Bol-tard wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:22:55 -0700 (PDT)

"Railsigns.co.uk" wrote:
On Aug 29, 8:09=A0pm, wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT)

Tom wrote:
limits. =A0There's a graph around the net of the Tory share of the vote
since the war and it's clearly declining, which possible explains why

Really? Hmm, thats odd:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/el...ml/england.stm

Looks pretty blue to me in england. (sic)

That's because the Tories tend to do well in the affluent countryside
constituencies that cover the largest geographical areas. Even in the
event of a Labour landslide, those maps would still look pretty blue.

This doesn't look quite so good from the Tory point of view:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8280050.stm

So I post actual results and you post opinion polls as a response?


You chose to post (last year's) results in a format that distorts the
picture to suit your faulty argument.

Get a life.


Get a brain.

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:02:12 -0700 (PDT)
"Railsigns.co.uk" wrote:
Bol-tard wrote:

*guffaw*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8280050.stm

So I post actual results and you post opinion polls as a response?


You chose to post (last year's) results in a format that distorts the
picture to suit your faulty argument.

So the actual results distort the picture? You mean they don't suit your
argument so you choose to ignore them. Are you a character out of a george
orwell novel or something?

B2003

On Aug 30, 9:47*am, Bol-tard wrote:

So the actual results distort the picture? You mean they don't suit your
argument so you choose to ignore them.

I wasn't putting forward an argument; I was just stating a pertinent
fact. And if I decide to comment on something, then how am I ignoring
it?

Are you denying that the amount of blue on the map is disproportionate
to the number of seats won by the Tories? Why do you think they
sometimes show a derivative of that map with all the constituencies
represented by hexagons of equal size? It's so that the colours are in
proportion to seats won. The modified version always looks far less
blue than the original, I assure you.

Also, were you suggesting that a clear lead for Labour in the polls
over the past several months is something that the Tories are happy
about?

Are you a character out of a george orwell (sic) novel or something?


"George Orwell". Proper nouns are capitalised. They teach you that in
primary school.

On 30/08/11 09:47, d wrote:
So the actual results distort the picture? You mean they don't suit your
argument so you choose to ignore them. Are you a character out of a george
orwell novel or something?

If you want to say something about numbers of people supporting each
party then yes, an area-based depiction is grossly misleading.

Ian