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General Election Thread

Discussion/speculation/predictions (February 2010)

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MD
mdtauk
Enough with these CGI beakers and liquid...

What about Arthur!!! Wink

Will we get it used in the montage at the end of the coverage, or perhaps in a VT showing the "New Labour" history?
PT
Put The Telly On
Will we get it used in the montage at the end of the coverage, or perhaps in a VT showing the "New Labour" history?


Are you wholeheartedly saying New Labour will be history then?
MD
mdtauk
Will we get it used in the montage at the end of the coverage, or perhaps in a VT showing the "New Labour" history?


Are you wholeheartedly saying New Labour will be history then?


Of course... They wont win with an outright majority, at best it will play some role in the LibDem-Labour hung parliament.

But even if they did miraculously win, 'New' Labour is finished, and many of the faces of labour will go.
JO
Joe
But even if they did miraculously win, 'New' Labour is finished, and many of the faces of labour will go.


Really?
MD
mdtauk
But even if they did miraculously win, 'New' Labour is finished, and many of the faces of labour will go.


Really?


Yup, after the battering they have taken, Brown will go, be it by the Party, by riots, or in a box.
JO
Joe
If they manage to win, will the people who won really be forced out?
BR
Brekkie
Brown isn't exactly "New Labour" though is he. It's not looking good for him though, but technically he is Prime minister until he resigns, and he could always claim squatters rights at number 10!
MD
mdtauk
Tony Blair has more right to be PM as it was him leading the Labour Party which won the election, and it was Tony and Gordon all throughout these 13 years.

I cant see New Labour surviving this election.
BE
Ben Founding member
Tony Blair has more right to be PM as it was him leading the Labour Party which won the election.


The point is - in our electoral system it isn't supposed to be about who leads the party. That's changing rapidly though, I wonder how much things will have changed by the next election.
DA
David
cat posted:
The point of the swingometeter is that it is a very simple, very effective way of visualising what is happening with a universal trend between two parties. Introduce a third party and basically it cannot work.

You should be able to look at election graphics and immediately have an understanding of what they are saying.

I haven't got a bloody clue what that ITV graphic shows. It's gimmicky.


At least watch the graphics with the benefit of animation and a presenter explaining it before you judge. The graphics were not designed to be viewed as a single capture on a TV presentation site.
BE
Ben Founding member
cat posted:
You should be able to look at election graphics and immediately have an understanding of what they are saying.

I haven't got a bloody clue what that ITV graphic shows. It's gimmicky.


It looks as though it shows what would happen if the Lib Dems lend their support to the Conservatives. That particular graphic isn't meant as a replacement of the swingometer anyway.
BR
Brekkie
Tony Blair has more right to be PM as it was him leading the Labour Party which won the election, and it was Tony and Gordon all throughout these 13 years.

I cant see New Labour surviving this election.

Tony Balir was elected to power in exactly the same way as Gordon Brown. We don't vote for a PM, and these debates have probably done many local candidates no favours at all, for all parties.

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