Election 2019 - Week 5

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Chris

Anyway I’m thoroughly bored of the election now. I’d quite like some results.

I'm exactly the same. So much so I don't really care who wins as long as we can get on with actually running the country with a majority government.

[Julian]

Originally Posted by Damien

If he means Laura Kuenssberg she is at the centre of another Twitter/Reddit scandal where she stated that she was told postal votes where looking bad for Labour. Le Internet lawyers decided she had broken the law and went into full outrage mode.

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Missed this, don't diss artisan coffee houses

Yes them ones

Again, rumours, but Uxbridge is meant to be very tight. We do know that activists have been moving their during the day.

Originally Posted by Damien

If he means Laura Kuenssberg she is at the centre of another Twitter/Reddit scandal where she stated that she was told postal votes where looking bad for Labour. Le Internet lawyers decided she had broken the law and went into full outrage mode.

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Missed this, don't diss artisan coffee houses

Pretty sure the postal vote rumour, shock horror, argh you is illegalz I’m callin Gina thing came up last time as well ...

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Originally Posted by Damien

Again, rumours, but Uxbridge is meant to be very tight. We do know that activists have been moving their during the day.

If Boris loses it, they will reward someone very handsomely to retire and trigger a by election for Boris to contest. Constitutionally, Boris can be PM without being in the Commons, though it would be politically very difficult to sustain for any length of time. And the way things have been lately, no doubt some public spirited, entirely neutral and very wealthy individual might ask the Supreme Court for its opinion.

Every election there are rumours about the Exit Polls. Last time it was meant to be a blood bath for Labour too.

The thing is you could come to the conclusion that postal votes are bad simply by seeing the volume of them and knowing that older voters tend to disproportionately vote via post.

I also don't think it's illegal to report rumours you've heard. She wasn't revealing anyone's postal votes.

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Originally Posted by Chris

If Boris loses it, they will reward someone very handsomely to retire and trigger a by election for Boris to contest. Constitutionally, Boris can be PM without being in the Commons, though it would be politically very difficult to sustain for any length of time. And the way things have been lately, no doubt some public spirited, entirely neutral and very wealthy individual might ask the Supreme Court for its opinion.

Andrew Marr teasing people too: https://twitter.com/AndrewMarr9/stat...20476110458880

[Dave42]

be great if Johnson loses his seat pity Corbyn cant too

The other 'stronger' rumours (i.e they're tweeted by actual political hacks rather than random accounts) is Labour's vote strong in London but collapsing everywhere else.

Originally Posted by Damien

The other 'stronger' rumours (i.e they're tweeted by actual political hacks rather than random accounts) is Labour's vote strong in London but collapsing everywhere else.

Labour has, belatedly, picked a side on Brexit. Unfortunately for them it’s the wrong side. I think they’re about to find out that just enough of their support in the rest of England and Wales was prepared to vote Tory to get Brexit done - similar, though not on the same scale, as Thatcher’s victory in 1979, once the country, including sufficient natural Labour supporters, was sufficiently sick of the instability of the previous 3 years.

Polls suggest they’re dead as a dodo in Scotland, which unfortunately is most likely to disproportionately benefit the SNP given how marginal so many seats are. Even if the Tories increase their vote by a few hundred in the seats they hold, in most of them the SNP only has to increase its vote by a few hundred and one to win. And I think those disaffected Scottish Labour voters who haven’t voted Tory yet, aren’t very likely to do so now.

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The exit poll is open! https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33708500