Nick Clegg has today been warning voters to Beware Blukip.
Everyone knows that David Cameron and Ed Miliband won’t win this general election out right.
The prospect of a left-wing alliance between Labour and the SNP has been well covered. What’s equally possible is an alliance that will drag Britain further and further to the right:
BLUKIP – a bloc of right-wingers from UKIP, the Conservatives and the DUP that could hold the balance of power.
They’re the MPs that could hold David Cameron to ransom.
Listen to Conservative MP Edward Leigh, who described belief in climate change as a “thoroughly painful ideology” – one of a number of outspoken climate sceptics on the Tory and DUP benches.
Listen to the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jr, who said: “I am pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism.”
Or take the Conservative backbench MPs who put their names to a Bill to bring back the death penalty.
The only people standing between BLUKIP and real power are a small number of our candidates.
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One of the best original ideas I’ve seen from the Lib Dem campaign for a while. Conservatives are shoring up support by saying Lib Dems might go off wit Labour, so this is the counter.
Could have whacked Diane James in there too in the foreign office, with her “admiration” of Putin.
BLUKIP posters ? Seriously, do you somehow think no-one noticed that you ‘aided and abetted’, 5 years worth of the most draconian and poor bashing policies whilst playing your part as *little Tory helpers*?
Maybe print up a few ORANGE~CONS while you’re at the printers?
Given UKIP are likely to get 2-3 MPs and the SNP 20-30, wouldn’t we be better off going for them?
When it comes to the Conservatives Ruth Davidson is brilliant. She’s just said she is coming after the “soggy centre left” and the SNP and Labour! Lol!
Coalition politics is good with the right people!
Just as the UKIP vote is falling away and the projected seat numbers are heading towards one we choose to give credibility to UKIP as king makers.I don’t get it.Would be better pushing our own policies.
“….The prospect of a left-wing alliance between Labour and the SNP has been well covered”
Has it? Not in much of the media coverage so far. Not in England.
The prospect of not just the SNP but Plaid and a Green or two in the role of “Keeping Labour honest” on Trident etc appeals to a lot of people in England as well as in Scotland and Wales.
The natural role for a left of centre party like the Liberal Democrats would be in the group keeping Labour honest.
@Tabman
Equidistance, remember. Besides, throw in the 9 seats of the DUP (whose nationalism makes the SNP look genteel) and there’ s a real point here. Right wing Conservative party members don’t help either.
@JohnTilley 16th Apr ’15 – 6:51pm
Yes. Yes, and yes.
Philip Thomas. Would you diss the DUP?
the poster is refreshingly original for once, and at last raises the danger that the real diasaster for the country would be a non-mandatef right wing pact. It beggars belief that Labour weren’t on to this before.
just out of interest, does it suggest though that we would like to help David Cameron back in to #10?
I am at heart glad we are turning our fire on the DUP, whom I do not want anywhere near government. BUT:
– If we don’t explicitly rule out coalition with them and still slag them off, we make ourselves hypocrites if we go into government with them (please, noo).
– by refusing to deal with them, as they are another party (one of the few) that could conceivably deal with either Tory or Labour, we make a coalition less likely and a minority government more likely.
This idea is utterly ludicrous straw-clutching. The average elector in England neither knows nor cares about the policies of the DUP and no politician of any party is going to be able to (a) kindle that interest and (b) get these voters to make voting decisions based upon an analysis of these politics.
The idea of UKIP having any power in Parliament is of course terrifying. However if I was Clegg I would ease off on attacking the Tories after all he needs their tactical votes to survive in Hallam, if he goes too far Tory voters may refuse to back him to stop Labour and cost him his job.