Monday 20 May 2013

Fun Online Polls: The next General Election & Sandwiches

On a good turnout of 116 votes, the results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

Who do you think will form the government after the next General Election?

Labour-Lib Dems - 33%
Conservative-UKIP - 28%
Labour - 28%
Conservative - 4%
Conservative-Lib Dems - 1%
Other, please specify - 6%


That's most interesting. My current assumption is that the Lib Dems will lose a lot of their MPs and Labour will just about get a majority of seats. One thing we can be quite certain of, going by recent history, is that the next government will be slightly worse than the current one. Even if it's another Conservative-Lib Dem coalition.

And electorally, the Conservatives and UKIP could do themselves a huge favour by having some sort of electoral pact (overt or covert). But both parties are far too proud to be seen approaching the other and it is unlikely to happen in the near future (but two years is a long time in politics). To some extent, they each pretend that the other party does not even exist (and how can you approach a party which you refuse to admit exists?).
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Somebody (I can't remember who) complained about all the proliferation of words for "sandwich" and listed a few. That's a fair point, some of them are rather stupid.

So that's this week's Fun Online Poll - which do consider to be acceptable synonyms for sandwich?

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