Clegg

[Palisadoes]

Six amnesties? Source, please.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/parties_and_issues/8629354.stm

Start from the "Will it work?" bit. The paragraph to the bottom left of the graph in that section.

Couldn't Labour come in third with like 25%, but still end up with the most seats?

Yes, which is why we need electoral reform.

[grumbler]

Six amnesties? Source, please.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/parties_and_issues/8629354.stm

Start from the "Will it work?" bit. The paragraph to the bottom left of the graph in that section.

An interesting story (and Oxford study), given that so much in it appears to be wrong-headed or just plain wrong. 

For the US, for instance, it argues that "the large-scale amnesty implemented in 1986 has not reduced, and has in fact increased, undocumented migration to the US" when actual evidence for this assertion is completely missing.  The Oxford study it cites reaches no such conclusion.

Another example of the famous "BBC professionalism?"

[Palisadoes]

The article references that by 2000 it had risen to such a level (which, as mentioned earlier in this thread, was due to the economy picking up in a large way). It does also give a graph indicating pre- and post- amnesty which shows it decreased. But yes, the written stuff regarding the US amnesty is crap.

Regarding the Spanish ones it is correct. Here are the actual numbers:

Year:        Number of immigrants:
1985/86 - 44,000
1991      - 135,000
1996      - 21,000
2000      - 127,000
2001      - 314,000
2005      - 700,000

Also, here are the Italian figures:

Year:        Number of immigrants:
1987/88 - 119,000
1990      - 235,000
1996      - 259,000
1998      - 308,000
2002      - 700,000

[alfred russel]

Intrade odds on winning the election: Conservatives 82%, Labor 15%, Lib Dems 5%. (these are based on last traded amounts so they don't add to 100%)

This is who will win it if anyone wins it right?
As I'd have thought a hung parliament would be 70% or something.

I think that rules at intrade are that if it is a coalition government, it is the coalition party with the most seats, and if it is a minority government, it is the party forming the government.

[Savonarola]

Six amnesties? Source, please.

And, by the way, correlation doesn't prove causation... Many years ago one of my teachers showed us a very pretty graphic to make us understand this. Number of natives in Mexico, number of cows, and time from the Conquest 1521-1600.

Guess what? Apparently, cows eat natives.

They taste like corn.   

[Viking]

Going against convention David Cameron preferred to appeal to the almighty rather than try to wow the public with a riverdance style dance number like his opponents did

[Josquius]

For anyone who doubts the awesome of Clegg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZRIquiqAYw

[Brazen]

More lolcleggz here:
http://www.popbitch.com/home/2010/04/28/lolcleggz-i-can-haz-lib-dems/

[Josquius]

[Palisadoes]

The Liberal Democrats need to hate some more.

[Neil]

Foxes?  The LibDems are animal rights scum?

[Ed Anger]

What if I hate everybody but Jeremy Clarkson?

[Ed Anger]

What if I hate everybody but Jeremy Clarkson?

Hello Jeremy.

I only like cars that cost over 100,000 pounds and am slightly mad.

[Viking]

What if I hate everybody but Jeremy Clarkson?

You can't follow a flowchart then can you.

[grumbler]

What if I hate everybody but Jeremy Clarkson?

Then you hate the French, and so go to http://www.ukip.org/ (which you might like: it has the word "barking" right on the home page  ).