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  • Betsan Powys
  • 1 May 07, 02:23 PM

So far it's Labour on 6 seats, Con 1, LD 1 Green 0 Plaid Cymru 2 ...

Comments coming in. There've been claims of electoral irregularities in Oldham ... that's handy to know ... Theresa May says the Conservatives are halfway up a mountain and Peter Hain has been telling Sky News that the results so far are "uncomfortable for Labour" ...

Oh .. Torfaen result coming in. Except the graphics are showing Llanelli on the plasma screen. And the preview screen isn't working.

Just as well there's time to rehearse Election night and live it all twice.

And seeing as how I'm going to try and blog throughout the night (apologies now to Huw Edwards if I ignore him at any crucial moments) I might as well give it a go.

Just been told to concentrate. Any tips on juggling?

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  • 1.
  • At 03:43 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • George Jones wrote:

hello

You should cover this story, it looks like a major U turn:

Cameron pulls out of Millar visit

  • 2.
  • At 03:45 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • mark evans wrote:

Good luck for the marathon.The first result is not due until 1am and the programme starts at 10.35pm so what are you and Huw going to be talking about that hasnt already been talked about in the two and a half hours before the first result?

Official answer? We'll be bouncing around Wales, getting a taste of the mood in counts, talking to nervous candidates who are prepared to put their head on the block ... we've commissioned a poll asking everything you can imagine OTHER than how people intend to vote (don't get me started on that one again) ... hearing what the Wales 60 made of the campaign at their do down in the Senedd ... Honestly? Any and everything we can possibly think of.

  • 4.
  • At 04:41 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Gareth wrote:

Shwmai Betsan,

Will the 成人论坛 Wales coverage of the elections be streamed over the web for the benefit of us Welshmen living in England without digital TV?

Diolch!

  • 5.
  • At 04:47 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Dowlais Twp wrote:

After all that multitasking, I hope you get a chance to mix with us humble 60.
Do you expect any surprise reults during the night?

  • 6.
  • At 04:58 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • nonny mouse wrote:

I agree George. If Rhodri Morgan (or Tony Blair) had refused to visit Labour's main target seat in Wales (if they had one this time around), it would be a bit of a story.

No doubt Bourne and Cameron have snubbed the bigot - but its not a story. Why is that?

  • 7.
  • At 05:17 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Eluned wrote:

Postman's knock is reaching epidemic proportions...

This morning my husband heard a knock at the door. He was actually in the hallway and didn't get to the door before the leaflet was posted and the 'canvasser' was skipping down the path. When he opened the door she skipped back across the garden (hasn't anyone heard of paths?) to ask if they could count on our vote. When my husband said no, the permasmile dropped from her lips and she grumbled 'well you won't be needing this then', grabbing the leaflet back out of the letterbox!

I can't believe it - surely once its through our door its theft to remove it again??? In any case, I thought that the point of canvassing was to endear yourselves to the electorate rather than lose votes with menaces!

Congratulations to... the Vale of Glamorgan Conservatives, for showing worse customer service than British Gas.

  • 8.
  • At 07:49 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Betsan Fan wrote:

Recomment from Mark Evans.
Betsan can talk all night about the price of leeks if she wants, I'll be working all night and be listening

  • 9.
  • At 08:18 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Dyfed wrote:

Which results come out on the night? Both constituency and region? Or just constituency?

  • 10.
  • At 09:28 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • dowais twp wrote:

Will Tony Blairs "statement" on his successor have any bearing onthe outcome of the election?
So far English issues appear to have failed to impact on the campaign trail.

On the anorak trail, where or what is the most unusual polling station in use on Thursday, me I'll be voting in a seamstress shop, and thats no stitch up unlike the labour leadership race over the border

  • 11.
  • At 06:06 PM on 02 May 2007,
  • dowlais twp wrote:

re postmans knock - got all excited when ther was a knock at the door - at last I thought a candidate doing some last minute canvassing - sadly not;only the milk man come for his money. No chance of milking any concessions from him.

looking at the odds from Karl on Vaughan's blogs, fancy a wager on Ron to win caerphilly and the Independents to hold the balance of power in the Bay.

Is Derek Brockway standing, there have been more phone calls and passers by singing his praises during the miday phone-in than for the politicians.
Derek for First Minister then!

  • 12.
  • At 11:19 PM on 02 May 2007,
  • Guto wrote:

dowais twp - ill be voting in a coastguard station which I guess is pretty unusal!

  • 13.
  • At 12:01 AM on 04 May 2007,
  • stephen jones wrote:

Why is your last posting on your blog timed at 11.19 on 2nd may.

How about updating it.

timed midnight 3rd may 2007

  • 14.
  • At 12:02 AM on 04 May 2007,
  • Paul Meredith wrote:

I know I have just moved to Torfaen from Warwickshire, but I did not know about the voting system here until I turned on the bbc programme at 10:30 tonight. No-one has been here from any party, and their literature has been pitiful! My partner says she thinks she voted for the Labour woman last time because she liked her smile on the leaflet!

  • 15.
  • At 12:22 AM on 04 May 2007,
  • Linda Joseph wrote:

Welcome to Torfaen Paul Meredith - my dad was from Warwickshire and moved here after WWII. Nothing has changed in all that time in that we still don't know what is going on here! No one tells us and its a devil's own job to find out. The comment: 'I went to Wales once and it was shut' is not an exaggeration and I never realised it until I lived in other areas of the UK. So, no surprise that this 'election campaign' has been kept quiet - let people know too much and they might want change things which would be far too much bother!

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