the time to vote that they won't vote!

 

Good ain't it!? They'll vote on an Arbtalk poll, yet they aren't going to vote for who leads the country. Ya couldn't make it up.

[Capetown]

Yes well it is a bit of a no brainer to alot of people!

 

If you have money then you are probably going to vote Conservative as you will want to carry on accumulating it, buying up other properties and charging high rent to working folk who can't afford to buy a house because the cheaper end of the market is snapped up or worse still take on unemployed tenents and get paid by all of us out there working and paying tax. You will be wanting to pay as little tax as possible and look down on others less fortunate/ less lucky in life. Good luck to you.

 

If you are the working man and stuck in the past then you will probably vote labour as that's traditionally where you have voted for generations. You will have a strong sense of loyalty to the cause which is a good thing but loyalty should work both ways and i'm affraid the labour party haslong sinse lost alot of the values that it originally stood for, particularly the Scottish Labour Party. Good luck you.

 

If you vote Lib dem then all hope is lost IMO They just want to hang on to the coattails of whoever is in power.They have been in coalition with both labour and conservatives now and both times compromised their policies, Tuition fees??? Good luck to you.

 

If you vote UKIP then you are probably fed up with the influx of people coming here and doing our jobs for nowt and have some nostalgic sense of Britishness. I like the idea of having a limit on immigrants and quite like listening to Farage but he made a tit of himself when he was up here last time. And the UK bit of the party name doesn't appeal to me. Good luck to you.

 

If you vote SNP then there is a chance of a progressive change at westminster. Scrapping Trident and using that money to drag this country into the 21st century, getting rid of the HoL along the way. Evolution not revolution. I hope my team wins!

 

To the i'm alright Jack brigade, you can't take your money with you. The gap between rich and poor is widening. That can't be a good thing as through history when this happens you end up with revolutions, re distribution of wealth this way is less than fair to all.

 

Just saw this which I thought was well done.

Jim Murphy – Saviour of the Union (The Movie) |

Sorry Gnome, that's a rather large chip you have there sir!

[JimM]

In an even simpler way

 

Con no

 

Lab no

 

Lib no

 

UKIP no

 

SNP Yes

 

Greens no

 

 

 

Yup! Call me simple. I think it's time the pot was stirred and the bigger parties got a fright. They promise but don't deliver. Only make changes when backed into a corner.

Plus as ex mil, both Con and Lab have stripped the military to the bone.

[skyhuck]

Is what people want actually deliverable??

[Johny Walker]

Is what people want actually deliverable??

 

no, its all double talk to get your vote imo

[Richard 1234]

Is what people want actually deliverable??

 

 

You can please some of the people all of the time, some of the people some of the time and all of the people none of the time

[Two Acres]

Would someone explain to me how things will be better under a lab snp government?

 

I can't see that it will be all that different.

 

Not so much a explaination, but an opinion:

 

The Tories want to impose austerity even more harshly in the next parliament than the last. They want to do so for ideological reasons rather than out of neccesity; that is they believe in a small state. They would like to shrink the state to as small a size as possible. A key part of Conservative ideology is a belief in a natural social heirerachy. They believe that they have are superior to us ordinary folk and are our rightful leaders. If they can reduce the state and get it out of the way then the leaders of private industry can step into the space thats created and make ever greater private fortunes. They are interested in increasing the wealth if the top one percent in our society. If we elect a Conservative led government then we should expect the state to be reduced and severe cuts - perhaps things like child benefit will disapear, for example.

 

A Labour led goverment would still want to stick with austerity to reduce the deficit, they would just plan on doing it more slowly and less painfully. They would also not be interested in protecting the top one percent and would make efforts, I would expect, to ensure that the burden is shared more fairly, through policies such as the removal of non-domiciled tax status. We would all be in it together.

[Mull]

You can please some of the people all of the time, some of the people some of the time and all of the people none of the time

 

 

You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all of the time.

[Mountain man]

You can please some of the people all of the time, some of the people some of the time and all of the people none of the time

 

I'm not sure you got that quote right.