{"id":375,"date":"2005-03-15T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/doing-the-electoral-maths\/"},"modified":"2005-03-15T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T13:43:00","slug":"doing-the-electoral-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/doing-the-electoral-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the electoral maths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like the election will probably be called between April 4th and 7th<\/a>. If you’ve been following the polls<\/a> (latest: CON 34% (+4) LAB 39%(-3) LD 19%(+1)) or working out the odds<\/a> (or taking others’ odds<\/a>), you’re no doubt getting a tad confused. <\/p>\n

There have been all kinds of scare stories that if you Back Blair<\/a>, Vote4Peace<\/a>, vote strategically<\/a> or for someone else<\/a> then the Tories may get back in. And that would, so everyone keeps telling me, be a disaster. Because yeah – Blair’s crap and all, but the Tories MUST be worse than Labour, right? (Because, erm… you know, the sinking of the Belgrano<\/a> was… erm… obviously far worse than anything Blair’s been responsible for…<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Never fear. The Tories haven’t got a hope in hell. Here – in insane detail – is why<\/a>. Feel free to vote tactically, people. Give Blair all the bloody noses you want – votes is the only language politicians understand.<\/p>\n

Oh and for the record, I am well nigh certain that – despite everything – Labour will still be returned with a majority in excess of 100 seats. And no, I haven’t done the maths on that. It’s just a slightly sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like the election will probably be called between April 4th and 7th. If you’ve been following the polls (latest: CON 34% (+4) LAB 39%(-3) LD 19%(+1)) or working out the odds (or taking others’ odds), you’re no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}