An email arrives from the editor of YourThurrock.com pointing us to a YouTube interview they’ve done with local PPC Carys Davies.
You can see the interview here, as well as register to leave comments.
Thurrock, if you didn’t already know, is in Essex. Gotta love a place whose Wikipedia History section begins “Mammoths once grazed in the Thurrock area[citation needed].” Is it the WP equivalent of “First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came…” ?
At the end of January, the LDV team will be meeting to discuss how we cover the general election. As a site launched in 2006, we’ve not been through a general election before so it will be new ground for us all. If you have views about what you’d like to hear, let us know in the comments here. More videos like this, as and when we’re told about them? Or not?
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Ms Davies seems plausible enough as a candidate, but as unwelcome as a Labour hold in Sth Basildon & E Thurrock would be, giving them another Commons majority, a Tory win further down their target list in Thurrock would likely result in an equally harmful Tory majority. Alas in Thurrock it is only Labour who can stop this and so Thurrock Lib Dems should be urging their support to vote Labour, or at least trying to pick up their votes from the Tories. In SB&ET the opposite is true.
To teamvoice,
Here’s wot I?d like during the election in descending order of importance…
1, a twice daily roundup and analysis of the national campaign, big stories and announcements. And what the others are up to in typical ldv style. When your head is solidly in your local campaign, it can be easy to miss what’s goin on in the air.
2, some motivating stories of hope and laughter from lib dem brothers and sisters on the campaign trail around the country to lift us after a hard day.
3, some news from selected key ld targets, maybe in a “seat of the day” style.
4, the usual blend of humour, news and analysis.
That would be great. Cheers.
Seems like it’s the time of year for electoral strategy meetings – DELGA are holding theirs on Sunday at Cowley Street!
That is a classy use of [citation required]
Dominic’s ideas sound good to me for GE coverage on the Voice
@Hugh
I’m afraid the sort of analysis you provide (though not uncommon) is completely wrong-headed. I know the media like to say things like “if Labour hold Sth Basildon & E Thurrock it will give them another Commons majority”, but that’s because they like to simplify everything to the point where it’s plain wrong. In terms of getting a majority, it make no difference whether Labour win Sth Basildon & E Thurrock but lose Thurrock, or vice versa. A seat is a seat is a seat. The only way these sorts of predictions are valid is if there is a completely uniform swing across the country. Which there won’t be – even if we do all ignore your advice!
Malcolm
the UNS assumption is, as you rightly say, not perfect, but Lib Dems can either pretend that this is an election under PR and cross their fingers or they can recognise the rules of the game (ie FPTP) are imperfect and adapt their behaviour based on the best, albeit also imperfect, information available (ie Labour’s ‘at risk’ list).
As an aside, I think there are pairs of seats which are so far apart in terms of their majorities and place on the target list, eg SB&ET (No 31, Maj: 3.4%), Thurrock (No 125, Maj 13.2%), that it is very likely that if one party wins both then they will get a Commons majority and it is also fairly clear which is more likely for each party to be stopped in.
Hugh has posted his messages across the country on scores of websites telling people to vote Labour – across the county his postings are repetative and boring and on scores of websites his repetative twittering are becoming a laughing stock. He post exactly the same thing time and time again.
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