Mrs Bollx to be leader by September?
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General Election 2017
- Thread starter Giraffe
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Mrs Bollx to be leader by September?
The game never really was on.
IMO Labour will increase its share of the vote but lose more seats as the UKIP vote goes to the Tories. Conservative win by 40-50 seats for me. Might even luzz a cheeky bet on that.
If I was going for a double then I'd also stick a very small sum on May being replaced as Tory leader before Corbyn is replaced as Labour leader.
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Weststander
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City constituencies - Hove, Kemptown and Pavilion
Come Friday morning, by three landslides, we will have two Labour and one Green MP. The margins of victory will be huge.
BBC SE TV news this evening repeatedly stated that the Kemp Town result is going to be so nail bittingly close!! Where do they get their logic from? I think it was lazily made up to give a false feeling of excitement in one small part of a very predictable region. It's a seat that moves between the two main parties, Kirby has had his stint so IMO he was always going to lose anyway, but his fate was sealed when the other parties pulled their candidates.
The unique microcosm that is Brighton and Hove is also very Remain leaning, so any party openly admitting that they would pursue a hard Brexit was going to get hammered.
Conversely, the same BBC team did mention that key figures in the main parties had taken very little interest over the 6 weeks on the city and the SE region, probably because they believe that there will be few upsets here. Instead concentrating on the vital Midlands and North.
Come Friday morning, by three landslides, we will have two Labour and one Green MP. The margins of victory will be huge.
BBC SE TV news this evening repeatedly stated that the Kemp Town result is going to be so nail bittingly close!! Where do they get their logic from? I think it was lazily made up to give a false feeling of excitement in one small part of a very predictable region. It's a seat that moves between the two main parties, Kirby has had his stint so IMO he was always going to lose anyway, but his fate was sealed when the other parties pulled their candidates.
The unique microcosm that is Brighton and Hove is also very Remain leaning, so any party openly admitting that they would pursue a hard Brexit was going to get hammered.
Conversely, the same BBC team did mention that key figures in the main parties had taken very little interest over the 6 weeks on the city and the SE region, probably because they believe that there will be few upsets here. Instead concentrating on the vital Midlands and North.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
I reckons all seats will stay the same.
Hove genuinely might be a nail-biter.
Hove genuinely might be a nail-biter.
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,263
With George Osborne at the helm what did you expect? Tories will always rally round their own at GE time, even if they hate their leader's guts.
22+8 young people brutally murdered. Didn't make it through life very long - did they? Kiss goodbye to humans - right!
Will you ever mature?
tinycowboy
Well-known member
Despite everything, and I'm sure the Tories will win enough seats tomorrow, I'm still actually looking forward to staying up tomorrow night to see how things pan out. It's a bit like when the Eurovision votes come in, but much more interesting. Maybe the exit polls will be the ones calling the result rather than the pundits and pollsters, as per 2015.
HantsSeagull
Well-known member
too many champagne socialists in Hove
I expect Peter Kyle is a nice chap and good local MP - but every vote for him is a vote for Corbyn to run this country. Is that what these people really want? In some ways, if they think thats what they want, then i hope they get it. They will soon get a rude shock. I accept the Tory candidate has been invisible and that Labour will win Hove - but Kyle really should be standing as an independent. He doesn't even support his own party.
I expect Peter Kyle is a nice chap and good local MP - but every vote for him is a vote for Corbyn to run this country. Is that what these people really want? In some ways, if they think thats what they want, then i hope they get it. They will soon get a rude shock. I accept the Tory candidate has been invisible and that Labour will win Hove - but Kyle really should be standing as an independent. He doesn't even support his own party.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 14,501
Vote Stephen Lloyd
TSB
Captain Hindsight
No, what I definitely want in Hove is a Tory who believes she can heal people with prayer and that 'Gays' can be cured.
That's got to be less dangerous than voting for Kyle, whose crime is not liking Corbyn.
Maybe PK should have run as an independent, but that would almost certainly have seen him lose so...
KingKev
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Lucas landslide in Pavilion.
Kyle by a whisker in Hove
Too close to call in Kenptown. Relatively good weather may just favour Labour?
Kyle by a whisker in Hove
Too close to call in Kenptown. Relatively good weather may just favour Labour?
Neville's Breakfast
Well-known member
That's true of both parties. Many on the Labour side are holding their noses whilst voting Labour led by Corbyn and McDonnell.
Weststander
Well-known member
No, what I definitely want in Hove is a Tory who believes she can heal people with prayer and that 'Gays' can be cured.
That's got to be less dangerous than voting for Kyle, whose crime is not liking Corbyn.
Maybe PK should have run as an independent, but that would almost certainly have seen him lose so...
Gays - Tim Farron's your man. Shame that some lucky constituency up north enjoys his 'liberal' views, when it could be Hove.
Weststander
Well-known member
Labour landslide over Kirby. The other anti Tory parties pulling out, handed it to Labour on a silver platter.
10,000 margin.
It will be Labour in my constituency Delyn.
Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
- 31,981
Tree hugging lefty's ,Brighton and Hove the gift that keeps on giving ,awful place
regards
DR
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Typical northerner
Actually, I've no idea where his constituency is.Farron, like Adams, is someone I would not be voting for.
Personally I'm hoping that the 3-and a bit-thousand who voted UKIP will stay home tomorrow. If 75% vote Tory then we've five years of God-fearing bollocks.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Better to stay living in the 70's, eh Das?
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I've just read a bit about the bunny hugger party being 'lefty' and also what they stand for. It actually made sense to me(surprised me too). I might even vote for them tomorrow, just need to find out who they've got on the ballot paper