Saturday 5 May 2012

Fun Online Polls: Election results & Spy in a bag

It appears that the readers of this 'blog are not the representative sample of the UK population I had imagined (well fancy that!). The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

Which party will you vote for on Thursday?
UKIP - 49%

Conservative - 5%
BNP - 1%
Lib Dem - 1%
Green - 1%
Labour - 1%
SNP - 0%
Other, please specify - 6%
I can't be bothered to vote - 8%
There are no elections in my area - 29%


As it happens, UKIP retained their 9 councillors who were up for re-election, and the number of Labour councillors shot up from 1,335 to 2,158. UKIP candidates appear to have got about 13% - 14% of the vote where they stood, which is pretty good by their standards, but they don't have many councillors to show for it.
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With the elections over and done with, I'll start next week's Fun Online Poll a bit early.

That whole spy-in-a-bag story is one of those mysteries, and even the coroner - with mountains of evidence at her disposal - couldn't make up her mind how or why he died.

So let's settle the whole thing quickly and cheaply - on the basis of no evidence whatsoever except what we might have skim read in the newspapers, such as the episode where he asked somebody to tie him to the bed but couldn't free himself - by harnessing The Power Of The Internet.

Cast your verdict here or use the widget in the side bar.

1 comments:

Robin Smith said...

This kind of harmonises with my bitter analysis of coming last in Wokingham. Nevertheless it was a good experiment. The few who still vote seem to be staunch conservatives (small c) wanting the poor to be punished most and their masters to carry on as normal.

http://gco2e.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/2012-local-elections-upshot.html

I'd love to know what the majority "implicit" vote of abstainees actually want though?