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Post by neilm on Aug 20, 2018 5:14:21 GMT
BBC Parliament is showing loads of repeats which is what they've usually done during recesses and, as Harry Hayfield says above, at odds with the statement that was put out. Sad that there is no GE repeat next week. |
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Aug 20, 2018 7:40:13 GMT
BBC Parliament is showing loads of repeats which is what they've usually done during recesses and, as Harry Hayfield says above, at odds with the statement that was put out. Sad that there is no GE repeat next week. The part of the statement relating to BBC Parliament (as published on the BBC's information pages) said but did not give a start time for this, although given that Politics LIVE, the replacement for the Daily Politics, starts in the autumn when Parliament comes back from recess it would suggest that this new arrangement would start then, therefore the following schedule could be permitted as a last hurrah September 1st: 1955 September 2nd: 1959 September 3rd: 1964 September 14th: 1966 September 20th: 1970 September 28th: Feb 1974 September 29th: Oct 1974 October 4th: 1979 October 8th: 1983 November 7th: 1987 November 8th: 1992 November 9th: 1997 November 10th: 2001 December 22nd: 2005 December 26th: 2010 December 28th: 2015 December 30th: 2017 |
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Oct 10, 2018 15:06:20 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 10, 2018 15:28:32 GMT
They've scrapped the cuts to journalists, but not restored the programming budget. So not certain.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 8, 2019 8:29:31 GMT
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Post by casualobserver on Oct 8, 2019 14:52:01 GMT
Thank you, David! Richard Dimbleby, Alan Wicker and Cliff Michelmore. They don't make them like that any more!! |
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Oct 8, 2019 17:21:11 GMT
As I recall from previous watches it actually looked like an uncertain outcome after the first few results. A bit like 1987 (which also had a Tory majority of about 100), although in that case it was more down to that terrible 'on the day' poll.
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Post by AdminSTB on Oct 8, 2019 17:39:56 GMT
As I recall from previous watches it actually looked like an uncertain outcome after the first few results. A bit like 1987 (which also had a Tory majority of about 100), although in that case it was more down to that terrible 'on the day' poll. That's right. The first Con gain was for Geoffrey Johnson Smith in Holborn & St. Pancras, South, I think about an hour and three quarters after the programme began. Only 14 minutes earlier Robert Mackenzie pointed out that 10 results had been declared and no-one had been prepared to predict who had won. The coverage can of course be viewed on YouTube. |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Oct 9, 2019 7:03:39 GMT
As I recall from previous watches it actually looked like an uncertain outcome after the first few results. A bit like 1987 (which also had a Tory majority of about 100), although in that case it was more down to that terrible 'on the day' poll. And then the results spoilt it-it was straight away clear from the first result ! I guess Labour folks like yourself would have snapped someones hand off if offered a 26 Con majority at the start of the campaign? And what about the ITN projected figure of 68 would you have taken that given the low expectations at the start of that campaign? |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 9, 2019 10:53:11 GMT
As I recall from previous watches it actually looked like an uncertain outcome after the first few results. A bit like 1987 (which also had a Tory majority of about 100), although in that case it was more down to that terrible 'on the day' poll. And then the results spoilt it-it was straight away clear from the first result ! I guess Labour folks like yourself would have snapped someones hand off if offered a 26 Con majority at the start of the campaign? And what about the ITN projected figure of 68 would you have taken that given the low expectations at the start of that campaign? We would have taken a 68 Tory majority at the start, undoubtedly. But by polling day many Labour people were genuinely hoping for something like the Beeb forecast. |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Oct 9, 2019 11:46:54 GMT
And then the results spoilt it-it was straight away clear from the first result ! I guess Labour folks like yourself would have snapped someones hand off if offered a 26 Con majority at the start of the campaign? And what about the ITN projected figure of 68 would you have taken that given the low expectations at the start of that campaign? We would have taken a 68 Tory majority at the start, undoubtedly. But by polling day many Labour people were genuinely hoping for something like the Beeb forecast. Interesting to someone who used to be Labour! If they had got 26 or 68 the 1992 election would have been winnable in some way perhaps. I guess in 1987 you might have taken the 3 exit poll forecasts at the close of poll in 1992-which sadly didn't come to pass either! |
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Post by hedgehog on Oct 9, 2019 19:34:38 GMT
Very strange to look at the 1959 election, and seeing so many contests with just the Labour & the Conservative candidates standing.
Thinking of post war elections, does 1959, hold the record for the most two party contests?.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 9, 2019 19:36:57 GMT
Very strange to look at the 1959 election, and seeing so many contests with just the Labour & the Conservative candidates standing. Thinking of post war elections, does 1959, hold the record for the most two party contests?. That would be 1955 I think |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 9, 2019 19:38:01 GMT
Actually maybe 1951
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Oct 9, 2019 20:03:08 GMT
Very strange to look at the 1959 election, and seeing so many contests with just the Labour & the Conservative candidates standing. Thinking of post war elections, does 1959, hold the record for the most two party contests?. On the coverage they have been regularly mentioning the increase in 'Liberal interventions' (a term seemingly objected to by the Liberals) as compared to 1955. |
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Post by hedgehog on Oct 9, 2019 20:31:19 GMT
Jeremy Thorpe conducting a very gay campaign, according to the woman interviewing him.
Interesting remark.
Also interesting to hear the Italian journalist saying that Britains influence in Europe will diminish after the election, somethings never change.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 9, 2019 20:52:51 GMT
The 1959 election is the most interesting thing on TV tonight. Surprising news.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Oct 9, 2019 21:17:29 GMT
The 1959 election is the most interesting thing on TV tonight. Surprising news. On the day the WagathaChristie news broke that is high praise indeed I have been watching a documentary on Norman and Plantagenet castles, and a new episode of Grand Designs. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Oct 9, 2019 23:16:16 GMT
And not far off the 95th birthday of Sir David Edgeworth Butler ... |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 21, 2020 18:51:56 GMT
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