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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 19, 2024 17:51:38 GMT
Hunt has told the FT tonight that his seat is on a knife edge.
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Post by steve on Jun 19, 2024 17:54:13 GMT
Hunt has told the FT tonight that his seat is on a knife edge. Better not sit down then. |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jun 19, 2024 18:08:13 GMT
Hunt has told the FT tonight that his seat is on a knife edge. Which, whether true or not, will be what the LD campaign wants to hear, and will probably repeat. |
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Post by batman on Jun 19, 2024 18:39:08 GMT
Hunt has told the FT tonight that his seat is on a knife edge. Nonsense. It's far bigger than that. It occupies a quite considerable area. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 19, 2024 18:53:12 GMT
Hunt has told the FT tonight that his seat is on a knife edge. Nonsense. It's far bigger than that. It occupies a quite considerable area. The North Downs are pointy in parts, of course. |
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 19, 2024 19:53:54 GMT
2 points:
1) Has it not occured to people that those nice people in a posh Surrey village tell their long standing MP they haven't decided because they don't want to hurt his feelings.
2) Hunt is being apparently remarkably frank about how he sees the vote going here and generally ( he has also talked about the Tories nationally and the 100 seat thing) - I suspect he thinks it won't be that bad so if he scrapes back in and the Tories nationally get say 150 seats he can claim a great victory.
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Post by Terry Weldon on Jun 19, 2024 20:08:23 GMT
Some perspective from the seat next door (Farnham and Bordon):
As leader of Waverley BC, LD candidate Paul Follows has a strong local following, and also supportfrom local Green and Labour councillors. The local party has a well oiled election machine that's been working extremely hard since the beginning of the year, starting with successful work for a local BC by-election.
I@m obviously biased, but I'd be extremely surprised if Hunt survived.
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Post by batman on Jun 19, 2024 20:27:05 GMT
I am not as biased as you are, since I dislike both parties concerned, but I too would be very surprised. I am predicting LD gains in both your constituency and this one.
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Post by stb12 on Jun 19, 2024 20:34:48 GMT
Some perspective from the seat next door (Farnham and Bordon): As leader of Waverley BC, LD candidate Paul Follows has a strong local following, and also supportfrom local Green and Labour councillors. The local party has a well oiled election machine that's been working extremely hard since the beginning of the year, starting with successful work for a local BC by-election. I@m obviously biased, but I'd be extremely surprised if Hunt survived. Farnham and Borden actually contains more of his former seat doesn’t it? |
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Post by nobodyimportant on Jun 19, 2024 20:56:56 GMT
Nonsense. It's far bigger than that. It occupies a quite considerable area. The North Downs are pointy in parts, of course. They are? Where? I've not seen all of them but the parts I have seen always seemed very rounded. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jun 19, 2024 21:25:34 GMT
I'll make a prediction for this one - Lib Dem gain majority around 4k.
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Post by johnloony on Jun 20, 2024 10:31:44 GMT
The North Downs are pointy in parts, of course. They are? Where? I've not seen all of them but the parts I have seen always seemed very rounded. I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. |
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Post by steve on Jun 20, 2024 11:59:17 GMT
They are? Where? I've not seen all of them but the parts I have seen always seemed very rounded. I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. So you won't be voting for them this time then? |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jun 20, 2024 12:09:04 GMT
They are? Where? I've not seen all of them but the parts I have seen always seemed very rounded. I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. I’m in Rome. Shall I have a word? |
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Post by johnloony on Jun 20, 2024 14:17:58 GMT
I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. I’m in Rome. Shall I have a word? Yes. If the Roman Empire in the west had been maintained with strength for another thousand years, then we would not have suffered from the waves of invasions and migrations by all the Angles Saxons Jutes Normans Vikings Vandals Hooligans Huns and Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalians coming in with all their weird new-fangled languages mixing up things. |
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Post by johnloony on Jun 20, 2024 14:21:34 GMT
I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. So you won't be voting for them this time then? You may have noticed that the Roman Imperial Party doesn’t have a candidate in Croydon South this time. |
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Post by steve on Jun 20, 2024 14:56:01 GMT
So you won't be voting for them this time then? You may have noticed that the Roman Imperial Party doesn’t have a candidate in Croydon South this time. So no gladiatorial games or vestal virgins in Croyfon South this time. Where do you think their vote will go? |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jun 20, 2024 15:20:52 GMT
They are? Where? I've not seen all of them but the parts I have seen always seemed very rounded. I’ve always been bemused by the fact that the Sussex Downs are up, not down. Who had the idea of having a word “down” which means hill instead of valley? It’s almost as if English vocabulary is derived from lots of different sources and has been mixed together for hundreds of years. I blame the Romans. Well, the -don suffix is Saxon for hill. Bre- is the pre-Roman word for hill. So the hill I grew up near, Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, translates as Hill Hill Hill. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Jun 20, 2024 15:24:18 GMT
Though, confusingly, 'don', 'den' and 'ton' suffixes were often mixed up later, which means it isn't always clear which the original was. Though it's obvious enough in the case of Bredon Hill.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2024 15:25:27 GMT
Hunt will need an act of God(aiming) to survive here. The once all-powerful Surrey Conservatives, who held all the seats in 1997, will be reduced to Ash here.
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