Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Andrew Neil @afneil · 4h What’s happening in English politics is unique: it’s a watershed, with rules being radically rewritten, not because an insurgent party is successfully challenging an unpopular incumbent (that happens) but because a popular incumbent is savaging an unpopular opposition.
Difficult to argue with that. What's bizarre is that these situations were always used to give the incumbents a thumping, if for no other reason than, to keep them honest. Now they're being used to express gratitude and admiration for the PM. I hope this doesn't continue as it ultimately may not be healthy.
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Has any other party made an election song like Binface ? (70K views on youtube)
Andrew Neil @afneil · 4h What’s happening in English politics is unique: it’s a watershed, with rules being radically rewritten, not because an insurgent party is successfully challenging an unpopular incumbent (that happens) but because a popular incumbent is savaging an unpopular opposition.
Ex Labour voters in Essex now on Radio 4 - 'Talking about wallpaper during a pandemic!' one of the things that comes up. The sheer PETTINESS of Labour is so unattractive.
The thing is not only during a pandemic, but they went big on this just when India crisis kicked off. The media and Labour were w##king themselves like Leon over a picture of Mark Drakeford around this issue, then would switch in the next instance to the scenes of 10,000+ Indians a day dying in the back of their cars, side walks outside hospitals etc while waiting for oxygen.
Add in the not inconsequential numbers of people from the Indian subcontinent in the UK and the leader of the party many vote for is dicking around in John Lewis when their uncle is on zoom begging for money for a black market oxygen tank.
That isn't to say Tories mate rates contracts isn't an issue, but the timing....
Whenever I see another SMOULDERING picture of Welsh Labour Party leader Mark Drakeford - and, truth be told, I’ve never seen an UNsexy photo of him - I always hear the phrase “Ooooh, tromboning” in my head. Like some maddening sexual mantra
Am I alone? I doubt it. I’d wager half the country has an erotomaniac response to him, it’s just that so many partisan observers are unable to admit it
What does your wife think?
She wants me, her and the Drakeford to have a threesome. I’ve told her she’s likely to be disappointed, a guy like that must get these desperate sexual requests all the time. But I’ve promised her I’ll try my best to organize it
Any advice welcome. Have any other PBers had a FMM threesome with an elderly but very senior male figure in Welsh politics?
Drakeford of course has own distinctive dress sense -- here are his eponymous top and culottes, modelled by some of the lucky ladies that he is laying.
I have always felt the hysterical rage that some posters feels towards the Drake may perhaps have roots in sexual frustration, perhaps quantity or quality issues. There are deep waters here, who knows how the tender male psyche reacts when confronted with a five chillies hot Welsh university professor?
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I owe PB a personal apology for my fatally flawed anecdotal narrative that Johnson vaccinated Wales and Drakeford closed the pubs. Patently wrong. I hold my hands up.
It seems I had underestimated the love for the Drakester.
There’s a lot of hate coming your way for underestimating Drakeford. I’d duck back under cover if I were you.
I have just come home from a horrendous cross country trip from Llandudno to the other side of Leicester with weather unlike any other have I experienced in driving over 350 miles including aquaplaning, motorway warnings of standing water, three actual incidents of aquaplaning myself, and actually seeing a car on its side of the verge of the road near Leicester, obviously having hit standing water and finally in North Wales being slowed to a crawl due to supposed animals lose on the A55.
Leaving at 6.00am I have only just walked into the house (4.00pm) having at least been able to take my son to pick up his car. Mind you, they sell them here in Llandudno but what do I know
As far as Drakeford is concerned he benefitted from the vaccine bounce , that gave Boris his stunning successes in England and Sturgeon in Scotland
It would be churlish not to recognise his success, but the most important factor for me is Plaid being eliminated to third place and Leanne Wood storming out of the count
We have had a labour government for 22 years and now face another five years of health and education issues but to be fair to Drakeford, he has always supported the union and this result has consigned independence to an irrelevant issue
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
In London you are never more than 6 feet away from a Binface voter - probably
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Has any other party made an election song like Binface ? (70K views on youtube)
Screaming Lord Sutch, in his heyday, was a 1960s psychedelic musician, but I don't know if he made any songs specifically for elections.
meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . or mega-mansion . . .
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
For Sunil - You can actually view the waterfront of Xanadu 2.0 from you seat on a humble public bus, as it crosses the Highway 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington.
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Has any other party made an election song like Binface ? (70K views on youtube)
Screaming Lord Sutch, in his heyday, was a 1960s psychedelic musician, but I don't know if he made any songs specifically for elections.
Not sure IF this was for election broadcast, but believe it was a critique of the Macmillan-Hume administration?
This is going to be like BBC moving to Salford....
Probably.
There is a chance it could work. the suggestion is that constituency offices become local community hubs to build up grassroots support.
Labour ought to be able to do that sort of thing.
But they might fuck it up.
I wouldn't dismiss it. My local Labour Party has built up a very strong community presence, with volunteers helping out on all sorts of local projects and campaigns and 'doing good'. Its profile has been even higher during the pandemic, with much activity based around delivering food/prescriptions etc. I think it's been both noticed and effective. This was a Tory seat, marginal, in 2015 but now a very safe Labour seat. I wouldn't say that the community activism is mainly responsible for this, but it has certainly helped.
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Has any other party made an election song like Binface ? (70K views on youtube)
Screaming Lord Sutch, in his heyday, was a 1960s psychedelic musician, but I don't know if he made any songs specifically for elections.
Not sure IF this was for election broadcast, but believe it was a critique of the Macmillan-Hume administration?
His Lordship in his more Baroque and grisly period, almost a prototype for the Rolling Stones. Yes, don't know much more on the political content there.
This is going to be like BBC moving to Salford....
Probably.
There is a chance it could work. the suggestion is that constituency offices become local community hubs to build up grassroots support.
Labour ought to be able to do that sort of thing.
But they might fuck it up.
I wouldn't dismiss it. My local Labour Party has built up a very strong community presence, with volunteers helping out on all sorts of local projects and campaigns and 'doing good'. Its profile has been even higher during the pandemic, with much activity based around delivering food/prescriptions etc. I think it's been both noticed and effective. This was a Tory seat, marginal, in 2015 but now a very safe Labour seat. I wouldn't say that the community activism is mainly responsible for this, but it has certainly helped.
What Labour needs to do IMHO is to allow/enforce candidate selection in these areas with candidates that are actually from these areas, that they choose. No more parachuting in, or the leader's office getting involved. If Labour wants to be from these communities then it should be.
The problem with Salford Quays is that it's like a tiny bit of London transplanted to Greater Manchester. I've visited it a few times and it has that atmosphere.
What poor sods are moving to London then getting spat out to Luton and Coventry.....talk about a raw deal.
Question is if we all become 3 day a week WFHers, will the young still move to London in such large numbers? I definitely think we are going to continue to see exodus those to the regions. Why live in London with the cost and the crime, when you can sell up and have a decent house with a garden with less crime 2hrs outside of it, and still keep your jobs as you work remotely.
BBC and John Curtice now forecasting the SNP will NOT get a majority at Holyrood, the icing on the cake of a fantastic set of elections results for Boris
Foster, Simon John Labour and Co-operative Party 276,743 45.51% Singh Sohal, Jay The Conservative Party Candidate 239,288 39.35% Hunt, Jon Liberal Democrats 38,594 6.35% Hambleton, Jools Independent 27,664 4.55% Hoath, Mark William Reform UK 18,002 2.96% Jaddoo, Desmond Gustavus We Matter Party 7,745 1.27%
The problem with Salford Quays is that it's like a tiny bit of London transplanted to Greater Manchester. I've visited it a few times and it has that atmosphere.
You ought to have visited before It was re-developed!
BBC and John Curtice now forecasting the SNP will NOT get a majority at Holyrood, the icing on the cake of a fantastic set of elections results for Boris
SNP up, Greens probably up.
If they were Tories you'd be saying something completely different.
Binface holding steady at 1% in all still counting boroughs - will be close around the 20K Jackpot threshold but I am going to call it for him with errrmm 21,076 votes
The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably.
Has any other party made an election song like Binface ? (70K views on youtube)
Screaming Lord Sutch, in his heyday, was a 1960s psychedelic musician, but I don't know if he made any songs specifically for elections.
Not sure IF this was for election broadcast, but believe it was a critique of the Macmillan-Hume administration?
There's great footage (from BBC election night coverage) of Screaming Lord Sutch and Harold Wilson on same state in Huyton in 1966 when His Lordship ran against the PM as candidate for the National Teenage Party (at the age of 26) and received 585.
This was Sutch's first general election; he first stood for MP at the 1963 Stratford-on-Avon byelection triggered by resignation of . . . wait for it . . . John Profumo, where he garnered 208 votes.
The next big question is which camp in Scotland gets the most votes. It'll be much harder for Johnson to refuse a referendum if the independence parties do get more than 50%.
What poor sods are moving to London then getting spat out to Luton and Coventry.....talk about a raw deal.
Question is if we all become 3 day a week WFHers, will the young still move to London in such large numbers? I definitely think we are going to continue to see exodus those to the regions. Why live in London with the cost and the crime, when you can sell you and have a decent house with a garden with less crime 2hrs outside of it.
Of course choosing candidates based on where they come from on the assumption they'll win is in itself quite condescending. I guess my point is that Labour really needs to embed itself, listen and understand what it is these people want.
I think Labour really needs to make its credentials on crime, immigration, economic competence much stronger. I don't see the "wokeness" issue as a major one, it just needs to not get into these arguments with the Tories. The Tories are gagging for a war, Labour would be best to ignore it.
Somebody else for the SC is Rosie Duffield BTW, thoughts?
BBC and John Curtice now forecasting the SNP will NOT get a majority at Holyrood, the icing on the cake of a fantastic set of elections results for Boris
Believe that was also what Curtice was saying yesterday.
The problem with Salford Quays is that it's like a tiny bit of London transplanted to Greater Manchester. I've visited it a few times and it has that atmosphere.
You ought to have visited before It was re-developed!
Not a single place selling oat milk lattes for miles around....
Do people seriously think less of Starmer because Hartlepudlians and their ilk voted Tory?
I remember when Labour Wolverhampton came out in their droves to support Enoch Powell followed by the dockers and porters who marched through London. There are some very illiberal people who vote Labour and if they prefer Tory/UKIP so be it
Starmer shouldn't be 'listening'. We know the sound of the 'Little Englanders' He should set out a vision of liberal inclusiveness and if Labour's traditional supporters don't like it then go for constituencies that do. Johnson's welcome to the his 'Red Wall'. They deserve each other.
Do people seriously think less of Starmer because Hartlepudlians and their ilk voted Tory?
I remember when Labour Wolverhampton came out in their droves to support Enoch Powell followed by the dockers and porters who marched through London. There are some very illiberal people who vote Labour and if they prefer Tory/UKIP so be it
Starmer shouldn't be 'listening'. We know the sound of the 'Little Englanders' He should set out a vision of liberal inclusiveness and if Labour's traditional supporters don't like it then go for constituencies that do. Johnson's welcome to the his 'Red Wall'. They deserve each other.
The trouble with that is, the electorate elects the government.
Do people seriously think less of Starmer because Hartlepudlians and their ilk voted Tory?
I remember when Labour Wolverhampton came out in their droves to support Enoch Powell followed by the dockers and porters who marched through London. There are some very illiberal people who vote Labour and if they prefer Tory/UKIP so be it
Starmer shouldn't be 'listening'. We know the sound of the 'Little Englanders' He should set out a vision of liberal inclusiveness and if Labour's traditional supporters don't like it then go for constituencies that do. Johnson's welcome to the his 'Red Wall'. They deserve each other.
I've no idea why the Tories have been in power for 11 years....total mystery....
Aberdeenshire West - looks like a lot of Unionist tactical voting by LibDems.
Not been nearly enough of this though and boy have the SNP gained. The number of seats they have won whilst outnumbered by Unionists. Its infuriating and we may have a very high price to pay for such stupidity.
BBC and John Curtice now forecasting the SNP will NOT get a majority at Holyrood, the icing on the cake of a fantastic set of elections results for Boris
Boris can hold off on sending the tanks up to Hadrians Wall for now then!
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If the Greens make 100 that will be a super election for them.
Add in the not inconsequential numbers of people from the Indian subcontinent in the UK and the leader of the party many vote for is dicking around in John Lewis when their uncle is on zoom begging for money for a black market oxygen tank.
That isn't to say Tories mate rates contracts isn't an issue, but the timing....
Leaving at 6.00am I have only just walked into the house (4.00pm) having at least been able to take my son to pick up his car. Mind you, they sell them here in Llandudno but what do I know
As far as Drakeford is concerned he benefitted from the vaccine bounce , that gave Boris his stunning successes in England and Sturgeon in Scotland
It would be churlish not to recognise his success, but the most important factor for me is Plaid being eliminated to third place and Leanne Wood storming out of the count
We have had a labour government for 22 years and now face another five years of health and education issues but to be fair to Drakeford, he has always supported the union and this result has consigned independence to an irrelevant issue
And so I should say, well done to him
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1391026589111050241?s=20
There is a chance it could work. the suggestion is that constituency offices become local community hubs to build up grassroots support.
Labour ought to be able to do that sort of thing.
But they might fuck it up.
OTOH, small sample size and all that but we have 3 from 3 of governments getting a boost from their Covid actions, Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff.
Seattle Times ($) - Gateses' divorce ripples through worlds of real estate, global health, tech
Bill and Melinda Gates, who for decades have overseen one of history’s greatest fortunes and philanthropic operations, have filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage. The split is sure to have very public consequences, having already sent a wave of uncertainty through the worlds of philanthropy and community health. One sizable question: Who gets Xanadu 2.0, the family mansion? The couple raised their children and entertained world leaders in the 66,000-square-foot Medina dream (or nightmare) home, which once caused Melinda to have a “mini sort of personal crisis.” Wherever she ends up, her global influence could grow in intriguing ways.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
For Sunil - You can actually view the waterfront of Xanadu 2.0 from you seat on a humble public bus, as it crosses the Highway 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington.
So either they were in power then, or they’re not going to be now.
(As it happens, I agree with you, they weren’t in power.)
@MahyarTousi
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7 May
Reason #261 why Labour lost yesterday
Regardless, I'd like him to be advising Labour in the short term and in the longer term, we need him back in Parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibx1wZoqQIY
Con 19,709
SNP 16,319
LD 3,363
Lab 2,382
Balmoral country saves the Tories again.
Anyone else remotely that popular anywhere in the country ?
https://twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/status/1391049828898070530?s=20
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1391051629718278144
Question is if we all become 3 day a week WFHers, will the young still move to London in such large numbers? I definitely think we are going to continue to see exodus those to the regions. Why live in London with the cost and the crime, when you can sell up and have a decent house with a garden with less crime 2hrs outside of it, and still keep your jobs as you work remotely.
Foster, Simon John Labour and Co-operative Party 276,743 45.51%
Singh Sohal, Jay The Conservative Party Candidate 239,288 39.35%
Hunt, Jon Liberal Democrats 38,594 6.35%
Hambleton, Jools Independent 27,664 4.55%
Hoath, Mark William Reform UK 18,002 2.96%
Jaddoo, Desmond Gustavus We Matter Party 7,745 1.27%
has he defected and started his own brake away party, or rebranded?
The Conservative success in this constituency means that there is now no conceivable path to the SNP securing 65 seats.
At most they could now win 64 by picking up list seats in the Highlands and the South of Scotland.
The luck of the Boris strikes again!
If they were Tories you'd be saying something completely different.
This was Sutch's first general election; he first stood for MP at the 1963 Stratford-on-Avon byelection triggered by resignation of . . . wait for it . . . John Profumo, where he garnered 208 votes.
Or was it 209? Wiki says both!
The SNP will need either a coalition or confidence and supply arrangements with the Greens to govern in Scotland.
What does this mean for #IndyRef2? Will SNP go for it now? Will Johnson use the lack of SNP majority as a political argument to deny?
https://twitter.com/PME_Politics/status/1391052363935453184?s=20
That can't be right?
BUT that there will be an enhanced majority for independence in Holyrood of 15 after likely Green list results.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1391052693301563395
I think Labour really needs to make its credentials on crime, immigration, economic competence much stronger. I don't see the "wokeness" issue as a major one, it just needs to not get into these arguments with the Tories. The Tories are gagging for a war, Labour would be best to ignore it.
Somebody else for the SC is Rosie Duffield BTW, thoughts?
@DPJHodges
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13m
It's going to be funny watching the Left now try to claim Andy Burnham as one of their own.
"As many as you like, Ma'am....."
https://twitter.com/BallotBoxScot/status/1391051093006819334?s=20
I remember when Labour Wolverhampton came out in their droves to support Enoch Powell followed by the dockers and porters who marched through London. There are some very illiberal people who vote Labour and if they prefer Tory/UKIP so be it
Starmer shouldn't be 'listening'. We know the sound of the 'Little Englanders' He should set out a vision of liberal inclusiveness and if Labour's traditional supporters don't like it then go for constituencies that do. Johnson's welcome to the his 'Red Wall'. They deserve each other.
ScotFax
@scotfax
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2m
68 constituencies done.
There are 58,000 more voters for the union than for independence.
There are c212K voters to declare on the constituencies.
Lab 47.9%
Con 34.9%
Mayor 2021.
Burnham 67.3%
Con 16.9%
Well he's got some talent at least
"Where government gets it right I will work with them, where they don't, I will challenge them for you," he says.
He also uses his speech to make a plea for more devolution and pledges to give his region "a London-style transport system with London-style fares".
So costs going up then?
So what is going on in the West? It seems to me that rumours of Labour's death are greatly exaggerated
Boris can hold off on sending the tanks up to Hadrians Wall for now then!