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*** Anand, I think the main reason that the LibDems do not do that is that they want to offer tax cuts all the way up the income spectrum.

Not exact matches

I tend to think that the decision facing the Tories is a rather straightforward one, and it essentially consists of not trying to face two ways at once - do you secure your base, who really are losing faith (simple longing for power is all that seems to be keeping the ship afloat for the time being), or do you keep on flirting with LibDem / floating voters and hope that gets you over the line?

But I did so not because I have been a life - long LibDem supporter or because, as a Swiss dual - national, I believe that direct democracy is necessarily the best of all forms of government, but because of what happened since then: I simply underestimated at the time the power of direct democracy, once its genie is let out of the bottle.

I personally don't mind whether there's a Lab - LibDem coalition if there's a hung parliament, or a semi-formal pact that allows Labour to continue in office with conditional LibDem support.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

OK, that may be a slighly unrealistic wish but I think there are more things that should unite Labour and LibDem supporters than divide them, even if not all of them see it like that (it always amazes me how much some Labour supporters despise the LibDems, I don't know to what extent the feeling is reciprocated).

If wonder if his sentiments have anything to do with Nick Clegg representating a Sheffield constituency or that the LibDems contend with Labour for the control of Sheffield City Council.

@ 12 Bob B «But there is even more about the local LibDems» Do nt be a tease Bob, what could possibly be worse then cigarette running or invoking an imaginary sky god?

It's a strange play for marginal Tory / LibDem voters living in above # 1m properties, but why is it odd for those who don't?

Also, don't forget that the 50p rate was never a LibDem policy or priority, but increasing the tax free allowance to # 10k for people on low to middle incomes was a key manifesto commitment (higher rate tax payers get less of an increase + those earning over # 100k get no tax free allowance).

Cameron doesn't of course have much say over LibDem ministers but expect Laws to return but to where?

3) The LibDems are likely to recover at least a little (and in any case will do better in their strongholds than the national vote suggests).

Our candidate Glenn Hall has signed a pledge that he won't keep Brown in power and challenged his LibDem opponent to do the same.

I did not join the LibDems to put David Cameron into 10 Downing Street.

So the LibDems are negotiating with a Labour team that does not include its possible next leader!!

We must do all we can to bring together people who may have voted UKIP, Labour or LibDem, or withheld their vote in the recent past.

On the ground, we've always thought that it's easier to take Labour votes than Tory - gone - LibDem ones - and that's been true - at last we have a leader who wants to do something about that!

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

There would be no special responsibility on the LibDems: I think the major parties would think it in their interests to at least have a discussion; it would be sensible to do so; and voters might reasonably expect that once a hung parliament happened.

The canvassing I have been doing — in some very «non elite» areas — suggests ordinar7y voters ARE switching from Labour to LibDem, at least in London.

This isn't a matter of party politics - it doesn't matter whether you're Labour, Conservative or LibDem.

These open negotiations are surely compromised (for what it's worth, it seemed Cameron acted in good faith almost all the way through) How does Cameron feel about being played and how do the Tory backbenchers feel knowing that they gave the LibDems the one thing they wanted (and the Cons desperately didn't) on false pretences?

Polling by Populus (for Lord Ashcroft) has, however, suggested that LibDem MPs could face wipeout in Tory / LD marginals if they don't have a non-aggression pact with the Conservatives in these seats.

Last week an Angus Reid poll found that only 83 % of Tory voters would support a Coalition candidate and the number of LibDem voters who would do the same would be even lower.

Labour voters who don't choose the Labour Party as the best party on a particular issue choose the Conservatives on five issues as better than the Lib Dems (eg cutting the deficit, dealing with crime and defending Britain's interests in Europe) while they only prefer the LibDems on three issues including protecting the environment.

Guido, does this encourage you to follow through on your earlier thinking about perhaps joining the libdems.

Being in uneasy alliance if a Huhne - Cable - Farron axis assert more control over LibDem policy may get trickier, but Vince doesn't hate the Prime Minister anything like as viscerally as some of the 1922.

(b) has already «decontaminated» the brand so that people (e.g. Floating Voters, LibDem voters etc) just do not see as credible any attempt to paint him as a Waving Wight Winger.

Cameron has done very well to maintain the Tory vote over the year while the LibDem vote collapses.

The 25 % labour 10 % libdems and 10other are all remain are they, well apart from the fact that 40 % of Scots voted leave, and if every Scottish person who voted Ukip voted leave that assumes every Scots Tory in 2015 voted leave too, where clearly some Scottish Tories voted remain, so Some Scottish labour voted Leave too, QED Then there's the fact that of the 10 % who according to your statistics don't vote for the main 4 parties, there's plenty of greens who voted leave 4 in my Left leave campaign last year, or DUP / UUP, SDLP / Plaid voted leave too And then you forget 37 % of labour voters voted leave

Cameron doesn't intend to repeat Blair's mistake and stop the lovebombing of the LibDems once a first victory is in the bag.

The Tory right grumbles and chunters about the way in which the LibDems constrain a proper Tory government from doing things — calling a referendum to get out of Europe; pulling out of human rights acts — which David Cameron has no intention of doing, despite the occasional nod and wink to pretend otherwise.

Vince Cable rightly castigates top pay excesses — and to give him credit, no - one else in this government of millionaires is doing so — but the solutions he put forward yesterday to the LibDem conference are worth little more than a bucket of warm spit.

At the moment the coalition is floating in Darling's stimulus lifeboat - when the cuts really bite in the autumn and the private sector doesn't deliver the 2.7 M new jobs, the 300 Bn of new investment and incrase exports by a third whilst unemploment heads for 5m, LibDem MPs will see the writing on the wall and feel the ire of their constituents and party members.

Either it favours the LibDems or doesn't.

To be @ 9 % in the polls is irretrieveable before the next election - are the rank & file LibDems simply in shock, or do they really think there is a way back - or are they still hypnotised by Clegg?

I would then Classify the views of Cooper to be much more in line with the «Socially Liberal, pro EU» Labour member / supporter who's views don't currently fit in with the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but more with the «Core vote, possible Libdem» voter who could be attracted to a new centre party.

Clegg is damaged beyond repair - the electorate are never going to forgive him and those of us who voted LibDem tactically at the general election for a centre - left coalition but ended up getting a rightwing doctrinaire government instead that has done the exact opposite of what the LibDem manifesto said, would probably vote for the devil himself before they'd support anything Clegg now advocates.

A big chunk of those Labour «Voters» that show up in the Polls are people who did nt vote in 2010 & wont vote in May, plus Libdems protesting at their Party being in Government.

Labour didn't hold the majority of its 2010 vote, we lost at least 1.5 m of it, to with stories or Ukip, maybe more, and yes we did get back ex libDem votes, all those Billybragg types at the guardian who voted libDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibDem votes, all those Billybragg types at the guardian who voted libDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibdem vote only stabilized it,

You must have misunderstood what I put, labour didn't keep the same sort of voters in 2015 as 2010 ′ see some constituencies that had a huge libDem collapse, like Kent Sussex But in south West England, labours vote went to Ukip, it wasn't the amount of votes it was we got different voters, voting for us in 2015,

Voters in 2010 did not choose to have a Consevative / LibDem coalition government (under the current electoral system there is no mechanism which would have allowed them to express such a preference).

Less than half the Ukip vote came from the Tories if it did, then, the Tories getting more votes than last time, couldn't have got all their increased votes ex libdems

Not very surprisingly at all, people in Britain are sick of Labour, don't take the LibDems seriously, and are supporting the Conservatives.

Virginia Taylor, Tory candidate for the seat in 2001 and 2005, did a terrific job in moving the seat into one of the top possibilities for a Tory gain over the LibDems at the next General Election.

There is a risk that Labour and LibDem councils will do this because they think high taxation on all sections of society is morally right.

His affair, Iain blogged, does not change the fact that he is «one of the most talented LibDems in the Commons».

Don't they trust each other, these LibDems?

When the LibDems manage to convince people they can really win, they often do, upsetting huge majorities.

Does that make a dozen LibDems retiring upto now?