tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3808684050327974518..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Ee, there's nowt like a good laff! - Election updateScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-36421797982022226262017-06-04T16:34:28.057+01:002017-06-04T16:34:28.057+01:00I can't promise that the SNP won't win in ...I can't promise that the SNP won't win in your neck of the woods, or that the DT won't be entirely taken over by female journalists - but, despite the appalling deficiencies of the Tory campaign and their idiotic manifesto, it still strikes me as extremely unlikely that Steptoe and his chums will prevail next Thursday. What seems odd about some of the polls (YouGov and Survation in particular) is that the people doing the actual campaigning on the ground - from both of the main parties - aren't aware of any great surge in support for Labour since the start of the campaign. Whatever happens, some polling companies are going to have egg all over their faces - let's just hope the country doesn't. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-39904954063029842562017-06-03T09:28:37.127+01:002017-06-03T09:28:37.127+01:00Having spent a long time this morning trying to fi...Having spent a long time this morning trying to find an adult comment on the election in the DT [online version] I was comforted by Charles Moore's statement " Luckily too the British voting public is not the same as a BBC studio audience."<br /><br />I just mention the fact that Ms Bryony Gordon [I know she has been awarded temporary sainthood status by this blog] has three articles running [on J.Corbyn, cellulite and Ariane Grande] in the current edition plus a podcast [40-minutes] about the meltdown of someone called Will Young.<br /><br />In terms of ubiquity she is now being challenged by another female journalist called Radhika Sanghana.<br /><br />Nightmare scenario for the morning of 9th June: the Scottish Nationalists prevail in my constituency; the Red Menace takes power in Westminster; and the Daily Telegraph is completely taken over by female journalists.<br />Please say it will not be so.SDGnoreply@blogger.com