Monday 16 April 2012

Fun Online Polls: Tory-Labour policies & The Titanic

The overall response to last week's Fun Online Poll, with 120 taking part, was as follows:

Which Labour policies did the Tories oppose while in opposition but enact once in government?
Tobacco display ban - 104 votes
Minimum alcohol pricing - 97 votes
Quantitative Easing - 88 votes
Subsidies for first time buyers - 78 votes
2% National Insurance increase - 70 votes
Big Society Bank - 67 votes
Other, please specify - 13 votes*
None. The Tories and Labour are very different - 0 votes.


It was a bit of a trick question actually, because these are all policies first proposed by Labour (or implemented in the case of QE) but not actually implemented until the Tories were in government, so I'm a bit disappointed at how many people had forgotten about the 2% National Insurance increase or the Big Society Bank (which would have been called something else, but it was to be funded by 'raiding' dormant bank accounts).

* Benj submitted "Tuition fees", I'd forgotten that one. I don't think the Tories really wanted to do this, it was just a spur of the moment thing to completely discredit the Lib-Dems in the run-up to the AV referendum.
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Just in case there's anybody who hasn't had enough Titanic-related tomfoolery yet, this week's FOP is a little game.

Pick a direction (not to scale or historically accurate) in the widget in the sidebar and see if you hit the iceberg.

3 comments:

Sackerson said...

O/T - thought you'd like this:

http://cowdance.wspa.org.uk/

Sarton Bander said...

I liked tuition fees. They're a good idea.

Mark Wadsworth said...

S, that's wierd.

SB, maybe, maybe not, that's not the point.