NOT so long ago it was either Miliband saying vote UKIP get Tories, or Cameron saying vote UKIP get Labour.

Both of these party leaders were of course talking rubbish as in a democracy we do usually get what the majority of us vote for, and for the sake of the country it hopefully will not be for either of those two politicians.

Oddly there are some cases where one can say vote for this and you get that, this would apply to SNP and the Greens where a vote for either of these parties is a vote for CND, and at a time when we are being buzzed by Putin’s nuclear bombers and Russian warships showing a close interest in us a vote for either of these parties shows a complete ignorance of what is actually going on in our world.

Another occasion where I have witnessed a vote for one party leading to a win for another is the last two local elections where one particular Labour candidate has lost to her Tory opponent by less than the number of votes gained by another left wing party.

So it is a fact that you can say from these instances, vote TUSC get Tory.

I know that these are minor parties that in reality will not have much affect on the election results, but I cannot now see the Lib Dems getting many votes either as hopefully we have seen through a party where the leader colludes with the Tories just to gain some power, and was therefore responsible for such dreadful legislation as the bedroom tax and allowing disgusting zero hours contracts to continue unabated.

It cannot be right that refusing a zero hours self-employed contract will lead to benefit sanctions.

Alan Kebbell, UKIP candidate for Southampton Swaythling ward