the snap general election thread

ukcarper

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

You're entirely entitled to spoil your vote should you wish, however I just read that between 1979 and now, the number of spoilt papers have always been between 0.28% and 0.38%.

I'm not aware of earlier years.

It's therefor simply not newsworthy across the whole of the UK, but can be prominent in individual constituencies

I wasn't going to go to polling station but I gave in and spoilt by ballot paper.

IveSeenTheLight

ukcarper wrote: »

I wasn't going to go to polling station but I gave in and spoilt by ballot paper.

Well I guess it's good that you went

ukcarper

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Well I guess it's good that you went

The way I see it I didn't have any choice, I could not vote for any of the 4 candidates I had.

Chrysalis

wotsthat wrote: »

That might be true but it doesn't help us demonstrate (or not) there's an obvious link between UK government debt and UK interest rates.

My big drop in mortgage interest rate was before 9/11 when in February 2001 my rate went from 7.74% to 4.55%. I didn't see any post 9/11 falls - well not of any consequence - it was 4.49% by 2005.

Here's a graph of UK net borrowing which shows UK debt going up and up apart from 3 years from 1998. You could overlay that with BoE rates and struggle to see any correlation at all apart from a very large increase in debt happening at the same time as interest rates falling.

graph needs to be GDP % as showing in £ doesnt take into account inflation.

e.g. 10 billion of borrowing in 2010 is less than 10 billion in 1990

masterwilde

loving the exit poll

michaels

Looks like I called it right:(

Arklight

Exit polls say hung parliament.

Looks like game on.

GreatApe

Who has taken the SNP seats according to the exit poll?

kinger101

At least one of the opinion polls will be correct this time.

Castle

GreatApe wrote: »

Who has taken the SNP seats according to the exit poll?

You would think Labour; but who knows? Polls can be wrong!!