Westminster voting intentions weekly round up

[blueinsa]

For balance 2 polls this week (yougov at start survation at the end) with not much between each party

Small rise for the only pro remain/EU party in the lib dems but given the dominance of brexit right now in everyones minds and the supposed majority to remain, it really should be bigger given both the main parties have made it clear that we will leave the EU although none of them can give any real details or clarity on the how right now.

Sadly it all just points to yet another hung parliament.

 

[Ban-jani]

Small rise for the only pro remain/EU party in the lib dems but given the dominance of brexit right now in everyones minds and the supposed majority to remain, it really should be bigger given both the main parties have made it clear that we will leave the EU although none of them can give any real details or clarity on the how right now.

Sadly it all just points to yet another hung parliament.

A major problem in politics in this country, one in which has been a problem in decades and decades, is that people follow their parties too loyally, like a football team.

The likelihood is that I’ll have voted for all three of the larger parties (Labour, Tory and Lib Dem) by the time the next GE is over.

I just wish more people would be open to doing the same, politics would be better for it.

 

[blueinsa]

A major problem in politics in this country, one in which has been a problem in decades and decades, is that people follow their parties too loyally, like a football team.

The likelihood is that I’ll have voted for all three of the larger parties (Labour, Tory and Lib Dem) by the time the next GE is over.

I just wish more people would be open to doing the same, politics would be better for it.

A position i am coming around to more and more.

I dont want to elect a puppet/robot who does as he he told by the whips all the time, i want to elect a representative who will speak up for his constituents and vote accordingly.

 

[urban genie]

A major problem in politics in this country, one in which has been a problem in decades and decades, is that people follow their parties too loyally, like a football team.

The likelihood is that I’ll have voted for all three of the larger parties (Labour, Tory and Lib Dem) by the time the next GE is over.

I just wish more people would be open to doing the same, politics would be better for it.

It is impossible to truly believe in the Labour movement amd vote conservative though and visa versa, they are complete opposite ideologies, yes you may dip into liberal teritoryn or both sides may drift a bit center, but I couldnever actively do anything to help the tories get into government like vote for them.

If I become dissolutioned wit labour as I have previously in the late 90s then I go green, I couldn't look at the other 2 main parties as my political choice.

It is about ideology both socially and economically for me.

 

[Ban-jani]

It is impossible to truly believe in the Labour movement amd vote conservative though and visa versa, they are complete opposite ideologies, yes you may dip into liberal teritoryn or both sides may drift a bit center, but I couldnever actively do anything to help the tories get into government like vote for them.

If I become dissolutioned wit labour as I have previously in the late 90s then I go green, I couldn't look at the other 2 main parties as my political choice.

It is about ideology both socially and economically for me.

My position when I voted Tory was in the last GE, when the referendum had just taken place, was that I felt they would be better placed to see Brexit through and get a better deal than Corbyn. I believed they would get us a better deal and voted for them purely on that basis.

Now obviously this was a cataclysmic mistake and I feel unbelievably stupid now.

My feeling was that Brexit was sadly inevitable and that we should just shoot for the best deal.

I never bought into Tory ideology, as a Social Democrat, it was purely a Brexit motivated vote.

Now it’s clear that Brexit isn’t necessarily going to happen and that the Tory Party are an utter disgrace and shambles, I’ve realised my mistake and will learn from it.

It’s all rather amusing and tragic when I try and explain why I voted Tory for the first time.

Prior to that in 2010 and 2015, I voted Labour and on current positions, I’m voting Lib Dem next time as the only party offering us a clear way out of Brexit.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It is impossible to truly believe in the Labour movement amd vote conservative though and visa versa, they are complete opposite ideologies, yes you may dip into liberal teritoryn or both sides may drift a bit center, but I couldnever actively do anything to help the tories get into government like vote for them.

If I become dissolutioned wit labour as I have previously in the late 90s then I go green, I couldn't look at the other 2 main parties as my political choice.

It is about ideology both socially and economically for me.

So, if you lived in a constituency that only the Lib-Dems could beat the Tories, with the Labour candidate finishing a very distant third at best, you couldn’t vote Liberal Democrat?

 

[blueparrot]

For balance 2 polls this week (yougov at start survation at the end) with not much between each party

Trouble with all these polls are they don't give any indication of the state of play in Scotland and to a lesser extent Wales. Chance are any election will give a hung parliament the balance of power and any coalition will depend almost entirely on the number of seats in Scotland held by SNP , Labour and Tories. Withount the sudden jump from 1 to 13 scottish tories last time Corbyn may well have been pm with SNP backing and we would be in a very different place, compared to a Tory DUP government .

 

[urban genie]

So, if you lived in a constituency that only the Lib-Dems could beat the Tories, with the Labour candidate finishing a very distant third at best, you couldn’t vote Liberal Democrat?

I don't though and don't intend to so such a hypothetical question won't arise in my case thankfully.

But in hypothetical terms stopping the tories would have to be the priority, thankfully I will never know

 

[blueinsa]

It is impossible to truly believe in the Labour movement amd vote conservative though and visa versa, they are complete opposite ideologies, yes you may dip into liberal teritoryn or both sides may drift a bit center, but I couldnever actively do anything to help the tories get into government like vote for them.

If I become dissolutioned wit labour as I have previously in the late 90s then I go green, I couldn't look at the other 2 main parties as my political choice.

It is about ideology both socially and economically for me.

I am lucky living in Scotland now in that i can vote SNP if i felt the need to which for all intent and purpose is Labour.

 

[urban genie]

 

[urban genie]

 

[BobKowalski]

It’s being pretty even between the two main parties since the June 2017 election. Seems the electorate has dug into their respective positions and nothing will budge them.

 

[PragueBlue]

Would be interesting to see how potential voting intentions have changed since the creation of The Independent Group.

 

[urban genie]

Would be interesting to see how potential voting intentions have changed since the creation of The Independent Group.

This is prior to the tories joining and yesterdays ref announcement.

And this frim yougov who are now roundly accepted to be tory progaganderists and irrelevant when it comes to polling

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Opinion Polls are used to sway opinion not accurately report opinion

 

[Fame Monster]

Opinion Polls are used to sway opinion not accurately report opinion

Interesting. I wonder if their methodology is fully transparent.

 

[urban genie]

 

[cibaman]

Given the shambolic state of both of the major parties, its difficult to see how either of them could mount a credible campaign. The outcome would probably be decided by which of them would disintegrate to the lesser extent.

 

[urban genie]

 

[urban genie]