Been out on the doorstep in Gt Yarmouth [UKIP deflating fast] and Norwich North [Chloe Smith has made remarkable progress getting 1800 youngsters into work with her 'Norwich for Jobs' campaign].
In Yarmouth, Labour's candidate has terrible name-recognition and could hardly string two words together coherently on a recent Radio Norfolk debate. Meanwhile the Labour-run Council has closed the public toilets in this holiday town... and hired a Council chief exec on a grand-a-day. Tory Hold.
In Norwich North, Labour's Jess Asato has sometimes benefitted from the halo-effect from front benchers visiting to bolster ex-BBC hack Clive Lewis [no skeletons in his cupboard, oh no! :winks:] in Norwich South but has still been absent without leave for the last few months. It's easy to forget that most of Norwich North is quite comfy surburbia and solidly Tory even if the bits close to the centre that the journos visit are blocks of flats with Labour posters. Tight but Chloe will hang on.
Been out on the doorstep in Gt Yarmouth [UKIP deflating fast] and Norwich North [Chloe Smith has made remarkable progress getting 1800 youngsters into work with her 'Norwich for Jobs' campaign].
In Yarmouth, Labour's candidate has terrible name-recognition and could hardly string two words together coherently on a recent Radio Norfolk debate. Meanwhile the Labour-run Council has closed the public toilets in this holiday town... and hired a Council chief exec on a grand-a-day. Tory Hold.
In Norwich North, Labour's Jess Asato has sometimes benefitted from the halo-effect from front benchers visiting to bolster ex-BBC hack Clive Lewis [no skeletons in his cupboard, oh no! :winks:] in Norwich South but has still been absent without leave for the last few months. It's easy to forget that most of Norwich North is quite comfy surburbia and solidly Tory even if the bits close to the centre that the journos visit are blocks of flats with Labour posters. Tight but Chloe will hang on.
Bunnco - Your Man on the Spot
Clive Lewis, he's a right charmer...not....
The Green candidate is a pretty strong one. Very Norwich:
118 small parties are standing in the election. This is a list of them I compiled myself from my candidates spreadsheet: snip Islam Zinda Baad Platform snip Young People's Party
The YPP are classic minor party nutters/bores, except that I do think they have a point about intergenerational issues (nothing new there, David "Two Brains" Willetts literally wrote the book on it five years ago) and I'm surprised young-vs-old is not more of a faultline in British politics. Obviously different parties have different demographics, but young and old have voters have increasingly disparate interests.
Scotland could be protected from its share of government cuts by Labour using taxes raised in the southeast of England, Ed Balls said yesterday.
I'm hearing "Fuck the English" from one party.
And it ain't the SNP.
The whole election just gets more and more fun.
The truly unbelievable thing I'm hearing though now is how somehow wee Nicola is going to get more than her fair share of goodies line being pushed by the same people that were bitterly opposed to independence.
But... But... Ukip weren't going to help Tim aker in Thurrock said the Shrewdies
John Stevens (@johnestevens) April 13 Nigel Farage going down a storm. Have genuinely never seen such an enthusiastic response to a political speech pic.twitter.com/H4DhmgFav0
118 small parties are standing in the election. This is a list of them I compiled myself from my candidates spreadsheet: snip Islam Zinda Baad Platform snip Young People's Party
The YPP are classic minor party nutters/bores, except that I do think they have a point about intergenerational issues (nothing new there, David "Two Brains" Willetts literally wrote the book on it five years ago) and I'm surprised young-vs-old is not more of a faultline in British politics. Obviously different parties have different demographics, but young and old have voters have increasingly disparate interests.
Scotland could be protected from its share of government cuts by Labour using taxes raised in the southeast of England, Ed Balls said yesterday.
I'm hearing "Fuck the English" from one party.
And it ain't the SNP.
The whole election just gets more and more fun.
The truly unbelievable thing I'm hearing though now is how somehow wee Nicola is going to get more than her fair share of goodies line being pushed by the same people that were bitterly opposed to independence.
There was a err solution to all that y'know !
Labour in Scotland is falling apart not by the day but no by the hour. It's actually quite fine entertainment now. As any concern that the SNP might not hold on till May 7th vanishes, the ability to just sit back and watch SLAB squirm becomes the main narrative,
Simon Dedman (@SiDedman) April 13 This is the largest audience for a political rally I've seen since the #SNP in Glasgow here in #thurrock #ukip pic.twitter.com/r9TuRsQq3g
One minor thing I find strange is that the Young People's Party candidate in Epping Forest just has the abbreviation "YPP" on the ballot paper which means a lot of voters won't have a clue what it stands for.
118 small parties are standing in the election. This is a list of them I compiled myself from my candidates spreadsheet: snip Islam Zinda Baad Platform snip Young People's Party
The YPP are classic minor party nutters/bores, except that I do think they have a point about intergenerational issues (nothing new there, David "Two Brains" Willetts literally wrote the book on it five years ago) and I'm surprised young-vs-old is not more of a faultline in British politics. Obviously different parties have different demographics, but young and old have voters have increasingly disparate interests.
Wasn't it often said before the last election that you took the worst Labour result in recent polls and best Tory result and that was a good guess. Has libdemgeddon and the rise of greens, Ukip and snp buffered that up?
Scotland could be protected from its share of government cuts by Labour using taxes raised in the southeast of England, Ed Balls said yesterday.
I'm hearing "Fuck the English" from one party.
And it ain't the SNP.
The whole election just gets more and more fun.
The truly unbelievable thing I'm hearing though now is how somehow wee Nicola is going to get more than her fair share of goodies line being pushed by the same people that were bitterly opposed to independence.
There was a err solution to all that y'know !
Labour in Scotland is falling apart not by the day but no by the hour. It's actually quite fine entertainment now. As any concern that the SNP might not hold on till May 7th vanishes, the ability to just sit back and watch SLAB squirm becomes the main narrative,
Scotland could be protected from its share of government cuts by Labour using taxes raised in the southeast of England, Ed Balls said yesterday.
I'm hearing "Fuck the English" from one party.
And it ain't the SNP.
The whole election just gets more and more fun.
If Ed Balls really said Scotland could be protected from cuts by taxes from the SE, the Cons should put that on billboards and leaflets in London and the home counties
Ukip Thurrock... 4/6 still probably value if you missed the 16/1
Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) April 13 Rapturous reception in Thurrock for Nigel Farage's speech - a packed out darts championships venue pic.twitter.com/lU76uFL17Y
Ukip Thurrock... 4/6 still probably value if you missed the 16/1
Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) April 13 Rapturous reception in Thurrock for Nigel Farage's speech - a packed out darts championships venue pic.twitter.com/lU76uFL17Y
People who apparently paid money to see Nigel Farage give rapturous applause. Well done. 7% says it's over already, Farage media performances this week confirm it's all over.
Can't wait for Thursday night, and for the pit bull terrier (Nicola Sturgeon) to savage the poodle Miliband over the 'austerity' commitments as she would see it in the Labour manifesto today - its going to be a hoot.
I've expressed the view here before that Ed Balls doesn't want Labour to win this election....as I believe he is mindful of what lies in wait with the global sovereign debt crisis beginning from the start of October this year. I'm more firmly of that opinion after the manifesto launch today.
The prophet of gloom and doom..(you are), but this time I think that you are probably right whomever wins, a whole pile of shit is going to be dumped on the British economy. Osborne's boom is looking as though its faltering and once interest rates start to rise....
Thanks Square Root! I'm personally optimistic - I think you can do well out of the next 5 years, but it won't be done by following the herd that's for sure!
The problems facing the next government are not just economic as I said last week though - you've got the Chilcott enquiry - Cameron lost my respect on this by not standing up to the cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood who was Blair's principal private secretary in 2003. Then you've got the child abuse inquiry, which has every sign of being a complete whitewash for anybody still alive, and more importantly people at the top of the BBC, the Royal Family and Westminster where it ultimately leads being protected. And the whole AGW crowd will finally fall flat on their faces, as if they haven't already by all the cold weather around in the world recently and with the rapidly cooling world over the next 5 years as we fall off the cliff in terms of the declining side of solar cycle 24 whose peak recently has been way below previous solar cycles in terms of sunspot activity - in the last week it snowed on the desert road between Alexandra and Cairo - it went completely unreported by the mainstream media surprise surprise. And the massive ice cover over the Great Lakes in the US as well as the very cold winter that central / eastern parts of the USA have had is just completely ignored. Greece, Turkey and eastern Europe in general have had very snowy winters too - we've been lucky in avoiding it all given the jetstream patterns over the past 6 months.
LOL
2014 was the warmest year in England (350 year dataset) and Worldwide (50 odd year dataset).
I am far from being a devout AGWer but your analysis is totally flawed. It often snows in Greece, Turkey and Eastern Europe and the Great Lakes freeze every winter.
Solar Science is interesting, but there is no grand minimum nailed on just yet and we would be starting from a baseline temperate around 1-1.5C above historic averages, so we would have to lose that before we encountered anything "cold"
Ukip Thurrock... 4/6 still probably value if you missed the 16/1
Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) April 13 Rapturous reception in Thurrock for Nigel Farage's speech - a packed out darts championships venue pic.twitter.com/lU76uFL17Y
People who apparently paid money to see Nigel Farage give rapturous applause. Well done. 7% says it's over already, Farage media performances this week confirm it's all over.
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol (CISTA) have 33 candidates standing:
Bethnal Green & Bow Jonathan Dewey Camberwell & Peckham Alex Robertson Cities of London & Westminster Edouard-Henri Desforges Dundee East Lesley Hamilton East Londonderry Neil Paine Eddisbury George Antar Esher & Walton Matt Heenan Glasgow Central James Marris Glasgow North Russell Benson Glasgow North East Geoff Johnson Glasgow North West Chris MacKenzie Great Yarmouth Sam Townley Guildford Gerri Smyth Hackney South & Shoreditch Paul Birch Holborn & St Pancras Shane O'Donnell Inverclyde Craig Hamilton Islington South & Finsbury Jay Kirton Kensington Tony Auguste Leeds West Matthew West North Down Glenn Donnelly Paisley & Renfrewshire North Andy Doyle Rutherglen & Hamilton West Yvonne Maclean Sheffield South East Jen Battersby South Down Andrew Magorrian Stoke-on-Trent Central Ali Majid Streatham Artificial Beast Thurrock Jamie Barnes Upper Bann Martin Kelly Vale of Glamorgan Steve Reed Vauxhall Louis Jensen Wakefield Elliot Barr West Tyrone Barry Brown Woking Declan Wade
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The YPP are classic minor party nutters/bores, except that I do think they have a point about intergenerational issues (nothing new there, David "Two Brains" Willetts literally wrote the book on it five years ago) and I'm surprised young-vs-old is not more of a faultline in British politics. Obviously different parties have different demographics, but young and old have voters have increasingly disparate interests.
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There was a err solution to all that y'know !
John Stevens (@johnestevens)
April 13
Nigel Farage going down a storm. Have genuinely never seen such an enthusiastic response to a political speech pic.twitter.com/H4DhmgFav0
http://bitly.com/Xb3122
April 13
This is the largest audience for a political rally I've seen since the #SNP in Glasgow here in #thurrock #ukip pic.twitter.com/r9TuRsQq3g
https://twitter.com/MorphyJim/status/587762542686117888
Rowena Mason (@rowenamason)
April 13
Rapturous reception in Thurrock for Nigel Farage's speech - a packed out darts championships venue pic.twitter.com/lU76uFL17Y
Outcome - 5% and 1 seat.
2014 was the warmest year in England (350 year dataset) and Worldwide (50 odd year dataset).
I am far from being a devout AGWer but your analysis is totally flawed. It often snows in Greece, Turkey and Eastern Europe and the Great Lakes freeze every winter.
Solar Science is interesting, but there is no grand minimum nailed on just yet and we would be starting from a baseline temperate around 1-1.5C above historic averages, so we would have to lose that before we encountered anything "cold"
And I'll buy 7% for a grand a point
Bethnal Green & Bow Jonathan Dewey
Camberwell & Peckham Alex Robertson
Cities of London & Westminster Edouard-Henri Desforges
Dundee East Lesley Hamilton
East Londonderry Neil Paine
Eddisbury George Antar
Esher & Walton Matt Heenan
Glasgow Central James Marris
Glasgow North Russell Benson
Glasgow North East Geoff Johnson
Glasgow North West Chris MacKenzie
Great Yarmouth Sam Townley
Guildford Gerri Smyth
Hackney South & Shoreditch Paul Birch
Holborn & St Pancras Shane O'Donnell
Inverclyde Craig Hamilton
Islington South & Finsbury Jay Kirton
Kensington Tony Auguste
Leeds West Matthew West
North Down Glenn Donnelly
Paisley & Renfrewshire North Andy Doyle
Rutherglen & Hamilton West Yvonne Maclean
Sheffield South East Jen Battersby
South Down Andrew Magorrian
Stoke-on-Trent Central Ali Majid
Streatham Artificial Beast
Thurrock Jamie Barnes
Upper Bann Martin Kelly
Vale of Glamorgan Steve Reed
Vauxhall Louis Jensen
Wakefield Elliot Barr
West Tyrone Barry Brown
Woking Declan Wade
You didnt read the link. The candidate is female. She is a local councillor and a Jewish Quaker. Likely to have a good following.