When the votes are in and the seats declared it's a fairly safe bet that even if we have the opinion polling mother of all errors, Tim Farron won't be headed to 10 Downing Street.
Matt has already nailed it again #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/BcW0GJesui — Asa Bennett (@asabenn) June 8, 2017
Well, it's done. The polls have closed and we have a long wait till the results come through, although the exit poll, which struck terror into us in 2015 will just have been published. Most of us are at counts but we'll be keeping an eye on what's happening when we can. This thread is for you to discuss what's going on. It's going to be a nail biting few hours. Here are when some of the seats in which we have the most interest are likely to declare. The Press Association has a full list here. If all the ...
I'm writing these thoughts during the last few hours of the general election, but won't hit publish until just before the polls close at 10pm. I'm then going to bed, hoping that June 9th will bring at least some crumbs of comfort from a Liberal Democrats perspective. Net gains would be nice! What has astonished me most about the campaign ... The post The time has come: What next for (the) Liberal Democrats? appeared first on ten pence piece.
Every Wednesday morning I take our surplus hen eggs to a farm shop in High Spen where they are sold. As yesterday was the last day before polling day, I not only took the eggs, I also took some bundles of tabloids to cover some unfinished patches (one in High Spen and 2 in Rowlands Gill). Evening saw me back in Swalwell to finish a patch that was meant to be done on Tuesday. The downpour
Today, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) issued a press release about the plan to convert midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) in Ludlow, Oswestry and Bridgnorth to on-call services. This means that mums-to-be must ring to arrange for a midwife to come to unlock the maternity unit before care can be provided for the mother and child. This could possibly work if births came according to a prearranged schedule but that's not the way that pregnancies run. SaTH says this will "maintain choice for mums-to-be". I can't see that being the case. If you don't use a health facility, ...
Cicero's Songs says "Watching the UK election from afar has been a sad and chastening experience. The fact is that neither the Prime Minister nor the Leader of HM Opposition are fit for office," "Knowing when to quit is important in politics, as we'll discover in the aftermath of this general election. But it's true in political broadcasting too; and this election is likely to see the last outing for David Dimbleby as anchor of the BBC's results programme." So says Roger Mosey in an overkind piece, but Dimbleby will probably have other ideas. "Emily Davidson's death moved the public ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: After graduating from Asher, they went their separate ways and lost touch. Bruce played baseball for two years at a junior college, then quit when his knees finally gave out. Ron's career had not fared much better. Each had notched one divorce; neither knew the other had been married. Neither was surprised to learn that the other had continued a fondness for the nightlife. I had thought this was one of Grisham's famously tightly paced thrillers (of which I have read, I think, precisely one), and was surprised therefore to find that it is a ...
I'm just back from voting at our polling station, Sunniside Social Club. I had a couple of "good lucks" from people as I went in. I was then given the biggest ballot paper I've had for a Parliamentary election. There are 7 candidates therefore making the race to come last much more challenging this time. My name was at the bottom and not surprisingly I voted for myself.
Following on from my prediction yesterday - an overwhelming Conservative victory - here are seven things I expect to happen in the days ahead: The Conservative election campaign will be acclaimed. Forget the wobbles and the premature "Is Theresa May finished?" political obituaries. The media will instead be full of analysis of how the Tories defied the polls and the pundits. The fundamentals, we'll be told, always favoured the Conservatives and their singular focus on "who's best to negotiate Brexit?" proved to be decisive. Expect particular praise for Lynton Crosby's ruthless targeting of Labour MPs in Leave-voting constituencies. The Labour ...
On the centenary of the death of Suffragette Emily Davidson The late David Rendel and I shared a cousin, Mary Danvers Brinton, later Mary Stocks. She had a very distinguished career as a university lecturer and then Principal of Westfield College, a leading teacher training college. By 1917, having graduated from the LSE in Economics, and with her husband at the front, Mary was teaching at the LSE and heavily involved with Millicent Fawcett's Suffragist movement. She wrote to her husband, John Stocks (who was fighting at the front) about seeing Emily Davidson's funeral in London with her brother. She ...
Online ads being run all day to help secure those crucial extra votes for the Lib Dems. Your last minute donation really can help.
I've received a large number of requests from voters in Blaydon about Lib Dem views on the environment and my own personal outlook on what needs to be done to tackle pollution and climate change. This is an issue close to my heart. The environment was one of the key issues that brought me into politics 36 years ago. And I don't just talk about it, I live it as well. My self-sufficient lifestyle
Last night, in the run up to today's festival of democracy, I tweeted this: Looking forward to putting my X next to a little birdie tomorrow and it counting for basically nothing thanks to FPTP. Yay democracy. — Will Howells (@willhowells) 7 June 2017 Subsequently, I've been pondering whether taking part in an election built on an unfair system gives legitimacy to that system. There are plenty of countries in the world where opposition groups boycott elections because they don't believe them to be free and fair. Now I wouldn't for a minute draw comparisons between our pretty sturdy electoral ...
Landmarked in a place we'd never seen we walked along the dyke, across the salt, heads down and wishing we could huddle against the buffeting of the endless wind that chased its shadows in the reeds bending, bowing, circling in their beds until it bustled out across the sea – to places where our dreams [...]
Enjoy 10 great reasons to vote for the Liberal Democrats tomorrow – retweet to share with your friends! #VoteLibDem #brighterfuture pic.twitter.com/N8XFqg7NIh — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) June 7, 2017
miss_s_b | The Blood is the Life for 07-06-2017 I posted The Blood is the Life for 07-06-2017 to my dreamwidth blog Now local Conservative candidates are failing to show up to debates Which of the 3 main parties' manifestos was best written? *smug mode* Waist-to-height ratio more accurate than BMI in identifying obesity, new study shows Backing up previous new studies for at least the last ten years, to my knowledge as a lay person... You think the medical profession might start paying attention soon? Cicero's Songs: Hopes and Fears This post made my heart swell. I hope more ...
Tracey Huffer, Councillor for Ludlow East and a practising nurse, has issued a statement on the news yesterday that the midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) will be converted to an on-call system. She said: "The Trust that runs Shropshire's main hospitals has in recent discussions put forward proposal to replace all three midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) in Ludlow, Oswestry and Bridgnorth with an on-call system. This effectively means a woman in labour will have to telephone through to request a midwife to meet them and unlock the doors to the unit! This will possibly be 24hrs a day, 7 days a ...
After 7 weeks' solid campaigning, following 9 months of local elections campaigning, following 4 months' EU referendum campaigning we finally reach the last polling day for a while. This is timed to catch you as you have a break after your good mornings. Get some caffeine and sustenance as you're going to need it. The last 48 hours of an election campaign are always horrible. You always focus on what you haven't done rather than the huge amount you have achieved. It's a tense and anxious time. Even when you are really tired, you don't sleep that well. Polling day ...
It is polling day and inevitably it is raining. What this will do for turnout and the eventual result is difficult to predict. Either way I am just about to leave for a seat where the Liberal Democrats are competing to win and I am taking a change of clothes. In the meantime, here is an article on unintentionally funny election leaflets including the one below that surely legitimises even the dodgiest Liberal Democrat bar chart. My favourite is the independent candidate in the Cotswolds demanding that we do not consent to a host of crimes committed by an undefined ...
The Sunday Band Concerts on Magdalen Green start (for 2017) on Sunday coming - 11th June. A poster covering all band concerts across the city this summer is below :
The polls have opened. They close at 10pm tonight. Identification is not required to vote at a polling station. You simply need to give your name and address. You do not need your poll card, though it makes it a little quicker if you have it. If you are not certain where to vote, type your postcode into the Electoral Commission website. On election day, tellers stand outside polling stations and ask voters for the number on their polling card. We use this information to check who has voted and remind those who haven't voted to do so. You don't ...
There is a general election being held across the UK today, along with nearly three dozen council by-elections and a Scottish Parliament by-election in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Thu 8th
06:30
Please don't give Theresa May a mandate to continue swinging her wrecking ball at Britain
Why did May call the election? Because she wants to weaken the opposition by giving herself a sufficient majority to crush the opposition. May had for months steadfastly rebutted any suggestion that she would call a snap general election, before calling it just after Easter. She called this election because she is weak and she does not want to face the scrutiny of an effective opposition. And because she is not strong and stable enough to cope with the incredibly demanding task of being a prime minister. Theresa May should be denied the majority she is seeking. Everyone was surprised ...
The #GE2017 election campaign has been a travesty of democracy.
On Monday, I headed down to Swalwell to help deliver our tabloid. It was my old home patch. I lived on Napier Road in Swalwell for 15 years before moving to Sunniside. The area has lots of Tyneside flats and terraces so it is easy to deliver. I got through 650 tabloids by the time the rain started in the afternoon. Time to go home and dry out.
