Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
up the tykes!
Lib Dem Polls - How Low Can They Go?
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nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Yeah and UKIP while increasing their share of the vote were a distant 12,000 votes behind Labour. The BNP were down by -2.9%. This is hardly a great night for the far right.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
BNP and UKIP didn't do well though. Tories and Lib Dems did THAT badly.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
You say that there isn't "anything positive" because your party lost spectacularly.
It was probably all the people who had voted Lib-Dem during the new-labour era switching back to Labour. The coalition gives Labour a chance to win back all those people who have an ingrained hatred towards the Conservatives. If you look at the polls there is a symmetrical rise in the Labour support as Lib Dem support drops. Most of my effort is focused within my own ward at the moment, and what we are doing locally in the Lib Dem/Labour coalition that runs my local authority.
What will annoy me more, is that I have to go to UKIP conference this weekend for work, and i’m going to have to sit around listening to them crow on about coming second.
Yes, you are probably right, that is some solace. I'd rather my party did badly, then BNP or UKIP do well.
Beautiful. is this the official line then? A victory for the hard right, not a pathetic failure by the lib dems?
You couldn't make it up.
No I’m not the official line, just one person on a forum board. It is a pathetic failure, losing a deposit is an embarrassment.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hahaha you are going to break bread with faranges cronies. Lol indeed.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Your logic is fatally flawed.
You're going to be shitting solace after May then
I'm more concerned about whether the local Lib/Lab coalition will hold or whether the council will go back to the Tories.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
past caring
The Cathars were right
That fact alone probably accounts for about 50% of the vote that you did get.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Hello TL - I'm with you to a degree on this in that I think the far right is better placed, than for want of a better phrase, the hard left, to take electoral advantage of the coalition's misfortunes. A lot of left votes will go to Labour and to a lesser extent the Greens. At another level I'm not too worried by this since I don't think that either the hard left or the ballot box are the places to look for the answers to the mess we find ourselves in.
Cheers and take care - Louis McNeice
Not a chance locally.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
fractionMan
Custom Title
Look, some researchers have come up with the nano violin string. I'm off to make the body.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Hah, typical LD - always looking at the small picture. Like admiring leaf buds as the tree falls on top of you.
In May, outside of trad. heartlands, you're getting a royal fucking from the electorate
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Also within trad heartlands - unless propped up by the tories as we saw happen in Oldham and Saddleworth.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
shit-beat me to it!
SW London's a BIG heartland for them-and I'm told libdems down there are crying with relief at being three years away from the next council elections
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
In the current situation I'd have though LDs would be viewing getting anything over 1% of the vote as a triumph. An election where you actually get the votes of all your party members should be seen as a success.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
tb(grudgingly!)f,he's taking this on the chin
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