Sky have an interesting survey on their news page that suggest UKIP could appeal to lots of labour voters so I wouldn't throw the stereo type voting intent around too much tbh
What is interesting for me is I would put myself more centre than left or right ... And I think a fair majority of voters are the same
Labour seem to be noticeable shifting left and the Tory party further right ...
The libs could take that centre ground but are probably damaged goods and need a rebrand for 2015
Labour are so far from being "left" it's laughable, and they have lost a lot of members and supporters for that reason.
Most people would seem to support far more radical intervention in the economy than Labour are proposing, and most people are bemused and misled by Labour failing to pin the recession on bankers, deregulation, and global capitalism. If they don't aggressively challenge this unending bollocks about "the mess we inherited", "Labour's financial crisis", then why on earth would people not start to accept tory lies? It's quite pathetic.
The tories are trying to suggest policies which their vile gnome Crosby suggests will play well with the deranged faction of tory voters who will vote Ukip because it feels more like the expression of their rabid hostility to most other people. They will try to row back from these (like the electorally - and socially, and economically - mad idea of refusing benefits to under-25s). They are gradually sinking under the weight of their own collapsing support, like a posher version of Branson's Balloon. Lost direction, lost buoyancy, lost altitude. Just lost. Party membership average age 68, over a third of people at conference were lobbyists, over half of party funds come from hedge funds and other City sleazebags. A fatal combination. But it will be a lingering death, over about 20 years.
Labour's ineptitude will prolong the walking death of the zombie party, a cause of much regret.
Labour under Blair were more right than Conservatives under Heath. Its is laughable when people suggest labour are going left. At most they are centre. It hard to relate to them anymore. The conservatives are more right than even under Thatcher.