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Post by swingometer on Apr 9, 2024 12:43:47 GMT
I also remember some mention of them having erroneously announced a Liberal gain in Bermondsey in 1979 which would have been remarkably prescient but that may be an old wives tale I definitely recall that the BBC incorrectly called it as a Labour *gain* in 1987 - the story is that this was met with widespread boos at party HQ because the candidate was actually a Militant supporter. I think that they also wrongly had Geoffrey Dickens losing his seat at that election. Gillian Shephard the then Education Secretary was said to have lost her seat in 1997, then again she did look nervous when being interviewed by Dimbleby 😬
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 9, 2024 13:00:58 GMT
I also remember some mention of them having erroneously announced a Liberal gain in Bermondsey in 1979 which would have been remarkably prescient but that may be an old wives tale I definitely recall that the BBC incorrectly called it as a Labour *gain* in 1987 - the story is that this was met with widespread boos at party HQ because the candidate was actually a Militant supporter. Wasn't there something of a tradition of calling the seat for Labour in multiple elections only for Hughes to make it back in?
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 9, 2024 13:03:40 GMT
I think it might have been wrongly called for Labour in 1997 as well, but not sure about that.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 9, 2024 19:45:04 GMT
Was it 2017 that one of the Kent seats was announced as a surprise Lib Dem gain on the BBC by mistake?
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Post by swingometer on Apr 10, 2024 10:34:56 GMT
I was working in that constituency that day. The Tories visibly gave up during the afternoon and were never seriously in the running to hold the seat. So that was total BS of course by Dimbleby. Not really because the reporter at the count was saying the Tories didn’t recognise the exit poll and that Dame Angela’s personal vote might see her hang on, whilst Labour were, according to said reporter, saying only that it was close. Now both Conservative and Labour might have been feeding that reporter a load of b.s., but Dimbleby can’t really be blamed for merely repeating what the people in the constituency itself were telling the BBC; in fact he expresses immense cynicism at the Tory position and hinted that he thought they were being fed b.s. from both sides. Don’t know where that’s coming from, the most marginal seat the Tories held in 1997 was Bury St Edmond’s 1- - th in the list
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