Today’s Guest Poster is the magnificent Puffy The Magic Dragon, who – as always – has come up with a topic guaranteed to put fire in the belly (and even out of the mouth). Thank you so much, Puffy.
Also, I apologise for my lack of activity for the past few weeks. I am sure you all understand.
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Hats off to Mr Steve Georganas MP, Federal Member for Hindmarsh, House of Reps. ALP.
Steve Geoganas, a thoroughly good bloke, recently attached a questionaire to his newsletter, for people in his electorate, asking about issues and concerns they may have.
As well as keeping in touch with his electorate and proactively seeking their input, his survey finished with an interesting question that I have not seen before in such an exercise.
‘What would you do if you were Prime Minister for one day.’
What an intriguing thought. What would I do?
I would:
- Close Manus Island and Nauru camps and order repatriation to Australia of the people interned there.
- Establish royal commissions into the banks, and another into our involvement into the Iraq WMD war. And Children Overboard, and the rest of that can of maggots. Chuck one in for political donations too, while we are at it.
- Stop the Adani coalmine.
Because I will get to work early on my day, it will only be morning tea-time.
- I will have plenty of time to fix the NBN fiasco, and then after lunch with Indigenous people’s representatives to nut out a plan to really address inequities, roll my sleeves up for a late nighter.
There is so much more.
- Also, I would implement the ALP Animal Welfare plan, and designate theft of pets as an act of national harm, punishable by ten years of cleaning up doggy doo doo.
What would you do?
THE PUB 
LAB hold Halton
LAB hold Birkenhead
DUP hold Strangford
DUP hold Lagan Valley
CON hold Carlisle
SNP hold Paisley and Renfrewshire South
LAB hold West Bromwich East
CON hold Chelmsford
LAB hold Knowsley
CON hold Rayleigh and Wickford
Lab hold Burnley
Vale of Clwyd
CON: 17044
LAB: 19423
LD: 666
Plaid: 1551
LAB gain from conservative
CON hold Dover
LAB hold Clwyd South
CON hold putney
in Paisley and Renfrewshire south labor and the snp have dropped while the the tories are up by 11%
After 39 seats:
LAB +8.1%
CON +6.5%
LD -0.4%
SNP -1.2%
UKIP -11.9%
From these, the final result can be estimated as:
CON 43.4%
LAB 38.5%
LD 7.5%
SNP 3.5%
UKIP 0.8%
(I doubt UKIP is actually that low though, and this isn’t that accurate for the minor parties).
LAB hold Warley
SNP hold Dunbartonshire West
the tory margin in putney has been reduced from 10000 to 1500
10% swing to labor in putney
CON hold Hertsmere
LAB hold Tynemouth
CON hold Havant
CON gain Angus from SNP
CON hold Norfolk South
CON hold Stratford on Avon
SNP hold Kilmarnock and Loudon
LAB hold Newport East and Torfaen
CON hold Castle Point
SNP Hold Dundee East
CON hold Yeovil
CON hold Folkestone and Hythe
LAB hold Tyneside North
LAB hold Islwyn
LAB hold Sefton Central
LAB hold Hartlepool
CON hold Erewash
LAB hold West Bromwich West
LAB hold Oxford East
CON hold Warwickshire North
LAB hold St Helens North
16% swing from SNP to CON in Angus
5.9% swing to CON in Warwickshire North
1% swing to LAB in Hartlepool
LAB hold Pontypridd
Plaid hold Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
LAB hold Liverpool Riverside
CON hold Fareham
LAB hold Wolverhampton NE
Plaid hold Arfon
SNP hold Dundee West
LAB hold Blaenau Gwent
Battersea
IND: 1234
GRN: 866
LD: 4401
LAB: 25292
CON: 22876
Socialist party: 32
UKIP: 357
LAB gain from CON
LAB gain Stockton South from CON
CON hold Bracknell
10% swing to LAB in Battersea
LAB hold Gateshead
SNP hold East Kilbride
LAB hold Wallasey
LAB hold Newport West
LAB hold Caerphilly
CON hold Cannock Chase
LAB hold St Helens South and Whiston
CON hold Vale of Glamorgan
CON hold Hemel Hempstead
LAB hold Ogmore
LAB hold Preston
DUP hold East Londonderry
LAB hold Ealing Central and Acton
Farage says he’ll make a return to frontline politics
SNP hold Falkirk
LAB hold Delyn
CON hold Bedfordshire mid
LAB hold Heywood and Middleton
CON hold Torbay
CON hold Burton
CON hold Sevenoaks
LAB gain Bury North from CON\
CON hold rugby
LAB hold Barnsley East
CON hold Epping forest
SNP hold Na H-Eilienan and Iar
Con hold Hertford and Stortford and Runnymede and Weybridge and Fylde and Newton Abbot and Hertfordshire NE
LAB hold Blaydon and Hull North and Wirral West
SF hold Belfast West
SNP hold Glenrothes
CON hold Surrey east and gain Moray from SNP
LAB hold Sheffield Brightside
CON hold Rushcliffe
LAB hold Garston and Halewood
CON hold Wycombe
CON hold Wellingborough
CON hold Tamworth
LAB hold Blackburn
LAB hold Rhondda
Yays .Labour 5 gains, double Yays, Tory lose 3 seats.
CON hold Huntingdon
LAB hold Bootle
LAB hold Great Grimsby
SNP hold Inverclyde
CON hold Amber Valley
LAB hold Wolverhampton SE
CON hold Wyre Forest
CON hold Pendle
CON hold Rochford
CON hold Sutton Coldfield
LAB hold Wirral South