I've just done a political 'what party to support' survey and I'm horrified!

[Umlauf]

I've only voted in 2 elections, Labour when I was 18 and Lib Dem at the last one, although I was heavily leaning towards Tory but was taken in by the Lib Dem student friendly lies!

The survey has come out as 80% UKIP. This is the last thing I would ever have expected being a Euro fanatic and relying on the EU for h2bs employment and living abroad! The other 20% was LibDem for my views on education. I though I could spot the UKIP policies a mile off but clearly I was very wrong...

So who do I bloody vote for?!

The survey was this one voteforpolicies.org.uk/ anyone else care to share results vs expectations?



Additional information: I have never been politically minded and its only now whilst I'm starting a new family that I've begun to take an interest and learn more about politics, so I am, I suppose, quite naive in the area. From a very Tory town on London commuter belt and family half strong Tory supporters with a little bit of labour thrown into the mix.

[nickelbabe]

I got 25% BNP and 75% UKIP.

i didn't choose any policies that favoured UK citizens over EU or other!

[nickelbabe]

Economy ? BNP
Education ? UKIP
Health / NHS ? UKIP
Welfare ? UKIP

[Wigeon]

50% Green
25% Labour
25% Lib Dem

Happy with that !

[pictish]

Green Party 100% were my results. I'm not suprised in the least.

[Thumbwitch]

I have to admit I did ignore some of the more pie-in-the-sky policies - just because there was no real explanation as to how they'd be achievable, they seemed a bit too wishful thinky for me.
Glad I didn't get any BNP though.

[Wigeon]

Look, the BNP and UKIP are best known for their anti-immigration policies, but being actual political parties, they do actually have policies on everything, not just immigration issues, and there is only so much "no more forrigners" you can do when you are writing a policy about crime, education, health etc. So I'm not actually that surprised that some people are coming out as part-BNP or part-UKIP.

[nickelbabe]

i've just read back what policies i chose, and I actually did not choose that one that they said for the BNP.
I didn't agree with most of those policies, so I don't know why it's taken me as clicking that.


Tackle the national debt problem by cutting expenditure on all projects which do not serve British interests, including the annual costs of £18 billion spent on "global warming," the £13 billion spent on immigration, the £4 billion spent on asylum, the £15 billion spent on EU membership, [and others].
We undertake not to reduce front-line public services while billions of pounds continue to flow out of the country to foreign interests. British people must benefit first from British tax income.
We aim to relieve the tax burden by raising the personal non-taxable allowance to £12,500.
We will encourage the family unit by reintroducing the married man's allowance by as much as £2,500, depending upon the presence of children.
We will raise the inheritance tax level to £1 million.
We will work for a reduction in council tax through the slashing of all politically correct council functions and "diversity" schemes.
We would take some of these savings and invest them in rebuilding British industry and skills through an active protectionist policy as many other European nations already do.
We will rebuild Britain's skills base - lost through decades of deindustrialisation - by offering generous subsidies to students who study engineering and science and to institutions offering such education.

[Pancakeflipper]

50% Green
25% Con
25% Lib

I am feeling rather wishywashy.

[Methe]

50% ukip
25% bnp
25% labour.

[Dromedary]

Oh my God - apparently I support the Tories on healthcare

[AmberLeaf]

Green Party 66.67%
Lib Dems 22.22%
Conservatives 11.11%

I have always voted labour though.

Democracy was the conservative one, which tbh none of them appealed that much.

Environment and Europe were Lib Dem

Green
Crime
Economy
Education
Health/NHS
Immigration
Welfare

Some of them were hard to pick though, apart from the BNP/UKIP ones, which they were very obvious and I didnt agree with any of their points, I would have liked to have been able to pick certain points and mix them with other sets! as I think greens who I picked left out lots of issues that are important to me, so despite that result, I don't think I would vote for them.

Also lots of the points were very woolly, particularly some of the points about SENs and access to education.

It's all a bit meh really though, as political parties say they will do all sorts then don't.

[ouryve]

66.67% green.

Funnily enough, I chose no labour responses!

[Abra1d]

Conservatives 37.50%
UKIP 37.50%
Labour 25.00%

About what I expect. No Green or LibDem nonsense, probably because I heartily disapprove of onshore windfarms (a tax on the poor, benefiting landowners only) and think we need to build nuclear power stations.

[WhoPaintedTheLion]

55% lib dem
22% green
11% labour
11% tory

[Kveta]

mainly Labour here, then Lib Dem, then 1 policy each of Conservative and Green Party.

As a former Lib Dem supporter, that doesn't upset me too much. Just a shame that we have no Green Party candidate locally, and that our local Labour candidate is utterly inept - so the sodding bastard PRISK of a conservative will get in again.

[ComposHat]

60% Green
20% Lib Dems
20% Tory

I am a labour party member. oh dear.

[firawla]

mine is

Labour 66.67%
Green Party 22.22%
Lib Dems 11.11

not really suprised by it

[BrianButterfield]

50% Labour, 50% Green which is spot on for me but I actually read party policies anyway! I have voted Green before in the European elections.

[ouryve]

Amberleaf - we made the exact same choices!

And agreeing on the SEN/education one. I chose the least worst - the only one that recognised that not all children with SN have the same needs, though I didn't agree with the proposed solution.

The screening at 5 is pure bluster. There was no mention about what would be done for the ones who "failed" the screening.

[Somebodysomewhere]

50% Green , for environment and NHS
25% UKIP welfare
25% Conservative Immigration

[DadOnIce]

It's an interesting test. I haven't done it, but have done similar ones in the past where I, somewhat to my surprise, came out far more Green than I ever expected.

It's good to make people think a bit more about what they actually believe politically. The biggest problem in the UK political system is the fact that an entire election, in which maybe 20-30 million people vote, is decided by a couple of million votes in the marginal seats. You could put the fabled "donkey in a red rosette" up in Doncaster and it would win - similarly, a donkey in a blue rosette in parts of Surrey and Sussex.

It frustrates me how politically tribal people are. They treat parties like football teams. Most people already know how they are going to vote in the 2015 general election, and have in fact known since they were 18-20 years old.

[ouryve]

And I think Labour need to take note that their policies at the last election were too much rooted in winning back daily mail readers, rather than appealing to their natural voters.

[AmberLeaf]

ouryve

Yes I agree re the screening at 5 one. very vague.

It was definitely a matter of picking the less worse on a few of them actually.

and there is only so much "no more forrigners" you can do when you are writing a policy about crime, education, health etc. So I'm not actually that surprised that some people are coming out as part-BNP or part-UKIP

I think they managed to wedge in everything being the fault of immigration rather well! Im amazed that people didn't recognise them as their policies TBH.

[MiniTheMinx]

80% Green.....not happy, no revolutionary party??????

Democracy ? Green Party
Economy ? Green Party
Education ? Green Party
Health / NHS ? UKIP
Welfare ? Green Party

[curlyclaz13]

always voted lib dem or green. came out 80 labour 20 green. not that surprised really.