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  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405

    moonshine said:

    I remember when Osborne or Cameron said to much scoffing from those that follow polls that they thought they’d get a majority in 2015. While unlikely, it’s not completely completely inconceivable that there may be a huge shock coming Thursday night and it is more like hung parliament territory.

    I keep saying till I am blue in the face that, whatever the polls say, getting a majority of 1 when you have to win ~120 seats (140 including boundary changes) in two countries where most seats are currently held by two separate parties, is no easy task.
    Hiroshima is still standing, because destroying a city with a single bomb is no easy task

    Mayor of H 8.8.45
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 4,569

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Around here the LibDem slogan is "Demand Better", which is rather catchy.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,261

    Cicero said:

    The other thing that is interesting about the data is the current leader for each constitutency

    Labour are currently leading in 498
    Lib Dems are leading in 65
    Tories are leading in 53
    SNP are leading in 8
    Green are leading in 2
    Plaid are leading in 2
    Reform are leading in 1

    Wow... that would be pretty meaningful
    Carol Vorderman says there are only 13 seats where all pollsters show a tory lead.

    Saw a spreadsheet this wkend showing recent polling for each constituency from all major pollsters

    Guess approx number of seats the Tory is predicted to win by ALL pollsters?

    It’s a shocker!!

    Only 13 SEATS where all the pollsters said a Tory win!!

    #MondayMotivation
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    https://x.com/carolvorders/status/1807692959707488346
    This is the same Voderman that was saying she had insider knowledge that Sunak was definitely getting replaced 2 days into the campaign. She has turned into left wing Plato (formerly of this parish). All tweets require fact checking now.
    Yeah, Vorders has gone off the deep end. Would love to know what the story is behind her bitterness? :D
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,061
    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen.

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    Immanentize the Kamalaton!
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,813
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen (maybe).

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    How about 'useless Kamala who is only there for her identity rather than her ability'?
    Still preferable to Trump, obvs. And Biden, given his condition.
    But can they not find someone good? It's a nation of 300 million. They appear to be starting from the least suitable of all and working slowly upwards from there.
    If Biden had bowed out last year they’d have had a competitive primary process and the chance to find a different candidate. As it is, they are too close to November, with primary season done, to really reinvent the wheel. So it’s Kamala.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,060
    Nigelb said:

    Nigelb said:

    Not all Republicans are cowards.

    Donald Trump’s former Sec. Def. Mark Esper: “[Trump] was suggesting that...we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters.”

    Q: “The commander-in-chief was suggesting that the U.S. military shoot protesters?”

    Esper: “Yes, in the streets of our nation’s capital.”

    https://x.com/David_Leavitt/status/1808133015312208348

    Official Act?
    The President being commander in chief is a constitutional described power, so yes.
    On the Court’s ruling, absolute immunity for any such order.

    And he could pardon anyone charged for obeying it. Which the Court has said they can’t question.
    Don't worry though, no one would actually do such a thing. What do they think this is, a place where a violent mob storms the Capitol and elected officials openly talk about rejecting any outcome they do not like, even when courts have not found any fault?
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,541

    Survation has Weald of Kent going Labour 😭

    Sussex Weald also goes Labour, which I can't believe. Also Kingswinford and South Staffs, one of the safest Tory seats in the country.
  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
  • ChristopherChristopher Posts: 91
    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    The oil price is spiking again though which will impact inflation.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,949
    Leon said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.


    So you are predicting a massive polling failure, one of the biggest we’ve seen in decades? You might be right, but thats bold
    My numbers are a few percentage points away from current polls with the biggest difference being that I don't think Reform will poll as well as they have, er, been polling. Come the Big One, that is.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 3,775
    viewcode said:

    kle4 said:

    Sadly I will miss the epic reactions when the exit poll drops on Thursday night, but I expect it to be glorious no matter what it shows.

    I may go to bed early. I'm not overfond of the incoming Lab, and whilst I'm pleased to see Con out I'd be a fool not to concede that there are a lot of good Cons people who will be hurt by this. Nothing except a battle lost is sadder than a battle won, and a' that.
    I'd planned to go to bed early, but have since taken Friday off. The temptation to stay up and see just one of my 'yep - you're an ass' ministers get kicked out was too strong.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,060
    carnforth said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Around here the LibDem slogan is "Demand Better", which is rather catchy.
    Near me one is using 'Beat the Blues, Go for Gold'.

    According to wikipedia the party colour is Yellow, though I'd call it Orange.
  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405
    carnforth said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Around here the LibDem slogan is "Demand Better", which is rather catchy.
    In my heavily dairy farming area, Tories are going with "Demand Butter".
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252

    Tory 307 seats.
    Labour 255
    Lib Dems 59.
    Rest 29.

    just like 2010?
    That IS the 2010 exit poll.

    Remember the Libs shock. They seemed a slam dunk to win hordes of seats based on the opinion polls. In fact they lost 5.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,061

    Survation is showing the Greens taking West Worcestershire, but not Bristol Central, Waveney Valley or indeed North Herefordshire. That's... unexpected.

    That is bad news for my book. What is Green about West Worcestershire that isn't Green about Brizzle Middle?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,592

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368
    edited July 2

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    He's a famous YouTuber who runs a channel called Justgetatesla. That's it, I think.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,496
    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    The FPTP voting system is defensible, but it takes subtler stuff than maths to do it. FWIW the only desirable change is to employ AV, so that newbies can build a base and there doesn't have to be 'wasted vote' syndrome. (However we said no recently).

    FPTP is generally great. To form a government you have to come first in 325/6 races out of 650 and in every race everyone is allowed to do everything they can to beat you in an ungloved cage fight. You have to be organised and you have to be good. You have to be better than the best of the rest. And it is hugely enjoyable.

    And if we feel like it we can suddenly, on a whim, say 'There's no such thing as a safe Tory seat'. And we do.
  • johntjohnt Posts: 166
    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    FPTP has been discredited for the last 50 years. It produces hugely unrepresentative outcomes and always has. It also forces people to vote for things they don’t really want but are ‘not as bad’ as the alternative. Why is it that just because the system might, in this one election, have turned against its architects they are suddenly going on about how unfair and unjust it is as if we did not already know.
  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405
    Farooq said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Do you mean Labour? Their candidate is suspended and they have no campaign here. Or any recent history of campaigning as best as I can tell.
    Ah

    Gladdening as I have 2 quid on RP at about 50000/1.
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 4,837
    IanB2 said:

    nova said:

    kle4 said:

    Heathener said:

    Starmer has been this evening to Cannock Chase constituency.


    Tory majority of 19,879


    :open_mouth:

    Blimey.

    They wouldn’t be doing it at this stage just for lols. These ’safe' tory seats are evidently in play.
    They may think they are in play and be wrong, parties internal predictions are no more likely to be right than any publicly known ones, but they appear to have decent reason to think they are in play.
    Strangely, most of the seats with mid-sized majorities, where Labour are expected now to win, aren't showing up on their canvassing website. They're still asking for volunteers in the tightest marginals, like Bury North and South, which will definitely go Labour, but not in places like Fylde or Tatton, which most MRPs have going Labour, but are much closer.
    That’s their strategy to make sure of the working majority, and treat the rest as windfall. Just as the LibDems are (or should be) focusing on getting to 30-40, and hopefully recover third party status, and not getting carried away sending money and people to long shots, like they did last time.
    AIUI the Lib Dems are targeting eighty seats, and that might be the grand total inclusive of what they already hold. That doesn't seem excessive if you're trying to get to around 50 and assuming that not nearly everything will come off.
  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    Joke
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,949
    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,044
    edited July 2
    algarkirk said:

    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    The FPTP voting system is defensible, but it takes subtler stuff than maths to do it. FWIW the only desirable change is to employ AV, so that newbies can build a base and there doesn't have to be 'wasted vote' syndrome. (However we said no recently).

    FPTP is generally great. To form a government you have to come first in 325/6 races out of 650 and in every race everyone is allowed to do everything they can to beat you in an ungloved cage fight. You have to be organised and you have to be good. You have to be better than the best of the rest. And it is hugely enjoyable.

    And if we feel like it we can suddenly, on a whim, say 'There's no such thing as a safe Tory seat'. And we do.
    No, it’s not.
  • MonksfieldMonksfield Posts: 2,806
    Tadej Pogačar is the best cyclist of my lifetime. An absolute monster.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    Nigelb said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Top LibDem charting skillz.
    Surging has a caps S while collapsing has a small c.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,585
    kle4 said:

    carnforth said:

    Trump sentencing delayed until September:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0xj1q47l22o

    Pretty ridiculous - that's the one case that didn't involve any official acts, but at most he happened to be President when signed some checks for his personal lawyer.
    Do lawyers every miss an opportunity to drag things out ?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    johnt said:

    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    FPTP has been discredited for the last 50 years. It produces hugely unrepresentative outcomes and always has. It also forces people to vote for things they don’t really want but are ‘not as bad’ as the alternative. Why is it that just because the system might, in this one election, have turned against its architects they are suddenly going on about how unfair and unjust it is as if we did not already know.
    PB’ers will be pleased to know that HY has come out in favour of PR on ConHome.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,592
    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252

    moonshine said:

    I remember when Osborne or Cameron said to much scoffing from those that follow polls that they thought they’d get a majority in 2015. While unlikely, it’s not completely completely inconceivable that there may be a huge shock coming Thursday night and it is more like hung parliament territory.

    I keep saying till I am blue in the face that, whatever the polls say, getting a majority of 1 when you have to win ~120 seats (140 including boundary changes) in two countries where most seats are currently held by two separate parties, is no easy task.
    Hiroshima is still standing, because destroying a city with a single bomb is no easy task

    Mayor of H 8.8.45
    They had the trams running again the day after your Mayors Quote.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,949
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.


    So you are predicting a massive polling failure, one of the biggest we’ve seen in decades? You might be right, but thats bold
    As far as I see now the tory core vote is down to wealthy socially liberal but fiscally dry pensioners plus some of the top 5% with kids in private schools. Thats it.
    No, the Tory core is down to “wealthy socially liberal but fiscally dry pensioners who like massive amounts of immigration and dinghy people”
    They dislike immigration so much they are about to vote in Lab whose immigration policy will be....
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    edited July 2
    GIN1138 said:

    Cicero said:

    The other thing that is interesting about the data is the current leader for each constitutency

    Labour are currently leading in 498
    Lib Dems are leading in 65
    Tories are leading in 53
    SNP are leading in 8
    Green are leading in 2
    Plaid are leading in 2
    Reform are leading in 1

    Wow... that would be pretty meaningful
    Carol Vorderman says there are only 13 seats where all pollsters show a tory lead.

    Saw a spreadsheet this wkend showing recent polling for each constituency from all major pollsters

    Guess approx number of seats the Tory is predicted to win by ALL pollsters?

    It’s a shocker!!

    Only 13 SEATS where all the pollsters said a Tory win!!

    #MondayMotivation
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    https://x.com/carolvorders/status/1807692959707488346
    This is the same Voderman that was saying she had insider knowledge that Sunak was definitely getting replaced 2 days into the campaign. She has turned into left wing Plato (formerly of this parish). All tweets require fact checking now.
    Yeah, Vorders has gone off the deep end. Would love to know what the story is behind her bitterness? :D
    Its the new midlife crisis for some (formerly) mildly famous people. We can reel of a decent list of those people from the left and the right, who are on the tw@tters all the time, in their echo chambers going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,496

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    And Survation give him a very exact 0% chance of winning his seat.
    But the race is not always to the swift, and it's the taking part that counts....
  • pigeonpigeon Posts: 4,837
    Nigelb said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Top LibDem charting skillz.
    It's not an actual bar chart. I'm disappointed.
  • TweedledeeTweedledee Posts: 1,405

    moonshine said:

    I remember when Osborne or Cameron said to much scoffing from those that follow polls that they thought they’d get a majority in 2015. While unlikely, it’s not completely completely inconceivable that there may be a huge shock coming Thursday night and it is more like hung parliament territory.

    I keep saying till I am blue in the face that, whatever the polls say, getting a majority of 1 when you have to win ~120 seats (140 including boundary changes) in two countries where most seats are currently held by two separate parties, is no easy task.
    Hiroshima is still standing, because destroying a city with a single bomb is no easy task

    Mayor of H 8.8.45
    They had the trams running again the day after your Mayors Quote.
    Fascinating. And were they on time?
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,950
    edited July 2

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    A valiant warrior against the water companies 'dumping sewage into or(sic) rivers, lochs and seas for too long' I believe.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    But not me. Many years ago, the site told me that IanB was taken, so I joined up with the 2. Maybe Mr Bailey got there first, but if he did, I never saw him using the tag here.
  • Clutch_BromptonClutch_Brompton Posts: 737
    On topic - The 'polls' are not 'the polls'.

    On VI the wizards are Opinium, Survation and Verian (ex-Kantar) who have been in the closest 4 in the last three GEs. Ipsos also have a good record. Everyone else either have to prove themselves or have to improve on their recent efforts.

    I'll also suggest that the three above firms won't be herding because they don't need to. Survation, of course, got their fingers burned doing that in 2015! I think they are coinfident in their own methods.

    MRPs are very different. Firms have so many different variables involved that they can and do vary wildly. We vary from Lab majorities of 382 (Savanta) and 318 (Survation) to 200 (YouGov) and 162 (MIC). Con seats from 53 (Savanta) or 64 (Survation) to 115 (Ipsos) and 155 (MIC). Its likely the result will be somewhere in or close to that range with 9 different firms in action.

    If the Cons win 200 seats then MRP after an underwhelming performance in 2019 can probably be ignored. If the Cons win 30% and get within 10% of Lab then we can just dump the polls altogether and all go buy crystal balls
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232
    edited July 2
    kinabalu said:

    Biden now 1.99 for Dem nom on Betfair. Any news?

    A senior Dem has gone public. It's feels like it's on that frontier where rumour breaks quite quickly into fact.

    I hope so anyway.
    You’re right. The fact that Hunter “convicted crackhead” Biden has now joined the tight team of aides advising the demented President feels like the last surreal scene of this tragic farce - the unbelievable denouement that is nonetheless real
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,592
    pigeon said:

    Nigelb said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Top LibDem charting skillz.
    It's not an actual bar chart. I'm disappointed.
    From now on the wedge chart will be the go to Lib Dem graphic.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    edited July 2

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen.

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    Surely you are smarter than this? I am saying Senile Joe because I want someone capable of beating Trump. It is actually possible and usually desirable to state facts as one perceives them rather than as one would like them to be.

    Do you think Joe is not senile?
    "Senile" is arguable but he's certainly not up to running again or serving a 2nd term. Anyway, ok, so you'll be for Harris then, will you? If so, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about those who'll just switch to saying she's "too woke" or "there because she's a black woman" or "slept her way to the top", you know, all of that nonsense that certain types of right wingers will doubtless come out with to make out it's a tough choice for America.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968

    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.

    Didn't he make some rather dodgy comments?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368

    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.

    Labour snowflakes. Do they want to see Farage win?
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,496
    Nigelb said:

    algarkirk said:

    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    The FPTP voting system is defensible, but it takes subtler stuff than maths to do it. FWIW the only desirable change is to employ AV, so that newbies can build a base and there doesn't have to be 'wasted vote' syndrome. (However we said no recently).

    FPTP is generally great. To form a government you have to come first in 325/6 races out of 650 and in every race everyone is allowed to do everything they can to beat you in an ungloved cage fight. You have to be organised and you have to be good. You have to be better than the best of the rest. And it is hugely enjoyable.

    And if we feel like it we can suddenly, on a whim, say 'There's no such thing as a safe Tory seat'. And we do.
    No, it’s not.
    O yes it is. See above.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 4,569

    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.

    Didn't he make some rather dodgy comments?
    His favourite drink is "white tears" or something. More juvenile than actually racist, but yes.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 3,775
    TOPPING said:

    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
    Most of the folk I talk to are more on the "A year or two ago I could afford X. Now I can't." I'm not sure showing them a graph of economic aggregates ticking up would make them think "w00t!". Most of them can only dream of even getting a mortgage so just have to hope their rent doesn't go up so much they have to cut back on food.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,812

    pigeon said:

    Nigelb said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Top LibDem charting skillz.
    It's not an actual bar chart. I'm disappointed.
    From now on the wedge chart will be the go to Lib Dem graphic.
    Traybake chart. This is Scotland (where however a proper round pie would be better).
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368
    IanB2 said:

    johnt said:

    Cicero said:

    Leon said:

    johnt said:

    I wonder why there is such disbelief on here this evening. The polls have been showing a huge Labour victory and the Lib Dem’s and the Tories being neck and neck for second place all the way through. Why are people surprised nothing has changed? The polls may be wrong of course, but pretending this is somehow a surprise is strange. It is just more of the same.

    Normalcy bias
    Well that´s a bit glib. ;-)

    There are several problems, not least the age of the data and the contrast with the headline poll numbers and trends. There is also the very narrow gap in several constituencies which makes for quite wide margins for error in seat number forecasts. The MRP methods are also rather untested, so it is hard to see if there is any systematic bias in the stratification.

    Yes Labour are going to win big. However the questions remains open as to how the seats break between Tory and Lib Dem. That is where several of these polls are going to stand or fall. It would be easier if the Tories were in free fall, but so far the evidence is that they may have found a floor. The question is with tactical voting, targetting and local swing, is that floor 140 or 50.

    Survation says closer to 50, It is brave call, but if it is accurate then MRP is vindicated.

    But FPTP would be totally discredited when if gets 75% of the seats on 40% of the vote. the Tories are third in seats, despite coming second in votes, the Lib Dems are second is seats but fourth in votes, and RefUk gets 16% and not much to show for it.

    The voting system is basically indefensible on these numbers. Would SKS have the courage to take that bull by the horns?
    FPTP has been discredited for the last 50 years. It produces hugely unrepresentative outcomes and always has. It also forces people to vote for things they don’t really want but are ‘not as bad’ as the alternative. Why is it that just because the system might, in this one election, have turned against its architects they are suddenly going on about how unfair and unjust it is as if we did not already know.
    PB’ers will be pleased to know that HY has come out in favour of PR on ConHome.
    Well it would be to the advantage of his party of choice these days- Plaid Cymru.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    carnforth said:

    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.

    Didn't he make some rather dodgy comments?
    His favourite drink is "white tears" or something. More juvenile than actually racist, but yes.
    If you make comments like that, you can't really then start turning the water works on with the woe is me stuff.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232

    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/07/02/exclusive-labour-candidate-in-tears-after-being-ordered-to-abandon-clacton-campaign-against-nigel-farage/

    JOVAN OWUSU-Nepaul, the Labour party candidate who is standing in Clacton against Nigel Farage was left “broken”, in tears and “intimidated” after being told by party leaders being told to stop campaigning the constituency according to a member of his campaign team.

    Tracy Lewis, a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned alongside Owusu-Nepaul resigned in fury from the Clacton Labour party after the party’s demand that Owusu-Nepaul “never come back” to constituency as first reported in the Guardian.

    Was he crying “white man’s tears”?
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,585

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    Plenty of people were hurting in 1997 as well - but perhaps different groups.

    Oldies are much better off, young graduates much worse off, young non-graduates class better off in the north but worse off in the south.

    Generally speaking of course and with lots of individual exceptions.

    I wonder how PBers are financially compared with 1997 ?

    I'm certainly far, far better off but is that because of governments, my own efforts or merely the natural progress through time.

  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,949
    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
    Most of the folk I talk to are more on the "A year or two ago I could afford X. Now I can't." I'm not sure showing them a graph of economic aggregates ticking up would make them think "w00t!". Most of them can only dream of even getting a mortgage so just have to hope their rent doesn't go up so much they have to cut back on food.
    Fair enough. What bit of the economy do they think the Cons have mismanaged such that things are more expensive.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    edited July 2
    TOPPING said:

    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
    A rise in inflation in the next few months is pretty much baked into the figures already, and if you look more closely things like inflation in service sector is still very high. But then after day 1, nobody has talked about inflation at 2% anyway, because it doesn't work like that in the real world. We have had 2 years of high inflation, way above wage growth. It takes time for people to feel changes.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Biden now 1.99 for Dem nom on Betfair. Any news?

    A senior Dem has gone public. It's feels like it's on that frontier where rumour breaks quite quickly into fact.

    I hope so anyway.
    You’re right. The fact that Hunter “convicted crackhead” Biden has now joined the tight team of aides advising the demented President feels like the last surreal scene of this tragic farce - the unbelievable denouement that is nonetheless real
    Removes your cover for Trump support, doesn't it. Looking forward to how you adjust the bullshit delivery technique to keep it going.
  • AlsoLeiAlsoLei Posts: 1,457
    pigeon said:

    kle4 said:

    Scott_xP said:

    At these numbers, do the official opposition have enough members to fill all the posts?

    The LDs show the way, you only need a dozen to fill out necessary posts in opposition, the rest is just titles for titles sake to look important.
    And if necessary you plug lots of gaps in the more junior positions with peers.

    Anyway, the importance of the Opposition in the Commons to any Government with a substantial majority is overstated. So long as the Prime Minister avoids major rebellions, he can do what he likes.
    You need about 120-130 MPs to run a full opposition from the commons, shadowing every minister plus whips, a deputy speaker, and a few ctte chairs. But that would be very tight, since there's always a number who would be better kept on the backbenches (likely to grow over the course of a parliament as people become disaffected etc).

    So, on current polling, it seems very likely that the role of opposition will have to be slimmed down compared to what we've been used to in recent decades.
  • lockhimuplockhimup Posts: 59
    Andy_JS said:

    Survation has Weald of Kent going Labour 😭

    Sussex Weald also goes Labour, which I can't believe. Also Kingswinford and South Staffs, one of the safest Tory seats in the country.
    Why hard to believe?
    Nus Ghani got 60% last time. The Conservatives are polling half their 2019 total.
    She's going to struggle to retain the seat on 30% of the vote
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.
  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Posts: 1,292
    FF43 said:

    Survation thinks every seat in Scotland's Central Belt will go Labour, except Edinburgh West that is already Lib Dem. Not a single SNP MP.

    That might be the most remarkable prediction of all.

    John Duncan 🇺🇦
    @livvyjohn
    After Falkirk yesterday (SNP majority 15,000), on the last sunday before polling day John Swinney is campaigning in North Ayrshire and Arran, a seat with an 11,000 majority. Blimey, their internal numbers must be grim indeed.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,982
    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    https://x.com/mortenmorland/status/1807663713467425094
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232
    edited July 2
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Biden now 1.99 for Dem nom on Betfair. Any news?

    A senior Dem has gone public. It's feels like it's on that frontier where rumour breaks quite quickly into fact.

    I hope so anyway.
    You’re right. The fact that Hunter “convicted crackhead” Biden has now joined the tight team of aides advising the demented President feels like the last surreal scene of this tragic farce - the unbelievable denouement that is nonetheless real
    Removes your cover for Trump support, doesn't it. Looking forward to how you adjust the bullshit delivery technique to keep it going.
    lol. You’re a clown. If Kamala gets the gig I will favour her to win over Trump

    Sorry to disappoint you
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,705
    AlsoLei said:

    pigeon said:

    kle4 said:

    Scott_xP said:

    At these numbers, do the official opposition have enough members to fill all the posts?

    The LDs show the way, you only need a dozen to fill out necessary posts in opposition, the rest is just titles for titles sake to look important.
    And if necessary you plug lots of gaps in the more junior positions with peers.

    Anyway, the importance of the Opposition in the Commons to any Government with a substantial majority is overstated. So long as the Prime Minister avoids major rebellions, he can do what he likes.
    You need about 120-130 MPs to run a full opposition from the commons, shadowing every minister plus whips, a deputy speaker, and a few ctte chairs. But that would be very tight, since there's always a number who would be better kept on the backbenches (likely to grow over the course of a parliament as people become disaffected etc).

    So, on current polling, it seems very likely that the role of opposition will have to be slimmed down compared to what we've been used to in recent decades.
    On the Survation numbers they basically all need to band together to form an Opposition of National Unity.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368
    viewcode said:

    Survation is showing the Greens taking West Worcestershire, but not Bristol Central, Waveney Valley or indeed North Herefordshire. That's... unexpected.

    That is bad news for my book. What is Green about West Worcestershire that isn't Green about Brizzle Middle?
    Hanbury Woods?
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,982

    FF43 said:

    Survation thinks every seat in Scotland's Central Belt will go Labour, except Edinburgh West that is already Lib Dem. Not a single SNP MP.

    That might be the most remarkable prediction of all.

    John Duncan 🇺🇦
    @livvyjohn
    After Falkirk yesterday (SNP majority 15,000), on the last sunday before polling day John Swinney is campaigning in North Ayrshire and Arran, a seat with an 11,000 majority. Blimey, their internal numbers must be grim indeed.
    https://x.com/BrianSpanner1/status/1808087851755544958
  • peter_from_putneypeter_from_putney Posts: 6,956
    Why can't Survation add up? I had consierable difficulty locating the share of the vote percentages from Survation's latest poll and when eventually I did so, they totalled only 98%
    I accept the "missing" 2% may have resulted from rounding differences, but clearly other pollsters somehow overcome this problem.
    Baxterising the figures as they stand produces slightly but important seat total differences. For example, the Tories and LibDems finish on precisely the same total of 68 seats.
    The polling industry faces an ewnormous challenge in this election. To have any real credibility, I believe they should be within 15%-20% of ultimately forecasting the correct number of seats won by eack of the 3 main parties and within 30%-50% of the correct in respect of the smaller parties. Frankly if they can't hit such targets consistently, they could be considered to be something of a waste of time and money.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    edited July 2
    viewcode said:

    Survation is showing the Greens taking West Worcestershire, but not Bristol Central, Waveney Valley or indeed North Herefordshire. That's... unexpected.

    That is bad news for my book. What is Green about West Worcestershire that isn't Green about Brizzle Middle?
    Malvern Hills DC has the Greens as minority coalition partners, together with the usual Marches flavour of Independents. (Ok, I know counting the Malverns as Marches is pushing it. But you know what I mean.)

    But getting from there to a GE gain is a very long shot and I don't see it. Especially because if you're a Green activist there you'll presumably be campaigning either in North Herefordshire, or even a few miles down the road in Worcester where a decent third is quite possible.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232
    Farage is a damn fool. Without his Putin shite he could have overtaken the Tories. They were there - ready to be replaced - idiot
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    edited July 2
    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    I think that's nonsense really. There are so many missteps that aren't anything to do with Brexit that have caused the Tories demise. Boris doesn't party, the Tories were still polling fine. He is still vastly flawed, probably ends up with a hung parliaments. Then they pick Truss, who goes for mental approach out the gate and Ratners Tory brand for at least doing economic management ok, then they go for Sunak, who is far worse than anybody expected.

    Also the high inflation, leads to high interest rates, which leads to expensive mortgages (and rent increases). You are fucked when that happens. No COVID, no Ukraine, and we don't get the absolute shell shock of crazy money printing to fund that.

    Even now, he runs a half decent campaign from the start, Farage doesn't appear, the Tories probably get over 30%. Instead they went absolute mental bullshit stuff and Farage saw an opportunity.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    Leon said:

    Farage is a damn fool. Without his Putin shite he could have overtaken the Tories. They were there - ready to be replaced - idiot

    I don't think the basket case of bampots they recruited as candidates helped them much either tbh.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,619
    edited July 2
    Andy_JS said:

    Hey Siri.

    Show me what burying the lede looks like.

    I can't believe how thick I am that I've never heard of this expression before. Had to look it up here.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
    You're not thick.

    It is what I love about the English language is the sheer number of words and phrases which means none of us know every word/phrase and it brings joy when we learn a new word/phrase.

    Follow this lady and you won't regret it.

    Word of the day is 'ultra-crepidate' (19th century): to comment at length on a subject you know virtually nothing about.

    https://x.com/susie_dent/status/1808064649578893589

    On the language front, do the French has a word(s) for double entendre?
  • MonksfieldMonksfield Posts: 2,806
    IanB2 said:

    johnt said:

    I think in all the trivial questions about polls, betting and even who is going to form the next government the real important issue is being missed. Have we ever had a LOTO who is known to bungee jump, fall off a paddle board and ride a roller coaster? Certainly PMQs would be more interesting.

    The upside for Davey, who was prior to the campaign seen as another anonymous grey eminence along with Starmer, is that he has got his personality and life story across and that will stick with him whether the result is merely decent, or amazing, which appears to be the range. If they can secure at least the third party spot, that will see him well for the remainder of his leadership.

    The downside for the party is that the ability to catch public attention through imaginative stunts is probably a trick with diminishing returns, and if the party doesn’t recover a higher national profile from the election, the next leader will have to think of something else.
    The good thing is there will be more MPs to draw contributions from.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,585
    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
    Most of the folk I talk to are more on the "A year or two ago I could afford X. Now I can't." I'm not sure showing them a graph of economic aggregates ticking up would make them think "w00t!". Most of them can only dream of even getting a mortgage so just have to hope their rent doesn't go up so much they have to cut back on food.
    And many of those folk are exaggerating.

    They notice something has increased significantly in price, say by 60%, they think its has doubled in price, they then think everything has doubled in price and then they claim their earnings haven't increased either.

    The big determinant in spending ability is how housing costs has varied.

    That has certainly hit many people hard and those people deserve sympathy.

    But many of those complaining the loudest have been the beneficiaries of a dozen years of ZIRP.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,895
    Farooq said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    :lol: oh God
    Yesterday's version just had the Blue and Yellow halves comparing their identical claims against each other. I couldn't resist converting it to ramp this new MRP.

    Does explain a lot though about today's SNP pleading for votes. The Tories are also pleading - with Reform who I think could take several thousand votes minimum off DRoss.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    edited July 2

    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    I think that's nonsense really. There are so many missteps that aren't anything to do with Brexit that have caused the Tories demise. Boris doesn't party, the Tories were still polling fine. Then they pick Truss, who goes for mental approach out the gate and ratners Tory brand for at least doing economic management ok, then they go for Sunak, who is far worse than anybody expected.

    Even now, he runs a half decent campaign from the start, Farage doesn't appear, the Tories probably get over 30%. Instead they went absolute mental bullshit stuff and Farage saw an opportunity.
    But without Brexit, Johnson would never have got to the top. And the rest is history.

    Plus, Brexit built them an unstable coalition that was never going to hang together, and drove a wedge between the Tories and their traditional educated, middle class, business-friendly base which, with luck, is about to lose them a shedload of seats in the Home Counties. Without Brexit, do you really think we’d even be talking about the LibDems sweeping Surrey, or Labour having a long shot chance in Wealden?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232
    OnboardG1 said:

    Leon said:

    Farage is a damn fool. Without his Putin shite he could have overtaken the Tories. They were there - ready to be replaced - idiot

    I don't think the basket case of bampots they recruited as candidates helped them much either tbh.
    OnboardG1 said:

    Leon said:

    Farage is a damn fool. Without his Putin shite he could have overtaken the Tories. They were there - ready to be replaced - idiot

    I don't think the basket case of bampots they recruited as candidates helped them much either tbh.
    True. But I don’t think that was pivotal
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Biden now 1.99 for Dem nom on Betfair. Any news?

    A senior Dem has gone public. It's feels like it's on that frontier where rumour breaks quite quickly into fact.

    I hope so anyway.
    You’re right. The fact that Hunter “convicted crackhead” Biden has now joined the tight team of aides advising the demented President feels like the last surreal scene of this tragic farce - the unbelievable denouement that is nonetheless real
    Removes your cover for Trump support, doesn't it. Looking forward to how you adjust the bullshit delivery technique to keep it going.
    lol. You’re a clown. If Kamala gets the gig I will favour her to win over Trump

    Sorry to disappoint you
    That wouldn't disappoint me. Quite the opposite. In fact, if you support Kamala vs Trump I don't even mind you voting Labour.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,496
    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    Correct except that it is the casualty not of Brexit but of successive UK governments' failure to consult the people by referenda as we went along and the creation of an EU which the people of the UK wish, to this day, to neither join nor leave. It is the stuff of tragedy and a hopeless failure of statecraft.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    Andy_JS said:

    Hey Siri.

    Show me what burying the lede looks like.

    I can't believe how thick I am that I've never heard of this expression before. Had to look it up here.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
    To be fair, the spelling appears to be American in origin. When I was editing magazines 10ish years ago we had the "standfirst" and then the "intro". You'd sometimes hear "lead para", but I genuinely never came across "lede" in 25 years of writing the things.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,895
    IanB2 said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    But not me. Many years ago, the site told me that IanB was taken, so I joined up with the 2. Maybe Mr Bailey got there first, but if he did, I never saw him using the tag here.
    Not me sir. I Never use my name on public forums. Though have rather obviously doxxed myself all over this fine forum.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,982
    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    I don't like to say I told you so, but...

    I have been saying since 2016 that Brexit is the toxin that was killing the Conservative and Unionist Party

    And now even the Telegraph has worked it out (Some PBers are slower on the uptake)
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    edited July 2
    IanB2 said:

    IanB2 said:

    From the FT: As Tories stare into the electoral abyss, facing dissent, doom-laden opinion polls and now the return of Nigel Farage as leader of the nativist Reform UK to further drain their support, the more reflective among them will be forced to acknowledge a simple truth. The Conservative party has become the last casualty of Brexit.

    I think that's nonsense really. There are so many missteps that aren't anything to do with Brexit that have caused the Tories demise. Boris doesn't party, the Tories were still polling fine. Then they pick Truss, who goes for mental approach out the gate and ratners Tory brand for at least doing economic management ok, then they go for Sunak, who is far worse than anybody expected.

    Even now, he runs a half decent campaign from the start, Farage doesn't appear, the Tories probably get over 30%. Instead they went absolute mental bullshit stuff and Farage saw an opportunity.
    But without Brexit, Johnson would never have got to the top. And the rest is history.

    Plus, Brexit built them an unstable coalition that was never going to hang together, and drove a wedge between the Tories and their traditional educated, middle class, business-friendly base which, with luck, is about to lose them a shedload of seats in the Home Counties.
    There is a lot of leaps there....I think it is true it has effected the Tory voter base etc, but I don't think you can go from 0 to 100 like that tweet. Its more complicated.

    I also think we are seeing across Europe a fracturing of traditional voting coalitions. We are seeing ever bigger splits between rural and urban, the university educated and not. In the US, we have seen blue collar always voted Democrat union workers voting Trump, non-whites voting Trump etc.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen.

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    I’m predicting ‘diversity hire’ as the preferred slur on Twitter.
    Our commenters are usually better than that.
    Most of them are, yes.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    This is a good game.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,984

    FF43 said:

    Survation thinks every seat in Scotland's Central Belt will go Labour, except Edinburgh West that is already Lib Dem. Not a single SNP MP.

    That might be the most remarkable prediction of all.

    John Duncan 🇺🇦
    @livvyjohn
    After Falkirk yesterday (SNP majority 15,000), on the last sunday before polling day John Swinney is campaigning in North Ayrshire and Arran, a seat with an 11,000 majority. Blimey, their internal numbers must be grim indeed.
    Or they’re taking nothing for granted. Every election we indulge in speculation about politicians campaigning in very safe seats or very stretching targets and it always turns out to be nonsense.

    The SNP and Tories are both going to be getting major swingback. They are the establishment in their two electorates and have loyal bases that spend years flirting with other parties only to return to the fold come the big election.

    As others have pointed out Survation today is misleading because it’s an old poll and won’t we catching this week’s swingback.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    kinabalu said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen (maybe).

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    How about 'useless Kamala who is only there for her identity rather than her ability'?
    Still preferable to Trump, obvs. And Biden, given his condition.
    But can they not find someone good? It's a nation of 300 million. They appear to be starting from the least suitable of all and working slowly upwards from there.
    As if you have a clue about her.
    Sorry, bit sharp, rephrase:

    Where are you getting this very low opinion of Kamala Harris from?

    @Cookie
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,982
    @NatashaC

    Rumours swirling that Boris Johnson could appear at one of the PM's final rallies in London this evening...

    👀
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,895
    algarkirk said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    And Survation give him a very exact 0% chance of winning his seat.
    But the race is not always to the swift, and it's the taking part that counts....
    I'm 66/1 - a long shot. But I can cite various examples of people who won with longer odds and from further back. In a chaos election all kinds of unexpected results happen.

    That isn't me doing a Jo Swinson. I am realistic. But zero? There are no polls up here, and the models don't really adapt well to the LD/Con cat fight here in the NE, and certainly don't cope with one-off issue seats.

    So I go off the observable actions of my competitors. Labour never got started - he was only ever a paper candidate and got kyboshed. Reform got kyboshed and is campaigning in other NE seats and not here. Tories are desperately trying to appeal to their 2019 vote not to go to Reform or LD to stop the SNP. And the SNP are demanding fealty from Labour and LD voters to stop the Tories...
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,232
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen (maybe).

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    How about 'useless Kamala who is only there for her identity rather than her ability'?
    Still preferable to Trump, obvs. And Biden, given his condition.
    But can they not find someone good? It's a nation of 300 million. They appear to be starting from the least suitable of all and working slowly upwards from there.
    As if you have a clue about her.
    Sorry, bit sharp, rephrase:

    Where are you getting this very low opinion of Kamala Harris from?

    @Cookie
    Even Democrats have a majorly low opinion of her

    She seems ok-ish to me but apparently dumb as fuck
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,705
    Scott_xP said:

    @NatashaC

    Rumours swirling that Boris Johnson could appear at one of the PM's final rallies in London this evening...

    👀

    To point and laugh?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,351
    edited July 2

    Starmer has been this evening to Cannock Chase constituency.


    Tory majority of 19,879


    :open_mouth:

    I haven't seen him.

    However, a few points:

    Cannock Chase and its predecessor seats have voted for the winning party in every election since 1964 except for 1992 when Labour narrowly won it;

    That said, it has rapidly gentrified in the last 15 years due to large numbers of people moving out of Birmingham and even London in the hope of owning their own home in a place that isn't an overpriced and overcrowded shithole.

    So it should be a prime target for Labour historically, but demography has been moving against them.

    Even so, I would hesitate to call it a 'safe Tory seat.' Labour could - and should x have won it in 2015 had the then candidate Janos Toth not blown both his feet off by campaigning on Labour's record on the NHS...
  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,588
    Leon said:

    Farage is a damn fool. Without his Putin shite he could have overtaken the Tories. They were there - ready to be replaced - idiot

    Anyone who previously doubted that he is deeply average-to-poor in the brains department should have been set straight by this campaign.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 81,968
    Scott_xP said:

    @NatashaC

    Rumours swirling that Boris Johnson could appear at one of the PM's final rallies in London this evening...

    👀

    As they holding one at Heathrow and Boris is just happening to fly in from his holibobs at the same time.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen.

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    Who are the PB Trumpers? I’m not sure we have any
    Top of head with apologies to those missed:

    Glenn
    Sandpit
    You
    Brooke
    Ed
    KitchCab
    Darkage
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,208
    TimS said:

    FF43 said:

    Survation thinks every seat in Scotland's Central Belt will go Labour, except Edinburgh West that is already Lib Dem. Not a single SNP MP.

    That might be the most remarkable prediction of all.

    John Duncan 🇺🇦
    @livvyjohn
    After Falkirk yesterday (SNP majority 15,000), on the last sunday before polling day John Swinney is campaigning in North Ayrshire and Arran, a seat with an 11,000 majority. Blimey, their internal numbers must be grim indeed.
    Or they’re taking nothing for granted. Every election we indulge in speculation about politicians campaigning in very safe seats or very stretching targets and it always turns out to be nonsense.

    The SNP and Tories are both going to be getting major swingback. They are the establishment in their two electorates and have loyal bases that spend years flirting with other parties only to return to the fold come the big election.

    As others have pointed out Survation today is misleading because it’s an old poll and won’t we catching this week’s swingback.
    The great advantage Labour have in Scotland is they are neither the Conservatives or SNP and are a plausible establishment alternative if you want to avoid either of those parties.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,044
    .
    pigeon said:

    Nigelb said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Top LibDem charting skillz.
    It's not an actual bar chart. I'm disappointed.
    Innovation is to be applauded.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,585
    TOPPING said:

    ohnotnow said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I think that normalcy bias can lead people astray when it comes to black swan events where there is precious little precedent in living memory.

    But what we are talking about here is the population of the UK many of whom will suffer from normalcy bias and hence may well make the prophecy of a "more normal" result come true. Because with such a large population the scope for extreme events is vastly restricted.

    Hence I stick by my guesstimate of Lab 38%, Cons 27%, Reform 10%, LibDems 14%, Green 5%.

    But don't take my word for it, there is a forthcoming poll shortly which will confirm/disprove my hypothesis.

    The difference is much of the population is hurting financially in a way they werent in 1997.
    That is very true. No one is listening but things are actually getting better. Inflation down, interest rates signalling down, growth improving, unemployment down...Rishi could go on. But people have also been hit with humungous new mortgage bills, many of them this year and recently, and everything is baseline more expensive than it was a few years ago. Neither are people prepared to listen to the 2x exogenous shock arguments.

    I also understand the "Tories must be destroyed" vibe. But I don't think that will be the motivating factor for as many people as certainly PB believes. I think many people might ponder the certain tax rises and how that will affect their pockets and maybe even take a glance at those economic aggregates before they vote. But I appreciate this may make me the most ridiculous PB poster, come 10:00:00:576 on Thursday night.
    That is a curious definition of 'getting better'. "Not getting worse as quickly" is another possible phrasing.
    It was put to me by a noted, and super left wing economist, that he saw why Rishi called the election when he did - precisely because some of the economic aggregates were ticking up. Interest rates was the big one that didn't improve/signal better at that particular time, but they have since.

    Not that anyone is listening to the economic aggregates and yes absolutely, if you have a mortgage you are hurting. And not that anyone is listening (2) but that can partially be explained by exogenous shocks.
    if you have a mortgage you are hurting

    Not all mortgage holders.

    Anyone one took out a mortgage before 2010 should have been among the big winners since then.

    That wont stop many complaining though.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,058
    IanB2 said:

    I'll use my only photo of the day to show off my sort-of barchart, which I am now boosting the crap out of on Facebook.



    Is there an elephant conspicuously absent from the room you describe? Who is this Bailey guy anyway?
    Ian B posts on this very forum.
    But not me. Many years ago, the site told me that IanB was taken, so I joined up with the 2. Maybe Mr Bailey got there first, but if he did, I never saw him using the tag here.
    Well whoever they were they're gone now

    https://vf.politicalbetting.com/profile/IanB

    "User Not Found"
  • CookieCookie Posts: 13,772
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    Kamala is starting to happen (maybe).

    If so our PB Trumpers will have to come up with something other than "senile Joe!" as their figleaf for rooting for him.

    How about 'useless Kamala who is only there for her identity rather than her ability'?
    Still preferable to Trump, obvs. And Biden, given his condition.
    But can they not find someone good? It's a nation of 300 million. They appear to be starting from the least suitable of all and working slowly upwards from there.
    As if you have a clue about her.
    Sorry, bit sharp, rephrase:

    Where are you getting this very low opinion of Kamala Harris from?

    @Cookie
    Of course, I don't know her personally! But all I've read about her is that the Dems have been trying to hide her away because she is, and I paraphrase, useless and everything she touches turns to shit and ahe polls very badly.
    And she has apparently let it be known tbat if ahe is not selected to succeed Biden it will be an insult to all black people.
    I think it's fairly uncontroversial that she was chosen as veep for her identity rather than her ability.
    But I concede this is a view based solely on UK media and I have not actually been to the USA since Obama's first term.
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