Election Results.

Now that the elections, both euro and local are behind us we can see how our local opinion poll matched up against the poll in the real world.

In our local poll the results were.

BNP 41%
Conservative. 17%
UKIP. 16%
Labour. 7%
Greens 4%
Lib-Dems 2%
Other 2%.


In the South West Region for the European election the result for the same parties was.

Conservative. 30.2%
UKIP 22.1%
Lib-Dems 17.2%
Greens. 9.3%
Labour 7.7%
BNP 3.9%

So beyond getting the Labour vote very nearly right our little local poll was not a very accurate indicator of the result in our wider region.

The electorate has now spoken and the Labour party has been given the expected hammering. In vote and percentage terms the Tories have hardly made massive gains and the Lib Dems seem to be stuck about where they were. I dont doubt that this is an accurate view of the state of play following the recent expenses scandal and from what I hear, a revulsion amongst many of its traditional supporters that the Labour party has now moved so far from its historic position as the party of the working class. Given that the main beneficieries of the revolt against the main parties has been UKIP, a party that does not fare so well at Westminster general elections the odds must be that much of the UKIP vote would go back to the Tories at the next election, but in the current climate, you couldnt risk too much money on it.

What is obvious is that the current government has no longer got the support or the policies necessary to get through to a general election next year. No change of leader of the labour party who would expect to become PM would be acceptable to the people. There must be a general election now !.