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    My personal feelings regarding the poll data I've seen the past few days, I think it's still to soon to say anything is certain. I think this weeks debate will be crucial, provided people tune in, which they should, as it is on BBC1. I say this because it's really make or break in terms of the lib dem surge. As an electorate Britain generally votes in a very familiar way. To me this means that if Clegg wants to hold onto this level of support, he needs to cement himself in the minds of voters as a viable option. Whilst the support for the lib dems is currently huge, I suspect many of those saying they will vote lib dem aren't 100% behind it and could still break for either of the two parties if they get cold feet about Clegg in the final week. To me this means that in the final debate Clegg really has to shine. Not, just come out on top by a margin like the second debate but deliver a substantial performance which is better than the other two. It wont be possible for him to emulate the first debate but for me, If he's to win the level of support the polls are suggesting, he needs to be decisive. I think that if Clegg fails to do this, we could see the temporary lib dem support crumble.

    As for the tories, their strategist needs a slap. People don't generally like negative campaigning, which the tories are now using and I think it wont result in the poll boost they desperately want. Also changing their electoral strategy to target more Labour seats with just over 2 weeks till polling day? To see the tories throw away a lead in this manner is laughable. Cameron was a PM in waiting a couple of months back, now he's struggling to persuade the electorate that he's even the best out of a bad bunch. Cameron's inability to coherently explain any of his policies is also making him look bad. I get the idea of the "big society", why not just drop the gimmicky face and tell us how it is, the spin just makes it all seem like rhetorical . Another classic example is a recent campaign broadcast attacking Labour. Apparently the tories think the deficit can be cut and the ecenomic situation solved simply by cutting QUANGOS and cutting up senior civil servants credit cards, give us a break Dave.


    Labour are positioned to come out of this ok, even if they do perform badly on election day. As a political party, I fully believe that Labour, being the snake it is wont die. Everyone thought it was dead in 1983 but no, it climbed its way back up from the underworld and regenerated as New labour. Even if they do end up in the wilderness for a couple of years, we will see them again some day. Also, interestingly, the Labour vote is holding solid in Scotland. I have no idea why but I actually hope it stays like that. The SNP should be denied as many MP's as possible seeming they refuse to allow Scottish cuts even though the whole of the UK needs cuts. Alex Salmond also thinks he is a modern day Robert De Bruce, he's so desperate to be known as the man who" emancipated" Scotland that he's prepared to try and shove independence down the Scots throats, no matter how disastrous it would be for them under the current economic climate. I'm also opposed fundamentally to any party which wishes to see the disintegration of the union (N.I is different but now is not the time or the place to explain my view on that).

    So that's my thoughts at this current stage. Basically the ball is with Clegg. He needs to make the surge translate into actual votes.
    Last edited by tibilicus; 04-26-2010 at 23:53.


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