Will Cameron be history come Friday Morning???

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/01/clegg-ukip-tories-right
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Nick Clegg has claimed that the struggle on the right of British politics caused by Ukip's surge was pulling David Cameron away from the centre ground and making day-to-day progress in the coalition government more difficult.

Interviewed on the eve of the local elections, and facing the prospect of coming fourth in terms of share of the vote behind Ukip, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister vowed to "dig in my heels and make sure the centre of gravity of the government as a whole does not get pulled rightwards due to the internal dynamics of the Conservative party".

Clegg cited Conservative policies on welfare, Europe and climate change as the three pre-eminent examples of Cameron being pulled right, and conceded that his coalition partner was no longer the same political animal as presented before the 2010 general election.

He admitted that Cameron's positioning "makes it more complex to make progress in areas where initially we thought it would easy to make progress", disclosing he has recently had to spend more time to secure agreements on the green agenda in government than on any other issue.

It is the first time that Clegg has acknowledged that the rightward shift of the Conservatives is making the functioning of government more difficult. But he also argued that there was a shift to the extremes of in British politics that was an inevitable consequence of the squeeze on living standards. "My job is to make sure that my party does not get pulled left or right as Cameron goes right and [Labour leader Ed] Miliband goes left," he added.
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Both Cameron and Clegg are scumbags

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Your link goes to a different story

Your excerpt is this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/01/clegg-ukip-tories-right

To answer your thread title: no. Interest in these elections is remarkably low. UKIP are expected to do much better than before (they couldn't do worse, in council elections, really - they've barely tried to contest them before; the few councillors they have tend to be Tories who have switched parties some time after being elected). But they're unlikely to win many actual seats; they might take votes away from the Tories, though. But the Lib Dems are still deeply unpopular, so they won't take many from them, and will lose plenty of the voters they had in 2009; and Labour seems very bland at the moment - no enthusiasm obvious for them.

[malaise]

2. Thanks n/t