I am fascinated by the #electionDebate. For me, what is the most interesting this is how similar a lot of them are. Only the shock tactics seem to really differentiate them, and that is where the #SNP and #UKIP seem to be making ground. They are saying things their core voters want to hear and, in some respects, polarising the rest of the nation.<\/p>\n
The #election is different to other years and the main parties are struggling a bit to keep up with the new format \/ world we are living in. Take the #Green, Welsh and Scottish ‘hug’ at the end. They are very much working together and know that between them they could<\/em> hold the balance of power.<\/p>\n The #Conservatives and #Labour are still holding out for an outright majority, but that seems incredibly unlikely.<\/p>\n The #LibDem party, who were always the protest party are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They don’t have the shiny new look of the #SNP, #UKIP et al, but also don’t hold the weight of the two ‘main’ parties.<\/p>\n They might still come into their own. The more the ‘hug’ team play on their alliance, people may take a dislike to seeing them potentially hold the balance, then voters might return to LibDems based on their coalition experience and to derisk a #chaoscoalition (as Boris put it).<\/p>\n For me though, all bets are off. This is going to be a interesting May 8th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am fascinated by the #electionDebate. For me, what is the most interesting this is how similar a lot of them are. Only the shock tactics seem to really differentiate them, and that is where the #SNP and #UKIP seem to be making ground. They are saying things their core voters want to hear and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/wpid-elections1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}