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Re: Politics

Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 22:08
by hopeful traveller
MylesHSG wrote:Well thats Rooks Heath/Whitmores fault...im guessing as you live in west harrow 8)
No, I mean in Vaughan Primary School.

And besides, I now go to an independent school. :)

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 15:40
by 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(!)

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 16:17
by perkyperky
Black Road?

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 16:21
by Iain
Oops - typo, edited it now

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 16:41
by tubeguru
Iain wrote: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.

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 18:05
by The Raven
I assume rail transport to "Boris Island" will be via the the high-speed southeasten service to St pancras

Re: Politics

Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 18:40
by tubeguru
That sounds about right. A branch to the airport would be built.

Re: Politics

Posted: 21 Jan 2012, 10:35
by The Raven
Boris Island, Boris Bikes, Boris Buses......

Is there anything the man can't do?

Oh yeah, make a coherent sentence! :lol:

Re: Politics

Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 17:04
by dudey
hopeful traveller wrote: And besides, I now go to an independent school. :)
And suddenly, it all now makes sense...

Re: Politics

Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 21:07
by 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

Re: Politics

Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 21:30
by 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.

Re: Politics

Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 23:58
by Root
hopeful traveller wrote: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.

Re: Politics

Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 00:05
by 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.

Re: Politics

Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 16:42
by hopeful traveller
Root wrote:
hopeful traveller wrote: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!

Re: Politics

Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 17:51
by 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