Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
On a betting website, people should really eschew their desired position from the reality.
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
On a betting website, people should really eschew their desired position from the reality.
Exeter classic university case. Never known anything like it, only posters I saw across the whole city were for Ben Bradshaw, including plenty in St Leonard's (where consultants & professors live). Not a single Tory poster, unlike 2015.
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
On a betting website, people should really eschew their desired position from the reality.
Plenty of us wanted the LDs to do well - it was the polls and the models!
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
Yup. I have no future as a pundit. Wrote off Corbyn and Farron, and both have done well. BUT LDs so far seem to have become a completely tactical voting supported party, so not good long term
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
Yup. I have no future as a pundit. Wrote off Corbyn and Farron, and both have done well. BUT LDs so far seem to have become a completely tactical voting supported party, so not good long term
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
Yup. I have no future as a pundit. Wrote off Corbyn and Farron, and both have done well. BUT LDs so far seem to have become a completely tactical voting supported party, so not good long term
While that's true, they will likely have a better leader and more MPs.
If I were an LD, I would be very relieved this evening. (Compared to what I would have expected two days ago.)
It seems to me that some of the first tier targets are being held because they had resources put in. I am guessing the 2nd and 3rd tier defence targets didn't have the same resources put in as 2015.
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
Yup. I have no future as a pundit. Wrote off Corbyn and Farron, and both have done well. BUT LDs so far seem to have become a completely tactical voting supported party, so not good long term
How many pundits do you know who get things right most of the time? They key is not to lose confidence just because you are wrong a lot.
Come on Theresa, say strong and stable just for old time's sake.
I do feel sorry for her. You don't want to get to the highest office in the land only to relinquish it a mere year later... Sadly, she didn't have a leadership campaign proper, and she wasn't shown up as being, well, utterly useless at actually campaigning.
May, Hillary, Gillard, Royal, sad to say voters do not like earnest, hardbitten women leaders it seems, Merkel the exception but she can be fat and jovial. Thatcher was in the right place at the right time
She also had something to say.
May didn't.
She - and the Tories - believed her own propaganda. Hubris.
Tories would have still got a majority if they had simply put out a blank piece of paper as their manifesto. The no triple lock, dementia tax etc etc etc has cost them, and it seems like there has been quite a few very close ones they lost / failed to take.
Let's give credit to Tim Farron. Written off, lots of speculation about an English wipe out, even by me for about 90 minutes. Instead he's going to gain seats.
On a betting website, people should really eschew their desired position from the reality.
Plenty of us wanted the LDs to do well - it was the polls and the models!
Who would have bet that Lamb and Brake would hold on, but that Mulholland and Clegg would go?
Clegg was always in big trouble. He only survived in 2015 due to Tory tactical votes due to the Coalition.
Yes, but the area was traditionally LD vs Con - it was thought it might go back more that sort of way, plus some said the Lab candidate wasn't as good.
Ceredgion is about 2,000 votes between first and fourth.
LDs 12 or 13, I reckon.
ITV saying 16 which is fine by me. Big churn in MPs indicates the LD party has a new makeup though. Seems like they have gained largely through Scottish tactical voting, not good for the long term.
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Lots of old people with expensive houses
& Lewis survives.
:-) :-) :-) :-D
I meant it btw: why not meet real people? Meet up with me, the missus and the little 'un.
SLabour vote share around 30 so far - well done them, they've held up and kept second place.
Edinburgh West likely.
Argyll & Bute and RC&S are both close.
Ceredgion is about 2,000 votes between first and fourth.
LDs 12 or 13, I reckon.
New election -> same-ish result (fewer SNP) -> unstable govt. sometime in August.
If I were an LD, I would be very relieved this evening. (Compared to what I would have expected two days ago.)
It seems to me that some of the first tier targets are being held because they had resources put in. I am guessing the 2nd and 3rd tier defence targets didn't have the same resources put in as 2015.
Budgets will be difficult and will probably require talking to the LDs too.
We're going to get an arms race of spending promises and then another election.
May didn't.
She - and the Tories - believed her own propaganda. Hubris.
GIGO.
You have lost.
As ever.