Local Elections on Thursday 4th May

[ColchesterFC]

Think they were pretty inaccurate at the last GE werent they?

I thought at the last GE the polls were predicting a pretty close result between Lab and Cons with the possibility of the Labour party having more MPs but not enough for a majority. I don't recall many in any of the polls predicting a Conservative majority.

 

[SocketRocket]

Based on voting patterns they're prediciting a majority at GE of 48 for Conservatives currently. That's decent but a long way from a landslide so in that regard people have seen through nothing much at all, Tories are picking up UKIP votes given May's hard brexit stance and Corbyn isn't helping Labour, no surprise there. But hey carry on splitting your sides, perhaps your brain has split too?

48, how about 158

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

 

[IanM]

Ask Diane Abbott... she is a whizz with numbers.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I guess it depends on how you spin it. Tories gain 160 seats. SNP lose control of the only 2 councils in which they had overall control. Either sentence doesn't portray the full story but implies something in a particular way as to suggest something else.

Not sure if I am 100% correct with this but I think in Scotland that no political party has overall control of any council.
Quite happy with that, national politics should have no part in local authority business.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Ask Diane Abbott... she is a whizz with numbers.

I'll see your Diane Abbott and raise you a BBC who yesterday announced that the Tories had taken control of Glasgow council.

Reality was they won 8 seats [+7], one more than the Greens [+4]. SNP 31 seats.

 

[Imurg]

I'll see your Diane Abbott and raise you a BBC who yesterday announced that the Tories had taken control of Glasgow council.

Reality was they won 8 seats [+7], one more than the Greens [+4]. SNP 31 seats.

Difference is that the BBC aren't trying to get to run the country....

 

[FairwayDodger]

I'll see your Diane Abbott and raise you a BBC who yesterday announced that the Tories had taken control of Glasgow council.

Reality was they won 8 seats [+7], one more than the Greens [+4]. SNP 31 seats.

Really? That'd be an amazing error. Didn't see that one although I did see them saying the snp had taken control of it (also wrong).

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Difference is that the BBC aren't trying to get to run the country....

That is true, they just try to influence the way the country should be run.

 

[SocketRocket]

I'll see your Diane Abbott and raise you a BBC who yesterday announced that the Tories had taken control of Glasgow council.

Reality was they won 8 seats [+7], one more than the Greens [+4]. SNP 31 seats.

Diane Abbott has carried out a recount and decided that Labour have won all councils in the UK with 200 votes, or 200 Billion.

 

[IanM]

I'll see your Diane Abbott and raise you a BBC who yesterday announced that the Tories had taken control of Glasgow council.

Reality was they won 8 seats [+7], one more than the Greens [+4]. SNP 31 seats.

If you think that's "a raise" you leaned your maths in the same classroom as Ms Abbott!