I do this now and again, and this survey of your views is based on a previous one which I published in 2016 so it will be interesting to see how your views on Brexit, rewilding, climate change, grouse shooting, badger culls and more have changed. The survey also asks you for your gender and age category. All responses are anonymous. I’ll be interested to see your views.
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Should there be a link direct to the survey, Mark? The only link I can see is simply to the Survey Monkey site to create one. This also happened with an item a few days ago. (Firefox, in case it matters!)
Mairi – the survey is in that box under the text. It has received over 100 responses since 6am this morning so it looks like it is working OK – at least for most. It works fine on my pc and my phone. Sorry if you have any difficulties. I’m always keen to hear of any problems and will try to fix them if I can.
It’s a little tricky on an ipad, but it all happens in the little white SurveyMonkey box.
I’ve gone over to Edge now, but the result is the same! There’s no white box anywhere – I’ve looked numerous times! Just this hyperlink ‘Create your own user feedback survey’, which takes me straight to the Survey Monkey site to register and do just that! The mysteries of the www continue to puzzle me! (also, when I complete the id bit at the bottom, Edge will complete the line for me after the first letter, but Firefox won’t!)
Conservative or Labour?
A system where you have to vote for who you think is going to do least harm is a screwed system.
Nobody in either party has any interest in making the system fairer, just as few in either party have an interest in the environment or climate change.
Where is the evidence that one is better than the other?
The natural reply of a Tory, embarrassed by their support for such an awful, corrupt government that has waged war on the poorest and must vulnerable in society for 9 years now, and unwilling to give credit for the only Party ever to enact legislation on the basis that it is the right thing to do for the majority (NHS, Welfare State, minimum wage, crash helmets, seat belts, beathalyser, etc).
Simon, that is a huge assumption you are making and totally wrong. To lump me in with that disgusting lot is an insult. And please don’t say that if I’m not one I must be the other because that will also be wrong.
And past glories do not win current wars.
I had to leave that question blank as I will absolutely, definitely not be voting for either as they stand today.
Lola thank you for your first comment here. If you read the question then it doesn’t ask how you would vote it says if you had to vote L or C which would you choose. I’m not interested in how you would vote only which side of the major political divide you would end up if you had to choose. And it’s the same question as last time around so for comparison it has to stay as it is. But no worries.
I agree. I left both blank because I will not and cannot vote Labour due to the present leadership’s position on Brexit and anti-semitism. Why weren’t other parties listed as options?
Jonathan – thank you for your second comment here. If you read the question then it doesn’t ask how you would vote it says if you had to vote L or C which would you choose. How many political parties do you think there are in the UK, by the way? I’m not interested in how you would vote only which side of the major political divide you would end up if you had to choose. And it’s the same question as last time around so for comparison it has to stay as it is. But no worries.
Why are the Conservatives and Labour offered as the only choice? I left both blank because I will not and cannot vote Labour due to the present leadership’s position on Brexit and anti-semitism. Why weren’t other parties listed as options?
Jonathan – thank you for your first comment here. If you read the question then it doesn’t ask how you would vote it says if you had to vote L or C which would you choose. I’m not interested in how you would vote only which side of the major political divide you would end up if you had to choose. And it’s the same question as last time around so for comparison it has to stay as it is. But no worries.
I think a couple of the questions are slightly ambiguous. My answer to the one asking whether we can do something about climate change depends on what is meant by “can” – it is probably still not too late technically to do something about it, but if you take account of human nature and the leadership of most major nations in the definition of “can”, then it’s far less possible. And the question on grouse shooting didn’t include the word “driven” – I answered as if it did, as that is what Mark has always campaigned against and I assumed that is what he meant, but my answer would be different if the question refers to all grouse shooting. I don’t shoot and wouldn’t want to, but do not believe that all forms of shooting, including walked-up shooting of grouse, should be banned.
I answered the same way on that question
Very against Driven Grouse shooting
I also could not answer question 2 as I know I will be voting Lib Dems if there was a General Election this year
With Lib Dem’s polling above a Labour in a lot of recent polls & at times above Tory not to include them is extremely remiss & completely wrong.
Joan – if you read the question then it doesn’t ask how you would vote it says if you had to vote L or C which would you choose. I’m not interested in how you would vote only which side of the major political divide you would end up if you had to choose. And it’s the same question as last time around so for comparison it has to stay as it is. But no worries.
May be a need to qualify the question on grouse shooting. I have no real objections in principle with the utilisation of wildlife including grouse but do object strongly to managing landscapes specifically to promote target species to the detriment of all else.
Trying to decide about Brexit is a bit like an abuse victim trying to decide which abuser they would feel safer with.
As an SNP voter, in tune with the majority of Scots, “conservative or labour” is completely irrelevant.
Circus – I appreciate that, and that’s why it is phrased in the way it is ‘if you had to’.
If I had to, Labour, but I don’t have to.
And the sooner Labour wake up to that fact and row back from the whole SNP hatefest thing they have going on, the quicker Labour will improve its own chances.
Isn’t the SNP’s record on the environment as poor as the Tories? I mean, they talk a good game but are woefully inadequate when standing up to the criminals. The only difference is that the Tories do it because they are the criminals, the SNP appear to be in awe or hock to them.
John – As you point out, technically we can do it. There is a bitter irony in the reality that institutional inertia is now a far bigger barrier than the practical challenges of actually doing what is needed.
Did you report back the results of your survey regarding the final two candidates for leader of the Tory Party?
Jonatahn – I said I would do so on Saturday and that is still the plan. The survey is still open.
When it comes to climate change I would say that it has happened throughout the history of the Earth, and therefore is normally nothing to do with us, as we have only been on the scene for a very short period. However, the current ’bout’ of it – if I can call it that – is most definitely being caused almost exclusively by us and our activities.
The choice of voting Labour or Conservative is a bit of an odd question to have had to answer, since in truth i’d vote neither. Traditionally a Liberal Democrat voter, I’ve more recently been voting Green and suspect these parties are the ones growing at the expense of the “big two”
John H – odd or not, 0ver 600 people have managed to answer it. the point of the question is not to ask who anyone votes for (that isn’t what the words say) but whether they are to the Right or Left of politics. This actually is more appropriate these days, probably, than it even was in 2016 when I first sked it. But that is the final reason behind asking the queston – I asked it last time and I’d like to compare the snwers (so need the same question).
But thanks for your comment – I’m the type of person who tends to question everything too!
Lib Dem voters are Tory voters, since the Lib Dems seem intent on committing to prop up a Tory administration again on non-Brexit issues and will vote down anything Labour in principle.
If you are a Lib Dem voter and don’t like that you are a defacto Tory, then you have not beinng following your party’s policies very closely.
I couldn’t answer Q2 As it would be a lie
I would be prepared to vote other than LibDem in a Remain Alliance but live in Lib Dem run council so cannot imagine it wouldn’t be LibDem
Joan – if you read the question then it doesn’t ask how you would vote it says if you had to vote L or C which would you choose. I’m not interested in how you would vote only which side of the major political divide you would end up if you had to choose. And it’s the same question as last time around so for comparison it has to stay as it is. But no worries.
The fact I said LibDems puts me more left than right doesn’t it
With the present state of both Tories & Labour I am glad that I have another choice as at this point in time not sure what I would do
Every voting action I take is to Remain Stop Brexit which is catastrophic in my opinion
Joan – but that’s not a response to the questionnaire so your response, as you say, simply ignored the question so I can’t analyse it. It’s fine by me but it makes your response incomplete and therefore less valuable.
Hmmm … Grouse shooting as opposed to driven grouse shooting … I can see why you put it but still not an easy question to answer (for me anyway)
Mark, can’t get into your survey – all I see a box which won’t let me in.
Pete – I’ve just sent yu a link. Sorry it didn’t work for you – over 750 responses so far.
The box with the survey in is god-awful to the point where I won’t bother doing it.
Just provide the direct link.