Could the result of the next election hinge on the votes of benefit receivers?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-Welfare-Britain.html

[Sqad]

AOG...;-)

No, in my opinion it will depend upon if the electorate is as "fed up" with the Labour Party, as opinion polls seem to indicate.

[RebelSouls]

Have you tried to claim any benefit AOG ?

[kinell]

why not?

if things continue they will be the majority vote

(no figures folks please)

(for those responders who pathologically fail to spot irony this is of course not an accurate prediction)



................they will only be 49% of the electorate

[Sandy-Wroe]

I'd bet that people on benefits are the least likely to vote.

[anotheoldgit]

RebelSouls No the only benefit I get is from reading ridiculous posts from such as you.

[RebelSouls]

Well if you had AOG you would know the answer

[Gromit]

//The Conservatives published a provocative league table ranking Commons seats according to the number of benefit claimants.//

Another non story. The Labour Party have always done well in the large towns and cities where unemployment and bad health have always been higher. The Tories do well in the shires and rural areas. This is nothing new.

In answer to your question, it could have some bearing on the result. 3 million people are on incapacity benefit. The Tories have pledge to abolish it. Will that gain them 3 million votes?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Not another non-story we have every right to know these things.

i don't know if you watched the Politics Show this lunch time, but it seems that urban inner city schools are also receiving a proportionate higher funding, than rural schools.

[Dodger666]

It has been suggested many times that the Labour party has encouraged benefit claimants, and uncontrolled immigration, in order to build a large enough following so they can remain in Government for generations.

I see no reason to disbelieve it.

[Gromit]

It is hardly new that Governments spend more money in the seats that voted for them and put them in power it has always been so, sorry if you have only just woken up to the fact.

[daffy654]

Inner city schools need more funding that rural schools,mainly because they tend to be bigger schools with more pupils and staff.
Try using you brain for once AOG.