Vote for Policies

Didn't see this elsewhere sorry if OLD!

http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/

very interesting to find out who you would really vote for if you went on party policies and not party names.....

Good little website.

I do think most people vote on old tribal lines or "I would never vote for them because I don't want to be associated with them that party" or "They will never get in". Type arguments.

All the more reason for a change in voting system!

Another good one http://www.politicalcompass.org/ which I'm sure many have seen before. I just wish the media would use tools like this more to show political concepts better.

That was surprising. Greens or Lib Dems for me apparently.

Political Compass just informs me I am not represented by even minor parties. Great! I will still vote, though, because it's an important right to exercise.

That was surprising. Greens or Lib Dems for me apparently.

What you are probably more surprised about is how much your prejudices of particular party cause you to aline or not even consider particular parties. (Not trying to have a personal dig at you more just commenting that from your comment that you fall into that common trap.)

I expect if you randomly swapped policies between many of the top two parties, (maybe even the the top three) and then asked people to vote for a party most would still stick with the same party they would have voted for before any policy swapping.

Oh dear. I'm doomed...

25% UKIP
50% Green
25% Conservative

I had a bit of a play with that site, choosing different paths, trying to second guess the result, etc. It's noticeable that the main 3 parties use a lot of words to say, and commit to, nothing, whereas the fringe parties generally use plain language and present clear intentions. What it also illustrates to me is that there are 3 parties so close to one another in the centre ground (which is why the liberal party, forever seeking the middle path, can never distinguish themselves enough to get elected) that anything remotely off-message automatically becomes the domain of the 'extremists', whether actually extreme, like the BNP, or less unreasonable single-issue parties. Of course the BNP wrap up their true intentions in a disguising layer of 'sensible policies for the disposessed' and the UKIP, being a single-issue party find the sensible and acceptable policies (negotiating a reduction of our EU contributions) swamped by the more risky options (leaving the EU altogether). It does illustrate to me that the mainstream parties need to take some of the "acceptable face of extremism" policies away from the extremists and adopt them as their own so that the extreme policies are all people like the BNP are left with, and their vote disappears.

holy smokes...

green 40%
bnp 20%
ukip 20%
lib dem 20%

that is a massive massive shock.

Here are the results from 254 completed surveys in your constituency

• Green Party 26.73%
  
• Labour 24.36%
  
• Lib Dems 20.12%
  
• Conservatives 12.61%
  
• UKIP 10.48%
  
• BNP 5.70%
  
  

interesting.

I would like to point out there was no "Non of the above" button so i did end up picking rather randomly on a couple, notably Welfare and Education... that explains the UKIP I guess.

• Labour 71.43%
  
• UKIP 14.29%
  
• Green Party 14.29%
  

ha! i just came out at 25% each for labour, libs, green and shudder tory.

50% Labour

50% Green

I've always voted liberal, and shall continue to do so.

75% Green
25% Labour

I sort of agree with blue quinn, but I didn't read all the post. It's easy to pick an incorrect policy group.

44% Green
33% Lib Dem
22% Labour

Pretty much confirmed what I thought I would get.

50% Lib Dem
50% Green

I could spot the BNP policies a mile off I have to say

yeah they are the ones that make sense.

50% Lib Dem
50% Green

I could spot the BNP policies a mile off I have to say

Hehe, yep. Apart from the content they've all got daily mailish words like "axe" and "scandalous" in them.