Vocal Voices

If you live in Scotland and are hacked off with Labour, won't vote Tory and think the Lib Dems are nothing more than a bunch of whores who work without pay. BUT. You don't want independence. What is your option? Green?

So UKIP is intending to field candidates in all Scottish constituencies. Well it's a good gamble, the election up there is wide open. They got a full 10% of the vote in the EU elections and they might take quite a lot of Tory voters who won't vote Tory.

In the end I just think they will fracture most of the votes and make the whole thing even more unpredictable. But that is half the fun isn't it? Just so long as Labour gets a damned good kicking I'll be happy.

In Scotland they certainly will. Elsewhere, I'm not so sure.

In England Labour can count on an uncritical TV news.

Also I thought at one time they couldn't win because every time Miliband comes on the telly, people look and think "Prime Minister? No way.". Labour essentially drop a point in the polls every time Miliband appears. So Labour have countered this by saying that the much more photogenic Rachel Reeves in going to be the "face" of their election campaign.

Plus the electoral boundaries are skewed in fewer of Labour.

And don't start me off on postal voting...

They've banned Miliband from the Scottish campaign. The last time I saw that was when Major was sent home with a "You are not helping, go away".

I am beginning to wonder though. Where are they keeping the press Gonads? Because they seem to almost all have become painted red over the last two decades and I can't understand why.

One big problem in England is that there is no alternative socialist(?) party for working people to turn to.

When Labour was going down the pan under Foot and Kinnock, and the Gang of Four left to set up the SDP it looked like there might be a chance. When they then joined with Liberals to form the LibDems there was a party with national representation and things were looking up. However, under the coalition the dream has died. For many workers in solid Labour seats there is now no alternative - the Greens do not cut the mustard.

The only choice for many workers who have been betrayed by Labour is not to vote, yet by doing that they open the door to parties who do not even recognise them. It is a situation that is not good for democracy, but there it is.