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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
And just for a little extra schadenfreude, Dally Mail headline from the day before the Election…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sters-say.html
Quote:
Tory surge shrinks Starmer’s hopes of local elections 'bloodbath': Boost for Rishi Sunak as Conservatives may lose far fewer seats than had been feared, pollsters say
The Conservatives may only lose 338 seats, much less than the 1,000 predicted*…
… It points to a major turn-around in the party’s ratings under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…
… The projections by respected forecaster Electoral Calculus for the Daily Mail and based on the latest polling, found that Labour will gain 395 councillors. This figure would be likely to disappoint the party.
It would also leave the Conservatives with more seats than Labour out of the 8,057 being contested – 2,963 versus Labour’s 2,474.
Labour is projected to take control of nine more councils, only two of which are currently fully Conservative controlled.
The Tories will gain two more councils but lose 16, according to the Electoral Calculus study.
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Narrator: "Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Conservatives lost over a thousand seats and 48 Councils…".
* nb - the 1000 seat prediction was by Greg Hands (Tory Party Chairman) who was doing the old trick of expectation management by predicting really bad results so that when they lost less, it could be called a "win" - ooopsie!!"
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Last edited by Hugh; 05-05-2023 at 22:48.
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