http://www.libdemvoice.org/local-elections-further-postresults-analysis-2648.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.libdemvoice.org/local-elections-further-postresults-analysis-2648.html#comment-47935 Stuart Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:44 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=2648#comment-47935 Is it asking too much for BBC analysts to spot these kinds of trends on the night? I noticed that we were doing well in our southern seats as the results trickled in, yet the BBC was too busy reporting that the Tories were triumphing across the North... the basis of this seems to be victory in Bury (a little bit of Greater Manchester) and North Tyneside (somewhere near Newcastle) - forget the facts that we took Hull, and Sheffield and Burnley. Is it asking too much for BBC analysts to spot these kinds of trends on the night? I noticed that we were doing well in our southern seats as the results trickled in, yet the BBC was too busy reporting that the Tories were triumphing across the North… the basis of this seems to be victory in Bury (a little bit of Greater Manchester) and North Tyneside (somewhere near Newcastle) – forget the facts that we took Hull, and Sheffield and Burnley.

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