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  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    I'm glad I only predicted national vote share, not seats - could be tight in a few places for some seats.

    My thoughts on my predictions based on these anecdotal reports:

    BXP - 32% - Probably about right, within a few percent either way.
    Labour - 17% - May be a bit high, LDs do look very promising for second
    LD - 15% - Seems low. probably pushing 20
    CON - 10% - About as good as they can hope for, seems like they will be a bit lower
    Green - 9% - Undercut but LD revival? I think this one is still solid enough
    UKIP - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming might be worse
    CUK - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming even worse
  • geoffw
    geoffw Posts: 9,161
    3-1 to the Finns! Canada's goalie now leaving the goal empty!
  • JackW
    JackW Posts: 14,787
    @state_go_away said:

    "who's on the bbc team tonight - Emily Maitless ? Dimbleby?"

    ...............................................................................

    Huw Edwards and Reeta Chakrabarti
  • Jonathan
    Jonathan Posts: 22,107
    > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > @Byronic said:
    > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > >
    > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > >
    > > +++++
    > >
    > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > >
    > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > >
    > >
    >
    > No its a protest vote.
    >
    > A GE means JIPM

    Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.
  • nico67
    nico67 Posts: 5,651
    The Lib Dems have beaten Labour in Holborn and St Pancras !

    Keir Starmer must be seriously pissed off.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @FrancisUrquhart said:
    > Is there an "exit poll" for the UK coming up at 10pm?

    For the first time, no. They decided it was too expensive.
  • Benpointer
    Benpointer Posts: 35,627

    > @bigjohnowls said:

    > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)

    > LDem: 15 (+14)

    > Lab: 14 (-6)

    > Con: 10 (-9)

    > Grn: 4 (+1)

    > SNP: 2 (-)

    > PC: 1 (-)

    >

    > Britain Elects predicts



    Mind you i thought we had 73 MEPs

    Britain Elects was GB only - there are 3 MEPs in NI
  • stodge
    stodge Posts: 14,908

    The LDs are doing a piss-poor job in terms of expectation management

    To be fair, some of the people spinning good LD results are Conservatives.

    We've had Timmo on here claiming the LDs have won Borough after Borough in London and then Harry Cole (hardly an unbiased contributor) claiming LD "sources" (i.e: some LD he knows) tell him the Party is going to do well.

    Everyone plays this game - we've had Tories claiming they're going to get no seats at all.
  • Big_G_NorthWales
    Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,238
    > @ydoethur said:
    > https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1132738245836574720
    >
    >
    >
    > Their card has been Marked.
    >
    > Recovery is not Drakeforward.
    >
    > People are Baying for them.
    >
    > Should I go on?

    It cannot come soon enough
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    > @Benpointer said:
    > What are the facts that have changed your mind since Friday? Genuine question.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++

    The reports from the polling stations in London indicating that the LDs are outpolling Labour for one.
  • Mexicanpete
    Mexicanpete Posts: 33,115
    What will the Conservatives extrapolate from this drubbing? I suspect they will read from this performance that the nation is demanding a full-frontal no-deal Brexit.

    What will Corbyn extrapolate from this drubbing? Err.....
  • Gallowgate
    Gallowgate Posts: 20,709
    nico67 said:

    The Lib Dems have beaten Labour in Holborn and St Pancras!

    Keir Starmer must be seriously pissed off.

    :D
  • Floater
    Floater Posts: 14,207
    > @Jonathan said:
    > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > >
    > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > >
    > > > +++++
    > > >
    > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > >
    > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > > No its a protest vote.
    > >
    > > A GE means JIPM
    >
    > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.

    I hate to rub it in - but you voted for him in 2017
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    > @Ave_it said:
    > Regional winners (Ave it projection)
    >
    > London LD
    > SE LD
    > SW BXP
    > Wales LD
    > East Midlands BXP
    > West Midlands BXP
    > NW BXP
    > Yorkshire etc BXP
    > NE BXP
    > Scotland SLD
    > NI Sinn Fein

    +++++++++

    BXP will win Wales easily.
  • Sean_F
    Sean_F Posts: 39,132
    From the anecdata, I'd expect the Brexit Party to be at the levels predicted by Ipsos Mori, Opinium, and Yougov. Lib Dems probably just over 20%.
  • Byronic
    Byronic Posts: 3,578
    edited May 2019
    > @kle4 said:
    > I'm glad I only predicted national vote share, not seats - could be tight in a few places for some seats.
    >
    > My thoughts on my predictions based on these anecdotal reports:
    >
    > BXP - 32% - Probably about right, within a few percent either way.
    > Labour - 17% - May be a bit high, LDs do look very promising for second
    > LD - 15% - Seems low. probably pushing 20
    > CON - 10% - About as good as they can hope for, seems like they will be a bit lower
    > Green - 9% - Undercut but LD revival? I think this one is still solid enough
    > UKIP - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming might be worse
    > CUK - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming even worse<

    ++++

    Sounds right. I might add a few points to the BXP.

    Regarding CUK, who the hell thinks, "Oooh, that lovely man-of-the-people Chuka Umunna, and that charming, friendly Anna Soubry, they'll get my vote!"

    Apart from Chuka and Anna's immediate relatives (and even there one wonders), I cannot think of a single reason to vote for Change UK. The obvious Remain vote is Lib Dems. Policywise they are indistinguishable from the CUKs.
  • brokenwheel
    brokenwheel Posts: 3,352
    edited May 2019
    Ave_it said:

    Regional winners (Ave it projection)

    London LD
    SE LD
    SW BXP
    Wales LD
    East Midlands BXP
    West Midlands BXP
    NW BXP
    Yorkshire etc BXP
    NE BXP
    Scotland SLD
    NI Sinn Fein

    I want what you're smoking.
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    stodge said:

    The LDs are doing a piss-poor job in terms of expectation management

    To be fair, some of the people spinning good LD results are Conservatives.

    We've had Timmo on here claiming the LDs have won Borough after Borough in London and then Harry Cole (hardly an unbiased contributor) claiming LD "sources" (i.e: some LD he knows) tell him the Party is going to do well.

    Everyone plays this game - we've had Tories claiming they're going to get no seats at all.
    Indeed. The Tories are looking to do very bad as their expectations management has involved suggesting they will get 0. Of course, as with the locals it is possible to do as bad or worse than your expecations management sometimes, but they'll presumably grab a handful.

    Labour did not do huge expectations management to my recollection in the run up to the vote, but they are tonight - at this rate they will claim coming above the Tories as the benchmark for success.
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    > @Benpointer said:
    > > @bigjohnowls said:
    >
    > > > @Ave_it said:
    >
    > > > AVE IT final forecast!
    >
    > > >
    >
    > > > BXP 37%
    >
    > > > LD 32%
    >
    > > > GRN 8%
    >
    > > > LAB 8%
    >
    > > > CON 6%
    >
    > > > OTH 9%
    >
    > >
    >
    > > Knock 14% off LDs
    >
    > >
    >
    > > Knock 5% off BXP
    >
    > >
    >
    > > Double Lab and Con
    >
    > >
    >
    > > and you are spot on
    >
    >
    >
    > I think that's almost exactly right, except I think the LDs'll make 20%, while the Cons will struggle to get to 16%.
    >
    > @rcs1000, it's only two days ago you were saying LDs would come 4th:
    >
    > Brexit 31%.
    > Labour 20%.
    > Conservative16%.
    > LibDem 16%
    > Green 7%
    > UKIP 4%
    > CUK 1%
    > Nats 5%.

    I was predicting LDs in equal third on 16 and now i am saying 18% after seeing turnout.

    MOE!!
  • NickPalmer
    NickPalmer Posts: 21,724
    > @Byronic said:
    > > @kle4 said:
    > > I'm glad I only predicted national vote share, not seats - could be tight in a few places for some seats.
    > >
    > > My thoughts on my predictions based on these anecdotal reports:
    > >
    > > BXP - 32% - Probably about right, within a few percent either way.
    > > Labour - 17% - May be a bit high, LDs do look very promising for second
    > > LD - 15% - Seems low. probably pushing 20
    > > CON - 10% - About as good as they can hope for, seems like they will be a bit lower
    > > Green - 9% - Undercut but LD revival? I think this one is still solid enough
    > > UKIP - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming might be worse
    > > CUK - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming even worse<
    >
    > ++++
    >
    > Sounds right. I might add a few points to the BXP.
    >
    > Regarding CUK, who the hell thinks, "Oooh, that lovely man-of-the-people Chuka Umunna, and that charming, friendly Anna Soubry, they'll get my vote!"
    >
    > Apart from Chuka and Anna's immediate relatives (and even there one wonders), I cannot think of a single reason to vote for Change UK. The obvious Remain vote is Lib Dems. Policywise they indistinguishable from the CUKs.
    >
    >

    My guess:
    BXP 28, LD 22, Lab 11, Con 9, Green 9, UKIP 5, CUK 5, others 11.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    I wonder if the LDs could win the popular vote overall if there's a much higher turnout in the regions they win compared to the regions the Brexit Party wins.
  • Big_G_NorthWales
    Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,238
    > @brokenwheel said:
    > Regional winners (Ave it projection)
    >
    > London LD
    > SE LD
    > SW BXP
    > Wales LD
    > East Midlands BXP
    > West Midlands BXP
    > NW BXP
    > Yorkshire etc BXP
    > NE BXP
    > Scotland SLD
    > NI Sinn Fein
    >
    > I want what you're smoking.

    Wales BXP
  • nico67
    nico67 Posts: 5,651
    Lib Dems apparently trouncing Labour and the Tories in Barnet.
  • geoffw
    geoffw Posts: 9,161
    Finland are the ice Hockey World Champions!
  • Gallowgate
    Gallowgate Posts: 20,709
    @bigjohnowls when loyal Labour voters get the appetite for voting for other parties, it's going to be much harder to win them back. If the right wing vote is split, the danger of splitting the left vote becomes less.

    JCMNBPM
  • Foxy
    Foxy Posts: 52,170
    > @Floater said:
    > > @Jonathan said:
    > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > > >
    > > > > +++++
    > > > >
    > > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > > >
    > > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > No its a protest vote.
    > > >
    > > > A GE means JIPM
    > >
    > > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.
    >
    > I hate to rub it in - but you voted for him in 2017

    Yeah, but clearly not happening twice!

    The Labour humiliation may well be the nail in the coffin of Lexitism, but perhaps also Corbynism.
  • Mauve
    Mauve Posts: 130
    Byronic said:

    > @kle4 said:

    > I'm glad I only predicted national vote share, not seats - could be tight in a few places for some seats.

    >

    > My thoughts on my predictions based on these anecdotal reports:

    >

    > BXP - 32% - Probably about right, within a few percent either way.

    > Labour - 17% - May be a bit high, LDs do look very promising for second

    > LD - 15% - Seems low. probably pushing 20

    > CON - 10% - About as good as they can hope for, seems like they will be a bit lower

    > Green - 9% - Undercut but LD revival? I think this one is still solid enough

    > UKIP - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming might be worse

    > CUK - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming even worse<



    ++++



    Sounds right. I might add a few points to the BXP.



    Regarding CUK, who the hell thinks, "Oooh, that lovely man-of-the-people Chuka Umunna, and that charming, friendly Anna Soubry, they'll get my vote!"



    Apart from Chuka and Anna's immediate relatives (and even there one wonders), I cannot think of a single reason to vote for Change UK. The obvious Remain vote is Lib Dems. Policywise they are indistinguishable from the CUKs.

    Someone at work admitted to voting for the Chuka and Heidi Party the other day, so they do exist. From what I could work out they don't like the Lib Dems and think the Greens are nuts.
  • IanB2
    IanB2 Posts: 52,312
    The fact that we (broadly) have PR and yet forecasts for Tory seats range from 1 to 10 illustrates what a polling disaster this has been.
  • TheWhiteRabbit
    TheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,455
    > @NickPalmer said:
    > > @Byronic said:
    > > > @kle4 said:
    > > > I'm glad I only predicted national vote share, not seats - could be tight in a few places for some seats.
    > > >
    > > > My thoughts on my predictions based on these anecdotal reports:
    > > >
    > > > BXP - 32% - Probably about right, within a few percent either way.
    > > > Labour - 17% - May be a bit high, LDs do look very promising for second
    > > > LD - 15% - Seems low. probably pushing 20
    > > > CON - 10% - About as good as they can hope for, seems like they will be a bit lower
    > > > Green - 9% - Undercut but LD revival? I think this one is still solid enough
    > > > UKIP - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming might be worse
    > > > CUK - 3% - Heard nothing, assuming even worse<
    > >
    > > ++++
    > >
    > > Sounds right. I might add a few points to the BXP.
    > >
    > > Regarding CUK, who the hell thinks, "Oooh, that lovely man-of-the-people Chuka Umunna, and that charming, friendly Anna Soubry, they'll get my vote!"
    > >
    > > Apart from Chuka and Anna's immediate relatives (and even there one wonders), I cannot think of a single reason to vote for Change UK. The obvious Remain vote is Lib Dems. Policywise they indistinguishable from the CUKs.
    > >
    > >
    >
    > My guess:
    > BXP 28, LD 22, Lab 11, Con 9, Green 9, UKIP 5, CUK 5, others 11.
    >

    There we go folks, an ex-Lab MP who thinks the party will get its worse vote share in a national election since universal suffrage
  • OllyT
    OllyT Posts: 5,050
    > @isam said:
    > . > @Sean_F said:
    >
    > > > @not_on_fire said:
    >
    > > > https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1132737533018816515
    >
    >
    >
    > >
    >
    > > If they've won 10-17 seats, they should be quite a way behind the Brexit Party in terms of vote share.
    >
    >
    >
    > TBP has to beat LD+GRN+CUK in terms of votes to claim any bragging rights
    >
    > Can we have UKIP on our side?

    With the greatest of pleasure
  • Jonathan
    Jonathan Posts: 22,107
    > @Floater said:
    > > @Jonathan said:
    > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > > >
    > > > > +++++
    > > > >
    > > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > > >
    > > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > No its a protest vote.
    > > >
    > > > A GE means JIPM
    > >
    > > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.
    >
    > I hate to rub it in - but you voted for him in 2017

    Did I?
  • Byronic
    Byronic Posts: 3,578
    > @TheWhiteRabbit said:

    > > >
    > >
    > > My guess:
    > > BXP 28, LD 22, Lab 11, Con 9, Green 9, UKIP 5, CUK 5, others 11.
    > >
    >
    > There we go folks, an ex-Lab MP who thinks the party will get its worse vote share in a national election since universal suffrage<

    ++++

    And still supports Jeremy Corbyn....
  • Foxy
    Foxy Posts: 52,170
    > @nico67 said:
    > Lib Dems apparently trouncing Labour and the Tories in Barnet.

    Oy veh!
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @state_go_away said:
    > who's on the bbc team tonight - Emily Maitless ? Dimbleby?

    Dimbleby has retired sadly.
  • maaarsh
    maaarsh Posts: 3,602
    > @Mexicanpete said:
    > What will the Conservatives extrapolate from this drubbing? I suspect they will read from this performance that the nation is demanding a full-frontal no-deal Brexit.
    >
    > What will Corbyn extrapolate from this drubbing? Err.....

    And for their own electoral future, they'll both be right. The wings of either party which disagree need to get in the boat and row, or get out completely because electoral cleavages have moved.
  • Foxy
    Foxy Posts: 52,170
    > @AndyJS said:
    > I wonder if the LDs could win the popular vote overall if there's a much higher turnout in the regions they win compared to the regions the Brexit Party wins.

    Yes please, at 130/1 :)
  • AlastairMeeks
    AlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    > @IanB2 said:
    > The fact that we (broadly) have PR and yet forecasts for Tory seats range from 1 to 10 illustrates what a polling disaster this has been.

    If the Conservatives get 12% they might get 10 seats. If they get 9% they might get one seat.

    The polling problems are more at the top end of the table.
  • oxfordsimon
    oxfordsimon Posts: 5,845
    > @AndyJS said:
    > > @state_go_away said:
    > > who's on the bbc team tonight - Emily Maitless ? Dimbleby?
    >
    > Dimbleby has retired sadly.

    He should have done that a long time ago. No-one should cling on that long
  • OblitusSumMe
    OblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    > @IanB2 said:
    > The fact that we (broadly) have PR and yet forecasts for Tory seats range from 1 to 10 illustrates what a polling disaster this has been.

    That's also a function of the way that this version of PR has been implemented.
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    > @Gallowgate said:
    > @bigjohnowls when loyal Labour voters get the appetite for voting for other parties, it's going to be much harder to win them back. If the right wing vote is split, the danger of splitting the left vote becomes less.
    >
    > JCMNBPM

    Your M is upside down surely
  • ydoethur
    ydoethur Posts: 74,263
    AndyJS said:

    > @state_go_away said:

    > who's on the bbc team tonight - Emily Maitless ? Dimbleby?



    Dimbleby has retired sadly.

    Huw Edwards.
  • oxfordsimon
    oxfordsimon Posts: 5,845
    > @Foxy said:
    > > @nico67 said:
    > > Lib Dems apparently trouncing Labour and the Tories in Barnet.
    >
    > Oy veh!

    Don't tell Jenny Tonge or David Ward...
  • ydoethur
    ydoethur Posts: 74,263
    IanB2 said:

    The fact that we (broadly) have PR and yet forecasts for Tory seats range from 1 to 10 illustrates what a polling disaster this has been.

    The D'Hondt system is PR in the same way Margot Robbie is my girlfriend.
  • nico67
    nico67 Posts: 5,651
    What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .
  • M.Partridge
    M.Partridge Posts: 70
    Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?
  • Gallowgate
    Gallowgate Posts: 20,709
    edited May 2019

    Your M is upside down surely

    Might
  • geoffw
    geoffw Posts: 9,161
    Mauve said:

    Byronic said:


    Sounds right. I might add a few points to the BXP.
    Regarding CUK, who the hell thinks, "Oooh, that lovely man-of-the-people Chuka Umunna, and that charming, friendly Anna Soubry, they'll get my vote!"
    Apart from Chuka and Anna's immediate relatives (and even there one wonders), I cannot think of a single reason to vote for Change UK. The obvious Remain vote is Lib Dems. Policywise they are indistinguishable from the CUKs.

    Someone at work admitted to voting for the Chuka and Heidi Party the other day, so they do exist. From what I could work out they don't like the Lib Dems and think the Greens are nuts.
    Does eating nuts turn you into one?
  • Floater
    Floater Posts: 14,207
    > @Jonathan said:
    > > @Floater said:
    > > > @Jonathan said:
    > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > > > >
    > > > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > > > >
    > > > > > +++++
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > > > >
    > > > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > > > >
    > > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > > No its a protest vote.
    > > > >
    > > > > A GE means JIPM
    > > >
    > > > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.
    > >
    > > I hate to rub it in - but you voted for him in 2017
    >
    > Did I?

    Well, you said you went in the booth and voted Labour - I don't think I am confusing you with someone else.
  • Benpointer
    Benpointer Posts: 35,627
    IanB2 said:

    The fact that we (broadly) have PR and yet forecasts for Tory seats range from 1 to 10 illustrates what a polling disaster this has been.

    On the plus side: none of us (self included) has a fecking clue what the results are going to be* and that's what makes it so exciting.

    (* Aside from TBP winning most votes/seats, I guess)
  • Floater
    Floater Posts: 14,207
    > @M.Partridge said:
    > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?

    Zero - next question :-)
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
    > @nico67 said:
    > What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .
    >
    >

    If? :smiley:
  • TheWhiteRabbit
    TheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,455
    > @M.Partridge said:
    > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?

    I'll give you 25/1 Corbyn to resign within a week
  • KentRising
    KentRising Posts: 2,926
    > @M.Partridge said:
    > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?

    Lol. No.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @Foxy said:
    > > @AndyJS said:
    > > I wonder if the LDs could win the popular vote overall if there's a much higher turnout in the regions they win compared to the regions the Brexit Party wins.
    >
    > Yes please, at 130/1 :)

    I wanted to bet on them getting most votes but Betfair only had most seats as an option.
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
    > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > @Gallowgate said:
    > > @bigjohnowls when loyal Labour voters get the appetite for voting for other parties, it's going to be much harder to win them back. If the right wing vote is split, the danger of splitting the left vote becomes less.
    > >
    > > JCMNBPM
    >
    > Your M is upside down surely

    Must? :p
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    nico67 said:

    What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .

    Technically, but odds are if Labour are having a really bad night, the Tories will be having a disastrously bad night. It will be some solace if Labour are also well down, but if the Tories truly have held only 1 seat, nothing will mollify things for them. If the calculation of 10 were to happen, sure, but no one seems to believe that.
  • NickPalmer
    NickPalmer Posts: 21,724
    edited May 2019
    Still £599 available on LDs coming top on the "without BXP" Betfair market - that's £120 to earn in half an hour. DYOR but it seems quite mad not to take it (I don't bet against my party or I'd snap it up.)

    https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.158989602
  • Sean_F
    Sean_F Posts: 39,132
    > @AndyJS said:
    > I wonder if the LDs could win the popular vote overall if there's a much higher turnout in the regions they win compared to the regions the Brexit Party wins.

    If TBP and the Lib Dems really are neck and neck in OxWab I doubt it.
  • IanB2
    IanB2 Posts: 52,312
    kle4 said:

    nico67 said:

    What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .

    Technically, but odds are if Labour are having a really bad night, the Tories will be having a disastrously bad night. It will be some solace if Labour are also well down, but if the Tories truly have held only 1 seat, nothing will mollify things for them. If the calculation of 10 were to happen, sure, but no one seems to believe that.
    If the Tories beat Labour in Norwich that hardly augurs well
  • nunuone
    nunuone Posts: 1,138
    > @nico67 said:
    > Lib Dems apparently trouncing Labour and the Tories in Barnet.

    Wow.
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    > @Jonathan said:
    > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > >
    > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > >
    > > > +++++
    > > >
    > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > >
    > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > > No its a protest vote.
    > >
    > > A GE means JIPM
    >
    > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.

    Your names Bond James Bond?

    How far were you out re Corbyns 40% in 2017 remind me?
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @Sean_F said:
    > > @AndyJS said:
    > > I wonder if the LDs could win the popular vote overall if there's a much higher turnout in the regions they win compared to the regions the Brexit Party wins.
    >
    > If TBP and the Lib Dems really are neck and neck in OxWab I doubt it.

    I don't believe that report to be honest.
  • Foxy
    Foxy Posts: 52,170
    > @Floater said:
    > > @M.Partridge said:
    > > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?
    >
    > Zero - next question :-)

    Though a challenge is quite possible, after all, not much else happening over the next 6 weeks.
  • HYUFD
    HYUFD Posts: 128,924
    As we await the UK European election results here is President Trump at the Sumo wrestling in Japan today

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132623971139112960?s=20
  • timmo
    timmo Posts: 1,469
    stodge said:

    The LDs are doing a piss-poor job in terms of expectation management

    To be fair, some of the people spinning good LD results are Conservatives.

    We've had Timmo on here claiming the LDs have won Borough after Borough in London and then Harry Cole (hardly an unbiased contributor) claiming LD "sources" (i.e: some LD he knows) tell him the Party is going to do well.

    Everyone plays this game - we've had Tories claiming they're going to get no seats at all.
    We will see wont we...
    I will obv accept an apology when you are proven wrong.
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    I just read PB on the Oculus Quest browser.

    That makes me officially the most geeky person on here.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    I put £20 on the LDs winning most seats at 50/1. Don't expect to win but you never know.
  • Casino_Royale
    Casino_Royale Posts: 63,687
    > @NickPalmer said:
    > Still £599 available on LDs coming top on the "without BXP" Betfair market - that's £120 to earn in half an hour. DYOR but it seems quite mad not to take it (I don't bet against my party or I'd snap it up.)
    >
    > https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.158989602

    Gone now.
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    IanB2 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico67 said:

    What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .

    Technically, but odds are if Labour are having a really bad night, the Tories will be having a disastrously bad night. It will be some solace if Labour are also well down, but if the Tories truly have held only 1 seat, nothing will mollify things for them. If the calculation of 10 were to happen, sure, but no one seems to believe that.
    If the Tories beat Labour in Norwich that hardly augurs well
    Won't cover up their demise being worse overall. They won seats in the north in the locals, or held up ok, it didn't mean their losing over 1000 seats less of a gut punch. If they had held out a bit better Labour's performance would seem more like sharing in disaster, as it is it was the Tories in disaster, Labour pretty bad.

    I expect that will be the story again here - both punished, but one more than the other.

    Labour also have a path to recovery of sorts - go Remain, full on. The Tories can recover somewhat bu going no deal, but it doesn't solve their problems.
  • Floater
    Floater Posts: 14,207
    > @Foxy said:
    > > @Floater said:
    > > > @M.Partridge said:
    > > > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?
    > >
    > > Zero - next question :-)
    >
    > Though a challenge is quite possible, after all, not much else happening over the next 6 weeks.

    True - it's not like the parties have something really important to think about other than themselves....... :-)
  • Jonathan
    Jonathan Posts: 22,107
    > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > @Jonathan said:
    > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > @Byronic said:
    > > > > > @bigjohnowls said:
    > > > > > Brex: 24 MEPs (+24 vs 2014)
    > > > > > LDem: 15 (+14)
    > > > > > Lab: 14 (-6)
    > > > > > Con: 10 (-9)
    > > > > > Grn: 4 (+1)
    > > > > > SNP: 2 (-)
    > > > > > PC: 1 (-)
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Britain Elects predicts<
    > > > >
    > > > > +++++
    > > > >
    > > > > Britain Elects is Wrong.
    > > > >
    > > > > BTW, is there ANY result for Labour which would be SO bad you would reconsider your support for Corbyn as Leader?
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > No its a protest vote.
    > > >
    > > > A GE means JIPM
    > >
    > > Yeah, right whatever. I’m the next James Bond and you’re the next pope.
    >
    > Your names Bond James Bond?
    >
    > How far were you out re Corbyns 40% in 2017 remind me?

    I was less far out than Corbyn is now. I am astonished at how far your man has screwed this up. It’s impressive even by his dire standards.
  • nunuone
    nunuone Posts: 1,138
  • dyedwoolie
    dyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    > @IanB2 said:
    > What might help the Tories is if Labour have a catastrophe aswell .
    >
    > Technically, but odds are if Labour are having a really bad night, the Tories will be having a disastrously bad night. It will be some solace if Labour are also well down, but if the Tories truly have held only 1 seat, nothing will mollify things for them. If the calculation of 10 were to happen, sure, but no one seems to believe that.
    >
    > If the Tories beat Labour in Norwich that hardly augurs well

    I can't see it, I think change are 4th, labour 5th, Tories 6th. If Tories are ahead in Norwich labour have completely imploded
  • Mauve
    Mauve Posts: 130
    Sky News are showing the Leave Vote / Change in turnout chart to kill time. No credit given on screen to whoever it was that first came up with the correlation though.
  • Paristonda
    Paristonda Posts: 1,844
    Looks like main left and right blocs will not be able to form a grand coalition in EP for first time. Liberal group could be a part of it now. Or maybe the various left groups or right groups can cobble a majority with the Liberals.
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
  • Ave_it
    Ave_it Posts: 2,411
    Probably closer to 5-2 at the moment you have a top bet which might come in!
    > @AndyJS said:
    > I put £20 on the LDs winning most seats at 50/1. Don't expect to win but you never know.
  • Jonathan
    Jonathan Posts: 22,107
    > @rcs1000 said:
    > I just read PB on the Oculus Quest browser.
    >
    > That makes me officially the most geeky person on here.

    You need a VR bar chart.
  • solarflare
    solarflare Posts: 4,052
    > @rcs1000 said:
    > I just read PB on the Oculus Quest browser.
    >
    > That makes me officially the most geeky person on here.

    > @rcs1000 said:
    > I just read PB on the Oculus Quest browser.
    >
    > That makes me officially the most geeky person on here.

    Can we find you some sort of VR swingometer?
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
    > @rcs1000 said:
    > I just read PB on the Oculus Quest browser.
    >
    > That makes me officially the most geeky person on here.

    Are we all going to need one to use the new commenting system (if we get one)?
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @Mauve said:
    > Sky News are showing the Leave Vote / Change in turnout chart to kill time. No credit given on screen to whoever it was that first came up with the correlation though.

    Multiple people could have done the job.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Richmond Upon Thames, turnout: 53.85%.
  • Ave_it
    Ave_it Posts: 2,411
    LD winning everything in London

    Bit like 1906!
  • M.Partridge
    M.Partridge Posts: 70
    > @TheWhiteRabbit said:
    > > @M.Partridge said:
    > > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?
    >
    > I'll give you 25/1 Corbyn to resign within a week

    I'll take this
  • Byronic
    Byronic Posts: 3,578
    > @RobD said:
    > > @Gallowgate said:
    > > https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1132746074895077377
    >
    > Tsk, another criminal.<

    +++++

    Christ.
  • NickPalmer
    NickPalmer Posts: 21,724
    edited May 2019
    On a non-partisan note - if all the votes have been counted, why will they wait till the early hours to announce them?
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    > @NickPalmer said:
    > On a non-partisan note - if all the votes have been counted, why will they wait till the early hours to announce them?

    I was hoping you might be able to answer that question, as a political insider.
  • TheWhiteRabbit
    TheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,455
    > @M.Partridge said:
    > > @TheWhiteRabbit said:
    > > > @M.Partridge said:
    > > > Odds on Corbyn resigning after the results tonight?
    > >
    > > I'll give you 25/1 Corbyn to resign within a week
    >
    > I'll take this

    You're on for a tenner.
  • Chris
    Chris Posts: 12,059
    > @HYUFD said:
    > As we await the UK European election results here is President Trump at the Sumo wrestling in Japan today
    >
    > https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132623971139112960?s=20

    How disappointing. I thought you meant he was taking part.
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
    > @Byronic said:
    > > @RobD said:
    > > > @Gallowgate said:
    > > > twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1132746074895077377
    > >
    > > Tsk, another criminal.<
    >
    > +++++
    >
    > Christ.

    Tongue in cheek. Unless your comment was also tongue in cheek. In which case, carry on.
  • HYUFD
    HYUFD Posts: 128,924
    > @RobD said:
    > > @Gallowgate said:
    > > https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1132746074895077377
    >
    > Tsk, another criminal.

    Goodness, maybe some of the polls even underestimated the Brexit Party as well as the LDs
  • maaarsh
    maaarsh Posts: 3,602
    > @AndyJS said:
    > I put £20 on the LDs winning most seats at 50/1. Don't expect to win but you never know.

    Given they're likely to be winning in the high turn-out regions, it's fair to assume their vote efficiency will be pretty poor. So for that bet to win, they'd need a comfortable win on headline vote share too.

    Best of luck.
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,609
    15 mins to go :o :D
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