General Election 2015

[Herr Tubthumper]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/11/labour-soar-past-tories-seven-point-lead-icm-poll

After a shambolic month where Cameron was humiliated in a EU vote, had the chair of the party resign and seen Boris position himself for the impending election defeat his lead slips further. Not even the demotion of Gove will save him.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Really, do you think labour will win? I'm betting on a hung parliament again.

 

[Silkster365]

There is absolutely zero chance of Labour winning the next election.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

There is more chance of Albion winning the Premier League in 2015 than Labour winning a general election in the same year.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

One things for sure, it'll be back to the two-horse race. Lib Dems will be back to their traditional single figure share of the vote. How many of their well-meaning supporters will trust them ever again? And these people are hardly likely to drift to the right, which is all good news for Labour.

 

[Notters]

A couple of deluded posters on this thread!

 

[Badger]

I don't see how they can get anything like an accurate poll of how people will vote next year. I reckon the majority of people are like me and really don't know who to vote for, when looking at the main parties:

Conservatives - hardly inspiring, full of Etonians who seem quite out-of-touch
Labour - haven't exactly come up with reasons to vote for them and Ed Miliband as PM
Lib Dems - never going to win, will just climb into bed with whichever party they can share power with
UKIP - god, no
Green - anything but them in Brighton

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Really, do you think labour will win? I'm betting on a hung parliament again.

You may well be right and I actually like proper coalitions; not the current nonsense with two idealogical opposed parties shoe-horned together and muddling through.

The Tories will not be running the country, this is all I really care about at the moment. One step at a time.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/11/labour-soar-past-tories-seven-point-lead-icm-poll

After a shambolic month where Cameron was humiliated in a EU vote, had the chair of the party resign and seen Boris position himself for the impending election defeat his lead slips further. Not even the demotion of Gove will save him.

It will be a hung parliament leading to lots of horse trading so I wouldn't get your socialist hopes up yet.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Think you will find that a seven point lead for the oppo this close to an election is historically very low. There is always a swing back to the incumbent in the actual vote. Labour have a big advantage that their support is more concentrated (and constituencies on average smaller) but 7 does not sound anywhere near enough to be more than largest party at best. LDs may lose a lot of seats this time; I foresee a minority government struggling for several months as in 1974 then another election.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

There is absolutely zero chance of Labour winning the next election.

They will be leading the nation one way or another.

 

[shaolinpunk]

I wouldn't be surprised to see UKIP weaken the Tory vote while disillusioned Lib Dems and the floating voters of no particular affiliation will side with Labour.

 

[Bozza]

Ed Milliband leading this great nation? Ha ha ha ha.

 

[shaolinpunk]

Ed Milliband leading this great nation? Ha ha ha ha.

He's the biggest obstacle that'll stop Labour winning

 

[beorhthelm]

You may well be right and I actually like proper coalitions; not the current nonsense with two idealogical opposed parties shoe-horned together and muddling through.

Labour and Liberals are just as ideologically opposed on many issues, just different ones to Tory/Liberal. thats why they didn't like the idea of getting into bed with Labour 4 years ago.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

It will be a hung parliament leading to lots of horse trading so I wouldn't get your socialist hopes up yet.

Socialism. What is that?

 

[peterward]

Really, do you think labour will win? I'm betting on a hung parliament again.

me to, Labour could win, seems there are enough tribal lemmings who are willing to stick their head in the sand and overlook the fact they left government having bankrupted the country (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8688470.stm) just like they did in 79. pretending that all the economic pains of recent years are not the result of cleaning up a catastrophic economic mismanagement inheritance left behind by Labour...... against Economic wizz Ed Balls constantly repeating that reducing the deficit "will not work" and there will be "zero growth", that was all ditched for the next soundbite when it proved to be bollox, "cost of living crisis"..... then as the economic situation improved further and our economy is the fastest growing in the western world....lets overlook the pathetic and impractical "energy freeze" soundbites..... be because exactly what was predicted when the ridiculous soundbite was first pushed is now happening....... with falling wholesale energy prices up to a third cheaper than 1 year ago, the energy suppliers don't drop the price to consumers.....they "freeze them" in anticipation of red ed's impending energy freeze to protect their profits, so every household today is paying up to 33% to much in anticipation of this ridiculous policy being implemented........ its economics for idiots

Yes Labour could win and bankrupt the country once more with centralised, debt riden, tax raising mismangement.... if only, if only they had picked a leader with some workable policies who was less like a bullied nerd and had a bit more charisma than a potatoe.

 

[Silkster365]

They will be leading the nation one way or another.

In not being deliberately argumentative but I honestly can't see Labour getting close. People who are opposed to the current gvmt will always happily speak out in polls, those that are quite happy with how things are being run are less likely to be so animated

Like it or not, the Tories (I'm not counting the lib dems in this) have had a mammoth task to undo labour's mess and are making real progress. People will recognise that

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

It'll be a hung parliament with Tories and UKIP running the show in a minority coalition government.

Clegg will resign after the Lib Dems' poor showing.

The era of Green Labour begins with Caroline Lucas as leader of new force in British left politics.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Just think how far ahead Labour would be with a decent leader. The Tories are there for the taking, but Miliband is a clown.