The British Politics Thread

[Agent Nationaux]

Anyone living in London and voting to elect the Mayor?

 

[Cabinet96]

Voted earlier this afternoon.

 

[cpr]

Meh, cannot be arsed walking the 200 yards to the voting booth. No doubt I'll want alcohol later so I'll do it then.

Its Salford though, can already call the result...

 

[cover drive man]

Trying to get Jeremy Vine to address the real issues.

 

[Furball]

Looks like the SNP might not get a majority in Edinburgh.

Good start to the day

 

[StephenZA]

I wonder if the poor performance of Labour over the last couple of years (and probably in the immediate future) might bring the Lib Dems back earlier than expected after the coalition disaster that decimated them?

 

[GIMH]

Looks like the SNP might not get a majority in Edinburgh.

Good start to the day

In fewer than one hundred words please explain your move from ardent SNP supporter to this over the past four years

 

[StephenZA]

In fewer than one hundred words please explain your move from ardent SNP supporter to this over the past four years

He`s had an SNP government for the last 4 years?

 

[fredfertang]

I wonder if the poor performance of Labour over the last couple of years (and probably in the immediate future) might bring the Lib Dems back earlier than expected after the coalition disaster that decimated them?

Can't see it - their best hope is that Labour flourishes making the Blairites give up their plots and jump ship - struggling to see that happening though

 

[cpr]

Judging by last nights election results, the Lib Dems are going nowhere. Used to have 4 or 5 seats on the Salford council, yesterday they failed to put up a single candidate in all 20 seats up for vote. In Trafford they ran 5th in most seats bar Timperley

 

[cpr]

Figured out last night in the last 3 local elections, I've been under 3 different councils, and voted for 3 different parties (4 if you include my 2nd choice for Salford Mayor). I'm the personification of the floating voter.

 

[weldone]

Who is going to be the new Mayor? Sadiq Khan or Zac Goldsmith?

 

[GIMH]

wtf, the Tories beat Labour in Scotland???

 

[Furball]

wtf, the Tories beat Labour in Scotland???

I'll go into this later but that particular result isn't massively surprising.

 

[Uppercut]

My sources tell me that Scotland is increasingly paying no attention at all to UK-level politics, and Ruth Davidson is about as popular as it's currently possible for a Scottish Conservative to be.

 

[Furball]

The Tories are more popular up here than is commonly perceived. FPTP skews his perception massively, the core Tory vote has always consistently been around 20%.

 

[Pothas]

Worst possible result in England for Labour, the results are bad but not anything like bad enough to get rid of Corbyn.

 

[grecian]

Worst possible result in England for Labour, the results are bad but not anything like bad enough to get rid of Corbyn.

I'm just going to start calling you Dan Hodges, from now on.

Great result for Sadiq Khan, and really needed if this type of campaigning had worked in Britain, we'd have been in the madhouse.

The Tories were negative in campaigning in the last GE, but at least they weren't openly racist.

Good stuff from Exeter, except, ick students, they'll probably all be teaching in Public schools and voting Tory in 10 years time.

 

[Pothas]

Would rather be Dan Hodges than Owen Jones (although he actually made some decent points today.)

 

[grecian]

Would rather be Dan Hodges than Owen Jones (although he actually made some decent points today.)

Well, I think we couldn't differ more then.

Actually, we live in the World of conspiracy theories. Does anyone feel some people in the Tory Party were out to nobble Zac Goldsmith?

I mean before this campaign he was generally seen as a moderate, and very environment-friendly candidate. A genuine change in policy and outlook if he'd ever become Prime-minister, yet now he's tainted ridiculously, with nowhere to go, politics-wise.