RedC poll in tomorrow's SBP, results here.

[hiding behind a poster]

Encouraging to see Labour and FG supporters endorsing the slow rise strategy that SF have been pursuing for the last century. Overall majority for SF is now inevitable within the lifetime of the Earth's Sun.

Holy Moley. Your turn Dotski, over to you.....

[dotski_w_]

Holy Moley. Your turn Dotski, over to you.....

ummm ... something to do with the Sun being a ball of gas that's on fire ... SF being full of hot air??!

[neversaydie]

Encouraging to see Labour and FG supporters endorsing the slow rise strategy that SF have been pursuing for the last century. Overall majority for SF is now inevitable within the lifetime of the Earth's Sun.

In fairness have FG or any other party except FFever achieved an overall majority?

Fg will never achieve that goal nor will FF and the best stratagy is for both parties to forget the civil war and form one party. Then an overall will be achieved in the lifetime of the earth's sun.

No disrespect to your opinion meant.

[dotski_w_]

In fairness have FG or any other party except FFever achieved an overall majority?

Fg will never achieve that goal nor will FF and the best stratagy is for both parties to forget the civil war and form one party. Then an overall will be achieved in the lifetime of the earths sun.

No disrespect to your opinion meant.

aren't americans just adorable?

American Public Actually Kind Of Endearing In Some Ways | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[neversaydie]

aren't americans just adorable?

American Public Actually Kind Of Endearing In Some Ways | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

God I do not know if that was meant to be a compliment! But will gladly take it as one

[KingKane]

aren't americans just adorable?

American Public Actually Kind Of Endearing In Some Ways | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I suspect that's misty in her new guise.

[ocoonassa]

That's not actually the case. No matter how hard you try, the electoral register is never 100% accurate. The first thing is that people die. Even in the few weeks between the register closing and polling day, lots of people die - but there's also most of the people who died in the previous few months or even year. Understandably enough, when a relative dies, amongst all the other things to be done, plus of course grief, taking them off the electoral register isn't exactly gonna leap to mind as an essential task. Then there's all the other reasons why, on any given day, lots of people are too far from home to vote - people on holidays, abroad on business, working the far end of the country that day, short-term illness, long-term illness, etc. And then there's students - it is understandable that when people go off to college, they don't know where they're gonna end up settling down, so they won't rush to register as soon as they get digs somewhere - as a result, they stay on the register at home, which could be the far end of the country. As a result of all that, if everyone who reasonably could vote on a given day did vote, you'd get an official turnout of around 80%. We get close to 70 % usually, which in reality represents about 5 of every 6 voters voting - which by international standards is very good.

Goodness, you seem to have yourself very convinced of the matter. Not just one seemingly valid point but a whole array of them. Seems plainly obvious to me though that the population is around four and a half million. Given the age demographics I've seen, around three million of them should have the vote. Around two million show up on polling day.

Whenever I ask people if they vote, and they say they don't, and I ask why not, they nearly always say something like 'sure what's the feckin point?' That's the number one reason in my decades long straw poll. Your 'democracy' isn't half as healthy as you're pretending to yourself. Looks creaky, the only thing stopping it toppling is the level of apathy. Nothing like a bit of serious poverty to shake off the apathy I'm thinking.

They're not magic - but RedC do ask people to state their likeliness to vote, on a scale of 1 to 10.

Thanks, but do you know how they get the definite non-voters and the don't knows to be part of the 100% sample without mentioning them. Seems like magic, I'm sure it's not and there must be an explanation.

[neversaydie]

Goodness, you seem to have yourself very convinced of the matter. Not just one seemingly valid point but a whole array of them. Seems plainly obvious to me though that the population is around four and a half million. Given the age demographics I've seen, around three million of them should have the vote. Around two million show up on polling day.

Whenever I ask people if they vote, and they say they don't, and I ask why not, they nearly always say something like 'sure what's the feckin point?' That's the number one reason in my decades long straw poll. Your 'democracy' isn't half as healthy as you're pretending to yourself. Looks creaky, the only thing stopping it toppling is the level of apathy. Nothing like a bit of serious poverty to shake off the apathy I'm thinking.



Thanks, but do you know how they get the definite non-voters and the don't knows to be part of the 100% sample without mentioning them. Seems like magic, I'm sure it's not and there must be an explanation.

Is it true that the age group from 18 as far to 24 age group do not actually use their voting right?

[redzer]

SB Post - FF 18 -6, FG 32 +1, Labour 27 +4, SF 9 -1, Green 4 +1, Ind 10 +1

[The Dude]

FF 18 (-6), FG 32 (+1), Lab 27 (+4), SF 9 (-1), Green 4 (+1), Ind 10 (+1).