UK Election Awards

[Silent Hunter]

My nominations, feel free to do your own.

Best party political broadcast: Labour's anti-Michael Howard one.
Worst party political broadcast: The first Lib Dem one on Scotland
The Portillo Award for most memorable result: Bethnal Green and Bow, sadly
Best idea: The Tories' border police force.
Worst idea: 2 million windfarms- the Greens.
Highest level takedown: Tim Collins, Shadow Education Secretary
Nastiest seat campaign: Bethnal Green and Bow
Best poster: "If you value it, vote for it"- Labour
Worst poster: "Act now. Or it's five more years of him"- Conservatives.
Best slogan: "If you value it, vote for it" (yes, I'm biased)
Worst slogan: "Are you thinking what we're thinking?"
The William Rees Mogg Award for bad calling: Adam Hart Davis, predicting the Lib Dems as largest party.
The Rose Tyler Award for most accurate prediction: Professor Phillip Cowley, who got Labour's majority dead on.
Turncoat award: Brian Sedgemore
Best fringe party: The Church of the Militant Elvis
Best speech: None spring to mind.
Nastiest speech: Galloway's victory speech
Best insult: None spring to mind.
Most blatant lie: Ed Matts' photo-manipulation in Dorset South.
Most embarrassing moment:
Kennedy forgets the details of his Local Income Tax, but he has an excuse.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Portillo Award for most memorable result: Bethnal Green and Bow, sadly

That result means the creation of a new award: "Result most likely to cause segregation and riots"

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I think David Trimble might count actually... although on the mainland it's certainly Collins.

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True (stuff like that should not happen in a Democracy. Mind you the Bangladeshi communtity leaders never did like Democracy anyways...) but Bradford West comes close.

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[Banana Republic]

"If you value it, vote for it" was terrible. If the Tories came up with that I wouldn't vote for them.

[Emsworth]

To copy Silent Hunter's idea:

Biggest winner: Liberal Democrats
Biggest loser: Ulster Unionist Party
Most memorable result: Medway
Most embarassing result: Cardiff North (Catherine Taylor-Dawson received one vote)
Most surprising hold: Dorset South
Highest level takedown: David Trimble
Best slogan: "If you value it, vote for it"
Worst slogan: "Blair Lied, Vote Plaid"
Nastiest speech: George Galloway

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most suprising hold: Selby. I still don't understand how Grogan held on...

[Peter]

I'd say the highest level takedown has competition in the form of Stephen Twigg - He certainly is known, interestingly because he himself took out Portillo, and also because he was also a relatively fast rising minister.