52% of The Registered Electorate Voted
48% of The Registered Electorate Did Not Vote
100% of The Illiterati Did Knot Vote

Old Labour In New Double Brown Brand BlairVision2012 Won The Seat

The Apathetic Voter Won The Day

The Sitting Member In Parliament Is Supported By Less Than 20 % of The Constituency Population

“The Tory hopes for a 1997-type landslide have evaporated. Their best hope might be as the largest party in a hung parliament – and there is at least a possibility that Labour could win a 4th term.”

At this point Labour could still win a 4th term and the Tories could still win a landslide.
However based on the last years polling and with a recession about to bite even a neutral would have to say that a Tory landslide is more likely.

Bookies don’t often get it wrong – take a look at the odds currently being offered on the GE result on Politicalbetting.com.

It’s international because it’s affecting several countries, but we are one of the ones that contributed to it.
Really I think the explanation for this is the banks gave loans irresponsbily, and this has exposed different flaws in the regulators in different countries.
I’m not asking for complex rules, but the housing inflation (mainly M3) should have been part of the Bank’s remit.
Also, there have been a number of failures in the FSA which show it lacks teeth separated from the Bank.

“* Too many contributors assume that, like them, everyone else is a Tory supporter”

Do you have anything approaching a fact to back that up. I wouldn’t disagree that there are probably more Tory voters than anyone else at the moment and that there are a few regulars who like tend to froth at the mouth a bit.

By and large I suspect that if someone did a count we might well see the breakdown as something like the current polls; 40, 30, 15, 15 although as one of the last 15% I probably single handedly blow that out of the water….

more importantly if you only counted one post per person I suspect that you’d find a good mix although to small and self selecting a sample to find any real meaning.

Mind you if we assume we are all panel members and log in using the same e-mail as our panel access maybe Anthony could get us the details on the make up of posters, although i suspect it’s probably confidential.

Peter.

Peter.

I think this statement qualifies as a “straw man”.
No one has suggested it …have they?

Perhaps you meant to say “it is not obvious to the British people that Labour bears no responsibility for the UK financial problem”…and you would be correct.

In the 27/29 October YouGov Poll 75% thought that Brown “bears some or much of the responsibility for allowing lending and borrowing in this country to get out of hand in the first place.”