BTW, anyone know how many of the party-switchers are recontesting their old seats?

 

How many will survive if they do?

I am so so so happy that Margrethe is staying in post!!! She’s has had some fantastic victories for consumer rights

 

I'm sure the UK, post-Brexit, will be just as tough on these tech companies...

Edited November 4, 20195 yr by blacksquare

Right, unless anyone can give me a good reason to the contrary, I'm going to run as a candidate in Belfast North.

Right, unless anyone can give me a good reason to the contrary, I'm going to run as a candidate in Belfast North.

 

 

What's your party called? :D Can you afford to lose your deposit?

Right, unless anyone can give me a good reason to the contrary, I'm going to run as a candidate in Belfast North.

 

For Labour yes?

What's your party called? :D Can you afford to lose your deposit?

 

I'd run as an Independent, and yes (although I see it as an investment)

 

For Labour yes?

 

I very much doubt Labour would want me as a candidate. Besides, they don't allow their members to stand in Northern Ireland.

Interesting that the leaflet from my local Labour MP has barely any mention of Brexit on it

I'd run as an Independent, and yes (although I see it as an investment)

 

 

How can you call a probable lost deposit an investment?

I'd run as an Independent, and yes (although I see it as an investment)

I very much doubt Labour would want me as a candidate. Besides, they don't allow their members to stand in Northern Ireland.

Are you proposing to make battenberg available on the NHS?

How can you call a probable lost deposit an investment?

 

Name recognition for the next time I run.

How can you call a probable lost deposit an investment?

If it's used to promote his candle business, £500 would be pretty cheap.

If it's used to promote his candle business, £500 would be pretty cheap.

 

It wouldn't be the most gratuitous use of an election to flog one's goods/services (not that it's why I'd be running). Let's not forget the 2012 Corby by-election, when Mr Mozzarella, a character from the Just Eat adverts, was a candidate. And he didn't even come last.

It wouldn't be the most gratuitous use of an election to flog one's goods/services (not that it's why I'd be running). Let's not forget the 2012 Corby by-election, when Mr Mozzarella, a character from the Just Eat adverts, was a candidate. And he didn't even come last.

 

 

So will you have a gimmicky name? Mr. Candle?

So will you have a gimmicky name? Mr. Candle?

 

I'd be tempted to just list my name as "Battenberg", just for the fun of it. Might be offered a non-executive directorship for Mr Kipling off the back of it. :D

It wouldn't be the most gratuitous use of an election to flog one's goods/services (not that it's why I'd be running). Let's not forget the 2012 Corby by-election, when Mr Mozzarella, a character from the Just Eat adverts, was a candidate. And he didn't even come last.

Or indeed one of the candidates in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection who wanted to sell some sofas.

I'd be tempted to just list my name as "Battenberg", just for the fun of it. Might be offered a non-executive directorship for Mr Kipling off the back of it. :D

 

 

Anyway good luck. Don't let all those constituents get on your wick. :D

FYI...

 

Seats that would be lost on <5% swing :

 

Con 67 seats

Lab 53 seats

SNP 29 seats

LD 8 seats

 

Seats that could be won on a 5% swing :

 

Con 59 seats

Lab 78

SNP 16

LD 9

 

I can do the calculation for a 10% swing too, if anyone is interested?

FYI...

 

Seats that would be lost on

 

Con 67 seats

Lab 53 seats

SNP 29 seats

LD 8 seats

 

Seats that could be won on a 5% swing :

 

Con 59 seats

Lab 78

SNP 16

LD 9

 

I can do the calculation for a 10% swing too, if anyone is interested?

 

I suspect the real result will be a lot less neat than the standard calculations would suggest!

 

I suspect the real result will be a lot less neat than the standard calculations would suggest!

 

I have no doubt about that! :P

Kay Burley's fuming on Sky News at present as James Cleverley's in their building for an interview but refusing to come on after he's seen her questions. They're showing an empty chair lol.