Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Don't Forget Your Poll Card!

Just a quick reminder to all you British folk (and possibly some Continental Europeans too) to go out and vote tomorrow (Thursday). I'm not going to tell you who to vote for (feel free to ignore the subliminal advertising), although if you're leaning towards the BNP, please go ahead and defriend me.

In related news, I've just done another stint of spamming delivering targeted election communications to a chunk of Kidlington. I was rather distressed to find that two of my addressees have passed on - 2 out of 200+, but also 2 out of 3 times I actually talked to someone. Not so good.
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kazzik

June 10 2004, 11:37:39 UTC 16 years ago

"although if you're leaning towards the BNP, please go ahead and defriend me."

My da was being deliberately patronising about the election type things in the "do you know who you are voting for?" vein. I told him I thought the BNP would do great things for Europe. He told me I would be first against the wall when the revolution came.

Although that said the BNP were the only ones who decided to leaflet me. I feel vaugely insulted really. Okay, so their leaflet consisted of someone burning the UK flag, and little messages saying "don't vote for the conservatives" and "you can't trust those lib dems" and was strangely unpersuasive, BUT was a leaflet nonetheless

Tried ringing back yesterday and your phone was engaged. Honestly Markos, you dind't need to leave it off the hook to prevent my ringing back ;)

zorac

June 10 2004, 15:05:15 UTC 16 years ago

You tell those politicians, Kaz!

Oh, and my parents called. Honest.

jiggery_pokery

June 10 2004, 20:40:50 UTC 16 years ago

Looks like an excellent night for everyone except Labour and the Conservatives in Oxford! (I'm surprised there's not a single Conservative councillor out there...)

The BBC results are confusing. How can Labour be -9, the LDs +3, the Greens +4 and the Others (? please tell!) +6, which adds up to +4, if there are no boundary changes? Have they just started to give some wards more councillors than they had before or somesuch? (Ooh ooh ooh - I bet it's that the Greens have been double-counted in the Others and there's actually only 3 others.)

Exciting times and I hope you all enjoy your triumph! Next question: with a 20-18-7-3 split, what sort of coalition is going to be struck to get to the magic 25? Would, say, a Lib Dem - Green dream ticket work? ;-) *thumbs up and dances*

imc

June 11 2004, 08:24:49 UTC 16 years ago

Judging by the full results from Oxford, you surmise correctly (except that 6-4 is 2, not 3!).

Green gained one seat from LibDem and three from Labour; LibDem gained 4 seats from Labour and the "Independent Working Class Association" gained 2 seats from Labour (they already had one seat in Northfield Brook, apparently, which I hadn't noticed before).

One of IWCA's new seats is my ward, Blackbird Leys. I note fairly irrelevantly that the house next door has an IWCA poster in the window. The LibDems scored a very poor third, only one vote ahead of Conservative.

I was interested to note that my "other" home town of Bolton now has a 21-20-19-0 split (LD-Lab-Con-Other). Couldn't be much closer!