UK General Election 2015

[TightEnd]

The audience selection is a shocker though. Anybody right If Centre in it at all? Farage is playing to his Core vote well. Audience hates him, his voters likely to hate this audience...

[RickBFA]

The audience selection is a shocker though. Anybody right If Centre in it at all? Farage is playing to his Core vote well. Audience hates him, his voters likely to hate this audience...

What a shocker, a left wing audience in a BBC run programme

[bobAlike]

None of these are coming across as credible. Cameron def dropped a bollock by not turning up. Clegg who?

[Kmac84]

Another clear win for Sturgeon. 

The best leader labour never had, some people claim.  Can't disagree.

[redsimon]

The audience selection is a shocker though. Anybody right If Centre in it at all? Farage is playing to his Core vote well. Audience hates him, his voters likely to hate this audience...

What a shocker, a left wing audience in a BBC run programme

audience was selected by a polling organisation not bbc...you forget the "right" don't have a majority in any poll

[TightEnd]

Thought miliband won it. Sturgeon pleading at the end for deals was dire.

[arbboy]

Another clear win for Sturgeon.  

The best leader labour never had, some people claim.  Can't disagree.

Does Nicola ever lose Kmac in your rose tinted glasses?  She sounded very desperate at times tonight trying to get into bed with red ed.  Impressed he stood up to her.  Thought he might fall into the lovey dovey trap she was trying to set.  We all know he will fall in bed with her as it is the only way he can get the power he needs to run the country but fair play to him for lying to the public that he won't tonight live on tv when we all know he will.

[Woodsey]

Don't understand how anyone can buy this end/anti austerity guff from the left. You've got to wonder if the guys pitching this stuff even own a calculator and have looked at the numbers? Nobody wants austerity, but with debt in the UK still rising these guys want to send the country totally skint.

[George2Loose]

Don't understand how anyone can buy this end/anti austerity guff from the left. You've got to wonder if the guys pitching this stuff even own a calculator and have looked at the numbers? Nobody wants austerity, but with debt in the UK still rising these guys want to send the country totally skint.

Spose you know the numbers?

The Tory party "austerity" sale is simply a way of screwing the poor and vulnerable and keeping their rich mates from making a contribution to society

[Kmac84]

Another clear win for Sturgeon.  

The best leader labour never had, some people claim.  Can't disagree.

Does Nicola ever lose Kmac in your rose tinted glasses?  She sounded very desperate at times tonight trying to get into bed with red ed.  Impressed he stood up to her.  Thought he might fall into the lovey dovey trap she was trying to set.  We all know he will fall in bed with her as it is the only way he can get the power he needs to run the country but fair play to him for lying to the public that he won't tonight live on tv when we all know he will.

Nae borra mate away you go back to predicting biases at BAGS meetings.  In the event you missed it, I'm not an SNP fan boy but Sturgeon won hands down.   Just because you don't like what she says doesn't mean she didn't win. 

[relaedgc]

I voted for the Conservatives in 2010. If I could have voted, I would have voted for Labour in 2005.

My constituency has been Labour held for the last two decades, although it's a surprisingly small majority (2,000 votes or 5.5%). I suspect the erosion of traditional working class Labour voters is down to growth in Luton as a desirable commuter location.

The sample sizes that I have to work with aren't sufficient for any legitimate analysis but the average voter that I've discussed politics with will say, "Labour is the party for the working class. The Conservatives are for the rich" and I suspect a significant proportion of the electorate work off of those assumptions without any further consideration of policies, debates or on-going issues. I don't believe that most people are minded to vote tactically.

Personally, I don't feel that there are vast differences in the 'main two' parties and it's largely inconsequential in so far as my life goes who holds power in Westminster - this election is interesting however because I think people are starting to recognise that it's not going to be a majority government. I'm thoroughly uninterested in the thought of a Labour/SNP government and my vote is going to the Conservatives largely on the basis that they're middling competent with the economy and because I think the Barnett formula is an unfair measure of public expenditure - so the thought of the SNP holding the balance of power when they already benefit significantly is a distressing concept.

Woodsey - I don't think your typical voter cares a whit about 'the debt' in comparison to the perception of how austerity has negligibly impacted upon their lives. (I am not versed enough to really comment on the impact it has on the lives of the average individual - I don't think it really makes a blind bit of difference to me one way or the other).

[arbboy]

Another clear win for Sturgeon.  

The best leader labour never had, some people claim.  Can't disagree.

Does Nicola ever lose Kmac in your rose tinted glasses?  She sounded very desperate at times tonight trying to get into bed with red ed.  Impressed he stood up to her.  Thought he might fall into the lovey dovey trap she was trying to set.  We all know he will fall in bed with her as it is the only way he can get the power he needs to run the country but fair play to him for lying to the public that he won't tonight live on tv when we all know he will.

Nae borra mate away you go back to predicting biases at BAGS meetings.  In the event you missed it, I'm not an SNP fan boy but Sturgeon won hands down.   Just because you don't like what she says doesn't mean she didn't win. 

I don't mind what she says.  I think she is a great public speaker.  I just don't want the country going skint as she would spend even more cash we can't afford than red ed would.  Put the two together and it would be total chaos.

[nirvana]

I think Miliband is doing well. Cameron definitely dropped one by ducking it

Recovered a bit, gonna look a bit dumb when he scurries round after the election trying to do a deal with the SNP

[Woodsey]

Don't understand how anyone can buy this end/anti austerity guff from the left. You've got to wonder if the guys pitching this stuff even own a calculator and have looked at the numbers? Nobody wants austerity, but with debt in the UK still rising these guys want to send the country totally skint.

Spose you know the numbers?

The Tory party "austerity" sale is simply a way of screwing the poor and vulnerable and keeping their rich mates from making a contribution to society

Yes I do know the numbers roughly, here educate yourself...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_national_debt

Even if taxes rise austerity  has to continue, even Labour would agree with that.

[George2Loose]

Yes reading the wiki page is all we need to know. WP