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First.... Lib Dems sometimes do come in first, you know!!!

PClipp said:

First.... Lib Dems sometimes do come in first, you know!!!

Indeed so. 8/650 still qualifies as "sometimes".

Perusing the markets for race bets. Haven't really got going yet.

Sean_F said:

FPT UKIP's future, the likelihood is that in this Parliament, as in the second half of the last, disgruntled Conservatives will switch to UKIP, rather than Labour, giving the party a good poll rating. If there's a remain vote, then UKIP will likely top the poll in the Euro elections of 2019, which will coincide with the biggest round of local elections.

If Leave wins, then I'd expect UKIP to fade.

ANC still alive and well in SA.
Congress Party still alive, but probably not so well, in India

FrancisUrquhart said:

Crickey Ed Tombstone stumped by the genius IQ of Joey Essex. Even 2 E's Jezza managed to pass that test.

It's brilliant, I'd the distinct impression EdM didn't have a clue what Joey was saying apart from the word *kids*. His face was a total blank.

That he then asked the audience to reply just reinforced it. What a total keeper.

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Yes, it would be a comedy, if it weren't for the tragic need that we have for a credible, functioning opposition.

PClipp said:

First.... Lib Dems sometimes do come in first, you know!!!

Eight times as many as UKIP at GE2015 and six times as many in the 2016 locals.

Also the LDs generally hold on in council by-election defences unlike UKIP which has only many scraped home in two of the nine defences since May last year.

ThomasNashe said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Yes, it would be a comedy, if it weren't for the tragic need that we have for a credible, functioning opposition.

I'd settle for a credible, functioning government right now.

FrancisUrquhart said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Would that have been the Prime Minister of Essex or the whole of the UK?

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/the-world-according-to-joey-essex-best-quotes-from-the-im-a-celebrity-star-8951844.html

It's Corbynomics - "How many sides does a square have?...Six"

Plato_Says said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Would that have been the Prime Minister of Essex or the whole of the UK?

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/the-world-according-to-joey-essex-best-quotes-from-the-im-a-celebrity-star-8951844.html

It's Corbynomics - "How many sides does a square have?...Six"

Not sure Jezza subscribes to the manta "Look Reem, Be Reem, Smell Reem, Totally Reem" though..

ThomasNashe said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Yes, it would be a comedy, if it weren't for the tragic need that we have for a credible, functioning opposition.

Arguably, the Conservatives are providing that Opposition. Just not the credible functioning Government....

MarqueeMark said:

ThomasNashe said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Miss Plato, Miliband could plausibly have become PM.

And then Labour picked someone worse, because the MPs didn't understand the rules of their own leadership election.

*sighs*

Yes, it would be a comedy, if it weren't for the tragic need that we have for a credible, functioning opposition.

Arguably, the Conservatives are providing that Opposition. Just not the credible functioning Government....

They are providing both opposition and government but neither is credible.

Sean_F said:

HYUFD said:

MikeSmithson said:

PClipp said:

First.... Lib Dems sometimes do come in first, you know!!!

Eight times as many as UKIP at GE2015 and six times as many in the 2016 locals.

Also the LDs generally hold on in council by-election defences unlike UKIP which has only many scraped home in two of the nine defences since May last year.

UKIP got one and a half times the votes though at GE2015

UKIP have more support than the Lib Dems overall, 24 MEP's to 1, 7 AM's to 1, 2 London Assembly members to 1.

But the Lib Dems have 8 MP's to 1, 2000 councillors to 500, and 5 MSP's to 0. So, I think the Lib Dems can still claim third party status, but there's not much in it.

UKIP came third in the 2013 county council elections (at least in the popular vote) and will be hoping to do even better next year. If they win the 2019 Euro elections again and increase their vote and win a handful more MPs in 2020 too I think they can then be confirmed as the third party

JackW said:

Sean_F said:

UKIP have more support than the Lib Dems overall, 24 MEP's to 1, 7 AM's to 1, 2 London Assembly members to 1.

But the Lib Dems have 8 MP's to 1, 2000 councillors to 500, and 5 MSP's to 0. So, I think the Lib Dems can still claim third party status, but there's not much in it.

Surely third party status belong to the SNP.

Not UK wide no, they have first party status in Scotland but are only 5th across the UK in voteshare (and all their MPs come from Scotland)

HYUFD said:

Not UK wide no, they have first party status in Scotland but are only 5th across the UK in voteshare (and all their MPs come from Scotland)

With FPTP vote share is not directly relevant to party status. It doesn't matter where the MP's come from. Westminster is the UK parliament and you might recall a little referendum that secured that status.

I hold no candle for the Great Turnip Party but the SNP are clearly the third party of the UK and first party of Scotland.

Cyclefree said:

A question for the PB brains trust.

I have just received my polling card but about 10 days ago I applied for a postal vote as I shall be on holiday on the day of the vote.

Should I reapply for a postal vote? Or just wait?

Wait.

Postal votes are already dropping on mats. You might also check with your council to see if your application has been processed.

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

Not UK wide no, they have first party status in Scotland but are only 5th across the UK in voteshare (and all their MPs come from Scotland)

With FPTP vote share is not directly relevant to party status. It doesn't matter where the MP's come from. Westminster is the UK parliament and you might recall a little referendum that secured that status.

I hold no candle for the Great Turnip Party but the SNP are clearly the third party of the UK and first party of Scotland.

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

Not UK wide no, they have first party status in Scotland but are only 5th across the UK in voteshare (and all their MPs come from Scotland)

With FPTP vote share is not directly relevant to party status. It doesn't matter where the MP's come from. Westminster is the UK parliament and you might recall a little referendum that secured that status.

I hold no candle for the Great Turnip Party but the SNP are clearly the third party of the UK and first party of Scotland.

No they are not, to be the third party of the UK they would have to stand and win votes across the UK, they do not and have no intention to, they have not one MP south of Berwick. The SNP are a regional nationalist party who happen to have a large contingent of Scottish MPs to take to Westminster, they are not the UK's third party, they are Scotland's first party, there is a difference

VapidBilge said:

The sudden conversion of LibDems to FPTP has illustrated that they are without principle.

Their complete betrayal of their pledge to abolish tuition fees, after being elected on exactly that pledge, illustrates the same.

The removal of the Lib Dems at GE2015 was a necessary bit of electoral hygiene.

UKIP, for all their many faults, at least stand for something and have the scars to prove it.

BTW, the last time the Liberals won a national election was 1908. UKIP did it in 2014.

Absolute piffle.

1. Mike didn't endorse FPTP but simply noted the electoral stats.
2. The LibDems didn't win the 2010 general election and thus the tuition fee pledge was mute.
3. The Liberals last won a national election in 1906 not 1908.

I've been on Leave for a week or so, at 4.8. Might top up if above 5 next week.

Barnesian said:

JackW said:

Cyclefree said:

A question for the PB brains trust.

I have just received my polling card but about 10 days ago I applied for a postal vote as I shall be on holiday on the day of the vote.

Should I reapply for a postal vote? Or just wait?

Wait.

Postal votes are already dropping on mats. You might also check with your council to see if your application has been processed.

My wife and I have just posted our REMAIN votes.

It's a bit of an IQ test working out which bits of paper go in which envelopes facing which way.

Should favour the Remainers.

It is this sort of sentiment that will lose this for Remain

JackW said:

VapidBilge said:

The sudden conversion of LibDems to FPTP has illustrated that they are without principle.

Their complete betrayal of their pledge to abolish tuition fees, after being elected on exactly that pledge, illustrates the same.

The removal of the Lib Dems at GE2015 was a necessary bit of electoral hygiene.

UKIP, for all their many faults, at least stand for something and have the scars to prove it.

BTW, the last time the Liberals won a national election was 1908. UKIP did it in 2014.

Absolute piffle.

1. Mike didn't endorse FPTP but simply noted the electoral stats.
2. The LibDems didn't win the 2010 general election and thus the tuition fee pledge was mute.
3. The Liberals last won a national election in 1906 not 1908.

With hindsight what really did for the Libs was introducing the universal franchise which resulted in Labour replacing them. There's gratitude for you

VapidBilge said:

1. Was I supposed to have missed Mike's enthusiastic endorsement of the 'super-encumbency' theory?
2. The Lib Dems certainly ended up in the coalition Government, the only way they were ever going to be in government. The abandoned their flagship policy. They did the exact opposite.
3. You're right, it was 1906. I was far too generous to the Liberals. My bad.

What you were supposed to have done was :

1. Accurately reflect Mike's comment and not place your prejudices upon it.
2. Understand that the 2010-15 Coalition was what it said on the tin. Not a LibDem government.
3. Reflect that you being "generous" to the Liberals is a contradiction in terms.

surbiton said:

Is there any point talking about the referendum since RemaIN will by 58-42 anyway ?

Let's talk about cricket instead.

This is PB, surely we do both?

I wondered where my post went.. refreshed quite a few times thinking I was going mad.

F1: nothing's leaping out at me, though there are a few bets that look potentially interesting. May need to check the better forecast sites, not used them for a while.

GeoffM said:

surbiton said:

Is there any point talking about the referendum since RemaIN will by 58-42 anyway ?

Let's talk about cricket instead.

Anderson only 5 wickets away from 450 in Tests. Amazing achievement.
Might even make it in this innings the way things are going!

I don't think he gets the credit he deserves. He is certainly nowhere near as famous among the wider public, but that might be because of cricket being on Sky etc. But his figures (not only wickets) are basically as good as any of the great English bowlers, except Truman who had the tiny advantage of bowling on uncovered stone filled wickets.

Plato_Says said:

twitter.com/bernerlap/status/736454659125202945

Was it taxpayer funded, or just made to look like a government ad? I'm thinking of those Cruz fliers in the US.

FrancisUrquhart said:

surbiton said:

Is there any point talking about the referendum since RemaIN will by 58-42 anyway ?

Let's talk about cricket instead.

Hope nobody has Day 4 3 tickets...

Corrected...

RobD said:

I wondered where my post went.. refreshed quite a few times thinking I was going mad.

You are mad ....

PB is a course of therapy.

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

No they are not, to be the third party of the UK they would have to stand and win votes across the UK, they do not and have no intention to, they have not one MP south of Berwick. The SNP are a regional nationalist party who happen to have a large contingent of Scottish MPs to take to Westminster, they are not the UK's third party, they are Scotland's first party, there is a difference

By your logic at various times Labour and the Conservatives couldn't enjoy first or second party status in the UK because they didn't stand in Ulster and likewise the LibDems third party.

Frankly it doesn't matter where you stand in the UK. It's bums on seats for seats that count. A situation that is endorsed by the House of Commons where the SNP enjoy the status of the third party.

Nope. Ulster represents barely 2% of the UK population, so the main parties stand in 98% of the UK and the Tories also stood candidates in Ulster at the last election too. Scotland represents a little over 5% of the UK population so the SNP do not stand in 95% of the UK, a totally incomparable situation. The SNP came fifth in UK vote share at the last election. The SNP are not the third party anywhere in the UK, not in England, not in Wales and not in Ulster where they do not even stand and not in Scotland where they are the first party.

surbiton said:

Is there any point talking about the referendum since RemaIN will by 58-42 anyway ?

Let's talk about cricket instead.

Swap over the last digits and make it 52 48 Remain and you may be more plausible

HYUFD said:

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

No they are not, to be the third party of the UK they would have to stand and win votes across the UK, they do not and have no intention to, they have not one MP south of Berwick. The SNP are a regional nationalist party who happen to have a large contingent of Scottish MPs to take to Westminster, they are not the UK's third party, they are Scotland's first party, there is a difference

By your logic at various times Labour and the Conservatives couldn't enjoy first or second party status in the UK because they didn't stand in Ulster and likewise the LibDems third party.

Frankly it doesn't matter where you stand in the UK. It's bums on seats for seats that count. A situation that is endorsed by the House of Commons where the SNP enjoy the status of the third party.

Scotland represents a little over 5% of the UK population so the SNP do not stand in 95% of the UK, a totally incomparable situation.

I know the HYUFD red mist of stubborness has now descended wherein facts mean little, but it's actually 8.3%.

The way things are going we won't need any day 3 tickets - this could cost Durham a lot of money.

Leave stall by Britain First again in Leicester today, not being made welcome. Nice to see our Mayor taking the lead and working Saturday:

http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/City-mayor-Peter-Soulsby-challenged-Britain/story-29331811-detail/story.html#ixzz49xczwsG6

https://twitter.com/DryWhit/status/736567249671233536

Plato_Says said:

This looks fun viewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwm3QKrQlzU

Interesting how angry he gets at any suggestion that Labour has any problems with anti-semitism. Head in sand...

David_Evershed said:

Sri Lanka now 67 for 5 and unlikely to get as many runs as Moeen did on his own earlier today.

6 down...

JackW said:

RobD said:

I wondered where my post went.. refreshed quite a few times thinking I was going mad.

You are mad ....

PB is a course of therapy.

An ARSE a day.....

JackW said:

VapidBilge said:

The sudden conversion of LibDems to FPTP has illustrated that they are without principle.

Their complete betrayal of their pledge to abolish tuition fees, after being elected on exactly that pledge, illustrates the same.

The removal of the Lib Dems at GE2015 was a necessary bit of electoral hygiene.

UKIP, for all their many faults, at least stand for something and have the scars to prove it.

BTW, the last time the Liberals won a national election was 1908. UKIP did it in 2014.

Absolute piffle.

1. Mike didn't endorse FPTP but simply noted the electoral stats.
2. The LibDems didn't win the 2010 general election and thus the tuition fee pledge was mute.
3. The Liberals last won a national election in 1906 not 1908.

Do you remeber the campaign of the 1906 election Jack? How was it?

MikeL said:

Plato_Says said:

https://twitter.com/bernerlap/status/736454659125202945

Do we know for certain it wasn't an advert funded by Remain?

All the leavers want to do is moan about something. They've got no message so all they do is ble****g whinge.

" How Hillary Loses - Donald Trump can actually win if Clinton makes these four mistakes. Spoiler alert: She’s already making all of them.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/2016-election-hillary-clinton-campaign-loses-defeated-donald-trump-213924#ixzz49y6w2bUJ

https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/736587684777332737

https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/736588441836789760

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

Nope. Ulster represents barely 2% of the UK population, so the main parties stand in 98% of the UK and the Tories also stood candidates in Ulster at the last election too. Scotland represents a little over 5% of the UK population so the SNP do not stand in 95% of the UK, a totally incomparable situation. The SNP came fifth in UK vote share at the last election. The SNP are not the third party anywhere in the UK, not in England, not in Wales and not in Ulster where they do not even stand and not in Scotland where they are the first party.

And now you change your narrative. It's either all of the UK for all parties or not.

Give it up old chap. I have you by the short and curlies and you know it ....

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

Nope. Ulster represents barely 2% of the UK population, so the main parties stand in 98% of the UK and the Tories also stood candidates in Ulster at the last election too. Scotland represents a little over 5% of the UK population so the SNP do not stand in 95% of the UK, a totally incomparable situation. The SNP came fifth in UK vote share at the last election. The SNP are not the third party anywhere in the UK, not in England, not in Wales and not in Ulster where they do not even stand and not in Scotland where they are the first party.

And now you change your narrative. It's either all of the UK for all parties or not.

Give it up old chap. I have you by the short and curlies and you know it ....

As I said the Tories now do stand in Ulster anyway (you could also make a case Labour and the LDs do through their sister parties the SDLP and Alliance) but leaving that aside the point remains the Tories, the LDs, UKIP and Labour all stand in well over 90% of the UK, the SNP less than 10% of the UK on no plausible definition could a party which stands in less than 10% of a country ever be considered its third party!

ICYMI - Mr Lilico's 2p

"The EU is not an economic project. The main good things about it are not economic and the reasons for leaving are not economic either. The economic case for Brexit is not that there would be large economic gains; it is that there would not be prohibitive economic costs that make it unfeasible to secure the large geopolitical, self-determination and constitutional gains we can make by leaving.

Nonetheless, there is a chance that if all goes well, Brexit could be economically beneficial over the medium term. How so? After all, the Treasury says the UK would sacrifice 6 per cent of GDP growth by 2030 by leaving. How might we gain, instead?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/why-leaving-the-eu-could-actually-be-to-our-economic-advantage/

MikeSmithson said:

MikeL said:

Plato_Says said:

https://twitter.com/bernerlap/status/736454659125202945

Do we know for certain it wasn't an advert funded by Remain?

All the leavers want to do is moan about something. They've got no message so all they do is ble****g whinge.

That's rich coming from the man who wrote a whole thread about how the Government might be justified in ignoring the whole referendum result because of a dodgy stat. And at the same time completely ignored the fact that the Remain side had also been attacked on the same day for their use of dodgy stats.

You really should look in the mirror more often Mike.

weejonnie said:

HYUFD said:

surbiton said:

Is there any point talking about the referendum since RemaIN will by 58-42 anyway ?

Let's talk about cricket instead.

Swap over the last digits and make it 52 48 Remain and you may be more plausible

Swap over the first digits now and you'll be even closer.

We will see on referendum night but I think you will be wrong

David_Evershed said:

JackW said:

HYUFD said:

Not UK wide no, they have first party status in Scotland but are only 5th across the UK in voteshare (and all their MPs come from Scotland)

With FPTP vote share is not directly relevant to party status. It doesn't matter where the MP's come from. Westminster is the UK parliament and you might recall a little referendum that secured that status.

I hold no candle for the Great Turnip Party but the SNP are clearly the third party of the UK and first party of Scotland.

Vote share at the 2015 General Election was

Con 36.9%
Lab 30.4%
UKIP 12.6%
LibD 7.9%
SNP 4.7%
Green 3.8%

So the SNP were a poor fifth in the UK.

They gave the other parties a chance by only standing in 59 seats. Imagine what would happen if they stood UK wide?