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

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

Um...

Is that a political party or a cult?

With that name I'm thinking less 'cult' and more 'fifties B-movie that missed out by not being quite bad enough for Mystery Science Theater 3000'.

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

Can somebody explain why UKIP seems to be targeting the areas around the Thames Estuary? What is it about this area that's so (relatively) amenable to them? For some reason I'd previously been under the impression that their greatest strength was in the West Country.

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

Who will benefit from the baby bump?

Duchess of Cambridge in early stages of labour - BBC

Hopefully nobody because the royal family isn't supposed to be an object of politics in this way, but I'm probably being too optimistic.

[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?