Clacton Decides

[callan]

Ha! In your dreams!UKIP won't have enough MP's to fill a taxi.And the SNP wouldn't touch the Tories with a bargepole.

What makes you think that?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

What makes you think that?

They are the Conservative and Unionist party - Cameron was bricking it when there was a possibility of a Yes vote - he would have been finished. Con-SNP is about as likely as Con-Lab.

I'm trying to set up your Labour v BNP thread but I'm on my phone and it doesn't like it too much.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Can I ask where that came from? Earlier in this thread Ladbrokes put Ukip to win 3 - I know they are not a politically minded organisation but their whole existence depends on then getting predictions right. Because of first past the post and boundaries 25% would usually not give you anywhere near 128 seats so I wonder if that poll has oversimplified things?

Quite. I'm not at the firm any more, but know the politics odds compiler pretty well. Of course, he'll make the odd wrong call, but pricing up all these markets is his job - he handed over other responsibilities a while ago as political betting has become such a big thing - and he's pretty good at it too.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Looks like I did that to prove a point but....deleting duplicate post - phone issues

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

As are a fair amount of spaniards, indians, pakistanis, nigerians and palestinians.

Can't see many of them voting for UKIP though.:winking:

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Can't see many of them voting for UKIP though.:winking:

speaking to someone the other day, she said that surprisingly some of the most ardent anti immigrationists in her office are black and asian. It's a comploicated old world Barna, it really is.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

speaking to someone the other day, she said that surprisingly some of the most ardent anti immigrationists in her office are black and asian. It's a comploicated old world Barna, it really is.

Yeah, there was a Greek Cypriot, (came over to the UK in 56-with his parents presumably), interviewed on Panorama yesterday,who was clearly (and rather suprisingly I thought) a UKIP supporter.

 

[callan]

Yeah, there was a Greek Cypriot, (came over to the UK in 56-with his parents presumably), interviewed on Panorama yesterday,who was clearly (and rather suprisingly I thought) a UKIP supporter.

I'm not sure why you can't get it....the indigenous population have concerns about immigration / Europe etc.

You even posted a Guardian link only yesterday to bear this out!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm not sure why you can't get it....the indigenous population have concerns about immigration / Europe etc.

You even posted a Guardian link only yesterday to bear this out!

What I get is, that as someone who has benefited personally from the free movemement of labour in the EU,I'm all in favour of it continuing.

I can still remember the bad old days in Spain, (before EU entry), when you had to get a new contract for each year of employment,get it approved at the Spanish Embassay in London and here again in Barcelona (by the Spanish Government and Police) and still had to leave the country every three months in order to get a mandatory stamp on your passport.

Thankfully those days, when a visa/work permit was valid for only one year, have long gone.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Check with Cricko.He can confirm that the bet was paid in full in the early hours of Friday morning.

Or you can take my word for it.

Word taken. I thought you might have mentioned it, that's all.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Word taken. I thought you might have mentioned it, that's all.

I don't like losing.:angry::winking:

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

I don't like losing.:angry::winking:

Or being wrong.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Or being wrong.

Don't have much experience of that.:winking: