UK General Election - May 7th 2015

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Total random question, but is West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine a potential Scottish pick-up for the Tories, even if they lose the general election?

It's possible, if there's a huge vote split- but it's more likely the SNP would leap to a winning percentage- all I can say for certain is that it' one of Scottish Labour's "impossibles"

[freefair]

I will remind everyone again that the people who vote - or at least voted - LibDem are not necessarily the people that you all seem to be assuming do/did. Surveys used to show that the most popular newspaper amongst regular LibDem voters was the Daily Mail...

Would I be correct in thinking millions of Labour voters buy The Sun despite the fact it's a Tory supporting newspaper?

The correlation between party affiliation and which party people's newspapers support isn't always obvious or straight forward.

Yep, although the Suns politics are pretty weird, it's broadly centre-right ,culturally nationalistic, Neoconservative on foreign policies yet with a weird libertarian streak on sexual matters. It endorsed New Labour in 1997,2001 & 2005, because of Blair's once rosy friendship with Rupert Murdoch

[freefair]

and indeed with their "UKIP are taking lots of votes from Labour in white working class communities" narrative.

It's possible for that to be true & for Labour vote to be going upwards, becuase of LibDem switchers.