At the next election will we see a big swing to the right?

[spudbynight]

I have been thinking about this. The whole country seems to have moved slightly to the right - is it temporary?

Will we see a swing to parties like UKIP and <shudder> the BNP?

I personally think everything will be forgotten about in a months time.

 

[Nitefly]

If these riots were closer to an election, I think they might have influenced a shift, so I agree with you.

 

[BunnyKillBot]

What we need is a swing to the down left, holding up idiols like ghandi and mandela rather than hitler and thatcher. But alas, the world is too full of idiots.

 

[afraser2k]

I think we'll see a large swing to alternative parties since the current government is about as useful as the last one and given the betrayal by the LibDems to the students most of their voters will look at the smaller parties or independents, or more likely not bother voting at all.

In Scotland the main reason why so many have begun voting the SNP is that they're a valid alternative who don't seem as bad as New Labour or the Tories.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

nah as the western world tumbles around us people will realize that actually all things considered the cuts were necessary and probably without them we would be in even worse a state.
tories will be again im pretty sure of it, labour are a bunch of fumbling idiots at the moment spearheaded by Mr Milliband that cant seem to construct a half decent sentence.

Boris will also return to being mayor of London after the elect for that, Ken Livingston hasn't got a chance in hell.

 

[wildman]

What we need is a swing to the down left, holding up idiols like ghandi and mandela rather than hitler and thatcher. But alas, the world is too full of idiots.

How is that any better. Going to any extremes is bad whether left or right, How about we have a government that is actually centred on fixing this country and not one thats fixated with appealing to right wing nut-cases or left wing moon maidens ?

 

[Dolph]

What we need is a swing to the down left, holding up idiols like ghandi and mandela rather than hitler and thatcher. But alas, the world is too full of idiots.

The liberal right would be much better, there can be no freedom without economic freedom.

 

[NathanE]

Personally I think this rioting at some level is here to stay for the time being. The underclass has found a weakness and finally, after all these years of loitering outside shops and street corners, has grown a minimum level of confidence to actually kick off properly.

Any time there is some minor public disturbance these idiots will use it as an excuse to kick off again.

 

[wildman]

Personally I think this rioting at some level is here to stay for the time being. The underclass has found a weakness and finally, after all these years of loitering outside shops and street corners, has grown a minimum level of confidence to actually kick off properly.

Any time there is some minor public disturbance these idiots will use it as an excuse to kick off again.

I am not sure they will be afforded that liberty in the future. I seriously see parts of this country going into lockdown similar to Northern Ireland. Next time the police will likely have all their tools deployed i.e rubber bullets and water cannon. There is no way the government are going to let something like this happend again, well not at least untill the olympics are done

 

[scorza]

Nope, imo at the next election it will still be mostly Labour and Conservative because we have an election system that only really supports two parties.

 

[Mr Jack]

It depends what you mean by a swing to the right: it will take something astonishing to happen for Labour to not win by a solid margin. So the actual power in government will swing left.

However I expect both BNP and UKIP to get more votes next time around as many of those disaffected with the Tories leave to parties further right. Labour will pick up many of the former Lib Dem voters, and the Greens will probably do pretty well out of that too.

 

[NathanE]

I am not sure they will be afforded that liberty in the future. I seriously see parts of this country going into lockdown similar to Northern Ireland. Next time the police will likely have all their tools deployed i.e rubber bullets and water cannon. There is no way the government are going to let something like this happend again, well not at least untill the olympics are done

How though? There aren't enough police officers! They're already saying that the current level of police in London can only last for another day or two at most. At some point those officers need to return to their parts of the country and resume work.

They need to make every police officer at least twice as effective and feared as he currently is. One way of doing that may be to arm them all with rifles and plastic bullets.

 

[BombayMix]

Do you really want Labour back? Probably see smaller parties gaining ground.

 

[NathanE]

Do you really want Labour back? Probably see smaller parties gaining ground.

Only rioters and riot sympathisers want those crooks back, surely?

 

[wildman]

How though? There aren't enough police officers! They're already saying that the current level of police in London can only last for another day or two at most. At some point those officers need to return to their parts of the country and resume work.

They need to make every police officer at least twice as effective and feared as he currently is. One way of doing that may be to arm them all with rifles and plastic bullets.

5,000 fully armed ready to go riot cops with armoured vehicles, water cannons, rubber bullet rounds and a green light to carve up rioters versus 16,000 docile, arms tied behind their backs due to 'Human Rights' policemen. Its not about numbers its about 'quality'

You don't need 16,000 police to keep peace in London, you just need police with the right tools and motivation and not restricted by ridiculous human rights opinions.

 

[wildman]

Only rioters and riot sympathisers want those crooks back, surely?

They weren't crooks really, they were just viewing the country with heavily rose tinted glasses ?

 

[CmJared]

UKIP will make some big gains imo but nobody cares about BNP their popularity was blown out of proportion because Labour and the lefts scaremongering.

 

[scorza]

They weren't crooks really, they were just viewing the country with heavily rose tinted glasses ?

Huh? Labour at least acknowledged the underclass existed when they took power and tried to do something about it by setting up its social exclusion unit. They failed to achieve anything meaningful because of the sheer scale of the problem but at least they tried. So far the coalition government seems to have buried its head in the sand on this issue, pretending that they can cut benefits and public services and the underclass will disappear as they get jobs at Tesco and become fully functioning members of society.

Hopefully now that we're in crisis, politicians of all sides will acknowledge the true extent of the problem and can work together to produce a workable plan.

 

[Efour]

Im not really that bothered who is in control any more. They are all out for themselves, will say whatever keeps them in power and shy away when we turn to them for leadership and real guidance.

The majority of the western world is upto their eyes in debt, which is un payable in any realistic time frame, and so intrinsically linked it would hardly matter if ours was paid off we will still sink with the rest when the time cones.

So here my vote for whoever makes sense in the weeks before the election, who ever you are.

Bored of blame Blaire, Thatcher, Heath, Attlee take it all the way back to the 18th century.

Like suggested im sure right wing party s will make some gains, oh well.

 

[wildman]

Huh? Labour at least acknowledged the underclass existed when they took power and tried to do something about it by setting up its social exclusion unit. They failed to achieve anything meaningful because of the sheer scale of the problem but at least they tried. So far the coalition government seems to have buried its head in the sand on this issue, pretending that they can cut benefits and public services and the underclass will disappear as they get jobs at Tesco and become fully functioning members of society.

Hopefully now that we're in crisis, politicians of all sides will acknowledge the true extent of the problem and can work together to produce a workable plan.

Labour managed to bribe the social underclass by giving them an insane level of benefits that wa sin no way sustainable for the tax paying poplulace of this country. They encouraged the social underclass to stay at home by making benefit payments higher than earning on minimum wage.

Now that the country is 'almost bankrupt' and this level of free handouts are no longer afordable, the soical underclass, who were conned into thinking that free handouts were their god given right by the previous administration have decided to revolt ?

Yes I can see labours success story there alright.