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  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    Alistair said:

    Whosoever it was that tipped the SD below 22% is a Saint.

    Which SD?

    It is a hugely confusing alphabet soup where you have two parties with the same initials.
  • ydoethur said:

    Alistair said:

    Whosoever it was that tipped the SD below 22% is a Saint.

    Which SD?

    It is a hugely confusing alphabet soup where you have two parties with the same initials.
    The Socialists are "S" (they have a very long actual name)
  • Europe Elects
    @EuropeElects

    Sweden, election results (21/6004 election districts counted):

    S-S&D: 25.3%
    SD-ECR: 19.7%
    M-EPP: 17.6%
    C-ALDE: 13.4%
    KD-EPP: 7.8%
    V-LEFT: 6.9%
    L-ALDE: 4.5%
    MP-G/EFA: 3.3%

    We've had double that now, same picture
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 50 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.6
    SD 21.3
    M 16.4
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,454
    edited September 2018
    52 results in of 6000 and based on changes, S leads SD nationally by c.9%
  • Alistair said:

    Whosoever it was that tipped the SD below 22% is a Saint.

    Alistair said:

    Whosoever it was that tipped the SD below 22% is a Saint.

    Agreed, Alistair, but I'm baffled as to how it could ever have been odds against in the light of copious polls. The price even eased out a bit on election eve.

    Weird, but wonderful!
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 71 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.4
    SD 20.6
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    Pulpstar said:

    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 50 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.6
    SD 21.3
    M 16.4

    SD doing about 5% better than the first exit poll and 2% better than the second exit poll there.

    SD also doing better than most polls which had them closer to the Moderates than the Social Democrats, instead it looks like the reverse
  • Pulpstar said:

    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 71 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.4
    SD 20.6

    Pardon my Swedish, is that a result or a change based predicipre?

    S are down 4pp and SD up 5pp so far so heading for something like 27/18
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 50 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.6
    SD 21.3
    M 16.4

    SD doing about 5% better than the first exit poll and 2% better than the second exit poll there.

    SD also doing better than most polls which had them closer to the Moderates than the Social Democrats, instead it looks like the reverse
    Does anyone know if rural or urban tend to report first ?

    I imagine SD will be stronger outside of Stockholm say.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220

    Pulpstar said:

    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 71 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.4
    SD 20.6

    Pardon my Swedish, is that a result or a change based predicipre?

    S are down 4pp and SD up 5pp so far so heading for something like 27/18
    Live results.

    https://data.val.se/val/val2018/valnatt/R/rike/index.html

    Hence my rural/urban question.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Hah Malmo is very very left wing.

    Social Democrats on 63% there.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,176
    How are the Greens doing? There's a suggestion they might not make the 4% threshold.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    edited September 2018
    Pulpstar said:

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Räkning i vallokal pågår. 50 av 6004 valdistrikt räknade.

    S 25.6
    SD 21.3
    M 16.4

    SD doing about 5% better than the first exit poll and 2% better than the second exit poll there.

    SD also doing better than most polls which had them closer to the Moderates than the Social Democrats, instead it looks like the reverse
    Does anyone know if rural or urban tend to report first ?

    I imagine SD will be stronger outside of Stockholm say.
    It may be rural results reporting more first so that may boost the SD a little, dreadful results for the Moderates especially so far though, it is the equivalent of the Tories falling 5% behind UKIP
  • https://sverigesradio.se has the results with changes against those results last time
  • 180/6000 heading for 26/19
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.0, 21.7, 16.6.

    204 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.12.

    Source: https://sverigesradio.se/
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    Updates Results 204 districts in

    Social Dems 28, Swedish Dems 22, Moderates 17, Centre 11


    https://sverigesradio.se/
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    HYUFD said:

    Updates Results 204 districts in

    Social Dems 28, Swedish Dems 22, Moderates 17, Centre 11


    https://sverigesradio.se/

    snap :)
  • [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    1.01 train Choo choo
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.9 19.9 16.9
    394 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.19
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206

    It looks very much like a 5-6% swing to SD from S.

    The governing party hangs on but is weakened while the populist option now speaks for something like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of the population - a pattern evident in many parts of Europe now.

    Yes, in 3 Western European countries, Italy, France and now Sweden the main centre right party has been overtaken by a populist, nationalist, anti immigration party. A warning for those who say the Tories should abandon Brexit completely.

    Of course in Italy and France and Greece the main centre left party has been overtaken by a populist, leftwing, anti austerity party too which may also be a warning to those who say Labour should abandon Corbynism
  • https://www.di.se/val/

    scroll down for clickable results map
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.8, 19.5, 17.2

    679 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.27.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Amusing there is any sort of market left on this. Some wishful thinking/bottling going on
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    HYUFD said:

    It looks very much like a 5-6% swing to SD from S.

    The governing party hangs on but is weakened while the populist option now speaks for something like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of the population - a pattern evident in many parts of Europe now.

    Yes, in 3 Western European countries, Italy, France and now Sweden the main centre right party has been overtaken by a populist, nationalist, anti immigration party. A warning for those who say the Tories should abandon Brexit completely.

    Of course in Italy and France and Greece the main centre left party has been overtaken by a populist, leftwing, anti austerity party too which may also be a warning to those who say Labour should abandon Corbynism
    In this country of course, Labour hasn't been overtaken it's been taken over.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    29.0, 19.1, 17.4

    805 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.31.

    https://sverigesradio.se/
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    It looks very much like a 5-6% swing to SD from S.

    The governing party hangs on but is weakened while the populist option now speaks for something like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of the population - a pattern evident in many parts of Europe now.

    The governing party won't be able to hold on if the Greens go below 4%.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    The official results site is still down.

    https://www.val.se/
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.8 18.8 17.8. SD now below the SVT exit poll. Greens at 4.2, marginally over the 4% threshold

    1 049 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.34.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,176
    Apologies for distracting from the fun in Sweden, but this piece in the Guardian appears to prove Williams wrong:

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/09/carlos-ramos-serena-williams-tennis-umpire-us-open
  • ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    ydoethur said:

    HYUFD said:

    It looks very much like a 5-6% swing to SD from S.

    The governing party hangs on but is weakened while the populist option now speaks for something like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of the population - a pattern evident in many parts of Europe now.

    Yes, in 3 Western European countries, Italy, France and now Sweden the main centre right party has been overtaken by a populist, nationalist, anti immigration party. A warning for those who say the Tories should abandon Brexit completely.

    Of course in Italy and France and Greece the main centre left party has been overtaken by a populist, leftwing, anti austerity party too which may also be a warning to those who say Labour should abandon Corbynism
    In this country of course, Labour hasn't been overtaken it's been taken over.
    Yes, same with Trump's GOP but they have been taken over by those who would have formed hard right or hard left parties in Western Europe
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    edited September 2018
    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Crossover !
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    viewcode said:

    29.0, 19.1, 17.4

    805 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.31.

    https://sverigesradio.se/

    Difficult to see how it cannot be a Grand Coalition, the centre right block is now on 39.1% and the centre left block on 40.9% and the Swedish Democrats on 18.5%

    https://www.di.se/val/
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.5 18.5 18.4. SD about to be overtaken by Moderates? Greens still at 4.2.

    1 345 av 6 004 distrikt räknade. Resultat hämtade kl 20.40.

    Was the first exit poll more accurate than the second SVT?

    https://sverigesradio.se/

    I now have to go catch a train, so will see you at about midnight.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    edited September 2018
    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
  • tlg86 said:

    Apologies for distracting from the fun in Sweden, but this piece in the Guardian appears to prove Williams wrong:

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/09/carlos-ramos-serena-williams-tennis-umpire-us-open

    It was clear that the umpire was just following the rules of the game. Her coach has admitted he was in the wrong,

    It does nobody any good when you play the sexism card and get found wanting.

    Knowing when to quit is an important skill to have. It would be a shame for a stellar career to descend into a mess of identity politics and playing the victim.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,898
    edited September 2018
    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
    If only you knew the power of the Daft side! :lol:
  • HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
    You mean like at Euro 2014?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
    You mean like at Euro 2014?
    Yes but that was a European not a general election, however if the Tories abandoned Brexit completely I could well see them suffering the Moderates fate and struggling to stay ahead of UKIP as the main party of the Right
  • Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Crossover !

    There was a glorious, and profitable moment, when the percentage changes pointed to that. Assuming no big last minute swings, it has helped me to a profit of £350 or so.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Oh my lord the Cleveland Browns have tied it up with the Steelers !
  • HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
    You mean like at Euro 2014?
    Sunil, I travelled on my first IET Azuma today, on the Cotswold line to Oxford. Two points spting to mind:

    *) The seats are *really* uncomfortable, and I have a fair amount of padding on my bottom.
    *) They can't get the electronic signs right even on a new train; for the entire journey it as saying the next station was Worcester.
  • ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
    Have you ever ended up teaching with anyone you taught?
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    Poor result for Yougov in Sweden - having placed the Swedish Democrats in the lead!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426

    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
    Have you ever ended up teaching with anyone you taught?
    Not yet, although I have taught alongside several of my former teachers after I briefly went back to my old school on supply.

    Give me time...
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    28.2, 17.8 19.5

    4095 out of 6004 at 21.23

    Moderates now in second place, which seems very... moderate of them
    Greens now at 4.4
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    justin124 said:

    Poor result for Yougov in Sweden - having placed the Swedish Democrats in the lead!

    They were about the only pollster who did.

    However even had the Sweden Democrats come first the end result would still have been the same as it will likely be now, a Social Democrat and Moderate Grand Coalition.

    The Sweden Democrats will therefore become the main opposition to that Grand Coalition now as the AfD are to the CDU and SPD Grand Coalition in Germany
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,749
    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
    Have you ever ended up teaching with anyone you taught?
    Not yet, although I have taught alongside several of my former teachers after I briefly went back to my old school on supply.

    Give me time...
    You know when you are on the downward slope when your former trainees are teaching you.

    I speak from experience!
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141
    justin124 said:

    Poor result for Yougov in Sweden - having placed the Swedish Democrats in the lead!

    It is staggeringly difficult for pollster from place X to poll place y. Nate silver tried to do UK in 2010 and fucked it up bigstyle (120 Libs?!)
  • ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    [Sunil utters a cough that sounds suspiciously like "The Empire Strikes Back"]
    Good grief.

    I never thought you and I would agree on this one...
    "[sigh] The boy has no patience!"
    Were you any different when I taught you? :smiley:
    Have you ever ended up teaching with anyone you taught?
    Not yet, although I have taught alongside several of my former teachers after I briefly went back to my old school on supply.

    Give me time...
    I've seen two or three (depending on if being in the rugby team that I was supposed to be in charge of counts).

    One of our teachers has just done thirty years with us.

    His old French teacher is still here.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    edited September 2018

    Left 40.6/ Right 40.2 with just under a third of the districts to report.

    Making a Grand Coalition almost inevitable now, the CDU and SPD are of course both down after that Grand Coalition and the AfD, Die Linke and the Greens all up in the latest German polls
  • I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,141

    I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    Yo did indeed. Well done. 😀
  • "I want to extend my warmest greetings."

    ...But I can't because I hate you all.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,015
    edited September 2018

    I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    Beforetimers are the best kind of timers.

    WD.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,749

    "I want to extend my warmest greetings."

    ...But I can't because I hate you all.
    He did send similar greetings last new year.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Foxy said:

    "I want to extend my warmest greetings."

    ...But I can't because I hate you all.
    He did send similar greetings last new year.
    He hasn’t changed his views in 50 years
  • trawltrawl Posts: 142

    I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    Thanks for the tip on the previous thread header Alistair 👍

  • What an utter cretin. Institutional racism isn't a birthing pain. It is something rotten to the core.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,936

    I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    Permission to enable smug mode is granted. :D
  • Smaller than the graphic implies

    S -2.8
    SD +4.7
    M -3.5

    Being the main ones
  • Smaller than the graphic implies

    S -2.8
    SD +4.7
    M -3.5

    Being the main ones
    Have the Greens lost votes to the Left party? Looks that way at cursory glance.
  • Willsman is at it again.
    https://twitter.com/TheRedRoar/status/1038858691783602178

    They just want to keep this going.
  • I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    I’m quite pleased I went public last month on my hunch that YouGov and Sentio were overstating the Sweden Democrats:

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/08/03/the-limits-of-populism-will-the-hard-right-disappoint-its-fans-most-ardent-hopes-again-in-sweden/

    Be smug, Alastair - very, very smug.

    Ty and wd.
  • Willsman is at it again.
    https://twitter.com/TheRedRoar/status/1038858691783602178

    They just want to keep this going.

    Bit odd to say you were obviously speaking as an individual activist, when saying you had seen nothing, even though you are on the NEC disciplinary team and had seen lots.
  • Smaller than the graphic implies

    S -2.8
    SD +4.7
    M -3.5

    Being the main ones
    Have the Greens lost votes to the Left party? Looks that way at cursory glance.
    Greens down 2.4% and the left up the same. But correlation and all that
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,821
    edited September 2018
    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,749

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess though.

    The same very nearly happened here last year.
  • Foxy said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess though.

    The same very nearly happened here last year.
    Yes.
  • FT

    Barnier to pin down agreement at Salzburg meeting as EU vows to save Theresa May
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,749
    HYUFD said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
    Minority government, or a reassortment of minor parties. Easy Peasy.
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,291
    HYUFD said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
    But didn’t they also hold the balance in the previous Parliament? Why couldn’t a similar arrangement - a minority govt but tolerated by the opposition with strict policy constraints - be put in place for the new one?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,301
    Brutal:
    http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24626303/england-dig-hole-loyalty-keaton-jennings
    The statistics of Jennings' career are damning. No England opener has ever gone as many consecutive innings (18) without a half-century and, against deliveries from seamers that would have hit the stumps in this series, he is averaging just 1.33. Those are figures that wouldn't flatter an inanimate object....
  • Y0kelY0kel Posts: 2,307

    FT

    Barnier to pin down agreement at Salzburg meeting as EU vows to save Theresa May

    Kinda blindingly obvious, they neither want the Conservative ideologues Brexit and they don't want a Corbyn led government post Brexit either.

  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
    You mean like at Euro 2014?
    Sunil, I travelled on my first IET Azuma today, on the Cotswold line to Oxford. Two points spting to mind:

    *) The seats are *really* uncomfortable, and I have a fair amount of padding on my bottom.
    *) They can't get the electronic signs right even on a new train; for the entire journey it as saying the next station was Worcester.
    I was on one last week from Paddington to Oxford. I have a dodgy disc in my back and found them really comfortable....

    I didn’t see what all the fuss was about.

    But I’m now stuck on one of the old HSTs outside Castle Cary. We’ve hit an animal and broken the train...
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    How did Yougov get it so so wrong, their polling was horrific on this !
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    Pulpstar said:

    How did Yougov get it so so wrong, their polling was horrific on this !

    What's happened to displease you? :D
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    Pulpstar said:

    How did Yougov get it so so wrong, their polling was horrific on this !

    YouGov are not a Swedish pollster
  • nunuonenunuone Posts: 1,138
    Pulpstar said:

    Hah Malmo is very very left wing.

    Social Democrats on 63% there.

    20% Muslim.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    Foxy said:

    HYUFD said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
    Minority government, or a reassortment of minor parties. Easy Peasy.
    Even a minority Social Democrat Government is not possible as the centre right block may well end up with more than the centre left block and the Moderates are well behind the Social Democrats and neither will touch the Swedish Democrats with a bargepole, so most likely it will have to be a Moderate and Social Democrat Grand Coalition led by Lofven
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    edited September 2018
    GIN1138 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    How did Yougov get it so so wrong, their polling was horrific on this !

    What's happened to displease you? :D
    Incoming Betfair Premium charge on Social Democrats winnings. Obviously I bet against Yougov exceptionalism - but I didn't think they'd be quite this far off.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    JohnO said:

    HYUFD said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
    But didn’t they also hold the balance in the previous Parliament? Why couldn’t a similar arrangement - a minority govt but tolerated by the opposition with strict policy constraints - be put in place for the new one?
    Last time the centre left block had more MPs than the centre right block, that may well not be the case this time
  • StereotomyStereotomy Posts: 4,092
    viewcode said:

    justin124 said:

    Poor result for Yougov in Sweden - having placed the Swedish Democrats in the lead!

    It is staggeringly difficult for pollster from place X to poll place y. Nate silver tried to do UK in 2010 and fucked it up bigstyle (120 Libs?!)
    Surely he wasn't acting as a pollster?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,206
    Pulpstar said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    How did Yougov get it so so wrong, their polling was horrific on this !

    What's happened to displease you? :D
    Incoming Betfair Premium charge on Social Democrats winnings. Obviously I bet against Yougov exceptionalism - but I didn't think they'd be quite this far off.
    It is still a poor result for the 2 main parties and the Swedish Democrats will likely now be the main party of opposition, whether the Swedish Democrats came top or not was largely irrelevant to that, the main thing is they prevented either of the other main blocks winning,

    YouGov are not a Swedish pollster
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,291
    HYUFD said:

    JohnO said:

    HYUFD said:

    There are similarities to the 2016 Irish election, with a result where no combination can command a majority. Pace @HYUFD, a grand coalition is not inevitable, in fact it's rather unlikely. Most likely is either an arrangement like that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fianna Fáil, in which the centre right agrees to let the centre right govern but with restrictions on what they can do, or the converse with the centre right governing, or a centre-right minority government to which the Sweden Democrats provide limited support on a 'we can pull the plug anytime' basis.

    Like Ireland, and Italy, it's a helluva mess however you look at it.

    How can there not be a Grand Coalition when both centre right and centre left blocks are deadlocked without giving the Swedish Democrats the balance of power?
    But didn’t they also hold the balance in the previous Parliament? Why couldn’t a similar arrangement - a minority govt but tolerated by the opposition with strict policy constraints - be put in place for the new one?
    Last time the centre left block had more MPs than the centre right block, that may well not be the case this time
    OK, so the centre-right coalition forms a minority govt, tolerated by the centre left? I’m not saying that a grand coalition won’t happen but it’s not inevitable based on the experience of the last 4 years.
  • brendan16brendan16 Posts: 2,315

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Moderates sneaking up on the Swedish Dems lol

    Nothing lol about it, these are abysmal results for the Moderates (the Tories sister party in the International Democrat Union), it is effectively like UKIP being ahead of the Tories here
    You mean like at Euro 2014?
    Sunil, I travelled on my first IET Azuma today, on the Cotswold line to Oxford. Two points spting to mind:

    *) The seats are *really* uncomfortable, and I have a fair amount of padding on my bottom.
    *) They can't get the electronic signs right even on a new train; for the entire journey it as saying the next station was Worcester.
    Sounds like the new Crossrail trains - the most uncomfortable train seats I have ever sat on. Given the massive cut in seats compared to the old trains though it probably won't matter - standing will be the order of the day.
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