And that clock is completely fucked.
This is amazing. I wonder if marks on the blank space count as spoilt ballot.
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BREXIT |OT2.0| A parade of endless victories for Boris Johnson
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And that clock is completely fucked.
This is amazing. I wonder if marks on the blank space count as spoilt ballot.
Can anyone articulate what this actually means, though? This is very easy to say, but is it actually born out by YouGov polling over time? What is the actual substance of this beyond 'someone owns it ergo it's completely compromised by their politics'?
The whole point of them is they are chancers. No decent leader would be involved
No it isn't. I don't think he is involved in YouGov at all other than possibly commissioning them to do some polls for him.
Their polls tend to skew more for the Tories than other polls, one of their founders is now a Tory MP (Nadhim Zahawi ) and they do have prominent conservative supporters in key positions, but their methodologies are sound and there's no evidence or suggestion they deliberately skew their polls to favour the conservatives.
It really doesn't mean anything, they have good polls and bad ones just like every other pollster, it's just something that's brought up after every poll they produce, normally by someone who doesn't like the numbers they've come up with.
I'm wrong anyway, Ashcroft owns 'Ashcroft Polls'. YouGov was always Tory funded however.
I'm looking at the EU elections and, although I've been having second thoughts about Labour because of their strategy of trying to implement brexit rather than simply opposing it, I don't think I have any realistic option other than to support the party in these elections.
If we leave the EU anyway it won't make any difference, but if sanity should prevail at the last minute I would want my local MEPs to be part of a broad left group within the European Parliament.
If we leave the EU anyway it won't make any difference, but if sanity should prevail at the last minute I would want my local MEPs to be part of a broad left group within the European Parliament.
Even then it would rely on equipment at the border... which is pretty much universally acknowledged to be a bad idea.
No fucking shit.
Maybe it'll put to bed "but technology" arguments for Brexiters, though. (it won't)
Since details of actual solution is never mentioned, is the issues that the tech doesn't exist yet, it would take that long to implement or a bit of both?
Ah so the problem is every single possible angle you can look at it, thanks.
IoT, Blockchain, Machine Learning.
Based on buzzword bingo we're looking at a £22bn project at minimum. :D
Might be time for me to start contracting again!
Based on buzzword bingo we're looking at a £22bn project at minimum. :D
Might be time for me to start contracting again!
So basically the problem is all possible problems
The blockchain will save us
That seems too perfect to be real
The blockchain will save us
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"You just don't BELIEVE in Britain!"
Brexiter arguments literally just boil down to fairy dust in the end.
Maybe P and NP are identical only on days of the week that can be identified by careful analysis of a complete proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.
Or maybe it's Maybelline.
I think it's already in operation.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-subsidies-idUKKCN1RE0WB
Tempting. I initially went freelance in the UK in the 1980s, as an insurance against thatcherism. I'm officially retired but my noggin is stuffed to the brim with Machine Learning techniques. The only thing stopping me now is that I no longer need more money to care for my loved ones. I just need to be there, every day, just in case.
Dammit, I've become a Protector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel)
Just keep me close to a good source of tree-of-life root.
Channel 4 are currently pouring a massive bucket of shit on Aaron Banks and his relationship with Robbie Gibb. Seems both were very happy to help each other with Gibb even possibly stopping the Beeb run a story about Leave.EU targetting far right groups on facebook with their ads.
For those who don;t know who Robbie Gibb is, he was BBC news top man and is currently the PM's communication chief. Nick Boles said he was a hardcore brexiter...
For those who don;t know who Robbie Gibb is, he was BBC news top man and is currently the PM's communication chief. Nick Boles said he was a hardcore brexiter...
The voters might not, but the MPs can't be seen to be doing that (not yet at any rate), so they'll keep promoting their 'alternative technological arrangements' fantasy, ignoring the fact that the time to actually design and implement those alternative technological arrangements is already being eaten into.
The BBC have a lot to answer for regarding Robbie Gibb.
They never will of course. They'll just keep making the same shitty mistakes.
That's the really funny part about people arguing that it's do-able.
We can't even do simple shit that's been trivial since the early 90s. Just exactly how the fuck do you think we're going to manage to come up with a first of its kind, cross-border, bleeding edge tech diamond standard system?
We can't even trust our fucking contractors to come up with a simple recruitment website after giving them pretty much all the money in the world.
Fuck, HMRC can't even pass what I'm going to pay / my VAT period from one system to another. I have to re-type it.
This is a general election poll, but it shows they're all all over the place at the moment! 23% for the Tories is incredible.
23% is the lowest detected vote share since 1997, and would be the worst result since the Great Reform Act 1832.
Jesus, are Yougov really doing a daily tracker for the euro elections?
Shine starting to fade from the Brexit party after 12 hours?
Polling is, to not put too fine a point on it, all over the fucking place atm.
We've had 2 years of polling stagnation, possibly explained by everyone holding their breath to see what Brexit looked like, possibly explained by nothing but Brexit happening politically and almost nobody actually caring.
And now suddenly we're getting 10pt shifts in a week.
We've had 2 years of polling stagnation, possibly explained by everyone holding their breath to see what Brexit looked like, possibly explained by nothing but Brexit happening politically and almost nobody actually caring.
And now suddenly we're getting 10pt shifts in a week.
The Comres poll is apparently new for tomorrow's Telegraph, but I can't find too much info on it other than people talking about it on twitter. The last published Comres poll (5-7 April) had Labour and the conservatives both on 32%
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Non Brexit, but another day, another Daily Mail front page bemoaning basic democratic rights. Today's edition: the right to peaceful protesting.
D'hondt is a shit method of proportional representation, as applied in the UK for EP elections, episode 273:
If combining or dividing your existing vote share can MORE THAN DOUBLE your number of seats, that's a really shitty PR system.
If combining or dividing your existing vote share can MORE THAN DOUBLE your number of seats, that's a really shitty PR system.
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This was discussed elsewhere, thought I would post it here as people might find it useful though:
If you live in the South East area for European elections, and you're left-wing and want to show support for Remain, I suggest voting Green and NOT Lib Dem or CHUK. Greens are likely to be marginal as to whether they get a seat or not, and they are both pro-Remain and will support a Socialist presidency (unlike the other two pro-Remain parties). Given that it's very very close between the Socialists and the centre-right for the presidency, that second point is important.
Note: London is its own area, so if you live in London ignore that.
If you live in the South East area for European elections, and you're left-wing and want to show support for Remain, I suggest voting Green and NOT Lib Dem or CHUK. Greens are likely to be marginal as to whether they get a seat or not, and they are both pro-Remain and will support a Socialist presidency (unlike the other two pro-Remain parties). Given that it's very very close between the Socialists and the centre-right for the presidency, that second point is important.
Note: London is its own area, so if you live in London ignore that.
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