General Election 2015 - chat, predictions, results and post election discussion

[Nine Bob Note]

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As we see here, Hansel and Gretel's father thought the world owed him a living...

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Here's some more interesting data on where Labour are getting funded from:

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/03/24/list-of-labour-cash-donors-non-trade-union/

 

[butchersapron]

Here's some more interesting data on where Labour are getting funded from:

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/03/24/list-of-labour-cash-donors-non-trade-union/

Compare that total - around £8 million since 2010 - with the unions over same period - around £80 million.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I'm surprised JK Rowling isn't on the list??

 

[gareth taylor]

Compare that total - around £8 million since 2010 - with the unions over same period - around £80 million.

my predictions
tories 322 labour 262 lib dems 41 ukip 12

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

based on what you cunt?

 

[Teaboy]

my predictions
tories 322 labour 262 lib dems 41 ukip 12

I think you may have just given us your lottery numbers by mistake.

 

[danny la rouge]

my predictions
tories 322 labour 262 lib dems 41 ukip 12

That's just random numbers.

Here's a site that you can run figures through to see what effect they have on seats:

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

Don't just spout evidence free gibberish.

 

[treelover]

“Ed Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader. Now he is willing to stab the United Kingdom in the back to become prime minister.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...and-hed-do-the-same-with-the-uk-10164087.html

Lynton Crosby is at work again, Michael Fallon accusses Milliband of stabbing his brother in the back and will stab UK in the back over Trident by using it as a bargaining chip with the SNP.

Nasty stuff, not gone down well with broadcast media, but will it resonate with voters?Ed's response was pretty visceral though and turned it on the Tories.

 

[gareth taylor]

based on what you cunt?

mods can do something please

 

[miktheword]

mods can do something please

about you being a cunt?

that's asking a lot of any mod.

 

[Buckaroo]

mods can do something please

can mods do something please

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

my predictions
tories 322 labour 262 lib dems 41 ukip 12

Take out the NI seats and you've got the SNP and Plaid fighting over scraps, yer giant loon. Try again.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Lynton Crosby is at work again, Michael Fallon accusses Milliband of stabbing his brother in the back and will stab UK in the back over Trident by using it as a bargaining chip with the SNP.

Nasty stuff, not gone down well with broadcast media, but will it resonate with voters?Ed's response was pretty visceral though and turned it on the Tories.

Desperate stuff. I think the tory campaign may be in the process of coming off the rails. They have smugly been assuring themselves that 'swingback' was going to happen and that they would have enough of a lead over labour by polling day. Until now their own arrogance and confirmation bias has kept them in a happy place - but the latest batch polls are showing steady labour leads - rather than things moving in their direction. I think the 'non-dom' thing wrong footed them as well.

I think the ed m 'back stabber' plus THE TARTAN TERROR bollocks we've been seen today is the result of the panic button being pushed. We may start to see signs of disunity and very loud grumbling abut lynton crosby.

They still seem to think its 1992 and just banging on about how terrible Ed milliband is (ineffective, weak - yet a ruthless backstabber at the same time apparently) will see them home. But the r/wing press dont have the same influence now and people are more skeptical about the media. I think their sneer, smear and fear approach will put people off.

 

[treelover]

ineffective, weak - yet a ruthless backstabber at the same time apparently

yes, bit of a corker that one.

 

[treelover]

. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters


He is looking good there, won't hurt him at all.

 

[brogdale]

Desperate stuff. I think the tory campaign may be in the process of coming off the rails. They have smugly been assuring themselves that 'swingback' was going to happen and that they would have enough of a lead over labour by polling day. Until now their own arrogance and confirmation bias has kept them in a happy place - but the latest batch polls are showing steady labour leads - rather than things moving in their direction. I think the 'non-dom' thing wrong footed them as well.

I think the ed m 'back stabber' plus THE TARTAN TERROR bollocks we've been seen today is the result of the panic button being pushed. We may start to see signs of disunity and very loud grumbling abut lynton crosby.

They still seem to think its 1992 and just banging on about how terrible Ed milliband is (ineffective, weak - yet a ruthless backstabber at the same time apparently) will see them home. But the r/wing press dont have the same influence now and people are more skeptical about the media. I think their sneer, smear and fear approach will put people off.

I agree it smacks of a degree of desperation and, perhaps, exasperation that the polling numbers are not going their way as they did in electoral campaigns before 1997. That said, there was more to today's nastiness than might at first meet the eye. As well as moving the narrative away from non-doms and sowing a little more doubt/fear into the 'middle England marginals, by pushing Labour into a stridently pro-trident mode the vermin have given a real helping hand to the SNP. Murphy's task just got a whole lot harder.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Murphy's task just got a whole lot harder.

i cant see how labour could be any more fucked in scotland than it is already.

 

[treelover]

If Ed now stated he will renationalise the railways he would be on a winner.

 

[gosub]

If Ed now stated he will renationalise the railways he would be on a winner.

Can't see the EU liking that.

 

[brogdale]

i cant see how labour could be any more fucked in scotland than it is already.

Well, no...but Murphy's task was/is to win back former Labour voters. With Miliband pro-nuking all day that's even less likely.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

There was something earlier about Lynton Crosby's tax affairs too.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-lynton-crosby-over-tax-affairs-10164743.html

 

[butchersapron]

What the effin eff

Ed Miliband was in a relationship with a senior BBC economics journalist while working at the Treasury, it has emerged after his wife admitted being "furious" about the "secret" romance.

At the time he was a special adviser to Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The news was disclosed by Justine Thornton, Mr Miliband’s wife, in an interview with the Daily Mirror on Thursday.

First reported 5 years ago in proper papers. And NO ONE CARES.

 

[butchersapron]

It gets ever even more worserer:

 

[killer b]

desperate.

 

[weepiper]

They're really going with 'he had four girlfriends before he got married' as a scandal?

 

[butchersapron]

It's not much mitigation, but it does only cover an entire 1/3 of the front page. It's the top bit blown up. Double pager inside.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

They're really going with 'he had four girlfriends before he got married' as a scandal?

It's bizarre - it's not even aimed at the casual Mail reader, it seems to be aimed at the readers who write to them in crayon, and the ZaNuLieBore commenters. Crosby's masterplan?

 

[weepiper]

urgh.

 

[butchersapron]

One of the 4 women in the mail pic, her husband has just died. I'm sure this is a welcome diversion for her.

edit: weepiper did it already