UK Politics

[Neil]

32 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

tory election "expert"?"!"!?" says something to keep the people who are paying him happy. 😛 

[Neil]

bbc have got a pic of rishi with a football, man of the people!. 😛 

[steviewevie]

11 minutes ago, Neil said:

tory election "expert"?"!"!?" says something to keep the people who are paying him happy. 😛 

Well yeah, but with all these polls over the last year or so there's been some Tory support going to other parties, but a whole bunch going to don't know/undecided...and that is who they desperately want to try and win over.

[steviewevie]

7 minutes ago, Neil said:

bbc have got a pic of rishi with a football, man of the people!. 😛 

 

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Polls are often very wrong.

Look at the ones done in April for the West Midlands Mayor and the Tyne Mayor and then compare to the actual results. Nothing like the results at all.

Shy Tories 

[steviewevie]

Whole bunch of labour MPs standing down...make way for the starm troopers.

[steviewevie]

See what I did there?

[Neil]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Polls are often very wrong.

more correctly people's understanding of polls is often very wrong.

[fraybentos1]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Polls are often very wrong.

Look at the ones done in April for the West Midlands Mayor and the Tyne Mayor and then compare to the actual results. Nothing like the results at all.

Can only see one poll for the north east mayor but with regards to the West Midlands one , the three polls prior to the election were in the right neck of the woods 

[Neil]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

Can only see one poll for the north east mayor but with regards to the West Midlands one , the three polls prior to the election were in the right neck of the woods 

like all polls, only as good as the sample is representative.

[steviewevie]

Probably helps labour if people don't believe the polls.

[steviewevie]

 

[Neil]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Probably helps labour if people don't believe the polls.

true.

[steviewevie]

Woohoo!

[Neil]

80 old bill to be wasted looking into criminal conduct in the post office horizon thing not sure that's a good use of resources,  cos its c*ck up and not malicious.

[Neil]

top marks for anyone chasing a cheese downhill yesterday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg2z0m5k9o

[steviewevie]

Being old and hating young people I'm getting very tempted to vote Tory. Cutting inheritance tax will seal the deal.

[Neil]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Being old and hating young people I'm getting very tempted to vote Tory. Cutting inheritance tax will seal the deal.

i'm currently waiting to inherit, and a cut wouldn't influence me either way,

[steviewevie]

Edited May 28, 2024 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

So they need to finally make a decision what they're doing about Abbott. They could let her back in, there is a lot of sympathy for her within Labour, but then she could be a problem with wider electorate in the election, same old scary lefty labour etc. She has been treated pretty badly if the above is true, but then wouldn't exactly be the most loyal labour MP if they let her back and would probably spend a lot of her time criticising labour policy. If they had a large majority that probably wouldn't matter much (still a big if). If they don't let her back in she may well win her seat back anyway, and that seat would just be another side drama along with the corbyn thing. I reckon weighing it all up they should let her back, but on condition she stops slagging off labour policies until they actually win power (and don't write any more dumbarse letters to newspapers suggesting the racism jews/irish/travellers experience is similar to that of redheads).

 

Edited May 28, 2024 by steviewevie

[fraybentos1]

9 hours ago, Neil said:

i'm currently waiting to inherit, and a cut wouldn't influence me either way,

your footer on here used to read : 'inheritance is the engine of all inequality' or something similar did it not?

[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Here is the stuff I referred to, from Wiki opinion polls page.

West Midlands was a close result in the end so not like these polls................... and that should concern people as to how wrong they were. ditto the Tees valley which the Tories won...........................

Unless I am mistaken on which areas these polls refer to.

 

that doesn't look right. They for the mayoral elections? Street was slightly ahead in polls, and where is Jamie Driscoll?

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

 

that doesn't look right. They for the mayoral elections? Street was slightly ahead in polls, and where is Jamie Driscoll?

Also, Driscoll wasn't Tees valley, that was Houchen.

[steviewevie]

Ok, this is the Driscoll one, which was NE mayoral election. There was only one poll, and it was wrong.

2024 North East mayoral election - Wikipedia

 

 

[fraybentos1]

3 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Maybe I am wrong but as far as I can see from the website these are the mayoral areas as they are in the list for such 'other polls'.

west midlands : hardly that far out