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This shows the breakdown of aggregate votes secured by the parties in Westminster by-elections starting with the first, Oldham East & Saddleworth, in 2011.
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Many thanks
In fact, as a general principle in life I find that simply disagreeing with Yvonne Ridley and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ensures I rarely make errors.
Mr. G, hmm. I'd be wary of taking such a line.
I recall the Question Time edition when teachers were, I think, having a big strike. The audience was packed with them (many said they were teachers or lecturers) but Liam Fox and Norman Lamb were faced by the oratorical colossus of Sadiq Khan, who somehow managed to lose the audience. That didn't mean most teachers necessarily sided with the Coalition.
On that sort of note, I do hope the Clegg-Farage doesn't have the worm.
On-topic: cheers, Dr. Prasannan.
Regarding turnouts, they have indeed fluctuated wildly, dropping 35% on GE2010 in Cardiff South but only 13% in Oldham East.
The exact figures are as follows:
Mile, that is why we look at swings. It takes out who is defending the seat etc. to a large extent.
As Labour was defending 13 of the seats, it is understandable that their votes will be the highest. But in the wash, 15 contests, about 1m electorate, the net swing Tory to Labour is 7.45%. Not just enough for a landslide but a hurricane !
But yellows losing 9.6% of the votes is no satisfaction just because the blues are losing 10.6%. The 9.6% equates to 14.5% overall. Isn't that what LD supporters are hoping for at the GE ?
"Mile, that is why we look at swings. It takes out who is defending the seat etc. to a large extent"
Of course, Mile is actually Mike !!
Applying this to UNS with the help of Electoral Calculus and we cover a range of results from a Parliament Hung pretty much as at present to a wafer-thin Labour majority.
Anything better than evens on a Hung Parliament has to be a great value bet, you would have thought.
Yet more problems for Boeing: over 40 787's in production have hairline cracks on their wings.
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023076224_787wingcrackxml.html
Still, at least these are not planes that are in service: Airbus has problems with wing cracks in planes in service:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/airbus-group-a-idUSL6N0M35BA20140306
This stuff is hard. We all take flying too much for granted, IMHO.
Labour are dead keen on taxing Bankers Bonuses - heres a list of 11 times Labour has changed the policy and what they’d use the money for…
http://www.buzzfeed.com/martinshapland/labours-banker-bonus-tax-bonanza-gimd
Dire numbers for the Tories.
Incoherent doesn't even begin to desctibe it.
And, of course, the LD!
(knocks himself around the head with a wet haddock)
"there's another book on the way, called 2025: Shaping a New Future"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26512592
Oh god, help us all !!!
O/T there's a splendid article from Libby Purves (behind the paywall) in today's Times, laying into Michael Gove's wife for parading her faux-egalitarian credentials, by sending her child to an "Anglican Hogwarts" at the same time as slagging off people who educate their children privately.
'11 times apparently...I lost count after about 5.'
That's got to be a record even by Labour's past standards,great credibility for the GE.
It's a double whammy. "Use" the money and bash the *ankers !
The list Sunil has produced downthread is also interesting. How many of these can people actually remember? I am struggling to remember anything significant about more than half of them. Eastleigh has been by far the most interesting by election of the Parliament so far.
Oh..
Roy Jenkins' male lover Tony Crosland tried to halt his marriage
A new biography, Roy Jenkins: A Well Rounded Life, by John Campbell, reveals how miner’s son Jenkins himself had a homosexual affair with his close friend Crosland who he met at Oxford University
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10687788/Roy-Jenkins-male-lover-Tony-Crosland-tried-to-halt-his-marriage.html
The fieldwork has been completed, it may out later this week.
Even if Scotland votes No in September, one thing is certain: the Establishment is going to continue ripping the Yookay to shreds.
Before they ask us to pay the bill, and while we still have that chance,
Cameron will face the music and dance
There may be teardrops to shed.
Only one by-election of the 15 was contested by the SNP
% of the aggregate vote in the 15 seats in 2010 = 1.0% (6,577 of 647,921)
% of the aggregate vote in the 15 seats at the by-elections = 2.3% (9,280 of 402,404)
therefore, the difference = +1.3%
In fact, we can take it further: townies do not understand country folk. Therefore the countryside should be separate regions from the cities.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/martinshapland/labours-banker-bonus-tax-bonanza-gimd
There is a strong argument for that. Needs are very different, as are populations. The problem is that the countryside doesn't really have much money. Most of the wealth is in the towns.
Brilliant.
Video showing Ed pledges in his own words...
http://order-order.com/2014/03/10/guy-news-ed-milibands-bankers-bonus-tax-pledges/
Regional government for those English regions which choose it (just as with Scotland and Wales), the rest can be governed as now.
We've never had a proper offer of regional devolution on the table in England. The North East quite rightly rejected Labour's offering in 2004 not least because Whitehall wasn't prepared to devolve any powers downwards. The only powers on offer to the regional assembly were to be taken from local government, so most councils were hostile.
But yes, in terms of actual policies, obviously I want decisions that impact northerners' lives to actually have majority support among northerners, rather than having policies imposed which we don't vote for. Duh.
Under such a settlement, the north would presumably also keep a greater share of profits from farming, manufacturing and (soon to be) fracking, rather than southerners swallowing up the profits as currently happens.
MP Nigel Evans, 56, used his "powerful" influence to abuse the men and made a "drunken pass" at one, Preston Crown Court was told.
The former Tory MP denies one count of rape, two of indecent assault and six of sexual assault from 2002 to 2013."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26518718
It seems as though Christian Around Britain has finished his 18-month stroll around the coast of Britain, sleeping rough each night. He is raising money for Help for Heroes.
An amazing achievement.
https://www.facebook.com/christian.britain.3
'And, that was only the first innings. WE will do it 11 more times, if necessary.
It's a double whammy. "Use" the money and bash the *ankers !
Real grown-up politics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARybu2kHeZ8&
The reason Manchester doesn't have a Mayor is that, I and other Mancunian residents voted against it in 2012.
I voted against it like many others for the belief that a Manchester Mayor would focus on purely Manchester and not Greater Manchester.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17949390
The shame, the shame.
I woŕk, pay my taxes, contibute to the economy (admittedly, I'm not earning anywhere near as much as you).
It's not even really my choice to live here. I was born and raised around here, all my family live around here, it's sort of a subconscious decision, I suppose.
We can't all live in the metropolis, indeed, I doubt I could afford to live anywhere in the South East. That's not really a choice, is it? We can't all be lawyers, accountants, doctors or politicians, can we?
Manchester is the second city IMO. Birmingham nowhere near it.
"1979 a Varig Boeing B707 took off from Tokyo Narita to Los Angeles. The cargo aircraft lost radio contact 30 minutes after takeoff.
The remains of the aircraft nor of the crew were never found.
The cause of the incident was concluded as cabin depressurization, which killed the crew.
1979 Boeing 707-323C disappearance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia”
Interesting the cargo in that case included a number of valuable works of art, and IIRC there are some on this plane. Almost certainly co-incidence, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerial_disappearances
Nothing the size of a 777, though.
There's too little information to choose between a whole host of scenarios.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522