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Some have been calling it the Mumsnet election, so we want to know what you think - whether you'll bother to go and vote at all, and which political leader ticks your box.

This survey is open to every Mumsnetter in the UK. We will be repeating this survey regularly between now and the election, so please look out for it again. We'll be asking about topical issues in future surveys, too.

Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 in Boden or Amazon vouchers.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

Really can't see what party politics has to do with it at all. We have never aligned ourselves to any political party, nor would we. It's the general election, which happens every four/five years and is quite important to folks on here, so we're planning a poll of Mnetters which we're going to update when some big issue occurs to see if it changes Mnetters voting intentions because we think it may be of interest.

Anguis you might as well ask why do we do travel content, or have a book club - the answer we are doing webchats/ polls etc because we think it's of interest to Mumsnetters at election time.

Swedes you seem worried that we at HQ in some way biased in the way we're doing things. I'm not sure why you think this? All I can say is we are making every effort to be entirely neutral from an HQ point of view - we allow everyone equal access and provide the same offer of hand-holding/advice before and during webchats. Not sure where you're based but maybe you should get involved a bit - come scrutinise things to set your mind at rest?

When will we see the results?

can we still vote??

Yes it's still open - we'll probably leave it up for another few days.

thankyou will do now!

NAO - I hope you've got over those narsty socialist inclinations now your first born is orf to Cambridge? G'waaan declare your Tory intentions, you know you want to.

done

done.

In answer to the qu earleir 'why is this poll not just just like the bookclub or the travel content' I suppose my thought was that the way that it was introduced with nothing about what the info was being used for, and with a prize to generate incentive for filling in made it seem like the survey was one in which MN participants were the data, rather than the target audience, as with the commercial surveys MN. A prize draw suggests that the giving of info is not of intrinsic relevance to the giver so needs to be compensated? (I don't think that 'vote for your favourite book' has prize draw?) So made it feeel a bit like the advertising surveys.

I think that on the day it was introduced there were one or two other commercial requests for user content being put up. And a few days before there had been that thread where MN asked 'who buys the family car?', which I took to be a means for MN to gather info in support of new advertising commissions. And all these were happening in Site Stuff and other such topics, all blended in with user-generated conversations.

The other key difference is that these polls will be of SO much interest to non-MNers. I can just see them popping up all over the papers. Which doesn't happen with the bookclub votes. And combined with the way the survey was introduced, that made me feel like MNers were viewed primarily as the data not the audience for the survey -- and consequently as a publicity resource.

I see that MNHQ has now created a separate survey topic, which I think is great -- it's good to keep user-generated content in separate areas from this sort of thing. So, anyway, I've clicked to hide the topic and will stop trampling irritably over the bits of MN I don't like.

done.

Nethuns recent politico survery was 34% conservative and only 18% Labour and 15% for the Lib Dems

Also in a shag/marry/snog poll, Cameron came out on top

here

(NB the second sentence is A Lie)

Yes, for Healt Visitors to come on and talk to the punters, I believe. Was 30k I think? But it is a non-profit org.

"A prize draw suggests that the giving of info is not of intrinsic relevance to the giver so needs to be compensated? (I don't think that 'vote for your favourite book' has prize draw?) So made it feel a bit like the advertising surveys."

But we incentivise Mumsnetters whenever we can to do stuff and have done for the last 10 years, as we're conscious of always asking! We have always entered folk into prize draws pretty much every week for submitting reviews, local info, tips etc.

All of which - think you'll agree - is of intrinsic value to Mumsnetters so just don't buy your distinction - but there you go. We'll just have to agree to disagree .

Ahem Netmums got half a million quid for health visitors from govn and promotion of the service and they're not a Not for Profit organisation. They are owned by the 4 founders.

Half a million eh, very nice

Hmm that is interesting, they are quoted as being a NFP in lots of articles and blogs

NFP doesn't mean they can't earn money I don't think MP> Just that they can do shareholdery type things and dividends and.. erm

Bookclub not in the paper, no. But I bet the publishing co's keep an eye on it!

I like the election and politics bit - I think it shows that women who are mums are not just interested in talking about things to do with daily and domestic life.

yes can as in can't