General Election Predictions

Quoted from fishheadphil

Tories and ukip for me, labour no longer represents the working class indigenous people of Britain, and anyone who questions left wing ideology is racist apparently ! Ed miliband is a communist nincompoop traitor as is ed balls up and the female dog Harman. :🎻

Really? Some would say his problem is not being left wing at all.  As for the traitor claim. How exactly?

As for Labour no longer representing the working class - possibly true, but if that is your beef going to the people who never have and never will represent the working class is not exactly a bright move is it? What next, "My bike is broken so I'll take my saucepan to work."

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Really? Some would say his problem is not being left wing at all.  As for the traitor claim. How exactly?

As for Labour no longer representing the working class - possibly true, but if that is your beef going to the people who never have and never will represent the working class is not exactly a bright move is it? What next, "My bike is broken so I'll take my saucepan to work."[/quote]

Without doubt the best line I've read this election campaign!! I've even set up my ticks/crosses facility to give you a great big green tick....

Your vote is simple really,

If you are a business person you vote Conservative,

If you are the average working Man you vote Labour,

If you are a bit between the two you vote Liberal,

If you are fed up with the above 3 you vote UKIP.

Simple  

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Really? Some would say his problem is not being left wing at all.  As for the traitor claim. How exactly?

As for Labour no longer representing the working class - possibly true, but if that is your beef going to the people who never have and never will represent the working class is not exactly a bright move is it? What next, "My bike is broken so I'll take my saucepan to work."

Love that turn of phrase KM....absolutely brilliant  

Quoted from grimsby pete

Your vote is simple really,

If you are a business person you vote Conservative,

If you are the average working Man you vote Labour,

If you are a bit between the two you vote Liberal,

If you are fed up with the above 3 you vote UKIP.

Simple  

Don't forget us north of the border Peter! I'd also suggest you don't forget wimmin either

I predict a hung parliament, resulting in a minority Labour government getting legislation voted through on a vote-by-vote basis by the SNP (predominantly), Plaid Cymru, SDLP and last but not least the 1 Green MP which is all they will realistically get.

I would probably prefer a formal coalition between the aforementioned parties, but as long as the Tories are shut out of it and the other parties bring Labour further to the left I am OK with Labour running a minority government. I don't want Tory-lite, I want a real alternative and I think they are starting to get there, I think the others could help them massively along their way.

Quoted from barralad

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Really? Some would say his problem is not being left wing at all.  As for the traitor claim. How exactly?

As for Labour no longer representing the working class - possibly true, but if that is your beef going to the people who never have and never will represent the working class is not exactly a bright move is it? What next, "My bike is broken so I'll take my saucepan to work."[/quote]

Without doubt the best line I've read this election campaign!! I've even set up my ticks/crosses facility to give you a great big green tick....

I thank you!

Can be used or any other pointless or illogical actions or policies. Like saying "we will keep those on the minimum wage out of tax, providing they work no more than 30 hours a week."

Just seen that Labour are 6/4 to pinch Clegg's Sheffield Hallam seat (a considerable student population). Would be hilarious if that happened.

Just want to say I'm baffled that UKIP are attracting so much support in Grimsby. I remember working in some of the factories (Headland, Coldwater and a couple on the docks) around 2004 / 2005 when the mini wave of Eastern European immigration happened. Nothing like the numbers people would have you believe and they made up a small fraction of the workforce. A lot of the unemployment back home is as a result of the loss of a lot of manufacturing in the area around the time of the financial crash (and slightly earlier when the owners of some factories realised they could pay less if they moved their operations to other countries) - and the knock on effect of people not having money to spend in the wider economy e.g. pubs, restaurants etc. So I read through some comments on GET articles on facebook where quite a few people genuinely have it in their head that foreigners have caused Grimsby's problems and the answer is to vote for a bunch of conceited Thatcherites, and wonder what dippy planet I'm living on.

And I say that as someone who was briefly a member of UKIP back in the Kilroy era before life experience made me realise my political perceptions were totally the opposite of reality

Well it's probably no secret that I'm a Labour supporter. Victoria Ayling is turning into a liability for UKIP. Her public performances are weak-not even her own supporters clapped her at the hustings meeting on Friday. Her performance on the Sunday Politics Show today was extremely unengaging. Therein lies UKIPs problem. Very few of their candidates match up to Nigel Farage's interpersonal skills and would be voters are being put off in droves...

Quoted from barralad

Well it's probably no secret that I'm a Labour supporter. Victoria Ayling is turning into a liability for UKIP. Her public performances are weak-not even her own supporters clapped her at the hustings meeting on Friday. Her performance on the Sunday Politics Show today was extremely unengaging. Therein lies UKIPs problem. Very few of their candidates match up to Nigel Farage's interpersonal skills and would be voters are being put off in droves...

I've just watched the Sunday Politics programme on the iplayer. Surely Victoria Ayling can't be a real person.