Comments on: Who is switching to the Liberal Democrats?

By: Irish Observer

Irish Observer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:00:18 +0000

@eoin

Eoin one of your four key findings doesnt hold through (a stable lab Con deficit). The last four polls above show an ever increasing Labour deficit……

from 4% to 5% to 6% to 8%…..
very worrying for Labour

Its funny how we forget so quickly the gap between Labour and Conservative…

the key statistic for three years has become, well…kinda just another ordinary statistic in a sea of extraordnary numbers….

By: Irish Observer

Irish Observer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:54:12 +0000

Its funny how we forget so quickly the gap between Labour and Conservative…

the key statistic for three years has become, well…kinda just another ordinary statistic in a sea of extraordnary numbers….

By: Irish Observer

Irish Observer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:49:12 +0000

@eoin

Eoin one of your four key findingds doesnt hold through (a stable lab Con deficit). The last four polls above show an ever increasing Labour deficit……

from 4% to 5% to 6% to 8%…..
very worrying for Labour

By: Ian Walker

Ian Walker — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:58:12 +0000

FrankG – although they’ve dropped it as an official policy, the Lib Dems ultimate preference would surely be for multi-member STV voting. Since in most models, both the Conservatives and the Liberals do better under that system (based of analysis of the voting in the ’05 election, the Tories had roughly the same number of seats, but much better geographical distribution (Scottish and Cornish Tories are by far the most disenfranchised voters in the UK) and the Lib Dems take about 100 seats from Labour.

Multi-member STV would have such large constituencies that the boundary bias largely disappears.

If the Lib Dems have 30+ share of the vote, then they will have a lot of clout, and I expect a Lib-Con coalition with STV as part of the deal might well be on the cards. IMHO this would be a very good thing for the country, and we could move along from 20th century bipartisan politics.

By: rsingh

rsingh — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:11:10 +0000

I have been a lifelong labour supporter but the last 5 years have taken the biscuit, therefore there is no other alternative but to vote for the liberal democrats…lets see if these idiots can do any better, there nothing to lose but our dignity.