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Post by Sibboleth on Sept 1, 2019 16:13:18 GMT
Ah, so what often happens in state elections happened in Brandenburg.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 29, 2019 23:41:19 GMT
That's a record for Shetland in a Scottish parliament election. Has it happened where the turnout for a by-election has been higher than the previous GE? Chesterfield, 1984.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 28, 2019 16:35:37 GMT
I quite like the Chiltern Hundreds business. A quaint way of allowing someone to give up representing their constituents, with the legal fiction of being prevented from doing so. Totally harmless. And also a good reminder of the turbulent history of separation of Crown and Parliament. Yeah, the idea that what is wrong with our polity (and clearly rather a lot is) is the flummery is even sillier than the flummery. You could have a President, a Senate (with no Bishops in sight), a semi-circle seating plan in the Commons, a written constitution and the ability for parliamentarians to just resign... and not a single meaningful detail of the present pile-up of fiascoes would differ.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 23, 2019 0:22:20 GMT
I mean not really because there are very few Black people there and the Democrats still dominated the area at state level until only a few years ago. So more like, you know, Arkansas (away from the Delta bits) - which is just next door anyway. The really interesting piece of psephological trivia regarding Little Dixie is that it was one of regions of greatest strength for the old Socialist Party a century ago. And very unusual in that the area was very rural, as opposed to the traditional socialist hot spots of areas with lots of heavy industry etc. Yes, although there were a couple of other hotbeds of rural Socialist support in South: and in the actual Deep South as well. Notably in parts of Louisiana - including the area that Huey Long hailed from (and which later voted so strongly for David Duke...) - and the ever-idiosyncratic Jones County, Mississippi.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 22, 2019 19:44:25 GMT
I mean not really because there are very few Black people there and the Democrats still dominated the area at state level until only a few years ago. So more like, you know, Arkansas (away from the Delta bits) - which is just next door anyway. The really interesting piece of psephological trivia regarding Little Dixie is that it was one of regions of greatest strength for the old Socialist Party a century ago.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 19, 2019 21:40:15 GMT
To be honest, there was no other party left with whom to sign a surplus agreement. Yes - though one rather suspects this may have been a pre-arranged accident...
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 19, 2019 14:17:01 GMT
Lieberman as in Avigdor? Well, first, WTF! And second, won't that harm B&W? If it were to do so (and historically voters have not paid much attention to these surplus arrangements), in what direction would they leak votes? The aim is to be able to count to sixty one, not to be the largest party. Even if they lose from this, they don't lose from this.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 19, 2019 13:43:12 GMT
Lieberman announces a vote-sharing agreement with B&W, and in a moment of purest #banter says that he has done so because Netanyahu is a left-winger so what other choice did he have?
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 16, 2019 21:32:22 GMT
Salop is the County. The County Council passed a motion some decades ago saying that in future it was to be called Shropshire. Ah. It is also the traditional name for Shrewsbury in certain other parts of Shropshire, especially in the east of the county.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 15, 2019 23:06:12 GMT
On those figures, and considering past local voting patterns across Shrewsbury, it is possible (though there are alternative scenarios!) that the Tories lost both halves of the ward.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 12, 2019 15:58:28 GMT
To most people in Shropshire 'Meole' would mostly mean the big retail park, but as that is on the eastern side of the A49 and it is not in the ward. Meole is, of course, pronounced 'Meal'. Of course there are three versions of the town's name, not two: the very local (very working class) pronunciation goes with 'Shoe'.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 6, 2019 23:23:47 GMT
An interesting thing about Israeli elections is that though usually party support polarises (somewhat) around the principle incumbent party and whichever party is the designated principle challenger during the course of the campaign, sometimes this doesn't happen and things instead get very strange and centrifugal. In both cases there's usually something so inexorable about it that exit polls are often more 'extreme' (for polarisation or fragmentation) than polls suggest, and actual results more so again. Still too early to tell for sure, but the latter type of election seems possible this time round.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 4, 2019 10:06:53 GMT
That really isn't true at all, and, in any event, large parts of this constituency were exclusively Anglophone even before the 19th century.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 3, 2019 10:47:34 GMT
Ipsos is down to lack of prompting for the Brexit Party, so the Conservative and Brexit Party numbers would basically be the same for every pollster if they prompted. Considering the possibility that prompting the name might - because 'Brexit' is associated o/c with more than just the Brexit Party! - artificially boost their figure, maybe what you want is to prompt for half the sample and not for the rest
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 2, 2019 2:00:15 GMT
If you want to know the result, learn the local language, damn you outsiders Which in this constituency is English.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 2, 2019 1:36:27 GMT
Bxp candidate said they picked up quite a lot of Labour votes I very much doubt he had any way of knowing that. People need to stop being so credulous.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 2, 2019 0:21:12 GMT
I thought that town was in Neath not Brecon and Radnor It is, but the way with the Valleys is that settlements run into each other without much respect for administrative boundaries, past or present.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 1, 2019 23:58:26 GMT
Instead, Labour voters in Ystradgynlais appear to have flocked to the Lib Dems. They were always going to. They've done so before and the circumstances are just about perfect for it.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 29, 2019 22:07:22 GMT
Hitler would not have lived to see the final realisation of the Nazi project. It was so monstrously inefficient, and economically illiterate, that the economy would have eventually collapsed. Effectively, it would have ended up as East Germany nearly did. The whole thing was kept afloat entirely via literal fraud.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 29, 2019 18:16:11 GMT
Funny how people who condemn Tony Blair for his legacy in Iraq are prepared to try to find positives for murderous scum like those mentioned above. I find the subject of this thread to be appalling - who gives a fuck whether Mao killed 45 million people on purpose or by mistake: they were individuals like you and me. There's always a certain whiff of the undergraduate edgelord to this sort of discussion.
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