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Why not have a bit of respect and go for Armistice Day instead?

Hardly. If the Tories are edging towards 50%...

Huge power provided their party wins in the Assembly as well. If they have to 'cohabit' with another party (they have to pick their PM and Cabinet from the party that wins the Assembly - it's always been the same party as the President since 2002) then they're limited to just foreign policy control and negotiating with the party in power in the Assembly. The Republicans look likely to win the Assembly - bad news for Macron, untenable for Melenchon.

The Labour Party has never been centre-right.

back of a fag packet prediction: CON 410 LAB 130 SNP 52 LD 35 NI 18 PC 5 GRN 2 UKIP 0

Nothing says 'courage' like calling a general election when you have a 20 point lead in the polls.

FML.

I was about to start beating my breast and WEEPING at Paper not even appealing to the gays only for this thread to remind me that Love Injected didn't get a single point EITHER! Bloody BASIC QUEENS

Yeah, Lordi actually did kind of save Eurovision's reputation a bit because a. it wasn't an Eastern European winner and b. it was a bit cut above in the type of novelty it was. Verka was excellent and probably the rightful winner in 2007, but it was much more in fitting with the kind of novelty Eurovision was mocked mercilessly for at a time when it was really at a low in its credibility (all Eastern European qualifiers from that semi of death, etc). Had Verka won while Scooch failed miserably I think there would've been much more of a push to get the UK out over the next year or two.

FAR TOO LOW!

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Nah, more because the funding isn't there for frequent local polling anymore. The big shift was post-Comey - none of PA/MI/WI had proper polls done in that ten day gap.

A spare THREE HUNDRED GRAND and a call to SMRTV should do the trick babe

The Eurofest preview party at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Saturday April 14th that is also being graced with the FIRST LEG of Dinah Nah's IMPENDING WORLD TOUR quite simply MUST be added to this list

Oh come on! If you've staked your economic model on oil the idea that there is no damage whatsoever to your economic credibility when the price of it crashes is for the birds. There will be doubts. And again - the notion of 'cope just fine' isn't really a winner for the independence referendum, because it's 'less well off' that's the kicker. There are plenty of smaller and less well off countries that 'cope just fine'. Plenty of undecided voters won't exactly want to become less well off just because they'd cope fine with it.

There's a different possible economic case that would make independence stack up now - that Edinburgh would be the preferred location for most of the City when the UK loses financial passporting after Brexit.

So hot for Macron rn

Outskilled them...how? She's made the entire fate of the union contingent on the EU giving the UK a good deal. You're going to have to decide which enemy is actually an enemy at some point. It's not exactly going to be bloody difficult for the SNP to win a majority if there's a majority for Scottish independence by then, considering they won one at a time when there definitely wasn't and came a shade off getting another last year.

You're speaking a little too soon. I genuinely wouldn't rule it out if Jeremy Corbyn sticks around for an election campaign.

Yes, but her main issue is that that SNP support and the high personal approval ratings largely overlap. The question of who has more appeal to the undecideds out of Nicola and Ruth is unresolved. ---- Splash in the Daily Telegraph this morning that Sturgeon is planning to go for EFTA membership instead of EU membership for an independent Scotland. It's...a line.

She's arguably a political choice in and of herself though, given she's a vocal nationalist who's performed in Crimea post-invasion. This is about as close as the EBU surely ever GETS to saying "you know EXACTLY what you're playing at here"?

It depends on what you define 'just fine on their own' as. They exist, sure enough, but most Scots certainly won't be pleased with an outcome that leaves them with a worse standard of living, as is the case in the majority of those countries.

Nah - Tories have already got that slot sewn up. The SNP would carry on talking left and governing centre, and the financial exodus from London to Edinburgh would give them more than enough leeway for a short while. What'll be more interesting is what the radical left in the SNP do once 'keep it steady till independence' isn't an excuse the party leadership can use anymore.

The argument that Spain would veto Scotland because of Catalonia is one of my pet peeves when it comes to the independence debate - even before the EU referendum happened and changed everything. The idea that a nation that voted for independence through an approved referendum would be vetoed for EU membership because a nation doesn't want to give succour to an unapproved referendum makes no sense whatsoever. The argument on successor status for Scotland is more shaky but I think it would be tremendously unlikely the EU wouldn't move heaven and earth for the PR win of a country seceding in large part to rejoin it. Amazing! Trump apparently not racist but Sturgeon is! Incredible scenes!

Poland 2015 was not more melodic or stronger. One of the dullest ballads ever sent to the damn contest.