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There are some highly amusing predictions on social media. They include the Tories just winning more seats than the Lib Dems but, just for a laugh, a group of Labour MPs defect to the Lib Dems and Ed Davey becomes LOTO :lol:

Sunak will be an ex-MP by Christmas.

Most? I don’t think I’ve seen any predictions showing them winning that many.

N o, no, no. Kuenssberg has to announce the exit poll. The look on her face will be priceless.

Shame it isn’t in the days of the Golden Goal :lol:

Time for Michelle Obama to come to the rescue.

Farage’s boycott is going to leave the BBC with a lot of hours to fill.

That is exactly what I’m saying.

I know what you’re getting at, but I don’t agree. The Tories will be far too busy fighting themselves to provide any meaningful opposition. A sizeable number of Lib Dem MPs will do a far better job, even if it takes a little while for some of the newcomers to find their feet. They will be even more effective if they are the Official Opposition. Besides, I’d love to see the Tories moaning that they are being treated as irrelevant by news channels.

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Does that mean he wasn’t nasty enough?

Wouldn’t that be a shame?

If Reform win 18 seats, at least 17 of them will be utter loons. They will do immense harm to their party / limited company.

If those estimates are anywhere near correct, we will have a pretty good idea of how it has gone fairly early. The predicted first seat to declare, Blyth and Ashington is a red wall seat whose main predecessor seat went Tory last time in a sign f what was to come. If Labour win comfortably, they are well on their way. Basildon and Billericay (predicted to be third to declare) is the supposedly safe Try seat where Richard Holden, national party chair, imposed himself as candidate. When the Tories won Basildon (with the late David Amess as MP) in 1992, that was an early sign that Labour had lost. If Labour win this seat comfortably, they are likely to win a hefty majority nationally. There could be a period around 4am which is absolute carnage for the Tories. It should be noted that predicting declaration times is very difficult and estimates are often very wrong.

Given that the survey was done long after nominations closed, I assume they will have named each candidate. Not to do so would be poor practice.

On a different topic, it's very noticeable here just how many hustings events there have been. Thankfully, most of them have covered the whole of Brighton & Hove (three constituencies), so the candidates can divvy them up between them. In some parts of the country, that won't be possible. It is also worth noting that Labour have attended so few of the events that some organisers have started to put out a chair for Labour with a cardboard cut-out in it.

I predicted in the Number 3 listening session that Scotland would go out due to a atoppage time goal, albeit with a different scenario from what happened. I didn’t expect it to be quite that dramatic :lol: Good to see Scotland maintain their impressive 100% record of going out in the group stages.

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It’s frustrating, isn’t it? This will be the first election when I have to go to work the following morning.

My understanding is that the company doesn’t carry out vetting. It just provides facilities for an organisation to do their own vetting. If that is the case, Reform haven’t got a leg to stand on. Being legless is, of course, not unusual for at least one of their members.

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The big questions are whether People Polling are signed up to the pollsters’ code of practice and whether this is a representative sample or just Gammon News viewers.

That has the Lib Dems winning Maidenhead, Witney and Henley, seats previously represented by Theresa May, David Cameron and Boris Johnson :lol:

Much as I love Sunchyme, it would be good to have a different Dario G track.

If she does get a cameo appearance, surely they would leave her out of the cast list sent out in advance to keep it as a surprise.