Greens hit 8% nationally with pollster YouGov & Scotland Westminster Poll

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Greens hit 8% (highest-ever) nationally with pollster YouGov

Conservatives 33% (+2)
Labour 32% (-1)
UKIP 15% (-3)
Green 8% (+3)
Liberal Democrats 7% (-)

Scotland Westminster Polls still predicting Labour wipeout in solid red territory

SNP 46%
Labour 24%
Conservatives 17%
Liberal Democrats 6%

...And Ukip now attracting younger than previously working-class (Labour) voters

Ukip’s support is changing, and with it the contours of British politics

The proportion of Ukip voters coming from the Labour party has trebled from 7% to 23%. The question is, will they stay?

Read more via link below...

An interesting analysis by YouGov President Peter Kellner in examing the Ukip demographic base and the shift. The article can be read here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...s-labour-party




An interesting load of polling there, of course you can simply say that it is just one poll from one pollster but the trends with the Greens and the SNP in Scotland over recent weeks have been clear to see. Discontent with the main established parties, if it continues to the General Election, are making this General Election probably the hardest in a century to even begin to predict - the polling situation at the moment is very very very unique. It could all melt away of course and people could go flocking back, or are we seeing a permanent breakdown?

The biggest and most historic shift above though is that Scotland map: it's breathtaking.

Thoughts? In 2015 are you planning to vote for Labour/Conservatives or one of the others?

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Living near the only place that Greens have ever held I can safely say that I will never be voting for them absolute mess of a party who've tried to turn Brighton into a testing centre for looney policies that have unfalteringly ended in chaos and disruption. They got the Scottish vote just because people are pissed off at Labour and SNP at the moment, but I really hope they don't get any genuine power