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Your vote for the 2015 General Election

Im in a safe labour seat with Rachael Reeves as the mp - so TUSC - if their standing or green. Id be voting labour if it was a marginal though.
 
The thing that most makes me dislike TUSC is that every time I see the acronym I think of Fleetwood Mac.

:grr:
 
So far Nicola Sturgeon is by far my favorite politico in this election and I'm English. She comes across as the most genuine one by a long shot.
 
bemused said:
So far Nicola Sturgeon is by far my favorite politico in this election and I'm English. She comes across as the most genuine one by a long shot.
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She's not in this election. Which opens up a question about debates for someone looking to stir up trouble i suppose - why should someone not standing take part?
 
I'll tell you this much: The way Chuka Umumuna and Matthew Bennett have behaved, I'd be reluctant to vote Labour at the next election except as a last resort to get the ConDems out.
 
butchersapron said:
She's not in this election. Which opens up a question about debates for someone looking to stir up trouble i suppose - why should someone not standing take part?
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But her party is. Of which she's the leader.

Or is it a "leaders who are also standing" debate?
 
danny la rouge said:
But her party is. Of which she's the leader.

Or is it a "leaders who are also standing" debate?
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In the end it's the "whoever the TV companies who are organising it decide to invite" debate.

It would be interesting to see Cameron argue that he's not prepared to share the stage with Sturgeon, but he'll happily do so with whoever leads the SNP at Westminster, for instance
 
danny la rouge said:
Oh, absolutely. Them even considering inviting SNP, Plaid and the Greens is in itself a turn up.

If the BBC had its way, it'd be Farage talking to a mirror.
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I've just confirmed my recollection that in 2010 it was just leaders of the top three parties.

Who (other than Farage for obvious reasons) was originally pushing for it be expanded this time?
 
danny la rouge said:
The *then* top three parties.
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Obviously the top three at that moment in time. But there's nothing sacred about the idea that it must be three, presumably it was reckoned that those three were the significant (however you choose to measure that) ones, and all the others were not significant, or at least not significant enough.

But this time round, it's far less the case that there is a neat divide between significant and not, so more scope for jostling and arguing that your own party should be in.
 
andysays said:
Obviously the top three at that moment in time. But there's nothing sacred about the idea that it must be three, presumably it was reckoned that those three were the significant (however you choose to measure that) ones, and all the others were not significant, or at least not significant enough.

But this time round, it's far less the case that there is a neat divide between significant and not, so more scope for jostling and arguing that your own party should be in.
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I think (although I'm not certain) what happened is that UKIP were assumed by the TV stations this time, and SNP, Greens etc argued that they were bigger than UKip by some measure (members, polling, predicted MPs, depending on the party) and so should be included too.

I'm extremely unlikely to watch, mind you.
 
danny la rouge said:
The *then* top three parties.
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The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned. It's not like they are actually going to have a real debate, just roll out press scripted points.

It's like F1 you don't really watch for the finish, just the crashes.

I would suggest one change; make George Galloway and David Starky co-hosts.
 
How will I vote?
I have just checked the list of candidates listed and it seems we have a Class War candidate and five shades of Tory, inc the current labour MP with a six thousand majority from 2010!
 
Andrew Hertford said:
The only joke here is your boast of ‘scars’ and your claim that people only vote Green or Labour to salve their consciences. :)
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I mentioned my scars (on scalp and right knee) because they were gotten during rucks on demos. I mentioned them after you'd given it the biggun about how you'd been "opposing the far right since the seventies", as if that somehow made you stand out from a crowd in the '70s (maybe it did in Hicksville, but not round here in this part of Southwest London). Interesting that I'm supposed to take your claims on trust, but that you have licence to accuse me of either bending the truth or boasting.:)
And I haven't claimed that people only vote Green or Labour to salve their consciences. I said that some people do.
Still, expecting accuracy from you is a bit much, isn't it?
 
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