Tactical Voting on May 1st

[JimPage]

Ok, his is just in one ward where the BNP have been active, so their vote was bound to be higher than average, - namely Barnet Hale ward, but this from the Tory candidate there

"The Conservative candidate for the council's Hale ward by-election, 21-year-old Tom Davey, was at the polling station in Selvage Lane all morning, after a 5am start canvassing voters.He said he believes the scales in Hale were tipping towards his party, perhaps predictably, but also said a "surprising" number of people told him they had voted for the BNP."

http://www.barnettimes.co.uk/display.var.2240735.0.the_election_begins.php

 

[belboid]

reports in several places of larger than usual turnout. Times are predicting a 50% turnout which will decimate the Nazi vote

No it wont. Even if the extra ten percent vote anything other than BNP (a very dubious assumption anyway) it would see their share of the vote fall by about 0.7% - which might be enough to stop them getting a seat, but nothing like a decimation (whether one is using that word in its correct or common sense)

 

[JTG]

And besides, claiming victory just because a substantial number of far right votes have been outnumbered by the votes for everyone else is the usual barmy nonsense from the UAF types. Rejoice! They only got 100,000 votes!

 

[articul8]

Ken's odds on Betfair have lengthened - you can still get well over 3/1

 

[kabbes]

Ken is now about 6/1 on Betfair. Either somebody knows something or people have gone mad.

 

[gabi]

Hmm. Mustve been several VERY large bets somewhere.

 

[belboid]

Just what I thought, bookies aren't normally daft enough to allow odds to go that long if the result is really going to be close. Tho I suppose those that bet on Johnson are likely to have more cash to splash around. No exit poll from the beeb, what is the world coming to

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

Hmm. Mustve been several VERY large bets somewhere.

There have been. People have piled thousands on boris.

 

[nino_savatte]

I hope you are right it would be satisfying to see the fash get a political kicking today of all days

Hypocrite.