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  • May. 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 AM
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  • 13:23 wants to kill the Calderdale results webmaster, it's awful tinyurl.com/3n9s5c we lost Brighouse by 80 votes. Gah! #
  • 15:10 prediction: Johnson to get most first prefs, Ken to get re-elected after transfers, Tories to whinge it was "stolen" for the next 2 years. #
ETA: Hmmm, was wrong on the latter, but only just. Interesting Times.
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[info]miss_s_b wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 10:51 am (UTC)
I was right and you were wrong :P
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[info]eccles wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 02:49 pm (UTC)
It isn't Zimbabwe you know!
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[info]matgb wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 02:55 pm (UTC)
A lot of Tories think the preferential voting system means elections are stolen. If Boris had one on first prefs but lost on transfers, he'd be the "legitimate" winner, they pulled this trick during the last Euro elections a lot.

Given that my biggest single issue that matters is getting a proper preferential voting system, idiots misrepresenting it really annoy me. Turns out I was wrong, but by slow slim a margin it actually mattered.
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[info]harlotqueen wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 04:28 pm (UTC)
Given that I know a little about heavy vehicle Mechanics I'm trying to work out how Boris's proposed Routemaster is going to work...

I'll have to do a geek post on this...
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[info]matgb wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 04:36 pm (UTC)
From what I've seen, it simply doesn't work. But that's irrelevent—a key point is, IMHO, Boris wasn't expecting or even hoping to win, and while Cameron is obviously pleased with the result, I suspect he's now shitting himself that Boris will mess up somewhere.

Hence the bendy bus/routemaster thing—a headline grabbing populist policy that didn't need any grounding in reality as it was only there to get attention. Ah well.
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[info]harlotqueen wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 04:54 pm (UTC)
Yep, Plays on the Evening Standard's Hatred of them (not helped by them being Mercedes and un-'British'). Thing is you will not fit the number of people into a decker as you will an artic, and a decker would be slow to load... Yes more passengers will have a seat, but more will also be left standing at the bus stop...
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[info]harlotqueen wrote:
May. 3rd, 2008 04:56 pm (UTC)
Add - by them - I meant Artics
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