A Place to Stand

Last week I put up a poll comparing the BBC list of the top 25 issues, being merely what they chose as the top issues and allowed those surveyed merely to put them in order and allowing comparison with some alternatives. So here are the results. The 12 the BBC wanted (their top 10 and 2 others) are marked.

1 - Cut the bill for the highest paid in the public sector by 10% BBC
2 - Either the promised Lisbon Treaty referendum or an EU referendum
3 - Stop subsidising windmills
4 - Discourage mass immigration
5 - Allow the unsubsidised building of as many nuclear plants as the free market wants
6 - Replace current nuclear plants with new ones to keep the lights on
7 - Keep up the number of police on the streets BBC approved
8 - End or modify the smoking ban
9 - Grow the economy aiming to match the world's best, using the methods which have worked best elsewher
10 - Introduce schools vouchers
11 - Allow issues to be put to referenda (as in California)
12 - Spend more money on apprenticeships for unemployed young people BBC approved
13 - Allow Norwegian style tunnel building to link the Highlands and Islands into our road system
14 - Use the Tartan Tax to cut income tax by up to 3p
15 - Scrap the council tax for pensioners on low incomes BBC approved
16 - Reduce the council tax for households where all the adults are pensioners BBC approved
17 - Reduce the waiting time for suspected cancer cases to see a specialist, from four weeks to two BBC approved - their #1
18 - Keep prescriptions free for everyone BBC approved
19 - Keep free bus travel for everyone aged over 60 BBC approved
20 - Freeze the council tax for the next two years BBC approved
21 - Retain free university education for all Scottish students BBC approved
22 - Grow the economy aiming for the long term UK rate - clearly I phrased this badly since I did not intend this to be an either/or option with #9 but that those wanting 10% growth would also vote for improving it to 2.5%. The combined votes of the 2 would have put it in first place though that would peobably overstate support
1 vote each - Phase out nuclear power stations and replace with wind and wave power BBC approved Green party's major policy
- Build a new road bridge across the River Forth BBC approved
- Use the Tartan tax to raise income tax by up to 3p Green Party's second major policy

Pretty conclusive. Only 3 of the top 14 policies was chosen by the BBC as being of any interest to the Scottish electors (and thus 9 of the bottom 11). 11 of the top 12 are official UKIP policy and the other parallels them. No other party comes close, the Tories being best with #1,6,7,10 & 12. I am satisfied with the tunnels project making 13 considering that nobody but I have ever discussed it.
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Another poll, well 2 actually

How likely would you be to vote for a party whose leader and other representatives you had repeatedly seen on TV for years and generally agreed with?
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