May 2015 UK General Election Campaign.

[Martinus]

Farage was nasty. I am surprised he is more liked than disliked by the general public.

I feel sorry for Nick Clegg.

[garbon]

Farage seemed like a cartoon villain so yeah I agree. I understand how Green and SNP women looked better but I don't get the Welsh one who could only talk about Wales not Milliband who continued to seem repellent.  Clegg seemed convinced that if he talked about moderation enough, he could wallpaper over his alliance with the Tories.

[Sheilbh]

The Greens must be furious that Natalie Bennett's the leader during their breakthrough. If they had Caroline Lucas or Patrick Harvie on stage for the debate I think they'd probably have won.

[Valmy]

I still can't believe that two-bit communists are a thing in Britain. Yes, I mean the Green Party

They are pretty horrifying.

[Valmy]

The Greens must be furious that Natalie Bennett's the leader during their breakthrough. If they had Caroline Lucas or Patrick Harvie on stage for the debate I think they'd probably have won.

Huh. You have done a pretty good job on this board making the Greens look like dangerous lunatics. Is it possible they could be considered winners in a debate?

[garbon]

She basically was the chocolate milk in drinking fountains candidate. /when Farage decried that no party wanted to cut foreign aid, she said the Greens actually want to increase it.

[Sheilbh]

Huh. You have done a pretty good job on this board making the Greens look like dangerous lunatics. Is it possible they could be considered winners in a debate?

Sure. Let's not forget that the woman who did win the debate wants to break up the country

Natalie Bennett's dreadful presentationally. Their MP would've been far stronger.

[Valmy]

Sure. Let's not forget that the woman who did win the debate wants to break up the country

Well that's true.

[Sheilbh]

George Galloway. Still a thing
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/somethings-brewing-in-bradford

[Josquius]

Ed Miliband's got a positive approval rating for the first time since he became leader

Although I think this trend, especially since the debate, is interesting:

What's up with farage? People just went "hmm... Maybe we should be picking on people with HIV afterall"?

[Sheilbh]

What's up with farage? People just went "hmm... Maybe we should be picking on people with HIV afterall"?

That's more another example of the general trend. He's very divisive. There's about 80% of people who, when polled, say they would 'never' vote for Farage's party.

See the effect the rise of UKIP has had on support for staying in the EU:

Which is an all time high in the polling.

It's possible that to save Euroscepticism UKIP may need to dump Farage/implode (some have said this may be Carswell's theory).

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is a head versus heart thing, people love to moan about the EU and its shortcomings; but, if the topic is debated the head takes over and many realise that we have to put up with it and, preferably, try and improve it.

I'd like to see an additional line on that graph......................one measuring how much chat there is about the EU in the media, I think it might track the "remain in" line quite well.

[Josquius]

What an encouraging graph. I am increasingly confident about UKIP and the EU.
They have maybe a decade or two to make it work and fuck us over.
By 2030 the east will be a lot closer in wealth to the west and we'll have a fully grown generation or two of people who have grown up realising foreigners aren't just scary people over the water.

[Sheilbh]

Alternately Europe continues its economic policy of making a desert and calling it peace and we really would be better off out

[Agelastus]

You know, if I recall the figures correctly, the age group currently most likely to vote us out of Europe are the very ones who voted in favour of staying in the last time - it has been nearly 40 years now, after all, since the last referendum. I do wonder if Tyr's prediction will prove correct given the above trend.