All bets are on!

The Guardian is CENTRE??? Don't make me laugh...

Look at the political presenters and editors of the BBC and they are largely drawn from the right wing media or have stated right wing sympathies, so no I don't think the BBC is left wing.

However the press is slightly different -

Mirror Group - left of centre
Guardian - centre
Murdoch Group - right
Mail Group - right
Express - right
Telegraph - right
Standard- right
Independent - sits on the fence
The Sundays - all Tory except the Observer

So the Tories have a huge help from most of the media, no doubt they will be suitably grateful when the gongs are given out.

The combined voices of the right wing press is far larger than the left wing and so their voice is heard much more.

That's funny I find them left wing.

Andrew Neil gives them all grief , quite rightly so.

Most of the BBC political commentators are right wing. The Guardian is one newspaper.
I agree with you, whitewave and Iam64. I would like a referendum on the NHS or TTIP rather than the EU, although that would probably take too long to set up. In the meantime private healthcare will have won.

I don't think the BBC or the Guardian will scream blue murder!

I'm with you whitewave, if the majority reject right wing politics it seems so wrong for the tories to continue to slash and burn public services. I'd prefer a referendum on the bed room tax over one on europe.

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.

Latest Polls - Tories lead by 4

Tories 273 (-3)

Labour 269 (+2)

Libs 27 (+1)

UKIP 2

SNP 56

Greens 1

Others 22

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Which poll do you use, whitewave?

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.

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.

Latest Poll news Tories lead by 8

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

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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.

Oh, I see.

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

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."