SNP MPs

Just about to head off down to London for the weekend so won't be responding on the messageboard much for a few days.

I agree with Jock on many points and think that it will be some time until Labour can drag itself away from the New Labour legacy. I think Ed Miliband is more to the left than David was and, if nothing else, EM at least kept us out of Syria whereas his brother would have almost certainly voted in favour of action.

For me, the biggest issue is that the two Eds have allowed the Tories (and the massed ranks of their mates in the media) to pass off the recession as somehow the fault of the previous Labour government. In actuality, nobody saw the financial crisis coming (all sides were equally culpable), and judging by the comments from Osborne & Co at the time, the response of a Conservative government would have made things much, much worse than they actually became.

Osborne is surely the most dishonest and political chancellor there has ever been yet his incompetence has somehow been ignored and he's thought of as a capable chancellor. Bizarre.

Not sure about UKIP in Grimsby. Melanie Onn seems like a very good Labour candidate but a lot of people have inexplicable faith in Farage and Co. They look like a bunch of incompetent jokers to me, but others seem to see something different.

Ayling is a complete and utter fruitcake, who has no concept of reality.

She was destroyed by the Green candidate over renewable energy, and I think that mauling will be sufficient to keep Labour in power now folk have seen just how completely clueless she actually is.

I do not have much of a choice here in wealthy Suffolk,

Conservatives always get in by a mile,

My village is full of Colonel This and Brigadier That and ex Head Teachers,

I do not like them and they do not like me,

I could vote for Labour but they will still be behind The Green Party and UKIP,

So I will make my protest and vote for UKIP,

Only because the Cons round here hate them.