Mine's pretty good at knocking at my door and not just at election time. Always visible in my part of London as well.thegeek wrote: ↑Thu 20 Apr, 2017 19.10 Well, three days since the election was called, and my MP is nowhere to be seen. The one over the border (who's a bloody good constituency MP, and a bit of a rising star in the party) was all over Twitter and Facebook to start banging the drum for her re-election. Mine doesn't even appear to have responded to a request for comment from the local paper.
Decision '17
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TVF's London Lite.
A couple of points its seems the last leg is trying to get people to register to vote: https://twitter.com/TheLastLeg/status/8 ... 2103314432 Maybe there would be better off trying to get the 35% of people who are already on the list to vote this time around. To get a General election with over 70% turnout would be decent.
While in Scotland: look who could get 12 seats... and Angus could lose his: https://twitter.com/ComradeHutch/status ... 6504982528
And now its seem there trying people how to vote to stop the tories.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
Silly sods, half the lib dem seats are leave, so there have no chance.
While in Scotland: look who could get 12 seats... and Angus could lose his: https://twitter.com/ComradeHutch/status ... 6504982528
And now its seem there trying people how to vote to stop the tories.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
Silly sods, half the lib dem seats are leave, so there have no chance.
Anyone else tried this 8values survey? It's another political compass-esque thing but I always find comparing results interesting.
http://8values.github.io/index.html
my results:
http://8values.github.io/index.html
my results:
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Thanks for sharing the resource - looks like my results were almost entirely similar:Philip wrote: ↑Sun 23 Apr, 2017 15.38 Anyone else tried this 8values survey? It's another political compass-esque thing but I always find comparing results interesting.
http://8values.github.io/index.html
my results:
As for my thoughts on the election, I echo the responses of others - very surprising, though I'm expecting a landslide victory for the Tories, as Labour are in one of the weakest periods of their history by far.
Every time I do them they find I'm apparently so left wing that I would make Corbyn blush.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 4.stm#lose
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PRIME MINISTER LOSES HIS SEAT?
His party would offer up a candidate to take over temporarily as a caretaker leader/prime minister. The Queen would then call the potential prime minister to Buckingham Palace to ask him whether he would form a government. The governing party would then hold a leadership election.
Presumably, the leadership election part also applies if the Leader of the Opposition loses his seat.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ooks-bleak
This is a pretty bleak analysis, even coming from the position of accepting that Theresa May will win an overall majority (which I have, reluctantly).
This is a pretty bleak analysis, even coming from the position of accepting that Theresa May will win an overall majority (which I have, reluctantly).
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I think it opens up the possibility that the Lib Dems could lose all their seats. If those figures are largely correct, a bit of Lords reform could strike an even bigger blow.
Perhaps a timely reminder that, in reality, the figures of this election are likely to be the most unpredictable ever, if not the result.
Perhaps a timely reminder that, in reality, the figures of this election are likely to be the most unpredictable ever, if not the result.