omgwtf immigrants! taxes! hospitals!! AHRG!

[emony]

Michael Howard is on Channel 4 News at the moment raving like a lunatic at Jon Snow. Blimey.

Apparently the Labour government is practically a Stalinist regime. I bet Stalin's spinning in his grave big shiny tomb at the idea of a government as right-wing as Blair's being compared to his communist rule. Also, as much as he might like the idea, I don't think Tony would really send his political enemies off to the gulags. Although Michael Howard might benefit from a few years cooling off in a nice cold shack in Siberia, imo.

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[emony.livejournal.com]

the Tories still come across as insufferably arrogant and out of touch.

Well you can't make silk purses out of sows' ears, as my mother would say.

A Labour win seems inevitable, but a lessened Labour majority would probably be the best thing for the democracy of the country, and if Oliver Letwin lost his seat I would weep - WEEP - for joy. It gives me violently inappropriate amounts of joy just knowing that his seat is a predicted Lib gain over on Electoral Calculus (http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk). I check in at least once a day, to make sure, and it gives me a warm, fuzzy glow. Mmm :) Theresa is sadly a predicted hold, but there's always hope, and if David Davis looses Haltemprice and Howden (as Electoral Calculus predicts - 0.06% majority for the Libs, they say) .. well, like you say, every election needs its Portillo moment, and I think there could be two or three of them. Mmmm yum.

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well the news was wrong. I didn't realise Haltemprice and Howden was so marginal. 1,000ish majority as opposed to Theresa May's 3,000. And the Island is going to be tight. Really quite a small Tory majority. Fun toy though! Thanks for the link.

[emony.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome. I got it from someone at work. We've been using it to inform our update of the parliamentary database, and apparently it's also being used by the party strategists to see how they're doing in the various constituencies and stuff, so I think it's being taken as a fairly close approximation of how things will go tonight, although, of course, you never know. I only wish I could stay up watching it all and skive off work tomorrow. Darned job.