politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Results: March 20th 2014
Wroxham on Broadland (Liberal Democrat defence)
Result: Lib Dem 482 (48%), Con 341 (34%), UKIP 112 (11%), Lab 63 (6%)
Liberal Democrat HOLD with a majority of 141 (14%)
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Show me the crossover....show me the crossover!0
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Farewell Sir Peter Tapsell! Sir Peter gave up a lucrative City career for 50 years of service on the backbenches and was a great authority of expertise, particularly on foreign policy. He was also like me an Old Tonbridgian. I wish him a well deserved retirement0
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compouter2 said:
Show me the crossover....show me the crossover!
GoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaL !!
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Rather amusing photo of Dave and George pre-budget plotting how to win over the plebs!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152027408184033&set=a.90656209032.79792.742234032&type=1&theater0 -
The Turkish PM's ban on Twitter got off to a fantastic start with the President - from the same party - declaring it was unacceptable.
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Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
Poor night for UKIP too.0 -
Kippers tend to do better in the morning, OKC.OldKingCole said:Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
Poor night for UKIP too.
After a good breakfast.
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Sigh caught out by the new thread
FPT
@MorrisDancer
You could always have him make gunpowder. Flowers of sulphur were a traditional cure for many ills and may well be a pot of it in a fantasy larder. Saltpeter was used as a food preservative so likewise might be found in a larder. Charcoal I am sure you can come up with
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Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.0 -
Thanks, Harry ! Do we know the swings ?0
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Where is the result from Portsoken ward, city of london, or does Harry consider it to be a Parish Council?0
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Evening all and for any SNP friends who may be hovering, there were over 1100 registered delegates at the Scottish Tory Conference in Edinburgh last weekend.0
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What's wrong with them ?Easterross said:Evening all and for any SNP friends who may be hovering, there were over 1100 registered delegates at the Scottish Tory Conference in Edinburgh last weekend.
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Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.philiph said:Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.0 -
Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.nigel4england said:
Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.philiph said:Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.
It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)0 -
You calling me a pleb!JosiasJessop said:
Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.nigel4england said:
Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.philiph said:Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.
It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)0 -
So many have closed the rest are doing OK!nigel4england said:
You calling me a pleb!JosiasJessop said:
Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.nigel4england said:
Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.philiph said:Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.
It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)0 -
Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html0 -
Labour hires dedicated Ukip monitor as Farage says he is braced for 'vicious, insulting' attacks from Miliband's party
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586264/Labour-hires-dedicated-Ukip-monitor-Farage-says-braced-vicious-insulting-attacks-Milibands-party.html0 -
Just to confirm - the spelling is the reporter's not the PBer's. And the DT doesn't allow comments on the article.CarlottaVance said:Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html
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We're all plebs now, comrade!nigel4england said:
You calling me a pleb!JosiasJessop said:
Even the plebs are feeling the economic recovery.nigel4england said:
Just got back from the pub, my youngest granddaughter is staying over so me and the wife took for something to eat, the place was rammed.philiph said:Feel good returns.
The 1p off a pint seems to have multiplied the pub population by 10. Or everyone is so depressed they are drowning their sorrows.
It's good to see this government produce a budget policy that won't advantage Ed Miliband. After all, when was he last seen drinking a pint? ;-)0 -
"cow-towing"?
I see a Top Gear special in the offing.....0 -
Yes, well, we can rely on a certain amount of spin and licence but there's an underlying point.Tykejohnno said:Labour hires dedicated Ukip monitor as Farage says he is braced for 'vicious, insulting' attacks from Miliband's party
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586264/Labour-hires-dedicated-Ukip-monitor-Farage-says-braced-vicious-insulting-attacks-Milibands-party.html
In a week where the Budget has been widely seen as being aimed at UKIP's core support, it suits both Nigel Farage and Ed Miliband to raise the profile of both parties by creating a tension between them.
Farage knows a potentially successful Budget and a Conservative revival renders him and his party increasingly irrelevant (and no politician likes that) while Miliband knows his route to No.10 will be greatly eased by a solid 7-10% UKIP vote.
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One up to The Herald:Carnyx said:
Just to confirm - the spelling is the reporter's not the PBer's. And the DT doesn't allow comments on the article.CarlottaVance said:Ian Davidson is providing great off message copy:
New Labour is to blame for bringing about the Scottish independence referendum because it abandoned the interests of its core voters, one of the party's own MPs claimed yesterday.
Ian Davidson said Tony Blair's adoption of privitisation and "cow-towing" to America drove Labour supporters into the arms of the SNP despite their separatist policies........
They appear to run against the Scottish Labour leadership's attempts to paint the independence referendum as an Alex Salmond obsession which runs against the desires of most Scots.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10715010/New-Labour-are-to-blame-for-the-Scottish-independence-vote.html
When Labour in Scotland attached themselves to New Labour, with its policies of privatisation and kowtowing to the Americans, we quite clearly got ourselves out of step with the majority of Scottish opinion.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/labour-politicians-our-complacency-opened-the-door-to-indyref.1395417053
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Regular readers of PB might have noticed that I've been banging on for many months about how the financial markets have been underestimating the 2015 political risk in the UK.
Looks like they're waking up - see the lead story (and the rather good front-cover graphic) here:
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/
The article itself is paywalled:
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/2014/03/21/shares/hazard-warning-s9ba3fXiqExPWo8sGKdh2H/article.html
Key quote:
When James Clunie, manager of Jupiter Asset Management's Absolute Return Fund, was asked at a recent media gathering how scared investors should be of Ed Miliband, he replied: "Very scared - on a scale of one to 10, eight or nine."
Even though the markets are now aware of the Miliband risk, I don't think they've quite yet cottoned on to the no-viable-government risk, which IMHO is an even greater worry.
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"Revealed: the final 54 minutes of communication from MH370":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10714907/Revealed-the-final-54-minutes-of-communication-from-MH370.html0 -
Not sure how you get that idea. In three wards where they did not previously stand candidates they gained 11%, 17% and 19% of the vote. From nothing. In two of those wards they beat the Lib Dems.OldKingCole said:Where the LD's have a history and an organisation ….. good result. Where they haven't …… disaster.
Poor night for UKIP too.0 -
Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html0 -
I thought they were going to add an additional council tax band at the top end for circa. 1.5m or 2m plus properties.Tykejohnno said:Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html0 -
philiph said:
I thought they were going to add an additional council tax band at the top end for circa. 1.5m or 2m plus properties.Tykejohnno said:Front page,bottom of telegraph front page,Treasury is preparing a mansion tax for next year,says Danny Alexander.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/95012/the_daily_telegraph_saturday_22nd_march_2014.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10714853/Newsnight-economics-editor-Duncan-Weldons-embarrassing-fascist-past.html
I thought the BBC were full of lefties !0 -
Fascism is a thing of the Left, yes.surbiton said:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10714853/Newsnight-economics-editor-Duncan-Weldons-embarrassing-fascist-past.html
I thought the BBC were full of lefties !
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