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« Reply #2300 on: September 04, 2014, 05:14:39 AM »

Douglas Carswell (MP for Clacton), defects to UKIP and resigns his seat to fight the ensuing by-election.

Sorry to be childish, but...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKgIjOiKVc


Carswell should win re-election easily, according to two polls:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8950
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8955

True (although bear in mind that those are constituency polls, which aren't always the best), but my point was that I never actually thought that a sitting Conservative M.P would defect to UKIP, and even if I had, I would never have thought it would be Carswell (the only one I could possibly have seen defecting was Nadine Dorries Tongue)
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« Reply #2301 on: September 04, 2014, 05:31:57 AM »

By-election polling has actually improved somewhat during this parliament.
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« Reply #2302 on: September 04, 2014, 06:27:20 AM »

Curious that Clacton has been more heavily polled than Scotland over the past week.
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« Reply #2303 on: September 04, 2014, 07:58:31 AM »

Douglas Carswell (MP for Clacton), defects to UKIP and resigns his seat to fight the ensuing by-election.

Sorry to be childish, but...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKgIjOiKVc


Carswell should win re-election easily, according to two polls:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8950
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8955

True (although bear in mind that those are constituency polls, which aren't always the best), but my point was that I never actually thought that a sitting Conservative M.P would defect to UKIP, and even if I had, I would never have thought it would be Carswell (the only one I could possibly have seen defecting was Nadine Dorries Tongue)

Maybe Dorries will defect now, pending on Carswell's re-election effort.
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« Reply #2304 on: September 07, 2014, 06:15:21 AM »

MP for Heywood and Middleton Jim Dobbin (Lab) has died. RIP.
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« Reply #2305 on: September 07, 2014, 06:32:44 AM »

Rest in Peace.
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« Reply #2306 on: September 07, 2014, 01:34:37 PM »

Scientists remain rare in the Commons, particularly ones who are also Papal Knights. I can't say that I agreed with all his views, but I greatly prefer his style of Labour conservatism (so to speak) to that of the MP for the other half of Rochdale MBC... RIP.
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« Reply #2307 on: September 09, 2014, 06:03:50 PM »

Curious that Clacton has been more heavily polled than Scotland over the past week.

London media.
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« Reply #2308 on: September 12, 2014, 06:43:13 AM »

Ian Paisley is dead.
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« Reply #2309 on: September 12, 2014, 06:51:31 AM »


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saC13RJ8CUs
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« Reply #2310 on: September 22, 2014, 12:57:03 PM »

Mick Cash has been elected as the new RMT General Secretary. Cash was Bob Crow's deputy and had been serving as his temporary replacement. He is on the ex-NUR 'right-wing' of the union and is a Labour Party member and defeated several candidates to his left (certain of which were to the left of the late Bob Crow as it happens).
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« Reply #2311 on: September 23, 2014, 10:54:37 AM »

The SNP announces that it has doubled it's membership since Thursday and now claims a higher level of membership than the Lib Dems.
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