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**Chris** · 19-04-2005, 13:47

Here's something to really bake your noodle - if you simply reverse the Labour and Tory standing in the polls (leaving Lib Dem and Other as they stand), you get a hung parliament:

http://news3.thdo.bbc.co.uk/nol/shar...CULATE+RESULTS

This is because recent boundary changes bias the result in Labour's favour, according to something I read somewhere on that BBC site. Apparently Labour were rather better at lobbying the Boundaries Commission than were the Tories when these things were being established a few years back.

19-04-2005, 13:47	#19
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,596	Re: Vote 2005 week 3, with another new poll Here's something to really bake your noodle - if you simply reverse the Labour and Tory standing in the polls (leaving Lib Dem and Other as they stand), you get a hung parliament: http://news3.thdo.bbc.co.uk/nol/shar...CULATE+RESULTS This is because recent boundary changes bias the result in Labour's favour, according to something I read somewhere on that BBC site. Apparently Labour were rather better at lobbying the Boundaries Commission than were the Tories when these things were being established a few years back.