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UK - Election 2015

Rum said:
Anyone watching the goings on tomorrow night until you drop..off?
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Yep, BBC1 for facts and C4 for light relief. I'll stay up as long as I can, or as long as it takes to see who is likely to have most seats (whichever comes first).
 
jimbob said:
I had thought that Ian Paisley had been an MEP and MP...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Paisley

Someone who had a pernicious influence on UK life for most of his carrer.
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Ian Paisley and John Hume were MPs and MEPs, but that was before 2009.

Funny how Ian Paisley had a sudden conversion to the peace process right at the end of his career, only to be ostracised by the very people over whom he had exerted such a pernicious influence all those years. At the end, the only one of his former colleagues who went to his funeral was Martin McGuinness.
 
Rum said:
Anyone watching the goings on tomorrow night until you drop..off?
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Oh yes. 3.00am, 4.00am.....whatever it takes to see the overall picture with a degree of certainty.
 
jimbob said:
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2015...er-trust-the-public-theyre-deeply-unreliable/
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You forgot to include the other bit, which is just as interesting:
In a remarkable article on the Conservative Home website, leading Lib Dem Stephen Tall writes that the Lib Dems have learned what he called a “harsh lesson”, namely:

“Never trust the public. They’re deeply unreliable.”
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Is this for real? Or is this satire?

In 1953, Bertolt Brecht - then a citizen of the GDR - wrote, after the failed uprising:
The government has lost the confidence in the people.
Isn't it easier if the government dissolves the people and elects another?
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Is that what Stephen Tall means?
 
ddt said:
You forgot to include the other bit, which is just as interesting:

Is this for real? Or is this satire?

In 1953, Bertolt Brecht - then a citizen of the GDR - wrote, after the failed uprising:

Is that what Stephen Tall means?
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There's a clue in the subtitle "(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!)"

He does seem to helpfully categorise his posts as "Not Satire" and "Satire?"
 
MikeG said:
Oh yes. 3.00am, 4.00am.....whatever it takes to see the overall picture with a degree of certainty.
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I used to stay up to watch the results, these days I tend to wake up at about the time I used to go to sleep :o so I'll pick up the news just after the overall trend is clear to see (around 4ish depending on catbeast activity)
 
Rum said:
Anyone watching the goings on tomorrow night until you drop..off?
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Yup, likely until 4-5am. Got soft play with the kids at 10am.........

And I now have seven hours manning a door. Long day :)
 
I am shocked to find discussion continuing on this thread. Ladies and gentlemen, this is polling day. Kindly desist. Otherwise one of us might persuade another and decisively affect the result.
 
anglolawyer said:
I am shocked to find discussion continuing on this thread. Ladies and gentlemen, this is polling day. Kindly desist. Otherwise one of us might persuade another and decisively affect the result.
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Well so far we've kept to the range of subjects which are permitted (the weather, intention to vote (but not which party), what we intend to do post-election), it's rare for the subject to stray into areas of policy in this thread :p
 
The Don said:
Well so far we've kept to the range of subjects which are permitted (the weather, intention to vote (but not which party), what we intend to do post-election), it's rare for the subject to stray into areas of policy in this thread :p
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:mad: better keep it tht way. We wouldn't to spark a constitiutional crisis and a visit from the electoral commissioner.
 
anglolawyer said:
You are kidding, right? Well, one of us certainly is ...
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No, I'm quite serious. The restrictions which apply to broadcasters do not apply to online news and information sources (unless you know differently). I'm only going on what the BBC are saying about the restrictions which apply to them (and hence why, for example we have Mayo and Kermode's film review programme this afternoon on BBC Radio 5 instead of exhaustive election coverage and punditry) and how silly these seem when Twitter and Facebook are not similarly restricted.

For example from The Independent....

Radio and TV stations have to restrict coverage on polling day to factual accounts.

However the same rules do not apply to social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and email and political parties are planning to bomard(sic) millions of people on these platforms to maximise their vote.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-to-get-you-through-polling-day-10230448.html
 
Rum said:
Anyone watching the goings on tomorrow night until you drop..off?
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I've actually got tomorrow off work, but that was originally for something else that's been postponed, and I couldn't be bothered cancelling the leave, as I've got loads of stuff I can be doing at home. I may be tempted to stay up more than if it was a "school night," but since it is actually a real school night for Mrs Analyst, I'll get beats if I distrub her in the process (e.g. screaming or cheering too loud).
 
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The Don said:
No, I'm quite serious. The restrictions which apply to broadcasters do not apply to online news and information sources (unless you know differently). I'm only going on what the BBC are saying about the restrictions which apply to them (and hence why, for example we have Mayo and Kermode's film review programme this afternoon on BBC Radio 5 instead of exhaustive election coverage and punditry) and how silly these seem when Twitter and Facebook are not similarly restricted.

For example from The Independent....



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-to-get-you-through-polling-day-10230448.html
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Apologies The Don. I was just kidding. I thought that was obvious. We can prattle away here to our hearts content.
 
My trip to the polling station may not be typical. We walked across fields, through a couple of woods, and up a quiet lane. We saw no cars, but saw a fox, 3 roe deer, 2 dead moorhen chicks, 3 buzzards, a jay, a few squirrels, 5 hares, and heard our first cuckoo of the year. The polling station was empty bar the officers and us.
 
MikeG said:
My trip to the polling station may not be typical. We walked across fields, through a couple of woods, and up a quiet lane. We saw no cars, but saw a fox, 3 roe deer, 2 dead moorhen chicks, 3 buzzards, a jay, a few squirrels, 5 hares, and heard our first cuckoo of the year. The polling station was empty bar the officers and us.
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They put your polling booth in the middle of a lonely moor somewhere? :boggled:

I bet the fox voted Labour (anti-hunting) and the buzzards are connected in some mysteriously unfathomable way with the dead moorhens.
 
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