Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 10, 2014 1:58:20 GMT
But, seriously now, congratulations Kippers: whatever happens next, this is your day. Try not to be total cunts about it though (and for your own sake rather than anyone else's).
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Oct 10, 2014 2:01:06 GMT
Ok, I can go to bed now, when I get to the end of this page of marked register numbers.
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 10, 2014 2:29:56 GMT
I note that Farage has claimed that UKIP are the only truly national party. So... not only are they stealing the LibDem's old function and rather more of their former voters than appears to be entirely polite to mention, but they're also stealing their lines.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 10, 2014 2:34:07 GMT
and their barcharts  |
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Post by independentukip on Oct 10, 2014 3:03:19 GMT
Priti Patel at the count. I wonder if she's ever allowed to go anywhere without at least three Central Office minders to stop UKIP people trying to persuade her. She was pretty strongly attacking UKIP on the BBC, though only with the bog standard rubbish, so I don't think she's going anywhere this side of the election. |
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Post by mrhell on Oct 10, 2014 3:27:52 GMT
So there is the bombshell in the British political landscape....the Greens beat LibDems!  Hey, our vote went down less than Labour and the Tories |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 10, 2014 3:34:34 GMT
Douglas Carswell got 21,113 votes, which is the biggest number of votes for any candidate in a parliamentary by-election since 1997.
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mboy
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Post by mboy on Oct 10, 2014 7:47:52 GMT
He's annoyingly impressive.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 10, 2014 8:02:57 GMT
Carswell claiming half his vote came from Labour according to Sky. Fairly sure that Labour will have a better result than that. It wasn't mathematically possible for half his vote to have come from Labour as things turned out of course and if that had happened it would have required Carswell to have done much worse than he did and than was expected. However it is worth noting perhaps that proportonally the fall in the Labour vote, both numerically and in percentage terms was greater than that of the Tories. |
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 10, 2014 10:13:38 GMT
So there is the bombshell in the British political landscape....the Greens beat LibDems! Hey, our vote went down less than Labour and the Tories Your share was a new low in parliamentary contests since Glasgow Camlachie in 1948. Enjoy |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 10, 2014 10:15:16 GMT
Ignore this, wrong thread
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 10, 2014 10:22:08 GMT
That's not Clacton, and doesn't tell us anything we don't already know about H&M  |
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Post by john07 on Oct 10, 2014 13:18:14 GMT
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 10, 2014 16:54:17 GMT
In the event of Carswell just managing to break 60% (rather than falling fractionally short, as happened) UKIP would have set a new byelection swing record - as it was the Tory-UKIP move was 44.1%, just a hairsbreadth short of the Labour-Liberal swing in Bermondsey 1983.
Despite the poor Labour result here, Inverclyde 2011 remains the only GB contest not to show a Tory-Lab swing since the GE.
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 10, 2014 17:14:34 GMT
But UKIP didn't stand a candidate against Carswell in 2010 so no such 'swing' can be calculated.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Oct 10, 2014 17:47:40 GMT
He's annoyingly impressive. Next UKIP leader? |
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mboy
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Post by mboy on Oct 11, 2014 0:44:12 GMT
I think the stuff he believes in he believes in too strongly to be their leader - if they want to be appealing to Labour voters as well. He is a Thatcherite and won't change.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 10:43:38 GMT
Harwich 1992-2005 Clacton 2010- Clacton's notionals come from my dusty copy of the 2007 Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 18:20:35 GMT
As above, so below  |
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