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  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,590

    Lineker's tax problem was a straight IR35 issue, wasn't it, rather than one of these shady non-investment investments that used to be fashionable? Tbh I could never quite get my head around it.
    He’s in court at the moment, appealing HMRC.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/06/gary-lineker-pursued-hmrc-5m-tax-bill/

    The taxman is arguing that his BBC contract has been one of employment for many years, and are asking for around £1m extra from him in IT and NI.

    Given he also has a deal with BT Sport for working on their live matches during the season, in my mind he pretty much meets the definition of a contractor under IR35.

    The end result, for the rest of us, is that contractor rates have to go up; because everyone might end up being considered as an employee by the taxman, unless he can send a substitute.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    The more tory England gets...

    The More the Scots want to leave?

    Win, win.

    Hypothetically if the Tories take all the BXP votes and seats that fall as a result like Hartlepool - goodbye Yvette Cooper for instance ...

    and if the Scots leave ...

    ... Then what would the Tory majority become? Be about 170 surely?
    Cooper, Rayner, Milliband.....

    Hartlepool was in the 40s on the tories target list. They won it by 7 chuffin' thousand.

  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,198

    Taz said:

    Third labour loss in Durham. 1 seat to Lib Dem’s in Aycliffe north. It’s odd how the seats closer to Hartlepool are relatively good for labour.

    What I found interesting that the urban core of Blyth and Ashington (in Northumberland) is still solidly Labour. It's the outskirts where the Persimmon new-builds are aplenty where the Tory vote is the strongest, like @Philip_Thompson says.
    So, Bob has gone blue but Terry stays red?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,409
    Sir John Curtice reckons this was Brexit still playing out.
    Who am I to argue?
  • ridaligoridaligo Posts: 174
    kinabalu said:

    ridaligo said:

    New thread damnit ...

    FPT

    So Labour lefties think that the reason they lost Hartlepool was because they weren't loony lefty enough? And the response to the huge defeat there is to double down on Corbyn policies? If that is the case they are deluded beyond belief. Sorry, Jezziah, but your diagnosis is so, so wrong.

    In trying to hold both the metro elite and the working class Labour vote together SKS has an impossible task: you can't take the knee wrapped in the Union flag and please both constituencies; you end up alienating both of them. He needs to choose, as Casino mentioned upthread.

    Despite people on the left of centre deriding the "culture war" as non-existent, to me it is very real. I was amazed by last evening's discussion on here that so many people had never experienced the impact of wokeness as work. I work for a large US (East Coast) global corporation and our senior management and HR are obsessed by it - our cooperate intranet is like the BBC home page with article after article on E, D & I. Maybe smaller UK firms have yet to be afflicted by it but if anyone has access to the CIPD magazine you will get an idea what is coming in terms of UK HR - the CIPD has bought into the woke agenda hook, line and sinker.

    This stuff is not going away. The people of Hartlepool may not be exposed to it in the workplace (yet) but they can see the way it is affecting popular culture and they don't like it.

    For now, the Conservatives have parked their tanks on Labour's lawn when it comes to government spending and Boris is seen as standing up for traditional British values. Labour's only response to government spending is to spend more, which lacks credibility, and it appears to be actively against traditional British values.

    So what does Labour do? Is the plan to sit and wait for the Tories to implode (most likely when the COVID spending chickens come home to roost), keep the fragile coalition together and hope that by that time demographics have worked in its favour? It might work but it doesn't really address the fundamental issue of where it stands on the British values question.

    Blair won for a reason; when the time came, mainstream Britain was not repelled by Labour. It is now.

    I have worked in HR for many years. I am instinctively right of centre politically. Sorry to break it to you, but diversity and inclusion is not about "wokeness", it is about the fact that it has been clearly proven that diverse teams are more innovative, and paradoxically perhaps, more cohesive. Maintaining the team profiles (particularly senior ones) of yesteryear that were dominated by middle aged white men is not in any organisations' interest. Most companies are recognising this, though it is a difficult challenge to address without "positive discrimination" or "affirmative action" (as it is called in the US) which is illegal in this country. One of the ways to challenge it is to promote literature and documentation that promotes the change. Hope that helps!
    Excellent post, Nigel. There are valid concerns about woke but my strong sense of the more ardent antiwokerati is they are a motley mix of the plain ignorant and those more knowing who are eminently comfortable with the old hierarchies and affronted by them being challenged.
    That motley mix is quite a few people ... more than half the country?

    Plain ignorant = someone who disagrees with you ;-)

    But you make my argument for me with your point about people pushing back when their values and way of life are challenged. Do you think people will accept something that threatens them or that they disagree with? Maybe they will reject these ideas when given the opportunity to express themselves without fear of reprisal ... at the ballot box?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930
    IanB2 said:

    Montgomeryshire:

    TORY win

    Gain or hold? I think that should be clarified when posting this.
  • eekeek Posts: 28,378
    Taz said:

    MattW said:

    Lineker's tax problem was a straight IR35 issue, wasn't it, rather than one of these shady non-investment investments that used to be fashionable? Tbh I could never quite get my head around it.
    Dodgy boy Lineker was in on that fiddle as well:

    https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/beckham-lineker-and-rooney-lose-film-scheme-appeal/a1080180
    Didn’t the BBC pay many of these liabilities in the past for wealthy ‘talent’ who fell foul of IR35 after the Christa Akroyd case got HMRC interested in this industry.
    Yep because the BBC were the people who created the mess by insisting the presenters (and others) used limited companies in an attempt to reduce the BBCs costs.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    RobD said:

    IanB2 said:

    Montgomeryshire:

    TORY win

    Gain or hold? I think that should be clarified when posting this.
    Hold
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,735

    The more tory England gets...

    The More the Scots want to leave?

    Win, win.

    Hypothetically if the Tories take all the BXP votes and seats that fall as a result like Hartlepool - goodbye Yvette Cooper for instance ...

    and if the Scots leave ...

    ... Then what would the Tory majority become? Be about 170 surely?
    Cooper, Rayner, Milliband.....

    Hartlepool was in the 40s on the tories target list. They won it by 7 chuffin' thousand.

    Tories are now the English Nationalist Party, and heading to a similar dominance.

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,845
    RobD said:

    IanB2 said:

    Montgomeryshire:

    TORY win

    Gain or hold? I think that should be clarified when posting this.
    Hold
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760

    Can anyone recommend me some good twitter handles or hashtags for latest results? I'm looking for one site with the latest coming in around the UK. Preferably troll free.

    Bump. Anyone? Or a website. Somewhere which just gives a live feed of results as opposed to endless commentary and trolling.

    Please. Someone?
  • eekeek Posts: 28,378
    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    The unknown is would Paul Williams have won for Labour if he had stood - I have serious doubts.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,911
    MattW said:

    Lineker's tax problem was a straight IR35 issue, wasn't it, rather than one of these shady non-investment investments that used to be fashionable? Tbh I could never quite get my head around it.
    Dodgy boy Lineker was in on that fiddle as well:

    https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/beckham-lineker-and-rooney-lose-film-scheme-appeal/a1080180
    That seemed odd too. HMG gave tax allowances to encourage film-making and the films were actually made.

    On an unrelated note, as a PAYE tax-payer who was made redundant, presumably Rishi should be sending me a refund cheque soon.
  • Nunu3Nunu3 Posts: 224

    The more tory England gets...

    The More the Scots want to leave?

    Win, win.

    Hypothetically if the Tories take all the BXP votes and seats that fall as a result like Hartlepool - goodbye Yvette Cooper for instance ...

    and if the Scots leave ...

    ... Then what would the Tory majority become? Be about 170 surely?
    Cooper, Rayner, Milliband.....

    Hartlepool was in the 40s on the tories target list. They won it by 7 chuffin' thousand.

    Tories are now the English Nationalist Party, and heading to a similar dominance.

    Silly comment.
  • AndreaParma_82AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)
  • JonWCJonWC Posts: 288
    So far every seat in Devon has been a hold. Confidently predict Devon CC also Con hold.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,201

    MattW said:

    Cookie said:

    While Labour councillors have been banging on about Free Palestine on the campaign trail...the government talking about the bins.

    A new battle plan will mean that every home in England will stick to the same system to recycle plastic, paper and other materials.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14875570/council-end-barmy-recycling-postcode-lottery

    I hear so much genuine anger that different areas do this differently. This is an anger I simply can't understand. It's the work of minutes to understand your own area's recycling system. Still, the government appears to be responding to a genuine demand here.
    The concern of course must be that this might result in a poorer service in some areas that currently have very good recycling systems.

    Currently Lincolnshire has a brilliant system. They have a single bin which takes just about everything that can possibly be recycled and then it is sorted by the private contractor (Mountain in our area). This makes recycling quick, easy and efficient and you really see a difference with very little going into the landfill bin.

    Across the border in Nottinghamshire they also have a single bin system but what you can recycle is severely limited. So no glass for example. Or tetrapacks. This means that my Mum saves all this stuff up and gives it to me to put in my recycling bin each time I see her.

    So if the rationalising means Lincolnshire end up with the Nottinghamshire system then that would be a very retrograde step.
    Speaking from Nottinghamshire I have a blue bin for my glass, which is collected once a fortnight.
    Interestingly that doesn't exist in Newark and Sherwood. So the differences are down to district council level. Indeed my daughter is at Uni in Nottingham and they again have a completely different system.
    Yes, and bin colours are inconsistent.

    I (Ashfield) have:

    Green lid recycling.
    Red lid general waste.
    Brown garden waste, which costs £28 a year.
    Smaller blue lid for glass every 8 weeks (not 2).

    Since I started serious composting my recycling is 60% less. Which means that Ashfield's recycling performance is worse as the % in the green bin is now much lower. KPIs !
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,198
    edited May 2021
    MrEd said:

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1390591421044887553

    Latest from Sir John Curtice: In places last contested in 2016, there is a swing of 10 points from Labour to Tory in places where relatively large numbers of people have no qualifications, whereas there is a slight swing to Labour in places with a large number of graduates.

    Interesting. I know it is a non-PC thing to say but it infers susceptibility to Boris Johnson's message is proportionate to the lack of education of the overall electorate. Combine this with the more educated folk that would never vote Labour (particularly the more prosperous) and it is a cynical but winning formula.
    Good point.
    Lack of education doesn't equate to lack of intelligence. Some of the biggest idiots out there are the most educated *

    * Let me qualify that, I should have omitted the "Some of"
    It certainly does not equate - ridiculous to think so. But it does, I'd have thought, correlate to a significant extent. And this is what counts when making macro arguments.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,845
    RobD said:

    DavidL said:

    RobD said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    Chameleon said:


    Nick Eardley
    @nickeardleybbc
    ·
    11m
    Tories in Scotland fear increased turnout is translating to support for SNP, one senior source warning a SNP landslide in constituencies could be on the cards

    SCon mood music was all good until the ballot boxes started opening.
    Twas the grear unknown

    was the unknown voter Better Together or coming out to ensure the SNP got such a majority a referendum is unavoidable.

    And it seems to be the latter.
    Too early to say. Could yet be either.
    Not if the Tories are worried about Dumfries.
    I was bemused by that. This bizarre campaign focused on the peach (list) vote was just bewildering.
    Can you explain what the peach vote is please? For those of us not aware?

    Is it seriously just the list vote?
    I'm guessing it's just the colour of the list ballot.
    Correct. That was the colour of the regional vote and the constituency was purple.
    I assume old-fashioned white is just unacceptable these days? ;)
    I am not sure that white is an acceptable colour for anything in the new Scotland.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    IanB2 said:

    Montgomeryshire:

    TORY hold

    with 48% of the vote. PC 18%, LD 17%

    Tories up 6%, PC up 8%, Lab up 8%, LDs down 11%

    Always good to be reminded that Nick Clegg was only the second most disastrous LibDem politician of recent years, after Lembit Opik.

    (Though Danny Alexander is in with a shout, too.)
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    The Mayoral elections have been deferred from last year due to Covid. Does that mean that those elected today will have a reduced 3 year term with elections again due in 2024?
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,201

    MattW said:

    Lineker's tax problem was a straight IR35 issue, wasn't it, rather than one of these shady non-investment investments that used to be fashionable? Tbh I could never quite get my head around it.
    Dodgy boy Lineker was in on that fiddle as well:

    https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/beckham-lineker-and-rooney-lose-film-scheme-appeal/a1080180
    That seemed odd too. HMG gave tax allowances to encourage film-making and the films were actually made.

    On an unrelated note, as a PAYE tax-payer who was made redundant, presumably Rishi should be sending me a refund cheque soon.
    They lost the Appeal.

    I have forgotten just how it worked.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,216
    Sir John on the Montgomeryshire result - the LibDem collapse may not bode well for their prospects in neighbouring Brecon....
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,695

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    What Mandelson doesn't acknowledge is that Hartlepool was mostly lost in the New Labour years and flatlined since, with a small bump under the coalition. The Coalition demolished the LDs, then the Tories swallowed UKIP/BXP.

    https://twitter.com/ElectionsIan/status/1381514512893894656?s=19
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    MattW said:

    MattW said:

    Cookie said:

    While Labour councillors have been banging on about Free Palestine on the campaign trail...the government talking about the bins.

    A new battle plan will mean that every home in England will stick to the same system to recycle plastic, paper and other materials.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14875570/council-end-barmy-recycling-postcode-lottery

    I hear so much genuine anger that different areas do this differently. This is an anger I simply can't understand. It's the work of minutes to understand your own area's recycling system. Still, the government appears to be responding to a genuine demand here.
    The concern of course must be that this might result in a poorer service in some areas that currently have very good recycling systems.

    Currently Lincolnshire has a brilliant system. They have a single bin which takes just about everything that can possibly be recycled and then it is sorted by the private contractor (Mountain in our area). This makes recycling quick, easy and efficient and you really see a difference with very little going into the landfill bin.

    Across the border in Nottinghamshire they also have a single bin system but what you can recycle is severely limited. So no glass for example. Or tetrapacks. This means that my Mum saves all this stuff up and gives it to me to put in my recycling bin each time I see her.

    So if the rationalising means Lincolnshire end up with the Nottinghamshire system then that would be a very retrograde step.
    Speaking from Nottinghamshire I have a blue bin for my glass, which is collected once a fortnight.
    Interestingly that doesn't exist in Newark and Sherwood. So the differences are down to district council level. Indeed my daughter is at Uni in Nottingham and they again have a completely different system.
    Yes, and bin colours are inconsistent.

    I (Ashfield) have:

    Green lid recycling.
    Red lid general waste.
    Brown garden waste, which costs £28 a year.
    Smaller blue lid for glass every 8 weeks (not 2).

    Since I started serious composting my recycling is 60% less. Which means that Ashfield's recycling performance is worse as the % in the green bin is now much lower. KPIs !
    They have an algorithm for factoring in the estimated amount composted.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    edited May 2021
    Aberdeen Donside note.

    The sitting MSP was ex of the SNP, resigning after allegation he was inappropriate with women.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,409

    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)

    Only one result. But that is good for Labour. Maybe Drakeford will save the day?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,590
    RobD said:

    DavidL said:

    RobD said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    Chameleon said:


    Nick Eardley
    @nickeardleybbc
    ·
    11m
    Tories in Scotland fear increased turnout is translating to support for SNP, one senior source warning a SNP landslide in constituencies could be on the cards

    SCon mood music was all good until the ballot boxes started opening.
    Twas the grear unknown

    was the unknown voter Better Together or coming out to ensure the SNP got such a majority a referendum is unavoidable.

    And it seems to be the latter.
    Too early to say. Could yet be either.
    Not if the Tories are worried about Dumfries.
    I was bemused by that. This bizarre campaign focused on the peach (list) vote was just bewildering.
    Can you explain what the peach vote is please? For those of us not aware?

    Is it seriously just the list vote?
    I'm guessing it's just the colour of the list ballot.
    Correct. That was the colour of the regional vote and the constituency was purple.
    I assume old-fashioned white is just unacceptable these days? ;)
    After the mess of the 2007 elections in Scotland, they can’t be too careful.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6637387.stm
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    Off topic, US payrolls quite a disappointment. Well short of expectations.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,911
    edited May 2021
    kinabalu said:

    MrEd said:

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1390591421044887553

    Latest from Sir John Curtice: In places last contested in 2016, there is a swing of 10 points from Labour to Tory in places where relatively large numbers of people have no qualifications, whereas there is a slight swing to Labour in places with a large number of graduates.

    Interesting. I know it is a non-PC thing to say but it infers susceptibility to Boris Johnson's message is proportionate to the lack of education of the overall electorate. Combine this with the more educated folk that would never vote Labour (particularly the more prosperous) and it is a cynical but winning formula.
    Good point.
    Lack of education doesn't equate to lack of intelligence. Some of the biggest idiots out there are the most educated *

    * Let me qualify that, I should have omitted the "Some of"
    It certainly does not equate - ridiculous to think so. But it does, I'd have thought, correlate to a significant extent. And this is what counts when making macro arguments.
    Correlation will have increased recently but it was not so long ago that post-15 or 16 education was largely determined by wealth and class.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930
    justin124 said:

    The Mayoral elections have been deferred from last year due to Covid. Does that mean that those elected today will have a reduced 3 year term with elections again due in 2024?

    Reduced to three years.

    https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8856/CBP-8856.pdf
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    dixiedean said:

    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)

    Only one result. But that is good for Labour. Maybe Drakeford will save the day?
    Probably a tactical Labour vote for the LDs unwinding in the wake of the latter having lost their former strength.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,201

    MattW said:

    Cookie said:

    While Labour councillors have been banging on about Free Palestine on the campaign trail...the government talking about the bins.

    A new battle plan will mean that every home in England will stick to the same system to recycle plastic, paper and other materials.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14875570/council-end-barmy-recycling-postcode-lottery

    I hear so much genuine anger that different areas do this differently. This is an anger I simply can't understand. It's the work of minutes to understand your own area's recycling system. Still, the government appears to be responding to a genuine demand here.
    The concern of course must be that this might result in a poorer service in some areas that currently have very good recycling systems.

    Currently Lincolnshire has a brilliant system. They have a single bin which takes just about everything that can possibly be recycled and then it is sorted by the private contractor (Mountain in our area). This makes recycling quick, easy and efficient and you really see a difference with very little going into the landfill bin.

    Across the border in Nottinghamshire they also have a single bin system but what you can recycle is severely limited. So no glass for example. Or tetrapacks. This means that my Mum saves all this stuff up and gives it to me to put in my recycling bin each time I see her.

    So if the rationalising means Lincolnshire end up with the Nottinghamshire system then that would be a very retrograde step.
    Speaking from Nottinghamshire I have a blue bin for my glass, which is collected once a fortnight.
    Interestingly that doesn't exist in Newark and Sherwood. So the differences are down to district council level. Indeed my daughter is at Uni in Nottingham and they again have a completely different system.
    Is N&S Tory? Mansfield is currently Lab. Ashfield is Independent.

    The only Ashfield changes have I think been "big spring clean" community skips, occasional free Bulky Waste collections.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    LD narrowly gain Market Rasen Wolds from Con.

    The "nice place to live" vote swinging firmly back behind the LibDems...
  • 3ChordTrick3ChordTrick Posts: 98
    dixiedean said:

    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)

    Only one result. But that is good for Labour. Maybe Drakeford will save the day?
    Labour very confident they've had a good election at the upper end of expectations.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    RobD said:

    justin124 said:

    The Mayoral elections have been deferred from last year due to Covid. Does that mean that those elected today will have a reduced 3 year term with elections again due in 2024?

    Reduced to three years.

    https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8856/CBP-8856.pdf
    Thanks.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    @Charles ”taking the knee” is a completely neutral act in terms of UK voters interests. It has neither positive nor negative effects.

    It’s symbol that he is in thrall to political winds of woke rather than thinking about his bosses’ concerns
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    Clive Lewis calling for PR and cross-party co-operation
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,418
    Labour lose 2 seats in Durham to the Tories. Lanchester. It’s a seat that never should be labour.
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760
    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868

    LD narrowly gain Market Rasen Wolds from Con.

    The "nice place to live" vote swinging firmly back behind the LibDems...

    Never diss John Lewis
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 22,827
    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    LD narrowly gain Market Rasen Wolds from Con.

    The "nice place to live" vote swinging firmly back behind the LibDems...

    Or is it just that tories in the leafier enclaves are sitting on their hands?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,409
    justin124 said:

    dixiedean said:

    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)

    Only one result. But that is good for Labour. Maybe Drakeford will save the day?
    Probably a tactical Labour vote for the LDs unwinding in the wake of the latter having lost their former strength.
    Yes. However, that's some increase in a place where there really was no earthly prospect of victory.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,978
    Alistair said:

    Aberdeen Donside note.

    The sitting MSP was ex of the SNP, resigning after allegation he was inappropriate with women.

    Also a (comparatively) Brexity constituency according to Sir John?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,198

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    Quite. London will not be voting for a party that has "Brexit attitudes".

    FFS.
  • kjhkjh Posts: 11,793

    IanB2 said:

    Montgomeryshire:

    TORY hold

    with 48% of the vote. PC 18%, LD 17%

    Tories up 6%, PC up 8%, Lab up 8%, LDs down 11%

    Always good to be reminded that Nick Clegg was only the second most disastrous LibDem politician of recent years, after Lembit Opik.

    (Though Danny Alexander is in with a shout, too.)
    I never understood why Lembit Opik was put in there. If a local person was positive asset there would be it.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,418

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    I’m getting mine, not that many seem interested in labour likely,losing control in Durham, from the county council twitter feed.
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760

    Montgomeryshire

    Con 48.1% (+6.3)
    Plaid 17.9 (+ 7.7)
    LD 16.8 (-10.9)
    Lab 14.3 (+8.4)

    Where are you getting the results Andrea?

  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    kinabalu said:

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    Quite. London will not be voting for a party that has "Brexit attitudes".

    FFS.
    So London won't win general elections. Cool.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    edited May 2021
    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760
    Taz said:

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    I’m getting mine, not that many seem interested in labour likely,losing control in Durham, from the county council twitter feed.
    Taz said:

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    I’m getting mine, not that many seem interested in labour likely,losing control in Durham, from the county council twitter feed.
    Ah okay. I'm after preferably one site or twitter which streams latest results around the country. Not finding BBC or Sky easy to follow for raw results.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    Today's results - so far - appear to convey a much more mixed message compared with what we saw overnight.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,668
    kinabalu said:

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    Quite. London will not be voting for a party that has "Brexit attitudes".

    FFS.
    If you interpret it as a "can do attitude" as opposed to an "EU/WTO/computer says no attitude" then it's universally applicable.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,845

    LD narrowly gain Market Rasen Wolds from Con.

    The "nice place to live" vote swinging firmly back behind the LibDems...

    Or is it just that tories in the leafier enclaves are sitting on their hands?
    Over 22 councils that have been called the Lib Dems are up a net 4 councillors compared to 71 for the Tories. They are holding their own but not really any more than that.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    There is a good site I use called politicalbetting.com, a few overly obsessed with culture wars or pineapples but otherwise a lovely place and highly recommended.
    I prefer palatialbetting.com.
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    Sam Coates Sky
    @SamCoatesSky
    ·
    18s
    2021 has been The Brexit Election (again)

    Look at these two charts from
    @skynews
    data team and
    @drjennings


    Tories clearing hoovering up ex Brexit vote

    More evidence of a big post-2017 realignment

    https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1390642890993455106

    Sky News will be calling the 2034 general election The Brexit Election at this rate.
    They will do if people keep insisting on fighting lost battles.
  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    There is a good site I use called politicalbetting.com, a few overly obsessed with culture wars or pineapples but otherwise a lovely place and highly recommended.
    You also have to deal with the occasional mention of Radiohead, but otherwise, as said, a lovely place.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    I am agog.
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760
    s

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    There is a good site I use called politicalbetting.com, a few overly obsessed with culture wars or pineapples but otherwise a lovely place and highly recommended.
    It's not a results service and I said I'd like something without commentary or trolling ;)

    Seriously. Is there no one site in the UK which just gives the bloody results?!!!!!!
  • AndreaParma_82AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    The London Elects live result page is up running again
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,418
    Another labour loss in Durham. 1 seat. Bishop middleham and cornforth. We’re heading to NOC
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Will the Scottish constituencies be announced today? With just the List tomorrow?

    It the SNP win a majority it's probably on Constituencies alone, so is it possible essentially for an SNP majority to be achieved today even before the List is counted?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930

    Will the Scottish constituencies be announced today? With just the List tomorrow?

    It the SNP win a majority it's probably on Constituencies alone, so is it possible essentially for an SNP majority to be achieved today even before the List is counted?

    I think about 30 constituency seats are due tomorrow.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,479
    kinabalu said:

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    Quite. London will not be voting for a party that has "Brexit attitudes".

    FFS.
    Forget Brexit, the solution is for Labour to make a fresh new internationalist case from outside the EU. That way, you respect Leave and British independence but, crucially, you can also offer something to the core Labour base that the Tories never will as well - thus taking both sides with you.

    This is so fricking obvious yet so few in Labour seem to get it.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 8,729
    kinabalu said:

    Taz said:

    Third labour loss in Durham. 1 seat to Lib Dem’s in Aycliffe north. It’s odd how the seats closer to Hartlepool are relatively good for labour.

    What I found interesting that the urban core of Blyth and Ashington (in Northumberland) is still solidly Labour. It's the outskirts where the Persimmon new-builds are aplenty where the Tory vote is the strongest, like @Philip_Thompson says.
    So, Bob has gone blue but Terry stays red?
    I'm just old enough to get that, but only due to repeats and due to my parents watching it.
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
    I think they're hindered by novelty and a clunky name. That first time around turnout for these was very low. Its no surprise that its climbing upwards.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,705

    Will the Scottish constituencies be announced today? With just the List tomorrow?

    It the SNP win a majority it's probably on Constituencies alone, so is it possible essentially for an SNP majority to be achieved today even before the List is counted?

    Not all constituencies are declaring today as I understand it, so I doubt a result today will be clear, but perhaps inferrable.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
    I think they're hindered by novelty and a clunky name. That first time around turnout for these was very low. Its no surprise that its climbing upwards.
    Should have gone for "First Crime Lord" or some such.
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760

    kinabalu said:

    Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago.

    " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “Brexit attitudes” if it wanted to win back voters in places like his old constituency. He said that during the campaign voters did not raise the issue of leaving the EU on the doorstep. But he suggested that “Brexit attitudes” were now more important than class in determining how people voted, and that Labour had to respond."

    Such a one-dimensional strategy will just result in the loss of London and many similar places to the Lib Dems and Greens, and the reversal of the small inroads into the wider South Labour is making. Labour has to do something much more subtle and challenging than this - it needs to create a common thread between the two places. The Red Wall seats can't win it for Labour alone, clearly, if they lose large areas of metropolitan Britain, too. If Mandelson is advising Starmer purely on this basis, that doesn't inspire much confidence in Labour's future, to me.

    Quite. London will not be voting for a party that has "Brexit attitudes".

    FFS.
    Forget Brexit, the solution is for Labour to make a fresh new internationalist case from outside the EU. That way, you respect Leave and British independence but, crucially, you can also offer something to the core Labour base that the Tories never will as well - thus taking both sides with you.

    This is so fricking obvious yet so few in Labour seem to get it.
    Almost every word of that paragraph is wrong.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,198

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    ridaligo said:

    New thread damnit ...

    FPT

    So Labour lefties think that the reason they lost Hartlepool was because they weren't loony lefty enough? And the response to the huge defeat there is to double down on Corbyn policies? If that is the case they are deluded beyond belief. Sorry, Jezziah, but your diagnosis is so, so wrong.

    In trying to hold both the metro elite and the working class Labour vote together SKS has an impossible task: you can't take the knee wrapped in the Union flag and please both constituencies; you end up alienating both of them. He needs to choose, as Casino mentioned upthread.

    Despite people on the left of centre deriding the "culture war" as non-existent, to me it is very real. I was amazed by last evening's discussion on here that so many people had never experienced the impact of wokeness as work. I work for a large US (East Coast) global corporation and our senior management and HR are obsessed by it - our cooperate intranet is like the BBC home page with article after article on E, D & I. Maybe smaller UK firms have yet to be afflicted by it but if anyone has access to the CIPD magazine you will get an idea what is coming in terms of UK HR - the CIPD has bought into the woke agenda hook, line and sinker.

    This stuff is not going away. The people of Hartlepool may not be exposed to it in the workplace (yet) but they can see the way it is affecting popular culture and they don't like it.

    For now, the Conservatives have parked their tanks on Labour's lawn when it comes to government spending and Boris is seen as standing up for traditional British values. Labour's only response to government spending is to spend more, which lacks credibility, and it appears to be actively against traditional British values.

    So what does Labour do? Is the plan to sit and wait for the Tories to implode (most likely when the COVID spending chickens come home to roost), keep the fragile coalition together and hope that by that time demographics have worked in its favour? It might work but it doesn't really address the fundamental issue of where it stands on the British values question.

    Blair won for a reason; when the time came, mainstream Britain was not repelled by Labour. It is now.

    I have worked in HR for many years. I am instinctively right of centre politically. Sorry to break it to you, but diversity and inclusion is not about "wokeness", it is about the fact that it has been clearly proven that diverse teams are more innovative, and paradoxically perhaps, more cohesive. Maintaining the team profiles (particularly senior ones) of yesteryear that were dominated by middle aged white men is not in any organisations' interest. Most companies are recognising this, though it is a difficult challenge to address without "positive discrimination" or "affirmative action" (as it is called in the US) which is illegal in this country. One of the ways to challenge it is to promote literature and documentation that promotes the change. Hope that helps!
    Excellent post, Nigel. There are valid concerns about woke but my strong sense of the more ardent antiwokerati is they are a motley mix of the plain ignorant and those more knowing who are eminently comfortable with the old hierarchies and affronted by them being challenged.
    Indeed. I think part of the challenge for those of us who recognise the benefits of diversity is that it is made harder as a message by people on the woke extreme. That said, today's "PC gone mad" may well be seen by future generations as perfectly normal. Look how perceptions have changed with respect to gay people.
    To make a point the other way, I think a danger of woke is that the message, "just being not racist is a cop out, you must be an ANTI racist" can be (wrongly) taken as an instruction to view everything through the prism of race. You can then if you're not careful find yourself thinking about race all the time. Which is what racists do.
    Good for you for posting that - that's progress.

    Otherwise, I'm leaving the culture war stuff for today, as I'm focussing on the results and my betting.
    Objective to a fault, all know that. My blessing. My curse. :smile:
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,362
    edited May 2021
    Tories up in Western isles, SNP and LDs down

    Not major, but hmmm

    But an SNP hold
  • AndreaParma_82AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Na h-Eileanan an Iar

    SNp 51.4 (-0.7)
    Lab 27.7 (+2.1)
    Con 14.6 (+3.2)
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,079
    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy

    EH? It was a Lib Dem seat, whats the result?
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 8,729
    RobD said:

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
    I think they're hindered by novelty and a clunky name. That first time around turnout for these was very low. Its no surprise that its climbing upwards.
    Should have gone for "First Crime Lord" or some such.
    Law abiding decent folk are rightly unwilling to vote for anyone who wants to be a "crime comissioner"
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,409
    Taz said:

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    I’m getting mine, not that many seem interested in labour likely,losing control in Durham, from the county council twitter feed.
    I am interested. What are the cumulative scores on the doors thus far?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930
    Cicero said:

    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy

    EH? It was a Lib Dem seat, whats the result?
    I think that's Western Isles?
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 22,827

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
    I think they're hindered by novelty and a clunky name. That first time around turnout for these was very low. Its no surprise that its climbing upwards.
    Whatever next, party political elections for headteacher of local school? If the two best candidates for police and crime commissioner happen to both be Tories, or both be Labour then the election should be between them, not one from each party for the sake of it.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    edited May 2021
    West Dunbartonshire, Clydebank:

    SNP hold

    47% of the vote, down 3%, Labour up 10%, Tories down 7%

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,845
    Leon said:

    Tories up in Western isles, SNP and LDs down

    Not major, but hmmm

    Perthshire North and Perthshire South together wjth Angus North are the interesting ones.

    The SNP share does seem marginally down even although their votes are up (higher turnout). Not enough to move a lot of seats but some.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Floater said:

    https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1390635255380561922

    CONFIRMED: Tories win Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner on first round:
    Con: 74,023
    Lab: 39,467
    IND: 16,667
    LibDem: 6,540

    Not the most exciting of elections but still....

    I've never had the opportunity to vote for a police and crime commissioner but really couldn't care what party they are a member of. Surely it should be a matter of What is their experience? and Did the incumbent do a good or bad job?
    I think they're hindered by novelty and a clunky name. That first time around turnout for these was very low. Its no surprise that its climbing upwards.
    I don't know why they didn't just go for Police Commissioner.

    We could have had a Commissioner Gordon then.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy

    Western Isles! Not Shetland.
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,079
    RobD said:

    Cicero said:

    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy

    EH? It was a Lib Dem seat, whats the result?
    I think that's Western Isles?
    You´d think and FWIW they are about 300 miles apart
  • MikeLMikeL Posts: 7,706
    Scotland after 3 seats:

    SNP -1.6
    Con +5.8
    Lab -1.3
    LD -1.9
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,409

    s

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    There is a good site I use called politicalbetting.com, a few overly obsessed with culture wars or pineapples but otherwise a lovely place and highly recommended.
    It's not a results service and I said I'd like something without commentary or trolling ;)

    Seriously. Is there no one site in the UK which just gives the bloody results?!!!!!!
    Seems not. I, too, would like one.
  • AndreaParma_82AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Exeter final tally

    Labour won 7, Conservatives won 2.
    No changes
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,362
    DavidL said:

    Leon said:

    Tories up in Western isles, SNP and LDs down

    Not major, but hmmm

    Perthshire North and Perthshire South together wjth Angus North are the interesting ones.

    The SNP share does seem marginally down even although their votes are up (higher turnout). Not enough to move a lot of seats but some.
    So it sounds like almost status quo ante, the SNP maybe down a couple of seats. Tories up a couple?

  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    Selebian said:

    kinabalu said:

    Taz said:

    Third labour loss in Durham. 1 seat to Lib Dem’s in Aycliffe north. It’s odd how the seats closer to Hartlepool are relatively good for labour.

    What I found interesting that the urban core of Blyth and Ashington (in Northumberland) is still solidly Labour. It's the outskirts where the Persimmon new-builds are aplenty where the Tory vote is the strongest, like @Philip_Thompson says.
    So, Bob has gone blue but Terry stays red?
    I'm just old enough to get that, but only due to repeats and due to my parents watching it.
    Bob was only blue because Thelma would have killed him if he wasn't.

    Same with Jerry and Margo.
  • ridaligoridaligo Posts: 174

    ping said:

    Disaster for Labour.

    I quite like Starmer, but something has to change.

    I MAY need to change my Avatar before the weekend...
    Or you're going to have to design Starmer one of your Corbyn style bar charts.
    You might want to change yours Philip. You often claim not to be of the extreme right, but your avatar looks like something Tommy Robinson might have as a tattoo!
    I don't have any tattoos but if you think that it says more about you than it does me. When I changed it many people here across the political spectrum said they liked it.
    I thought I was being nice to you there Philip! OK, so in more detail, historically skulls are associated with the far right. The Nazis referred to them as "Totenkopf" (think I have spelt that correctly) or "death's head", and it was most notably used as insignia for the SS. It is also favoured by white supremacists. Skinheads often use skulls as "cool" insignia and I think they are also used by Combat 18. Obviously if you are comfortable with those associations....
    Bloody far right pirates. Totenkopf isn't the sole preserve of the far right, nor Nazi's. Unless the No. 100 RAF Squadron isn't telling us something.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf#:~:text=The Italian elite storm-troopers,death's head emblem in 1917.
    In fact, the Royal Lancers are *still* using this

    image
    Mark Felton covers this topic in a short Tube Video for those interested in the history of it.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    dixiedean said:

    s

    I'll try again, a different way.

    Can someone please tell me where you are getting results? BBC and Sky are hopeless.

    There is a good site I use called politicalbetting.com, a few overly obsessed with culture wars or pineapples but otherwise a lovely place and highly recommended.
    It's not a results service and I said I'd like something without commentary or trolling ;)

    Seriously. Is there no one site in the UK which just gives the bloody results?!!!!!!
    Seems not. I, too, would like one.
    @britainelects on Twitter is probably the best but even that's just selected results.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    RobD said:

    Cicero said:

    IanB2 said:

    Shetland Islands:

    SNP hold

    SNP vote level, rise for the Indy

    EH? It was a Lib Dem seat, whats the result?
    I think that's Western Isles?
    Yes, sorry.
  • AndreaParma_82AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Clydebank & Milngavie

    SNP 47.2
    Lab 33.2
    Con 11

    SNP -2
    Lab +9.7
    Con -7.4
  • Cocky_cockneyCocky_cockney Posts: 760
    IanB2 said:

    West Dunbartonshire, Clydebank:

    SNP hold

    Ian where are you getting your results please?

    Can someone please help me here? It's not a difficult question to answer, surely?

    Just need a results service I can run in the background whilst I work hence something commentary free preferably.

    Bloody hell. Just answer me plllllleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,813
    IanB2 said:

    West Dunbartonshire, Clydebank:

    SNP hold

    47% of the vote, down 3%, Labour up 10%

    Great result for Labour there. Tactical voting is going to abound I think
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,590
    eek said:

    Taz said:

    MattW said:

    Lineker's tax problem was a straight IR35 issue, wasn't it, rather than one of these shady non-investment investments that used to be fashionable? Tbh I could never quite get my head around it.
    Dodgy boy Lineker was in on that fiddle as well:

    https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/beckham-lineker-and-rooney-lose-film-scheme-appeal/a1080180
    Didn’t the BBC pay many of these liabilities in the past for wealthy ‘talent’ who fell foul of IR35 after the Christa Akroyd case got HMRC interested in this industry.
    Yep because the BBC were the people who created the mess by insisting the presenters (and others) used limited companies in an attempt to reduce the BBCs costs.
    Yes, the BBC insisted on it for most presenters, and the individuals concerned are now on the wrong end of HMRC and IR35 regulations.
  • HarryFreemanHarryFreeman Posts: 210
    MikeL said:

    Scotland after 3 seats:

    SNP -1.6
    Con +5.8
    Lab -1.3
    LD -1.9

    Unionists dipping their toes into tactical voting ?

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,845
    Strong tactical voting in Clydebank and Milngavie but not enough. Unionists got more but SNP win.
  • sarissasarissa Posts: 1,993
    Looks like the increased turnout in Scotland is helping the Unionist side more with tactical voting pretty evident.
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