Iain Dale points me to two differing accounts of the local election results, one by Sean Fear and the other by Mark Pack. Dale hails the former and dismisses the latter as “desperate post election spin” but I know who I’d rather have on my psephological team. Sean peddles the increasingly desperate-sounding myth that these… Continue reading Lies, damned lies, and election results
Month: May 2007
Chicken Entrail Psephology
One of the things about elections is that after them there is no shortage of people talking absolute nonsense about what the results ‘mean’. Take Alex Salmond, who has been quick to claim that Labour has lost the “moral authority to govern”. Leaving a philosophical argument about what morality actually means in this context to… Continue reading Chicken Entrail Psephology
Scotland decides, er, what?
Okay, I admit: the Scottish results have got me stumped. It was the list results that did it. My expectation was, and the polls appeared to back me up, that the Greens were on course to get about the same share of the vote that they had before. Instead, they were wiped out. The Tories… Continue reading Scotland decides, er, what?