timmullen1
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Post by timmullen1 on Feb 13, 2016 17:54:42 GMT
Depends somewhat I think if we're just focussing on England; I suspect the SNP will make considerable gains from Labour in Scotland which will add considerably to the net loss total. One other factor to be considered is if the EU Referendum is in June as some believe then that could refocus attention on UKIP as happened at the last County elections. Yet again - council elections in Scotland (and Wales) are not until next year  Apologies, I knew Wales had been deferred but not Scotland; this is slightly off-topic but are Provosts doing an extra year in office (Dundee's is involved with the charity connected to my disability)? |
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Post by An Sionnach Flannbhuí on Feb 13, 2016 23:43:29 GMT
That's a libellous accusation to make about the successful candidate and her agent. Really? To suggest that this is a very safe Labour ward, that the outcome was never in doubt (hence 'in the bag' ) and that a large number of Labour votes will have been cast quite legitimately by post is libellous? What accusation do you say I am making against the candidate and agent? Can't UKIP realise that big Labour victories in wards with large Muslim populations don't come about because of fraudulent postal votes or legitimate postal votes but because of massive differential turnout on the day? When an area gets a sufficient critical mass (and it only has to be 20% or so) there's a big enough community to have its own Asian language newspapers, Asian language TV channels, Asian shops and all the rest, including biraderi. Certain people can live their lives quite well unable to speak English, because all those they do business with speak another language, or there are translators. So Mrs Khan at 1 Cokeville Road knows there's a council by-election on and goes and votes Labour on a freezing February day. Mrs Smith at number 3 who reads the Mirror and watches BBC has no idea, chucks all the leaflets in the bin thinking they're from the takeaway, and doesn't go and vote at all, even if she did at the May local election. Hence the Oldham "shock". |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 18, 2016 9:41:55 GMT
Magnificently, the Daily Echo have now reported the Eastleigh vote as if it happened last night.
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maxque
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Post by maxque on Feb 18, 2016 10:13:08 GMT
Magnificently, the Daily Echo have now reported the Eastleigh vote as if it happened last night. Too busy ranting about the ice rink? |
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