2015-05-14

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2015-05-14 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 14-05-2015

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2015-05-14 01:53 pm

Why do people think Labour did worse in this election than the last one?

I'm seeing a fair bit of discussion of the election which assumes that Labour lost seats to the Conservatives, and did worse than in 2010, and that's why they lost.

So far as I can see, that's not what happened at all. Let's ignore Scotland/Wales/NI and look at what happened in England (using the BBC results here.

The Lib-Dems lost 37 seats. Labour are up 15, Conservatives are up 21. And as they'd only been 20 seats off of a majority in 2010, that was enough to win them the election.

Labour's vote share in England actually increased by 3.6%, larger than the Conservative increase (1.4%) - but that didn't matter, because the Conservatives (a) grabbed more of the Lib-Dem/Tory swing seats and (b) were an awful lot closer to winning in the first place.

(Labour's defeat to the SNP is an entirely different matter, of course.)
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2015-05-14 08:51 pm

Conservative MP or Supervillain? (There ought to be a quiz)



Yes, David Cameron really said that.

Yes, there should be a quiz.

No, it shouldn't just be Conservatives on it. Pretty much every Labour Home Secretary should also be on it.

I think this is the source.