Is internet Rage Against Labour and Conservative Machines boosting Lib Dem standing and will it give UK riders a well hung parliament?

Remember when RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE stuffed Simon Cowell’s super slick X Factor plan to be No. 1  last Christmas? See this groovy vid for a timely reminder and please crank the sound up to full chat. I’m reminded of this as Labour and the Conservatives seem increasingly focused or even desperate to direct their party machine’s power at persuading us all that a well hung parliament would be a very bad thing.  But would it?

To be honest I’m just not sure what would be best for UK riders. But right now it looks increasingly likely that none of the three main parties will gain an overall majority number of MPs. After all, the maths is simple. Labour will lose it’s majority with the loss of just twenty seats, while the Tories would have to gain one hundred to achieve and overall majority. And, although some say it is impossible for UK voters to positively choose a hung parliament, the BBC is beginning to question that theory and ask:

Can the web organise a hung Parliament?

Frankly I rather doubt it, but there are some in our midst like the Hang ‘em crew who want to give it dam good try!

Apparently their aim is “not ideological” – it’s all about voting for people with “integrity and character” including Tories and Labour candidates with a “record of rebellion.”

All I can say at the moment is that if the Conservatives get to choose who will run transport in Britain, I am reliably informed that the current team of Theresa Villiers and Robert Goodwill have been given a “very big hint” that there will be “no major changes” coming soon. And I was also assured by the Lib Dem’s parliamentary candidate for Vauxhall, Caroline Pidgeon, at the London Riders Are Voters event – that she would be delighted to set up a post election meeting with their Shadow Transport minister Norman Baker to discuss how their policies might be better focused on riders issues.

So, there yo go for now and let’s see what riders reckon about the thorny issue of whether we will get a well hung parliament and whether we will be better or worse off if we do…