The Hung Like a Donkey General Election December 2019 Thread

[Dr_Pangloss]

18 minutes ago, ml1dch said:

 

I'm sure any comment on the picture would probably be libellous, so I'll keep schtum. 

[peterms]

26 minutes ago, hippo said:

Rumours the postal votes look very bad for labour.

I think we could have something close to a Tory landslide. A majority of 70 for Boris wouldn't be a surprise for me.

PVs are always better for the tories, because postal voters tend to be older, more likely to be unable to get to the polling station and so on.  It's not a new thing.

For the predictions, it feels even more uncertain than usual, to me.  As well as the normal difficulty in making predictions when there are lots of new people coming on to the register with an unknown or incompletely known propensity to vote, and the (possible) difficulty of predictive models developed incrementally over many years adjusting to a changing model of campaigning, there is also the further uncertainty of how Brexit will affect voting.  Will it override other factors, or not?

I see the forecasts as a bit of short-lived entertainment, and not to be taken too seriously.  But we'll soon see how well they have done.  Hung parliament, I would say.  And Swansong to be the first party leader to step down, possibly leaving trails of fingernail marks in the carpet in the process.  This may be a triumph of wishful thinking.

[Xann]

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Revealed: NHS plans to ration 34 everyday tests and treatments

Cutbacks to procedures including scans and blood tests to affect millions in England

Grauniad

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Tory minister admits US will be able to increase price of drugs bought by NHS after Brexit

MSN

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Data about millions of NHS patients has been sold to US and other international pharmaceutical companies for research, the Observer has learned, raising new fears about America’s growing ambitions to access lucrative parts of the health service after Brexit.

Grauniad

If you can't see where this is going? You need shooting.

Is UK government meant to be about enabling US drug companies to hold us to ransom, for fear of pain or death?

[cyrusr]

45 minutes ago, hippo said:

Rumours the postal votes look very bad for labour.

I think we could have something close to a Tory landslide. A majority of 70 for Boris wouldn't be a surprise for me.

Yeah this has come from Laura Kuenssberg who has probably broken electoral laws by saying so as what @StefanAVFC says. She appears to be gagging for a Tory win anyway so wouldn’t trust what she says.

[peterms]

 

[cyrusr]

1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

This is basically a PSA for that one poster on here who loves polishing his rocket over Tories (sorry, can't remember who it was):

Ruth Davidson pledges to SKINNY DIP in Loch Ness if SNP win 50 seats in election

'Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has pledged to go skinny dipping in Loch Ness if the SNP win 50 seats at the General Election.

However, she said she is making the pledge safe in the knowledge "that my modesty (and others' eyeballs) will remain unmolested" as she does not think that will happen.

Davidson said that conditions are "markedly different" from 2015 when the SNP took 56 seats.

Writing in The Telegraph , she said the nationalists have been keen to talk up the possibility of winning 50 seats .

She said: "I will happily wager to strip naked on the banks of Loch Ness and subject myself to a Hogmanay wild swimming session should such a result occur, safe in the knowledge that my modesty (and others' eyeballs) will remain unmolested."'

more on link: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/ruth-davidson-pledges-skinny-dip-21071065

I believe that’s @avfcDJ, but it’s just Liz Truss he has an odd fascination for rather than Tories in general   

[snowychap]

1 minute ago, cyrusr said:

I believe that’s @avfcDJ, but it’s just Liz Truss he has an odd fascination for rather than Tories in general   

Also, I think, @Seat68- Priti Patel;

And obviously, @choffer - Laura (sloppy) Keunssberg.

[StefanAVFC]

I also remember @dont_do_it_doug. and Emily Thornberry

[peterms]

17 minutes ago, cyrusr said:

Ruth Davidson pledges to SKINNY DIP

May involve fasting.

[cyrusr]

11 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Also, I think, @Seat68- Priti Patel;

And obviously, @choffer - Laura (sloppy) Keunssberg.

[Wainy316]

You can tell Murdoch no longer has control of Sky, they’ve been giving Boris plenty of jip tonight

[sharkyvilla]

15 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

You can tell Murdoch no longer has control of Sky, they’ve been giving Boris plenty of jip tonight

Tbh I've generally found Sky News to be the best balanced of the news networks over the years.

[peterms]

 

[peterms]

 

[Risso]

Just out of interest, when did this thread turn into 95% just linking to tweets?

[markavfc40]

3 minutes ago, Risso said:

Just out of interest, when did this thread turn into 95% just linking to tweets?

 

 

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[peterms]

Representative for Wellingborough.

[Awol]

Today’s the day. Get out there, “hold your nose,” and vote anti-Semite for a better, fairer Britain! 

[Seat68]

1 minute ago, Awol said:

Today’s the day. Get out there, “hold your nose,” and vote anti-Semite for a better, fairer Britain! 

Or Conservative if you hate Muslims.