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whitewave Thu 07-May-15 10:12:23

Thought I would post this up for those of us who are hoping for the stamina to stay up!

rubylady Fri 08-May-15 02:22:00

POGS - It seems like you did counteract my post.

POGS Fri 08-May-15 02:09:47

rubylady

I could counteract your post by asking why did Labour and Andy Burnham let my mother suffer in hospital so badly !

Everybody has a story!

durhamjen Fri 08-May-15 02:06:03

According to the latest CQC report, George Eliot hospital still requires improvement.

rubylady Fri 08-May-15 02:03:40

Thank you soontobe, you do seem to know a lot about it so I may need you again. smile

rubylady Fri 08-May-15 01:58:34

But how can people vote for a man who makes rules that result in a woman throwing herself in front of a train because she can't pay her bedroom tax?
And let a man starve to death because they cut his benefits altogether and he just starved to death behind his own front door. Inhuman.

POGS Fri 08-May-15 01:56:04

Brilliant, conservative Marcus Jones has Nuneaton seat. A key Labour marginal to win.

He is a good, hard working MP . Nuneaton George Elliot hospital was in the top 10 worst hospitals, now thank goodness over the past 5 years it has turned around and has gained a good reputation.

soontobe Fri 08-May-15 01:53:12

Labour not caring about the economy is a bit harsh.
I would say that it does not care enough.
I think that Britain should be run like a business. Together with looking after everyone.
I dont think that Labour cares about the business side enough.

dj - I did say somewhere that I dont have much doubt that newspapers are biased towards the tories.
I now know more about non doms than I did. Still dont see much wrong about them, but I could be wrong about that.

RT - is a weird channel. But it does give a different side to some of the news that comes out of the USA.

rl - they go by predictions.
So, in simpler terms, if at the beginning of the evening, it looked like 10% of voters had switched from Labour to Conservative, then they give predictions based on that for all the 650 seats or whatever.
So the 10% swing as it is called, would not affect some safe Labour seats, such as those that were declared in Sunderland, as they would and did stay Labour.
But later in the night, those seats which currently have much less of a labour majority could be in big trouble.
So so far, it is mainly very safe labour seats which have declared.

durhamjen Fri 08-May-15 01:44:08

Their live update figures do not look so bad for Labour.

POGS Fri 08-May-15 01:43:00

Your welcome!

durhamjen Fri 08-May-15 01:42:34

fivethirtyeight.com/liveblogs/uk-general-election-2015/

An interesting live blog on at the moment. How did Lord Ashcroft get it so wrong is the latest comment.

GrannyTwice Fri 08-May-15 01:40:44

Thanks Pogs

Maggiemaybe Fri 08-May-15 01:39:57

durhamjen. I hate predictive text!

POGS Fri 08-May-15 01:39:20

Obviously I didn't mean giving interviews now, I should have said on occasion.

soontobe Fri 08-May-15 01:39:09

I have never been asked. But I live very rurally, so most unlikely they would come here. I dont think I would tell them either!

I need to go to bed for a couple of hours.

GrannyTwice Fri 08-May-15 01:39:03

I'm going to have a doze now and when I next wake up this will all have been a horrid dream!

whitewave Fri 08-May-15 01:38:29

ruby I know - but what else can we do?

durhamjen Fri 08-May-15 01:37:58

You are completely wrong, soontobe, about Labour not caring on the economy.
Have you not realised yet that the papers are all on the side of the Tories, because their owners do not want Labour to win. Many owners are nondoms. Hopefully you know what that means now. You have got the idea that Labour do not care about the economy from the right-wing newspapers.

POGS Fri 08-May-15 01:36:20

Russia Today is on free view channel 135. All Jazeera free view 133 Sky 132 and BBC. 130 Parliament 131

Both have some very good worldwide news coverage but very often Russia Today is anti UK. Labour MP's like Dianne Abott, Paul Flynn et all are giving interviews.

Maggiemaybe Fri 08-May-15 01:36:17

I was asked once, Durham. I think it might have been 1992, when the exit polls got it wrong.

soontobe Fri 08-May-15 01:34:43

My guesses.
Ed Miliband wasnt popular.
Job oppurtunities have increased in the last 5 years.
The economy has been doing relatively well.
People prefer to therefore stay with what they have, rather than risk Labour again?

But this may all be rubbish in a few hours times. We shall see.

rubylady Fri 08-May-15 01:34:02

whitewave How do we do that? I will have bedroom tax to pay again next year if Tory's get back in. And have so much less money to pay it out of.

rubylady Fri 08-May-15 01:31:35

soontobe Yes. I don't get it too. How can they say that Labour won't win when they have 7 to 3 to 1? I do wish they would explain how it is counted and the seats etc., especially for the thick, like me and the first time voters maybe.

durhamjen Fri 08-May-15 01:29:58

Labour always do well in the North East, soontobe. It's the area of the country that the Tories couldn't care less about.
Has anyone actually ever been asked for an exit poll? I would tell them to mind their own business.

whitewave Fri 08-May-15 01:29:50

Not looking good is it? I have switched the TV off as I got so fed-up with Dimbleby's attitude. ITV was better.

The only way to go is to fight the Tories every step of the way. They can't be allowed to ruin everything we have fought for over so many years.

GrannyTwice Fri 08-May-15 01:27:58

What's Russia Today?