Wouldn't that be India? :O:

Jim is a Indian? :o

Well i never...

:har: :har:

What next? BossMark a beer swilling Australian. :)




I will back Saturday crunching the numbers of the local elections.

And Luxembourg is soon to become the new European superpower no doubt :har:

Local election results in Scotland:

SNP - good.

SCons - good.

SGreens - good.

SLibDems - holding steady.

SLab - terrible.

To quote Brian Taylor: "Hung politics everywhere." That tends to happen in a Single Transferable Vote system

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-39818167

Council election results: Sturgeon claims victory despite Tory surge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-39806664

Not very surprising that, though perhaps not as good as they may have hoped. Ruthie's no doubt very happy, however. Getting a Tory councillor in one of Glasgow's most deprived areas is no mean feat!

Mike.

Well in my neck of the woods Tories hold Hertfordshire.

And that Peacock Tim had the cheek to be in my town pie high on the results here! So what, the Tories still held Hertfordshire you numbnuts.


Turn out nationally was...

Ready...

You sure you want too know?

20% :o

Wow that is bad, will the general election be better? :hmmm:

http://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-p...lysis-10864261

Based on 20% I would now say 20-30 majority.

I'm still predicting the Tories will be closer to a majority of 100 or a little over provided the turnout for the general election rises which is highly probable.

Labour is expected to gain more than eighty million seats after Diane Abbott was asked to count the votes this morning.

Plus a extra two million thanks to Putin's cyber results hackers. :03:

I still think that is too high as clearly voter apathy has set in and a lot of people are thinking what's the point the Tories have it in the bag.

The young voters don't count as they are busy having sex, drinking, drugs, staying in bed or clearly have no understanding what day of the week is election day.

The rest of us our working and after getting home may well feel cheesed off and will not bother so it all comes down to the Grey vote and in most part they vote Tory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39829717

I'm not so sure....UKIP have achieved what they set out to do and their vote is changing massively over to the side of the Tories with the emphasis being on who will be the strongest leader to sort out the UK position and the election results of yesterday obviously don't point in the direction of Corbyn.

It was also pretty telling that Burnham didn't stick around to welcome Corbyns visit to Manchester after he (Burnham) had won the mayoral election.

UKIP like the BNP will pass into the history books kicking and screaming before they wake up and see the party booze has all been drunk and the balloons popped and all the guests have gone home.

Nigel will do his best to prevent that happening, he has already said he is watching for whatever the details of the Brexit outcome will be in two years time.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39829723

I don't pay TAX..:O:

You got to offer me something good to swing it.

:o Oh dear..


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39831522

This may get Jim's vote for that one.


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39836196

If May goes all the way with a hard Brexit UKIP days will be shorter. In the end UKIP will fade away.

Then again..

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7721551.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39840503

Not that old chestnut again. :haha:



http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-39843065

Will JC go for it or decide he still can go alone and win.



http://news.sky.com/story/vote-2017-...es160-10868753

I agree with this one.

For Aberdeen City, SNP most votes followed by SCons. As per STV, council is no overall control so we'll see who can get a coalition togther. One quirk of the voting result is that the largest party may not form the administration. I'm quite happy as for my ward the result reflected my own first and second choices (only put down two)- SLibDem first, SCons second. SNP got the third seat but they fielded two candidates which split their vote. What a shame.... not.:D

Turnout in Scotland was 46.9%, so that's higher than both the national average and I believe the percentages for England and Wales.

Breakdown of first preference votes (STV, not FPTP system):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_TO5ViXgAAc_9p.jpg

More detailed data here:
http://www.electionsscotland.info/do...y_results_data

I can't see any data for second, third etc preference votes, however.

It'll be interesting to see if these figures have an effect on the result in June.:hmmm:

Mike.

This woman scares me to bloody death :o
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/vote...11364178815124

Apparently Sturgeon does admire what Thatcher achieved as a woman, but completely disagrees with the policies she enacted whilst in office. Ironically, if the SNP didn't exist then Salmond and Sturgeon would both have been part of Scottish Labour. Salmond almost did join SLab.

That would make an interesting "What If?" exercise for those so inclined!

Mike.:03: