2015 UK General Election

They lead in the other two sites I made polls in, and by some way! Maybe it's Rotherham, maybe it's the HS2 carving up the countryside, oppressive speed cameras, NHS parking fees or houses being built on greenbelt land, who knows? 

Could also be Labour ruining the economy and inviting Islamists in en masse or just the Cons failing to deliver on their biggest promises.

Maybe protest votes 

 

as a general rule of thumb, if you want to support a party with a social conscience in the forthcoming UK elections, choose one with a female leader...

Not that you would notice. I suspect that they really want to put as much political distance between themselves and the UKIPpers as possible. Farage isn't saying things that we all suspect that Cameron secretly wants to say, they are ideologically poles apart.

I'm not sure what the Tories are doing to be honest, and I get the feeling that neither do they. All the parties seem to have acknowledged that the election will be close and probably result in yet-another coalition government. Labour are still fighting to win while the Tories appear to be resigned to losing. As the left-leaning smaller parties are queuing up to side with Labour it's leaving the Tories and UKIP looking like the tubby lad in National Health glasses who is last to be picked for playground football and the asthmatic kid with an unfortunate case of tourettes. If they are counting on the support of the Lib/Dems then I think they are in for a bit of a shock, Corporal Clegg will side with the winning team no matter who they are.

I expect that the Lib/Dems will lose a lot of votes but not that many seats and the other smaller parties will gain votes but no more seats - such is the nature of first-past-the-post balloting. 

 

I know exactly how you feel and can sympathise. I grew up in an area where Nicholas Ridley was the MP, with the adjoining constituencies incumbents being Norman Fowler and Douglas Hurd, all of whom had majorities of around 20,000. Whilst working for the YHA in generally affluent parts of the country, my predicament was the same... because I've never been a disciple of free market economics, my vote has regrettably never counted for anything.