Send your thoughts to me and the BBC

alexhilton Thu May 03, 2007 at 05:25:28 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Comrades,

I'll be joining the BBC tonight trying to pick out interesting blog stories to tell Emily Maitlis on camera.

Please blog your experiences (and results) on labourhome or any other blog that you write on BUT YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL ME

alexhilton@gmail.com

And good luck to comrades everywhere!






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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#1)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 12:00:15 AM GMT

ho hum no comments so far. perhaps you're all knackered from a day of campaigning. I'm in the St Stephen's Tavern in Westminster monitoring blogdom on behalf of the BBC, having received the strictest injunction not to blog about what's going on here.

Of course everything's going smoothly and to the highest professional standards so we'll just leave it at that.

First thing I notice is that there's a lot of talk about the LibDems taking Hull - at first sight you'd have to say JP's not going to be allowed to retire early from parliament and saddle us with a by-election.


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#2)

by e10rifles on Fri May 04, 2007 at 12:19:42 AM GMT

Can you say that many Labour Party campaigners have found that the only way to convince people to vote Labour is by distancing themselves from the national leadership?


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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#3)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 12:51:04 AM GMT

Tim roll Pickering seems to think Alec Salmond is going to miss out on both his tilt at the LibDem in Gordon and the regional top-up seat. we'll have to see.

Chris Paul at Labour of Love has just noticed his nokia's predictive text prefers LIAR to LIBS

Rory Bremner sitting beside me has just done an impression of David Cameron without anyone noticing.


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#4)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 01:15:05 AM GMT

Shaun Bailey (check spelling) is now sitting next to me with David Rowntree as the Glasgow Kelvin result comes in. fantastic result for labour in terms of the whole parliament result

Shaun was just telling me how providing mentors for teenage mothers will stop them developing the skills to look after themselves - I did ask if he would prefer them to sink or swim but got interrupted with ...

Dundee West going to the SNP with a narrow majority.


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#5)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 01:16:05 AM GMT

Though the Dundee west result does add to the chances of alec salmond getting stuffed


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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#6)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 01:54:41 AM GMT

A story of interest - picked up from the libdem Norfolk Blogger and mattwardman.com - evidently the scottish results are showing unprecedented levels of spoilt ballots - over a thousand in one case - this could either mean high levels of active disaffection (is that an oxymoron?) or dodgy automatic counting machines, which are being used in Scotland for the first time, which in some tight calls could lead to legal action in the coming weeks. USA hanging chad style

I'm actually blogging from a laptop graciously lent by Sam Coates of Conservativehome.com - he's just mentioned it to his readers and they are clamouring for him to take it back, leaving me bereft.

All i can say is... "to each according to his need"...


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#7)

by Jag Singh on Fri May 04, 2007 at 02:10:17 AM GMT

To be fair to Scottish voters, they have to deal with three separate electoral systems - one for the Westminster and European elections, one for the Scottish Parliament, and yet another for their local elections. Top up votes galore, and then regional votes - it's just too complicated. I think we'll have to examine these various systems once the dust settles.


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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#8)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 03:08:15 AM GMT

Woah! Salmond's taken Gordon. He'll be smug for a while. Consolation being he beat a libdem.


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#12)

by sianlloydwebber on Fri May 04, 2007 at 04:01:18 AM GMT

I trepidate that possibly I'm going to think the unthinkable now: after watching TV interviews with the randomly stopped/interviewed ordinary people in Scotland, I wonder whether it should be rather "progressive" for the Scottish Labour Party not to oppose in principle the idea and sense of an independent Scotland. Because in essence one's sense of freedom is a matter of self-identity and to oppose it with scare-mongering tactics of economic doom may smack of mean-minded colonialism. China can claim the same on Tibbet, or Serbia on Kosovo, or Russia on Chechnya then. And as we've seen in Ulster, the unionists are usually Tory B teams, not the progressives. If Ireland can remain close to us and still flourish independently, why stop Scotland? Are there too many ("expatriate") Scots in the Westminster cabinet whose vested interest in wielding a bigger power via the UK that's tainting our vision? Or is it because our Party is worried to lose its majority in normally Tory-dominated England? (And hence we don't want to resolve the West Lothian question/anomaly?) I suspect the Tories are surreptitiously supporting Scottish independence for the (flipside of the) same reason too.          


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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#9)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 03:27:44 AM GMT

According to Luke J Young, Trish Law, again a winner in Blaenau Gwent, undertook in her victory speech to back Labour after regime change. Presumably she meant she'd support a "new" labour government rather than a "New" labour government?

Can anyone provide clarity?

incidentally - I've had zero telly time - i reckon they think Tim Montgomerie's too ugly   :)


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#10)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 03:51:17 AM GMT

Holy Moly! Glasgow Govan. This SNP victory is going to make Tories cheer


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#11)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 03:52:44 AM GMT

Consolation - Tories lost Thurrock, a campaign some Labourhome readers have been involved in


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Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#13)

by JR on Fri May 04, 2007 at 04:08:10 AM GMT

Hurray! Saw you on TV at last.


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#14)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 04:08:31 AM GMT

Spectator PolEd Fraser Nelson has his soundbite for the night - "England doesn't matter any more!" - this on the basis of the SNP winning Glasgow Govern. He fails to note that at this time, the tories still only have one seat in scotland

And they insist on calling themselves the "unionist" party


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#15)

by alexhilton on Fri May 04, 2007 at 04:10:17 AM GMT

Wow - got on telly and mentioned excess spoiled ballots

They may be letting us go home now


Re: Send your thoughts to me and the BBC (#16)

by JR on Fri May 04, 2007 at 04:12:29 AM GMT

You're looking quite dressed up for the occasion. Montgomerie looks like the village idiot.


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