UK General Election 2015

[steveaki13]

Which is a problem when a party focuses on only 1 of the 4 nations in the UK. Same goes for the Welsh party Plaid Cymru or English Democrats.

[Rollo]

Because they launched their manifesto today and it's quite likely they will be the third biggest party at Westminster after the election.

Hear hear.

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Based on the Sun's poll as at 17-Apr:

Lab - 287
Con - 278
SNP- 46
Lib Dem - 15
Dem Union - 8
Sinn Fein - 5
Plaid Cymru - 3
SDLP - 3
UKIP - 2
Grn - 1
Alliance - 1
Ind - 1

Assuming this is the result.

If the SNP and Labour form a Coalition, then they'd have enough seats to form government.
If the SNP and Labour form a Coalition, then they wouldn't have enough seats to form government and fall two seats short.

If the above isn't the result, then there might be a rainbow coalition in place if the swing against majors is sufficient. The SNP are important because they're likely to be kingmakers unless there's a WSOGMM group against them.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

If you were to place all of the manifestos in front of me, without knowing which one belonged to which party, I would probably end up picking the Lib Dems.

And that is quite depressing.

[Bezza]

A vote for Labour is essentially a vote for the almost undoubted SNP/Labour Coalition.

Even though Ed Miliband has said he won't form a government with Nicola Sturgeon, Labour since 1997 have proven themselves to be a bunch of compulsive liars and addicted shoppers who don't know when to stop using their Credit Cards. Miliband, of course he will form a government with the SNP - anything to get in power ahead of the Conservatives.

For that reason alone, and there are many more viable reasons, I will not be voting Labour.

[Rollo]

A vote for Labour is essentially a vote for the almost undoubted SNP/Labour Coalition.

A vote for the Tories is essentially a vote for the SNP/Conservative Coalition though.

Almost certainly, anyone who forms government will have to do so with the SNP unless they're able to form one with a WSOGMM Rainbow Pick-N-Mix Coalition made up of everyone who isn't the SNP or the enemy.

[Malbec]

A vote for Labour is essentially a vote for the almost undoubted SNP/Labour Coalition.

Even though Ed Miliband has said he won't form a government with Nicola Sturgeon, Labour since 1997 have proven themselves to be a bunch of compulsive liars and addicted shoppers who don't know when to stop using their Credit Cards. Miliband, of course he will form a government with the SNP - anything to get in power ahead of the Conservatives.

For that reason alone, and there are many more viable reasons, I will not be voting Labour.

Given that both Cameron and Milliband both totally excluded the possibility of a coalition government with anyone and that neither are likely to have a majority, I think its safe to say that if we have either the Tories or Labour enter a coalition government on Friday or soon after we'll have started with the PM proving themselves to be an outright liar whichever side they come from.

Despite being a card carrying Tory I've voted Labour today. Any party that even flirts with the idea of leaving the EU and is anti-immigration cannot pretend to be pro-business. Nor can any humane party sanction further benefit cuts of the size that are needed without also addressing the way the wealthy benefit from lax taxation and tax policing. Its the 21st century and we claim to be the 7th largest economy in the world. Food banks should be banished to science fiction and Victorian era dramas not be a reality for a substantial proportion of the population.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I went Lib Dem. Despite going back on their word on tuition fees I still think that they have limited the Tories ideologically driven austerity programme. The £4000 extra tax free I get now is thanks to Cleggy, so I'm sticking to my centrist beliefs.

My constituency was 50+% Conservative last time so meh.

[Malbec]

My constituency was 50+% Conservative last time so meh.

Likewise my area is so conservative labour haven't bothered wasting money campaigning there...

[odykas]

Exit poll

[Brown, Jon Brow]

It looks like the Tories are gaining marginal seats from the Lib Dems and Labour are losing out to the SNP.