Will this be the first really tactical election ...

[vetran]

It got 12% of the vote and 0.15% of the seats.

CleanBehindTheFRidge party?

so well over twice the votes of the Third Party (SNP) & 1.5 times the votes of Lib dems. They needed to get enough votes to be taken seriously as a new party they did that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2015

Next time if they had fielded decent policies & candidates they could have got a few seats.

[jbond007]

hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader

[SueEllen]

hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader

Depends where they live.

[BlasterBates]

hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader

This is why tactical voting doesn't work, because although everyone has the same aim they apply different tactics.

[SueEllen]

This is why tactical voting doesn't work, because although everyone has the same aim they apply different tactics.

It works on a constituency level but not on a national level.

[d000hg]

hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader

But then you end up with a local MP of the wrong flavour. In day to day issues that could be a big deal.

[shaunbhoy]

People died so you could vote
Vote for the Monster Raving loonies or Greens if you must, but vote.

No they didn't.

People died in order that you have the RIGHT to a Vote.
Something very different indeed.

If it ever becomes compulsory then it will have moved away from being a hard-won freedom, and become simply another obligation. And nobody died to impose that upon us.

An important distinction which, like so many other things down through the years, has clearly gone over sasguru's empty head.

[PhiltheGreek]

In fairness to sas, it's equally possible it went straight through his empty head.

[TestMangler]

so well over twice the votes of the Third Party (SNP) & 1.5 times the votes of Lib dems. They needed to get enough votes to be taken seriously as a new party they did that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2015

Next time if they had fielded decent policies & candidates they could have got a few seats.

The difference being that the SNP got 50% of the vote across the seats that they stood in. Had Ukip done that you'd have been bowing to Prime Minister Farage as the most popular PM in recent history.

[vetran]

The difference being that the SNP got 50% of the vote across the seats that they stood in. Had Ukip done that you'd have been bowing to Prime Minister Farage as the most popular PM in recent history.

Many people were voting against Tories or Labour.

UKIP were a wasted vote as they didn't expect to get a decent showing,