Why the Tories Won

gadgetmind

Ah yes, 14 pints wasn't it?

chucknorris

gadgetmind wrote: »

Ah yes, 14 pints wasn't it?

I think you will have to explain this, its relevance has certainly escaped me.

Shakethedisease

Thrugelmir wrote: »

On a one policy ticket. Voting in a 20 year old student as an MP shows that it mattered little who stood for the SNP. Though time will now judge a number of them and their capabilities. In order to demonstrate that they are indeed little more than puppets being pulled along on a tide of optimism.

Charlie Kennedy was just 23 when he was elected as an MP and was still there 32 years later ( until last Thursday ). So you never know.

. In a shocking result, Kennedy was elected for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), making him at 23, the youngest MP in the House of Commons.

cells

one of the reasons the Tories won was the polls themselves,

had they shown a tory lead even a month before hand there may have been time for team red to switch from their only selling line of .... the Tories will kill the nhs and we will cut but not cut as much almost as much but not as much...to maybe something more effective

gadgetmind

chucknorris wrote: »

I think you will have to explain this, its relevance has certainly escaped me.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=william+hague+14+pints

michaels

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

LOL, good one.

SNP return an unprecedented MAJORITY vote in Scotland securing 56 seats and the parties that capitulated cannot take responsibility.

According to the BBC figures the SNP had about 1600 votes fewer than the combined votes of all other parties....

Moby wrote: »

Yes I saw that in the Guardian yesterday and on Newsnight. I suppose they didn't want to publish bad news. Interestingly this article popped up a couple of days before the election and it was dismissed because Atul Hatwal was seen within Labour as being anti Ed:-
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/05/02/revealed-eds-night-time-dash-to-casa-brand-driven-by-postal-ballot-panic/

Now that would have been useful (valuable) info prior to polling day.....I had always assumed that postal votes were not opened until the polls closed precisely to avoid parties getting an unfair advantage?

Why didn't Labour publicise that the tories were well ahead in the hope of suppressing tory turnout and reducing the lib dems (and others) who were anyone but labour+snp voting tory to make sure that labour+snp didn't win?

chewmylegoff

If it is a criminal offence to publish an exit poll before the polls close it seems likely that revealing the outcome of postal votes (if labour did really have the information suggested - the blog could just be made up) would similarly be illegal as would the reporting of the information in newspapers (or blogs).

gadgetmind

michaels wrote: »

Why didn't Labour publicise that the tories were well ahead in the hope of suppressing tory turnout

Because they were wandering around in a left wing bubble that was (and still is) completely out of touch with the majority of those in the UK. The lefties are still completely flabbergasted that they lost (big time BTW) because everyone they know on twitter has agreed with them for ages, and tweeted and retweeted the same kind of bilge that they do.

Even if they'd looked closely at the surveys showing that their policies were alienating the voters, they'd have shook their heads in disbelief that any study should be so out of kilter with the noisy twitterati.

Sapphire

gadgetmind wrote: »

Because they were wandering around in a left wing bubble that was (and still is) completely out of touch with the majority of those in the UK. The lefties are still completely flabbergasted that they lost (big time BTW) because everyone they know on twitter has agreed with them for ages, and tweeted and retweeted the same kind of bilge that they do.

Even if they'd looked closely at the surveys showing that their policies were alienating the voters, they'd have shook their heads in disbelief that any study should be so out of kilter with the noisy twitterati.

Yes, and the choice of leadership candidates points to them making the same mistakes again – it's just the same old discredited faces uttering the same old spiel. They just don't get it. Good.

Generali

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

LOL, good one.

SNP return an unprecedented MAJORITY vote in Scotland securing 56 seats and the parties that capitulated cannot take responsibility.

A majority or even a MAJORITY of votes in Scotland in a UK election is meaningless.