Do the polls influence how you vote?

How much have the parties spent on Facebook in the last 30 days?

Conservatives – £222,000
Labour – £618,000
Lib Dems – £561,000

This from the ITV website earlier this month

True, but they didn't win.

Was it not true that the 2014 separatist campaign was bankrolled by a couple who won £156 million in the Eurolottery?

There is more to propaganda than money.

Varian Some propaganda machines are much better funded than others . Then it is up to your party to recruit more members, and not only collect their membership fees but also spend time between elections constantly fundraising. That is how the SNP raise the vast majority of their funds via the members and Branches, with little or nothing from corporate donors.

Some propaganda machines are much better funded than others.

Then, by your own admission Crystal voters from all sides are influenced by propaganda.Those who fall for Labour and Lib Dem propaganda machines, as well as Conservatives.
Maybe you don’t realise that you have been duped Yeahbut
In that case it would make you gullible, you too Varian?
You can’t have it all ways you know.

There is a saying that it is much much easier to fool people than it is to get them to admit that they've been fooled.

But that is the point about gullibility - someone who is gullible doesn’t realise they have been duped! Of course these are often very kind people who like to believe the best of people.

Nope. I make up my own mind. I doubt whether it will happen but I hope Labour win.

But people get their information from somewhere, it just doesn’t come from nowhere, so whether it’s the papers, tv, radio or Facebook or the neighbours it’s bound to influence some people. You do hear people parroting phrases which they’ve read or heard on TV, so to pretend no one is influenced by propaganda is ridiculous. Why would they all spend so much money on leaflets, ads etc?

No, polls don’t ever influence my vote.

It always makes me laugh when anyone says that the other Party has won/ will only win because they are ‘gullible’ and believe that Party’s powerful propaganda machine! ?
I suppose it’s a comfort to them to carry on thinking that.

No they don't.

WW2 in one way I agree that it is not what I am hearing on social media, but then on FB I pick and choose my friends. Even on here, GN, there are signs that people believe the lies spread about by the powerful Tory propaganda machine.

One example was the ‘senior nurse’ who said the child on the waiting room floor was a stunt. This has been proved to be Fake News, and vicious Fake News at that. But see how many were willing to lap that up?

Even when there is video evidence of Trump saying ‘everything is on the table and that includes the NHS’ people still don’t get it.

Even when Boris keeps trotting out 40 new hospitals and 50,000 new nurses when he has been told by his own advisers that is not the truth.

So, while I get good vibes from my FB friends, it’s not what I’m picking up on here or on the street. Too many people who cannot distinguish between the truth and the lies.

Therefore I predict we are in for another five years of cuts to education, police, care services. Where the cost of drugs supplied to the NHS goes through the roof as a result of his ‘trade deal’ with a Trump. And when the gullible British public suddenly realise he cannot ‘Get Brexit Done’ they will realise too late that they were duped and lied to.

This is a fork in the road.

Before you vote decide are you pro Tory or anti Tory?.

If you are pro Tory you will vote Tory.

But if you are anti-Tory, then look at the various tactical voting websites and vote tactically for the candidate in your constituency who looks likely to defeat the Tory candidate.

This could be a Labour candidate, a Liberal Democrat candidate, a Green Party Candidate, a Plaid Cymru candidate, an SNP candidate or an Indepndent pro-Remain candidate like Dominic Grieve.

Don't bother to scrutinise the manifestos of any of these candidates because if you do you will find things you don't agree with, just vote for them because they want to stop brexit and that is bu far the most important issue in this election.

Some things to consider before you vote

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Whitewave, labour voters are the most worn down demographic. I hope they ignore the polls and use their vote

I am very puzzled by the polls. They simply don’t reflect what I am hearing on the ground and reading on social media.

This might be one reason why

You see Nanniejcl that is the attitude I can’t understand.

You think you are ‘taking back control’ of your country perhaps! But in real terms you are handing our country to the likes of Trump.

No,I voted for the party I thought best for the country. I don't really trust any of them.

Can I ask a question of Scots here? I love your country and enjoyed a wonderful two weeks in summer touring. I think if you want independence that is fine with me , but once you get it and the Barnett formula money stops, will the money from oil, tourism and your famous products be enough to provide? Please do not think I am having a nasty go at the Scots. Thry are generally wonderful people.,I am just curious.

No my mind is made up from my own brain cells not from someone else’s . The polls are fun but not always accurate .

No,polls don’t make any difference.......I’m for Brexit so will definitely vote for Boris.....Corbyn will destroy our country & cant stand the Lib Dem’s woman,can’t see how they can be called Democrats......should definitely be Lib Undemocrats!!

No

No.
We have already voted.
Postal much easier than venturing on a cold December day, especially if the weather is bad.

I doubt the polls will represent the harassed workers who will be returning home on 12th Dec, possibly after a dark commute and maybe having also done the school run, ready to cook tea and sort Christmas out.
Who will then think sod it!
I can't be bothered to go back out, (drag the kids) on a cold dark night.