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Originally Posted by Chris
You sound like a Scottish nationalist. They're also fond of claiming that the reasons why they lost their referendum no longer apply.  |
Their referendum was a few months ago though.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm not sure which polls you're reading to suggest people may deliberately choose a coalition this year by opting to support minor parties. British electoral arithmetic is well understood. There can't be many people who actually think about their vote, who don't understand the likely consequences of voting for a party that has a thin sheen of support across a nation of 65 million people, but almost no depth of support in any one place.
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I don't think anyone is actively choosing a coalition but that their support for a minority party shows that the prospect isn't sending them to Labour or Tories. They may switch back at the last moment as we saw with the Lib Dem collapse 5 years ago but if they don't then they're at best ambivalent about the idea of it.
I mean a lot of UKIP and SNP support is voters who want them in a coalition to pressure one of the main parties into whatever policies they want enacted.