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Is it game over?

82 replies

Shouldof · 05/05/2015 17:33

I've been full of optimism for most of the campaign but today i feel deflated and feel that the die is cast for another 5 years of con/lib coalition.

Anyone care to reassure me there's hope for labour?

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sebsmummy1 · 05/05/2015 18:16

home is right. It's dramatic statements like that that make people think fuck it I'll vote UKIP.

chocolatelife · 05/05/2015 18:16

i think i heard people are excited about russell brandt and the younger voters
anyone see this?
my dd, who cant vote, is keen on milliband
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/hooray-milifans-teenage-girls-milifandom-twitter-miliband

homebythesea · 05/05/2015 18:13

Tadpole it's hyperbole like that that turns people off I'm afraid. It's all far more nuanced than that as I'm sure you know

homebythesea · 05/05/2015 18:11

I'm what you might call a floating voter in that I have voted for all of the main parties (not UKIP!) over the years depending on the time of my life , the constituency I've lived in (need to tactically vote) and the general prevailing conditions IYSWIM. IM VOTING Tory this time round because it's about the economy innit? And left wing governments have never left the country in a better place than when they started, and Labour will have to lean ever leftwards because of the arithmetic.

tadpole39 · 05/05/2015 18:11

The conservative party does not want any kind of a welfare or benefit system. It's sink or swim, if you sink you drown and its your fault. 1 million more people using food banks, unable to feed their children. The NHS is not safe. I'm voting labour.

sebsmummy1 · 05/05/2015 18:11

Sorry for all the typos Blush

sebsmummy1 · 05/05/2015 18:10

That isn't my reason for not voting Labour, I come from a family if Tory voters and DP is also voting Conservative. I will not either Conservative or Green. I agree with most of the Green policies but not all, so I'm wavering.

But generally I think people want a Prime Minister with the right policies and the right persona. Do yep, sadly appearance counts for a lot when no one is likely to have a majority and particularly at a time when confidence is at an all time low and the world is in a very fragile political state.

RupertsGirlGroom · 05/05/2015 18:09

I think his ludicrous 'edstone' will be the death knell to his chances.

OnlyLovers · 05/05/2015 18:08

balia, I know! It's a bit frightening. On the same lines, on another thread recently someone said they'd probably vote UKIP because Nigel F is 'quite amusing'.

Comments like that may be meant flippantly but they make my blood run cold.

chocolatelife · 05/05/2015 18:06

those of you who are not voting because it is Ed Milliband,
who would you vote for instead?
I dont understand floating voters tbh. although i have voted liberal democrats tactically in the past

balia · 05/05/2015 18:06

Really? As intelligent adult women, we're not voting for someone because of the way they look?

chocolatelife · 05/05/2015 18:05

sadly he does not have the charisma, perhaps we were spoiled with tony blair
but we should give him a chance

newgirl · 05/05/2015 18:04

I agree - if David had been leader I'd have voted labour. Not now.

sebsmummy1 · 05/05/2015 18:03

Well then it's a shame didn't inherit his brother's face. I know it's awful but his face just doesn't fit on the world stage. He is a joke figure and is terribly clumsy. Gordon Brown was bad enough but Ed is just a step too far.

davidjrmum · 05/05/2015 17:57

It wasn't an own goal - his views are different from his brother's. There's no point voting for a labour party if they are going to be practically the same as the conservatives. If his brother was Labour leader I don't think I'd be voting labour.

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Shouldof · 05/05/2015 17:55

Probably would sebsmummy but not a labour government that's recognisably labour IMO. I like Ed but I accept I am in a small minority.

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OnlyLovers · 05/05/2015 17:54

No it isn't! Vote vote vote.

sebsmummy1 · 05/05/2015 17:52

I just cannot contemplate Milliband representing the country, sorry. It was a total own goal that he got in over his brother. If the unions hadn't backed Ed I suspect you would be looking at a Labour Government come Election Day.

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Shouldof · 05/05/2015 17:49

Fair enough Akire, and I will be casting my labour vote but the demographic around here is classis Tory so can't see much changing in my lifetime.

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Shouldof · 05/05/2015 17:47

I'm thinking Alan partridge is definitely a UKIP man Wink

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Akire · 05/05/2015 17:47

The problem is in a lot of places only around 60% of people who could vote do. So the ones who decide it's not worth it , it will make no difference can hold the balance. I think it does help to vote for the party you want even if it takes years to increase their numbers.

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Shouldof · 05/05/2015 17:43

Therealmary... Because there is no chance whatsoever that anyone other than the Tory candidate will take the seat in my constituency. I know people will quote potillo and similar to say you never know but this seat has a massive majority existing and in the polls and is quoted on polling site as 8th safest Tory seat with 100% probability of staying Tory.

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AlphaBravoHenryFoxtons · 05/05/2015 17:43

he's second to Alan Partrdge.

AlphaBravoHenryFoxtons · 05/05/2015 17:43

Steve Coogan and Russell Brand were questionable choices to endorse the Labour cause. More people dislike Coogan than like him and Brand is just about the most annoying person in the UK. Well perhaps he's send to Alan Partridge.

I'm not voting Labour either. A ha.

Minty82 · 05/05/2015 17:42

Am feeling similarly despondent and full of disbelief that anybody can be contemplating voting Tory - not least my husband and his whole family, all of whom I love but for whom I find it quite hard to have any respect at all on this one...