LAB has 9% lead in BBC Projected National Share – politicalbetting.com
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As I mentioned in the previous thread the economy is growing faster and inflation is proving stickier than predicted by the official models. More like what was suggested by me, in fact. Whether that will be enough to repair the damage over the next 18 months remains to be seen.
House of Commons on today's NEV Labour 312, Conservatives 226, LDs 40, Others 72
I SUSPECT but don't KNOW that a large part of the 72 are SNP MPs, the swings in the local elections if simply replicated in Scotland would not make a lot of difference. However it appears that there may be a larger SNP to LAB swing per the latest polls so the underlying position for LAB might be better than 312.
Lab +264
Con -470
LD +151
IND -38
Grn +105
RA -4
So, if the 2nd half matched the first it will be -940 for the Tories by the end.
Do they control any other councils (other than Brighton)??
9 point lead and they lost in a landslide just over 3 years ago
Anyway, my pavement pounding in Brixham helped get a Conservative council gain in Torbay. Possibly the only one in the elections? So I'm feeling my efforts really made a difference.
As I reported, don't get carried away. There's no love for Labour or Starmer out there in voter land...
Granted there has been a lot of anti-Tory tactical voting going on but I don't know... No wonder Curtice is hedging his bets..
In theory, if you had a burst of inflation from a specific source like gas it could go without wider damage but in practice the ripple effects on wages, goods produced with energy, transport etc spread out and assuming there is not going to be a reaction to that is, well, optimistic.
#why politics is not like football.
And Totnes and the Dart Valley are like Summerisle in the Wicker Man.
But 'Scotland, Scotland?', I hear you ask. Well, quite. The historical comparatives are with the periods when Labour dominated Scottish Westminster seats. They need to do at least as well as, or preferably better than, they've done in the locals in England & Wales, AND claw back a good chunk of the seats they've mislaid in Scotland.
Sunak = toast.
Just yesterday went shopping for double glazing, here in the midlands. I started pushing them a bit on price and the boss, clearly with not much to do, introduced himself and took over from the salesman.
He gave the impression things are a bit grim, looking forward, and he used the word “recession” more than once.
The omens aren’t good, whatever the stats say.
I have to genuinely ask the question, without any irony:
SKS fans, please explain?
perhaps I owe him an apology
If we have only reached half seat stage, can’t rule out Tory’s going over 1000 losses.
Was a bit over 33% (maybe 35%?) around 5am.
I could quite easily see that being a tad higher, or indeed lower and getting us into HP territory. What I don't see in the tea leaves right now is Labour cruising for a 80+ seat majority or similar.
"Boris Johnson records election clip inside moving car without seatbelt on"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/05/boris-johnson-records-election-clip-inside-moving-car-without-seatbelt-on
"Boris Johnson could add to his record of minor criminal misdemeanours after being filmed inside a moving car while apparently not wearing a seatbelt, an offence for which Rishi Sunak was fined in January.
The 42-second clip, recorded for a local Tory group, sees Johnson in the back of a moving car, urging people in Derbyshire to vote in Thursday’s local elections.
Johnson says to the camera: “Hi folks, this is Boris Johnson appealing to all Derbyshire Conservatives to get out tomorrow.” He appears to be not wearing a seatbelt."
So that's 22 other others, which would mean 50 SNP, which seems on the high side. Shift 20 from SNP to Labour and they're on 332.
Had you offered Labour that in January 2020, they'd have taken that. Right now, I suspect the big three parties would all settle for that, and the country would probably be broadly OK with it.
But I have to call it as I see it and whilst yes this has been a bad result for CON a 9% LAB lead and especially the 35% projected vote share and 4-5% Con to Lab swing just looks a bit... low in the circumstances?
Also there is still half to count, before we write it up as 9% PNS is the final headline.
There are still lots of things for SKS fans to be explaining.
I for one, that somewhat fears a Labour majority, but think that the Tories need a reset, will be OK with Labour minority government with LDs supporting
Linked again here:
https://beyondthetopline.substack.com/p/forget-the-party-spin-what-does-history
There are some tenement blocks in Paignton in the Torbay seat that are startlingly grim.
This is obviously completely different to state borrowing and nothing like that at all. No, sir.
Labour has done well, but not as well as predicted. That was what I predicted. I predicted the overhyped prediction of the SKS fans, and I am enjoying pissing on their parade just a bit by crowing about my prediction
And hardly surprising, really, in wake of Rishi Sunak seat-belt infraction, nobody in BoJo's bozo squad is smart enough to NOT repeat that gaffe.
You'd never know the LibDems signed that contract from their election literature...
I was going on the PNS (and current opinion polls) mostly, but I was quite unclear with 'disliked'. 'Less popular' (or indeed spelling out that I was talking about polling and PNS) would have been clearer..
They will form the administration - I don't see much possibility that the other opposition parties would try and bring it down. Even if they tried to govern as a minority government (supply and confidence?) rather than formal coalition.
As to a majority.... That is currently in play, I think. Could go either way.