Alex

It's from the Chronicle. They've got a massive archive of old photos if you've ever got some time spare. Francis Frith did some good ones too (of Whitley Bay and Tyneside in general).

We were the 'outright winners'. There were 11 'winners' including ourselves but we won it outright by subsequently getting the furthest out of the other 10 in the Uefa Cup. I shit thee not. I confess I had to look that up to confirm the details. He does look well chuffed like.

Basically, aye Was the England game any good btw?

Very popular with the Sweaties. Look how busy it is here, man: (1961). Reminds me of when me dad was telling me about when they used to get the train from Walker there. For some reason they used to take bottles of tea.

Aye, these days I would say that epithet belongs to Tynemouth.

Wow, I've made the Politburo.

I suppose it makes a change from undermining democracy in South and Central America and Asia.

Much of a muchness in Northern Ireland tbh

If you move house a few times it becomes more appealing

2 out of the first 3 questions had no choices which applied to me. How elitist

They weren't that far out though. It's not like they called the popular vote wrong by much. The polls could be 10% out and the Tories would still win at an absolute canter. It's not like 15% were saying they'd vote for Trump. I think it only required a small shift away from the predicted votes (which themselves fluctated a few % from day to day) in a few key states for the result to happen like it did. The trend with polls in the UK has seen Labour trailing badly for a good while now and, as previously mentioned, the current leads for the Tories in the polls are about as big as it gets in the UK. I think relying on the polls being wrong are a very vain hope. Can you imagine what the fuckers would be like if they had something in the region of 390 seats?

Aye, that's pretty much how I see it panning out. Great

It's about the bloke himself, he's completely inconvincing in his ability to deliver his message to anyone beyond his hardcore support. Rightly or wrongly.

Think he works there actually.

He'll never carry the working class, man. It's about more than the message.

I get what you're saying but (and I'm by no means a statistician) you're talking about margins of error within those normally permitted in the case of Brexit and Trump. The margins of error required for the Tories not to romp home were an election to happen now (which obviously couldn't happen but you'll take my point) would have to be huge. They're approaching a 20-point lead over Labour. Given Scotland is gone for the forseeable then I'm not sure what the Tories are waiting for. The 'mandate' excuse given what's happened is perfectly valid too.

I see the Electoral Calculus site's amalgamation of polls for the last month or so has the Tories looking at a whacking 130 seat majority were an election to be called now. Part of me thinks it would be better to get it out of the way rather than have a similar or worse result in a few years time. So much for the establishment getting kicked up the arse post-Brexit.

Ah, right. I stopped reading this thread much in the run up to the election because I was fucking sick of hearing about it.

What's the crack there then? If you'll pardon the pun

Saw Papa Laz in the RVI a while back. I pointed out where the nearest bogs were, just in case.

FFS

Cheers. Very reminiscent of the way in which New Labour forgot who it was meant to represent in the first place.