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United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Topic: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019 (Read 95791 times)
afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Big dump of leaks from Aaron Banks' twitter today.
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urutzizu
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Quote from: parochial boy on November 19, 2019, 08:34:53 AM
Incidentally, has anyone ever (tried to) poll overseas voters?
Obviously, there is no way you'd ever know how they vote seeing as they just get subsumed into home constituencies - but I was reading the other day that, as a result of various efforts, the number of overseas registered voters has jumped from about 50'000 to 300'000 in the last 4/5 years - and that's almost starting to be a somewhat marginally relevant voting bloc.
I have not seen a poll, but my guess is that most lean Conservative. While there is a very vocal anti-brexit crowd among the Central European Diaspora, they are outnumbered by a far larger number of British Citizens living in Australia, Canada and the US, who could be expected to be rather more sympathetic to the whole Brexit
Empire
Commonwealth nostalgia. And the largest group of Expats on the Continent are in retiree-heavy Spain, and that is a highly pro-tory age group. Anecdotal, of course, but I seem to remember an Interview that the BBC did with them before the Referendum and many of them seemed to be highly supportive of leave, seemingly oblivious to the consequences it would have for them personally.
Perhaps this is the Reason why the Conservatives have traditionally been supportive of demands to allow votes for life for British living abroad, while the Labour Party has been opposed (despite wanting to extend the franchise to other groups); they suspect that overseas voters lean conservative.
Or perhaps it could be rather a more old fashioned tory idea of an ethnic bond of all British people, and allowing overseas Citizens to vote is a a way of 'preserving their connection to the motherland'.
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parochial boy
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 12:24:03 PM »
Quote from: urutzizu on November 19, 2019, 11:07:32 AM
Quote from: parochial boy on November 19, 2019, 08:34:53 AM
Incidentally, has anyone ever (tried to) poll overseas voters?
Obviously, there is no way you'd ever know how they vote seeing as they just get subsumed into home constituencies - but I was reading the other day that, as a result of various efforts, the number of overseas registered voters has jumped from about 50'000 to 300'000 in the last 4/5 years - and that's almost starting to be a somewhat marginally relevant voting bloc.
I have not seen a poll, but my guess is that most lean Conservative. While there is a very vocal anti-brexit crowd among the Central European Diaspora, they are outnumbered by a far larger number of British Citizens living in Australia, Canada and the US, who could be expected to be rather more sympathetic to the whole Brexit
Empire
Commonwealth nostalgia. And the largest group of Expats on the Continent are in retiree-heavy Spain, and that is a highly pro-tory age group. Anecdotal, of course, but I seem to remember an Interview that the BBC did with them before the Referendum and many of them seemed to be highly supportive of leave, seemingly oblivious to the consequences it would have for them personally.
Perhaps this is the Reason why the Conservatives have traditionally been supportive of demands to allow votes for life for British living abroad, while the Labour Party has been opposed (despite wanting to extend the franchise to other groups); they suspect that overseas voters lean conservative.
Or perhaps it could be rather a more old fashioned tory idea of an ethnic bond of all British people, and allowing overseas Citizens to vote is a a way of 'preserving their connection to the motherland'.
Yeah, that makes intuitive sense - but my thinking on that is that; firstly, 300k is only a small proportion of the British diaspora as a whole - and without knowing whether registered voters are more concentrated among certain communities than others it's hard to be able to tell beyond that.
Adding to that, I believe a fair few of the spanish-retirees still maintain UK residencies and the right to vote at home, and I would imagine that the US/Aus/Canada communities probably combine a lot of people who have been in those countries for decades and therefore lost the right to vote - and that the newcomers, owing to immigration restrictions of the 21st century, will likely be overwhelmingly highly educated professionals. Ie the class who tend to be broadly "liberal" ideologically and allegedly decamping from the Tories en masse. (and I imagine there is a solid - immigrant who naturalised British and has now returned to their country of origin demographic too; particularly famously in parts of Pakistan).
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Jermey Corbyn is so bad that he makes Ilhan Omar look good compared to him. Corbyn needs to lose in a landslide
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 01:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Old School Republican on November 19, 2019, 01:26:32 PM
Jermey Corbyn is so bad that he makes Ilhan Omar look good compared to him. Corbyn needs to lose in a landslide
Wow, thank you for the insight, Old School Republican, very cool!
Can we please deport people who know nothing about British politics from the thread?
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 01:30:25 PM »
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-election-poll-kantar-idUKKBN1XT21T?taid=5dd4329d9007110001d2ca4b&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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CumbrianLeftie
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 01:35:38 PM »
The latest YouGov - for some time one of the more favourable pollsters for the Tories - has them down 3 to 42 and Labour up 2 to 30 (their highest with this poll since the spring) Taken very recently too.
Just a blip? Possibly, but tonight's debate may have some bearing on that (I'm not one of those who thinks they can never change anything - and tbh am surprised at those who do, given Cleggmania wasn't *that* long ago)
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 01:38:20 PM »
I am surprised Theresa May is running again. Last few PMs seems to have retired from politics after they left the PM spot.
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DaWN
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Quote from: CumbrianLeftie on November 19, 2019, 01:35:38 PM
tonight's debate may have some bearing on that (I'm not one of those who thinks they can never change anything - and tbh am surprised at those who do, given Cleggmania wasn't *that* long ago)
Cleggmania
didn't
change anything though. It gave Clegg a momentary blip but the overall effect on the election was actually fairly minimal. And that's when he was the clear winner over Brown and Cameron, whereas both Johnson and Corbyn are so bad at debating I'm not sure there can be a clear winner. And even if there is a decisive winner, there's still three weeks until the election, plenty of time for other shiny things to make people forget the debate even happened.
Quote from: jaichind on November 19, 2019, 01:38:20 PM
I am surprised Theresa May is running again. Last few PMs seems to have retired from politics after they left the PM spot.
As I said in my predictions, her becoming the female Ted Heath would be such a perfect end to her story.
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parochial boy
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 02:07:51 PM »
Wait, there's a debate tonight? You all have my deepest sympathies
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DaWN
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Quote from: parochial boy on November 19, 2019, 02:07:51 PM
Wait, there's a debate tonight? You all have my deepest sympathies
Don't worry, I'll be joining most of the country in avoiding watching it or any part of it like the plague. Frankly I'd rather have a root canal than watch Boris and Corbyn debate.
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 02:21:31 PM »
Quote from: DaWN on November 19, 2019, 02:04:21 PM
Quote from: CumbrianLeftie on November 19, 2019, 01:35:38 PM
tonight's debate may have some bearing on that (I'm not one of those who thinks they can never change anything - and tbh am surprised at those who do, given Cleggmania wasn't *that* long ago)
Cleggmania
didn't
change anything though. It gave Clegg a momentary blip but the overall effect on the election was actually fairly minimal. And that's when he was the clear winner over Brown and Cameron, whereas both Johnson and Corbyn are so bad at debating I'm not sure there can be a clear winner. And even if there is a decisive winner, there's still three weeks until the election, plenty of time for other shiny things to make people forget the debate even happened.
Quote from: jaichind on November 19, 2019, 01:38:20 PM
I am surprised Theresa May is running again. Last few PMs seems to have retired from politics after they left the PM spot.
As I said in my predictions, her becoming the female Ted Heath would be such a perfect end to her story.
So this implies that there will be diddling accusations after her death?
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DaWN
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Reply #662 on:
November 19, 2019, 02:26:54 PM »
Quote from: kongress on November 19, 2019, 02:21:31 PM
Quote from: DaWN on November 19, 2019, 02:04:21 PM
Quote from: CumbrianLeftie on November 19, 2019, 01:35:38 PM
tonight's debate may have some bearing on that (I'm not one of those who thinks they can never change anything - and tbh am surprised at those who do, given Cleggmania wasn't *that* long ago)
Cleggmania
didn't
change anything though. It gave Clegg a momentary blip but the overall effect on the election was actually fairly minimal. And that's when he was the clear winner over Brown and Cameron, whereas both Johnson and Corbyn are so bad at debating I'm not sure there can be a clear winner. And even if there is a decisive winner, there's still three weeks until the election, plenty of time for other shiny things to make people forget the debate even happened.
Quote from: jaichind on November 19, 2019, 01:38:20 PM
I am surprised Theresa May is running again. Last few PMs seems to have retired from politics after they left the PM spot.
As I said in my predictions, her becoming the female Ted Heath would be such a perfect end to her story.
So this implies that there will be diddling accusations after her death?
I meant sulking on the backbenches for 25 years lol. I certainly wouldn't accuse the ex-Prime Minister of such things (happy, any lawyers reading?)
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Reply #663 on:
November 19, 2019, 02:47:10 PM »
Is the debate being streamed online somewhere?
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Oryxslayer
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 02:49:52 PM »
Remember to treat any post-debate snap-polls with extreme caution. They are worse than regular polls, and regular UK polling is as we have all said here, iffy. Now, I don't think anyone can "win" this debate, but this just needs to be stated for cautions sake.
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afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Quote from: Mangez des pommes ! on November 19, 2019, 02:47:10 PM
Is the debate being streamed online somewhere?
Purgatory.
BBC and Sky streams are usually easier to find online; best hit YouTube and see what you can find.
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jaichind
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 02:55:59 PM »
It seems Yougov will do a snap poll after the debate. Of course it is not clear who will watch this debate.
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DaWN
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 02:58:03 PM »
Quote from: jaichind on November 19, 2019, 02:55:59 PM
It seems Yougov will do a snap poll after the debate. Of course it is not clear
if anyone will
watch this debate.
FTFY
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afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:28:36 PM »
Stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kEB5pqWpJw
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Lumine
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:30:37 PM »
Tried to watch the debate, but couldn't, it seemed absurdly cringeworthy.
Also, Boris is absolutely incompetent as a debater. From what I saw before moving onto something else, Corbyn - hopelessly mediocre as he is - seemed to be doing a lot better.
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afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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Neither of them can be bothered.
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Cassius
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:34:10 PM »
Well this is surreal
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Tirnam
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:37:48 PM »
Why can't we have a real debate?
No time-limited respond, no question from the audience, no audience at all, ...
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afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:40:08 PM »
Quote from: Tirnam on November 19, 2019, 03:37:48 PM
Why can't we have a real debate?
No time-limited respond, no question from the audience, no audience at all, ...
The UK audience, with decades of panel debates behind them love the sound of themselves and their own quips and their own laughter to nauseating levels.
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afleitch
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Re: United Kingdom General Elections: December 12th, 2019
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November 19, 2019, 03:50:49 PM »
Tories being utter c-nts with CCHQPress twitter changed their name to 'factcheckUK.'
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