General Election

[Farriercm]

Looking a little sick for Cameron and Cronies according to the latest on,.
Sky Tv News.

[ichkeria]

Can you provide a bit more background info?

[Svejk]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/general-election-knife-edge-exclusive-5047218

[Baldric]

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1XDs5Z7WcdqF-7ug2sdkrJT8RsUa8ltJDG6U3zx4WvHSftXTPKO-BoD75

[ichkeria]

I don't wish to be rude, but "election is going to be close" is hardly earth shattering news.
I thought someone had been ill :-)

[ToraToraTora]

I'll ask the same question I asked on another of your posts. have you now or ever had any sort of debating point to raise on any subject?

[jno]

lots of threads in News are statements rather than questions, just like this one

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1396485.html

[naomi24]

...but that^ one at least gives us a link to what the op is talking about. Very handy that.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes jno but farrier never raises any sort of point, all he does is snipe at Tories, usually IDS.

[Canary42]

According to this morning's i the Tories are in the lead (poll conducted by ComRes exclusively for this newspaper).

Here are their figures :-

Tory 31%
Labour 30%
UKIP 17%
Lib 8%
Green 7%
Others 7%

Three subsidiary questions and results :-

I trust David Cameron to ensure the NHS has enough money
Yes 29% No 65% Undecided 6%

I trust Ed Milliband to ensure the NHS has enough money
Yes 28% No 65% Undecided 7%

When deciding how I will vote at the general election in May, the parties policies on health and the NHS will matter to me more than their economic policies
Yes 59% No 37% Undecided 5%

No link available, copied from my paper version.

[Svejk]

Perhaps the 'men in the white coats' got to him before he could post a link.

[ToraToraTora]

So you are farrier's assistant now then canary! right oh!

[youngmafbog]

Not looking good at all for Millipede and Cronies either is it?

A labour coalition with the SNP? that could end up finishing labour

[anotheoldgit]

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/category/yougov

[Gromit]

We should ignore all polls and predictions this early, because the set of circumstances going into this election are unique.

- the two main Parties are neck and neck.
- the Conservatives will lose votes to UKIP.
- Labour will loes seats to the SNP.
- the LibDem vote will collapse.
- the chances of another coalition are very high.

For the above reasons, anyone predicting a Conservative or Labour win are talking out of their pants.

[ToraToraTora]

"For the above reasons, anyone predicting a Conservative or Labour win are talking out of their pants. " - over to you mikey!

[Svejk]

I'm not necessarily saying you, gromit, but from your AB friends. We've had to put up with daily poll updates giving Labour an unassailable lead accompanied by much crowing. Now you want us to ignore the Polls?
Ps. Where's windy, today?

[Gromit]

Svejk
It was fair to predict a Labour victory up until a year ago. But things have changed.

- Labour's lead has evaporated
- the SNP are on a bounce at the expense of Labour.
- UKIP have taken two seats from the Conservatives.
- UKIP's vote nationally in the Euro Elections increase substantially.

So what looked probable a year ago is now more confused and impossible to predict.

[Canary42]

TTT I don't understand your comment. Please explain.

[Zacs-Master]

As Gromit has commented, debating polls at this stage (or any other, it could be reasonably argued) is futile.