Comments on: What’s happening in High Barnet http://highbarnet.org/2010/04/25/whats-happening-in-high-barnet/ News from High Barnet Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:46:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Don't Call Me Dave http://highbarnet.org/2010/04/25/whats-happening-in-high-barnet/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Don't Call Me Dave Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:13:49 +0000 http://highbarnet.org/?p=325#comment-335 Well it will be interesting to see what disaffected Tories do in Chipping Barnet. I doubt many of them will want to vote for UKIP given that their candidate, James Fluss, has made some pretty repulsive statements about the Gurkhas. http://www.barnetbugle.com/journal/2010/4/21/chipping-barnet-ukip-candidate-james-g-fluss-in-gurkha-contr.html Well it will be interesting to see what disaffected Tories do in Chipping Barnet. I doubt many of them will want to vote for UKIP given that their candidate, James Fluss, has made some pretty repulsive statements about the Gurkhas.

http://www.barnetbugle.com/journal/2010/4/21/chipping-barnet-ukip-candidate-james-g-fluss-in-gurkha-contr.html

]]> By: duncan http://highbarnet.org/2010/04/25/whats-happening-in-high-barnet/comment-page-1/#comment-334 duncan Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:16:38 +0000 http://highbarnet.org/?p=325#comment-334 DCMD A bit of both I think. Many of the people who mention Europe are tories who are only likely to switch to UKIP. They wouldn't vote Lib Dem anyway. The change us happening amongst the floating voter not the hardline supporters. Duncan DCMD

A bit of both I think. Many of the people who mention Europe are tories who are only likely to switch to UKIP. They wouldn’t vote Lib Dem anyway. The change us happening amongst the floating voter not the hardline supporters.

Duncan

]]> By: Don't Call Me Dave http://highbarnet.org/2010/04/25/whats-happening-in-high-barnet/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Don't Call Me Dave Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:09:10 +0000 http://highbarnet.org/?p=325#comment-333 Duncan I appreciate you will be somewhat biased, but do you really think that people are switching to the LibDems because they believe in your policies or simply as a protest against Labour and the Conservatives? Opinion polls consistently show that the public is opposed to the Euro and greater European integration - yet these are two of the mainstays of LibDem policy. Nick Clegg’s antipathy towards Israel, and in particular his comments about a nuclear Iran, are not likely to be well received in large parts of Barnet. Clegg clearly understands how fed up the public are with the political classes and the whole rotten political system and has cleverly positioned himself as something new, even though he isn’t. But if his policies were subjected to forensic scrutiny, I suspect people would not be quite so enthusiastic. I have often argued that most people vote “against” rather than “for” and this is probably what is happening now. Whether the Clegg bounce will translate into seats, time will tell. My gut feeling is that come the day of the election, the Conservatives will win a majority because of the fear that voting for the LibDems in protest will simply help Labour more than the Tories, and Cameron is a more palatable option that five more years of Brown. Duncan

I appreciate you will be somewhat biased, but do you really think that people are switching to the LibDems because they believe in your policies or simply as a protest against Labour and the Conservatives?

Opinion polls consistently show that the public is opposed to the Euro and greater European integration – yet these are two of the mainstays of LibDem policy.

Nick Clegg’s antipathy towards Israel, and in particular his comments about a nuclear Iran, are not likely to be well received in large parts of Barnet.

Clegg clearly understands how fed up the public are with the political classes and the whole rotten political system and has cleverly positioned himself as something new, even though he isn’t. But if his policies were subjected to forensic scrutiny, I suspect people would not be quite so enthusiastic. I have often argued that most people vote “against” rather than “for” and this is probably what is happening now.

Whether the Clegg bounce will translate into seats, time will tell. My gut feeling is that come the day of the election, the Conservatives will win a majority because of the fear that voting for the LibDems in protest will simply help Labour more than the Tories, and Cameron is a more palatable option that five more years of Brown.

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