MSE Poll: Do you welcome the June general election?

Former_MSE_Rosie · 18 April 2017 at 12:51PM

Poll started 18 April 2017

Do you welcome the June general election?

Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a general election to be held in the UK on 8 June (are you registered to vote?). It's only two years after the last one, though since then we’ve had the Brexit result and a change of PM.

So, do you welcome the June general election?

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Wizard_of_Id · 18 April 2017 at 2:32PM

No - I am already going to the polls in May

ace_mcgraw · 18 April 2017 at 2:40PM

This is self-serving democracy. If May really cared about giving the people the chance to choose, she would've called an election after Cameron stepped down.

They are only choosing now because Labour are so weak and Brexit hasn't happened so we can't be despondent about the state of the country.

I think if anything this shows that the Tories are scared of Brexit. If they were confident, they'd have their negotiations, leave the EU and in 2020 they could say "Look how great Brexit is - see we were right all along! Vote for us

". This way, they're admitting they think that Brexit could go very wrong and they'll be blamed for it!

S_Curry · 18 April 2017 at 3:42PM

My answer would be NO to welcoming the vote, but not for the reasons you give - it's not that I think it should be restricted to once every 5 years, as I agree there are extenuating circumstances that can warrant it, and it's not that I just think it's a "pain in the bum", as that's a silly reason for not wanting to exercise your vote - the point I would make is that any vote should have been called earlier before Article 50 was triggered. Now is a terrible time for it as it detracts focus from what the government should be doing now that Article 50 has been triggered, i.e. working on a plan and negotiating and rebuilding the country after this utter disaster, as opposed to campaigning against one another.

cec · 18 April 2017 at 5:40PM

I find the questions are worded badly. You are asking what I usually vote not what I might possibly vote this time. It just st seems a bit strange to me

Mandelbrot · 18 April 2017 at 5:46PM

Is there a point to such a poll?

jeanmd · 18 April 2017 at 5:48PM

cec wrote: »

I find the questions are worded badly. You are asking what I usually vote not what I might possibly vote this time. It just st seems a bit strange to me

There's a poll running here.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5635640

9411john · 19 April 2017 at 8:49AM

If, as May maintains, this election is being called because of 'disruptive' MP/Lords in Westminster then these MPs should not be allowed to stand again and the best thing to do with the Lords is to get rid of it - it serves little purpose other than to cost the country a fortune by giving. mainly undeserving, elements of society a means of getting 'money for nothing'! . This 'disruptive ' element obviously has no regard for the people of this country who, like it or not, voted to leave the EU. I wonder if all this Brexit debate would have been quite so 'heated' if the vote had not been declared by constituency but had just been a nationwide yes/no declaration.

Simonne15 · 19 April 2017 at 9:29AM

Sorry to need to say this Martin but I think the presentation of this poll will give a completely distorted result. Whilst the original question is clear i.e. Do you welcome the June election? the rest of it where we actually vote is potentially misleading

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I was mistakenly led to tick the box which showed which party I would normally vote for rather than one which would reflect how I feel about the timing as those categories misled me into that:mad:.
May I suggest there should have been separated questions i.e. Do you welcome the June election? and then the categories re Parties.
Pity. There's more than enough misinterpretation of the views of the populus in the country so I don't want to add to it and I'm sure you don't. Thanks for everything else you do. :T

deptfreemoneytart · 19 April 2017 at 11:35AM

I always vote, and I think that it should be made law that everyone has to vote.
I am a floating voter as I only vote for the party who I think at the time is going to do what’s right for the country, not just for me, as if they get it right for the Country then generally it should be right for everyone.
In the past I have voted for MT(Con.), TB (Lab), unfortunately both made one disastrous decision (Poll Tax and Weapons of Mass distruction), and even voted for UKIP in a local election, which was my disastrous decision, I must have been unwell at the time.

I think a general election is the right thing to do, at this time, to get the country out of a mess, started by the previous Conservative Government, due to Cameron and Osborne's efforts when they did the unbelievable in mandating to not raise taxes during the last parliament. They should NEVER make promises they might not be able to keep... change that, THE GOVERNMENT should never make promises.
The new government needs to raise taxes to solve some of the Countries problems; schools, health, pensions, national debt to name just a few. They can only raise income tax if they change their manifesto, which they are stuck with from the previous and present Government's manifesto. The last Government set the system up by taking millions of lower paid people out of paying any tax by raising the tax allowance. This done, the new Government, hopefully Conservative, will be able to raise taxes without affecting the lives of the poorest in society. This will help sort out some of the problems mentioned above, plus, if you have more people in work from whatever Nationality, paying tax in this country, 2p in the pound increase would sort out the problems and allow the Government of the day to move forward, instead of playing catch-up all of the time.
If any Party tells you that they are going to do this and that, to improve your lot, they will need to raise taxes to pay for it.
Labours way of doing this will be to hit the top 1% of earners and reduce or keep the status quo for the rest of us; plus, they like any other Government will sneak in extra taxes that will affect us all, this will make the rich leave the country and this would be a disaster as they spend their money and pay their taxes in this country (most of them), which improves the economy and creates thousands of jobs, something Labour have rarely been able to do.

Without her own mandate Mrs May, PM will not be able to help this country be strong again, and I believe that if everyone thinks, COUNTRY, NOT SELF, and accepts the short-term inconvenience of extra taxes, the Country will be GREAT BRITAIN again (please read this in Scotland, N. Ireland, Wales and Cornwall, we need you as much as you need us).
The whole 27 countries of the EU, and indeed the world, need to see that we and all of the Conservative Party are behind our leader by a massive majority, anything less will affect any trade negotiations in the future, which will affect the pockets of both the very poor, the poor, the not so well off and the people who manage to spend more than they earn and use the Government as their excuse.

As far as the Lords go, it’s time for reform, cut the total number of Lords by at least half, this can be done by, not allowing any political party (by irreversible law) to nominate someone into the Lords, natural loss and by replacing every TWO Lords that leave for whatever reason, with ONE new Lord.
LORDS should only be selected by a panel (not politicians) of GREAT Britons with NO agenda, just intelligence.

Danleno · 19 April 2017 at 1:01PM

Mrs May said she wouldn't call a snap election. However, at the time she most certainly didn't know has many people would be lining up to stab her in the back trying to overturn the democratic decision taken by the British voting public. I have been a life long Labour voter but never again. I support Mrs May 100% and it pains me to say it. Corbyn has decimated the Labour Party and they are to dumb to see it.

MSE Poll: Do you welcome the June general election?

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