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  • morag1202
    morag1202 Posts: 536 Forumite
    Entertainer wrote: »
    Apparently, according to Ed Miliband we've all voted for electoral reform in this election. I didn't know I was voting for that, did you? Was that in the Labour manifesto? Were all the Labour ministers talking about this over the last few weeks?

    There was a commons vote on a referendum on it in Feb, Gov proposed it and won by 178 votes.

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Electoral-Reform-MPs-Back-Allow-Referendum-On-Alternative-Vote/Article/201002215545766?f=rss
    Murphy was an optimist!!!
  • PJB
    PJB Posts: 1,364 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Mr_Mumble wrote: »
    Anyone else getting the impression these results are a little better for Labour than expected? Labour have narrowly kept Telford and Exeter with 5-6% swings to the Conservatives when 8-9% would have won 'em for Dave. Also, Tories are not getting any traction in Wales/Scotland and they're likely to lose some English seats narrowly because of the UKIP vote.

    This is wishful thinking on your part i think
  • A_fiend_for_life
    A_fiend_for_life Posts: 1,643 Forumite
    Tories have taken Aberconwy from Labour. 7.6 % swing.
  • Cat695
    Cat695 Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    Mr_Mumble wrote: »
    Anyone else getting the impression these results are a little better for Labour than expected? Labour have narrowly kept Telford and Exeter with 5-6% swings to the Conservatives when 8-9% would have won 'em for Dave. Also, Tories are not getting any traction in Wales/Scotland and they're likely to lose some English seats narrowly because of the UKIP vote.

    with 568 seats to go I think its a little early yet
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly


    I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I need to go to bed, got to be up in just over 4 hours but it is compulsive viewing!

    I'll put the kettle on again.....
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
    ITV reporting Tories don't have the votes in the two key-swing constituencies of Bolton.
    PJB wrote: »
    This is wishful thinking on your part i think
    More a state of fear for me :cool:
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
  • PJB
    PJB Posts: 1,364 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Vale of Glamorgan, 2nd tory target in Wales (DD) - Con gain
  • Entertainer
    Entertainer Posts: 617 Forumite
    morag1202 wrote: »
    There was a commons vote on a referendum on it in Feb, Gov proposed it and won by 178 votes.

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Electoral-Reform-MPs-Back-Allow-Referendum-On-Alternative-Vote/Article/201002215545766?f=rss

    AV. That isn't going to satisfy the Lib Dems. The most feeble of electoral reform options.
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
    Lembit Opik has lost his seat! (Con gain).
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
  • Cat695
    Cat695 Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    Tories gain Glamorgan from lab

    and basildon south from lab

    Also High Peak from Labour

    Things are starting to pick up
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly


    I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right
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