Not who you want to win, but who do you think WILL win?

[Ghost Devil]

I know many on here want the Tories to win, but who do you actually think will win?

Do you think PH is actually representative of the public feeling in general?

[NismoGT]

Hung Parliament

[Jovial Joe]

Oh.

It's you again.

fk off you prick.

Best wishes

[Trevor Hill]

Slightly off topic, but I see your government has been to Dublin to ask for financial advice. (yesterdays news, BBC and RTE) Thats like asking Rick Waller for fitness advice.
I think a hung parliament would be the best result, but the Tories should win at a canter.

[robinhood21]

NismoGT said:

Hung Parliament

Literally one hopes.

[stitched]

Trevor Hill said:

Slightly off topic, but I see your government has been to Dublin to ask for financial advice. (yesterdays news, BBC and RTE) Thats like asking Rick Waller for fitness advice.
I think a hung parliament would be the best result, but the Tories should win at a canter.

Mildly curious why a hung parliment would be a good thing?

[bonsai]

Ghost Devil said:

I know many on here want the Tories to win, but who do you actually think will win?

Do you think PH is actually representative of the public feeling in general?

They will yes, I just cannot see a hung parliament happening.

In the local government elections last year, which fewer people care about, the Conservatives demolished labour, I predict this being magnified for the General Election.

[Funkateer]

Landslide victory for the Official Monster Raving Looney party.

[Funkateer]

stitched said:

Trevor Hill said:

Slightly off topic, but I see your government has been to Dublin to ask for financial advice. (yesterdays news, BBC and RTE) Thats like asking Rick Waller for fitness advice.
I think a hung parliament would be the best result, but the Tories should win at a canter.

Mildly curious why a hung parliment would be a good thing?

There's an idealogical side to my thinking that it might instigate a fairer voting system rather than this 'First past the post' system which almost always guarantees a minority government.

However typically there's more likely to be a re-election a few months later and we'll be stuck with Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber for another 5 years.

[stitched]

Funkateer said:

stitched said:

Trevor Hill said:

Slightly off topic, but I see your government has been to Dublin to ask for financial advice. (yesterdays news, BBC and RTE) Thats like asking Rick Waller for fitness advice.
I think a hung parliament would be the best result, but the Tories should win at a canter.

Mildly curious why a hung parliment would be a good thing?

There's an idealogical side to my thinking that it might instigate a fairer voting system rather than this 'First past the post' system which almost always guarantees a minority government.

However typically there's more likely to be a re-election a few months later and we'll be stuck with Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber for another 5 years.

Problem with this is a hung parliment will not have sufficient authority to make a clear statement on the defecit and the markets will slump.
I'm all in favour of a Guy Fawkes style clear out and a democracy in its place but not at the expense of the economy.

[Trevor Hill]

stitched said:

Trevor Hill said:

Slightly off topic, but I see your government has been to Dublin to ask for financial advice. (yesterdays news, BBC and RTE) Thats like asking Rick Waller for fitness advice.
I think a hung parliament would be the best result, but the Tories should win at a canter.

Mildly curious why a hung parliment would be a good thing?

As an "outsider" I would like to see the Lib Dems or whatever they are called these days, get a say in government. I cannot remember the exact figures, but their share of the vote is not that far behind the two main parties, but they get very few seats. On the down side a hung parliament could mean one of the parties need the DUP/UUP to form a government, now that would be fun.

[AndrewW-G]

I think we'll see either a Conservative win or a hung parliament with the Conservatives being the largest of the main three, I can also see gains for UKIP with a possibility that the BNP will make significant gains in the percentages, due to protest votes although I can’t see them gaining a seat this time.

[DieselGriff]

AndrewW-G said:

I think we'll see either a Conservative win or a hung parliament with the Conservatives being the largest of the main three, I can also see gains for UKIP ...

This is actually my wish - but with enough of a scare to the conservatives so they look at and copy some UKIP policies especially around Europe and "Green" issues. I've got a feeling though that it's going to be a Labour\Lib Dem alliance.

[130R]

There won't be a hung parliament, the tories are going to win.

[robinhood21]

Seems to me that Dave will have to turn the taps on big-time, to stand the chance of an overall majority. He hasn't done that yet and, I'm beginning to think he does not want the win. God, I hope I'm wrong!

[Jasandjules]

I think the Tories will win. Just because the country wants to change, and Labour haven't been doing well.

[eldar]

Jasandjules said:

I think the Tories will win. Just because the country wants to change, and Labour haven't been doing well.

I agree, plus do you really want another 5 years of that nice Mr Brown?

[Funkateer]

robinhood21 said:

Seems to me that Dave will have to turn the taps on big-time, to stand the chance of an overall majority. He hasn't done that yet and, I'm beginning to think he does not want the win. God, I hope I'm wrong!

Perhaps he's concerned about inheriting the mess left by Labour - a lot of Labour supporters still hate what Thatch did, even though the preceding Labour government and the unions caused much of it. The same Labour supporters also hate the tax and waste Labour party - one more term of Labour would probably result in many terms of Tories after the next election.

[dilbert]

Jasandjules said:

I think the Tories will win. Just because the country wants to change, and Labour haven't been doing well.

What you perhaps don't appreciate is that many of the people that have been voting Labour, have been doing so in the knowledge that it has kept them in employment.

Under the surface of this election is a basic battle for jobs. Whilst it is not clear what either government would do if elected, things are shifting in unpredictable ways.

As an example I was watching Newsnight just the other day, and they had a piece on the NHS in London. I picked it up halfway through, and the interviewer was out and about talking to people on the streets around the hospital. He was asking the basic question "How do you feel about the proposals to merge the three hospitals in the area into a single super hospital?"

He asked three or four people that I saw. The people on the street were giving the obvious answer, that they didn't like it. I'd not seen he beginning of the piece, and I was thinking that it didn't look good for the Conservatives.

Anyhow at the end of the piece, it turned out that the merger proposal was a Labour one, and the conservatives hoped to maintain the status quo.

Central to all of this is the huge job question. People want to vote for whatever is going to keep their job, first and foremost. Now more than ever it's ambiguous. I'm fairly sure that Labour won't get a majority, but everything else is off.

Those people who have previously voted Labour to keep their job now have a problem. If they vote Labour it's pretty clear that the money isn't there to protect them, irrespective of what Labour want to do for them. What they'll vote is anyone's guess, but they may still vote Labour!

[Mazda Baiter]

Ghost Devil said:

I know many on here want the Tories to win, but who do you actually think will win?

Do you think PH is actually representative of the public feeling in general?

Don't feed the troll.

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