There has been a long-term shift in the makeup of our constituencies that seems to favour Labour, i.e. they need a smaller overall share of the vote in order to do well under FPTP. I'm hoping the Tories will see that, if for no other reason than self-interest, the system has got to change.
I began this election campaign as a determined Tory voter, but I'm beginning to become disillusioned. It is becoming ever-clearer to me that nobody has all the answers, and TBH the more knockabout, squabbling and fighting I see in this campaign (and last night's Scottish debate was a real humdinger - well worth a view on the STV version of ITV Player, if you have a few minutes to scan through it - lots of audience participation and direct hard-talk between the SNP, Lab, Con & LD) ... the more of that I see, the more I wish to see them all get their heads knocked together and forced to co-operate.
I think a hung parliament will serve the whole darned lot of them right. It might be purgatory for them, but it might, just might, force them to start thinking about different ways of doing things. One thing I am sure of, we cannot go on any longer as we have done before.
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Incidentally, on the issue of Scotland, here's a useful poll tracker:
http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/i...olls_scot.html
It has serious implications for the whole UK. If there is essentially no change from 2005 (except for one seat switched from Lab to SNP), there is no way the Tories are going to get an outright majority in the UK. IIRC they need at least 10-11 seats up here, on a uniform swing.
The one caveat to that, of course, is that most of Scotland's seats are in and around Glasgow, where they would vote for a turd so long as it was wearing a red rosette.