UK General Election- May 6th

[BeBMan]

In case of a hung parliament, will there be a coalition or just a minority gov and changing majorities with single issues?

[ricketyclik]

The Conservative over-arching theme: "A 'big society' rather than a big state".

That sounds like a direct rebuttal of Thatcher

[ricketyclik]

In case of a hung parliament, will there be a coalition or just a minority gov and changing majorities with single issues?

Never try to anticipate the outcome of a hung parliament.

[BeBMan]

Never try to read stuff into my posts that isn't there.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

In case of a hung parliament, will there be a coalition or just a minority gov and changing majorities with single issues?

The other possibility is a vote of no confidence followed by another election.

[Krill]

The other possibility is a vote of no confidence followed by another election.

Labour wouldn't dare do that - they need to get a credible leader and bed him in first. Nor would the Lib Dems if they got a decent amount of seats. Only way I could see that working would be if the Tories got completely screwed and somehow lost seats to Labour, and Lid Dems don't make many gains.

[Wezil]

The other possibility is a vote of no confidence followed by another election.

Welcome to our political wasteland.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Interesting to see the right-wing press concentrating on smearing a LibDem leader. That's something I've not seen before in the seven previous General Elections I can remember.

[Cort Haus]

The Guardian have a swing-o-meter toy too. You can view the effects on your own constituency. In mine, (Islington North), even the max allowed 10% swing away from Labour won't shift the Labour incumbent. Under 1st-past-the-post, individual votes seem meaningless in constituencies with large majorities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/apr/05/general-election-map-swingometer

[Cort Haus]

Check out your MPs voting record :

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/index.php

[C0ckney]

it's getting really interesting now, a genuine 3 horse race. the 'clegg bounce' following the first leader's debate has receeded, but only slightly and most polls still have the lib dems level with labour or one or two points ahead. the tories are polling between 33% and 36% of the vote, so it looks like we're heading for a hung parliament.

meanwhile brown's new strategy of meeting ordinary voters has suffered something of a setback

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm shorting the Pound. So, please, all Polytubbies vote in the Lib Dems! Make BK some money.

[OzzyKP]

LibDems

[MOBIUS]

Looking forward to tonight - can Clegg make it a clean sweep and maintain the momentum?

[BeBMan]

meanwhile brown's new strategy of meeting ordinary voters has suffered something of a setback

The Brown disaster was funny, but what did the woman actually say to him that sparked his comments?