All bets are on!

NHA could have an MP, and get rid of Jeremy Hunt.

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/giselle-green/carry-on-don%27t-lose-your-vote

Why is Cameron so set on that? Does he believe that vast hordes of Tory voters would switch to ukip if they aren't promised an in/out referendum?

So it's not necessary to let voters know that one of the main candidates is no longer standing?
I'd be incandescent if my vote, and probably several thousand others, was wasted because of bureaucratic idiocy!
I hope the other parties are making it known that their libdem opponent is out of the running.

DC probably wants to be seen about taking the referendum seriously.
He has woken up, about 7 years too late, that he is losing votes to UKIP that he can ill afford to lose.
Too little, too late for some people.

I do not see why the other parties cannot go round and stick a notice on every polling station door. Or on the nearest lamppost if that's not allowed.
Apparently if a candidate dies before Thursday, it would be stopped.

What would be stopped?

Farnorth, it doesn't say they cannot tell everybody, fortunately.
Louise Irvine is in lots of the main papers and the local news broadcasts, so hopefully lots of liberal thinking people will be reading and listening.

"They rely on the media to reach the parts of the electorate they refuse to reach out to."

The election in the dead candidate's constituency, Ana.

Oh, I see.

nhap.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=937c3e62bc24fa37708920cc9&id=92b47c95b0&e=814ede4ddc

Statement from the NHA candidate opposing Jeremy Hunt. She was the bookie's second favourite even before the Libdem was kicked out of his party.
She was also interviewed on the Daily Politics show yesterday.

Latest Poll news Tories lead by 8

Tories 275 (-1)
Labour 267
Libs 27 (+1)
UKIP 2
SNP 2
Greens 1
Others 22

Some Lord in Scotland (unsure of his political affiliation - possibly Lab) suggested that if DC got more seats than Lab. than morally he has won, but I would rather disagree, as if there are more seats gained by left of centre parties than this is what the electorate want.

I think you've made a mistake there, whitewave. You've got SNP on 2, and the last time I read it they had 56!

Is there morality in politics?

I have been reading an article about universal credit, and wondered what will happen to it if the Tories do not win? Will Labour still have to continue with it?
Anyway, it got me wondering where IDS was, so I googled his name, and found this.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/general-election-iain-duncan-smith-5614400

It makes you wonder if he wants to lose, and sneak off into obscurity in his big mansion.

Which poll do you use, whitewave?

It's not a question of who has the most seats, but of who can collect enough support to get a Queen's Speech through the House of Commons, whether by coalition, confidence & supply, or just enough MPs voting for it on the day, so you're quite right whitewave

Any talk of "moral" anything, victory or anything else, seems a bit strange in the context of all the bare-faced cheek in some of the statements about other parties being made by all sorts of politicians.

Oh yes 56 - sorry!!!!!

dj type in poll election and the seats thing comes up.

There has been a suggestion that a new Windsor will give the voting public a "feel good" factor and the vote will go the Tories way

Can't imagine any result which would make me feel worse that a tory government propped up by UKIP

I was wondering which one you used, because I look at three, the Guardian, BBC, and New Statesman, whitewave.

Same here, when. Fortunstely, it will not happen. The Tories are going to need a lot more seats before UKIP will be able to prop them up.

dj did you find it? if not herewith!

may2015.com/category/seat-calculator
oh it didn't go blue still that should get you there.

Yes, that's the New Statesman one I have on my bookmarks, along with the other two, whitewave.
I will ignore the remarks to follow telling me how sad I am.

Something else about Iain Duncan Smith.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/green-party-sets-up-foodbank-5619018

Not sure if he's inside.

Whitewave, this is interesting from the same website.

may2015.com/ideas/election-2015-if-tories-are-so-concerned-about-the-snp-they-should-consider-voting-lib-dem/

Do you think Tories will read it?

Latest Polls - Tories lead by 4

Tories 273 (-3)

Labour 269 (+2)

Libs 27 (+1)

UKIP 2

SNP 56

Greens 1

Others 22

Reading about what will happen after the election if it is hung. Cameron will try to cobble together a working majority and then presumably present a Queen's speech, which if he can't get a majority should be voted down.

Clegg mentioned that he would have to go with the Party who won the most seats, as the smaller party would be seen a illegitimate, even if there was only a couple of seats between them. But looking at it another way - if the majority of votes cast in the UK have resulted in a rejection of the politics of the right then as far as I can see it would be illegitimate to side with the right.

This is where the media will scream blue murder, if they think Labour stand a chance of forming a government.