PTE92: Polling... err, the Electorate

[Neon Ignition]

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Today is polling day for the big parties and the media is making a massive song and dance about how close the race to number 10 is as though a dead heat makes it more exciting.

It's a two horse race with the smaller parties acting like political wolves ready to leap in from the sidelines to take down the horse they don't like before leaping onto the back of the one that's left.

I'm not going to make this a who are you voting for thread as that can often be a personal choice and even a heated one. Instead we'll gaze into our crystal balls and ask...

Who so you think will wake up to be the Prime Minister for the next few years?

Feel free to offer your views on likely coalition combos, expected party results etc, but let's keep it light

[nakamura]

I think it will remain Cameron. I am not likely to vote for them, and most definitely not UKIP.

[Asura]

Although it's not my first choice, Cameron will probably win.

It'll go to a hung parliament, and the Tories will emerge as the government because people will want stability, as well as making concessions to UKIP to dictate the "when" and the terms of an upcoming EU referendum.

[Dogg Thang]

I'm not in the UK so can't vote and it obviously doesn't affect me directly. From the outside, Milliband looks like a bit of a buffoon (he'd fit right in here in Ireland) but Cameron looks downright dangerous and what has happened in the UK over the last few years appears to have been pretty disastrous. But that is entirely an outsider's view and I'm always aware that how it appears from the outside is a whole different thing to actually living it.

[Brad]

But that is entirely an outsider's view and I'm always aware that how it appears from the outside is a whole different thing to actually living it.

In this particular case though you're bang on the money.

[smouty]

In this particular case though you're bang on the money.

Unless you are a millionaire then it has been even better than usual

[EJG1980]

I think Labour might do a bit better than most people seem to expect.

A lot of Scottish Tory voters are supposedly tactically voting Labour in Scotland to try and keep the SNP out, which could see Labour not doing quite as badly north of the border; still a massive defeat but not total wipe out. I also read that the Lord Ashcroft polling of the marginal seats shows Labour to be doing better in those seats than the national polling suggests.

So I'll put my neck on the block and say Labour will, by a tiny margin, scrape to being the largest party and Ed Milliband will be PM in a Labour minority government.

[speedlolita]

I just want 0 hour contracts to go away. Absolutely disgusting tactic for massaging unemployment statistics.

[BaronSqwelch]

I'm not a millionaire and life is just fine for me. Am better off financially than i have ever been.
None of the negative aspects I'm constantly told are happening have affected me at all.

That being said, I don't assume everyone is in my situation and am not an "I'm alright so screw everyone else" type of guy.

None of the parties are really any good for me...I have a strange mix of being quite right wing in some views and very left wing in others so it is difficult to choose how to vote.

Apart from the council election where I apply the "even puppies don't **** in their beds" principle and vote for the most local candidate...so the lady from the Lib Dems got at least one today

[Brad]

Daughter's school's funding is ?667,000 less this year than last year (approx ?800 less per pupil). Emergency meeting at the school next week. Further cuts to come if the tories stay in. I can't really give the tories my vote based on that alone. Add to that the Cheltenham General A&E dept is now run on a part time basis. Those are the two visible things to me that have changed since these muppets got in.

[nakamura]

No visible change to my life in the past 5 years apart from more outward racism to my wife.

I'll take those cuts.

[teddymeow]

I think it will remain Cameron. I am not likely to vote for them, and most definitely not UKIP.

Ditto. Especially when my Tory MP is Maria Miller!!!

[Brad]

Wonder who japjac will vote for?

[teddymeow]

Wonder who japjac will vote for?

He's his own party.

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[Daragon]

I'm not voting labour for the sole reason that Ed.B may someday wish to run for PM. Cannot think of anything worse than a prime minister Balls.

In all seriousness, none of the supposed **** that's happened with the tories has hit me and I've been out of work much much less under this government than I was when brown and Blair were running things, so I've gone with for me at least, the lesser of two evils.