Has the Chancellor what it takes to turn the party round? So Scotland is now lost and the question must be asked about what this means to the Scotsman who looks set, within the next few weeks, to take over at Number 10? Even though the final result is nothing like as bad as might have been feared a week or so the news within the last few minutes that the SNP is top party must cast a shadow over…
With Scotland not being quite the disaster that had been predicted how should the great campaigner, Tony Blair, view his final election in charge? As I have often observed – “nobody ever got rich betting against Tony Blair” and certainly that might hold good with Scotland. While the Tories have moved forward it is not just Labour that has suffered losses. Carry on the election discussion here. Mike Smithson
Was Ming’s party the big loser in yesterday’s elections? The above instant “poll” was taken on Tuesday amongst visitors to the site and shows how people were perceiving the possibilities for Britain’s third party earlier in the week. On the face of its things were looking up for Ming and his team. In the three previous national opinion polls, albeit on general election voting intention, the Lib Dems had shown significant improvements. Yet with about half the results from the…
The election thread – part 3 With the BBC national vote share projection showing CON 41%: LAB 27%: LD 26% there’s little doubt that the party that has done better than expectation is Labour. The talk of an electoral “meltdown” has been somewhat premature. Yet there is still a long way to go before we see the full results from yesterday’s and today should be very exciting. The stories about electronic counting and the number of ballot papers declared void…
Please use this thread from now on. Note – The site has been slimmed down to reduce the pressure on the server.
Keep posting your news, comment and opinion… 10pm and the polls are closing at last. For many we’ve got a longer wait than usual to wait for the results. A lot of councils which normally do overnight counting have opted to do their main counting in the morning. Still there should be enough coming through to get a sense of what has happened throughout Britain today. If you’ve got any information or comments then this is the place to file…
Is turnout low all over the country? The strong impression in Bedford where I have been working today is that turnout is remarkably low and certainly is substantially down on where we were on previous local election days at lunchtime. If this is happening here is the same going on elsewhere? And if there is going to be a really low turnout which parties are going to benefit and which are the losers. One feature we have here for the…
Are punters right to put their money on YouGov? For nearly six years a battle has reigned in the UK polling industry over the internet pollster, YouGov, which first appeared at the 2001 General election and has now become a serious force within the industry. It’s methodologies have been very different and has attracted an enormous amount of criticism – usually from parties which have not shown up well in its surveys. In the run-up to the 2005 General Election…