As we near the time that polling stations open, can contributors to this blog please refrain from posting political material on May 6th (between 7am and 10pm)-
in line with media guidelines which prohibit anything which could be construed as influencing the ballots on polling day.
This needs to be emphasised as this club is full of easily persuadable swing
Those interested in the methods used to measure swing may find this BBC archive collection of interest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/swingometer/
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/2959490/Save-these-girls-brfrom-dole-queue.html
Please withdraw your biased illustration showing a swing to Labour. If I hadn't already voted I might have been subliminally influenced ......
ReplyDeleteMy election coverage from the soon to be independent Scotland.
ReplyDeleteI declared a Tory landslide on 19th March prior to those apparently historic debates and have refined it to a Tory majority in their wake. This is because we have a 'Two-Hoss Race' system which allows one of two horses to run the country. The current hoss is Scottish, 'unelected', and of course, he deliberately and single-handedly wrecked the economy. It seems that Bliars 'Mondeo Man' types really hate Brown. To see where this election is won and lost, you have to look south and east (unless you're in Kent of course). And there the election will be lost for Labour and won by the peculiarly old Etonian Conservatives. David Cameron & Gideon Osborne's snazzy new look tories have tried their utmost to keep heads down, logo's green and put all the eggs in the image basket. Simply being an alternative to Labours beguiling incompetence in the one or t'other system we have should be enough. And that should have been that. But 'Call me Dave' declared an end to Punch & Judy politics before hitting Gordon over the head with his sausage every Wednesday! And the tories voted with Labour to invade Iraq!! And for every sparkly Labour toilet seat, there was a tory duckhouse in the expenses debacle!!! And when Labour babysat astonishing feats of financial mismanagement, the Tories said 'we'd have regulated less and not even 'saved' the banks'!!!! So the people got so fed up with every last cheating, lying, self-interested one of them that they didn't know what to do and resigned themselves to a tory government with a mandate for cuts in everything.
Then, out of nothing, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, ex Iron-Chancellor, self proclaimed saviour of the worlds banks no less, opted to equate his status with that of the Leader of the Opposition (sponsored by Gillette), and crazier still, with an ex-EU Bureaucrat called Neil Cook or something in some TV debates. What's the point thought everyone and didn't watch. But the press, with the most boring and predictable election of all time to cover had to have a winner. And since the blue and red horses had been snorting and whinnying at each other, as they believed that's what horses must do, up the outside trotted a golden horse with a 'I'm a slightly different type of horse' t-shirt on. The press box went wild. Who is this slightly different type of horse. they oinked? He looked at the camera and remembered the names of the people asking him questions. Unbelievable!!! Suddenly there are three whole men in Britain capable of running the country (apart from the one running it now of course...maybe).
Back in reality land where jobs are on a precipice, unemployment is already rising, services are about to be slashed and people wish they had one, never mind two houses to 'flip', I don't believe in the latest Lib-Dem/SDP Alliance resurgence. Whilst Jacqui Smith's hubby enjoyed some movies at our expense and the tories were refurbishing their swimming pools or cleaning their moats (you just couldnt make it up), the Lib/Dems were living up to their 'slightly different type of horse' claims by claiming everything up to and including bottles of Mr Muscle from a 99p shop (I repeat, you couldnt make it up). How different are Cleggs Different Party? There were snouts in troughs on every grubby bench.
At x-in-the-box time, the reds or blues will repeat til fade and ensure the rotting, creaking, antiquated laughing stock we have as an excuse for a democratic process limps on. If the polls are to be believed, there seems to be every chance Labour could come behind the Liberals in actual votes, but could still massively outnumber them in seats. How democratic. But I don't believe the polls.
So, some more predictions. Say goodbye to Ed Balls as an MP, get Davie C as PM and maybe Nigella Clegg sitting exactly where he sat a month or so ago. But a little bit further north in the Land of the Scots, we are in for even more fun. In a traditionally Labour country, where we now have a little bit of everything at Holyrood (even some tories and two heroic Greens) and seem happy enough with it, we're about to be governed by what will be seen as an English government full of englishmen. I don't think the preception or reality will be a good thing (only because if tories are Scotlands 4th party, their overall command through Westminster will become resented). Striding right into this increasingly festering chasm strides surely the greatest living british politician (at least since Sir Thomas Sheridan's demise), King Alex Salmond. Loathe him or loathe him this grinning winner of everything he does will ride the Braveheart wave straight to Independence Referendum time and on into Greece or Iceland-like achievements in the future.
ReplyDeleteVote Labour, get more crushing incompetence. Vote Tory, get less than if you'd voted for someone else. Vote Liberal and get Labour or Tory. Vote anyone else and get what you'd get if you voted Liberal. Don't vote Labour and get an Independent Scotland. Vote for who you want and it wont count. Try voting tactically in that pile of manure and you'll get something steaming and smelly.
Me, I like Noel Gallagher's thinking (not for the first time). He is voting Tevez of course. Into the ballot box and scrawling Tevez across his paper apparently. So the only option for me, vote NISH.
Fraser says "We're dooooomed."
ReplyDeleteClearly, the Tories needed some of CJE's sweeties to generate that bit more swing they required.
ReplyDeleteNow they have resorted to Ball Tampering as a means of getting the swing (ie getting Nick Clegg on board)
Lord KF, a very enjoyable and satirical read. Private Eye-esque!
ReplyDeleteAye yours
Mark Maggie Boris Dave Brown.
Oh and the swingometer pictured - I trust it's the early morning picture swing of Labour seats lost?
ReplyDeletethis post is far too long to read when drunk! What's its point?
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