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

[© tweed]

no discussion of the bombshell Russell Brand (qualified) Labour endorsement / interview w/Ed Miliband?

Russell Brand is irrelevant in the British political scene. Most Labour voters consider him to be a cockney twat.

if so, why did Miliband agree to the whole scene?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wait, why does the right wing of Labour distrust bourgeois parties (more than the center does, at least)

Key word is 'traditional'. The people who love trade unions but who also don't mind nukes (for want of a better way of putting it).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

no discussion of the bombshell Russell Brand (qualified) Labour endorsement / interview w/Ed Miliband?

Russell Brand is irrelevant in the British political scene. Most Labour voters consider him to be a cockney twat.

if so, why did Miliband agree to the whole scene?

Certainly Brand carries more influence than The Independent these days

[ag]

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 am inbetween

Lab 81%
Con 78%
LD 76%
SNP 71%
SF 71%
Green 70%
PC 69%
UKIP 60%
DU 43%
BNP 17%

Side with Conservatives on environment, education and healthcare, side with Greens on immigration, with LibDems on Domestic Policy and Economy and with Plaid on Foreign Policy (?)

Should move to St. Ives Always felt it for Cornwall

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Labour 95%
Lib Dem 89%
SF 86%
UKIP 30%
Tory 15%

Reddest constituencies are in Glasgow/Lanarkshire, Tyneside, and South Yorkshire. Other parts of Scotland and individual constituencies in the Wirral, the West Midlands, Greater London, and South Wales are also red. Bluest constituencies are in the Home Counties and Eastern England generally.

Apparently I'm worryingly close to the BNP on education policy...? The most obvious explanation for that is that I must not understand British education policy very well. Or is this a token issue that the BNP is non-insane/evil on?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

LibDems - 95%
Labour - 94%
Green - 81%
Conservative - 51%
UKIP - 36%

[Vega]

Labour - 76
Conservatives - 68
UKIP - 64
Lib Dems - 58

Also, how is George Galloway doing in Bradford West?

[Vosem]

Conservatives 93%
UK Independence 88%
Liberal Democrats 66%
Labour 61%
Green 17%

[© tweed]

I got Labour 98 / Green 98 / SNP 97.

[seb_pard]

Labour 94%
Green 93%
SNP 91%
Liberal Democrats 87%
PC 86%
SF 86%
UKIP 46%
Conservatives 44%
BNP 30%
DUP 16%

[ChrisDR68]

87% Liberal Democrats
86% Labour
85% UK Independence Party
73% Green
67% Conservatives

So the party I've already voted for (by postal vote) comes out on top (just)

My political beliefs constituency is Liverpool Riverside (which is where I used to work until 5 years ago funnily enough) and according to this quiz I'm a centrist on the ideological scale.

[Phony Moderate]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/u-k-election-exit-pollster-says-his-poll-may-be-vague-or-wrong

[Phony Moderate]

I had an election night dream last night - well an exit poll one to be precise (hence the link I posted above). It had Con 300ish, Lab 240ish, Lib Dems 25ish, SNP 55ish, UKIP 5ish and Greens 63 (yes). Bennett was the first person to be asked for a reaction to the exit poll...she was like "oh, um, errr, ah, hehehe" - understandably not very believing of it...not surprising, as it polled many seats that do not exist.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

UKIP - 93%
Tories  - 90%
Lib Dems - 25%
Labour - 19%
Green - 1%

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/u-k-election-exit-pollster-says-his-poll-may-be-vague-or-wrong

Will be interested to see how well they do, particularly north of the Tweed.

[Phony Moderate]

Internals for latest YouGov Scottish poll: http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/tbq1budwf1/SundayTimes_Scotland_150501_VI_Trackers_Website.pdf

Sturgeon's personal rating reaches a new high of 75%.

[136or142]

78% Labour
76% Conservative
72% Liberal Democrat

Your political beliefs would be considered Centrist on an ideological scale.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

UKIP - 93%
Tories  - 90%
Lib Dems - 25%
Labour - 19%
Green - 1%

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/u-k-election-exit-pollster-says-his-poll-may-be-vague-or-wrong

Will be interested to see how well they do, particularly north of the Tweed.

Lol ... that's a scary result.

[Double Carpet]

A final call if anyone would like to play the free-to-enter election game for the UK, it's available at:

electiongame.co.uk/uk15/

Entries close 7pm BST tomorrow.

Many thanks,

DC

[Tetro Kornbluth]

This is a leaflet going around in Harrow East

[Ebsy]

This is a leaflet going around in Harrow East

Pretty disgusting.

[Velasco]

"Face it, my beloved Britons: you've got a weird electoral system"

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/britain-weird-electoral-system-uk-general-election-europe?CMP=fb_gu

[Јas]

Apparently, I agree with Nick...

88   Lib Dems
84   Green
83   Labour
83    Plaid Cymru
83    SNP
80   Sinn Féin

65   Conservatives
63   UKIP

23   DUP
20   BNP

They say I'm closest to the voters of Ynys Môn.

[Barnes]

97%     Labour
94        SNP
94        Green
90        Liberal Democrats
89        Plaid Cymru
82        Sinn Fein

44        Conservative
39        UKIP
25        BNP
13        DUP

Apparently I belong in St. Ives...

[Phony Moderate]

Ashcroft: Con 32, Lab 30, UKIP 12, Lib Dems 11, Greens 7, SNP 5, Others 3

[ObserverIE]

Ashcroft: Con 32, Lab 30, UKIP 12, Lib Dems 11, Greens 7, SNP 5, Others 3

Con -4, UKIP +1, Lib Dem +2, SNP +1

#libdemsurge #toryplunge