The plural of no always look so strange
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The plural of no always look so strange
I'm undecided whether to use my vote at uni or at home...
At uni labour currently have a majority of just 650 and seeing as a lot of students will have gone home by then I suspect they will lose a lot of labour votes :o and it's a leave area
Conservatives will win at home but it was a remain area like most of London
New YouGov out just now.
48% and they haven't even started on Corbyn yet. Pollsters tend to underestimate the Tory vote too. Remarkable.
Wouldn't it be funny if they got 52%... :P
EXC: Tonight Tories on 48% in the first YouGov poll taken since Theresa May called election - highest since May 2008 pic.twitter.com/awaKs7V0Yv
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) April 19, 2017
Already the usual ones on Facebook are sharing pro-Corbyn posts... same echo chamber is developing on social media just like the referendum where they're all telling each other how great he is, nobody else will say anything for fear of being branded a racist/Tory and then when election day comes they're all shocked that they lost. They're about to find out a second time just how conservative Britain, but especially England, really is in outlook and attitudes.
One guy commented on a pro-Corbyn share on my Facebook "I just don't understand how people don't see how brill his policies are" and it's like ummm well maybe you should talk to a wider range of people in your life other than just hard-left students.
https://media.giphy.com/media/48UoqdKrAjhXG/giphy.gifWestminster voting intention:
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 22, 2017
CON: 50% (+4)
LAB: 25% (-)
LDEM: 11% (-)
UKIP: 7% (-2)
(via ComRes)
@lemons; Wow.
One poll of course but 50% is absolutely incredible. The last time a party scored over 50% of the national vote was in 1931 when the Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin who captured 55% of the national vote. Literally it has been said for years now that neither party would likely break 40% again let alone 50%. Yet here we are. Virtually the entire electoral map is going to turn blue.
It just goes to show what a sea change Brexit has had - Ukip forcing the Tories to hold a referendum and the subsequent Leave vote could ironically be the best thing to happen to the Conservative and Unionist Party in terms of reviving it in Wales, northern England and Scotland. Opinium Polling is saying about 30% of the Ukip vote so far has transferred to the Tories - that figure is likely to grow as the election draws nearer if you ask me.
Interesting theory going around is that Ukip voters who were former Labour have been 'converted' by voting Ukip and are now considering Tory whereas they never would have gone Labour to Tory. It's being described as a 'Gateway drug' theory. Interesting and makes sense really. Labour are in serious trouble: we saw in Scotland what happens when Labour voters stop being blindly loyal.
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At least on the plus side they will have a legitimate majority to form government under these numbers. I do doubt it will stick at 50% though.
Latest YouGov just come out too -
Including numbers which show a Tory revival in Scotland and SNP only 11% ahead.Westminster voting intention:
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 22, 2017
CON: 48% (-)
LAB: 25% (+1)
LDEM: 12% (-)
UKIP: 5% (-2)
(via YouGov)
Opinium National Poll in Scotland SNP 43% CON 32% LAB 14% LDEM 8%
— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) April 22, 2017Sunday Times Scotland/Panelbase poll
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) April 22, 2017
John Curtice analysis of our poll shows Tories on course for 12 seats in Scotland.
Labour wiped out
Not that I want to undermine what the people want or anything but surely Westminster voting isn't by any means the be all and end all of vote partisanship and althought I don't doubt at all that Cons are gonna get an enormous majority it's daft to claim victory after a minor poll in just one region
RIP Labour though lol gonna be decades before anyone poses a real opposition now
Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party