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The final result in Thursday South Yorkshire PCC by-elections had LAB ahead of UKIP by 18.36%. If you think that you are near please submit your claim by 1800 tomorrow to Competitions@politicalbetting.com.
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It is not unprecedented through European political history and current European politics for a new party to become popular by combining Nationalism, blaming most things going wrong in the country as a result of actions taken by organisations or peoples overseas and.or as a result of particular minorities within the host country itself.
That is perhaps why UKIP is the most disliked party whilst also having a very significant and motivated group of supporters too. It works and has always worked but it's certainly nothing new in the history of politics.
Now feel free to assault the wet pro-european tory stance I favour!!
Jim Murphy nominated by
Jackie Baillie MSP
Claire Baker MSP
Richard Baker MSP
Gemma Doyle MP
Mark Griffin MSP
James Kelly MSP
Ken Macintosh MSP
Hanzala Malik MSP
Jenny Marra MSP
Margaret McCulloch MSP
Pamela Nash MP
John Pentland MSP
Richard Simpson MSP
Neil Findlay nominated by
Jayne Baxter MSP
Katy Clark MP
Michael Connarty MP
Ian Davidson MP
Cara Hilton MSP
Graeme Morrice MP
Elaine Murray MSP
Alex Rowley MSP
Elaine Smith MSP
Sarah Boyack nominated by
Claudia Beamish MSP
Sarah Boyack MSP
Malcolm Chisholm MSP
Sheila Gilmore MP
Rhoda Grant MSP
Mark Lazarowicz MP
David Stewart MSP
Deputy
Katy Clark nominated by
Katy Clark MP
Michael Connarty MP
Ian Davidson MP
Kezia Dugbale nominated by
Jackie Baillie MSP
Jayne Baxter MSP
Malcolm Chisholm MSP
Cara Hilton MSP
Ken Macintosh MSP
Margaret McCulloch MSP
We will get Neath results too at some of point before midnight
That said, I agree with the basic analysis: his only advantage appears to be his profile.
FPT: Mr. Freggles, why is a devolved Parliament sound for Scotland but silly for England? I don't care that there are 50 million of us.
Regionalisation is bullshit that cannot deliver fairness. The reasoning is thus:
Scotland's either about to get lots more power, or it isn't. If it isn't, it'll break away.
If that happens, I'd agree the case for an English Parliament will likely end (contingent on what happens with Wales).
If Scotland does get much more power then justice for England demands we have the same powers. Leaving aside your strange desire to needlessly carve England up, the power cannot be delivered regionally unless you want varying taxation rates within England. Can you imagine how complicated and divisive it would be to have varying income tax and VAT rates between (for example) Yorkshire and Lincolnshire it would be?
It would institutionalise division and foster bitterness. Poorer parts would complain that London gets more spending per head. Londoners would complain that they effectively export money to poorer parts and get complaints rather than gratitude. Both would have valid points but now they'd have regionalised bullshit parliaments which would enable narrow-minded demagogues exacerbating tensions by blaming 'the other' side.
England has no divine right to exist and creating a political structure that would be inherently divisive is madness. Have you not seen that devolution almost destroyed the UK this very year, and may yet do so?
I do not want to fritter England away on a foolish, ill-considered, and short-sighted programme to balkanise a kingdom over a thousand years old to suit the petty political ambitions of the empty-headed pygmies wallowing in Westminster.
Some might say elements of my troll are actually what has been British foreign policy for hundreds of years so that's not really jumping in to you needing the Nazi smear defence.
But to the great surprise of No. 10, it turns out that voters in Rochester are not very interested in joining the Tory fightback. Even Cabinet members are returning from Rochester with the sense that the battle is already lost."
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/9355882/how-to-fight-ukip/
Happily Spurs have already lost to both at home this season.
If it had gone to second preferences, would have been intriguing.
He's the one who lost Bradford West
Barnsely -5%
Doncaster -4%
Rotherham -9%
Sheffield +6%
And the Labour to UKIP swing:
Barnsley 12.5%
Doncaster 14%
Rotherham 17.5%
Sheffield 4%
Clearly shows Labour continuing to do well in urban areas but losing ground in wwc industrial towns.
There's complicating factors such as no LibDem candidate and UKIP becoming established as the main anti-Labour party but the trends are clear.
The UKIP odds in Stocksbridge & Penistone are worth looking at.
Pre-qualifying should be up around half four, give or take. Pre-race may be up this evening or tomorrow morning.
Then I considered all the Kipper frothing and reduced it to 7.45%.
The sound you can hear is me kicking myself.
Do your own research! Trust your own judgement!
As it happens I wouldn't have won anyway, but still.
Throughout the 20th century the C1C2s were the main beneficiaries of increasing affluence and increasing economic equality.
Likewise they became the demographic which decided elections and were consequently pandered to by politicians. The triumph of the C1C2s reached its most prominent expression with all those party leaders which arose from their ranks - Heath and Wilson, Thatcher and Callaghan, Major and Kinnock.
But since the millenium the C1C2s have been losing ground both economically and politically.
Globalisation has caused the former egg shaped economic society to be increasingly egg timer shaped - a shift in wealth from those in the middle to those at either end of the scale.
Meanwhile politics has become increasingly a 'closed shop' where access through privilege becomes ever more important - the PPEocrachy. This new generation of politicians have had very different personal experiences and see the world through very different eyes to the proceeding generation.
But UKIP would have needed that result to be wrong AND every second preference vote to win. It wasn't worth the recount.
She's a Cllr in Bridgend. She fought Arfon at 2011 Welsh Assembly elections and was 4th on Labour list in 2014 Euros. She has been married to Ron Davies
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/151795/Electoral-Administration-Bulletin-26.pdf
"Once the LRO has counted all of the first preferences,
or votes in an election with only two candidates, and
adjudicated any doubtful ballot papers, the provisional
local totals should be shared informally with the
candidates, agents and designated counting agents
present. It is at this stage that recounts can be
requested by candidates, (sub) agents and the
designated counting agents. Requests for recounts
must be considered, but may be refused if, in the LRO’s
opinion, the request is unreasonable."
All I meant was that the presiding officer presumably decided that there was no point in a recount since (by any reasonable measure) it would never change the outcome of the winner.
Also, considering the abysmal record Labour has in postal vote fraud, it doesn't like UKIP being bad losers after all.
I was 10.2% out, so behind Pong who was only 8.36% off the mark.
Just a thought but current polling could be completely changed by May 2015 if the economic situation deteriorates rapidly. Today's finance pages are full of deflation talk, Japan's QE experiment, an Asian currency war, Martin Sorell's warnings about geo-political economic situation. It's grim stuff.
I'm thinking this is likely to benefit Tories.
Look for kle4.
meh.
Note. Yes, I know about income tax!
Like the LDs before them, UKIP are good at by-elections.
But multi-constituency elections are a completely different ball game.
Also,
PB has a positive feedback loop that tends to hype right leaning candidates. For those of us remember Tony Lit.
"UKIP are good at Euro elections/getting good seconds, but Westminster/getting a first place is a completely different ball game" etc ?
state_go_away -9.85%
John Renotoul -34.36%
skybluepastie -9.61%
MarkSenior -5.74%
Millsy +1.64%
Quincel -4.00%
slade -8.82%
Barnesian -8.24%
SirNorfolkPassmore -8.03%
kle4 +0.96%
kle4 is the winner. I'll put these in order in a sec.
Your arguments about inter-regionality are much better than a SeanT-esque ode to Englishness as a defense.
If you want equality with Scotland I presume you are in favour of using a proportional electoral system to an English parliament?
Mentioned in dispatches I see, but looks like I’ll be buying my own copy – well done kle4 ?
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1983 23
1987 22
1992 20
1997 46
2001 52
2005 62
2010 57
I hope that the next election will sound the death knell for FPTP. It's good for electing governments but terrible for electing parliaments.
It does sound somewhat astonishing, but I'm glad I changed your mind. I'm convinced regionalisation would be a disaster, whereas an English Parliament would work.
Do you know how many entries in total?
Given I was out by a long way on my IndyRef prediction, I don't think Tories need to be worried about my longstanding Lab majority prediction (The latest Scots polls have me worried on that one as well), though with any luck my prediction of a max of 5 MPs for UKIP will still pan out.
I think I may be the furthest wrong (over 40%, I think).
If only Mrs White at No. 73 Coronation Street hadn't put her cross in the nasty old Labour box then UKIP would have … blah blah blah. I agree with you about UKIP, although not sure that's a very good insight on the LibDems who are pretty smart at General Elections: stacking their votes where they are most effective to win seats. The opposite, in fact, from how UKIP are likely to perform.
or a handful #neckontheline
I was at a UKIP drink on Thursday night in London, and no one even mentioned it
But seriously, you've missed SirNorfolkPassmore (Lab 10.33%) and Ninoinoz (Lab 12.51%).
The top-up system does have some strange effects, though. At the 2011 Holyrood election the SNP lost regional top-up seats, even though they had a large increase in vote share, because they were so successful at winning the constituency seats. The opposite was the case for Labour, because they lost constituency seats.
That behaviour is undesirable in my opinion, which is one of the reasons why I dislike the top-up system.
I suspect that the people who are gaining from this concentration of economic and political power would describe the process with words such as 'progressive', 'advanced', 'modern' or 'global'.
The only realistic reason you might order a recount without the parties being involved would be in a very close election where the party in second wasn't represented at the count. Otherwise, if the candidate or agent is there and isn't interested in asking for one, I don't see that it's the role of the ERO to countermand what amounts to a concession.
** Except for JohnOisam (and anyone else), who tipped the Conservatives to win.