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Just been browsing on Oddschecker. The odds for a 'No overall majority' has dropped in recent days - now reached the 1/12 mark.
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Just been browsing on Oddschecker. The odds for a 'No overall majority' has dropped in recent days - now reached the 1/12 mark.
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Just been browsing on Oddschecker. The odds for a 'No overall majority' has dropped in recent days - now reached the 1/12 mark.
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Why is David Cameron always seen on building sites when the news bulletins do a piece on him?
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David Cameron's exuse for not wanting to do 3 debates was because "they suck the life out of the campaign". Anyone think he's been setting world alight by not doing the debates? He just seems to be doing 1 or 2 appearances maximum a day and then going home! WOW!
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Why is David Cameron always seen on building sites when the news bulletins do a piece on him?
Or he's looking for his next job... |
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David Cameron's exuse for not wanting to do 3 debates was because "they suck the life out of the campaign". Anyone think he's been setting world alight by not doing the debates? He just seems to be doing 1 or 2 appearances maximum a day and then going home! WOW!
General Election 2015: David Cameron is 'still a chicken' as he turns down latest challenge to debate Ed Miliband David Cameron faced more "chicken" accusations as he turned down Ed Miliband’s latest challenge to take him on in a head-to-head TV debate. The Labour leader used his closing statement last night to demand the Prime Minister “debate me, one on one.”. Staring straight down the camera, Mr Miliband added: "David, if you think this election is about leadership, then debate me one-on-one." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10184933.html I don't think Crosby's 'no debates' policy is helping Cameron at all since it makes Cameron look afraid to defend his own record in office and it's failed to generate any form of consistent lead for the Conservative party. |
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True to form, Cameron is again unning away from live debates:
General Election 2015: David Cameron is 'still a chicken' as he turns down latest challenge to debate Ed Miliband David Cameron faced more "chicken" accusations as he turned down Ed Miliband’s latest challenge to take him on in a head-to-head TV debate. The Labour leader used his closing statement last night to demand the Prime Minister “debate me, one on one.”. Staring straight down the camera, Mr Miliband added: "David, if you think this election is about leadership, then debate me one-on-one." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10184933.html I don't think Crosby's 'no debates' policy is helping Cameron at all since it makes Cameron look afraid to defend his own record in office and it's failed to generate any form of consistent lead for the Conservative party. Crosby's antics might do ok in Australia but we are not Australia. |
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Street performer tells David Cameron to 'F*** off back to Eton'
http://mashable.com/2015/04/14/stree...ection-heckle/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/l...on-to-number-1 https://vimeo.com/125055595 ![]() David Cameron left red-faced as voters walk out of a Tory election campaign event in Leeds http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...voters-5532730 |
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True to form, Cameron is again unning away from live debates:
General Election 2015: David Cameron is 'still a chicken' as he turns down latest challenge to debate Ed Miliband David Cameron faced more "chicken" accusations as he turned down Ed Miliband’s latest challenge to take him on in a head-to-head TV debate. The Labour leader used his closing statement last night to demand the Prime Minister “debate me, one on one.”. Staring straight down the camera, Mr Miliband added: "David, if you think this election is about leadership, then debate me one-on-one." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10184933.html I don't think Crosby's 'no debates' policy is helping Cameron at all since it makes Cameron look afraid to defend his own record in office and it's failed to generate any form of consistent lead for the Conservative party. |
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The polls indicate that the two largest parties are pretty evenly matched and are stuck in the low 30s so under those circumstances a hung parliament is a highly likely outcome.
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This is quite bizarre from today's Sunday Times: Quote:
Cameron calls for tactical voting as Labour pulls ahead The article went on to say that this call for tactical voting was a tacit admission that the Conservatives are struggling to gain enough votes to remain in Downing Street and that there were growing concerns over the Conservatives' failure to maintain a lead over Labour in the polls. DAVID CAMERON today issues a plea for voters to use tactical voting to prevent Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon from taking power — as Labour opened up a three-point lead in the polls. Writing in The Sunday Times, the prime minister urges Liberal Democrat and Ukip supporters not to “waste” their votes and instead back the Tories to prevent a Labour-SNP government bringing the economic recovery to “a juddering halt”. Branding Sturgeon a “hostage-taker” who would demand “more borrowing, more taxes and more welfare”, Cameron says: “Vote for Ukip or the Liberal Democrats and you take Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon a step closer to Downing Street — and our government, economy and country a step closer to chaos.” Cameron does not use the phrase “tactical voting”, but a senior Conservative said he wants Lib Dem and Ukip voters to "lend their votes" to the Tories. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/...cle1545990.ece That call for tactical voting comes across as sounding like late desperation and I'm not sure that it will have any effect unless the Conservatives reciprocate and stand down their candidates (i.e. no more active campaigning) in Lib Dem held and likely UKIP gain seats as a gesture of good will to future potential allies. |
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To be fair I think labour are going to need some of that too.. as they're not exactly heading for a majority either.
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To be fair I think labour are going to need some of that too.. as they're not exactly heading for a majority either.
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Why is David Cameron always seen on building sites when the news bulletins do a piece on him?
Get them council houses built you promised before !!! |
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What connects Sarah Woolaston , Anna Soubry & Caroline Lucas ? they have been targeted with election leaflets promoting" true marriage " by a group called Coalition for Marriage asking constituents to vote against them . Woolaston replied through twitter " Thanks bigots I'm Proud of that vote "
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I want a Labour government. If not seriously thinking of resigning and looking
for a job in Edinburgh. |
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I want a Labour government. If not seriously thinking of resigning and looking
for a job in Edinburgh. Presumably then you would be insulated from some of the worst effects of a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition Mark II under the SNP-run Scotland. |
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Two million could vote Tory to stop SNP This is just yet more of the same old SNP FUD. It hasn't worked so far and the idea that two million voters will be flocking back to the Conservative is optimistic at best or, more likely, just plain desperate and delusional.
Bombshell poll suggests fears over SNP may have the power to break election deadlock EXCLUSIVE By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor TWO million English and Welsh voters could swing back to the Tories to keep a Labour-SNP axis out of government, a dramatic poll has revealed. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-stop-snp.html http://suttonnick.tumblr.com/ |
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Just been browsing on Oddschecker. The odds for a 'No overall majority' has dropped in recent days - now reached the 1/12 mark.
If at the start of this campaign you gave Labour a 50/50 coin toss situation to kick Cameron and the tory boys out, they would of took it. And this is how it is shaping up.. the Conservatives don't like it up em'!! |
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It's going to the wire folks.
If at the start of this campaign you gave Labour a 50/50 coin toss situation to kick Cameron and the tory boys out, they would of took it. And this is how it is shaping up.. the Conservatives don't like it up em'!! |
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I am not convinced that Ed Miliband has anything to gain from allowing Stuart Hosie to spend 5 years disrupting Labour..
If the SNP are determined to bring down a Tory attempt to form a Tory minority govt.....why not just let them get on with it? If that happens it is Cameron's problem - not Miliband's problem. Why would a (subsequent) deal with the SNP be an attractive option for Labour? The most attractive option might be for Miliband to sit on his hands and then prepare for a second GE. At this moment I think it is likely that Miliband will rule out any arrangement with the SNP. The Tories are throwing a lot of dodgy crap over this but some of it will stick and Ed can choose to neutralise the whole issue without (IMO) losing the potential devastating impact of the SNP seats. |
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I think the problem is that the Tories are making out the SNP to be some sort of Northern branch of ISIS
It's so ridiculous and over the top that it's making their whole campaign look ludicrous |
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I think the problem is that the Tories are making out the SNP to be some sort of Northern branch of ISIS
It's so ridiculous and over the top that it's making their whole campaign look ludicrous (I think both these things may be true).Attacking the SNP in a Cartoonish way may be an effective fig leaf to get the Tories off the hook. Will be interesting to see what Ed Miliband is going to do about it. |
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I am not convinced that Ed Miliband has anything to gain from allowing Stuart Hosie to spend 5 years disrupting Labour..
If the SNP are determined to bring down a Tory attempt to form a Tory minority govt.....why not just let them get on with it? If that happens it is Cameron's problem - not Miliband's problem. Why would a (subsequent) deal with the SNP be an attractive option for Labour? The most attractive option might be for Miliband to sit on his hands and then prepare for a second GE. At this moment I think it is likely that Miliband will rule out any arrangement with the SNP. The Tories are throwing a lot of dodgy crap over this but some of it will stick and Ed can choose to neutralise the whole issue without (IMO) losing the potential devastating impact of the SNP seats. |
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(I think both these things may be true).