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  • I appreciate it gives him legitimacy, but it'll also expose him to scrutiny and he fucking hates
    being scrutinised. He'll also barely ever show up and, hopefully, a lot more people will
    understand that there is no substance to him.

    I can't imagine him wanting to get involved the the day to day bits of being an MP at Westminster or doing surgery sessions in Clacton. He'll probably be on Question Time even more frequently though...

    Back to the predictions though - assuming there is to be a Labour majority, people have been known to lie in opinion polls before. If this is the case now, I could see it only helping the Tories or Reform?

  • Refuse to give numbers for the cunt party.

    You gave a number for reform...

  • I've had a hunch for a while that LDs will be much closer to the tory number of seats than expected, with a slight hope that LDs edge it and become the opposition. That would be the dream scenario obviously. I think even within their core and previously loyal tory voters that the disillusionment is much deeper than the polls suggest. I really hope so.

    However I see the flip side to that scenario being Reform hoovering up much of that disillusionment and gaining around 5 seats.

    No scientific basis for this and it flies against the polls I've seen, but this is the place for predictions and that's mine.

    These are my 3 wishes for the election in order of priority but also decreasing order of probability.

    Tories lose election.
    Tories pushed to third.
    Tom Tugboat loses his seat. My MP and I'm fed up with people saying he's a good tory. He isn't. There's no such thing.

  • They are a plc not a party. And is zero a number or an absence of number?

  • how should one calibrate one’s celebration to the results? tories 3rd: fully naked high street streak, live like no tomorrow, halcyon moment; tories near 200: modest amounts of drunk dancing but without banishing anxious thoughts about tomorrow/the future.

  • Meh. She hasn’t even knocked my door and we’re five doors up.

  • Assume you're all over tugitof tomorrow then?

  • If the cunts are under 90 MPs, some sort of pact and labour "defections" to get the LD as the official opposition.

    Wow! Could that really be in the realm of possibility? Way to lay the boot in!

  • Tactical voting is going to be more impactful than ever before.

    Labour will have around 425-450 seats.
    Tories will get less than 100, possibly as low as 60, as the LibDems annihilate them in the south west especially.

    Farage plus 2 other Reform candidates will get elected.

  • My boy does the voting - they don't expect electoral fraud from a 7-yr old. He wanted to vote for our neighbour, so he did.

  • Brilliant work. I tried to take my 10 year old so he can see how it works but he wanted an extra 5 minutes of Minecraft instead.

  • My boy does the voting - they don't expect electoral fraud from a 7-yr old. He wanted to vote for our neighbour, so he did.

    You live next to a candidate on the ballot?!

  • Realise there's some Trussite maths going on, but here's my guess:


    PartySeats Guessexit pollsactual
    Con110131121
    Lab420410412
    LibDem656171
    SNP20109
    Reform0135

  • healthy dose of scepticism required for my predictions since I’ve not read the news for 5 years but why not:

    • LAB majority (395 v CON 165?)
    • SNP better than predicted (30-33?)
    • corbyn hold
    • debonnaire loss
    • sunak hold
    • shaheen loss + IDS loss
    • farage win
    • truss hold
    • turnout lower than 2010
    • LAB votes lower than 2019 👀 2017
  • I’m starting to get nervous about the impact of the shy Tories (and shy Reform for that matter) - can the polls that have been pretty consistent for a year be very wrong?

  • can the polls that have been pretty consistent for a year be very wrong?

    Quite possibly.

    I was chatting to someone who voted Labour but was intrigued by a party they'd never heard of before or knew anything about called Reform. They thought after all the Tory BS politics needs to be reformed.

    They were horrified when I explained that it was the new UKIP.

    Goes to show that it's easy to make assumptions about how informed people are.

  • Fucking hell, that is very uninformed!!!!

    Tory incumbent has just visited the local Polling Station, looked desperate and was complaining that he doesn’t have as much money for posters as the Greens. I neither sympathise or emphasise (and, despite hoping otherwise, think he’ll hold on for five more years doing nothing locally but enjoying his lucrative side hustles).

  • I thought so, but then again it's been UKIP, the Brexit Party and now Reform. Basically it's the Farage Party, so it's not that crazy to not realise what it is.

  • You live next to a candidate on the ballot?!

    A few doors down - she's been a Green councillor for about 18 months, now trying for the big show.

  • SNP better than predicted (30-33?)

    Mmmm I dunno, an awful lot of the people that I know that have been SNP voters at the last several elections are now looking elsewhere (including myself in that).

  • exit poll brutal for SNP

  • scorecard

    • LAB majority (395 v CON 165?) - a half point since the CON did get triple digits
    • SNP better than predicted (30-33?) - NOPE
    • corbyn hold - YES
    • debonnaire loss - LOL
    • sunak hold - YES
    • shaheen loss + IDS loss - half point
    • farage win - YES
    • truss hold - NO
    • turnout lower than 2010 - LOL
    • LAB votes lower than 2019 👀 2017 - LOL
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