General Election 2010

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This is the General Election 2010 thread.

 

Please use this thread to discuss and debate the upcoming election.

 

Cheers

[1 John Lambie]

Labour running away with it.

[Steven H]

Voted by post yesterday...Im such a lazy git.

[Red Yell]

Lib Dems. Though I don't really expect them to do anything major on the bigger stage, still too many people voting Labour or Tory simply to keep the other one out, rather than actually believing in who they're voting for.

[1 John Lambie]

Lib Dems. Though I don't really expect them to do anything major on the bigger stage, still too many people voting Labour or Tory simply to keep the other one out, rather than actually believing in who they're voting for.

 

Yip, bit like the teams in the SPL!

[Pie Of The Month]

I'm voting for whoever puts the most leaflets through my door. Labour currently in the lead with 3 leaflets and a letter.

[Red Yell]

I'm voting for whoever puts the most leaflets through my door. Labour currently in the lead with 3 leaflets and a letter.

 

Got a Labour leaflet through from our local MP Douglas Alexander last week declaring this election a two horse race between Labour and the Tories. Now while I said pretty much that in my post above, to put it on a leaflet sent out to an SNP/Lib Dem-run town is a bit stupid.

[Norman]

I'm voting for the "Playgrounds for Grown-Ups Party". They're hoping for a big swing.

 

They're up against the "Overweight Train-Spotters Party" who are standing on a broad platform and the "Amnesiac Sperm Donors Party" who are hoping not to lose their deposit.

 

All jokes courtesy of The Now Show.

[Lionel J. Botch]

I live in Maryhill, so Labour by a good few thousand majority, whether I like it or not.

[jaggybunnet]

I live in Maryhill, so Labour by a good few thousand majority, whether I like it or not.

 

 

i am realy sorry for you no one should have to put up with that

[Woodstock Jag]

i am realy sorry for you no one should have to put up with that

 

I know. Living in Maryhill must be miserable. Just ask the occupants at 80 Firhill Road.

[B.C.G. JAG]

I voted differently from how I did on the old forum. I think I must be a floating voter, I do feel pretty light headed today. I think these TV debates have really blown it wide open. I may actually vote for who I really want, just for once

[Blackpool Jags]

I'll be voting Labour whether I like it or not. That's me told.

[nickthejag]

Interesting to see Lib Dem's in the lead. Will also be intersting to see how many people come election day stick with them and don't shift to one of the other two to stop labour/tories getting in.

[crazy davie]

zzzzzzzz...

[Guest mod2]

zzzzzzzz...

 

Wake up Davie, it's all been a dream, Ian Anderson is still Prime Minister

[Tam]

I voted by post in the General Election today. I don't like queues

[jaggybunnet]

I'll be voting Labour whether I like it or not. That's me told.

 

 

you can get tablets at the doctors for that you know

[Mediocre Pundit]

I voted differently from how I did on the old forum. I think I must be a floating voter, I do feel pretty light headed today. I think these TV debates have really blown it wide open. I may actually vote for who I really want, just for once

Saw the light, have you?

[B.C.G. JAG]

Saw the light, have you?

"run to the light, Carol Anne. Run as fast as you can...

[Vladimir Putin]

I'm voting in a Lib-Dem/Labour marginal, so as long it's a hung parliament and nothing happens that shouldn't happen (i.e Nick Clegg doing a deal with the Devil. I'm pretty sure he won't, as I imagine 95% of Lib-Dem members would want him set alight if he did) I'm not too bothered who wins my consituency.

 

I love the irony of Dave's situation in a hung parliament if the Tories win the most seats. The only way for him to get into governement is to agree to a new voting system that would see them almost permanently excluded from government. That's revenge for Thatcher.

[Mr Scruff]

I'm voting in a Lib-Dem/Labour marginal, so as long it's a hung parliament and nothing happens that shouldn't happen (i.e Nick Clegg doing a deal with the Devil. I'm pretty sure he won't, as I imagine 95% of Lib-Dem members would want him set alight if he did) I'm not too bothered who wins my consituency.

There's also a problem if he doesn't look prepared to do 'a deal with the devil'. If Labour aren't the biggest party they will effectively have squandered a large majority to the extent that they've been kicked out by the electorate. For Nick Clegg being seen to prop up an unpopular governemtn would be a high risk strategy.

 

In my constituency I'm considering voting Lib Dems precisely because they're the best placed opposition to the incumbent Labour candidate. Pretty crap if that vote then simply goes to support the current administration....

[Chris near Oxford]

There's also a problem if he doesn't look prepared to do 'a deal with the devil'. If Labour aren't the biggest party they will effectively have squandered a large majority to the extent that they've been kicked out by the electorate. For Nick Clegg being seen to prop up an unpopular governemtn would be a high risk strategy.

 

In my constituency I'm considering voting Lib Dems precisely because they're the best placed opposition to the incumbent Labour candidate. Pretty crap if that vote then simply goes to support the current administration....

 

It is not as if the Lib Dems are your actual breath of fresh air, with no track record in this. If you look at councils the Lib Dems are twice as likely to go into a coalition with the Conservatives as Labour. 18 LibDem/Conservative Councils to 8 LibDem/Labour councils.

 

So their on-the-ground activists appear to be very ready to do a deal with the Conservatives.

 

And in all likelihood that is what is going to happen.

Edited April 27, 2010 by Chris near Oxford

[Vladimir Putin]

It is not as if the Lib Dems are your actual breath of fresh air, with no track record in this. If you look at councils the Lib Dems are twice as likely to go into a coalition with the Conservatives as Labour. 18 LibDem/Conservative Councils to 8 LibDem/Labour councils.

 

So their on-the-ground activists appear to be very ready to do a deal with the Conservatives.

 

And in all likelihood that is what is going to happen.

 

There's a difference between forming a coalition in council politics (something which happens regularly) and forming a coalition at Westminster though. How much of a factor is Europe in local government? It isn't, but it becomes a big issue when talking about Lib-Dem support for a Eurosceptic Cameron government, and I'm sure most Lib-Dems would be horrified at the allies any incoming Tory government have already made in Europe. Clegg himself and other Lib-Dems have been pretty vocal on this recently.

 

It also just doesn't make sense. Does anyone not think that the Lib-Dems are closer to Labour on most of the important issues? A majority of voters will vote for either Labour or the Lib-Dems, which is a vote for safeguarding the recovery against ideological Conservative cuts, a vote for good relations with Europe as opposed to pointless fights with France and Germany, a vote for the possibility of electoral reform, and a vote against inheritance tax giveaways to only the ricest in society while emerging from a severe recession. For the Lib-Dems to deal with the Conservatives instead of Labour on the grounds that one aspect of the electoral system is unfair, when in fact the entire system is unfair, would impose a Conservative government that most people don't want.

[Chris near Oxford]

There's a difference between forming a coalition in council politics (something which happens regularly) and forming a coalition at Westminster though. How much of a factor is Europe in local government? It isn't, but it becomes a big issue when talking about Lib-Dem support for a Eurosceptic Cameron government, and I'm sure most Lib-Dems would be horrified at the allies any incoming Tory government have already made in Europe. Clegg himself and other Lib-Dems have been pretty vocal on this recently.

 

It also just doesn't make sense. Does anyone not think that the Lib-Dems are closer to Labour on most of the important issues? A majority of voters will vote for either Labour or the Lib-Dems, which is a vote for safeguarding the recovery against ideological Conservative cuts, a vote for good relations with Europe as opposed to pointless fights with France and Germany, a vote for the possibility of electoral reform, and a vote against inheritance tax giveaways to only the ricest in society while emerging from a severe recession. For the Lib-Dems to deal with the Conservatives instead of Labour on the grounds that one aspect of the electoral system is unfair, when in fact the entire system is unfair, would impose a Conservative government that most people don't want.

 

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But their activists prefer to work with the Tories twice as often as Labour. In the 22 councils where they could form a working coalition with the Tories or Labour, they chose the Tories 15 times.

 

The Labour Party is deeply unpopular in the rural south where the Tories and Lib Dems are face-to-face. Any suggestion that they would back a Labour government could those them a lot of seats down here.