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   There is an opinion poll in today's NME, of NME readers. It has the figures : Lib Dems - 37% Labour - 26% Tories - 17% Other - 9% Undecided - 13% If I plug these numbers into the BBC's handy thingy, we discover that this would result in a Liberal Democrat majority of 194 (with Labour having 196 seats, and the Tories none). Tags: politics CommentsMost of the communities I see seem to have similar results. So why aren't the LDs winning more elections? Is it just that there are lots of Labour and Tory people who do nothing I come in contact with? There's too many places like Carlisle (where I'm originally from), where a Lib Dem vote is seen as a wasted vote. However, in Carlisle's case at least, I suspect that if everyone who wanted to vote Lib Dem acutally did then the Conservatives will win the seat (Too many loyal voters in the farming community). But the voting figures don't translate easily into seats won. It's all about swing in key marginals. A cynic would say that's why the Libs are so keen on PR... and why the other parties oppose it. In other news.... I went to get corset on Monday (following the visit on Friday etc etc) as arranged. She'd forgotten it. Said she'd drop it off to me at home monday evening/tues morning. Still not here. And now she's gone to Whitby. grrrr I think those seats are based on comparing the %ages with the 2001 figures, and assuming uniform swing, which is the method most opinion polls use. Aye, she so needs a manager.... Btw, in reply to your lexgoff post - I am probably going.
Which of the British political parties is the strongest one in the left, i.e. social democrat or democratic socialist? The Lib Dems, although they've really inherited that position by default after Labour lurched to the right under Blair.
Cool, then it's good to see them in the lead!
Are you really sure that the lib dems are more to the left than labour? They're both a bunch of reactionary stooglets if you ask me. |
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