Vote Ukip - Get A Labour Government

[Gromit]

// Ukip will threaten Tory chances of winning in 100 key seats next election, researchers predict
New analysis reveals Ukip could steal three seats from Tories and undermine party's chances in more than a hundred others in worrying signs for Number 10 //

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11139672/Ukip-will-threaten-Tory-chances-of-winning-in-100-key-seats-next-election-researchers-predict.html

I expect this is a bit of a dilemma for many ABers. What will you do?

[Retrochic]

Why do people naturally assume UKIP will poach voters from just the Tory party? There are plenty of Labour defectors I know personally and believe me there will be local Labour MP's defecting to UKIP before the next election. I'm sure all the same battle-cries were heard from the Tory's and Liberals in the early part of the 20th Century at the inception of the Labour party.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

This one AOG
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1369744.html

Can't see anything amiss there Zac, please point out your suspected incorrect post.

[dannyk13]

What if Cameron decides he wants an alliance with UKIP. Labour would be decimated at the polls.

[Zacs-Master]

I couldn't see where you got the other posters quotes from re UKIP and didn't know what UKIP had to do with your post about police.

[Old_Geezer]

Since I see both the main parties as disappointments I don't think I can be swayed by fear of one set of lizards getting in rather than the other. I shall decide on the local candidate I prefer, assuming there is one.

[mikey4444]

This is hardly new news, is it ? Lord Ashcroft has been saying this for months now. Vote UKIP, get Labour...even dave in his conference speech hinted at it. Now the Telegraph, the organ of choice of the Tory Party, is saying it as well, but there are still people on here that say that UKIP will be taking equal amounts of votes from Labour, as well as the Tories. But even if that was true, Labour are in the lead and have been for 2 years, and look likely to win a working majority in May 2015. Have a look at my latest Poll posting, from Electoral Calculus.

Not a whisper of a dilemma for me though...I shall be exhorting anybody I know who resides in a Tory constituency to either vote UKIP, or more directly, to vote for Labour itself. I realise that as a Labour supporter, I am in the minority here on AB and that my advice won't be popular but there it is !

[Sqad]

LOL...your advice may not be popular..............but you are mikey.......;-)

[mikey4444]

Er...thanks Sqad ( I think ! ) My EC post is now up and running.

[Sqad]

Yepp, I have seen it...still can't understand it.

[kvalidir]

Well if all the UKippers voting for Nige cause the Tories to lose convincingly to Labour, I seriously don't think I'll ever stop laughing. Karma has everyone's address it seems.

[mikey4444]

Take some time to read the text Sqad. Its a difficult subject but what it is basically saying is that as the Tories get less popular, UKIP might win some seats, which is another way of saying that Tory votes will go to UKIP. Ad to that the fact that most of the present LibDems votes will go back to Labour, and it makes depressing news for dave.

Another interesting aspect of the EC figures is how little the LibDems will matter when it comes to next May. Their Conference next week is likely to be a cheerless affair, at best. The so-called coalition with the Tories is falling apart at the seams. I'm not sure sure if you can get Any Questions on Radio 4 where you are but last night Gove never lost an opportunity to dis his coalition partners, and the feeling is mutual in the LibDems side as well.

And its only October 2014 ? What will it be like in a few weeks time ? They will be fighting like two Tom cats in a sack !

[Khandro]

If you try to vote tactically you will loose your integrity (and mind)

As I have a UK vote I shall vote for the only party that tells it how it is and would really fight within Europe for what it believes, in a word; UKIP!

[mikey4444]

Than it is likely that your vote is a wasted vote K, although it is your right to make a futile gesture, it is gives you a warm feeling !

[jourdain2]

At the moment neither of us can vote (hope to be back to do so before long) and the dirty tricks dept. is out in force to strip us of everything (latest proposal is to remove the first £10K of income tax exemption from ex-pats - they've already taken our heating allowance and believe me it is cold, very cold, here in Winter - we're on small pensions). So, looking from a bit of a distance, but with a hope of being back in time to vote -- I find that I am disenfranchised by the main parties yet again (2nd time). I honestly think that I might vote, if able, for UKIP and I'm reeling away from the screen as I type this. They seem to have the only honest approach to Europe.

Living here, you start to understand how differences are subsumed quietly and the gentle (sometimes not so gentle) progress towards one European State is moving inexorably forwards. I'm having a rare week back in UK from next Tues. and am house-hunting! So far, in the last 2 weeks the French notaires (superior solicitors) and all the pharmacies have been on strike. A friend is now sending his kids to private school (which they can't afford) because the state teachers were out on strike for about 2 months, when spread over the year, last year. Poitiers was paralysed yesterday by protestors against centralisation of water supplies. They were backed up by convoys of tractors, combined harvesters etc. blocking all the arterial roads and then the inner ring-road. It's a basket-case, correction - a 'beautiful basket-case', clinging to impossible ideals whilst sinking beneath the waves

So, if this is European union - I'm worried. Note the swift rise of the anti-Europe party in Germany.

[Khandro]

jourdain; If you were entitled to vote in the UK within the last 15 years, you can, as an expat, still register to do so.
http://www.expatinfodesk.com/expat-guide/nationality-specific-information/british/voting-rights/

[EDDIE51]

I will vote Labour and thank my lucky stars we will not see another Tory government in my lifetime. I will be 65 by the election.

[DTCwordfan]

I will vote Tory and thank my lucky stars we will not see another Labour government in my lifetime. I will be under 60 by the election.

All this proves is one should wear condoms when discussing the next election...there will be so much of it about.

[berniecuddles]

Ed milliband as prime minister gawd help us!!

[EDDIE51]

Milliband will not be around for ever.

[Zacs-Master]

Millibars will be replaced before the next election.