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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Joey, I put the 'Joker' emoticon on the end of my statement to illustrate it was a 'light-hearted' post.

That said, I would hate the thought of a Labour/SNP coalition government.

Labour -- A party which has had infinite terms in office, and who has NEVER delivered on its pre-Election promises, and who are as culpable as the Tories in initiating, continuing with, or supporting policies which have not only DAMAGED this country, but also inflicted great penury on the most vulnerable classes of society - the very class which they purport to be 'The Protectors' of.

The SNP -- A party whose very 'raison d'etre' is the fracturing of the United Kingdom, seriously 'passing themselves off' as THE most fitting party to govern that very same UK?

What a combination.

I'm sorry but I feel that after more than 60 years of the same tedious inefficiency, corruption and clueless-ness, it is time for a 'sea change'. Time to pull the rug completely from beneath the complacent feet of the big two. Time to give Nigel Farage a chance.

No sane impartial person can fault Farage on what he says he is going to do, and therefore, the only reasons his detractors 'hang out' there are wildly speculative 'boogeyman' scare stories of what he will do if he ever gets into power.

Once again, I am sorry but the above 'he might do' hypothesising does not persuade when held against the historical realities of the track record of what the Labour and Tory parties actually did and didn't do when they were in power. Especially when - if Farage does not deliver, or if he turns 'extreme' once in power - we have the vote to remove him, and any damage inflicted by such policies over one solitary term in office, is but a 'feather stroke' in comparison to 60 years of damaging 'non-government' from the other parties.

Well my totally disastrous combination and result would be the Conservatives around 10 to 15 seats short and then backed up in govt; by UKIP and the DUP.
I would just about rather have any result other than that one.

If we look at the main parties, in the main to keep his party happier, Cameron has embarked on some of the most rotten imaginable policies possible,Labour too in govt; have done the same to keep certain sections of their party happy too.

Nigel Farage may mean well but he has difficulty with a handful of European MPs and from what I ahve ehard and seen revealed as to the thinking of candidates for UKIP, I am filled with suspicions as to what this one man Farage could do against a whole set of MPs with views like we have heard over the last few years.

Of course for me, I don't want to leave the EU and also am not in the slightest bothered about a referendum as to same.

However, Nigel Farage makes a great play on free speech and democracy,yet he does not want 16 and 17 year olds to have a vote in any referendum.
Why not, probably because in the main the younger in UK society appear to lean more to being part of Europe not out of it.
Also he indicates,those here from other countries, who are working here, registered to vote too but not of British origin should also not have a vote in a referendum.

That starts to sound like strong discrimination actually and borders on dicatatorship too.
So a definite no thank you from me, to Nigel Farage and UKIP,I still believe as a great many probably do,that they have an unpleasant hidden agenda behind their smiles.

The SNP have also never once said they will want another referendum for support at westminster but for me, why should they not have it,they were conned by the 3 party eladers when it looked like Cameron was going to preside over the first break up of the UK.
Now the Scots have voted to stay, we get some of the little englanders screaming they should have no say as to power in westminster.
What utter hypocrisy, we wanted them to stay in the UK but now expect them to do nothing and keep quiet.
Says a lot for the UK and its idea of democracy that does.