General Election 2017

[rippleman]

At least you lucky sods in B&H get a competition at election time.

In Worthing you could stick a blue rosette on an inanimate object and it would still win with a landslide.

I have lived at the same place in Worthing for the past 15 years. In all that time Bottomley has never once knocked on my door (or anybody else's that I know). In fact no member of the Tory party has ever come to my door at election time. I have never had any Tory election leaflets either. He knows he will get re-elected. He knows he doesn't have to do SFA to get elected. So SFA is all he does.

Shocking state of affairs that in 2017 it's like living in an 18th century Rotten Borough.

 

[rippleman]

Who the actual **** votes for someone who thinks 'gays' can be cured?

How unenlightened would you have to be?

I used to vote Lib-Dem as an anti-Tory vote in Worthing. But I've done that for the last time. I could never cast my vote for a party led by a homophobe.

 

[Bold Seagull]

pathetic indictment of head up arse voters...i hope to god that these figures are not regurgitated on a national level......

Thankfully, there was only 8 of them...

 

[hans kraay fan club]

May also did this.

I believe that the Daily Mail forgot to include her on their 'apologist' front page.

Lax.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Odds are so tight for Hove.

Labour 4/5 and Tories 1/1 currently.

 

[TSB]

I used to vote Lib-Dem as an anti-Tory vote in Worthing. But I've done that for the last time. I could never cast my vote for a party led by a homophobe.

I meant the Tory candidate in Hove.
But Farron hasn't excelled himself, has he.

 

[pearl]

What did you stay up in 1996 for ?

ooooophs 1997, great night but the euphoria soon passed

 

[Bold Seagull]

There's been a big swing away from the Tories on Betfair this morning in the 'Most seats', 'Next Government' and 'Overall Majority' markets.

Still heavily odds on at 1/10, 1/4 and 1/4 respectively, but quite a shift from where things were yesterday evening.

Pretty much the odds against Trump and Brexit that Betfair had I think?

 

[brighton_girl87]

Who the actual **** votes for someone who thinks 'gays' can be cured?

How unenlightened would you have to be?

And she claims to have healed a deaf man through the power of prayer.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Face up to privatisation? I think most industries are run better in the private sector.

Such as?

 

[neilbard]

I would like to take this opportunity in thanking the people of NSC who offered advice in the last eight weeks.

Not sure I could have made up my mind without you.

 

[vegster]

What is more dangerous, cutting military services numbers in a world where technology and threats are evolving and a land invasion is highly unlikely or having a nuclear deterrent in which the potential commander in chief has told rogue nations and/or groups that the deterrent will never be used even if they strike first?

Yes, if course we need a leader who will take the tough decision to make whole areas of the planet a poisoned wasteland for generations . Better that then saddle future generations with debt.... My worry is that is Mrs May really would use it.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I would like to take this opportunity in thanking the people of NSC who offered advice in the last eight weeks.

Not sure I could have made up my mind without you.

its been...emotional.

 

[pearl]

Don't know if it happens these days but in the seventies the Dome was a great night on election night.

I can recall a few occasions when I'd had a night out in town and spent the rest of the night hearing the results coming in then walking home in the early hours to west Hove.

Does sound a bit like Christmas Eve ..... midnight mass and all that

 

[Titanic]

There's been a big swing away from the Tories on Betfair this morning in the 'Most seats', 'Next Government' and 'Overall Majority' markets.

Still heavily odds on at 1/10, 1/4 and 1/4 respectively, but quite a shift from where things were yesterday evening.

Seems to have moved back...

Most Seats - Win
Conservatives 1/16
Labour 8/1

Next Government - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6
Conservative Minority 10/1
Labour Minority 11/1
Labour Majority 18/1

Overall Majority - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6
No Overall Majority 9/2
Labour Majority 18/1

 

[TSB]

And she claims to have healed a deaf man through the power of prayer.

Hooray.
You could slap a blue rosette on a lump of faeces and have it get elected this year.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

At least you lucky sods in B&H get a competition at election time.

In Worthing you could stick a blue rosette on an inanimate object and it would still win with a landslide.

I have lived at the same place in Worthing for the past 15 years. In all that time Bottomley has never once knocked on my door (or anybody else's that I know). In fact no member of the Tory party has ever come to my door at election time. I have never had any Tory election leaflets either. He knows he will get re-elected. He knows he doesn't have to do SFA to get elected. So SFA is all he does.

Shocking state of affairs that in 2017 it's like living in an 18th century Rotten Borough.

You're obviously in Worthing West. That is poor of Bottomley. You mention Rotten Boroughs. If I remember correctly, Horsham and Worthing was one. In my view, you should always have to have some kind of local connection with a seat you want to represent (all parties are as bad at this). I wouldn't be quite so sure about Worthing East and Shoreham, though. In the County Council elections, Labour came within 100 votes in Broadwater, Worthing Central and Worthing East, and got respectable votes in the Shoreham divisions, and that was when they were doing badly. I am fortunate in having a far more interesting election, in that my seat, Battersea, is one of the key ones, and likely to declare early. Brexit has gone down very badly, and among long time Conservatives as well as floating voters.

 

[Bozza]

Seems to have moved back...

Most Seats - Win
Conservatives 1/16
Labour 8/1

Next Government - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6
Conservative Minority 10/1
Labour Minority 11/1
Labour Majority 18/1

Overall Majority - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6
No Overall Majority 9/2
Labour Majority 18/1

Not sure those were Betfair odds. They've come back a bit, but not as far as that:

Most Seats - Win
Conservatives 1/16 1/12

Next Government - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6 1/5

Overall Majority - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6 2/11

 

[Titanic]

Not sure those were Betfair odds. They've come back a bit, but not as far as that:

Most Seats - Win
Conservatives 1/16 1/12

Next Government - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6 1/5

Overall Majority - Win
Conservative Majority 1/6 2/11

They were taken from https://www.betfair.com/sport/politics I guess yours are from the Exchange?

 

[Bozza]

They were taken from https://www.betfair.com/sport/politics

That'll be Betfair Sportsbook, ie a conventional bookie, not the exchange. The Sportsbook so is not a perfect marketplace, and the prices have the bookie's take in there too.

This is where you want to be: https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.119040697