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Post by dundas on May 2, 2024 21:14:54 GMT
it does have a rather good symphony orchestra but the pubs are below average for a major English town Although the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs mainly in a venue called The Lighthouse in *Poole*. I think that's true of the town centre, but you'll find a decent array of pubs in the suburbs. We certainly push above weight for the variety of ales available, and that's just in mainstream pubs like Chaplins and Four Horsemen before you consider the sheer number of micro pubs serving an array of ales you'd need to have a festival going on to match anywhere else. |
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Post by evergreenadam on May 2, 2024 22:45:12 GMT
That surprised me when I voted today (not in Blackpool but elsewhere) - in Scottish Parliament elections they've always had different boxes for the two ballot papers (and when the locals were alongside those as well); don't see why you couldn't do it here. You still would have to verify that people hadn't put votes in the wrong box but this seems like a way of speeding things up slightly. We had four different ballot boxes, one for each colour. In 2021 there were only 2 boxes, because all 3 ballot papers for the GLA election were A4 designed to go flat into the box, ready for being scanned by the machines. This time there are no scanning machines. I wonder what happened to the machines! |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 2, 2024 23:19:59 GMT
Lee Anderson sounding borderline despondent on GBN. Would be "delighted" with "13, 14, 15% of the vote". Whether it's expectation management, or real we'll find out.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 3, 2024 0:50:07 GMT
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Post by Sg1 on May 3, 2024 0:54:37 GMT
Lee Anderson sounding borderline despondent on GBN. Would be "delighted" with "13, 14, 15% of the vote". Whether it's expectation management, or real we'll find out. In my experience, it's like a truncated version of the body count rule. If a party thinks they'll only gain a certain number of seats or votes, times it by a quarter and that's generally what they're actually expecting. |
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Post by willpower3 on May 3, 2024 1:01:01 GMT
Tories could be in third place according to the BBC.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 3, 2024 1:43:50 GMT
Finally, they're counting:
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 3, 2024 1:57:16 GMT
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 3, 2024 2:00:55 GMT
Oh FFS. Thank the Lord I had a nap.
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Post by willpower3 on May 3, 2024 2:02:37 GMT
IIRC there were ridiculously late declaration time estimates for some of the most recent by-elections and they ended up declaring earlier.
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Post by johnloony on May 3, 2024 3:11:31 GMT
I have hardly been thinking about the Blackpool South by-election at all. I have been busy with election stuff in Croydon for weeks. I need to be at the Excel Centre at 9am tomorrow, which means getting up before 7am and leaving the house at 7:30am. It will be a long day tomorrow, and I will need to get proper sleep tonight beforehand. Therefore I expect that I will probably go to bed at about 9pm this evening, and sleep most of the night. Therefore (extremely unusually) I will probably not stay up to watch the result of the by-election. Whenever there is a parliamentary by-election, in the last few years I have often received a phone call from Nick “The Flying Brick” Delves phoning me from the count just for a chat. This time he will have to go without… Nick woke me up with a phone call at 03:53am (to ask me if I had any information about when the declaration is expected (because they have been waiting for ages without knowing)), so I decided to come downstairs to check, just in case the declaration was imminent. But if you’re saying that it might be 6am, I won’t stay waiting. Back to zzzzzzz… |
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Post by willpower3 on May 3, 2024 3:49:17 GMT
Up your game everyone FFS.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 3, 2024 3:49:59 GMT
Lab 10825 58.9%
Con 3218 17.5%
Ref 3101 16.9%
LD 387 2.1%
Grn 368 2.0%
Ind 163 0.9%
ADF 147 0.8%
MRLP 121 0.7%
NOP 45 0.2%
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 3, 2024 3:50:59 GMT
Swing 26.4%
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Post by Ron Swanson on May 3, 2024 3:52:34 GMT
A whacking… Tories barely clinging on to silver.
Just give us a GE so we can sling the lot of them out and start again.
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Post by brianj on May 3, 2024 3:52:36 GMT
They snuck up on you.
Ind Black 163, .9%
Reform 3,101, 16.9% (+10.8 compared to Brexit 2019)
LibDem 387, 2.1% (-1.0)
MRLP 121, .7%
Con 3,218, 17.5% (-32.1)
ADF 147, .8%
NONPOL 45, .2%
Green 368, 2.0% (+0.3)
Labour 10,825, 58.9% (+20.6)
Labour gain from Conservatives, swing 26.4%
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Post by Wisconsin on May 3, 2024 3:56:28 GMT
No official mark - 0
More than one candidate - 16
Identifiable - 0
Unmarked/uncertain - 57
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 3, 2024 3:58:53 GMT
Reform had to come second here. This is a seat almost tailor made for them.
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Post by brianj on May 3, 2024 4:00:29 GMT
Conservative vote-share decline of 32.1% ties for 7th worst ever in a by-election, 3rd worst by Tories.
Swing 20th biggest in a by-election, 3rd best for Labour.
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Post by willpower3 on May 3, 2024 4:01:18 GMT
Reform had to come second here. This is a seat almost tailor made for them. No general expectation of it, despite the polls. |
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