MidlandMainlie
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Anyhow as we only have a little over 5 months till the general election has anybody got any thoughts on what form the next government will take?
Based on current polls neither the Conservatives or Labour will win enough seats to gain an overall majority so a coalition is looking likely. My guess is that it will be a Labour/SNP coalition.
EDIT: Good article in the Guardian discussing the rise of the SNP in Scotland
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...cotland-general-election-2015-snp-westminster
Based on current polls neither the Conservatives or Labour will win enough seats to gain an overall majority so a coalition is looking likely. My guess is that it will be a Labour/SNP coalition.
EDIT: Good article in the Guardian discussing the rise of the SNP in Scotland
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...cotland-general-election-2015-snp-westminster
Labour is on course for a bloodbath in Scotland in 2015, according to a special Guardian/ICM online poll.
The Scottish National party, which took only 20% of the vote in the 2010 general election, has subsequently more than doubled its vote to reach a commanding 43% of the prospective poll next May. Scottish Labour, which secured a very strong 42% in Gordon Brown’s homeland last time around, has since tumbled by 16 points to just 26%.
The Conservatives sink from 2010’s 17% to 13%, while the great bulk of the 19% share that the Liberal Democrats scored last time around is wiped out as they fall by 13 points to 6%.
On a uniform swing, these results – which are reinforced by a recent Survation poll for the Daily Record – would entirely redraw the political map. Labour’s band of 41 Scottish MPs would be reduced to a parliamentary rump of just 10 members....
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