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Add the 13% of the xenophobic, racist, extreme right UKIP voters to us selfish, greedy, anti-society Tories, and you have 50% of the national vote. That's including NI where there are no Tories, and Scotland which is very left wing. So, the reality is, in Engkand, the percentage who are anti...

v HT. Respect for the graciousness shown In defeat. We may support a different party, but if we were to list the things we want for the country, we wouldn't be far apart. The differences are nuances IMO, and this doesn't warrant the vitriol which is espoused by both sides. You have been man...

Danny Alexander loses. Shame; I thought he was a genuine politician. Would like to see him come back in the future

I wonder how the budget of an independent Scotland would look like now with oil prices low, and also being projected to stay low for the foreseeable future, due to the fracking boom in the U.S. Also, from what I've read, the quality of the services being delivered in Scotland by their own...

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Going back to one of my original points regarding politics. It's idiotic point scoring like this which undermines the whole point of the debate. One minute you want to come across as an intelligent, reasonable person, then you come out with cheap, snide comments which inflame the argument...

You can't win. Whichever way you look at it, the economy isn't doing bad. Growth rate has dropped slightly, but it's still growing stronger than most other developed countries. However, the left have been blinded by the rhetoric of "Evil Tories", "Spend, spend, spend". In response to ROSM...

Bearing in mind your support of the EU project, apart from Germany, which countries in the EU are roaring away? France? Italy? Portugal? Spain? Greece? Netherlands? Hmm, considering this is a GLOBAL economy, sometimes I wonder why so may people can't grasp the fact that if our nearest market is...

Housing is a totally separate issue. I would relax planning laws and encourage extensive house building. There is a hidden transfer of wealth from young to old with rising house prices (when they rise in excess of inflation). More land need to be made available and the infrastructure created...

One projection I saw was 270 Labour and 48 SNP. Conservative 283 Lib-Dem 24. Niether 'group' would have a majority, and the Lib-Dems won't support Lab/SNP (IMO). Very interesting times....

It's tough to call. My own expectation is that Miliband will be PM, but in an unstable coalition which won't last. CMD will leave and Boris will be a shoe-in for the next leader. However, the margin of error on polls is about 3%, and late swings can happen (e.g. Kinnock). I think the Lib-Dems...

Earlier, you was saying about MP's are voted in to represent their constituents. So, which is it? If there is legislation which does not affect their constituents (by this I mean their country), then they should not be voting.

Couldn't agree more. However, that won;t happen without international cooperation, starting with Luxemburg, where Juncker (you know, him of the EU) was responsible for entering into multiple agreements with multi-nationals to allow them to set-up head offices in their country of funnel the...

And Scottish MP's can vote on legislation in the UK parliament, which does not impact their constituents, which is indefensible.

Because they will use their influence to exact even more from the pot than they are putting in. When I hear the left wing candidates who oppose Austerity, I change that word to the phrase 'Living Within Your Means'. Then the arguments against austerity seem weak.

Well, UKIP on 14% of the vote would have 91 out of 650 MP's. It may get 1 - 4 on FPTP. Labour would get 214 based on 33%. Suddenly, UKIP is not such a fringe party.

Devolved powersThe affairs over which the Scottish Parliament has control are called devolved powers, and they include: health education and training local government law, including most aspects of criminal and civil law, the prosecution system and the courts social work housing tourism and...

I'd happily accept some form of PR. Another point, they have too many MP's in relation to their population too, They have 9.08% of the MP's based on 8.4% of the population. Something else in favour of the left. Being that you support fairness, then I'm sure that you would agree that the...

They've already got a lot of say over domestic affairs. Very selective arguments here. There's the little thing called the Scottish Parliament which has a lot of powers and is due to get more. I really wish they'd voted for independence now. Imagine the wailing with the crash in oil prices...

I was only joking. It's a small percentage and could get more influence than it warrants.