God, I envy you.
Even with our new fixed term parliaments it’s a mere whisper compared to the torrents of noise you poor sods have to put up with. 
Which is a shame, that both major parties would rather ally with extremists than each other.
The DUP ( Paisley’s old mob ) have demanded the abolition of the Bedroom Tax from whomever they coalesce with, which means probably not the Tories who for some reason are too stupid to ditch that tax.
Sinn Féin, the Ulster equivalent of the SNP, supports austerity up north and anti-austerity down south. This is popularly supposed to be shiftiness, but more likely reflects that some of them were happier when the only deep problem was how to clean one’s armalite.
For your definition of extremist anyway.
That’s quite the statement! It’s not them who are the Ulster equivalent of the SNP.
I’m wondering which of UKIP or the SNP you don’t consider to be extremist… Both want to harm the country based on misguided idealism, which is a pretty good definition of extremism as far as I’m concerned.
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That’s quite the statement! It’s not them who are the Ulster equivalent of the SNP.
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They both want independence, as is their right.
Separately of course, although a number of demented old romantics, fueled by anti-English hatred still dream of the — loony — idea of a federation of ‘Celtic’ nations, starting in Scotland, which was only slightly ‘Celtic’ and running down the left-hand path to include Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany.
South of the border Sinn Féin look themselves to join a coalition, and similarly to the Lib-Dems, are wholly complaisant as to whom it shall be with so long as they get some of that dear power, ‘not ruling out Fianna Fail or Fine Gael’* which leaves a wide choice outside those two.
And remember, Sinn Féin is a wholly peace-loving democratic party that never supported the men of violence.
Ah, no, that’s not a fair comparison. Whatever their faults are, the SNP have never been the political wing of an armed group.
According to the latest ComRes poll, the people understand the constitutional position better than many Tory and Labour politicians. A majority 50% to 34% believe that the SNP should be able to support a government led by the smaller of the two main parties.
It’s Freebie Friday! The day when the political parties promise the voters unicorns and rainbows and that the sun will shine every day if only you vote for them!
Or, for the more jaded of us, the day in which the political parties offer the voters lollipops to entice them into the back of their unmarked white van.
“Paid volunteer leave”? Are you freaking serious, Pickles?
Today’s latest Scottish poll shows further swing from Labour to SNP with 49% support.
Latest data suggests unprecedented levels of tactical voting in Scotland: If this YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before – politicalbetting.com
We’re also overlooking the possibility of minority government, with confidence and supply offered by other parties, or at least, dissuaded from actively unseating them for the time being.
That poll was commissioned by Channel 4 who gave a full report last night. Their take was that such tactical voting could reduce the predicted number of SNP MPs from fifty plus to forty plus.
That is becoming more of a certainty each day. Unless their is a major swing with an advantage of some six percent to either Labour or Conservatives, no two party combination is likely on either side to leas to a stable government.
Given the fall of seats because of one past the post, the SNP will be massively over represented getting dozens of seats on two percent of the national vote, with greens and UKIP being under represented, and Labour, Conservative and LibDem having about proportionate representation.
To form a left coalition will be easier than a right coalition because of the loss of potential conservative votes to UKIP with no extra seats, yet a left coalition does not lose votes because of the massive over representation of the SNP.
I can see a generally leftist government supported by SNP, Greens and LibDems, with maintenance of Trident achieved by temporary support from the Conservatives.
Anyone going to be up all night to watch the results? I tried to organise a party up here but everyone else is at work on Friday.
Yep, I am. Get the beers in and shout at the TV all night
Here is a list of the predicted declaration times:
http://election.pressassociation.com/Declaration_times/general_2015_by_time.php
Good man!