Can Sheffield Forumers predict the election?

Alcoblog · April 27, 2015

I'm sick to death of all this 'politics' garbage. I'm sick to death of all the junk mail from 'caring' politicians through the letterbox. I'm sick to death of spam mail. I'm sick to death of idiots knocking at my door. False promises (abject lying), bickering on daft TV shows (a cross between 'Pointless' and Jeremy Kyle), patronising/degrading photo opportunity shots of smiling, caring candidate with disabled child/person with terminal cancer. How much an MP's kitchen cost, what shoes his (heavily photographed) wife wears. I'm not a sheep and will not be 'won over' with platitudes in the degenerate way these 'politicians' expect. They're all as bad as each other ... psychopaths, or at the very least, sociopaths.

I will not vote (never have for the same reasons).

evil woman · April 27, 2015

As a bit of fun, I was wondering if Sheffield Forumers could predict the outcome of the forthcoming election, via a poll on this thread.

I didn't particularly want to get into the semantics of hung parliaments, and who might get cosy with who else. Just the overall percentages in terms of votes.

Just vote as you intend to vote in the election itself. It's an anonymous poll, so nobody can see who voted for who.

How is that predicting the election?

My prediction is a coalition of Conservative/Libdem/DUP.

JFKvsNixon · April 27, 2015

The party that wins the election and gets the most MPs may well not form the government. So what are trying to predict?

PeteMorris · April 27, 2015

I'm sick to death of all this 'politics' garbage. I'm sick to death of all the junk mail from 'caring' politicians through the letterbox. I'm sick to death of spam mail. I'm sick to death of idiots knocking at my door. False promises (abject lying), bickering on daft TV shows (a cross between 'Pointless' and Jeremy Kyle), patronising/degrading photo opportunity shots of smiling, caring candidate with disabled child/person with terminal cancer. How much an MP's kitchen cost, what shoes his (heavily photographed) wife wears. I'm not a sheep and will not be 'won over' with platitudes in the degenerate way these 'politicians' expect. They're all as bad as each other ... psychopaths, or at the very least, sociopaths.

I will not vote (never have for the same reasons).

Just a wild guess.....you won't be voting then?

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The party that wins the election and gets the most MPs may well not form the government. So what are trying to predict?

Read the OP.....I did say I didn't want to get into the realms of who gets cosy with who...Just the overall percentage votes cast for each party. Nothing too deep....There's already dozens of political type threads to argue semantics on.

JFKvsNixon · April 27, 2015

Read the OP.....I did say I didn't want to get into the realms of who gets cosy with who...Just the overall percentage votes cast for each party. Nothing too deep....There's already dozens of political type threads to argue semantics on.

I think that the Tories will get a small majority over Labour, but I don't think that they'll be able to form a government. I don't think that the Tories and the Lib-Dems will get enough MPs to form a majority, I also don't think that Labour and the SNP will get enough MPs either.

So at the moment who'll be able to form a government will be anyones guess.

Legine Garaf · April 27, 2015

I doubt that the SF poll will show a real outcome of the general election although its very promising and good to see some strength in opinion on here? i still reckon on a coalition between conservatives and UKIP its probably already a done deal behind closed doors and the best outcome for the country.

evil woman · April 27, 2015

I doubt that the SF poll will show a real outcome of the general election although its very promising and good to see some strength in opinion on here? i still reckon on a coalition between conservatives and UKIP its probably already a done deal behind closed doors and the best outcome for the country.

Just as a matter of interest how many seats do you think UKIP will bring to that alliance?

JFKvsNixon · April 27, 2015

I doubt that the SF poll will show a real outcome of the general election although its very promising and good to see some strength in opinion on here? i still reckon on a coalition between conservatives and UKIP its probably already a done deal behind closed doors and the best outcome for the country.

A coalition between UKIP and the Tories won't bring anywhere near enough MPs to form a government. If anything a UKIP-Con coalition would harm the Tories chances of forming the next government as it would cost them the Lib-Dems support.