• UK: Lib Dems become serious business - overtake Labour in ComRes poll, close in on Tories
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UPDATE: The Lib Dems are now leading some polls. Who would've expected that a week ago? [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8627745.stm[/url] [quote=BBC News][b]Election opinion polls for Sunday's newspapers have suggested the Lib Dems are up by as many as eight points, putting them just behind the Tories.[/b] The ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror and Independent on Sunday puts the Conservatives on 31%, the Lib Dems on 29% and Labour on 27%. The Tories warned of the dangers of a hung parliament while Labour said Lib Dem policies would get more scrutiny. But Nick Clegg said people believed "something exciting" was happening. The apparent swing follows the first prime ministerial TV debate on Thursday, in which Mr Clegg was acknowledged by his rivals to have shone. Editor of the BBC's political research unit, David Cowling said what ComRes appeared to confirm was the "extraordinary shift in Lib Dem support as a result of the first prime ministerial debate". However with two more debates to follow, he warned it was difficult to say if the swing would translate to votes on polling day. When the results of the ComRes poll were fed into the BBC's seat calculator, it showed Labour would still have the most seats with 279, the Conservatives 239 seats and the Lib Dems 103 seats and others 29 seats. The ComRes poll of 1,006 people was conducted on 16 and 17 April. Meanwhile, an ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph puts the Conservatives on 34%, Labour on 29% and the Lib Dems on 27%. It says this is the Conservatives' lowest rating in an ICM poll since September 2007. And the newspaper says this is the first time an ICM poll has shown such a narrow gap between the three main parties since September 2003. The majority of the 1,033 respondents were polled before Thursday's first prime ministerial debate. Mr Clegg, speaking on a visit to Kingston Hospital in south west London, said: "I think change, real change is more possible than people think when a growing number of people start thinking, believing, that maybe we can do things differently. "I think that is what is starting. I can't predict what is going to happen in the election campaign, but I think something exciting is starting to happen." Asked if by "something different" he meant a formal coalition, he said: "I don't think we should put the cart before the horse." But he said that more people were turning away from the "old politics" of Labour and the Conservatives. [b]'Big issues'[/b] Mr Cameron told people in Gloucester that a hung parliament "would be a bunch of politicians haggling, not deciding". "They would not be making long-term decisions for the country's future, they would be making short-term decisions for their own future," he said. In an email to party activists, shadow chancellor George Osborne admitted Mr Clegg had put in a "good television performance". But he said the Lib Dems would now face the "real scrutiny of their policies they have avoided for so long," on issues such as Trident, prison sentences and business taxes. Gordon Brown, campaigning in Bedford, said the election was not about style and personality but about the big issues. "Let's make sure we have the recovery and don't let the Conservatives wreck the recovery," he continued. Although he did not mention the Lib Dems - whose campaign is based around "fairness" - Mr Brown did end his speech by insisting the Labour Party were "greatest force for fairness in the country".[/quote]
Yay, more cameras pointing at people's bedrooms.
They need a hell of a lot of seats, but it's looking promising. GO LIB DEM!
Although I distrust the lot of them, I'd rather have the Conservatives and I sure as hell hope the Lib Dem's don't get into power.
[QUOTE=Wakka;21412103]Yay, more cameras pointing at people's bedrooms.[/QUOTE] What? Lib Dems are about civil liberties and shit.
Hopefully Lib Dem's the way to go. We sure as hell don't want a Maggie Thatcher schpielen.
Lib Dems <3
[QUOTE=Wakka;21412103]Yay, more cameras pointing at people's bedrooms.[/QUOTE] Lib Dems actually want to stop that
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;21412167]Although I distrust the lot of them, I'd rather have the Conservatives and I sure as hell hope the Lib Dem's don't get into power.[/QUOTE] Oh the irony in your word's considering conservatives are the biggest liars of them all......
[QUOTE=James*;21412201]Lib Dems actually want to stop that[/QUOTE] Yeah, but they hate nuclear power as well. God, you just can't win.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;21412241]Yeah, but they hate nuclear power as well. God, you just can't win.[/QUOTE] lolwhat I totally misread that yeah nuclear power is totally underrated
Not really surprised in a way, after that televised debate thing.
As long as this is the beginning of the end for Labour as one of the two main parties, I'm happy.
Are they still opposed to that digital economy act? If so, fuck yeah.
[QUOTE=ironman17;21412175]Hopefully Lib Dem's the way to go. We sure as hell don't want a Maggie Thatcher schpielen.[/QUOTE] David Cameron stated he wanted to be nothing like Thatcher.
This election is deffo going to be a good one for the Lib Dems whatever happens.
[QUOTE=Source;21412226]Oh the irony in your word's considering conservatives are the biggest liars of them all......[/QUOTE] I doubt that the Lib Dem's will be any better.
The cool part is that even if the Lib Dems don't win the election (they won't, it would require an unprecedented, unimaginable landslide) they will likely get to form a coalition government because a hung parliament is at this point virtually inevitable.
Political Crisps. Tastes like lies.
good
Liberal democrats are the only party opposed to the digital economy bill so any other party winning would be a disaster.
[QUOTE=smurfy;21412690]The cool part is that even if the Lib Dems don't win the election (they won't, it would require an unprecedented, unimaginable landslide) they will likely get to form a coalition government because a hung parliament is at this point virtually inevitable.[/QUOTE] Yeah they need a massive swing or 15% or something. They have said before that they won't be prepared to form a coalition. This will probably work to there advantage I would have thought, because they won't be associated with the government when things goes tits up and they can influence legislation as they see fit.
Woo Lib Dems!
yay
idiots
It looks here like Labour's Love's Lost. (theatrical pun)
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;21412167]Although I distrust the lot of them, I'd rather have the Conservatives and I sure as hell hope the Lib Dem's don't get into power.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/685000posterphp.jpg[/IMG] My town seems to be mainly Lib Dem. :v:
Good luck to them. Clegg will be a bit shit for a few months then he will take off
[QUOTE=Thomo;21413897]Oh my god someone stop Camerons eyes THEY STARE INTO MY SOUL![/QUOTE] He doesn't have one so he needs to steal yours.
[QUOTE=Rosek;21413876][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/685000posterphp.jpg[/IMG] My town seems to be mainly Lib Dem. :v:[/QUOTE] Haha, I have to show this to my friend.
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