BBC Results 2010 Will an English leader bring the voters back? After looking at the challenge for the Tories in Scotland it’s also worth looking at parts of England where Labour took a terrible drubbing on May 6th. Just look at the South East – Brown’s party got a smaller share of the vote here, 16.2%, than the Tories got in Scotland. Even worse they lost thirteen of the 17 that they’d held and were left with just four –…
BBC results 2010 election What future for blues north of the border? In 2005, across the United Kingdom, the Conservatives won less than 200 seats; in 2010, they won more than 300. That increase of more than a hundred came entirely in England and Wales; the Scottish Conservatives returned just the one constituency, the same as in 2005. This poses David Cameron and his party several problems. The one of mandate is relatively easily answered, although none of the answers…
How long is the coalition going to last? Under the headline – “David Cameron takes on Tory back-bench ‘awkward squad” the second story on the Telegraph’s front page is about what is described as an audacious attempt by Cameron “to stamp his authority on Conservative MPs and smother back-bench dissent.” For while his partner in the coalition, Nick Clegg, has gone to great lengths to bring and keep the Lib Dems on board the Cameron style is much more ruthless…
BBC 2010 seat predictor How the blues beat the uniform swing In the high-octane political atmosphere following the May 6th election we never looked back to to check out what had been a contentious issue on PB for months beforehand – how the uniform national swing would operate. Above is what happens when you feed the GB votes shares on CON 36.9%: LAB 29.7%: LD 23.6% into the BBC’s swing calculator. Assuming the outstanding seat goes with last time then…
Double Carpet www.electiongame.co.uk
Next thread will appear at 4.30
Next thread will appear at 3.30 Double Carpet www.electiongame.co.uk
Next thread will appear at 2.30 Double Carpet www.electiongame.co.uk