Politics

[hopeful traveller]

Well thats Rooks Heath/Whitmores fault...im guessing as you live in west harrow

No, I mean in Vaughan Primary School.

And besides, I now go to an independent school.

[Iain]

Black Rod should take up Tube Challenging, all that doors slamming in his face!

It's a long way off even if it happens but Boris Island could majorly change Tube Challenging - I can't see Heathrow being kept open as well.

edited to correct typo(!)

[perkyperky]

Black Road?

[Iain]

Oops - typo, edited it now

[tubeguru]

Black Rod should take up Tube Challenging, all that doors slamming in his face!

It's a long way off even if it happens but Boris Island could majorly change Tube Challenging - I can't see Heathrow being kept open as well.

edited to correct typo(!)

Erm, the proposed airport in the Thames estuary is intended to take the strain off of Heathrow. In other words, the new airport will be providing ADDITIONAL runways. Closing Heathrow will simply transfer all the problems to Boris Airport, which will only have one or two more runways than Heathrow does. If it only has three runways, that's the same as building a third one at Heathrow, which isn't going to be enough in the long term anyway.

If you think Heathrow will be closed you are living in La La Land.

[The Raven]

I assume rail transport to "Boris Island" will be via the the high-speed southeasten service to St pancras

[tubeguru]

That sounds about right. A branch to the airport would be built.

[The Raven]

Boris Island, Boris Bikes, Boris Buses......

Is there anything the man can't do?

Oh yeah, make a coherent sentence!

[dudey]

And besides, I now go to an independent school.

And suddenly, it all now makes sense...

[hopeful traveller]

Keeping you up to date with the very latest!

POLLS:

20-22 Jan
Conservatives: 40% -1%
Labour: 35% -1%
Liberal Democrats: 16% +7%
Others: 9% -5%

As a seatage using the BBC Election seat calculator (very biased mind you):

Labour: 300 -5
Conservative: 293 -10
Liberal Democrats: 30 +17
Others: 27 -2

[tubeguru]

I read an article in one paper yesterday which said that the Conservatives had a five-point lead, and would win an outright majority if there were an election today.

[Root]

Keeping you up to date with the very latest!

POLLS:

20-22 Jan
Conservatives: 40% -1%
Labour: 35% -1%
Liberal Democrats: 16% +7%
Others: 9% -5%

As a seatage using the BBC Election seat calculator (very biased mind you):

Labour: 300 -5
Conservative: 293 -10
Liberal Democrats: 30 +17
Others: 27 -2

Two questions (I'm not trying to be antagonistic, honest): firstly, where did the extra Lib Dem support come from? That's quite a big jump, more than the margin of error, I assume. And secondly, what proof do you have that the BBC Election seat calculator is biased? There can be no perfectly accurate seat prediction, as there is never a uniform swing across the country, so I think it's just a case of "this is our best guess" rather than bias.

[greatkingrat]

It may not be biased but it is certainly out of date. There will only be 600 seats at the next election instead of 650.

[hopeful traveller]

Keeping you up to date with the very latest!

POLLS:

20-22 Jan
Conservatives: 40% -1%
Labour: 35% -1%
Liberal Democrats: 16% +7%
Others: 9% -5%

As a seatage using the BBC Election seat calculator (very biased mind you):

Labour: 300 -5
Conservative: 293 -10
Liberal Democrats: 30 +17
Others: 27 -2

Two questions (I'm not trying to be antagonistic, honest): firstly, where did the extra Lib Dem support come from? That's quite a big jump, more than the margin of error, I assume. And secondly, what proof do you have that the BBC Election seat calculator is biased? There can be no perfectly accurate seat prediction, as there is never a uniform swing across the country, so I think it's just a case of "this is our best guess" rather than bias.

Put it at 25% each and see what happens!

[hopeful traveller]

POLLS:

22-23 Jan
Labour: 37% +2%
Conservatives: 35% -5%
Others: 16% +7%
Liberal Democrats: 11% -5%

As a seatage using the BBC Election seat calculator (very biased mind you):

Labour: 352 +52
Conservative: 240 -53
Liberal Democrats: 29 -1, Others: 29 +2