Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Huge win here for UKIP then.
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
you don't see results like that anymore
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
system "works"
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
A bet on the Tory majority would be interesting. Cut to maybe 8000.
7403, so not a bad guess.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 6 June 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link
suspect this was UKIP's last best hope for a seat
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 10:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/28/douglas-carswell-ukip-defects-tory-mp-byelection
Bump
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 August 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
Interesting.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
don't think they've got much more chance than the last one, if they can't win one of these i don't see how they can hope to win a seat in a general election
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
So can a sitting MP call a by-election in his own constituency?
And then put himself up for election in that same by-election?
I only recall MPs resigning to the chiltern 100s or whatever, and not coming back.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
MP can change parties, there may not have to be a by-election if they do iirc, but calling one is seen as the honourable option
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
At least the Tory right are doing their best to make it difficult for Cameron to win the next election, about time the Labour Party started doing the same.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
the what now?
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Polling suggests that Carswell could get 64% of the vote vs Conservatives at 20%.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 1 September 2014 07:12 (nine years ago) link
what if ukip modern day?
― intelligent, expressive males within the greater metropolitan (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 1 September 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
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can't work out if this is riffing on labour party or the idea of a Tory 'centre or left'
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Monday, 1 September 2014 09:00 (nine years ago) link
c'mon i've been doing RIP Labour for long enough now
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 1 September 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
fuck me UKIP are 8/1 on, finally a chance to shine on the biggest stage
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 1 September 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
time to lay up against the eventuality imo
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Monday, 1 September 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
price on the Tories not enticing enough sadly
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 1 September 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
this carswell man
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Carswell Man was a hoax perpetrated in 1925 when a Bonobo skeleton was claimed to be evidence of the "missing link"
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 1 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
theres something to be said for the worst sort of human faeces like carswell explicitly rupturing themselves from the conservative party, since it more clearly demonstrates the bankruptcy of the post 2005/2010 right with their relentless xenophobia, delusory belief in the existence of the 'anglosphere' as a viable polity, identification with the american right, infatuation with flat taxes, apparently sincere belief that anthopogenic climate change is a fiction, etc etc
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Monday, 1 September 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link