Cobracure wrote:
Clegg is holed below the waterline, if he doesnt "abdicate" (the word he used in an interview) then 7% in a general election will worse than decimate the amount of Liberal Dems in 2015.
Well over half of those that vote Liberal do not believe in food banks, hitting the unemployed, disabled and generally disadvantaged as has happened in the past couple of years. Hence hardly any of us voting for them on the 22nd.
And if you think being unemployed is a cushy life, you should see the new form / booklet they have introduced in Jan 2014.
Fortunately, I am employed currently, but it is temporary and going back to the Job Centre Minus is not something I think I can face due to its utter complete inability to find
anyone a job and its new target for sanctioning people to reduce the figures.
2015 will be a new hung parliament, but will it really be Labour / UKIP? its as hard to imagine as a Con / Liberal one.
Good to hear from you Cobracure, long time no speak.
(I know we haven't seen eye to eye politically in the past, but it's always good to see old faces returning. I am, though, sorry to hear of your troubles).
In terms of your points, I agree about Clegg - he's Dead Man Walking I'm afraid, much as I personally think this is entirely unfair (albeit he has not handled "media situations" at all well). His chalice was poisoned, and almost impossible from the start of the Coalition IMO - and yet history will surely acknowledge his political bravery?
As regards no chance of a Con/LD Coalition - why not? People said that last time; they then said it wouldn't last a year; they then said it would all be an horrific failure, both economically and politically. All wrong as it goes, on all counts.
The reason why I personally think it's unlikely is that the LD vote will collapse at the GE, so they won't have any (or very few) seats, certainly nowhere near 60-odd, and so just won't have the clout? But where are these hitherto LD voters going to go? Labour?? Pfft.
As for Labour/UKIP - absolutely no chance; the Unions would never wear it for one thing.
I'm hoping the economy strengthens considerably further (it's no motoring at >3% annual growth), so that by the time of the GE, people vote Conservative as an outright majority (though I'd still prefer a Con/Lib coalition).