Yeah, but if you multiply 33 by 666, add the date of Hitler's birthday in reverse order and then do some other esoteric mathematics I think you'll find they very nearly achieved a significant result. AND they'll probably do better next time.
Why are you putting them this way though? Anyone can look at the results and see that by the commonly understood way of presenting the figures - the way that allows easy comparison with previous results and other seats - Labour's vote share has declined by 7.4%, and the Tory vote share by 1.6%.
Psephology - mind games for the middle classesA win is a win is a win
The direction of various currents within the result - the suggestion above of m/c Tories voting Labour, where Galloway's votes came from, how many Labour inclined people stayed home etc - is the interesting bit. One which we can continue to speculate on all day
Related to psephomancy: "divination by pebbles".
I much prefer tea leaves
47% according to wikipedia - fairly typical, maybe on the high side
Going by the US right, legal action is a really great way of grifting, as you can pay yourself things like absurdly high expenses from funds raised to fight it
He's complaining that Kirklees council didn't offer him a cup of coffee after the count!
What about?
The demonic zio-analite Paul Mason.
I remember seeing a fine photograph from the Spanish revolution showing hat workers demonstrating against the fashion of not wearing hats. Heroes all.
My mum told me what it was like in the 1950s and 1960s where everybody wore hats to denote their class status and then suddenly nobody did anymore
I'm a number one crop. Shaved my head grade 2 at school and the headmaster pulled me out of assembly and bollocked me and I got a week off school which was great as I could relax and watch Going for Gold and Turnabout and Neighbours and Home and Away
Evidence of a mis-spent youth
It is of that work that it was first said that 'youth' is wasted on the youngYouth (Conrad short story) - Wikipedia
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I always thought that was an Oscar Wilde quote for some reason. Perhaps I was mistaken.
I recall Going for Gold to be the ultimate Euro-quiz, back in the days when I was supping my Special Brew and watching Doletime TV. Whatever happened to Henry Kelly?
Kelly is still going I think somewhere local but went bankrupt at some stage.
It did always feel a bit unfair on the non-native English speakers...
I haven't read much Shaw yet but found out the other day - if my Wikipedia is right - that he was one of the phalanx of men and women who had an affair with Marlene Dietrich
Hmmm. There would have been quite an age difference.
Marlene's life was unbelievable. I really don't know how she fitted it all in.
