UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Campaign Thread)

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm sorely tempted to vote Tory now.

This and the stone tablets ...

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Swedish News Paper coverage of the British election reaches new levels of absurdity. Aftonbladet exclaims: "Ed Milliband might be a new Thatcher. " *facepalm*

Can we just please ban media from reporting on elections in countries that are not their own?

[Velasco]

https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

97% Liberal Democrats
92% Labour
89% Green
73% Conservative
56% UKIP

Fair enough, I guess.    That's who I supported in 2010.  I still won't be upset when they are delivered a good thrashing this time, however.

I got Green 96%, Labour 95%, LibDems 84%, UKIP 28% (lol), Conservative 19%

Is there any residual Cleggmania existing today? Poor Nick seems to be everyone's favourite punching ball

[jaichind]

https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

CON   94
UKIP  78
DUP   61
LD     27
LAB   12

Interesting.   Despite this if I get to vote I would vote UKIP if tactical voting were not to take place.

[Clyde1998]

I got:

SNP - 98%
Green - 97%
Liebour - 95%
Plaid Cymru - 91%
Fib Dem - 89%
Sinn Fein - 87%
Conservative - 52%
UKIP - 44%
BNP - 37%
DUP - 24%

[Oakvale]

Lib Dems - 95%
Conservatives - 83%
Labour - 73%
Sinn Féin - 71% (presumably because I said the most important issue was to abolish the monarchy)

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Green: 96%
SNP: 93%
Labour: 91%

Plaid Cymru: 88%
Lib Dems: 87%
Sinn Fein: 82%

BNP: 56%

UKIP: 36%

Conservative: 27%

DUP: 7%

[Hash]

Labour 94%
SNP 94%
Greens 94%
LibDem 93%
Plaid 90%
Sinn Féin 90%
Tories 54%
UKIP 44%
Mona-Lisa Saperstein 3%

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Labour 89
Lib Dems 89
Greens 82
SNP 80 (lol)
Plaid 77
Sinn Fein 73

Tories 33
UKIP 13
BNP 9
DUP 8

Apparently I'm closest to the voters of Ynys Mon than any other constituency (hahahahaha).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Anyone have a summary of the polls?

UKPollingreport and Wikipedia are both good at listing all the polls.

But because a summary summary is useful sometimes, here's one. Let's take the 25th of April as our starting point, because why ever not. Polls conducted since that date have shown Labour between 36% and 30% with almost all being either at the middle or the top of that range with the Tories at between 36% and 31% with most being towards the middle of that range. The figures for the LibDems are between 11% and 7%, but actually almost all polls have them on 9% or 8%. There is more variety regarding the other parties: UKIP's range is between 17% and 10% and the Greens is between 3% and 8%.

[Sir Tiki]

83% Liberal Democrats
80% Labour
78% Scottish Nationalists
76% Green
72% Conservative
68% Plaid Cymru
66% UKIP
62% Sinn Fein

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Fun little article on the local colours that existed before colour television killed them off here. It includes pictures.

[Donerail]

Lib Dems: 90%
Labour: 89%
Green: 88%
SNP: 85%
Plaid Cymru: 79%
Sinn Fein: 79%
Conservative: 44%
UKIP: 27%
BNP: 13%
DUP: 5%

The map says I'd be popular in Glasgow, for whatever reason.

[Velasco]

I got Green 96%, Labour 95%, LibDems 84%, UKIP 28% (lol), Conservative 19%

SNP 90%, Playd Cimru 89%, Sinn Féin 87%, BNP 21%, DUP 13%

[bore]

Labour - 92
SNP - 91
Green - 89
Lib Dem - 86
Plaid - 84
Sinn Fein - 77
BNP - 46
UKIP - 44
Conservative - 43
DUP - 24

[jaichind]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/04/breathtaking-surge-of-tory-tactical-votes-to-save-nick-clegg-in-hallam-poll

Clegg talking up CON-LD post election alliance is working.

[sirius3100]

92% Labour
90% Green
89% Sinn Féin
88% SNP
88% Liberal Democrats
81% Plaid Cymru
63% Conservatives
56% UKIP

13% DUP
7%   BNP

[Hnv1]

Green 93%
Labour 92%
SNP 92%
Lib-Dem 86%
Ukip 53%
Tory 30%

If I were a Briton I'de vote Labour, though due to my personal disdain for monarchies I might be tempted to support a party which promises to abolish it

[ilikeverin]

Lib Dems 94%
Labour 93%
Green 89%
SNP 89%
Plaid Cymru 81%
Sinn Féin 79%
Conservatives 67%
UKIP 36%
BNP 24%
DUP 12%

Scrolling around the heatmap of the UK, it's telling me that I have political positions like a typical voter in Hackney, Greenwich, Streatham, Gravesend, Brighton-Pavilion, Bristol North West, Sheffield Hallam, or basically half of Scotland.  These results in general kosher pretty well with my suspicion that had I grown up in a relatively comparable situation in the UK, I'd probably be a disaffected Lib Dem at this point in time.

[Torie]

[Bacon King]

Lib Dem 94
Labour 93
Green 90
SNP 88
PC 85
SF 80

Tory 36
BNP 23
UKIP 15
DUP 3

[Torie]

Anyone have a summary of the polls?

UKPollingreport and Wikipedia are both good at listing all the polls.

But because a summary summary is useful sometimes, here's one. Let's take the 25th of April as our starting point, because why ever not. Polls conducted since that date have shown Labour between 36% and 30% with almost all being either at the middle or the top of that range with the Tories at between 36% and 31% with most being towards the middle of that range. The figures for the LibDems are between 11% and 7%, but actually almost all polls have them on 9% or 8%. There is more variety regarding the other parties: UKIP's range is between 17% and 10% and the Greens is between 3% and 8%.

I know nothing about much of this, but given all the press and polls on this election, and how skin tight it is as to which coalition might assume power explicitly or implicitly (the latter being the SNP-Labor thing), I would be shocked if there is not a ton of tactical voting which might mess up the percentages some, and projected seat totals by a bunch, with the advantage going to the Tories (the UKIP percentages go way down), and then the Lib Dems (each party helping each other where Labor is the competitor). It strikes me as a highly unusual election.

[jaichind]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32584903

Labour 'considers Lib Dem coalition'

An attempt by LAB to counter CON-LIB anti-LAB tactical voting ?

[Хahar 🤔]

Everyone should be reminded that Liberal-Conservative coalitions have taken place many times in British history, whereas coalitions of Labour with other parties lack this historical precedent.

[Phony Moderate]

There is a solid chunk of the Labour Party that will forever oppose entering into a coalition with any other party.

Oh yeah, and I was within a few feet of Cameron earlier today. Didn't actually see him though as his bus was covered in blue and "better future blah blah".