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edited December 2014 in General

politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » UKIP are betting favourites to win in just five seats at GE2015

Given the way that the purples dominated the political narrative for a large part of 2014 it comes as something of a surprise to observe, as Antifrank does on his excellent blog, that UKIP is clear favourite in just five seats, all of them currently held by the Tories.

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  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,034
    First?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014
    Why is it a surprise that UKIP are only favs in five seats?

    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    FTPT
    RobD said:

    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    antifrank said:

    UPDATE: The SNP has assured me that no GE15 voting questions were asked

    How peculiar. You'd have thought that was much the most important question they'd want to ask right now.
    Otoh the SNP may be building a position as the party who will fight for authentic Devo Max, which seems much more realistic than flying 'new referendum' kites for the moment.
    If the Tories offer the SNP Devo Lot More (in exchange for EV4EL) where Labour offer Devo Bit More, which way would the SNP jump?

    Well they've already ruled out any agreement with the Tories, despite the Tories voting with them during their minority government in Scotland (perhaps the SNP view Tories north of the border differently!).
    They've ruled out supporting a Tory government in general, they haven't rules out bill-by-bill support.
    It sounds pretty clear cut to me:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-assures-scottish-voters-well-never-ever-put-the-tories-into-government-9863300.html
    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.
  • TykejohnnoTykejohnno Posts: 7,362
    I like how mike uses the word 'just' ;-)
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    "I’ve been impressed with UKIP’s advanced thinking for GE2015. The Bown-funded polling has been designed to help them get the message over that their support is not just coming from Tories on holiday.

    Everything for 2014 depends on a good, possible vote-topping performance in the Euros. The Tories are going to throw a lot at them in the coming months to try to stop that happening.

    But what would really make 2014 for the purples is a Westminster by-election victory. Alas this year there have only been two such contests. Will next year be different?"

    Mike Smithson Dec 2013

    http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2013/12/20/the-political-party-of-2013-it-has-to-be-ukip/


  • UKIP not really emanating that Unionist Alliance vibe (tbf neither are any of the other Unionist parties).

    'UKIP: we can take on Alex Salmond
    Scotland’s only elected representative of UKIP is to stand in the same constituency as Alex Salmond in the upcoming 2015 election.'

    http://tinyurl.com/kkmsb7q
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,034
    Alistair said:

    FTPT

    RobD said:

    Alistair said:

    RobD said:

    antifrank said:

    UPDATE: The SNP has assured me that no GE15 voting questions were asked

    How peculiar. You'd have thought that was much the most important question they'd want to ask right now.
    Otoh the SNP may be building a position as the party who will fight for authentic Devo Max, which seems much more realistic than flying 'new referendum' kites for the moment.
    If the Tories offer the SNP Devo Lot More (in exchange for EV4EL) where Labour offer Devo Bit More, which way would the SNP jump?

    Well they've already ruled out any agreement with the Tories, despite the Tories voting with them during their minority government in Scotland (perhaps the SNP view Tories north of the border differently!).
    They've ruled out supporting a Tory government in general, they haven't rules out bill-by-bill support.
    It sounds pretty clear cut to me:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-assures-scottish-voters-well-never-ever-put-the-tories-into-government-9863300.html
    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.
    If they did enter into such an arrangement (I don't think they will), those words would haunt Sturgeon for the rest of her career.
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376
    Carswell should win. Reckless is knife-edge. Once the real election narrative gets going I think he will be in trouble. South Thanet is probably a knife-edge.

    My view for some months has been that they will win a handful: five or six. But they could just as easily end up with 1 (Carswell).
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376
    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,034
    isam said:

    "But what would really make 2014 for the purples is a Westminster by-election victory. Alas this year there have only been two such contests. Will next year be different?"

    Mike Smithson Dec 2013


    I'd say it was ;-)

  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
  • My money is on 5 seats or fewer for UKIP so I hope this is correct.
    I notice Rochester isn't amongst them.
  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    I am still wondering whether to back UKIP for Great Grimsby. Couldn't see it in Isam's list of hopefuls, but with Mitchell retiring.....very tempted.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    My money is on 5 seats or fewer for UKIP so I hope this is correct.
    I notice Rochester isn't amongst them.

    It doesn't mean much at all for your bet really. What odds did you take?
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,291
    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
  • In Scotland UKIP poll regularly above the Lib Dems but without having any visible impact on the Tory vote. My feeling is that most of their vote has come from Labour and this is part of the problem Jim Murphy faces.

    While the SNP are riding high at the moment their core base may be eroding in some areas. Nicola Sturgeon has set a target on Glasgow Labour but in doing so may well lose votes in the country and the East coast.

    The face of the Tories in Scotland is Ruth Davidson and she is as far from Cameron as it is possible to be in background. The more devolution occurs the less relevant Cameron becomes. The SNP risk becoming obsessed with England and forgetting that they already look after education and health and need to get them right. There is no clear evidence that this is happening.

    Hard to say what will happen in Scotland but if the 40 of so staff at my company are any indication then the SNP core base now supports Celtic. This is were the Labour have lost votes and will find them hard to get back. Are the SNP going to be the Sinn Fein of Scotland?



  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014
    taffys said:

    I am still wondering whether to back UKIP for Great Grimsby. Couldn't see it in Isam's list of hopefuls, but with Mitchell retiring.....very tempted.

    My list was based on the 2010 results and nothing else really, so a fault in the list is that if UKIP didn't stand or did v badly in 2010 they wont be on there

    Clacton and Rochester didn't feature for instance
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014
    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
  • surbitonsurbiton Posts: 13,549
    I think Rochester with a sitting MP should not be discounted. At the same time, it should not be assumed, bar the shouting, that UKIP will win Thurrock.
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited December 2014
    OT If you hate Russell Brand as much as I do - you'll love this - hilariously good piss take

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDDzlgMrkGM
  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    ''Hard to say what will happen in Scotland but if the 40 of so staff at my company are any indication then the SNP core base now supports Celtic.''

    Who do the Rangers supporters vote for?
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    RobD said:

    isam said:

    "But what would really make 2014 for the purples is a Westminster by-election victory. Alas this year there have only been two such contests. Will next year be different?"

    Mike Smithson Dec 2013


    I'd say it was ;-)

    Yes... so OGH's definition of a good 2014 for UKIP was winning the Euro's and getting a Westminster seat.

    Expectations have been exceeded, goodo!

  • Plato said:

    OT If you hate Russell Brand as much as I do - you'll love this - hilariously good piss take

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDDzlgMrkGM

    :heart:
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 1,893
    edited December 2014
    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    FPT:

    This raises a terrifying prospect for Tories - that a majority of their supporters would give their first preference to UKIP. Arguably* this is what occurred at the 2014 European elections conducted under PR.

    The real nightmare for the Tories is that Carswell takes UKIP over from Farage and turns it into a "sensible" rightwing party and starts peeling off their core vote by the handful. It won't be all that easy because the most rightwing party is always going to pick up the far-right nutters because they would be the most acceptable option for them of the candidates available, in the same way as the Greens are always going to pick up the Communists because they are the most left wing option available (and arguably are closet communists anyway).

    There are however a sizeable number of small-state and/or eurosceptic Tories sitting some way to the right of Cameron who would be gone in a shot if a less toxic option than the current UKIP was available. Cameron should be given pause by the thought that if he is pissing off his core so badly that droves of them have gone to UKIP even with its image problem, how many would he lose if they suddenly got sensible and professional. A Carswell led eurosceptic right-wing party (I think in those circumstances Hannan would join as well) would be an existential threat to the Conservatives.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,341
    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.



  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    Carnyx said:

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,469
    The Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh has just been on Radio 5 over a story in the Daily Mail. It turns out that some of the Christmas cards he sent out to constituents were unstamped, meaning that they had to go to the sorting office to pick them up, not knowing what they were, at a cost of £1.53.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890557/Lib-Dem-Scrooge-Families-pay-1-53-letter-arrives-no-stamp-s-MP-s-Christmas-card.html

    Ooops. Funny, but I kind of feel sorry for him. There's no way it would have been deliberate.

    (A few years back I had to pay over three quid for some 'free' energy saving bulbs an electricity provider had sent, but not put the correct postage on. A card was in the letterbox stating I had a parcel. I drove over to Eastleigh, coincidentally, only to find they were the unwanted bulbs. They still sit in my garage as they haven't been suitable for any houses I've lived in since).
  • UKIP's performance next year is hard to predict. They could have just one MP or they could get a dozen. And the dozen they get might include only two or three out of the five in which they're currently favourites.

    Kudos to isam for backing UKIP when they were longshots in many seats. Those bets have certainly paid off.
  • FluffyThoughtsFluffyThoughts Posts: 2,420
    edited December 2014
    Carnyx said:

    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.

    Oh-my-gosh!

    Carnyx: We concur!

    Scotland, Wales and Ireland do not have the mass to fund such care. As the UK government - albeit via NHS-England - is the organising authority for this mission then a protocol already exists.

    Not a time to play politics: Good-luck the Scot-nurse! Can we now talk about the Sterling barrel price of Brent...? :innocent:
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Indigo said:

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)

    Is the number greater or lower than the number of cancer specialists who can give a figure for life expectancy out by a factor of 10...?
  • Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Two of the five are pretty near evens, another two are less than 2 to 1 on, only Clacton looks a certainty.
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    Scott_P said:

    Indigo said:

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)

    Is the number greater or lower than the number of cancer specialists who can give a figure for life expectancy out by a factor of 10...?
    The number is zero, so its not going to be greater... is it less ? no idea.
  • surbitonsurbiton Posts: 13,549
    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Wm.Hill is offering 11/8 to Labour for Thurrock against 5/6 to UKIP. Value.
  • surbiton said:

    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Wm.Hill is offering 11/8 to Labour for Thurrock against 5/6 to UKIP. Value.
    You can get 9/4 on Labour in Thurrock with Ladbrokes.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    surbiton said:

    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Wm.Hill is offering 11/8 to Labour for Thurrock against 5/6 to UKIP. Value.
    Good Lord!

    A snide would offer you 6/4 for as much as you wanted, but as a nice guy I will direct you to Ladbrokes who are 9/4 Labour
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    OT You're a whizz at this stuff - I'm trying to install W7 over W8 - I can't make the W7 boot disk work passed the second screen as it disables my mousepad. Any ideas?

    I refuse to accept that I spent £350 on a laptop that thinks it's an iPad and won't run most of my apps.

    Plato said:

    OT If you hate Russell Brand as much as I do - you'll love this - hilariously good piss take

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDDzlgMrkGM

    :heart:
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,341
    edited December 2014
    Indigo said:

    Carnyx said:

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)
    Newly? Not till 2016 whatever happened!

    [Edit: such facilities should, in any case, be commoner anyway.]

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    The responsibilities of independence are as big as they are wide. The Yestapo seem unwilling to accept that when the umbilical cord is cut - so is Mother and her quarantine facilities.

    BTW - many thanx for the quote info I was looking for. That's such a great one - and so accurate in many situations.
    Scott_P said:

    Indigo said:

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)

    Is the number greater or lower than the number of cancer specialists who can give a figure for life expectancy out by a factor of 10...?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    surbiton said:

    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Wm.Hill is offering 11/8 to Labour for Thurrock against 5/6 to UKIP. Value.
    If people are going to offer these "tips" can they at least check they are quoting top price....
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014
    Pulpstar said:

    surbiton said:

    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    Wm.Hill is offering 11/8 to Labour for Thurrock against 5/6 to UKIP. Value.
    If people are going to offer these "tips" can they at least check they are quoting top price....
    "Value" 11% away from best price. Must be the bet of the year!

    Based, I fear, on an extrapolation of Labours victory in their strongest ward in a council by election
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,469
    Carnyx said:

    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.
    There is a question for Scottish independence supporters to answer: the only facility (according to the radio) that can deal with this at a high level is in London. If this had occurred in three years time, after a yes vote and Scottish independence, what would have happened?

    Many people would have been not very keen to see her travel to London from an independent Scotland. You want independence: if you get your wish then you should create and pay for such facilities. *If* the UK was to take them, then it would be on our terms, and on a case-by-case basis.

    Any UK-wide agreement that you presume exists would presumably become void on independence. Or are the only ones that would become void the ones the SNP want to void?

    Is this yet another example of Better Together?
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    OT How hard is it to learn Cyrillic?

    I get a lot of Russian tweets and no idea what they say. I did Greek as a kid and found that hard. I can spell my name and not much else - and am generally crap at languages bar Latin and French after suffering a decade of teaching.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,989
    Afternoon all :)

    Belated Christmas greetings to all from the land of Stodge (well, the house anyway).

    I read a lot on here about the prospects for the LD vote, the UKIP vote, the Green vote, the SNP vote and even the Labour vote but not a lot about the Conservative vote.

    Populus, which is at the moment running the highest Con-Lab share of all the pollsters at around 70%, is the only pollster showing the Party consistently above 33% in the past three weeks. The odd YouGov has shown the Tories at 33% but every other pollster shows the Conservatives below that number (even the IPSOS-Mori showing the party in the lead showed 32%).

    ICM, the so-called "gold standard" showed just 28% though I cheerfully concede that's likely to be an outlier.

    Even if the Party can get back as much as 40% of the UKIP vote that suggests 39% at the absolute highest but if the UKIP return is more like 25% then we could be looking at a top of 35% which is a long way from a majority.

    If the Conservatives are somewhere between 30-33%, how then do they build a majority and from where does that majority come ? Taking seats off the LDs (perhaps as many as 20) will help but the main issue is the 90 or so taken from Labour in 2010 - how many of these will be retained ? The Ashcroft polling of the marginals did give the Conservatives a crumb of comfort suggesting the swing wasn't that large but even if losses are limited, the Conservatives are relying on the SNP to stop Labour being the largest party in May.

    OGH has often posited Conservative most votes, Labour most seats as a plausible scenario but if the margin for the former is very small, the margin for the latter is likely to be much larger and vice versa.

  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,291
    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
  • FluffyThoughtsFluffyThoughts Posts: 2,420
    edited December 2014
    Plato said:

    OT You're a whizz at this stuff - I'm trying to install W7 over W8 - I can't make the W7 boot disk work passed the second screen as it disables my mousepad. Any ideas?

    I refuse to accept that I spent £350 on a laptop that thinks it's an iPad and won't run most of my apps.

    Sorry, no.

    Bought a simple Tosh' for remote-services and my Win-7 mousepad is buggahed. Using USB one at mo'. :frowning:

    Beware inconsistent network/wifi issues. Lots of "update" issues have started to appear....
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    To put this thread header into context, the draw is never favourite before kick off in a football match.

    Does that mean there are unlikely to be any draws in the 3pm Saturday afternoon fixtures?
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    stodge said:

    OGH has often posited Conservative most votes, Labour most seats as a plausible scenario but if the margin for the former is very small, the margin for the latter is likely to be much larger and vice versa.

    I think the CON vote gets talked about quite a lot in passing, since most of the discussion of the other parties is in terms of how many votes they can take from the Conservatives. The other reason for lack of excitement about the CON vote is it really hasn't done anything of note for well over a year, its been 32+/-2 for all that time, in the same time scale UKIP has put on around 5%, Labour has dropped around 5% and the Greens have come from nothing to around 7%, so they are all more interesting to talk about.

    What doesn't get talked about also is the effect of there being over 3.5m (12%) voters for UKIP and around 1.5m (6%) voters for the Greens in GE2015 based on a 2010 type of turnout. Who are those 4.5m votes coming from, if we assume that most of it is from existing voters rather than DNV. 3.5m Kippers is about 4,000 per constituency, which is more than quite a few Tory or Labour majorities. 1.5m Greens is about 1,200 per constituency, which is still a few LD or Labour Majorities. Those smaller parties might not win much, but they are sure as hell going to screw up other peoples majorities.
  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    edited December 2014
    ''I read a lot on here about the prospects for the LD vote, the UKIP vote, the Green vote, the SNP vote and even the Labour vote but not a lot about the Conservative vote.''

    Since the beginning of 2014, the conservatives poll score is a reasonable guide to who will turn out to put a cross in the blue box in a real election.

    That is not true of the labour vote. The poll score always overstates the numbers who turn out for ed or his representative when push comes to shove.

    Nick Palmer's chances look good on paper, but next May I reckon he'll be standing on that husting thinking to himself, 'where are all those f8ckers who said they'd vote for me...??
  • TCPoliticalBettingTCPoliticalBetting Posts: 10,819
    edited December 2014

    The Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh has just been on Radio 5 over a story in the Daily Mail. It turns out that some of the Christmas cards he sent out to constituents were unstamped, meaning that they had to go to the sorting office to pick them up, not knowing what they were, at a cost of £1.53.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890557/Lib-Dem-Scrooge-Families-pay-1-53-letter-arrives-no-stamp-s-MP-s-Christmas-card.html
    Ooops. Funny, but I kind of feel sorry for him. There's no way it would have been deliberate.......

    This and the swingers group in the Lib Dem councillors.... Beastly Eastleigh is overcoming its name.
    http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/politics/11641728.Top_councillors_urged_to_quit_over_love_triangle/
  • blackburn63blackburn63 Posts: 4,492
    Any thoughts on ukip winning Dover & Deal? It borders Thanet South and is a target seat
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,989
    taffys said:

    Since the beginning of 2014, the conservatives poll score is a reasonable guide to who will turn out to put a cross in the blue box in a real election.

    That is not true of the labour vote. The poll score always overstates the numbers who turn out for ed or his representative when push comes to shove.

    Nick Palmer's chances look good on paper, but next May I reckon he'll be standing on that husting thinking to himself, 'where are all those f8ckers who said they'd vote for me...??

    Perhaps - I'd argue that voting in elections other than a GE is one thing, voting in a GE something else. I'd also argue the London local elections (which were well advertised/hyped) were a pretty strong signal for a good Labour GE showing in the capital.

    A 30% turnout election tells you one thing, a 60% turnout election something else. For all the so-called apathy towards politicians, I suspect there will be a decent turnout in May albeit affected by the new registration process in some areas.

    I'd also argue that the British electorate are superb liars and that canvassing "anecdotes", whether from candidates or activists, should be taken with a bucket of salt.

  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    edited December 2014
    stodge said:

    I'd also argue that the British electorate are superb liars and that canvassing "anecdotes", whether from candidates or activists, should be taken with a bucket of salt.

    That is my regular hymn here, but appears to be akin to talking heresy! Posters here are quite happy to talk about people voting (for say, UKIP, ala Reckless) to send a message to the main parties, but seem unable to believe that people will do the same thing when asked by a pollster, and for the same reasons, but without the effort of having to leave the house, and without the downside of electing a candidate they dont really want.

  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    I'd also argue the London local elections (which were well advertised/hyped) were a pretty strong signal for a good Labour GE showing in the capital.

    100% agree. London will be labour's star. The party's policies on housing in particular have genuine appeal for younger voters.

  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    Any thoughts on ukip winning Dover & Deal? It borders Thanet South and is a target seat

    The system I used for my lists doesn't take into account anything except 2010 results, and my guess of how many votes the other parties will shed to UKIP... so it cant help but ignore any local info

    I'd make it a three way marginal, almost impossible to call.. but if Labour are not really going for it, then I may have overstated them
  • anotherDaveanotherDave Posts: 6,746
    edited December 2014
    Plato said:

    OT You're a whizz at this stuff - I'm trying to install W7 over W8 - I can't make the W7 boot disk work passed the second screen as it disables my mousepad. Any ideas?

    I refuse to accept that I spent £350 on a laptop that thinks it's an iPad and won't run most of my apps.

    Plato said:

    OT If you hate Russell Brand as much as I do - you'll love this - hilariously good piss take

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDDzlgMrkGM

    :heart:
    You can plug in a USB mouse to get past that, the key question is whether or not there are Windows 7 drivers for your mousepad.

    Installing Windows 7 in a virtual machine might be a safer option.

    http://uk.pcmag.com/windows-8-preview-release-date-news-features/16246/feature/how-to-uninstall-windows-8-install-windows-7-on-yo

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/hyper-v-run-virtual-machines
  • blackburn63blackburn63 Posts: 4,492
    In 2010 tories got 21k labour 17k libs 8k ukip 1700 so if they are taken literally ukip has no chance in Dover but are 9/4 with lads, tories 10/11 lab 11/4. The labour candidate is not seen as strong locally.

    Interested to hear people's thoughts
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    taffys said:

    I'd also argue the London local elections (which were well advertised/hyped) were a pretty strong signal for a good Labour GE showing in the capital.

    100% agree. London will be labour's star. The party's policies on housing in particular have genuine appeal for younger voters.

    Although the mansion tax might take a bit of a shine off when it comes to upper middle class leftie opinion formers (media types etc)

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,016
    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
    You up for another £50 on the same bet?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    In 2010 tories got 21k labour 17k libs 8k ukip 1700 so if they are taken literally ukip has no chance in Dover but are 9/4 with lads, tories 10/11 lab 11/4. The labour candidate is not seen as strong locally.

    Interested to hear people's thoughts

    If Labour aren't giving it their all I would be strong on UKIP at 5/2.. if they are going for it I'd want to lay the Tories at odds on...
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,989
    Indigo said:


    That is my regular hymn here, but appears to be akin to talking heresy! Posters here are quite happy to talk about people voting (for say, UKIP, ala Reckless) to send a message to the main parties, but seem unable to believe that people will do the same thing when asked by a pollster, and for the same reasons, but without the effort of having to leave the house, and without the downside of electing a candidate they dont really want.

    Quite. I've played the canvassing game and unless you knock on a lot of doors a lot of the time it's a waste of time and effort. I've only had the dog set on me once - the British are generally polite to your face but you soon know they'll never vote for you even if you walked up their garden path with a wheelbarrow full of fifty pound notes.

    It's incredibly easy for candidates and naive activists to get sucked into "believing they can win" - the only time that happened to me was early 1982 and the Falklands put paid to that. In February of that year, I was out in the cold and was picking up a 20% swing from the Conservatives on a canvass of a third of my Ward.

  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    DavidL said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
    You up for another £50 on the same bet?
    ok
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    Scott_P said:

    Indigo said:

    I think the question was more wondering how many BSL-4 facilities there would have been in the newly independent Scotland ;-)

    Is the number greater or lower than the number of cancer specialists who can give a figure for life expectancy out by a factor of 10...?
    Spot the person who doesn't understand how a survival curve works.
  • isam said:

    To put this thread header into context, the draw is never favourite before kick off in a football match.

    Does that mean there are unlikely to be any draws in the 3pm Saturday afternoon fixtures?

    The result of Man Utd v Arsenal is independent of the result of Southampton v Chelsea.

    The same cannot be said of the 2015 election results in Rotherham and Grimsby.

    I'm sure you know this, but still.
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    Brill. Will try it. I'm determined to outfox MicroSoft here and pissed off.

    Plato said:

    OT You're a whizz at this stuff - I'm trying to install W7 over W8 - I can't make the W7 boot disk work passed the second screen as it disables my mousepad. Any ideas?

    I refuse to accept that I spent £350 on a laptop that thinks it's an iPad and won't run most of my apps.

    Plato said:

    OT If you hate Russell Brand as much as I do - you'll love this - hilariously good piss take

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TDDzlgMrkGM

    :heart:
    You can plug in a USB mouse to get past that, the key question is whether or not there are Windows 7 drivers for your mousepad.

    Installing Windows 7 in a virtual machine might be a safer option.

    http://uk.pcmag.com/windows-8-preview-release-date-news-features/16246/feature/how-to-uninstall-windows-8-install-windows-7-on-yo

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/hyper-v-run-virtual-machines
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,566
    stodge said:

    taffys said:

    Since the beginning of 2014, the conservatives poll score is a reasonable guide to who will turn out to put a cross in the blue box in a real election.

    That is not true of the labour vote. The poll score always overstates the numbers who turn out for ed or his representative when push comes to shove.

    Nick Palmer's chances look good on paper, but next May I reckon he'll be standing on that husting thinking to himself, 'where are all those f8ckers who said they'd vote for me...??

    Perhaps - I'd argue that voting in elections other than a GE is one thing, voting in a GE something else. I'd also argue the London local elections (which were well advertised/hyped) were a pretty strong signal for a good Labour GE showing in the capital.

    A 30% turnout election tells you one thing, a 60% turnout election something else. For all the so-called apathy towards politicians, I suspect there will be a decent turnout in May albeit affected by the new registration process in some areas.

    I'd also argue that the British electorate are superb liars and that canvassing "anecdotes", whether from candidates or activists, should be taken with a bucket of salt.

    In general I think that you can't tell much from pure canvass returns, but comparing with what the same people told you before gives very accurate information on swing. Some people do lie or, more often, evade answering precisely, but they do it consistently.

    As for taffy's point, we generally struggle to get people out for locals and succeed in getting them out in GEs. I don't think it'll be very different this time and turnout will actually be unusually high - there is a lot of interest.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    isam said:

    To put this thread header into context, the draw is never favourite before kick off in a football match.

    Does that mean there are unlikely to be any draws in the 3pm Saturday afternoon fixtures?

    The result of Man Utd v Arsenal is independent of the result of Southampton v Chelsea.

    The same cannot be said of the 2015 election results in Rotherham and Grimsby.

    I'm sure you know this, but still.
    True true
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    Artist said:

    These five plus Rochester and Strood wouldn't be a bad night for UKIP.

    We could do with some constituency polling in the most UKIP friendly safe Tory seats like Castle Point, North Thanet and Basildon + South Thurrock.

    There has been a poll for Thanet North:
    CON 33, UKIP 32, LAB 24, LD 6

    UKIP seem to be doing a little better in Thanet North than South in the latest constituency polls.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,016
    isam said:

    DavidL said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
    You up for another £50 on the same bet?
    ok
    Excellent
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118



    stodge said:

    taffys said:

    Since the beginning of 2014, the conservatives poll score is a reasonable guide to who will turn out to put a cross in the blue box in a real election.

    That is not true of the labour vote. The poll score always overstates the numbers who turn out for ed or his representative when push comes to shove.

    Nick Palmer's chances look good on paper, but next May I reckon he'll be standing on that husting thinking to himself, 'where are all those f8ckers who said they'd vote for me...??

    Perhaps - I'd argue that voting in elections other than a GE is one thing, voting in a GE something else. I'd also argue the London local elections (which were well advertised/hyped) were a pretty strong signal for a good Labour GE showing in the capital.

    A 30% turnout election tells you one thing, a 60% turnout election something else. For all the so-called apathy towards politicians, I suspect there will be a decent turnout in May albeit affected by the new registration process in some areas.

    I'd also argue that the British electorate are superb liars and that canvassing "anecdotes", whether from candidates or activists, should be taken with a bucket of salt.

    In general I think that you can't tell much from pure canvass returns, but comparing with what the same people told you before gives very accurate information on swing. Some people do lie or, more often, evade answering precisely, but they do it consistently.

    As for taffy's point, we generally struggle to get people out for locals and succeed in getting them out in GEs. I don't think it'll be very different this time and turnout will actually be unusually high - there is a lot of interest.

    NickPalmer • Posts: 3,944 October 11

    isam said:
    » show previous quotes

    On Thursday I spoke with one of the activists, who is also standing as an MP next year... he reckons the canvass returns in Rochester last week had UKIP on 40-45%... whether the Clacton bounce helps this, or the Tory candidate reduces it is for us to judge, betting wise

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    NickPalmer said

    A canvass return of 40-45 isn't wonderful. Knock off a quarter for optimism/politeness/canvassing in the most favourable areas first.
  • blackburn63blackburn63 Posts: 4,492
    Any thoughts on Folkestone? Janice Atkinson is confident of beating the tory
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    Any thoughts on Folkestone? Janice Atkinson is confident of beating the tory

    Tories v slight favourites in my book...UKIP 10/3 big value
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,989
    isam said:



    NickPalmer • Posts: 3,944 October 11

    isam said:
    » show previous quotes

    On Thursday I spoke with one of the activists, who is also standing as an MP next year... he reckons the canvass returns in Rochester last week had UKIP on 40-45%... whether the Clacton bounce helps this, or the Tory candidate reduces it is for us to judge, betting wise

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    NickPalmer said

    A canvass return of 40-45 isn't wonderful. Knock off a quarter for optimism/politeness/canvassing in the most favourable areas first.

    Nick P is right to be cautious but calculating your vote from canvass returns is an inexct science at best. There are all sorts of formulae which can be used but the best is local knowledge and the "feel". If you work an area regularly and knock on doors regularly, you soon get to know the political temperature pretty well.

    In a by-election, you get a lot of visiting activists who go in cold and it doesn't always help. I'd rather keep the canvassers local and have the outsiders do the delivery/clerical stuff but you can't usually get away with that.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,016
    edited December 2014
    antifrank said:
    Could be worse. These were my economic predictions a year ago today:

    Sorry, did I miss the actual predictions here? What do you think the growth rate will be in 2014? I would guess just under 3%, maybe 2.8%.
    What do you think will happen to unemployment? I think the number of people employed will increase by another 600K with perhaps half that coming off the unemployment register.
    What do you think base rates will be at the end of the year? My guess is that we will have had 2 rates increases by then increasing base rates to 1.5%, still a negative real rate but indicative of steps on a path to something more like normality.
    You have said that you expect inflation to fall below target. I don't. My guess is it will be reasonably close to target by the end of the year, maybe 2.4%. I don't see how such strong growth is compatible with deflation even if commodities fall somewhat.
    You think that the balance of payments will worsen. This is logical because we are growing faster than our main competitors but I am more optimistic and expect a net contribution to growth from the balance of payments this year. We will still have a large deficit though and it will remain a concern.
    You don't mention QE. By implication I would agree and don't expect any more this year either.
    There is a bit of a cop out in describing trends without numbers. I would be interested to see your best guesses.

    So pretty good on growth, employment and QE but pretty terrible on interest rates, inflation and BoP.

    I hope posting this gives isam a false sense of security!
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,534
    antifrank said:
    I don't think you did badly. And, you had good grounds for making the predictions you did. But, in politics, the unpredictable happens. I wasn't expecting Carswell and Reckless to defect, and without that, I think UKIP would now be polling c.10%, rather than c.16%.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,534
    antifrank said:

    UKIP's performance next year is hard to predict. They could have just one MP or they could get a dozen. And the dozen they get might include only two or three out of the five in which they're currently favourites.

    Kudos to isam for backing UKIP when they were longshots in many seats. Those bets have certainly paid off.

    Do you have any views on Huntingdon?

    I can't see any odds for this constituency, but I think it could be an outside chance for UKIP. The party has polled well in three rounds of local elections, it has a very strong candidate in Peter Reeve, and the sitting MP is not very well-regarded locally (sometimes I work in the constituency, and that is very much my impression).
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,534

    In 2010 tories got 21k labour 17k libs 8k ukip 1700 so if they are taken literally ukip has no chance in Dover but are 9/4 with lads, tories 10/11 lab 11/4. The labour candidate is not seen as strong locally.

    Interested to hear people's thoughts

    The local Tory MP hasn't responded very intelligently to UKIP.

  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    Do you have any views on Huntingdon?

    Isn't that John Major's old constituency? rock solid tory, one would imagine...
  • Sean_F said:

    antifrank said:

    UKIP's performance next year is hard to predict. They could have just one MP or they could get a dozen. And the dozen they get might include only two or three out of the five in which they're currently favourites.

    Kudos to isam for backing UKIP when they were longshots in many seats. Those bets have certainly paid off.

    Do you have any views on Huntingdon?

    I can't see any odds for this constituency, but I think it could be an outside chance for UKIP. The party has polled well in three rounds of local elections, it has a very strong candidate in Peter Reeve, and the sitting MP is not very well-regarded locally (sometimes I work in the constituency, and that is very much my impression).
    You can get UKIP at 25/1 in Huntingdon with Ladbrokes. I have no knowledge of the constituency so can't say more than that, but in general I don't like backing UKIP in two horse races.

    I don't think the calibre of UKIP candidate has very much bearing on their chances. For some reason some flaky candidates have got very winnable seats.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,341

    Carnyx said:

    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.
    There is a question for Scottish independence supporters to answer: the only facility (according to the radio) that can deal with this at a high level is in London. If this had occurred in three years time, after a yes vote and Scottish independence, what would have happened?

    Many people would have been not very keen to see her travel to London from an independent Scotland. You want independence: if you get your wish then you should create and pay for such facilities. *If* the UK was to take them, then it would be on our terms, and on a case-by-case basis.

    Any UK-wide agreement that you presume exists would presumably become void on independence. Or are the only ones that would become void the ones the SNP want to void?

    Is this yet another example of Better Together?
    I happen to think that more such facilities probably should be created as a matter of common sense, whether or not Scotland was independent, anyway. It will be interesting to see how this issue develops.



  • antifrank said:
    Interesting read as ever. A couple of thoughts.

    1. The Liberal Democrats. They spent 2011, 2012 and 2013 marooned on 10%. The big change in 2014 was that they declined further from this low level. No tick there I would have thought.

    2. The main parties. Sometimes two-party politics does re-establish itself - this seems to be happening in Greece, where Syriza and New Democracy are presenting options that are polarising the electorate.

    Last year you expected two-party politics to reassert itself, but in the absence of a polarising choice it is not doing so. This is the truth of British politics that the main parties try to hide. The policy differences between Government and Opposition are small, particularly in comparison to the frustration of the electorate.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    antifrank said:
    Those were pretty good I think - except you underestimated UKIP.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited December 2014
    Five seats for UKIP seems plausible given the SDP won six seats in 1983 with an average share of about 25%.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,709
    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.
    There is a question for Scottish independence supporters to answer: the only facility (according to the radio) that can deal with this at a high level is in London. If this had occurred in three years time, after a yes vote and Scottish independence, what would have happened?

    Many people would have been not very keen to see her travel to London from an independent Scotland. You want independence: if you get your wish then you should create and pay for such facilities. *If* the UK was to take them, then it would be on our terms, and on a case-by-case basis.

    Any UK-wide agreement that you presume exists would presumably become void on independence. Or are the only ones that would become void the ones the SNP want to void?

    Is this yet another example of Better Together?
    I happen to think that more such facilities probably should be created as a matter of common sense, whether or not Scotland was independent, anyway. It will be interesting to see how this issue develops.



    How do Holland, Belgium and Denmark manage?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014
    Sean_F said:

    antifrank said:

    UKIP's performance next year is hard to predict. They could have just one MP or they could get a dozen. And the dozen they get might include only two or three out of the five in which they're currently favourites.

    Kudos to isam for backing UKIP when they were longshots in many seats. Those bets have certainly paid off.

    Do you have any views on Huntingdon?

    I can't see any odds for this constituency, but I think it could be an outside chance for UKIP. The party has polled well in three rounds of local elections, it has a very strong candidate in Peter Reeve, and the sitting MP is not very well-regarded locally (sometimes I work in the constituency, and that is very much my impression).
    UKIP should easily finish 2nd there.. my system does seem to over rate UKIP (ie it had them winning Thurrock, S Basildon & E Thurrock, and tying virtually in Dover and Folkestone) so allowing for that Tories to win by about 8-9% from UKIP?

    Betting wise I'd rather be on UKIP at 25/1 than Tories at 1/100 but probably wouldn't bother
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    I think they'll take those 5, plus Castle Point and (slightly more daring) Gillingham & Rainham.

    I thought Rotherham was a dead cert a couple of months ago, but I'm starting to think Labour might shore up their Kipper flank in time for May so that's a toss-up now for me.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,566
    Danny565 said:

    I think they'll take those 5, plus Castle Point and (slightly more daring) Gillingham & Rainham.

    I thought Rotherham was a dead cert a couple of months ago, but I'm starting to think Labour might shore up their Kipper flank in time for May so that's a toss-up now for me.

    I know people in Rotherham Labour - they said it was gruelling for a while but they think they've now pulled away. Obviously allow for optimism bias but these are not novices.
  • blackburn63blackburn63 Posts: 4,492
    Sean_F said:

    In 2010 tories got 21k labour 17k libs 8k ukip 1700 so if they are taken literally ukip has no chance in Dover but are 9/4 with lads, tories 10/11 lab 11/4. The labour candidate is not seen as strong locally.

    Interested to hear people's thoughts

    The local Tory MP hasn't responded very intelligently to UKIP.

    That's an understatement, he has embarrassed local tories and enraged ex tories who are determined to unseat him.

  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 43,341

    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.
    There is a question for Scottish independence supporters to answer: the only facility (according to the radio) that can deal with this at a high level is in London. If this had occurred in three years time, after a yes vote and Scottish independence, what would have happened?

    Many people would have been not very keen to see her travel to London from an independent Scotland. You want independence: if you get your wish then you should create and pay for such facilities. *If* the UK was to take them, then it would be on our terms, and on a case-by-case basis.

    Any UK-wide agreement that you presume exists would presumably become void on independence. Or are the only ones that would become void the ones the SNP want to void?

    Is this yet another example of Better Together?
    I happen to think that more such facilities probably should be created as a matter of common sense, whether or not Scotland was independent, anyway. It will be interesting to see how this issue develops.



    How do Holland, Belgium and Denmark manage?
    I wondered too. Not to mention Ireland. A little checking shows that Ireland has its own national isolation unit.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014

    Danny565 said:

    I think they'll take those 5, plus Castle Point and (slightly more daring) Gillingham & Rainham.

    I thought Rotherham was a dead cert a couple of months ago, but I'm starting to think Labour might shore up their Kipper flank in time for May so that's a toss-up now for me.

    I know people in Rotherham Labour - they said it was gruelling for a while but they think they've now pulled away. Obviously allow for optimism bias but these are not novices.
    They were neck and neck in the SYPCC, wonder what makes them think they've pulled away since?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,410
    Danny565 said:



    I thought Rotherham was a dead cert a couple of months ago

    Crikey, what is the opposite of rose tinted specs... Rotherham (And Rother Valley) have never been more than 25% likely to go UKIP imo.

    Which leaves Labour with a 75% chance.
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2014
    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
    Nuts.

    I 'bet' you vanish on May 8th. Hope you prove me wrong.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    AndyJS said:

    Five seats for UKIP seems plausible given the SDP won six seats in 1983 with an average share of about 25%.

    The Alliance got 25% not just the SDP on it's own.
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966

    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    Scott_P said:

    Alistair said:

    Sturgeon said that "the SNP will never put the Tories into government". This means no coalition and no supply-and-confidence. This doesn't mean voting against every Conservative bill put before the house.

    Is this the same SNP that "ruled out" supporting the Edinburgh Trams, right up until they *cough* voted for the Trams *cough* and the extra funding?

    And can I just check that the first thing the SNP "We could do anything if it wasn't for those bastards in Westminster" administration did on finding Ebola was ship it to London?
    If you check, it was the other parties which voted for the Trams against bitter SNP opposition (in a SNP minority government). The SNP later provided limited extra funding to get a curtailed project completed.

    As for Ebola, there was presumably a UK wide agreement in place.
    There is a question for Scottish independence supporters to answer: the only facility (according to the radio) that can deal with this at a high level is in London. If this had occurred in three years time, after a yes vote and Scottish independence, what would have happened?

    Many people would have been not very keen to see her travel to London from an independent Scotland. You want independence: if you get your wish then you should create and pay for such facilities. *If* the UK was to take them, then it would be on our terms, and on a case-by-case basis.

    Any UK-wide agreement that you presume exists would presumably become void on independence. Or are the only ones that would become void the ones the SNP want to void?

    Is this yet another example of Better Together?
    I happen to think that more such facilities probably should be created as a matter of common sense, whether or not Scotland was independent, anyway. It will be interesting to see how this issue develops.
    How do Holland, Belgium and Denmark manage?
    One imagines they have a deal with Pasteur Institute in France, but they probably started from the position of an agreeable negotiation to mutual benefit, not a pissing competition and exercise is shouting about everything that was wrong with France first.

  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    antifrank said:
    Around 50% is the average performance of about everyone when it comes to predicting the future. So you didn't do worse than others.
  • SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited December 2014
    Pulpstar said:

    Danny565 said:



    I thought Rotherham was a dead cert a couple of months ago

    Crikey, what is the opposite of rose tinted specs... Rotherham (And Rother Valley) have never been more than 25% likely to go UKIP imo.

    Which leaves Labour with a 75% chance.
    The issue with Rotherham was Labour getting close to 50%, so it's impossible for any other party, even UKIP, to win Rotherham.
    Rother Valley is different since Labour is weaker there, the latest poll had Labour on 40 and UKIP on 34, so UKIP has a chance there.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited December 2014

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    JohnO said:

    isam said:

    isam said:



    I tipped Boston and Skegness at 6s, Thurrock at 16s and S Thanet at 5/2 last year by the way, hope you are all on

    Ah yes, the same person who castigated TSE as being useless on betting tips. And the same with whom I have a bet that the LibDems will win 4x as many MPs as UKIP.

    I reckon my bet is looking pretty near certain so feel free to pay me early if you like.
    Yes the same person.. I stand by every word and will double up on that bet if you like (it is "more than" 4 times as many by the way, I win on 4x)
    Is this bet at evens? If it is I'm happy to join in the fun!
    Yes feel free

    I don't know where @audreyanne‌ gets his of her feeling or near certainty from though.. on SPINs seat markets I am well ahead, on the fixed odds, I am slightly behind
    OK, how about £50 evens that the LibDems will get more than 4x seats than UKIP in May 2015?
    Yeah ok
    Nuts.

    I 'bet' you vanish on May 8th. Hope you prove me wrong.
    Why would I? I am in line to win money on almost all my bets ( only one Im behind in is Rochester) for one & even if I lost them all why would I?

    You are the crazy one if you think you are almost certain to win our bet, if it were based on the midpoint of the spreads right I am well ahead

    I post under my own name w my own pic unlike you so who is more likely to disappear I wonder?

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