General election 2015

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Scaremongering worked extremely well for Westminster in the run up to the Scottish referendum so I'm not expecting anything less for the general elections.

The podcast of More or Less is worth a subscribe.

Gratified to see my (shamelessly liberal lefty) timeline this morning filled with withering responses to the "100 captains of industry say vote Tory" letter.

As a life-long Labour/Green supporter i'm kind of enjoying the oddness of this one. With weird Ed being such a passion-killer it feels a bit like when England finally admitted they were rank outsiders at the last World Cup which allowed everyone to assume that would crash and burn in the first round and to sit back and enjoy the contest proper. I'm finding it genuinely intriguing.

Interesting to see Cameron has adopted the negative campaign tactic - fear mongering, throwing poo at the opposition etc.

It's Lynton Crosby, it's all he knows.

This leaders debate is a fucking joke. Milliband makes me ashamed to be a labour voter.

C'mon Ed, killing it right now!

Based on this, I'm voting for Sturgeon.

Davcam looking rattled to fuck

Jonny Tudor can fuck off

Jonny Wanker!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11514933/Nicola-Sturgeon-secretly-backs-David-Cameron.html

Looks like the Tories are rattled already so have resorted to feeding hearsay to their mouthpiece paper. Nice of them to publish it without fact checking with either party first, both of whom instantly denied the 'quote', but then accuracy isn't the point I guess.

I think this will be the most interesting election in my lifetime. The mainstream leaders have so little appeal it feels like people will actually go out and vote for who they want based on policy rather than propaganda.

If we had a fair voting system shit might just be turned on its head, but we don't, so it'll be 40% labour, 40% Tory and the 20% left will decide who forms a government.

I'm talking to lots of folk who are still undecided, plenty, including me, who will only decide when they enter the booth.

Pretty good prediction C_L

LFGSS Survey results so far : (I'm not sure people can access the results when they fill in the survey...?)
con -1
lab -8
ukip -1
grn -8
lib -0
other -1

UKIP candidate for Milton Keynes North has stood down just days before nominations close, because he's been offered a job abroad.

Hah.

I think best case might be an SNP/Labour coalition, with the SNP keeping Labour honest, where honest means "actually left of centre, rather than Blairs slight-right-of-centre version of Labour".

In the same way the Lib Dems moderated the worse of the Tory excesses over the last 5 years?

Good point, but I think Sturgeon has a bit more "ignore me at your peril" than Clegg.

I think Labour and the greens would make an interesting combo

Wouldn't you just get poo brown if you mix red and green?

In Engerlander for sure. In Germany Green and Red makes Rothaus.

And from this point of view if you mix badische and unsymbadische you get Germans.

I think if you mix Ludwig with a keyboard you get gibberish.

LFGSS Survey result update : (Can you can access the results when you fill in the survey...?)
con -2
lab -13
ukip -1
grn -15
lib -0
other -1

they have done that to an extent but a very hostile press and their lack of pr experience has left them looking like utter prats. A couple of big public loses on AV and tuition fees etc has distracted from how fucking bad a tory majority government could have been

done

You do realise post #40 is a tad sarcastic?

I have a name I would like to throw into the mix.

Oliver Coppard, your new MP for Sheffield Hallam. (Probably)

Because the Libdems have done fuck all to moderate Tory cruelty. In fact, they have enabled it.

I'm a bit of lib dem sympathiser as my local lib dem mp is a decent, principled fellow who has regularly voted against his party when they've got it wrong, like on tuition fees.

They're easy to hate at the moment, but only if you just believe what's written in the right-wing press and labour promotional material. If you use google instead you find stuff like this :

http://www.markpack.org.uk/129190/what-the-lib-dems-have-stopped-the-tories-doing/