Elections!

[mongers]

Good bit of tv politics, top LibDem puts it to Danny Alexander that they're doing it wrong, the electorate have given them a clear message.

[mongers]

Problems at Tower Hamlets are causing a knock-on delaying effect on the final London result.

[Sheilbh]

Tower Hamlets

[Agelastus]

London delaying.

Still, those figures from the Boroughs look interesting.

They were harping on about the LibDem vote going down but the interesting figure to me was the "Others" vote going down even more drastically.

[mongers]

London delaying.

Still, those figures from the Boroughs look interesting.

They were harping on about the LibDem vote going down but the interesting figure to me was the "Others" vote going down even more drastically.

And there was no elucidation at to what those were. 

[Sheilbh]

Well they don't matter. They've got no seats. I'd guess one could be NotoEU which did a little better in London than the rest of the country last time because they had Bob Crow as a candidate.

Interesting that UKIP and the Tories are on 30% in Scotland.

Edit: Also to return to that over 30% of young voters in France who voted FN, only 21% of over-60s did. I think we need to look again at youth unemployment and the idea that it's the old who are anti-Europe and nationalist.

The true ideological Europeans (and the loyal socialists) are old possibly? What's the EU offered a young Frenchperson? The choice of unemployment or emigration?

[mongers]

Well they don't matter. They've got no seats. I'd guess one could be NotoEU which did a little better in London than the rest of the country last time because they had Bob Crow as a candidate.

Interesting that UKIP and the Tories are on 30% in Scotland.

A chunk of the others would have been BNP, who have collapsed everythere, which would fit those figures; perhaps because those racists voted UKIP. 

[Valmy]

Wait the Tories...in Scotland?  Huh.

[Valmy]

What's the EU offered a young Frenchperson? The choice of unemployment or emigration?

Yet they are more employed than Americans

[Sheilbh]

A chunk of the others would have been BNP, who have collapsed everythere, which would fit those figures; perhaps because those racists voted UKIP.

Well they've been declining in Barking and Dagenham for a the last two elections. UKIP will have helped but I think Labour have the real credit for that.

The bits of London UKIP have done best in (in the council elections at least) are the outer suburbs nudging into Kent and Essex.

[Agelastus]

Wait the Tories...in Scotland?  Huh.

The Tories in Scotland (and this election, given the results across the UK, probably confirms this if there'd been any doubt before) seem to be down to an irreducible minimum - 17% of the Scottish electorate will vote for them come-what-may. This is pretty useless in a first past the post system but has given them an MEP from Scotland ever since they changed these elections to the D'Hondt form of PR from First-Past-the-Post IIRC.

[mongers]

'The Conservative Family' (conservative+ukip) 

[Agelastus]

Well they don't matter. They've got no seats. I'd guess one could be NotoEU which did a little better in London than the rest of the country last time because they had Bob Crow as a candidate.

Interesting that UKIP and the Tories are on 30% in Scotland.

A chunk of the others would have been BNP, who have collapsed everythere, which would fit those figures; perhaps because those racists voted UKIP.

I'm wondering what this decline of "others" means for the Green vote in London.

[mongers]

Well they don't matter. They've got no seats. I'd guess one could be NotoEU which did a little better in London than the rest of the country last time because they had Bob Crow as a candidate.

Interesting that UKIP and the Tories are on 30% in Scotland.

A chunk of the others would have been BNP, who have collapsed everythere, which would fit those figures; perhaps because those racists voted UKIP.

I'm wondering what this decline of "others" means for the Green vote in London.

It's a given, a chunk of them left for Brighton over recent years. 

[Sheilbh]

And then fled the massive catastrophe that is Brighton Council