Nick Lewis

Jaded political observer, genealogical detective and fan-fiction writer with a 1980s state of mind.

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Clue was a big part of my childhood, I could recite the entire script along with the actors as I was watching it, I saw it that many times. RIP Tim Curry, a comedy legend.

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@Nanekode @AO3_Status Aye, that's the same page I'm getting.

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At least I was closer than some of the commentators I watch who were saying there was a closet Harris vote in the swings.

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Well, it's looking like I wasn't largely wrong. I knew some of the swing states would break for Trump, I just didn't anticipate all of them doing it. I also bought into the numbers that said Harris might pick up IA and NC (Ann Selzer totally dropped the ball). #2024Election

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How's this for throwing the feline amidst the flappy birds? Looking at the numbers coming from all the knife-edge states, it's a fairly possible scenario. Could make Bush/Gore look boring and uncontentious by comparison. #2024Election

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RIP Shannen Doherty. 53's no age to die.

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Reform second in Cramlington. They're basically the opposition in the NE.

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Another really interesting early story is the Greens getting a better vote share than the Lib Dems. Not going to last, but yeah...

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Another NE seat, Newcastle Central. Again, Labour first, Reform second.

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Fourth Reform second-place in Washington. Only Swindon has bucked the trend.

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Third second-place finish for Reform in Sunderland Central.

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Reform with a solid second place in Blyth too, 27%. Have a feeling this is going to be a trend.

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@alcanlin I've always said England is largely right-wing. If Tory voters were ever going to ditch the party, then Reform was their most obvious destination. Looks like Farage's mob are going to get a pretty big vote share judging by the first result out. They'll be pushing for PR.

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Reform got 29% and second place in Sunderland South. Knowing the area, not a big surprise.

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I've said in the past that I thought voters were too tribal now to ever care about how bad the Tories have got. Looks like they're going to prove me wrong.

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@Lisa_anne8 0 followers, 0 following, 3 tweets over 10 years and all of them in the last five minutes... wonder if you could be a bot. 🤔

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Mention getting hacked and all the account recovery bots come out en force. Seems to have escaped their notice that I wouldn't be able to tweet from it if I hadn't gotten it back yet.

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Just got my account back after it was hacked on the 24th. Anyone who's seen bitcoin or other such crap retweeted from my acct since then, rest assured I haven't turned to the dark side. Just took Twitter a while to investigate I suppose.

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@ActualJC @Jimllpaintit Agreed. And that's completely okay. Some people are good at things which other people aren't, that's the nature of things. We're not created equal. If everyone was good at everything, being good would no longer hold value. "Oh, you can paint like Monet? Big deal, everyone can."

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@BastCity @Jimllpaintit Sorry. Other than being an old Blur tune, I have no idea what that means.