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

[Hifly]

The Labour Party was founded to represent the interests of the Labour movement and working people. This is also why it's called the "Labour Party", and not "The Progressive Party" or "The Social Liberal Party".

This is also why it has been a longstanding tradition in the party that social issues are matters of conscience, which is why there have always been a wide variety of views on these issues. This also helps explain why support and opposition to Abortion and Homosexual Law Reform has always been bipartisan.
People who do not understand this are misinformed, insane and are not worth listening to (there are many).

The issue of Progress is that it stands for a radically different agenda to that pushed by the union movement. This is why the union movement has pushed for its expulsion.
GMB's opinion and investigation (.zip): http://liberalconspiracy.org/images/misc/progress/progress.zip

[Hifly]

Nicola Sturgeon is impressive! Miliband isn't doing bad either.

My dad's hilarious reaction to Leanne Wood's "Wales deserves an additional £1.2 billion" was "Why?"

[Hifly]

sh**t Sturgeon you've got style woman

[Hifly]

Opposition leaders' debate right now. The first question was Ed bashing from all fronts. This is probably how it will continue.

[Hifly]

Usual health warnings apply.

This is now old news.

[Hifly]

Are Carswell and Farage the only UKIP candidates with a semi-serious chance of winning?

The candidate in Thurrock.

[Hifly]

Will Simon Hughes lose?

It depends on whether his personal popularity will be enough to counteract the general wreckage, which is very hard to tell.

Having canvassed in his constituency recently, I can vouch for his personal popularity, especially in social housing.
It's a toss of the coin as to who'll prevail in Bermondsey.

[Hifly]

Just finished my last round of deliveries. Convincing UKIP-leaners to vote Labour instead is a wonderful feeling. No idea exactly what's going to happen tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'm up from 7am for the next 22 bloody hours. Wish me luck.