On Sun, 03 May 2015 13:53:57 +0100
Andrew wrote:

On 03/05/2015 00:19, Chris French wrote:

Depends on the constituency.

If you live in a constituency which is a safe seat for one party -
like ours, which is strongly conservative (neighbouring seat to
Majors old one) then is essence, if you don't want to vote for
them, who you vote for makes no difference to who will be the MP.

The best really your vote can do is send some sort of message
(FWIW).

However, this is shaping up to be the most interesting election for
sometime, and the aftermath could be quite significant in the long
term
- the SNP dominating Scotland, the inability of Tories and labour
to win a majority and hence giving more power to smaller parties
(if the same situation occurs in 5 years time I suspect we will see
real pressure for changes to the voting system

And remember, the Limp Dems (or "I'll promise anything to stay in
power" Clegg to be more accurate) totally reneged on his side of the
coalition agreement that they made in May 2010 to allow the electoral
boundaries commission to realign the constituency boundaries to take
account of the gradual movements in demographic groups since 1994.

These movements make it easier and easier for Labour MPs to be
elected. It only needs a 3% shift to Labour to give them a majority.
The Conservatives need a 12% swing in their favour. As it stands,
2015 will be the most undemocratic ballot we have had for decades.


Amen to that. Clegg behaved like a spoiled schoolboy.

--
Davey.