Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Didn't the tories do well.

Didn't the tories do well.

Yeah Yeah Yeah, more more more more FRED is back.

Look out manuel.

Set fred set fred....set.

Hope you had a good holiday Fred.

If you add UKIP to the Conservatives you get over 50% as a centre right group. If the UKIP voters support the Conservatives and a referendum then there will be a large majority for the Tories,

gordon bennett!
i was hoping for some intelligent comment and not just the usual partisan polemic ..... clearly far too much to hope for

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sticky - what care i what bilge fred posts; i read little of it; nor yours come to think of it .... it's all just so goddam predictable, as is that from hays

for reference, i have just picked up the following and i can't be bothered to look up the source ....

• Election results:
• Ukip + 132 as Tories demand pact
• Labour + 273, fall short in middle England
• Tories - 147. 'Fire Shapps' demand members
• Lib Dems - 222, lose Kingston
• Farage: "Ukip fox is in the Westminster hen house"

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is crowing by labour as sticky propounds? ..... doesn't sound like it
and what of the tories performance? .... can't tell from the above

You're in friendly mode tonight c :-)


exterminate...

hi max .... not sure why it should surprise you, but generally, i'm always looking for a balanced viewpoint

Indeed c.

Now whats the chances of a tory/ukip tie up?

Taking into account Farage has stated that he will not enter any agreement with a Cameroon led party.

Eyewash, or are events overtaking the present?

Its silly talk from Hays clutching at straws.

Now this is solid not spectacular from labour...... Labour + 273,

thanks for posting that up Cyners.

Some were saying theyd only get 150+ and the labour gains in london from the Tories are a massive bonus.

cheers.

i must confess, +273 also doesn't sound much like even a pretty good result to me, so i'll wait to see what the political commentators have to say about it all .... we know the bit on ukip (very good but crap in london) but i've no idea on the other two (lib/dems are a wipeout of course)

This post was pinched from advfn, mabel seems to have got at some of the figs.



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The BBC is trying to downplay UKIP's success with some very deceptive statistics.

Usually commentators can't get enough of individual seats voting percentages and then bombard viewers with endless 'what if' projections.

Well, the BBC is trying to sell some spurious stat that UKIP received only 17% of 'projected national vote'.

This is camouflaged by 45% of the seats being under contention being in London where UKIP admit to being 18 months behind, and didn't even contest most seats.

So I decided to google some places where I know UKIP did quite well and the results were startling.

Basildon

UKIP 39%, Cons 34%, Lab 22%, LibDem 5%

Rotherham

UKIP 46%, Labour 43%, Cons 10%, other 6%.

NB

This would mean winning seats at a general election (but you wont find the BBC admitting this, worse, they are trying to pretend that UKIP's support is waning)

Roll on Sunday.

mabel

edit. When, in the past, has the BBC not told us what the breakdown of the vote is, in the individual constituencies.

Don't forget that the Libs lost 271 seats. That accounts for quite a few of other parties' gains.

Labour are just 4 seats short of an overal majority.

Just been on SKY news.

Given the cost of living crisis, interest rate rises on the horizon and inflation ready to take off again dont bet against labour getting that and a lot more by May next year.

You would think though that by the way the right wing media and press are reporting the results that Camoron had had a good night, this is absolutely way off the mark, the tories have had a diastorous night given that its 4 parties now chalenging for the leadership of the country.

Admitedly Milliband didnt have a last good week but to be within 4 seats of that overal majority it will only take the Yank axle to spruce his act up and Labour will be returned to power needing no assistance.

Max that Rotherham seat is a special situation, its where white girls were groomed by asian men in great numbers and the Town felt let down by the established labour party and voted in UKIP as a protest vote.

Come the GE I fully expect labour to take the town back again.

ps, we have heard some cods wallop from Hays tonight given the run up to these elections making out they were nothing of a threat etc etc, how much wronger could you get it.

UKIP were easily the winners last night and if Hays had the decency and balls hed admit he gave you Max some very personal negative disrepect over the last few weeks or so.

Well done for sticking to your convictions.

Thank you for your support gf.

It's galling for a tory to slag off the party, but what can you do when the tory party is no longer a functioning tory party, but merely a set of slightly smelly liberals?

Haystack is living in loonytown, he cant seem to grasp that life has moved on and the normal doesent work anymore...hence, ukip.

Ukip is a labour nightmare as well :-)

gf
The trend is towards the Conservatives and has been that way for months,

snooze.