Best political poster in years must be the Tory one of Milliband in Alex Salmond's pocket.
Hope the Tories cover Scotland with it.
Not as good as William Hague with a twinset and pearls
Best political poster in years must be the Tory one of Milliband in Alex Salmond's pocket.
Hope the Tories cover Scotland with it.
It's less of a possibility and more of a certainty based on most of the polls, labour are polling anywhere from 3 to 10 percent ahead of Nick in Sheffield so it's increasinly likely he will be facing a Portillo moment. To add to this the SNP will certainly take current chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander's scottish seat so it'll be quite the culling on election night.But I think Mr Cameron will be watching events closely in the seat of Sheffield Hallam. There's a real possibility that the current deputy prime minister is going to lose his seat. And with their current LibDem deputy leader, Malcolm Bruce, stepping at this election, this will leave the LibDems leaderless. So attempts to continue the Con/LibDem coalition are going to be tricky.
The could is almost a certainty scottish labour are more incompetent than the rest of labour, they seem unable to produce any correct statistics and Kezia Dugdale is yet to successfully perform at FMQs - shes managed to forget labour control glasgow City council and attack the anti-austerity SNP for voting against their motion for austerity.The other big news stories of this election could be:
Labour are wiped out in Scotland
UKIP come second in around 50-100 seats
It's less of a possibility and more of a certainty based on most of the polls, labour are polling anywhere from 3 to 10 percent ahead of Nick in Sheffield so it's increasinly likely he will be facing a Portillo moment. To add to this the SNP will certainly take current chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander's scottish seat so it'll be quite the culling on election night.
Can't wait for the new derivative of "Spitting Image" to appear on our screens
You highlight some key loses for the LibDems with implications for any attempts by David Cameron to continue the current coalition. That's if the parliamentary numbers add up and there's a desire on either side to negotiate. If we do have a hung parliament, by convention the sitting PM will have first opportunity to form a new government.
This article...
http://www.liberal-vision.org/2015/02/26/what-if-nick-clegg-loses-his-seat-at-the-election/
... if the deputy PM does lose his seats, it could turn into a farce. I shall, of course, be transfixed !
If you live in Scotland, have a vote and tell the Tories you want to vote for them, they'll send a chauffeur-driven car to take you from your house to the polling station, and back again afterwards. If they were allowed to they'd probably throw in a champagne breakfast!
If you live in Scotland, have a vote and tell the Tories you want to vote for them, they'll send a chauffeur-driven car to take you from your house to the polling station, and back again afterwards. If they were allowed to they'd probably throw in a champagne breakfast!
If that's the case I'll give up my Postal Vote forthwith - if they throw in a Cigar as well
I'm starting to think Cameron's cost himself any remaining chance of being re-elected as PM with this debates fiasco. In addition, I'm watching Ed Miliband's appearance on BBC's Free Speech programme, and he's doing a decent job at the moment with the questions. Apparently, Ed's approval ratings have gone up by 7 or 8% this week, if Mike Smithson of PoliticalBetting (great politics website btw) is correct.
I believe Labour will get around 300-305 seats, and then cobble a coalition together with the 30 or so Lib Dem MPs that remain after May.
Just don't see that happen. On Wednesday, we have the Budget. And I think the Conservatives are just ahead in the polls to make a difference.
Sticking with my crystal ball prediction of some sort of Conservative/LibDem/UKIP/DUP grouping.
http://may2015.com/featured/tories-lead-by-20-seats-and-are-now-on-course-to-win-this-election/
Grant Shapps revealed today as a lying scumbag. Dodgy Dave certainly knows how to pick 'em.
I do hope this isn't going to be the tone over the next few weeks. This story is trivial, just like "kitchengate". Sensible debate, please.Grant Shapps revealed today as a lying scumbag. Dodgy Dave certainly knows how to pick 'em.
Technically if Nick Clegg lost his seat, could he remain as Deputy Prime Minster as I didn't think you needed to be an MP to have those titles. If you did, we'd have no Prime Minster during the election period.You highlight some key loses for the LibDems with implications for any attempts by David Cameron to continue the current coalition. That's if the parliamentary numbers add up and there's a desire on either side to negotiate. If we do have a hung parliament, by convention the sitting PM will have first opportunity to form a new government.
This article...
http://www.liberal-vision.org/2015/02/26/what-if-nick-clegg-loses-his-seat-at-the-election/
... if the deputy PM does lose his seats, it could turn into a farce. I shall, of course, be transfixed !
Tories and UKIP are a zero sum game as every UKIP MP elected is one less Tory MP elected
Ummm, I don't like the Conservatives very much, and I'm more often than not on 'your' side of these debates, but really... the fact that someone once made a mistake about precisely what date they stopped working in some job does not make them a 'lying scumbag', it just makes them a normal human being with a somewhat fallible memory - the same as everyone else.
Not necessarily. UKIP also threatens some Labour seats, as they demonstrated at the Heywood and Middleton by-election where they reduced Labour's majority from over 6000 to 617.
I actually wanted this coalition in the first place and despite people saying it would never happen, it did.
It's not perfect but I don't think others would have done better.
You're far too kind. Shapps has has repeatedly denied having a second job for three years. He went on live radio just three weeks ago and stated three times that he was not doing business as Michael Green while he was an MP, when new reports and audio tonight show quite clearly that he did.
Hes not any old MP hes chairman of the Conservative party and he was talking specifically in an interview about second jobs and he had a second job.
Rather more than just having a "fallible memory" don't you think ?
politics.co.uk said:Political Scrapbook, which has done much of the heavy lifting on the Shapps story, told Politics.co.uk it received a total of seven separate legal letters from solicitors acting for the Tory chairman, calling for it to remove material from the website. Despite the warnings, no proceedings were initiated.
Wikipedia said:Shapps's Wikipedia article has repeatedly been edited from his office, both to correct errors and to remove embarrassing information.
This story is trivial, just like "kitchengate". Sensible debate, please.
To me the letters do not look overly threatening, given that they are from solicitors attempting to stop an alleged defamation.
Very soon that will be a requirement on the radio and TV no doubt they everyone conforms of Ofcom regulations or face fines or sackings. In the mean time newspaper sill be able to print whatever they like and say whatever they like. They will even be able to ignore whoever they like.. unlike TV and radio.I wonder if we could stop using silly nicknames and start referring to people by their actual names? If nothing else it would make it easier to work out who are being referred to.
Personally I want the status quo. The same.
To me the letters do not look overly threatening, given that they are from solicitors attempting to stop an alleged defamation. Perhaps I have atougher skin than the recipient.