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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972
    edited May 2016
    Wish we had some phone polls in that list.

    And well done for getting in a reference to AV, the finest voting system known to humanity.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,697
    I suspect Zac will do significantly better than the polls suggest... But Sadiq will still win comfortably.
  • DaemonBarberDaemonBarber Posts: 1,626
    If once again the polls are wrong, where does this leave SNP WRT claims over indyref#2 being based on polls showing support?
  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083
    Guess nobody can accuse Opinium of herding.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,776
    I think Opinium is a little out of line if they think Zac is only going to get 14%. Typo?
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    57-14?!

    That's quite a victory.
  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083

    57-14?!

    That's quite a victory.

    Presumably a lot of his votes were due to come from Barnet.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972
    DavidL said:

    I think Opinium is a little out of line if they think Zac is only going to get 14%. Typo?

    Yes
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 39,756

    If once again the polls are wrong, where does this leave SNP WRT claims over indyref#2 being based on polls showing support?

    Erroneous 'again' there.

    'the General Election Scottish polling was, in the main, pretty good'
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,776
    edited May 2016
    GIN1138 said:

    I suspect Zac will do significantly better than the polls suggest... But Sadiq will still win comfortably.

    I think the risk for this polling is the other way. It really would not surprise me if Khan wins by more than any of the polls set out in the heading (except Opinium of course).
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    With or without Katie Hopkins' sausage up your bum?
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    GIN1138 said:

    I suspect Zac will do significantly better than the polls suggest... But Sadiq will still win comfortably.

    Dunno. Wouldn't surprise me.

    If it's low turnout on Labour side too, and slightly better in outer boroughs, I could see a 54-46 result for Khan.

    Or something like that. What makes me sceptical is the fact Zac doesn't even excite the Tory base.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    FPT: Mr. Max, I was aware that conversion to (not orthodox) Judaism is possible, just not Hinduism.

    Not sure if I'll stay up to watch the results this time.
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382

    DavidL said:

    I think Opinium is a little out of line if they think Zac is only going to get 14%. Typo?

    Yes
    Typo which has been fixed.



  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972
    Typo has been fixed.
  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    With or without Katie Hopkins' sausage up your bum?
    A few threads back someone said they'd prefer Dan Hodges. I'm still unsure whether the implied suffix was "to Hopkins" or "to the sausage".
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,776
    Actually testing the pollsters on a 2 stage election with second preferences is quite tough. Similarly in Wales and Scotland with the complicated interplay of constituencies and lists.

    Not that they deserve any better of course.
  • SimonStClareSimonStClare Posts: 7,976
    57/14 ? - Of course we must wait for the final result, but Opinium look buggered already. :lol:
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 25,165
    Why is it always nice weather on polling day? I cannot remember one with rubbish weather.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453

    If once again the polls are wrong, where does this leave SNP WRT claims over indyref#2 being based on polls showing support?

    No problem

    @ScottyNational: @ScottyNational It's official! Nicola Sturgeon will use Hive Mind Telepathy to assess if Scotland wants Indyref2
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    edited May 2016

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    I understand Morrison's do an interesting "Spicy piri piri sausage" :D
    (Pork, Red Chilli, Ginger, Lemon, Paprika)
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    Her new found resemblance to Julian Clary doesn't help at all with that image.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    With or without Katie Hopkins' sausage up your bum?
    With it, of course.
  • MonikerDiCanioMonikerDiCanio Posts: 5,792
    Zac's only hope lies in the " Bradley Effect " ;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    I'm confused - the Daily Politics is on now.
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387

    DavidL said:

    I think Opinium is a little out of line if they think Zac is only going to get 14%. Typo?

    Yes
    Typo which has been fixed.



    Drat. was a fun idea.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,789

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    The German media are calling today's elections a warm up for Brexit so maybe this should set the trend for June.
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966

    Zac's only hope lies in the " Bradley Effect " ;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias

    Same reason a shy kippers and shy leavers.
  • WandererWanderer Posts: 3,838
    Indigo said:

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    I understand Morrison's do an interesting "Spicy piri piri sausage" :D
    (Pork, Red Chilli, Ginger, Lemon, Paprika)
    The merguez I'm eating right now would make her shift.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    edited May 2016

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    With or without Katie Hopkins' sausage up your bum?
    A wag on Twitter said she'd already been snapped naked in public with someone's sausage up her bum.

    She retweeted it.
  • murali_smurali_s Posts: 3,037
    The result will not be close - I think the polls are underestimating Khan - It will be more like 60-40. Time will tell as ever...

    I'm just about to vote so later folks...
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    The German media are calling today's elections a warm up for Brexit so maybe this should set the trend for June.
    The German media are a bit thick then, if 45-50% of people vote Brexit in London (same number of people who will vote for Zac) it would be a massive, massive surprise. As TOPPING said yesterday, the London Mayor is about personality politics, the reason this has been such a dire campaign is that both of the main candidates are completely without any kind of personality. Boris would have wiped the floor with Khan.
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 38,879
    What a waste of a sausage.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,789
    MaxPB said:

    MaxPB said:

    One of these had turnout at 82% or something along those lines. If that happens I will run down Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush in my underpants.

    I can only conclude Katie Hopkins genuinely wants to run down Regent Street with a sausage up her bottom.

    She has just confirmed on her Twitter that Sadiq will choose the sausage.
    The German media are calling today's elections a warm up for Brexit so maybe this should set the trend for June.
    The German media are a bit thick then, if 45-50% of people vote Brexit in London (same number of people who will vote for Zac) it would be a massive, massive surprise.
    They didn't mean the Mayoral election specifically but all the elections taking place across the country.

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/wahlen-in-grossbritannien-chance-fuer-kleine-parteien-a-1090808.html
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,044
    Late swing?


    Dan Hodges ‏@DPJHodges 15m15 minutes ago
    Just cast my vote for the Women's Equality Party. We can do this sisters.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    murali_s said:

    The result will not be close - I think the polls are underestimating Khan - It will be more like 60-40. Time will tell as ever...

    I'm just about to vote so later folks...

    Just like they underestimated Ed Miliband and Labour last year. >_<
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    Mr. Wanderer, that sounds suspiciously foreign. British sausage not good enough for you? :p
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @GeneralBoles: If you're voting SNP, make sure MI5 haven't replaced your polling station with a fake one made from cardboard #PollingDay

    @EthanA_S: Remember to bring youre own pen to the voting booth tomorrow. Don't let the powers that be mess with youre vote. They fear an SNP win. #SNP

    Only one of these is a spoof...
  • MonikerDiCanioMonikerDiCanio Posts: 5,792

    What a waste of a sausage.

    Hopkins hasn't said that she'll throw it away.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    Indigo said:

    Zac's only hope lies in the " Bradley Effect " ;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias

    Same reason a shy kippers and shy leavers.
    In AB circles and professional services sector, perhaps. Certainly is here even though 25-30% of ABs (at least) support Leave.

    I suspect it could be the opposite amongst the WWC in the north-east or north-west.
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    Martin Daubney takes no prisoners, another lifetime Labour man goes Tory
    These sneering boobies are the UK’s Animal Farm socialists: luvvies who’ve grown fat on lucrative book, journalism and TV deals, buttressed with public speaking appearance fees; corpulent Lefties who inexplicably feel they have the right to lecture the rest of us on privilege...

    The Labour party that once represented coal miners like my father is now the party of the Socialist Justice Warrior.

    So we find ourselves in a bizarre position where modern Labour voters are now the single biggest reason to not vote Labour. How the hell did that happen? And what on Earth are Labour going to do about it?
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/13/the-rise-of-the-socialist-justice-warriors/
  • WandererWanderer Posts: 3,838
    Someone on the last thread, Casino_Royale I think, said that he'd had to go online to find details of the PCC candidates. Same here. In fact it took (by web search standards) some perseverance to find anything. If the candidates names had been subject to a super-injunction it would have been quicker to find them.

    I'm afraid turnout in those elections in going to be dreadful.

    On which note, I must go and vote.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    So what happens if we all wake up tomorrow with Mayor Galloway who received 17m votes from Tower Hamlets?
  • WandererWanderer Posts: 3,838

    Mr. Wanderer, that sounds suspiciously foreign. British sausage not good enough for you? :p

    A native sausage would hardly satisfy my metrosexual quisling appetites.
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    MaxPB said:

    So what happens if we all wake up tomorrow with Mayor Galloway who received 17m votes from Tower Hamlets?

    I see Galloway has managed to get into single figures :wink:
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    Mr. Wanderer, just as I suspected! Your depraved lust for eurosausage sickens me.

    Mr. Max, it'll be a triumph for cultural diversity.
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    MaxPB said:

    So what happens if we all wake up tomorrow with Mayor Galloway who received 17m votes from Tower Hamlets?

    17,000,000 votes exactly...
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 39,756
  • PolruanPolruan Posts: 2,083
    Wanderer said:

    Mr. Wanderer, that sounds suspiciously foreign. British sausage not good enough for you? :p

    A native sausage would hardly satisfy my metrosexual quisling appetites.
    Sounds like you require an exotic cure.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    Meanwhile, the man Merkel calls 'Daddy' has effectively had the PM removed so a more compliant politician can take his place and ensure Turkey moves to a presidential system. The president, of course, being Erdogan:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36213401
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 38,879
    Chorizo, egg and chips. There is no finer combination of taste sensations if all are of the highest quality. Take with a strong red wine and reflect on the glories of the world.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 37,603
    edited May 2016

    MaxPB said:

    So what happens if we all wake up tomorrow with Mayor Galloway who received 17m votes from Tower Hamlets?

    17,000,000 votes exactly...
    Yes, 1000 postal votes each from 17,000 one bedroom flats that were demolished a few years ago.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 40,950
    I...HAVE....VOTED....

    Go ZAC.

    Ahem.

    That said, sod all difference will it make.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340

    What a waste of a sausage.

    She should go for an andouillette. I can't think of a better use for one.
  • Blue_rogBlue_rog Posts: 2,019

    What a waste of a sausage.

    Hopkins hasn't said that she'll throw it away.
    Sounds a bit Marianne Faithful to me :grin:
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    MaxPB said:

    So what happens if we all wake up tomorrow with Mayor Galloway who received 17m votes from Tower Hamlets?

    That would surely be lest than the 27M postal votes Khan will receive from the same borough..
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    @faisalislam · 2m2 minutes ago

    Japanese PM @AbeShinzo tells me "question of Brexit is for British people, but "Japan very clearly wants Britain to remain in the EU"
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    Ben Riley Smith
    Up to 155 polling stations in Barnet affected by failures this morning. (236k registered to vote there.)

  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972
    This is a disaster waiting to happen

    The Royal Navy fired flares to warn of a Spanish patrol boat harassing an American nuclear submarine off Gibraltar.

    The fast patrol boat HMS Sabre fired warning shots across the bow of a Guardia Civil vessel as it twice tried to cut across the path of USS Florida during an incursion into Gibraltar’s waters.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/05/royal-navy-fires-warning-shots-as-spanish-vessel-harasses-us-sub/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
  • MonikerDiCanioMonikerDiCanio Posts: 5,792
    The desolate wasteland behind Dickson is Cumbernauld not the Himalyas. A hoax.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    Ben Riley Smith
    Up to 155 polling stations in Barnet affected by failures this morning. (236k registered to vote there.)

    What way does Barnet swing ?
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 38,879

    What a waste of a sausage.

    She should go for an andouillette. I can't think of a better use for one.

    The sausage she uses will surely become an andouillette post-insertion, won't it?

  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    edited May 2016

    What a waste of a sausage.

    She should go for an andouillette. I can't think of a better use for one.

    The sausage she uses will surely become an andouillette post-insertion, won't it?

    Mercy, some of us haven't had our lunch yet!
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972

    @faisalislam · 2m2 minutes ago

    Japanese PM @AbeShinzo tells me "question of Brexit is for British people, but "Japan very clearly wants Britain to remain in the EU"

    .@AbeShinzo: "British membership is best for Japanese investors..many of the Japanese operations in UK because it is a gateway to the EU"
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    TGOHF said:

    Ben Riley Smith
    Up to 155 polling stations in Barnet affected by failures this morning. (236k registered to vote there.)

    What way does Barnet swing ?
    Tory.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    Mr. Eagles, didn't a car manufacturer (forget if it were Nissan or Toyota) threaten to pull out if we didn't join the euro. And then didn't.

  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972
    edited May 2016
    The one moment last year I had doubts about the Tories winning most seats was when Katie Hopkins backed the Tories and threatened to emigrate if Ed Miliband became PM
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    edited May 2016

    @faisalislam · 2m2 minutes ago

    Japanese PM @AbeShinzo tells me "question of Brexit is for British people, but "Japan very clearly wants Britain to remain in the EU"

    .@AbeShinzo: "British membership is best for Japanese investors..many of the Japanese operations in UK because it is a gateway to the EU"
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31838296
    Britain best place to invest, says China's richest man
    When asked if he was concerned about the possibility of the UK leaving the EU after a potential upcoming referendum, he said that he wasn't.

    "I don't think it is a big problem for me whether the UK is in the EU or not. It is a problem between the UK and Europe. The UK is relatively independent in the EU at present. It does not use the euro."
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,349
    I had a nasty shock when I went to vote. Instead of then usual bunch of ner'er do-wells to choose from, the council election was a binary vote. No cop out with a LD or Ukip (probably the former as there's no EU involvement). A choice between an obnoxious Jezzarite or an unknown Conservative.

    I decided against putting a rude picture against both, and finally put an X against the Tory - whoever he was!

    Aargh! I felt dirty. I came home and washed my hands immediately. I'm 66 and I've voted Tory for the first ever time. If I go out tonight and kick a beggar or eat a baby, it's all Jezza's fault.

    Come on Labour, get this sorted out. Think of the old gits.
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966

    Mr. Eagles, didn't a car manufacturer (forget if it were Nissan or Toyota) threaten to pull out if we didn't join the euro. And then didn't.

    Indeed. #WrongThenWrongNow
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,776
    TGOHF said:

    Ben Riley Smith
    Up to 155 polling stations in Barnet affected by failures this morning. (236k registered to vote there.)

    What way does Barnet swing ?
    Depends whose car keys you get.
  • david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,401

    Wish we had some phone polls in that list.

    And well done for getting in a reference to AV, the finest voting system known to humanity.

    SV is just a really bad pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey kind of AV where you have to guess who'll be in the second round. I might do a thread on it one day.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,933
    Mr. CD13, don't worry.

    That said, don't be surprised if you find Mr. Eagles and Mr. Nabavi standing outside your house, chanting, "One of us! One of us!"
  • JonnyJimmyJonnyJimmy Posts: 2,548
    image
    ‘I’ve called him “Brexit” so that everyone’s afraid of him.’
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/comic/dog-9/
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    CD13 said:

    I had a nasty shock when I went to vote. Instead of then usual bunch of ner'er do-wells to choose from, the council election was a binary vote. No cop out with a LD or Ukip (probably the former as there's no EU involvement). A choice between an obnoxious Jezzarite or an unknown Conservative.

    I decided against putting a rude picture against both, and finally put an X against the Tory - whoever he was!

    Aargh! I felt dirty. I came home and washed my hands immediately. I'm 66 and I've voted Tory for the first ever time. If I go out tonight and kick a beggar or eat a baby, it's all Jezza's fault.

    Come on Labour, get this sorted out. Think of the old gits.

    It's becoming a bit of a trend.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 113,972

    Wish we had some phone polls in that list.

    And well done for getting in a reference to AV, the finest voting system known to humanity.

    SV is just a really bad pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey kind of AV where you have to guess who'll be in the second round. I might do a thread on it one day.
    I had planned a thread today reminding everyone that today is the fifth anniversary of the AV referendum, but you and YouGov have buggered that up :lol:

    Might run with it on Sunday
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822

    image
    ‘I’ve called him “Brexit” so that everyone’s afraid of him.’
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/comic/dog-9/

    :smiley:
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 49,961
    CD13 said:

    I had a nasty shock when I went to vote. Instead of then usual bunch of ner'er do-wells to choose from, the council election was a binary vote. No cop out with a LD or Ukip (probably the former as there's no EU involvement). A choice between an obnoxious Jezzarite or an unknown Conservative.

    I decided against putting a rude picture against both, and finally put an X against the Tory - whoever he was!

    Aargh! I felt dirty. I came home and washed my hands immediately. I'm 66 and I've voted Tory for the first ever time. If I go out tonight and kick a beggar or eat a baby, it's all Jezza's fault.

    Come on Labour, get this sorted out. Think of the old gits.

    You could always stand next time for the Bus-Pass Elvis Party....
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    edited May 2016

    This is a disaster waiting to happen

    The Royal Navy fired flares to warn of a Spanish patrol boat harassing an American nuclear submarine off Gibraltar.

    The fast patrol boat HMS Sabre fired warning shots across the bow of a Guardia Civil vessel as it twice tried to cut across the path of USS Florida during an incursion into Gibraltar’s waters.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/05/royal-navy-fires-warning-shots-as-spanish-vessel-harasses-us-sub/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

    CoaB. USS Florida is a Ohio-class Cruise Missile Sub, its playing with fire to get near one of those, one slip of the rudder so you scratch the paint work and go straight to the top of Uncle Sam's shit list. There is probably an LA-class fast attack riding shotgun somewhere nearby as well :p
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 25,047

    Mr. CD13, don't worry.

    That said, don't be surprised if you find Mr. Eagles and Mr. Nabavi standing outside your house, chanting, "One of us! One of us!"

    It's the stuff of nightmares.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,349
    In my defence, it was a choice between "The Devil" and "The Deep Blue Sea."
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 49,961
    Wanderer said:

    Someone on the last thread, Casino_Royale I think, said that he'd had to go online to find details of the PCC candidates. Same here. In fact it took (by web search standards) some perseverance to find anything. If the candidates names had been subject to a super-injunction it would have been quicker to find them.

    I'm afraid turnout in those elections in going to be dreadful.

    On which note, I must go and vote.


    I was 32nd to vote in my polling station at 12.30pm.

    There was tumbleweed blowing through....
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 49,961
    CD13 said:

    In my defence, it was a choice between "The Devil" and "The Deep Blue Sea."

    More likely a Shallow Blue,....
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @JamieRoss7: Lord Turnbull decrees there's "no legal foundation" for the indycampers invoking the Declaration of Arbroath. https://t.co/zKliPhZKhl
  • TudorRoseTudorRose Posts: 1,662

    Wanderer said:

    Someone on the last thread, Casino_Royale I think, said that he'd had to go online to find details of the PCC candidates. Same here. In fact it took (by web search standards) some perseverance to find anything. If the candidates names had been subject to a super-injunction it would have been quicker to find them.

    I'm afraid turnout in those elections in going to be dreadful.

    On which note, I must go and vote.


    I was 32nd to vote in my polling station at 12.30pm.

    There was tumbleweed blowing through....
    I was second in my street to vote at 11.50am and the street goes up to number 96....

    There were eight people administering the votes and they were all tucking into a huge picnic. They looked very put out to see me!
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    There are wide partisan divides over what Americans see as top threat to the U.S. https://t.co/oo7xWdxNEP https://t.co/0rjXswzE9P
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @GuardianAnushka: I'm told Labour leadership script for tonight if Sadiq Khan wins: Tories made this abt Corbyn & he won. Others will be vocal against that
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,926
    Honestly don't think I can be motivated by either Mayoral candidate to rush down to London this evening to vote, like wot I did a year ago on General Election Night - and make it back to Brum just in time for the exit poll!

    I'm sitting this one out on this level, boys
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt willing to pause imposition of junior doctors' contract

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/05/ministers-willing-to-pause-imposition-of-junior-doctors-contract
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    Dan Fox
    Spare a thought for the befuddled Corbynistas in North London trying to follow Charlotte Church and vote for Plaid Cymru today.
  • murali_smurali_s Posts: 3,037
    Scott_P said:

    @GuardianAnushka: I'm told Labour leadership script for tonight if Sadiq Khan wins: Tories made this abt Corbyn & he won. Others will be vocal against that

    In reality, Khan's success is based on distancing himself from Corbyn.

    Just back from the polling station here in SW20 and have to report it being quite busy...
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Danny565 said:

    BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt willing to pause imposition of junior doctors' contract

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/05/ministers-willing-to-pause-imposition-of-junior-doctors-contract

    ...if the BMA agree to talk about Saturday pay...
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,926

    Wish we had some phone polls in that list.

    And well done for getting in a reference to AV, the finest voting system known to humanity.

    SV is just a really bad pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey kind of AV where you have to guess who'll be in the second round. I might do a thread on it one day.
    I had planned a thread today reminding everyone that today is the fifth anniversary of the AV referendum, but you and YouGov have buggered that up :lol:

    Might run with it on Sunday
    Sunil J. Prasannan is calling a for a total and complete shut-down of AV threads entering PB.com, until our forum's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on!
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091

    Honestly don't think I can be motivated by either Mayoral candidate to rush down to London this evening to vote, like wot I did a year ago on General Election Night - and make it back to Brum just in time for the exit poll!

    I'm sitting this one out on this level, boys

    Why didn't you apply for a postal vote?
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 13,921
    murali_s said:

    Scott_P said:

    @GuardianAnushka: I'm told Labour leadership script for tonight if Sadiq Khan wins: Tories made this abt Corbyn & he won. Others will be vocal against that

    In reality, Khan's success is based on distancing himself from Corbyn.

    Just back from the polling station here in SW20 and have to report it being quite busy...
    And the Labour ground game is excellent, right?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,926
    Danny565 said:

    Honestly don't think I can be motivated by either Mayoral candidate to rush down to London this evening to vote, like wot I did a year ago on General Election Night - and make it back to Brum just in time for the exit poll!

    I'm sitting this one out on this level, boys

    Why didn't you apply for a postal vote?
    Because it's just not the same as voting in person! Um, if you know what I mean.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,926

    @faisalislam · 2m2 minutes ago

    Japanese PM @AbeShinzo tells me "question of Brexit is for British people, but "Japan very clearly wants Britain to remain in the EU"

    If the EU is so wonderful, why don't the Japs apply for membership?!
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