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Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:59 am 0

Go for it

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:02 am 0

"Place your best.."

..for the winner? Can't be anyone bar Labour.

Arthur Ringworn · Post by **Arthur Ringworn** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:14 am 0

Is this an exit poll or are we supposed to guess who will win?

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:18 am 0

Yeah, exactly. If it's a prediction game, it should be "guess the Labour spread".

Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:30 am 0

Er, it's a poll. 'Place your bets' was the first thing I could think of when I posted it in my sleep-addled state

Arthur Ringworn · Post by **Arthur Ringworn** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:32 am 0

I thought so. Cool.

Rubisco · Post by **Rubisco** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:05 pm 0

I would have liked to vote LibDem, but I tactically voted for SNP. Don't particularly like their policies but they're the only party other than the tories with a chance to beat the massive Labour lead here. And it'll be a cold day in hell before I vote Tory.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:06 pm 0

Anyone vote for the Death & Taxes Party?

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:10 pm 0

Rubisco wrote:I would have liked to vote LibDem, but I tactically voted for SNP. Don't particularly like their policies but they're the only party other than the tories with a chance to beat the massive Labour lead here. And it'll be a cold day in hell before I vote Tory.

Really? I heard that the SNP were languishing in 3rd in Scotland behind Labour and the Lib Dems...

Rubisco · Post by **Rubisco** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:30 pm 0

The Frozen One wrote:
Rubisco wrote:I would have liked to vote LibDem, but I tactically voted for SNP. Don't particularly like their policies but they're the only party other than the tories with a chance to beat the massive Labour lead here. And it'll be a cold day in hell before I vote Tory.
Really? I heard that the SNP were languishing in 3rd in Scotland behind Labour and the Lib Dems...

In general yes, but in my constituency it's pretty much always been
Labour >> SNP >>> Conservative > LibDem.

Actually, last time LibDem got almost as many votes as the Tories, but still they were 12000 votes behind Labour, whilst the SNP were 6000 behind. It's a bit of a long shot here, been a safe Labour seat since the 60's, but our long-standing MP has just retired so that should affect things a little.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:33 pm 0

Rubisco: Linlithgow? (I'm originally from just down the road...)

Had a lot of time for Tam Dalyell personally.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:11 pm 0

Acronym wrote: Had a lot of time for Tam Dalyell personally.

Dalyell writes a column in New Scientist every other week or so. Very good it is too, and he comes across as a really nice guy.

Rubisco · Post by **Rubisco** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:32 pm 0

Acronym wrote:Rubisco: Linlithgow? (I'm originally from just down the road...)

Had a lot of time for Tam Dalyell personally.

Nah, Dundee West. I liked our retiring MP, Ernie Ross, and may have voted for him if he was staying on, but this time around I'm not voting for a local voice, since devolution I feel that's better left for my scottish parliament vote. I just don't like Blair, plain and simple, the bigger kick in the teeth he gets the better.

arron · Post by **arron** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:57 pm 0

I would vote BNP I believe in ein besserungen England, - I feel that we should immediately move into the Sudetenland and help Poland out by invading it..but as our local MP, Dr Evan Harris is a nice bloke, I'll have to vote Lib Dem instead..

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:21 pm 0

Here we go: The more unusual election pledges

Including:

Among the promises from the Church of the Militant Elvis are plans to place giant photos of celebrities such as Johnny Vegas, Graham Norton and Chris Evans in Heathrow and Gatwick, "to discourage undesirable foreigners from entering Britain".

The party has only one candidate, David Bishop, in the Derbyshire constituency of Erewash.

Mr Bishop would also press for a public inquiry into British vets' fees - "the highest in Europe".

He would like to go the Antarctic, stand in front of icebergs and shout at them to "stop melting".

"It won't do much good but it's more than Bush and Blair are doing," he says.

He would also "present Mr Blair with an Oscar for his marvellous performance as a sincere politician", and give one of his Erewash rivals, Veritas' Robert Kilroy-Silk, a job as "keeper of the Royal stool".

YakYak

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