UK General Election, June 8th 2017

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Are coal miners in the UK labour conservative or liberal democrats

What an absurd question. Nobody is a Lib Dem anymore.

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Are coal miners in the UK labour conservative or liberal democrats

Wait, wait, I'm going to riff on this post again: GOOGLE EXISTS

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In light of the complete garbage Political Compass put out about France, what do you think they'll do for the UK?

They'll probably go back to putting the main parties in the blue corner like in 2015



Only the Greens and regionalist/Northern Irish parties managed to escape, and  many were pretty close to the centre anyways

Except that the guy who makes Political Compass seems to be the sort of person who would have a hard-on for Jeremy Corbyn, so I'd expect him to move Labour to just below-left of center.

Can I make some guesses? Their analysis of the election will include a diatribe in which Corbyn's policies are called "refreshing." They will also make frustrated comments about "unforgiving scrutinizing from an unsympathetic media climate."

This, of course, will only come after several paragraphs about May's Conservatives participating in the "globalization project even in a post-Brexit environment." Finally, there will be some oddly positive statements about UKIP, which they will then hastily qualify with it just being a matter of their protectionism.

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BIG, if true. New national holidays? Not 1, not 2...not even 3 but 4 new national holidays!

COMING NEXT WEEK: Jeremy Corbyn pledges to create a Second Christmas.

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Everyone's favorite analysts, The Political Compass, have released their hot UK takes.

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The only thing that this Political Compass did is remind me that the Labour Party exists.

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I do hate to be the one to start speculation over the advantages of a tragic incident and I do ask to be forgiven but yes, this will surely benefit the Tories.

I know I’m late, but please don’t EVER say anything like this again.

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I want to interview a YouGov pollster.

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@britainelects
Here's how we think the result would look if the election were held today:

CON 362 (+32)
LAB 206 (-26)

http://britainelects.com/nowcast/

I believe this as much as I believe YouGov nailing it to the percentage.

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On election night are there any websites which do live forecasts of the final outcome?

I am not talking about the 10pm exit poll. I mean forecasts from early results.

I doubt it. There are no early results; constituencies are only declared after every vote has been counted.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-06/labour-said-to-privately-be-preparing-for-a-u-k-election-defeat

Labour Privately Preparing for a U.K. Election Defeat

"A party aide speaking on condition of anonymity said officials had informally generated a list of more than 30 districts they have no prospect of holding."

This is probably a good strategy. While the polls have changed in the past couple of weeks, Labour should be prepared for the worst case scenario: another large-scale polling error.