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Post number 8130

holgate — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:18:42 -0800

Vote early, vote often. (With apologies for sticking this on the front page.) Using your skill and judgement, predict the winning party in the UK general election, size of the majority, and the number of seats won by the Lib Dems. Closest to the actual result gets a gift subscription to Private Eye, the fortnightly antidote to British politics and media, or the equivalent value in that international currency: Amazon vouchers. (And if you've emailed me already, there's no need to post a prediction.)

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:27:36 -0800

And to give myself a chance of getting out of this without having to pay out, here's my own prediction... Labour to win, with an overall majority of 115; Lib Dems to get 63 seats.

By: binkin

binkin — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:38:34 -0800

How about: Labour to win with a majority of 221; Lib Dems to get 59 seats.

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:41:16 -0800

Um... why did you apologize for posting this? Seems like a great link! Am I missing something?

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:48:17 -0800

[ Just that turning comments into posts isn't that de rigeur... but where's your prediction? ;) ]

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:50:21 -0800

Vis10n: it's that British guilt. Obviously, I haven't the faintest idea what's going to happen, but anything to get me closer to the The Young Ones I'll jump on. Labour wins, majority of 293 seats, LD gains 41 seats, Hague is trounced so convincingly he freaks out and is found at a rave in Brixton massaging vapo-rub into his shiny head.

By: williamtry

williamtry — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:11:58 -0800

Labour seats cut to 144 - most of the 35 lost will turn Lib Dem. (I'm a 17 year old wannabe Peter Snow)

By: adrianhon

adrianhon — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:34:31 -0800

Labour to win with majority of 180, Lib Dems will have 60 seats in total.

By: fullerine

fullerine — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:02:37 -0800

Hmmm, The turnout seems to be lower this year. Labour Maj - 117 Lib Dems - 54 I have a weird feeling the conservatives are going to pick up a few seats - must be the british anti-authority thing. I'm just stocking up on Coffee ready to watch through the night. There's no way it could be as good as the last election though. "...let's just go back to Michael Portillo's old constiuency and see the result once again..." priceless.

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:06:59 -0800

(exit polls are in, predicting "not much change": I'm going to give it another couple of hours, at least, since percentages don't necessarily correspond to seats.)

By: fullerine

fullerine — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:37:53 -0800

The BBC's online coverge is v.impressive. That's what good socialist funding does for you ;)

By: fullerine

fullerine — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:39:22 -0800

The Declaration channel is like a big brother for politics geeks. "...look look they're counting in Selby West..."

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 15:30:59 -0800

Ooh: Estelle Morris's seat in Birmingham is apparently "too close to call"; now, since she's widely expected to be given David Blunkett's job at Education in the reshuffle, that could be a bit of fun.

By: danhon

danhon — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:00:38 -0800

Those who want to watch live BBC election coverage (and are running Win[x] with Media Player can either do so on TV (duh), or online at: http://windowsmedia.com/preview/asx/BBCworld350k.asx It's a very high quality MPEG-4 encoded stream from BBC World.

By: fullerine

fullerine — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:51:52 -0800

Hmmm, right about the Tories there. "hands in the air" Hague Holgate, have you got the morning off or something. You lightweight.

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 06:23:25 -0800

(the wonders of freelance hours: two 14-hour days == morning off.) and I think I can now announce adrianhon the winner of the real poll: congrats!

By: adrianhon

adrianhon — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 06:30:17 -0800

Yay! I'd like to thank the Labour party for doing marginally worse and the Lib Dems for doing marginally better - and most of all, Nick for setting up this competition.