skybluetony176
Well-Known Member
I see Sunak is telling anyone who will listen that the results from last week prove that we’re heading for a hung parliament. Not sure if he’s a fool or he thinks everyone else is. I don’t think in his case the two are mutually exclusive.
It’s a pretty ridiculous statement. Voting is always narrower at GE’s than council elections. If independents were a party they were the forth biggest party last week, that won’t happen at a GE. Crucially it was only English elections last week, he’s working on the premise that Labour won’t make gains in Scotland, which seems highly unlikely given the state of the SNP at the moment.
No doubt that the polls will narrow and the Tories will do better than polls suggest but unless Reform chooses not to run it’s difficult to see where they’re going to get the votes from to win enough seats in England for it to be a hung parliament and it is England that they’ll have to do it in. They’re not going to take Scotland or Wales.
It’s a pretty ridiculous statement. Voting is always narrower at GE’s than council elections. If independents were a party they were the forth biggest party last week, that won’t happen at a GE. Crucially it was only English elections last week, he’s working on the premise that Labour won’t make gains in Scotland, which seems highly unlikely given the state of the SNP at the moment.
No doubt that the polls will narrow and the Tories will do better than polls suggest but unless Reform chooses not to run it’s difficult to see where they’re going to get the votes from to win enough seats in England for it to be a hung parliament and it is England that they’ll have to do it in. They’re not going to take Scotland or Wales.