2015 UK General Election

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11589978/Tower-Hamlets-anti-vote-leaflets-urging-StayMuslimDontVote-stuck-to-car-windscreens.html

Per Guardian:

Conservatives: 316

Labour: 239

SNP: 58

Lib Dems: 10

Plaid Cymru: 4

Greens: 2

Ukip: 2

Edited by Padraic - May 07 2015 at 16:08

wow - this looks like a big gap

Labour got my vote, although in my neck of the woods it's basically farting into a hurricane. The Green manifesto was the one I liked best, so they got my vote for the local council ( and in Europe last year, for all the good it did).

Katie Hopkins vowed to leave the country if Ed Milliband becomes PM, which is reason enough to support Labour in itself.

Icarium wrote: what is Plaid Cymru?

Edited by Dean - May 07 2015 at 18:22

Can Miliband survive this result?

Padraic wrote: Can Miliband survive this result?

Nope, it is clear even with these early results he won't.

Well Labour set themselves up for this when they appointed the "wrong" Milliband.  A knee jerk reaction by the Unions after the moderate Blair-Brown years.  I can pretty much guarantee that with his brother in charge of the party they would be in power this morning.  I've been a Labour voter all my life but simply do not trust Milliband (Ed) to run the country.

To be fair, I do not think the Tories have done too bad in this term.  The economy is looking better for a start, though I concede it couldn't have got worse.  Whilst I certainly do not agree with most of the Tory policies they have some things right, and I remember when doing my Economics A level (in the deep and distant past ) that I always thought their fiscal policy seemed the right way to go about things.  My teacher, a grizzled hard-core Labour veteran, verging on Communist, confided in me that he too thought their monetary policy made more sense ().

Will it be an overall majority?  It's going to be close.

Note the Lib-Dems have been virtually wiped off the face of the earth.  That's as a result of jumping into bed with the Tories, their credibility has been destroyed.  They were always pretty close to Labour back in the day, remember the Lib-Lab pact anybody?

So..Dave and Gideon keep their hand up history's skirt. No King Nigel 1st. Ed milliamp can return to his own planet. A triumph for the importance of voting. UKIP get 13% and one seat. Would be a travesty had it not happened to a load of racists. Cheerio Nigel. Shut the door as you go.

Edited by NutterAlert - May 08 2015 at 06:10

NutterAlert wrote: A triumph for the importance of voting. UKIP get 13% and one seat. Would be a travesty had it not happened to a load of racists. Cheerio Nigel. Shut the door as you go.

It IS a travesty and will only add to the alienation increasing numbers of people feel about the current political system. One party (UKIP) only gets one MP for well over 3 million votes, while another (SNP) gets an MP for every 20,000-25,000. Absurd and hopefully this will be a catalyst for major electoral reform.