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Charlton Life Poll for election

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  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    UKIP *


    *I got my servant, JaMarcus, to type this
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Cons
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    Labour
  • bobcafc7
    bobcafc7 Posts: 447
    UKIP.
  • Conservatives
  • ellisaddick
    ellisaddick Posts: 1,435
    Conservative
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Still undecided but possibly not voting (for the first time in a general election). This would have been my eleventh general election vote. I remember being quite excited about me getting to be 18 in 1970 and the voting age changing from 21 in 1969. Then the bloody election took place 6 days too early.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Conservatives
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    Spoilt ballot paper so that my disgust with all the main parties is registered, it's better than not voting
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Conservative
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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    right to a secret ballot, and i wish to keep that right. Would prefer an anonymous poll tbh.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,563

    Spoilt ballot paper so that my disgust with all the main parties is registered, it's better than not voting

    Totally agree with this, everybody should cast their vote even as a spoiled ballot.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Kap10 said:

    Spoilt ballot paper so that my disgust with all the main parties is registered, it's better than not voting

    Totally agree with this, everybody should cast their vote even as a spoiled ballot.
    agree, which is why i find the russell brand "dont vote" arguement absurd. There's a way to show your displeasure at the polls all whilst not voting, it's called spoiling your ballot.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    Labour
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,735
    Labour
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,104
    Conservative (although working in the public sector it's like Turkey's voting for Christmas)
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,917
    Green or labour, I'd rather spoil my pants than vote for anyone else
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    Conservative
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    Tories
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Labour (rather reluctantly)
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  • cafc4ever
    cafc4ever Posts: 565
    Green
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,986
    No one / spoiling ballot paper
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    Probably vote for the least incompetent.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    UKIP or spoiled paper.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Pretty much anyone but Labour
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Probably spoilt ballot paper - ''no faith in any of them''
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,260
    Conservative
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    conservative or Ukip
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    UKIP
  • JoshrewCAFC
    JoshrewCAFC Posts: 916
    edited April 2015

    Spoilt ballot paper so that my disgust with all the main parties is registered, it's better than not voting

    Its better to vote for an actual party - so vote for a minor party - because even if Labour win in Eltham for example, they still get analysts to see why so many people voted for smaller parties. It actually has a greater impact than spoiling your ballot as the major parties start to worry about why support for minor parties is increasing. For example when the Greens initially became popular the major parties began to adopt environmental policies and this can be seen in this election too with UKIP as ALL the major parties are now a lot stricter on immigrantion policies, so without malking a meaningful vote you can still have an impact.

    I think they do also look at the number of spoilt ballots but these figures don't tell them what people actually want.