It really is quite frightening what could happen with Millband in & the SNP pulling the strings &

[Dorset Gooner]

it is almost certain to happen. I'd rather a Labour majority than that chaos :-(

[Luis Anaconda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

[Peter]

Although it is quite entertaining seeing people getting worked up about this. :-)

[Classic Jorge]

Personally I find the prospect of a tory/UKIP c**talition much more terrifying.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

although in a fairy tale bogie man type way.

Changing one lot of arseholes in Westminster for another lot of Arseholes in not frightening. Depressing mostly

[Dorset Gooner]

seats if that. Where as we know the SNP will slaughter Labour in Scotland. It is 1/8 on a hung parliament that to me means only Milliband will be able to form a government with the support of the SNP.

[Berni]

election as far as I can see.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Classic Jorge]

Are you worried about us dangerously veering towards being a more fair, just and caring society?

[Dorset Gooner]

[Luis Anaconda]

but apparently just got in on time

[Dorset Gooner]

[Dorset Gooner]

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

I'm really not sure how the Tories are spinning this fear of a major party being cowed and made a slave to a minor coalition partner, especially given the last five years. It's just capitalising on the political illiteracy of the electorate.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Berni]

government. Their spending on health and education for starters.

[Dorset Gooner]

they are extreme left wing as much UKIP are extreme right. Both I dislike.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Dorset Gooner]

[Classic Jorge]

Also, they aren't really left wing, if you've not been paying attention, nobody is nowadays.

[Berni]

Putting aside the free university tuition stuff (which is largely a two fingers to England), their health and education spending policies are significantly lower than those of the coalition. They've also absolutely savaged adult further education (the traditional route out of poverty). This idea that they're to the left of the Labour party is utter nonsense.

[Luis Anaconda]

negates the fact the the people of Scotland voted to stay part of the Union. What was it you were saying about wanting proper democracy?

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

oh, forget it.

[Classic Jorge]

...when it's that close.

They voted for what they voted for, I'm not disputing that, but it's pretty close to half, no?

[Classic Jorge]

Given there isn't a single party that represents anywhere near 45pc of the vote, and there hasn't been since 1997, I'd say it's a pretty valid mandate.

[Berni]

significant, I'd say. And, when you factor in that many of those who voted 'Yes' in the referendum aren't even eligible to vote in proper elections, I'd say that a clear majority of the electorate of Scotland rejected independence.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

about a virtual landslide.

[Classic Jorge]

Lets also not gloss over the sheer amount of ground that had to be given to overturn all of the projections a fortnight before.

Make no mistake, I didn't want the scotches to leave but it was bloody close.

[Berni]

next to a pile of 45 and tell me it's close. And, as I say, if you then take away all the clueless 16 and 17-year-olds who should never have been voting in the first place and it was a resounding 'No'.

[Classic Jorge]

And that's obviously ignoring all polling leading up to the vote, why else would they have improved the Yes package three weeks before?

This, on weans voting, is interesting though. "More precisely, according to ICM’s survey, 75% of 16 and 17 year olds voted, compared with 54% of 18-24 year olds and 72% of 25-34 year olds. The turnout in all three groups is markedly lower than the estimate for 35-54 year olds (85%) and those aged 55 and over (92%)."

[Berni]

And those figures don't surprise me at all. A 75% turnout from young idiots getting their first crack at the thing, which drops sharply for idle students, then picks up for younger working people and then the older people who felt most threatened by and had most to lose from Independence turned out in droves.

[Classic Jorge]

The point still stands that no figure for any party on a national scale has touched 46pc for quite some time so the SNP still have a remarkably strong mandate.