Lib Dems to Blame for Con losses?

grizzly1911

William Hague (BBC) appears to blame the Lib Drms for the losses in the local elections saying that the Cons could do everything they wanted because of them.

If they (Cons) could have done everything would that have made them any better in the eyes of the electorate?

Appreciate we are mid term and we often see swings against the Government etc.

GDB2222

Nah, the LibDems are the fall guys. They were really, really, really stoopid to enter the coalition. Any ful no dat.

ash28

I'm in the US at the moment so don't know what happened in the local elections - but I remember when Labour were in opposition the last time, the Conservative seemed to take a hammering the local elections on a fairly regular basis.

The thing I don't really remember are the sheer numbers totally pee'd off with gov't - that could just be a selective memory though, I'm not sure.

abaxas

Usual mid term hatred of government.

Nothing to see here.

zygurat789

abaxas wrote: »

Usual mid term hatred of government.

Nothing to see here.

So the will of the electorate is worth nothing? Bye bye democracy

What is significant is the low turnout it shows that the voters don't want any of the parties and who can blame them. Why can the parties not apply some common sense to their policies it would help considerably.

Loughton_Monkey

William Hague is probably right. The Conservatives, like Mary Poppins, are Practically Perfect in every way. There are plenty of culpable people out there to blame. For example:

Austerity/Cuts - The previous government.
Lack of investment - The Banks
Lack of Growth - Europe
Passport Queues - Immigrants
Inflation - the Bank of England
Over-borrowing - The borrowers
Boris - Ken Livingstone
Everything else - The Lib Dems

Big Dave should realise by now that Nick should be consigned, together with all his followers, to a newly formed Ministry of Drought, where they can concentrate solely on solving the water problems, while voting blindly for all government new motions because they wont have time to criticise them.

chucky

How long has David Cameron been the leader of the Conservatives, 6 or 7 years now... And in that time he hasn't really been accepted by the people of the country. That says it all, wrong person and wrong policies.

It's not the media's fault, not Labour's, not the Lib Dems but his and his parties fault for the Conservatives being so low in the polls.

zagfles

ash28 wrote: »

I'm in the US at the moment so don't know what happened in the local elections - but I remember when Labour were in opposition the last time, the Conservative seemed to take a hammering the local elections on a fairly regular basis.

The thing I don't really remember are the sheer numbers totally pee'd off with gov't - that could just be a selective memory though, I'm not sure.

Very selective!! Labour are about 9 points ahead at the moment. If you look at mid term when they were previously in opposition, they were regularly well over 20, sometimes over 30 points ahead!!

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/historical-polls/voting-intention-1992-1997

Current lead is about what they had mid term 1989-1990, when they went on to lose the next general election.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/historical-polls/voting-intention-1987-1992

kabayiri

Why should councillors at local level be organised on party lines?

I just want the right councillor in my ward who will make sure local issues are dealt with.

zagfles

GDB2222 wrote: »

Nah, the LibDems are the fall guys. They were really, really, really stoopid to enter the coalition. Any ful no dat.

What's the alternative then, stay in opposition permanently? What's the point of even entering politics if you're not interested in power?

The LibDems were always a protest vote, they were always going to lose that when they got power. But what's the point of even being there if you don't take power when the opportunity arsies?

alleycat`

I can't think how any government is going to be popular when the economy is in the tank and people are generally assaulted by "DOOM" every single day from the press.

The turnout / apathy in a lot of areas probably speaks volumes about what people generally think about party politics.

Everyone I speak to see's it as "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".

Of the three candidates that stood in my area only one of them actually made any attempt to canvas door to door. They also set up surgeries for people to come speak to them.

The lack of effort by the people trying to get elected and spell out what they hope to achieve is, in itself, half the problem.

All the literature that comes through the door is basically don't vote for them they'' F it up and we'll make it all "aces" with no actual substances to any of it.