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

[morgieb]

Ipsos MORI phone poll: Lab 35 Con 33 UKIP 10 Green 8 Lib Dem 7.  They were ramping this as "definitely worth watching"...

Lib Dems 5th, lol.

[morgieb]

Is there any mainland Scottish seat which anyone feels confident that the SNP won't win?

Orkney & Shetlands?

EDIT: Misread the mainland qualifier.

[morgieb]

  I think the Greens would do ok with proportional representation.  Without it, they are doomed to the political wilderness, just like Green parties in all other non-PR countries, with the partial exception of France.

I dunno, Australia doesn't have PR in the Lower House and the Greens are very strong here.

[morgieb]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what are the main differences between the UUP and the DUP? And the differences bar IRA links between SF and the SDLP?

[morgieb]

if anything the fact that miliband likes bacon is a positive