• ComRes Polling: Reduced Conservative lead, Cameron still performs strongly for 'running the country'
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[url]http://www.comres.co.uk/polls/independent-sunday-mirror-political-poll/[/url] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nearly-half-of-british-public-think-all-tax-returns-should-be-made-public-a6987521.html[/url] [QUOTE]Fewer than half of Labour voters (42%) say they would most like Jeremy Corbyn - out of the political figures tested - to manage their financial affairs; this is compared to 71% of Conservative voters who would say the same for David Cameron. Of all of the political figures, three in five Labour voters (60%) say they would most like Jeremy Corbyn to run the country; this is eleven percentage points behind the number of Conservative voters who say they would most like David Cameron to run to the country (71%). More than half of Conservative voters (58%) say they would most like David Cameron to negotiate with terrorists, compared to 19% who say Boris Johnson. Four in ten Labour voters (43%) would say the same for Jeremy Corbyn and 19% for Sturgeon.[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgLz281WcAAoBom.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]While the majority of Conservative voters agree that David Cameron has been honest and open about his financial affairs (64%), the majority of Labour supports disagree (73%). One in five Conservative voters, however, disagree that Cameron has been open and honest (19%). Less convincingly for the Prime Minister, while the plurality of Conservative voters agree that his Government has a good record of tackling tax avoidance and evasion (46%), three in ten (29%) say that they ‘don’t know’ and further quarter (25%) disagree. Seven in ten (71%) Labour voters disagree that Mr Cameron’s Government has had a good record; just 14% agree. The majority of Labour voters agree (54%) that the tax returns of all citizens should be published, as in Norway, Sweden and Finland, while half (26%) disagree. Conservative voters are more split on this issue; 45% agree the statement, while roughly as many (39%) disagree. Looking towards the EU, two-thirds of Conservative voters (66%) disagree that all citizens of other European Union countries should have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom, while 22% agree. Labour voters, however, are more split over this issue, with 44% agreeing that all EU citizens should have these rights, and 40% disagreeing. When asked the same question in August 2013, 57% of GB adults disagreed with this statement and 23% agreed. There is cross party support for taking control of tax havens; three-quarters of Labour voters (77%) and one in seven Conservative voters (69%) agree that the UK should take direct control of its overseas territories that might be used as tax havens.[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgLzvofXEAAWXfn.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE][B]Voting intention[/B] The Conservatives lead over Labour has been reduced to 5 percentage points, a decrease of 4 percentage points from March. Con 35% (-3) Lab 30% (+1) LD 8% (+1) UKIP 16% (NC) Green 4% (NC) SNP 5% (+1) Other 1% (NC)[/QUOTE]
Well, we're not in massive decline yet. But with all the cuts, HMG gives the impression they're just firefighting and nobody really believes they'll actually be able to save the country from our defecit. Our problems are as much social and systematic as they are budgetary and, whether they're toffs or not, Osborne and Cameron are trying to apply sutures to third-degree burns. They may still have approval because it appears to be keeping our heads above water right now. Labour will argue that spending is needed, but if they win the next election and fail to recover through spending, the country will collapse rapidly and catastrophically, leaving some of us utterly fucked for a way to continue living. Maybe firefighting is preferable. I think it's fair to say, it's becoming harder and harder to decide where to put your vote. I have a vote in the Welsh elections also and the decision is simply impossible because nobody's offering a solution that I can believe in. Maybe that's the reason people vote for the Conservatives still; it's easier to trust what's currently 'working' than some other untested idea.
Everyone Loves Boris it seems
Lol I bet those people who said they haven't paid a tradesman cash are liars. And everyone who has a pension has an offshore account that isn't paying tax, that's how hedge funds and business works. It isn't morally repugnant to avoid paying tax within the law, it's common sense. If you're so desperate to give money to the government, I'm sure the treasury takes donations. [QUOTE=fruxodaily;50147366]Everyone Loves Boris it seems[/QUOTE] He did well on all the stupid personality questions. Politics and government shouldn't be about the person you'd most like to go on I'm A Celebrity with, christ
Everything I read is about how horrible these austarity cuts are and how inhumane they are yet somehow they still seem politically viable to literally kill poor people through beurocracy Then again I shouldn't complain, the US election is an embarising shitshow where the worst candidates seem to be doing the best
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